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In Look East tonight: Exclusive pictures as the police in Norfolk | :00:11. | :00:19. | |
become the first force in the country to ask clubbers to be | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
breathalysed. The drunk driving limit is | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
35mc/100ml, but actually, in the cases we were seeing on Norwich on | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
Saturday night, we had people who were blowing more than double that. | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
Hello and welcome to the programme. Also tonight: Would a Labour | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
government carry on with plans for an A14 toll road? No guarantees from | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
the Shadow Transport Secretary. What they've come up with isn't all | :00:43. | :00:51. | |
convincing and so I think we would certainly be wanting to have a look | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
at if what they're proposing is the right way forward. | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
Plans for a £1.5 billion gas storage project off the coast of Norfolk | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
have been abandoned. More than a 1000 jobs would have been created. | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
And the return of the Lister motor car, after the glory days of the | :01:07. | :01:15. | |
1950s. First tonight: The latest weapon in | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
the battle against binge drinking — clubbers being breathalysed at the | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
nightclub door. It happened for the first time in | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
this country this weekend in the centre of Norwich. The idea is to | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
stop people who have had too much to drink from getting into clubs. It | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
comes just a week after the Chief Constable of Northamptonshire came | :01:43. | :01:52. | |
up with the idea of "drunk tanks" — private cells where people who are | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
very drunk can be held overnight and then made to pay for their care. Our | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
reporter Nikki Fox was out with the clubbers on Saturday night. | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
On the PM and these people are around 20,000 did go clubbing in | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
Norwich City centre every weekend. Many of them have been drinking | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
before they go out. It is what police called freeloading. These | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
breath tests are new idea. It is hoped they can reduce excess | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
drinking. The drink drive limit is 35 micrograms but we are seeing | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
cases of people who were blowing more than double that. Midnight, and | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
the clubs start to get busy. The 24—hour drinking policy was | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
introduced eight years ago. I find out the culture hasn't changed. | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
People drink just as much. We have had cocktails, vodka, shots. If you | :02:49. | :02:59. | |
drink before you know you're safe. A couple of jobs, probably. We are not | :02:59. | :03:07. | |
very big drinkers. No. I think everyone has shots because they're | :03:07. | :03:18. | |
cheaper. Vodka. It is not just drink that is the problem. This is a drugs | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
dog. She can recognise cocaine, cannabis or pills. The dog has smelt | :03:23. | :03:33. | |
something suspicious and the police are searching this gentleman. This | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
time she doesn't find anything but her presence is our deterrent. A | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
stolen passport also turns up. Someone has used it to get into a | :03:42. | :03:50. | |
club. A mobile CCTV van watches for trouble. There is a man here having | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
trouble with a cashpoint. I thought I saw him strike it. Some weight for | :03:55. | :04:06. | |
a taxi and others get the right form —— a ride from the police. It has | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
just gone to a end and with thousands of people still on the | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
streets police are hoping things like breathalysers could reduce the | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
amount of trouble. This is the early stages of something that potentially | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
may go national which I don't necessarily think is a bad thing. If | :04:27. | :04:37. | |
everyplace had a breathalyser and that people knew they wouldn't get | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
in if they failed a breath test, that could go a long way to address | :04:44. | :04:55. | |
the issues of pride loading. Police said our time with the idea of drunk | :04:55. | :05:04. | |
tanks. What we have to look at with the concept of a drunk tank is the | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
responsibility of looking after an individual being put on somebody | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
other than them. Whether it is the police, hospitals or a private | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
contractor. We are trying to get individuals to take responsibility | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
for their own actions. Police can't change drink culture but they want | :05:22. | :05:30. | |
people to know their limits and understand the consequences of their | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
behaviour. Plans to upgrade the A14 have been | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
thrown into doubt by Labour. The Coalition Government wants to | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
replace a busy stretch of the road through Cambridgeshire with a toll | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
road. But the Shadow Transport Secretary says she's not convinced. | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
Our political correspondent Andrew Sinclair reports from the Labour | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
Party conference in Brighton. Everyone is agreed that this road is | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
in desperate need of improvement. But with a price tag of £1.5 | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
billion, how do you afford it? At the Labour conference, the issue | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
keeps coming up during Gates about transport. Respected organisations | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
have expressed their concerns. The effects of this hasn't been thought | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
through. The evidence from elsewhere, from the M6 Toll Rd, is | :06:15. | :06:24. | |
that people go quite a long way not to have to pay. We think this won't | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
solve the problems on the A14 and it will make things worse in the wider | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
area. Labour's transport spokesman came to Cambridge in summer to offer | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
support for the plans. But now there is a different message from the | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
person who could be Transport Secretary in two years more time. I | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
don't forget is convincing. We would want to have a look at what they are | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
proposing to see if it is the right way forward. I don't think they will | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
have got very far with this by the election. If this isn't the way | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
forward, how do you afford improvements? We have to have a | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
close look at the entire situation. She is worried that even if the toll | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
is kept low, drivers will avoid the route. Opposition is growing. The | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
government is proposing a tax on getting to Suffolk and to | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Felixstowe. We know that Felixstowe will face competition from the | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
London Gateway. This will make things worse. There is a | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
consultation which lasts for another month. The government says it will | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
lessen but that it can't afford to put more money into the A14. | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
Andrew Sinclair is still in Brighton. Earlier this afternoon I | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
asked him where this all leaves the future of the A14. | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
You will note that the Transport Secretary didn't say that Labour | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
would scrap the plans. She just sent Labour would take a close look. She | :08:15. | :08:24. | |
said that the next Labour manifesto would not propose any toll roads. | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
Also, there is a lot of opposition here so there is a big question | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
hanging over this. The government has said they can only afford to pay | :08:35. | :08:44. | |
for the road by tolling it. The Shadow Transport Secretary says that | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
either pay for it with public money or scrap it altogether. | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
Does that mean we could be back to square one? | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
It is possible. It is frustrating for people who work in business | :08:54. | :09:02. | |
because big infrastructure projects take a long time to plan and the | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
last thing builders want is that an —— uncertainty of governments | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
changing their minds every five years. I think the case for the A14 | :09:12. | :09:21. | |
has been made firmly at Westminster over the last few years and both | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
parties get it to that the road needs improvements. I think the | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
debate is now whether to call it or pay for it from the public purse. | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
A £1.5 billion gas storage project which was planned for the North Sea | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
off the coast of Norfolk has been abandoned. 1200 jobs would have been | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
created. Centrica, which was hoping to develop the Baird Field, has | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
blamed "weak economics" and a government decision not to subsidise | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
the scheme. Two miles beneath here is a vast | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
reservoir of gas. The sandstone act as a massive sponge. Gas is pumped | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
into it and taken out again depending on demand. When demand and | :10:06. | :10:14. | |
prices are low we take a gas and put it in to the sandstone and in winter | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
we let the gas flow back out into the national transmission system. | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
Today, Centrica torpedoed plans for a similar facility. It says it can't | :10:24. | :10:37. | |
afford the Baird Field facility. The Department for energy says its | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
decision not saved consumers £750 million over a decade. Is this one | :10:41. | :10:53. | |
really needed? I think it is. It is useful for jobs for our region and | :10:53. | :11:01. | |
also having reserves of gas. In March, the country's gas supplies | :11:01. | :11:10. | |
fell dangerously low. We had only 21 days compared with more in Germany | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
and France. The gas would come ashore here at this terminal in | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
Norfolk stopped some fear that less local storage would mean a greater | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
reliance on importing from less stable countries like Russia. It is | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
open to debate but what can't be disputed is that local jobs were | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
lost on a development unlikely to be resurrected. | :11:38. | :11:50. | |
Still to come, we are in Frinton MIDI Champion Sand sculptor. | :11:50. | :11:58. | |
It has been warm and humid but what does the rest of the week have in | :11:58. | :12:06. | |
store? All the details later. Last week we reported on the | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
problems facing our councils becasuse of our ageing population. | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
Tonight, we hear from the man who was asked to come up with the | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
answers in Essex. Among the ideas from Sir Tom | :12:24. | :12:24. | |
Hughes—Hallett: Recruiting volunteers who will offer to help | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
the sick and elderly who live nearby. Encouraging people to use | :12:32. | :12:32. | |
their pharmacists more. We'll hear from Sir Tom in a moment but first | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
Debbie Tubby on a challenge facing every council in this region. | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
Milton Keynes is said to have become Britain's pensioner capital. By | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
2030, the government predicts a 110% rise in over 65 is. In the next | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
decade, the number of people aged 18 or over will double. This will put | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
pressure on services. Norfolk County Council already has 22% of its | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
population 65 or over. We have about 13,000 people diagnosed with | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
dementia. That figure will bubble in the next 15 years. To describe it as | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
an explosion is possibly an understatement. Cambridge is said to | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
be the fastest—growing county in the country in terms of population. The | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
County Council says it is taking that into account in all of its | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
planning. Meanwhile, Suffolk County Council has transferred the running | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
of its care homes into the hands of a private provider in preparation | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
for its ageing population. Others say an ageing population creates | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
economic and social benefits. Many old people choose to work as a | :13:36. | :13:44. | |
matter of choice or out of financial necessity. The idea that old people | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
are burden is not accurate at all. Meanwhile, this report says people | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
should take more responsibility for their own health. They should be | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
prepared to pay for some services and that communities could support | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
some people. Earlier today, I spoke to Sir Tom | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
Hughes—Hallett, the man behind that report, and I started by asking | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
about what he has learned and what he hopes will happen now. My | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
findings were targeted at trying to just come up with a few bold ideals | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
to solve a very big problem. The first key idea was to hand back to | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
the people of Essex the responsibility for their own health | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
care. From the evidence I took, it was quite clear that the ball were | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
up for that and, indeed, almost wanted to do it. People were | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
prepared to look after their car, so they were prepared to look after | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
their body as long as the state is there to fix it when there is a | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
problem. What should happen to those people who don't look after | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
themselves very well? Well, I think there will always be cars that | :15:04. | :15:12. | |
breakdown on motorways at 2am without insurance. There is not a | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
lot you can do about that but the reality is people are changing | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
already. 40% of the people I interviewed in Braintree now regard | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
their first point of call for health care being their pharmacy or Google. | :15:28. | :15:36. | |
A lot of the people were talking about getting into their 60s or 70s | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
or 80s are people who have paid in from cradle to grave health care and | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
now you're saying we can't afford it. That is not the case. What | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
people paid in for, they should get. If you break your head when you're | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
75 then of course you should expect a hospital to be available to you to | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
provide you with urgent care. What I'm saying is that we need to make | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
sure, as communities, that we know who is really vulnerable and take | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
the time to look out for people in our street who are likely to trip or | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
fall or who need support to get drugs from their pharmacy, rather | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
than standing by and letting them crash and burn. If we don't adopt | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
these measures, what will happen to health care? I may be wrong but I | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
don't think I am. I had a fantastic team working with me and we | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
interviewed hundreds of people. What I do know is if we don't take action | :16:45. | :16:54. | |
now, in 15 years' time, our children and people in their 30s and 40s are | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
going to face problems that make the problem is that I will face look | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
like a picnic. What are those problems? There won't be enough | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
people to care. That is why I called this commission who will care? | :17:11. | :17:20. | |
Anyone familiar with the history of motor racing knows names like | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
Maserati and Ferrari. But back in the 1950s and 1960s there was | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
another big name. Lister of Cambridge doesn't have | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
quite the same ring about it, but 60 years ago they were taking on the | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
big boys and beating them. And now Lister is making a comeback. | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
Racing green and its yellow stripe. The Lister Jaguar. In the late 50s, | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
it on pretty much everything. It was built on a shoestring budget in | :17:50. | :17:58. | |
Cambridge. This car was the first of the new generation Lister. ALL the | :17:58. | :18:20. | |
Lister cars were great. He won 11 of his 14 races. On his right, the man | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
who built the first Lister. Not many were made. Now, a new investor has | :18:28. | :18:38. | |
relaunched the Lister, once again to in Cambridge. We will build four and | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
next year we hope to build six. We build them very slowly. It is a | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
craftsmanship product, not mass produced. When we see them on the | :18:49. | :19:02. | |
road? The bodywork is sent in pieces and assembled here. Eventually, when | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
put together it will look like that. Just like the original. They won't | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
be cheap, costing in the hundreds of thousands, but they will produce | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
jobs. It is a fantastic thing for UK manufacturing. We have already | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
employed a number of people to start working at the factory and this is | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
the start of the UK manufacturing recovery. It is a car from Cambridge | :19:26. | :19:34. | |
that led the way in motor sport. 60 years on, the Lister is back. | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
For every second of every day, our brains are working, controlling | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
everything we do and say. But what happens when the brain is damaged | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
because of a serious head injury? James Piercy was involved in a | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
serious road accident. His wife died, his children were injured and | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
he was left battling with damage to his brain. James is with us now. | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
How are you and what has happened to the brain in that time? I'm well, | :20:04. | :20:13. | |
thanks. Over the last two and a half years, my brain has been rewiring | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
itself and learning new ways to do things. I still have some problems | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
and struggle a bit but mostly I am much better. I suffered some other | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
damage in the accident which left one of the muscles which controls my | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
eyeball not functioning some it doesn't move quite right and I get | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
double vision. On the +8, I get to wear a cool patch. What did your | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
brain need to retrain? What is important is the pathways and | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
connections between different cells in your brain. There are something | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
like a million pathways for every second you are alive. If they are | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
disrupted, the connections break and your brain finds it harder to work | :20:57. | :21:05. | |
and has to find new ways to do that. I just want to show a clip of what | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
can happen to you when the brain isn't going as well as you like it. | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
Getting a little bit tired... And sometimes I get a twitch... And my | :21:15. | :21:23. | |
words won't come out quite right. I'll probably need to eat something | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
soon. Food and arrest, is it? After that | :21:27. | :21:39. | |
clip was filmed, I had a meal and rested for an hour and I was fine. | :21:39. | :21:47. | |
You are giving talks to people to educate them about brain injuries. | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
That's right, I am going round the country to talk about brain | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
injuries. I have been enormously lucky. There are millions living | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
with the aftermath of a serious head injury. I hope your recovery | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
continues to go well. You can see David Whiteley's film | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
about James in Inside Out East at 7:30pm on BBC One. | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
Most of us struggle to make a good sand castle, let alone a sand | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
sculpture. But for a talented few, it's an artform, complete with its | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
own world championship. Nicola Wood is a two—time world | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
champion and today she's been busy on the sea front at Frinton in Essex | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
today. Alex Dolan has been watching. Yes, Nicola is still hard at work. | :22:37. | :22:46. | |
It has taken her two days to create this voluptuous lady. She has not | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
finished yet but has come a long way since lunchtime. You have to work | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
from the top down because after a certain stage, I can't walk back a | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
bit. Nicola loves working with sand. Today she is working with tonnes of | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
the stuff. I'm working on her arms at the moment. She will just be | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
relaxing in the sun. Nicholl has created sand sculptures all over the | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
world. Her latest takes inspiration from traditional seaside postcards. | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
When you're carving something of this scale, the kind of SanDisk | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
ritual. The sand here is very old. It has been washed back and forth | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
with the tide and the greens are very round. A young sand is... It is | :23:43. | :23:55. | |
not brilliant to work with but that is the fun of it. It is challenging | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
to work with. What is it like to work for days on something that gets | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
washed away? I like the whole circle of it. Nicholl has just stopped work | :24:05. | :24:14. | |
to join us now. I am in awe of what you have achieved. However you | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
feeling about where you have got to? I think we are on target to finish | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
tomorrow. I'm happy so far. Are getting there. What about whether? | :24:24. | :24:32. | |
What happens if it rains? Not a great deal, hopefully. The sand is | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
very absorbent. Hopefully if it rains, it will just the surface | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
damage that we can repair. You can come and have a look at her tomorrow | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
evening. What did they call her? | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
Strapping. Is it going to rain? No, not as it | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
stands. You can see that the best of the | :24:59. | :25:11. | |
sunshine was in eastern and southern parts, taking the temperatures up to | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
21 Celsius. Even where we had thicker cloud, it didn't feel too | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
bad because we had warm and humid air feeding across the country. | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
Overnight, good news for sand sculptures. It is set to stay dry. | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
The combination of clear spells and light winds means we will see some | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
mist and dense fog patches developments. It is not a cold night | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
anywhere. Tomorrow, this is actually a ridge of high pressure which keeps | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
this system at bay for the time being and keeps this front away, | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
too. Tomorrow, a dry start to the day. It may take a while for the | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
mist and fork to clear but once it has gone a dry day with some of us | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
seeing some brightness and sunshine. There will be some areas of thicker | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
cloud which will remain for much of the day. Temperatures will be up to | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
around 22 or 23 Celsius in the sunshine. In the cloud, it will be a | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
little cooler and temperatures not so high around the coast. On the | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
whole, very light winds mainly from the south—east. Some evening | :26:29. | :26:37. | |
brightness and sunshine. This is the five—day forecast. I have said it is | :26:37. | :26:45. | |
cloudy tomorrow but there will be some sunshine. Almost a repeat | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
performance on Wednesday. Quite a lot of cloud around. Staying | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
relatively warm and humid. Some of us will see some sunshine. | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
Thursday, again, almost a repeat performance. A subtle change, we are | :26:59. | :27:06. | |
expecting some showers for the south—west. That is the same for | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
Friday. But, again, the showers fairly well scattered. Those are | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
your overnight loans. | :27:16. | :27:23. |