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rest of the week. Thank you. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Hello and welcome to Look East. In the programme tonight... | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
Turned down for IVF because her fiance already has children. This | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
woman says she will fight to get the NHS to change its policy. | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
I was devastated. For something I've wanted for such a long time, I felt | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
like my dreams had been shattered. A week after the storms, the village | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
where the telephone lines still haven't been reconnected. | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
The row over NHS bosses who take big redundancy pay offs, only to get | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
rehired by the health service somewhere else. | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
And Norwich City fans look away now. All seven goals from Hughton's | :00:41. | :00:41. | |
horror show. First tonight, who should be | :00:42. | :01:07. | |
eligible for IVF treatment on the NHS? We have been speaking to one | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
woman who thinks the authorities have got it wrong. | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
Her name is Clare Walker, and she knows that IVF is her only hope of | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
getting pregnant. Which is why she applied for treatment through her | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
GP. But because her fiance already has two children from a previous | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
relationship, the NHS said no. Simon Newton has been to meet her. | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
Clare Walker has always wanted a baby but problems with her fallopian | :01:36. | :01:56. | |
tubes means she cannot conceive naturally. She cannot get IVF | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
because her fiance, Matthew, has two children from a previous | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
relationship. I was just lost for words. | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
The policy on who qualifies is strict. Women must normally be aged | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
between 23 and 39, not be a smoker or obese and be childless. It is a | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
wide definition. The guidelines say there should be known living child | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
from the cobbled's current or any previous relationships, regardless | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
of whether they lived with him. This includes any adopted child within | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
current or previous relationships. People may say that unfortunately | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
there is not enough money for IDF to go around. Her partner has children, | :02:42. | :02:52. | |
that is her decision that she has gone with a ready`made family. That | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
sounds harsh, but some people may hold that view, what would you say | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
to that gimmick a lot of people have been quite negative with regards to | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
me having it funded on the NHS. I understand where they are coming | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
from but I have worked all my life, I paid my taxes and I have | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
contributed for people having treatment on the NHS. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Since April this year, fertility treatment has been run by Clinical | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
Commissioning Groups. There are 19 of them in the East of England. In | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
her case, it is West Norfolk CCG. We asked them for a comment today | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
but it was not forthcoming. Clare has now appealed against the | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
decision. If she feels she says she will adopt or foster. She cannot | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
afford private IVF treatment. For now she has to wait and hope, her | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
dream of being am closer. `` her dream of being And Simon | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
Newton is with me now. A mum is no closer. It seems to me | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
everybody in the Clinical Commissioning Group has been doing | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
this by the book. Yes, they have. We have bounced | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
between organisations trying to get an answer to this. The National | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
Institute of clinical excellence laid stoned the guidelines do this, | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
but they only refer to a woman's body weight, whether she smokes, | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
age, they don't cover other aspects. Generally, across the country the | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
rule seems to be if you have inherited a family, as Clare has | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
done, you don't get IVF. What are the grounds of her appeal? | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
Essentially in her eyes it is fairness. It `` she doesn't believe | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
it is fair she is suffering for the situation she has no control over. | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
She said you cannot choose who you fall in love with and points out | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
that quite rightly, perhaps, people move around from relationship to | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
relationship and don't stay with the same person of their life and these | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
situations will arise. There is a chink of light perhaps for her, | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
because the CCG, of which there are 19 in the East, will review this | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
policy soon. They may perhaps look at this again, but if they let more | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
women have IVF that involves more money and that the something the NHS | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
does not have much of. At the moment she looking on the downside, rather | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
than a positive outlook. And if you have a story to tell | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
about IDF, we would love to here from you. `` IVF treatment. | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
A former civil servant who stole more than ?160,000 from colleagues | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
at a tax office in Southend has been jailed for two and a half years. | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
Ruth Kevan ran a savings scheme. But Basildon Crown Court heard how she | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
spent much of the money on holidays and clothes. Gareth George was in | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
court, and he joins us now. The court heard today how Ruth Kevan | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
swindled the people she worked alongside out of a lot of money. She | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
took over the running of the Christmas savings club at HM Revenue | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
and Customs office in Southend. It became more of a general savings | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
scheme offering, in hindsight, unrealistically high levels of | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
interest come up to 14%, but Ruth Kevan was taking much of the money | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
herself. If a colleague wanted to withdraw some of the money from the | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
scheme, Ruth Kevan would pay them with money put in by another | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
colleague. In court today it was described as robbing Peter to pay | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
Paul. This went on for nearly a decade. Around 40 of Ruth Kevan's | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
colleagues put in around ?40,000 `` sorry, but in total ?212,000 into | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
the savings scheme, but when the scheme was stopped there was only | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
around ?48,000 left. What did the court fear about what | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
she spent the money on? `` what did the court here? | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
The court was told she did not have an extravagant lifestyle, she did | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
not buy your order at flash card, she lived in a rented house in | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
Southend. `` she did not buy a yacht. The court was told she did go | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
on holiday and stayed in nice hotels. She bought Mace clothes, the | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
court was told. The hearing was told that she frittered the money away. | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
`` she bought nice clothes. One of her colleagues said she felt | :07:13. | :07:30. | |
betrayed, another said it was a terrible blow at the end of their | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
working life. She admitted 21 counts of fraud and one count of theft and | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
was jailed for two and a half years. She is going to try and pay her | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
colleagues back with her pension, which he is entitled to receive in a | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
couple of years time. This time last week we were clearing | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
up after the biggest storm to hit this region for ten years. Thousands | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
of homes were without power and there was major disruption on road | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
and rail. A week later the power is back on, but not all the phone | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
lines. In the village of Elmdon in Essex, 80 people are offline. BT | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
won't tell us how many other villages are affected. | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
Around 250 people in Elmdon, which sits in Essex on the border of | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
temperature and Hertfordshire. In the past week some locals have | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
felt even more isolated than usual after losing their landlines in a | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
spot where mobile phone coverage is virtually nonexistent. | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
Because we do not have a mobile phone signal we would have thought | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
someone would come from BBC to explain what is `` from BT to | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
explain what is happening. On a scale of one to ten, how would | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
you rate the performance? `1. We have a lot of elderly people | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
here, some not too well, and BT have left them completely lost. | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
This was the cause ` to trees tumbled in last week's high winds | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
taking the phone lines down, cutting the connections to around 80 homes. | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
BT told us in a statement today putting this right will take a | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
significant amount of work. They have to put in a new poll and 600 | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
yards of cable. They say they do not hit any unforeseen problems | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
hopefully everyone will be back on my weapons they. | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
From consternation to pottable const `` compensation. In the immediate | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
aftermath of the storm, seven `` several hundred thousand homes and | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
businesses were without power, many back on quickly. Just over 20,000 | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
customers in the East were blacked out for more than two days and will | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
receive compensation, anything from ?54 up to ?270 for those without | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
power the longest, that is over 96 hours. The total is more than ?1.1 | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
million. The firm UK power networks is starting to send out letters to | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
those affected this week. It says it is already committed to reviewing | :09:43. | :09:51. | |
how the Campbell `` handled the storm and back in the village of | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
Elmdon... They do not care enough to simply | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
let people know what is going on, then they will have people ranting | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
down cameras, as I am doing. And we heard about that story | :09:58. | :10:06. | |
because Bob Woods sent us an e`mail. If you have a story to | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
tell, please get in touch. Three armed robberies in Southend | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
are being linked by the police. They all happened yesterday evening. A | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
man went into Corals Betting in Sutton Road threatened the staff | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
with a gun and got away with some cash. A man and a woman had their | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
mobile phones taken and were also threatened. | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
A five`year`old boy has been shot and seriously injured in an accident | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
at his home in Essex. Police were called to the house in Wickford | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
yesterday. An 18`year`old has been arrested for possession of a firearm | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
and drug offences and released on bail. | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
Full time firefighters in this region were on strike again this | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
morning in their row with the Government over retirement ages and | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
pensions. The two hour stoppage by members of the Fire Brigades Union | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
started at 6am. The | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
still to come tonight, how safe are our level crossings? Within the last | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
hour, Network Rail has been talking to MPs. We are live at Westminster. | :11:05. | :11:13. | |
Plus, Norwich's for `` worst defeat since the war. How good as this | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
season been for canary 's funds? There has been strong criticism | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
today of a revolving door policy at the NHS, where managers are paid | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
redundancy and then re`employed a few weeks later. Millions of pounds | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
have been paid out in compensation as part of a re`organisation of the | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
health service. The Health Minister and local MP Dan Poulter described | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
the pay`outs as a waste of taxpayers' money that should have | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
been spent on patients. More from him in a moment, but first here's | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
Alex Dunlop. Until April this year, there were 16 | :11:44. | :11:57. | |
Primary Care Trusts in our region. But the government says they were | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
too bureaucratic and replaced them with the same number of GP`led | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
Clinical Commissioning Groups. It meant that 29 managers were made | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
redundant at a cost to the NHS of almost ?3 million. Nine received a | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
payoff of more than ?100,000. Four were paid more than ?150,000, and | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
one manager's exit package was worth more than ?200,000. Now some of | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
those made redundant have gone on to get other management jobs within the | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
NHS. Those Primary Care Trusts were doing | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
a good job and didn't need to be disbanded only for those same | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
managers to then be redeployed elsewhere in the new National knelt | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
`` National Health Service. That is a scandalous abuse of public money. | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
Among those who rejoined the NHS is this man, Andrew Morgan. Currently | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
interim head of the East of England Ambulance Trust, he was the chief | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
executive of a cluster of local PCTs. NHS Norfolk set aside ?492,000 | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
to compensate him for losing that job. It is not known if he has taken | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
it. All these payments are perfectly legal, but health unions say the | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
payoffs are a scandalous waste of money. | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
Unison members working in health in the East of England recognise the | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
significance for cuts they are facing, the financial pressures, and | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
they are outraged that taxpayers' money is going on this rather than | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
on front line patient services. The Government is now under pressure | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
to claw back those compensation payments if those who get them | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
simply walk back into an NHS job a few weeks later. | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
Earlier today I spoke to the Suffolk MP and Health Minister Dr Dan | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
Poulter, and started by asking if it would be possible to claw back some | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
of the money. We are certainly going to do our | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
best to do so. The problem has arisen because in 2006 the previous | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
Labour government awarded very senior managers of these sorts of | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
profligate and unacceptable redundancy terms. We are now coming | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
to terms with what that means, which is that you have front line staff | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
feeling pressure on the front line, feeling as if they are being kicked | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
in the teeth by these arrangements, and also patients that are sought | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
changed. It is completely unacceptable and we are putting in | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
measures that will mean in the future these sorts of redundancy | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
payments to senior managers will not happen again. | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
`` short changed. When the reorganisation was being discussed, | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
did anyone say, it will cost us ?500 million in compensation, are we sure | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
we want to do this two the reorganisation costs 1.5 `` is | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
saving ?1.5 billion every year by reducing bureaucracy, the number of | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
blunders and recording costs taking money out of the front line. | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
`` reducing the number of managers. In the meantime, we inherited this | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
significant set of redundancy terms that were unacceptable. I don't know | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
what the previously the government were thinking when they allowed | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
senior managers to be paid ?400,000 in redundancy. That is unacceptable | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
and it's short`changing patients. That is why we are looking at how we | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
can make sure this does not happen again. When we look at this what we | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
see is that we have a lot of hard`working front line staff in the | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
NHS. The union is right in condemning this, as well, because | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
front line staff need more interesting `` more investment. We | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
need more investment in front line staff, not wasting money on these | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
profligate payments a consequence of the previous government. | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
Do we pay people who are accountants and managers more than we pay | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
doctors, and is that right two you are absolutely right to say that | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
under the arrangement of the previous government we have a ring | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
`` we have a situation where senior managers in the NHS are paid... | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
I am sorry to interrupt you, you keep blaming the previous | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
government, you have been in power for quite a few years. Shouldn't you | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
have sorted this out sooner? That is why we put in place reforms | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
to the NHS, which is saving ?1.5 billion, reducing the number of | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
managers and administrators, around 20,000 in the NHS, to make sure we | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
can invest more in front line staff. Part of that is also about reforming | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
some of the excessive salaries we have inherited from the previous | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
government. We are putting those measures in place and getting to | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
grips with those unacceptable redundancy pillage `` payments that | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
we inherited. We will make sure that we will do better as a government | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
than Labour did. We will not put money into eye watering redundancy | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
payments that are eye watering and compromise patient care. | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
Doctor Dan Poulter, thank you very much. | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
The head of Network Rail has told MPs this evening that the deaths of | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
two girls on a level crossing in Essex was a fundamental watershed in | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
the railway industry. It is almost eight years since Olivia Bazlington | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
and Charlotte Thompson were hit by a train at Elsenham. Network Rail was | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
fined ?1 million for breaching health and safety laws, and ever | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
since the girls' parents have been fighting to make the industry take | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
the issue of level crossing safety more seriously. Two weeks ago they | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
gave evidence to MPs at westminster. Tonight it has been the turn of the | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
industry to respond. Let's join Andrew Sinclair at Westminster. | :17:11. | :17:20. | |
Network Rail was fined nearly ?1 million for health and safety | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
breaches after the deaths of Olivia Bazlington and Charlotte Thompson. | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
At the time the company said they had not been taking this issue very | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
seriously but that things have changed. | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
I would say that we are now in a different place. I have to pay | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
tribute to the actions of the families at the time. Elsenham was a | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
fundamental watershed for this business. We were in a much worse | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
place several years ago about managing level crossings and we are | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
better now, though there are still a way to go. | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
He went on to save negligent management was responsible for the | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
deaths at Houghton and he said that Network Rail has risk assessed every | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
level crossing and you can see that assessment on the company's website. | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
Apart from being more aware of dangers, what else are they doing to | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
micro we have also heard from Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Railways | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
who said that Network Rail has set aside ?109 million to close 500 | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
level crossings across the country over the next five years. | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
In the last five years, the company has closed 750 level crossings. Her | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
Majesty 's Inspectorate of Railways said he would not be unpleasant | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
about this, but after deaths like the ones we saw at Elsenham, the | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
industry has woken up. Level crossings in Great Britain are | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
ranked in terms of the European community as the safest in Europe. | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
However, the key is all about continuous improvement. | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
We also learned this evening that Network Rail are looking at the | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
signage around level crossings, but the company did warn that crossing a | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
railway will always be a dangerous business, indeed someone died today | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
in the north`east of England after being hit by a train on a level | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
crossing. In football, the Norwich City | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
manager, Chris Hughton, says he is hurting after his team were hammered | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
at the weekend. But he says he is the right man to turn the season | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
around. Saturday's defeat at Manchester City | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
was the worst since the team lost 7`0 at Sheffield Wednesday back in | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
1938. This result leaves them in the Premier League relegation zone and | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
without a win in four. Both teams are now just wanting the | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
whistle to go. Norwich's worst league defeat in 75 years. | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
Time is ticking, sadly, for Chris Hughton. | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
He put on a brave face, but this was a miserable day. | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
At the moment it is hurting, we have let them down today. | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
Sergio Aguero scores! As manager, I take full responsible | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
at it. David Silva are arriving! | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
2`0! We have the choice but to be far better next week. | :20:07. | :20:15. | |
3`0! When it rains, it pours. And for five days at Bellevue job | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
goals. Four at United, seven at city, hapless Norwich humour lead | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
and humbled by successive trips to Manchester. Fans gave the club shop | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
a wide berth. A lot of fans are very angry. Yes. | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
No fight, no guts, it was disgusting. I think it is time for | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
Chris Hughton to go. The danger would be to have a knee | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
jerk reaction. There are other clubs for Chris Hughton to go to, and if | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
we're stinted leave the danger is we have nothing to fill the space. `` | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
and if we asked him to leave, the danger is. | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
We have to stay positive, but it is not happening. | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
Norwich are not much worse off than 12 months ago, the same number of | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
wins, but, crucially, more defeats ` six compared with four after ten | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
games last season. Fewer points, eight compared with ten, leaving | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
them 18th in the relegation zone. I have confidence in my own ability | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
and I have confidence in the changing room. We have been in this | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
position before, last season, where the start was not as good, but where | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
we have not been as on the back of a defeat like today. | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
Not a record Premier League defeats ` that came nearly 20 years ago. | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
Ipswich thrashed, 9`0 at Man Utd. Both Ipswich and Norwich ended up | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
going down that year. If Norwich are to avoid a similar fate, results | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
must improve. Chris Hughton spent millions reinforcing his team. | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
Performances have not lived up to raised expectations. | :22:01. | :22:00. | |
A horrible day for Chris Hughton. I think most of us recycle our | :22:01. | :22:10. | |
household rubbish, but it's not so long ago that things were very | :22:11. | :22:11. | |
different. Not in your house? We recycle it and | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
get more back then! He goes to the recycling centre and brings back | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
loads of stuff that we really do not need! | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
20 years ago recycling rates were just 4% ` now they are 54% and | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
rising. 20 years ago we hadn't heard of | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
recycling centres, either. But, in fact, the first one had just | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
been opened in Milton Keynes, from where Fae Southwell reports. | :22:37. | :22:45. | |
It is called a factory for a reason. Recyclable waste is resorted here | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
with absolute precision. It starts out as a mound of rubbish that is | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
loaded onto conveyor belts. Paddles shuffle the items forcing | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
heavy`metal food tins and drinks cans to fall through the gaps. | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
Cardboard and newspapers are pushed to the front, while jets of air | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
separate different coloured plastics. | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
I think there is scepticism that we do not recycle what we take in, but | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
we truly do. Some people think that by putting a few things in the | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
recycling it doesn't make a difference but it makes a massive | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
difference. Recycling was popular in wartime ` | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
the model make do and mend. But it fell out of failure `` favour in the | :23:27. | :23:35. | |
consumer years of the early 90s. Bill Oddie launched a pilot scheme | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
covering just 5000 homes. At the time only 4% of all household waste | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
was recycled. Now in Milton Keynes it is more than 50%. | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
Extremely forward`thinking, it took a lot of courage for the Council is | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
to agree to set up a scheme, it was risky and costly but it has paid | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
dividends. Everyone supports recycling. | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
At this factory, they sought 16 tonnes of waste per hour, up to | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
150,000 tonnes per year. Recycling has huge benefits. It protects | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
finite resources, like oil, used to make plastic. The authorities also | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
are saving by not paying landfill tax. The council now wants to boost | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
recycling to 70% of all household waste. It is building a new ?140 | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
million facility to processed rubbish which may have inadvertently | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
gone into the Blackburn instead. Many people do not realise how | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
psychical waste management is. In the summer there will be more garden | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
waste but at Christmas this pile of paper, plastic and bottles will be | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
up to the ceiling. This month, the factory celebrates | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
20 years in operation. It is holding an open day for the public on | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
November the 16th. Looking at that conveyor belt, I am | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
not sure what he would bring home! Luckily, not that kind of stuff! We | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
get an off a lot of wood and things brought back. | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
I am good to be in trouble! `` I am going to be. | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
Today we had some rain arrived first thing but then it was a nice, | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
November day. Quite blustery at times but from the satellite picture | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
you can see this afternoon was largely clear skies and a lot of | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
sunshine. The clear skies at the moment mean the temperatures are | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
tumbling. We are already down to around two Celsius. We're looking at | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
a ground frost in rural areas and perhaps a local air frost for some | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
of us. Then it will change because this area of cloud and rain pushes | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
in. By five or six o'clock in the morning it will probably be ringing | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
across much of the region. Tomorrow, as we head into the early hours, | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
temperatures rising a little bit. At that point it looks like we will | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
have light winds, but they are picking up as this system rattles | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
towards us. This brings cloud and rain but moves east very quickly. We | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
will sort of cloudy with outbreaks of rain, but as the morning goes on | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
we will start to see all of that edging into the North Sea with that | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
weather front and brighter skies following behind with sunshine. | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
Temperatures tomorrow, similar to today, actually, around 10 Celsius | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
at best, but it will feel chillier because of the cloud and rain first | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
thing and also because of the winds, which will be up lustily `` blustery | :26:32. | :26:43. | |
Westerly. In the east, eventually the rain and cloud should clear, | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
probably clearing the East Coast by 4pm. Then it is a dry, clear end to | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
the day. What lies ahead for the rest of the week? Tuesday night, a | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
dry, clear start, but then the next system arriving during Tuesday | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
night, bringing more rain. That looks as if it could stay with us | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
through Wednesday. There is a bit of doubt as to how far north the rain | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
will spread and how long it will stick around, but as it stands it | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
looks like the bulk of Wednesday will be cloudy with outbreaks of | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
rain. Once that has gone, Thursday and Friday are looking better, quite | :27:19. | :27:33. | |
blustery. Thursday, any showers should be few and far between and | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
many of us should enjoy decent spells of sunshine. On Friday, | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
probably a few more showers around and some of them on the heavy side. | :27:39. | :27:40. | |
Again, not for everybody. That is it from all of us here, | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
thank you for your company. Good night. | :27:44. | :27:54. | |
A family memoir that captured the hearts of millions. | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
A potter telling stories out of porcelain | :28:00. | :28:02. |