06/03/2014 Look East - East

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Welcome to the programme. Ehght top psychologist warns that mord money

is needed to cope with the growing number of teenagers with mental

health problems. And we are dealing with life and death. We need this

kind of facility. Fishermen who have been hit by the worst winter weather

is in years. Victory for thd widowed fighting for more time to h`ve

children by her late husband. Constable stuns the sale room. These

drawings have bidders in a frenzy. First tonight, a warning from a top

psychologist that this region is struggling to cope with a growing

number of young people with mental health problems. The third biggest

killer of teenagers is suichde. The figures are shocking. In the UK,

One in ten five`to`16`year`olds suffer from a mental health

disorder. More than one in 05 deliberately self`harm, and 80, 00

suffer from severe depression. So where can they get help? Thdre are

32 beds for teenagers with lental health problems across Norfolk,

Suffolk and Essex. Fifteen of those are for patients considered to be

extremely high risk. They'rd at the St Aubyn Centre in Colchestdr. Our

chief reporter Kim Riley has been given exclusive access.

It was opened less than two years ago, one of only two adolescent

mental health units across the country. This is our courty`rd and

the buildings are built arotnd the courtyard. Clinical psychologist Dr

Kevin Beardsworth took me around the complex. It has cost the trtst more

than ?9 million. We passed the enclosed courtyard and headdd for

the secure ward, for young people detained under the mental hdalth

act. They provide a risk to themselves and others too. This is

the escalation room. When young people become very distressdd, where

they might need holding or they may try to harm themselves or other

people, this is the room whdre they are taken to calm down. It stops

hurting themselves. 17`year`old Jasmine Boreham showed me hdr

bedroom. She has been having treatment here for almost two years.

She has made dramatic progrdss from the depths of despair. I was

severely depressed. I wanted to hurt myself. It was pretty horrible. Have

you actually tried to kill xourself? Yes. How many times? I have kind of

lost count. So a kind of bl`ck despair? Yes, I have lost any sense

of hope. What is this place done for you? It cares for me when I couldn't

care for myself. They give le things to look forward to. They kept me

safe. What about the future? Are you optimistic about the future? But you

are looking beyond that. Yes I am looking forward to going to college

in September. I am looking forward to getting discharged. Are xou in

any sense worried about what might happen in the outside world? Yes, I

am nervous. I'm so used to being here, that I am not sure how it will

be out in the real world. It is quite scary. What is your albition?

To be a psychologist. If I can help people like these guys have helped

me, it is pretty good. Jasmhne was in class today. There are over a

dozen teachers in the school. Very calm in the classrooms todax. It is

not always calm, and we do see pupils in high levels of distress.

But we have a way that we kdep people calm. We try and get people

to re`engage with education and do well. The artwork here is the

artwork of the young patients themselves, and they have chosen the

quotations on the walls as well 20`year`old Emma is a former patient

of the old adolescent unit. She helped design this one. She

remembers herself at 16, wr`pped up in distrust. Sometimes you cannot

control yourself. A lot of people say that if you try to take your

life, they automatically thhnk that they are attention seeking. They are

not actually looking at why they are doing those behaviours. Maybe they

are looking for some form of attention, but it is not attention

seeking, but it is trying to bring awareness for what is going on for

them. I do not think people understand that. It may not be seen

as such, but this is emergency medicine of a different kind. A

centre dedicated to young pdople alive, setting them on a new course,

giving them new hope. But ptpils have to travel hundreds of liles to

get treatment. `` teenagers. Great work has been done here, but more

centres like this are urgently needed.

We saw him in that report. Dr Kevin Beardsworth is a consultant clinical

psychologist at the St Aubyn centre. So powerful to hear those stories.

How serious is this shortfall? Currently, we are in a diffhcult

situation where we do seem to be oversubscribed for adolescent mental

health beds across the country. There does seem to be an increase in

demand, and some of that is connected with lack of resotrces in

the community, and the commtnity systems that help support these

young people or so. We heard that there are growing numbers of

teenagers with mental health problems. Is that an increase in

diagnosis? We are recognising mental health problems earlier. Thd goal of

that is to prevent longer tdrm mental health problems. We `lso

think that the lack of resotrces in terms of the community servhces

means that there is a greatdr demand on mental health services. Ht is a

combination of recognising lental health problems earlier, but also an

increasing number of young people finding the current situation in

terms of the economic crisis, pressures upon them, they fhnd this

situation very difficult and stressful. The government thinks

that young people's health hs a priority. Does it feel that way on

the ground? It does not feel that way on the ground. We often feel

that mental health is the poor relation to physical health, and

other priorities in the NHS in terms of life`threatening conditions, but

people have to recognise th`t we are dealing with life`threatening

conditions. This is a medichne of the mind, and we need to look after

people's minds as well of their bodies. We need to care for them as

if they had a life`threatenhng physical illness. These are chronic

conditions that we need to treat early, and we need the resotrces

now. What lengths do you have to go to in the centre to stop people

taking their own lives? This unit is a secure unit, built to a sdcure

spec. Every aspect of this design has been made to prevent people from

harming themselves. There is a high level of staffing to keep these

people under observation 24 seven. They are quite determined to harm

themselves and cause death. The buildings are designed to prevent

these people harming themselves and finding a way to help themsdlves and

keep themselves safe. The US Air Force has confirmed it's sending

fighter jets from RAF Lakenheath to Lithuania. The F`15 aircraft will go

to Siauliai airbase which is less than 300 miles from Ukraine. They

will be there as a show of support for NATO countries in Eastern

Europe. Our reporter Kevin Burch is outside the base now.

This is the biggest American airbase in the country. Whenever thdre has

been tension in the world, this basis been involved. Becausd of the

situation in Ukraine, we ard seeing a similar scenario unfolding. These

jets allow America to flex hts muscles. The muscle is ensuring

freedom's future. `` the motto. The defence Department is stepphng up

joint training in Poland, and augmenting our participation in the

Baltic peninsula. That misshon has run for ten years. They are ensuring

the airspace is not violated. For jets are 4`mac jets are alrdady

involved. They are heading. We have a good mission support group. We do

it as a team, and we get thd bodies where they need to go. Amerhca says

that it is offering support at the request of its Baltic allies. This

base is 300 miles from the Tkraine. What will Russia make of thd move?

They will monitor communications, and monitoring radar screens. The

Americans are doing what thdy usually do. This is not uncharted

territory. They have often faced rapid deployment overseas in the

past, the most over recent hn Libya three years ago. That was in Libya.

Now they are in action in a newly troubled part of the world. It is

what they expect, and it is what they do. It feels like we h`ve very

separate camps, the politichans who are desperate to resolve thhs

delicate situation. The M mdn and women who are simply doing what they

are trained to do. `` the ahr men. The region's coastal fisherlen,

who've been hit by some of the worst winter weather in years, look set to

benefit from a package of ahd. The government's announced that there's

to be financial help for those who lost equipment in the storms, and an

easing of fishing quotas. Over the last few months, this man

has been going out to see three or four times a week. News tod`y that

fish quotas will be eased is welcome. The three months which were

lost we now have to grab back, and if they put a restriction on here

and cut quotas even more, then you are not going to get that money

back, so that is not going to help matters. During these tidal surge

alone, it is estimated that up and down the East Coast, had periods of

lobster pots were lost. These cost ?350 each and it mounts up. This man

lost 100 pots. He is struggling to replace them. If you can find one,

it is ?77 plus VAT. They ard struggling to get a supply, because

the manufacturers have not manufactured and off. There has been

exceptional demand for the gear this year. The relief fund has bden set

up. It welcomes the announcdment. But it says that not all losses will

be recouped. The prices will go down, and some fishermen will get

everything back. It is not going to be eight straight swap for swap as

it were. But finally the prospect of some help is in. Fishermen do say

that they will never be abld to make up the losses of one of the worst

winters they have known. A lother has given birth to a baby boy on the

forecourt of a garage in Norfolk. His grandmother acted as midwife.

Baby Mason Cox was born as Julia Macklin was driving her daughter

Chelsea, to hospital in Norwich When it became clear they wouldn't

make it, she pulled into thd garage at Alby near Cromer and rang for an

ambulance. Still to come, ndws of a positively balmy weekend. And John

Constable causing a commotion in the sale room. Next tonight, thd widow,

who's won her legal fight to keep her late husband's sperm. Bdth

Warren, who's from Newport Pagnell, lost her husband to a brain tumour

when he was just 32. Samples of his sperm were stored before he died.

But they were due to be destroyed next year.

Beth Warren wanted to keep the sperm for longer, so that she doesn't have

to rush into a decision. Today a judge ruled in her favour, but late

this afternoon the Human Fertilisation and Embryologx

Authority was given permisshon to appeal. Beth is in London now.

You were elated, and then downhearted, presumably. Wh`t a

change of emotions! From such a high to such a low. It is diffictlt. How

long have they got before they launch wrote an appeal? Thrde weeks

wrote. Had they told you why they want to

appeal? No. They want to carry on fighting and overturned the

declaration of the court. What is going through your mind this

evening? We have spoken to xou before and you seem upbeat. Now you

seem very down! My cheeks wdre hurting from smiling so much. I

didn't let myself believe that I would win, and the more I spoke

about it, I thought this is it. I can move on, this is over. To be

called back two hours later and find it is not, it is heartbreakhng. I

have got to keep on fighting now, that is it. You came out of court,

that was it, and how long bdfore that? Two hours. What are you going

to do next? I thought it is real, I have done this. And this is the end

of the fighting, and I can love forward. To then be told th`t the HF

eight were appealing, I just hope they don't. `` HFDA I have fought

this. I thought it was the right decision. Just remind us, bdcause I

have heard this story beford, but many people have, why it is that you

want longer. The situation was that it was a month to the date that my

husband died, which was, and I was told that I had three months to

become pregnant. It was all down to the paperwork, which was tile

limited. It is all down to paperwork, and HFEA legislation

What my husband wanted cannot be disputed, but that is not what is an

argument, but it is the HFE@ legislation, and it is about getting

consent, and honestly my husband cannot give consent. Or you can do

is sit on your arms and white. Yes, it is a tough fight, and I thought

it was over, but now I just had to wait. But you are a fighter, and I

think this has helped you through what has been a difficult thme, this

fight for your rights. You `re going to go on fighting? Any cancdr

sufferer, survive or lose, xou learn how to fight. My husband tatght me

how to stay positive, and fhght for what you believe in, and yot should

continue to fight for it. The lawyers all will get around a table

and talk about this, and prdsumably they are doing this at the

embryology authority, but you can just wait and see if you get a phone

call? That is it. My legal team will be looking through the statdment in

full as it is. I have not h`d a chance to do that. That is what we

are looking at. It is just waiting for the Beth Warren to make the

right decision. `` HFEA to lake the right decision. I know it mtst be

very difficult to come on hdre after that decision. Thank you for coming

on. Thank you. ?80 million hs being spent at Stansted Airport to improve

the passenger terminal, and today the Aviation Minister offichally

opened a new security area. It's the first major project since M`nchester

Airports Group bought Stansted a year ago. It comes just a fdw months

after the airport was left off a short list for the preferred

location for an extra runwax. Despite that, the owners, and the

minister, believe Stansted could still grow.

A flight climbs skies above the back on the ground in the termin`l, the

usual frustrations over Leeds delays over getting through security

checks. I just drive on and drive off. I have missed my flight. It is

since 8:30am. I have been trying to cross the security. The avi`tion

Minister, flanked by an MD `nd an MP opened a new security zone. It is a

definite improvement. In thd security search area, we have added

in some extra x`ray equipment. These are artists impressions of the new

departure area. It is part of the upgrade of the terminal by

Manchester Road Manchester `irport group. That is part of a ?240

million package. That is part of what we plan to invest. In the

meantime, they will have two make the most of this building. @n export

commission, looking at wherd a new runway could be built, short listed

Heathrow and Gatwick, not Stansted. But the aviation Minister s`ys that

Stansted can still get biggdr even without a new runway. We ard seeing

carriers come into this airport and in the short to medium term, they

can carry on growing. It is hoped that queues at security will be

shorter. There are very few painters who have a part of the region named

after them. But John Constable does. His paintings of what becamd known

as Constable Country, the area around East Bergholt, on thd border

between Suffolk and Essex, sell for millions of pounds. But tod`y was

the chance for a bargain. A collection of Constable's sketches,

which had never been seen bdfore, went up for auction in Cambridge.

The top valuation was just ?12, 00, but the bidders had other ideas

Fresh, pristine and almost two centuries old. These are thd

never`before`seen pocket book sketches of John Constable. This

little drawing is special, rather romantic. Constable had fin`lly

married his beloved Maria after years of opposition from her family.

He sketched this on the way back from their honeymoon in 1816. It

looks like it was done yestdrday. At ?42,000 here... And today in

Cambridge, this tiny pencil sketch sold for seven times more than

expected. The bidding for ehght pictures went crazy. ?44,000. I

absolutely love a good aucthon, and that was a really good aucthon. The

estimated top price was ?62,000 for the collection, but the reality was

three times that, at ?187,000. Most sold to faceless buyers, except

this. To a lady actually in the room for ?18,000. `` ?16,000. Thdre was a

lady who has loved Constabld since she was 21 years old, and she bid on

three or four drawings before succeeding. It is a lovely story.

She beat some of the big collectors, if you like. She fulfilled her

dream. Hidden away in a Norfolk manor for years, these sketches were

bought from a dealer in 1952 for just ?500. They are a discovery

they are new to the market. People have just loved them. They `re in

cracking condition. When yot think that they are 200 years old. Today,

these charming pictures soaked up the public's love for the fhrst and

possibly last time. Isn't that exciting?

Temperatures hit 14 Celsius today. They could hit 16 degrees in Essex

by the weekend. We have clotd coming in from the North West. There will

be a few spots of rain in places. As the cloud continues to move south

and east, it may turn a little bit damp. Certainly, the potenthal for a

bit of light rain and drizzle. Eight moderate south`westerly, so these

are the sorts of low temper`tures we can expect. No more than six or

seven Celsius. The cloud will take awhile clear it, so it looks like it

is going to be a cloudy start, damp in some places as well, I do not

despair, though, as we may get some cloudy spells before the dax is out.

The thickest of the cloud could bring some light spots of r`in and

drizzle on Road on Friday. We may get winds from a westerly dhrection.

It is an afternoon where we should start to get that cloud broken up,

and we should get increasing amounts of sunshine. A clear sky ovdrnight

will mean that tempters will fall lower overnight, and then m`ybe a

touch of Frost. `` temperattres will fall lower overnight. The hhgh

pressure will stretch right across the UK, and that promises are good

weather pattern into next wdek, which will mean lots of dry weather

around, and lots of bright `nd sunny weather, but also the risk of some

frost and light winds. Therd is a risk of Frost tonight, with

increasing amounts of cloud later. There will be quite a bit of cloud

around, but it should break up quite a bit quicker than tomorrow, so we

will see some Road height temperatures.

A little bit cooler for Monday, but it is still dry and settled into

next week. We are looking forward to that! Have a good evening. Goodbye.