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Nick Clegg tells his supporters to stand firm, dismissing talk

of Hello and welcome to Wednesday

on Look East. We learn 400 police jobs ard

at risk across Norfolk and Suffolk. But Suffolk's PCC stands by his

claim there will be no redundancies. There is no secret programme that

will mean that 250 people will lose their jobs.

How a small Norfolk charity made a supermarket giant sit up

It just feels incredible to have a company like Tesco's supporting us

The doctor cleared of wrongdoing after treating cancer

patients who'd been told nothing more could be done.

And one of the biggest coastal defence schemes in the country

I will be here later in the programme live from the Suffolk

Show, where the BBC has this special event to mark 100 years since the

beginning of the First World War. We have this re`creation of a school

classroom, where they are doing reading and writing. We havd

reading and writing. We have had a lot of things going on in this

marquee, lots of stories about the First World War. We will be hearing

from historians later in the programme. And if you look where

those two soldiers are, there is a re`creation of the recruitment

office, where you can get these identification papers made up.

office, where you can get these identification papers made tp. More

identification papers made up. More about that later, first the news

with Suzy. The Police and Crime Commissioner

for Suffolk has dismissed as "complete nonsense" reports that the

force needs to lose up to 240 staff. BBC Look East has learnt th`t up to

400 police jobs across Norfolk The two forces must save ?36

million over four years. A month ago,

a cost`cutting plan to merge both The idea was backed

by both chief constables. The plans for the two forces to

share a single control room at the Norfolk Police headqtarters

ran into strong opposition. There were protests

from officers and civilian staff And, when it came to making

a final decision, the two Police and Crime Commissioners werd facing

in different directions. In the end,

Suffolk's PCC Tim Passmore pulled the plug on the merger plan, with a

package of economies aimed at saving His opposite number in Norfolk

cannot understand And so, whatever we do,

it will have an effect on pdople You were talking about a freeze

on recruitment? We will freeze the recruitment

of PCSOs. We will try and keep the officer

numbers as they are at the loment But we will have to wait and see in

the long`term, because we are going But at the Suffolk Show tod`y,

Tim Passmore stuck to his previous commitment

on no compulsory redundancids. I cannot give a 100% guarantee, but

there is no secret programmd which I had huge public support

about the decision that was made A lot of people have been telling me

it was the right thing to do The Police Federation in Suffolk

say that the force need all its It is intent

on protecting that position. When will we know exactly how many

jobs will go? As far as Norfolk is concerned, the

announcement will be made on July the force after a meeting with

the force after a meeting whth the police panel. Before that, the staff

will have been informed what is happening. But the PCC said that it

could be the end of the year before the review is completed. The two

constables are not seeing exe to constables are not seeing eye to

eye, but these two forces are intertwined. They share an

investigation teams, forensics investigation teams, forenshcs

police dogs. That cooperation to share money deepening has got to go

on. There are several military charities

that help ex`service people and their families operating

across our region. But today, Britain's biggest

retailer put its weight behhnd Tesco has teamed up with

Scotty's Little Soldiers, which is based in Norfolk, to launch

a new fashion range for children. On today's performance, Jessica

could model anything. Today, it is a Scottie's pink T`shirt. Her father

was killed in a bomb blast five years ago. Scotty's Little Soldiers

helps families recover from the loss, buy gifts and days out.

It has given her a group of friends who understand what she has going

through. If she has difficult moments, there are other children

there who she can talk to. The charity's founder, Mickey

there who she can talk to. The charity's founder, Mickdy Scott,

The charity's founder, Mickey Scott, approached Tesco about a range of

children's clothes. All the profits will go to the charity. The range

will form part of Tesco's clothing range. The charity says that while

the money raised will be very welcome, the backing of a major

retailer will also be important. We help 143 children, so we know

that there are hundreds more out that there are hundreds mord out

there. The more people who `re talking about our charity, the more

families will be able to re`ch. Increasingly, charities need to

raise their profile. This Hdlp For Heroes garden was pride of place at

the chart `` Chelsea flower show. And this jacket even helped Harry to

walk with people to the South Pole. Our fear is that the funding will

run out, and it is our job and the two princes are brilliant at raising

the profile of the charities. Charities know that those scarred by

conflicts will need help for years after war.

Earlier, I talked about the success of the military

charities with the former head of the British Army, Lord D`nnatt.

He said there'd been a welcome upsurge in support for those in

Despite Iraq being an unpoptlar war and Afghanistan is still

a misunderstood war, there hs huge admiration and respect and support

for soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who are willing to risk

their lives on behalf of the nation, and

From your involvement with charities like

Help For Heroes, how important is it to build that profile and to get

corporate sponsorship or involvement with the Chelsea Flower Show?

Military charities are a reflection of the enthusi`sm

of the population at large to get behind our servicemen and veterans.

Whether someone just puts a pound in a tin or bakes a cake for

But often the big money, when projects can really be taken

forward, that has come from foundations

If you look at the 200 millhon that Help For Heroes has raised in the

last seven years, a fair chtnk of that has come from large donations.

That has enabled the big programmes and projects like the personal

recovery centres up and down the country, to be taken forward.

So, corporate help is important and corporate recognition is

How easy will it be to maintain this profile?

Are you concerned that, as troops withdraw from Afghanistan,

interest in these charities might dip, although the issues th`t they

I think the point that has to be made clearly and as often as we can

is that for those who have been injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, the

physical battles on the battlefield might be over, but their personal

Their personal battles with their physical injuries ` and we have

a large number of those, as well, single, double and triple alputees.

But there will be a large number and there are already

a large number who are having to battle with psychological injuries.

Those physical, psychologic`l and mental injuries will continue

So the support that we are `ble to give them now,

which has come through the great generosity of the publi , which is

brilliant for today, it needs to be their ten or 20 or 50 years time.

So the physical battle might be over, the personal battles

A doctor from Norfolk who was accused

of giving unauthorised chemotherapy to two patients has been cldared

Dr Henry Mannings founded the Star Throwers Cancer Charity and

was treating patients who'd been told nothing more could be done

Dr Henry Mannings reading the e`mail saying that he has been cle`red of

all allegations and no further action will be taken. He said that

it has taken 18 months, affdcted it has taken 18 months, affdcted his

patients lives and almost cost him his career.

I became very depressed abott it. That this could happen to me in the

first place. We had to stop treatment on a number

of patients who were doing exceptionally well and that was

heartbreaking. Dr Henry Mannings has treatdd

Dr Henry Mannings has treated cancer patients for more than a decade He

set up start throw was to ghve cancer patients a second chance, but

was called to a hearing last year. He heard that a doctor had written a

complaint letter, saying that Dr Henry Mannings was not authorised to

give these two women chemotherapy. Both died in 2012, both families

Both died in 2012, both famhlies praised his treatment and all

believed that he extended their lives.

We are so pleased that he has been We are so pleased that he h`s been

cleared and that the truth has come out. Henry helped Rachel so much,

that we could not have faulted anything that he did.

In a statement, the council said that it had a duty to investigate

when concerns RA 's. The doctor at the Norwich Hospital has made no

comment. We need to work together. Those

people who suffer from cancer, they people who suffer from cancdr, they

do not need opposing sides, they need is to work together for their

well`being. If it was not for the patients and the staff here, I

probably would have thrown the towel in.

Dr Henry Mannings says that the publicity has highlighted the work

of his charity. There have been more patience and a view more donations.

He now plans to complain to the GMC, but says that his patients are his

priority. ?36 million

of work to improve coastal defences It covers 5 kilometres from

Holland Haven to Clacton Pier. At Holland on Sea, the wall

struggles to hold back the waves. The barriers cordoned off the prom

where it is sinking. So how would the Council described the state

the sea defences? In parts, lamentable. Because of the

complexity of the marine environment, we have lost a lot of

the beach which is undercutting the existing defences.

So, today, the council, the Environment Agency and a contractor

said that urgent work to improve the sea defences will start in eight

weeks time and take 18 months. We are here today to announce the

start of a really important new coastal defence scheme, covering the

coast protection front of Clacton on Holland. It is a ?30 million scheme.

9000 cubic metres of shingld 9000 cubic metres of shingle will be

moved in to replenish the bdach You can see these

coast, they will be replaced by a more modern

which was sand and shingle being washed away.

asked test `` artist's imprdssion shows.

beach and left even when the tide comes

It will look better than it does now. We hope that it will ilprove

parts of the seafront will be closed as the work

The former chief executive of Lotus has reached

He'd been due to bring a ?6.7 million claim against Lotus, which

We will go to Stuart at the Suffolk Show in Ipswich.

Welcome back to the Ipswich Showground at the BBC events marking

100 years since the outbreak of the First World War. This has bden one

of the most popular events here. You get the chance to be a World War I

reporter. They have and pretend to be a reporter. We

will find out A new recruit for kitchen's army.

This one is perhaps a little young. This one is a little older. He would

not recruitment office is just one of

the features of the BBC's N`tional World War I tour, a tour

truth. Everyone has a fixed idea about what

the great War was about. It is black and white and always raining. The

veteran I talked to said that it was 90% bored stiff, 10% frozen stiff,

colour. The tour includes a seven hour show

of music, theatre, debate. Today, it was the great wall

question Time. that never took place?

We would have been quite old soldiers. Being 18, we would have

imagine how difficult it would have been for people our age out

Good, better, best. Never ldt it rest until your good is better

your better best. Going to the school from a wartime

Britain, and a demonstration of Morse code.

You need to listen to the pattern. There is a geniality units, where

people can trace their relatives. And inside here, young people having

a go at being war reporters. The World War II or is travdlling

the country. Next, it will visit will visit Norwich on Saturday. ``

world war talk. We will introduce you to a historian

from the area, trenches. Just outside the town

What effect would it It would have had a massive effect

on East Anglia. A lot of the farms. The farming became

crucial to keep the country fed Even here, partway through the war,

the division come to Ipswich to train. They are put in houses around

the town. Even now, 300 yards away, there are trenches in the fhelds for

training. They are in the golf course. It had a big impact. 30,000

men arrive, and author wrotd men arrive, and author wrote about

his time here. It was a massive amount of people in the town.

How important were we in the region to what was happening in thd war? We

were crucial. There is the coast, there are factories here. View ``

the East Anglia Munitions committee were very important, huge amounts of

work going on. Feeding the country, using farming. And all of the people

who went to I know a lot of people will have

seen the film all the play Wall `` but the British Army used the

courses better than the Gerlans courses better than the Gerlans

Yes, the Germans used many of their horses straightaway, and thdn their

farming had to be done by hand. The British Government use the farmers,

the British farmers were looking after the horses that were already

owned by the army. There were many horses left on farms so that farming

could carry on. Such big, heavy horses to move

really heavy guns, the Suffolk horses played a very important

really heavy guns, the Suffolk horses played a very import`nt role.

horses played a very important role. We will find out more about that set

of courses now. `` horses. It has been bred here for

generations. In 1914, it was providing horsepower

in its purist form. A tractor would have been a rarity.

They were coming through and farmers who had them a lot. But the

ruled the fields. With their plodding power, they were

untouchable. The war effort was critical, a decision was looming.

Food production was very reliant on men and the power of horses. But

these were also needed for the wall. There was a big debate about how

many horses and men should be taken to be used on the Western front or

should they be used to help the food situation.

That period has been well documented as part of a drive during food

production, this land was amongst swathes of countryside that return

to farming. The country had little choice. Germany was trying to

blockade Britain, which relhed heavily on imports.

It proved a turning point, not least because it gave fresh impetts to the

because it gave fresh impetus to the development of new machinerx.

The necessity was the mother of invention. That happen in the Second

World War, as well. When you look back on the changes

that we have seen, where will we be on 100 years time? I have no idea.

When you look at the machinds can do next.

As for the punch, it has gone from being essential to endangerdd. But

it is still hanging on, We have been learning about life

here for ordinary people. How did it change from 1914 to 1918?

There was a big change. People thought it would be a short war, but

they became aware. One of the problems for agriculture was, when

the war broke out, we imported 50% the war broke out, we imported 50%

of all our food. 80% of our wheat and 40% of our beef. The Germans

started to cut the supply is off with their boats by 1915, and with

conscription in that same ydar, the men were going off and the women had

to do all the work. It had hands on deck.

So the lives of women changed massively? Yes, that is right. They

had to leave being in service and either work in agriculture or

factories. After the war, service ended, if

people had gone into it? They did not want to go back to it

after the war. They did not go back to being servants. After the

war, the men had to have thdir jobs and the priority was given to them.

the home and have families. So women had a life that ch`nged so

much on them they were expected to forget it? Yes. That women could not

forget it totally, because they were given the vote. Not everybody,

you were under the age of 30, you did

was that step forward. And, of course,

equal country after the Second World War. Before the First World War the

population, 90% of the wealth was aimed `` earned by 4% of the

population. That changed gr`dually. population. That changed gr`dually.

The men went off and they fought in some horrible conditions. They were

expected to come back and get on with their lives. And imagine that

nothing had happened. How dhd they do that?

I think a lot of men were lost, psychologically. For four years of

their life, they had had th`t new existence and they had a camaraderie

of an all`male environments. It was very extreme circumstances.

Suddenly, they have lost all of that they had to come back to thdir

families and to a country that they felt to did not understand them.

And East Anglia would have looked very different to them?

Yes, that is right. And life would have continued what they were way?

Yes, but with being geared up for the war effort. Factories change

what they were producing, more people were working in agriculture.

The government had a bigger role. We have been looking at the sky The

temperatures had fallen slightly and there is a cloud above us. Here is

the Tomorrow, there could be some

showers around. There has bden low pressure today, a a lot of cloud.

Some of that cloud has produced rain and drizzle. Misty conditions

throughout the region. A further risk of light rain and drizzle

overnight. For many of us, we should end the night

The temperatures will not f`ll very low, because there will be

Celsius at the lowest, and ` light easterly breeze.

but it will improve with the brightness and

breaking through the cloud. That will bring with it the risk of

and slow moving. If you catch a shower, it

southern counties. And where we get sunshine, the temperatures will

maybe climb to around 16 or 17 degrees. There will be a moderate

easterly winds, and that will have the effect of making our

temperatures are little cooler, especially on the coast, highs of 14

or 15 degrees. Be aware of the showers, you may get away with it,

but if you catch one, you about it, because they could be

heavy and long, possibly with some promising pressure chart for the

the showers at the weekend, there will be some sunshine,

in here and they get access to of the Imperial War Museum.