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In Look East tonight: Exclusive pictures as the police in Norfolk

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become the first force in the country to ask clubbers to be

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breathalysed. The drunk driving limit is

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35mc/100ml, but actually, in the cases we were seeing on Norwich on

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Saturday night, we had people who were blowing more than double that.

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Hello and welcome to the programme. Also tonight: Would a Labour

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government carry on with plans for an A14 toll road? No guarantees from

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the Shadow Transport Secretary. What they've come up with isn't all

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convincing and so I think we would certainly be wanting to have a look

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at if what they're proposing is the right way forward.

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Plans for a £1.5 billion gas storage project off the coast of Norfolk

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have been abandoned. More than a 1000 jobs would have been created.

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And the return of the Lister motor car, after the glory days of the

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1950s. First tonight: The latest weapon in

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the battle against binge drinking — clubbers being breathalysed at the

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nightclub door. It happened for the first time in

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this country this weekend in the centre of Norwich. The idea is to

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stop people who have had too much to drink from getting into clubs. It

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comes just a week after the Chief Constable of Northamptonshire came

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up with the idea of "drunk tanks" — private cells where people who are

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very drunk can be held overnight and then made to pay for their care. Our

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reporter Nikki Fox was out with the clubbers on Saturday night.

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On the PM and these people are around 20,000 did go clubbing in

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Norwich City centre every weekend. Many of them have been drinking

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before they go out. It is what police called freeloading. These

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breath tests are new idea. It is hoped they can reduce excess

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drinking. The drink drive limit is 35 micrograms but we are seeing

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cases of people who were blowing more than double that. Midnight, and

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the clubs start to get busy. The 24—hour drinking policy was

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introduced eight years ago. I find out the culture hasn't changed.

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People drink just as much. We have had cocktails, vodka, shots. If you

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drink before you know you're safe. A couple of jobs, probably. We are not

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very big drinkers. No. I think everyone has shots because they're

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cheaper. Vodka. It is not just drink that is the problem. This is a drugs

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dog. She can recognise cocaine, cannabis or pills. The dog has smelt

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something suspicious and the police are searching this gentleman. This

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time she doesn't find anything but her presence is our deterrent. A

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stolen passport also turns up. Someone has used it to get into a

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club. A mobile CCTV van watches for trouble. There is a man here having

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trouble with a cashpoint. I thought I saw him strike it. Some weight for

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a taxi and others get the right form —— a ride from the police. It has

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just gone to a end and with thousands of people still on the

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streets police are hoping things like breathalysers could reduce the

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amount of trouble. This is the early stages of something that potentially

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may go national which I don't necessarily think is a bad thing. If

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everyplace had a breathalyser and that people knew they wouldn't get

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in if they failed a breath test, that could go a long way to address

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the issues of pride loading. Police said our time with the idea of drunk

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tanks. What we have to look at with the concept of a drunk tank is the

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responsibility of looking after an individual being put on somebody

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other than them. Whether it is the police, hospitals or a private

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contractor. We are trying to get individuals to take responsibility

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for their own actions. Police can't change drink culture but they want

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people to know their limits and understand the consequences of their

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behaviour. Plans to upgrade the A14 have been

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thrown into doubt by Labour. The Coalition Government wants to

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replace a busy stretch of the road through Cambridgeshire with a toll

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road. But the Shadow Transport Secretary says she's not convinced.

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Our political correspondent Andrew Sinclair reports from the Labour

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Party conference in Brighton. Everyone is agreed that this road is

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in desperate need of improvement. But with a price tag of £1.5

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billion, how do you afford it? At the Labour conference, the issue

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keeps coming up during Gates about transport. Respected organisations

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have expressed their concerns. The effects of this hasn't been thought

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through. The evidence from elsewhere, from the M6 Toll Rd, is

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that people go quite a long way not to have to pay. We think this won't

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solve the problems on the A14 and it will make things worse in the wider

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area. Labour's transport spokesman came to Cambridge in summer to offer

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support for the plans. But now there is a different message from the

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person who could be Transport Secretary in two years more time. I

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don't forget is convincing. We would want to have a look at what they are

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proposing to see if it is the right way forward. I don't think they will

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have got very far with this by the election. If this isn't the way

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forward, how do you afford improvements? We have to have a

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close look at the entire situation. She is worried that even if the toll

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is kept low, drivers will avoid the route. Opposition is growing. The

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government is proposing a tax on getting to Suffolk and to

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Felixstowe. We know that Felixstowe will face competition from the

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London Gateway. This will make things worse. There is a

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consultation which lasts for another month. The government says it will

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lessen but that it can't afford to put more money into the A14.

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Andrew Sinclair is still in Brighton. Earlier this afternoon I

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asked him where this all leaves the future of the A14.

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You will note that the Transport Secretary didn't say that Labour

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would scrap the plans. She just sent Labour would take a close look. She

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said that the next Labour manifesto would not propose any toll roads.

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Also, there is a lot of opposition here so there is a big question

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hanging over this. The government has said they can only afford to pay

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for the road by tolling it. The Shadow Transport Secretary says that

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either pay for it with public money or scrap it altogether.

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Does that mean we could be back to square one?

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It is possible. It is frustrating for people who work in business

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because big infrastructure projects take a long time to plan and the

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last thing builders want is that an —— uncertainty of governments

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changing their minds every five years. I think the case for the A14

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has been made firmly at Westminster over the last few years and both

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parties get it to that the road needs improvements. I think the

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debate is now whether to call it or pay for it from the public purse.

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A £1.5 billion gas storage project which was planned for the North Sea

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off the coast of Norfolk has been abandoned. 1200 jobs would have been

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created. Centrica, which was hoping to develop the Baird Field, has

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blamed "weak economics" and a government decision not to subsidise

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the scheme. Two miles beneath here is a vast

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reservoir of gas. The sandstone act as a massive sponge. Gas is pumped

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into it and taken out again depending on demand. When demand and

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prices are low we take a gas and put it in to the sandstone and in winter

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we let the gas flow back out into the national transmission system.

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Today, Centrica torpedoed plans for a similar facility. It says it can't

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afford the Baird Field facility. The Department for energy says its

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decision not saved consumers £750 million over a decade. Is this one

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really needed? I think it is. It is useful for jobs for our region and

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also having reserves of gas. In March, the country's gas supplies

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fell dangerously low. We had only 21 days compared with more in Germany

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and France. The gas would come ashore here at this terminal in

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Norfolk stopped some fear that less local storage would mean a greater

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reliance on importing from less stable countries like Russia. It is

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open to debate but what can't be disputed is that local jobs were

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lost on a development unlikely to be resurrected.

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Still to come, we are in Frinton MIDI Champion Sand sculptor.

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It has been warm and humid but what does the rest of the week have in

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store? All the details later. Last week we reported on the

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problems facing our councils becasuse of our ageing population.

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Tonight, we hear from the man who was asked to come up with the

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answers in Essex. Among the ideas from Sir Tom

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Hughes—Hallett: Recruiting volunteers who will offer to help

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the sick and elderly who live nearby. Encouraging people to use

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their pharmacists more. We'll hear from Sir Tom in a moment but first

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Debbie Tubby on a challenge facing every council in this region.

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Milton Keynes is said to have become Britain's pensioner capital. By

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2030, the government predicts a 110% rise in over 65 is. In the next

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decade, the number of people aged 18 or over will double. This will put

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pressure on services. Norfolk County Council already has 22% of its

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population 65 or over. We have about 13,000 people diagnosed with

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dementia. That figure will bubble in the next 15 years. To describe it as

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an explosion is possibly an understatement. Cambridge is said to

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be the fastest—growing county in the country in terms of population. The

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County Council says it is taking that into account in all of its

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planning. Meanwhile, Suffolk County Council has transferred the running

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of its care homes into the hands of a private provider in preparation

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for its ageing population. Others say an ageing population creates

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economic and social benefits. Many old people choose to work as a

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matter of choice or out of financial necessity. The idea that old people

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are burden is not accurate at all. Meanwhile, this report says people

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should take more responsibility for their own health. They should be

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prepared to pay for some services and that communities could support

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some people. Earlier today, I spoke to Sir Tom

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Hughes—Hallett, the man behind that report, and I started by asking

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about what he has learned and what he hopes will happen now. My

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findings were targeted at trying to just come up with a few bold ideals

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to solve a very big problem. The first key idea was to hand back to

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the people of Essex the responsibility for their own health

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care. From the evidence I took, it was quite clear that the ball were

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up for that and, indeed, almost wanted to do it. People were

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prepared to look after their car, so they were prepared to look after

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their body as long as the state is there to fix it when there is a

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problem. What should happen to those people who don't look after

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themselves very well? Well, I think there will always be cars that

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breakdown on motorways at 2am without insurance. There is not a

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lot you can do about that but the reality is people are changing

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already. 40% of the people I interviewed in Braintree now regard

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their first point of call for health care being their pharmacy or Google.

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A lot of the people were talking about getting into their 60s or 70s

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or 80s are people who have paid in from cradle to grave health care and

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now you're saying we can't afford it. That is not the case. What

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people paid in for, they should get. If you break your head when you're

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75 then of course you should expect a hospital to be available to you to

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provide you with urgent care. What I'm saying is that we need to make

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sure, as communities, that we know who is really vulnerable and take

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the time to look out for people in our street who are likely to trip or

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fall or who need support to get drugs from their pharmacy, rather

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than standing by and letting them crash and burn. If we don't adopt

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these measures, what will happen to health care? I may be wrong but I

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don't think I am. I had a fantastic team working with me and we

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interviewed hundreds of people. What I do know is if we don't take action

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now, in 15 years' time, our children and people in their 30s and 40s are

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going to face problems that make the problem is that I will face look

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like a picnic. What are those problems? There won't be enough

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people to care. That is why I called this commission who will care?

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Anyone familiar with the history of motor racing knows names like

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Maserati and Ferrari. But back in the 1950s and 1960s there was

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another big name. Lister of Cambridge doesn't have

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quite the same ring about it, but 60 years ago they were taking on the

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big boys and beating them. And now Lister is making a comeback.

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Racing green and its yellow stripe. The Lister Jaguar. In the late 50s,

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it on pretty much everything. It was built on a shoestring budget in

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Cambridge. This car was the first of the new generation Lister. ALL the

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Lister cars were great. He won 11 of his 14 races. On his right, the man

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who built the first Lister. Not many were made. Now, a new investor has

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relaunched the Lister, once again to in Cambridge. We will build four and

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next year we hope to build six. We build them very slowly. It is a

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craftsmanship product, not mass produced. When we see them on the

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road? The bodywork is sent in pieces and assembled here. Eventually, when

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put together it will look like that. Just like the original. They won't

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be cheap, costing in the hundreds of thousands, but they will produce

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jobs. It is a fantastic thing for UK manufacturing. We have already

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employed a number of people to start working at the factory and this is

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the start of the UK manufacturing recovery. It is a car from Cambridge

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that led the way in motor sport. 60 years on, the Lister is back.

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For every second of every day, our brains are working, controlling

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everything we do and say. But what happens when the brain is damaged

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because of a serious head injury? James Piercy was involved in a

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serious road accident. His wife died, his children were injured and

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he was left battling with damage to his brain. James is with us now.

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How are you and what has happened to the brain in that time? I'm well,

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thanks. Over the last two and a half years, my brain has been rewiring

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itself and learning new ways to do things. I still have some problems

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and struggle a bit but mostly I am much better. I suffered some other

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damage in the accident which left one of the muscles which controls my

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eyeball not functioning some it doesn't move quite right and I get

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double vision. On the +8, I get to wear a cool patch. What did your

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brain need to retrain? What is important is the pathways and

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connections between different cells in your brain. There are something

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like a million pathways for every second you are alive. If they are

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disrupted, the connections break and your brain finds it harder to work

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and has to find new ways to do that. I just want to show a clip of what

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can happen to you when the brain isn't going as well as you like it.

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Getting a little bit tired... And sometimes I get a twitch... And my

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words won't come out quite right. I'll probably need to eat something

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soon. Food and arrest, is it? After that

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clip was filmed, I had a meal and rested for an hour and I was fine.

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You are giving talks to people to educate them about brain injuries.

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That's right, I am going round the country to talk about brain

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injuries. I have been enormously lucky. There are millions living

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with the aftermath of a serious head injury. I hope your recovery

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continues to go well. You can see David Whiteley's film

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about James in Inside Out East at 7:30pm on BBC One.

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Most of us struggle to make a good sand castle, let alone a sand

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sculpture. But for a talented few, it's an artform, complete with its

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own world championship. Nicola Wood is a two—time world

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champion and today she's been busy on the sea front at Frinton in Essex

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today. Alex Dolan has been watching. Yes, Nicola is still hard at work.

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It has taken her two days to create this voluptuous lady. She has not

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finished yet but has come a long way since lunchtime. You have to work

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from the top down because after a certain stage, I can't walk back a

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bit. Nicola loves working with sand. Today she is working with tonnes of

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the stuff. I'm working on her arms at the moment. She will just be

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relaxing in the sun. Nicholl has created sand sculptures all over the

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world. Her latest takes inspiration from traditional seaside postcards.

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When you're carving something of this scale, the kind of SanDisk

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ritual. The sand here is very old. It has been washed back and forth

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with the tide and the greens are very round. A young sand is... It is

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not brilliant to work with but that is the fun of it. It is challenging

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to work with. What is it like to work for days on something that gets

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washed away? I like the whole circle of it. Nicholl has just stopped work

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to join us now. I am in awe of what you have achieved. However you

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feeling about where you have got to? I think we are on target to finish

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tomorrow. I'm happy so far. Are getting there. What about whether?

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What happens if it rains? Not a great deal, hopefully. The sand is

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very absorbent. Hopefully if it rains, it will just the surface

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damage that we can repair. You can come and have a look at her tomorrow

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evening. What did they call her?

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Strapping. Is it going to rain? No, not as it

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stands. You can see that the best of the

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sunshine was in eastern and southern parts, taking the temperatures up to

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21 Celsius. Even where we had thicker cloud, it didn't feel too

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bad because we had warm and humid air feeding across the country.

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Overnight, good news for sand sculptures. It is set to stay dry.

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The combination of clear spells and light winds means we will see some

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mist and dense fog patches developments. It is not a cold night

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anywhere. Tomorrow, this is actually a ridge of high pressure which keeps

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this system at bay for the time being and keeps this front away,

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too. Tomorrow, a dry start to the day. It may take a while for the

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mist and fork to clear but once it has gone a dry day with some of us

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seeing some brightness and sunshine. There will be some areas of thicker

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cloud which will remain for much of the day. Temperatures will be up to

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around 22 or 23 Celsius in the sunshine. In the cloud, it will be a

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little cooler and temperatures not so high around the coast. On the

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whole, very light winds mainly from the south—east. Some evening

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brightness and sunshine. This is the five—day forecast. I have said it is

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cloudy tomorrow but there will be some sunshine. Almost a repeat

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performance on Wednesday. Quite a lot of cloud around. Staying

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relatively warm and humid. Some of us will see some sunshine.

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Thursday, again, almost a repeat performance. A subtle change, we are

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expecting some showers for the south—west. That is the same for

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Friday. But, again, the showers fairly well scattered. Those are

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your overnight loans.

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