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Hello and welcome to Look East. That is all | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Hello and welcome to Look East. In the programme tonight, on the day | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
the Government says the academy programme is transforming our | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
The we think it has helped primary schools to make the switch. | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
The we think it has helped schools look differently at some of the | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
challenges they face. primary schools to make the switch. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
A phone scam here nets fraudsters ?300,000 in just four months. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
A man came to the door and they handed the money over. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
?300,000 in just four months. Why campaigners think this | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
unique collection deserves national recognition. | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
the best in the country. This is delicious. | :00:48. | :00:59. | |
The Government claimed today that its academy programme was proving | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
transformational for the education system. | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
It released new figures which show a higher number of academy schools | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
have retained an outstanding OFSTED rating compared to local authority | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
The announcement came on the day the new Schools Commissioner | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
visited Essex to encourage more primary schools to make the switch. | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
This afternoon I spoke to the Schools Commissioner Frank Green | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
Some of the 400 children here get a two of the new wildlife garden this | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
afternoon. Rated good by Ofsted, governors have no wish for it to | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
become an academy. Our children are wonderful and leave skills smiling | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
everyday and the teachers do an amazing job. We do not see it | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
becoming an academy would improve this in any way at the moment. At a | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
conference in Colchester, the schools Commissioner was seeking to | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
get more schools to go down the Academy wrote. We do not think it is | :02:01. | :02:14. | |
a panacea, a silver bullet. We think it has helped schools look | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
differently at some of the challenges they face. This is the | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
headteacher of a local primary also recently rated good by Ofsted. We | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
work closely with the local cluster of schools and at the moment we are | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
achieving exactly what we want to achieve as an independent school. I | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
am here today to find out what is on offer and whether it would benefit | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
us. Every this week, the principle of a state boarding school rated | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
outstanding says he regretted the decision to become an academy. We | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
have more control from the centre rather from the local authority and | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
as a result we are discouraged from being innovative. Given some of the | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
high`profile cases we have experienced recently with feeling | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
academies and the consequences for pupils and parents, it is an | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
experiment which the government should now stop. That is advice that | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
the Education Secretary is happy to ignore. He wants to see 5000 | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
academies across the country by the next general election citing | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
evidence that is driving up standards. Back at Heathrow and is | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
primary the government say they may eventually decided to his right to | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
become an academy. They are not convinced that time is now. `` the | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
governor. This afternoon I spoke to | :03:44. | :03:44. | |
the Schools Commissioner Frank Green and asked him why he thought | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
the figures showed that academies were more successful than local | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
authority schools. He said it was because | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
of the process schools had to go They are reflecting in more detail | :03:52. | :04:02. | |
on some of those things in day`to`day life that we often take | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
for granted. They are often stopping and doing more a reflection of which | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
does not mean you are not running a good school if you're with the local | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
authority but the point is when you become an academy you tend to | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
reflect on every part of the organisation rather than only those | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
issues for most in because the Academy process requires | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
you to review everything you do as a school and why. But the government | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
says it is such a positive step while the principle of Wyndham | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
College says it was mis`sold to him. It has control no centrally rather | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
than the local authority and it is not actually better. My response | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
would be that the other's oversight from the centre but only as much | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
control as you need it to be because you are finding control of your own | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
decisions and are still irresponsible. Some headteachers are | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
worried that local authority schools are missing out on funding because | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
money is being pumped into the academy system. What would you say | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
to that? I disagree. They are there some money going in because it costs | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
to convert and for the review process and that is additional | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
funding coming out of the Department that would not have been spent on | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
education in any case if the system was not there. Do you have concerns | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
about there being a two tier system where the academies are getting all | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
the focus and praise. I do not. I do not have any significant concerns. I | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
actually think the challenge there is taken up by schools wanting to | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
become academies because they want to demonstrate they can do as well. | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
It is about creating a new system but also we are partway through a | :06:04. | :06:12. | |
process likely to go on for a number of years until a significant | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
majority become academies. Thank you very much. | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
Direct elections are to be held to choose the people who oversee | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
the running of the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads. | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
The Government says the move is long overdue and it'll make the Broads | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
The move was announced in the Queen's Speech this morning. | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Our political correspondent Andrew Sinclair told me what was behind it. | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
The inclusion of this bill in the Queen's Speech has taken a lot of | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
people by surprise but the idea of improving accountability has been | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
talked about for the last three or four years. It is better than's | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
largest protected wetland and has been overseen by the Broads | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
authority which has a big say in environmental matters but none of | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
their members are directly linked, either members of neighbouring | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
councils are appointed by the environment Secretary. The | :07:10. | :07:10. | |
government says there is a democratic deficit and a need for | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
accountability. That has been a lot of | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
representation on the Broads authority. We feel that it is too | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
institutionalised and does not represent the wide range of interest | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
groups in the Broads and that is the local communities and tradesmen and | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
environmentalists and others. So | :07:39. | :07:39. | |
when will these elections be held? It is likely to be another few years | :07:40. | :07:49. | |
and we are likely to want to run a pilot scheme. The expectations as | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
these elections will not be party political but local people standing | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
in a private capacity. They make an interesting point, who will be | :08:00. | :08:23. | |
electing? Only around 6000 people live in the area but thousands | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
Leverett said and visit and will presumably want some input. | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
Police in Norfolk are investigating a spate of malicious letters. | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
Around 15 notes have been sent to homes in the Holt area over | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
They're anonymous and written by hand. | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
This one reads, "the longer you leave it the sooner you will | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
Officers are appealing for anyone who's received one to contact them. | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
Essex Police have been using new powers which allow them to remove | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
potentially abusive partners from their homes. | :08:54. | :08:54. | |
The Domestic Violence Protection Notice can be issued even | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
if there isn't enough evidence to charge someone with an offence. | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
Four have been served locally since they came into action this month. | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
The force has been criticised in the past over the deaths of women | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
These include Maria Stubbings, Jeanette Goodwin and Christine | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
Officers now also wear body worn video cameras | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
It's taken 50 years to create and is said to be unlike anything | :09:14. | :09:27. | |
else in this country. Campaigners say a collection | :09:28. | :09:37. | |
of tall`bearded iris plants based at North Walsham in Norfolk is | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
so special it should get national recognition to ensure it's | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
They have been described as the preserved. | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
They have been described as the colourful candelabra of flowers. | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
Even on a day like today they are stunningly beautiful. This | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
herbaceous perennial was named after the geek Goddess thought to be | :10:00. | :10:08. | |
God's messenger. The name also means rainbow. The collection was created | :10:09. | :10:19. | |
by a man who spent 50 years mixing plants to create perfection. Has Sun | :10:20. | :10:29. | |
has taken the job on. For his father the priority was style and structure | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
with colour secondarily but in today's industry it is all | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
different. There is pressure for new varieties to be | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
and that can mean new colour coordination is. He believes that as | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
taste changed, his father's pioneering work which showed him | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
when he asked of warts was largely forgotten, but in this garden there | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
is a unique gene pool in which he feels deserves a much higher | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
recognition. Second to none. We had on his own. All 12 medal winners are | :11:00. | :11:10. | |
in this collection. How do they feared in the rain? Are tolerant? If | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
you look at them over here they have stood up remarkably well, much | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
better than I have! We can look at it in the rain. Highly resilient | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
then the years and something which they believe must be protected for | :11:31. | :11:31. | |
the future. A task force set up to tackle | :11:32. | :11:46. | |
a phone scam in our region says in the first four months of this year | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
nearly 900 people were targeted. but still ?313,000 was stolen | :11:52. | :12:00. | |
from victims here. The work of the task force is being | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
featured on the BBCs Watchdog programme tonight. | :12:07. | :12:07. | |
She is a highly regarded mathematician and the mother of Tim | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
Berners`Lee who created the World Wide Web. She had a phone call from | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
someone she believed was the police. They told me they had arrested two | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
young men who had a clone of my credit card. They told me to link | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
the number on the back of my card. The man was not from the police but | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
was a professional con artist. hung up and immediately picked it up | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
again to make the cold. The fraudsters were still on the line. | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
The fact is they have an open phone line and even if you fallen the | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
emergency services you would not connect to that. You're convinced | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
you're phoning a legitimate number. The scammers told her to withdraw | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
thousands of pounds from the bank and a career would pick it up from | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
her home because she talking to the genuine fraud | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
department, and so she it into the bag. I handed the bag | :13:21. | :13:30. | |
over. It was only later it dawned on her that she might have been conned | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
and when she called the police they confirm that. I felt very foolish, | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
dreadful. I felt I had been stupid. Police are still investigating the | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
case and estimate many different gangs are involved in the scams. | :13:53. | :13:53. | |
programme tonight. This afternoon I spoke to | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
Detective Inspector Danny Lawrence who you | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
He leads the task force targeting the fraudsters | :14:03. | :14:11. | |
Those that commit this type of but they operate across the region. | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
Those that commit this type of offence are very convincing and have | :14:16. | :14:27. | |
been doing this for a long time and one example only recent series of | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
warrants we executed, there was a book on how to speak with | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
confidence. They work out what they insurance managers and former police | :14:38. | :14:52. | |
officers, and do not feel embarrassed. How | :14:53. | :15:02. | |
much success are you having? many distinct groups of individuals | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
we have identified and conducted activity against. We have seized | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
property and cash and valuables. One gentleman gave over ?30,000 in cash | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
and it was only after the third occasion he thought something was | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
not right and came to the police. What are the banking industry | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
actually doing? In that particular case you would have thought there | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
was alarm bells are ringing at the bank? We have spoken to staff and | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
told them to remain vigilant about people who they believe may be in | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
the midst of this crime occurring. We have had people in us that they | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
have kept one of the customers in the bag because they felt it was | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
part of this scam and indeed it was, have been very positive and | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
supporting. they are just so many things to | :16:07. | :16:16. | |
think about and worry about, what would be your main message? The key | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
message is that the bank and the police will never ask you to hand | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
cards or anything else to any courier company or anybody on the | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
doorstep. They will never ask you for a pen number over the phone or | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
to go to the bank to West brought anything. If you realise it is a | :16:36. | :16:44. | |
scam, use another fallen and contact the local | :16:45. | :16:45. | |
but they operate across the region. If you've been affected | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
by a scam and have a story to tell we'd love to hear from you. | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
You can contact Facebook or Twitter | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
and please don't forget to leave a number so we can call you back. | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
This year we've been looking World War and tonight the story | :17:03. | :17:12. | |
of how broke out, it became Britain's first | :17:13. | :17:27. | |
rest home for wounded soldiers. gardens crafted by capability Brown. | :17:28. | :17:38. | |
Wrest Park is one of the code and use of English Heritage. At the | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
outbreak of war it was owned by Lord Lucas. He saw what was happening and | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
gave Wrest Park to convalescence home but there was a | :17:47. | :17:57. | |
catch. They had to be ordinarily sold yours and not officers. | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
quite an idealist and a liberal intellectual and he | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
his duty to do so. He wanted to help the common man and | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
his family have so much wealth. This seemed like a | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
rather than sitting empty. The soldiers could not believe their | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
surroundings, it was luxury, but as more and more wounded were taken in, | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
it was apparent that Wrest Park would have to become a military | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
hospital. Today it is quiet but it would have been bustling with | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
nurses, doctors, lots of things going on. The hospital was run by | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
his sister who kept a diary detailing every day at Wrest Park, | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
including the happier times soldiers spent recovering. Ordinarily men | :18:51. | :18:59. | |
treated as the Royals. The soldiers in the photograph were sitting right | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
here, in the library which was back then a war. There was 200 beds and | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
there around 1600 soldiers treated here in total. Two years into the | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
war it was hit by fire and never reopen but those who stayed here | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
always described Wrest Park as best. rest home for wounded soldiers. | :19:23. | :19:31. | |
Some of Europe's leading senior golfers are at Stoke | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
by Nayland over the next five days with the PGA Seniors Championship | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
A number of former Ryder Cup | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
in the field with nearly a quarter of | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
Today it's the Pro`am and following | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
of Paralympic sport, the tournament is doing its best to | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
Thank you. We have done Tom Williams is at the | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
Thank you. We have done well today dodging most of the showers with the | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
seniors and celebrities impressing the crowds and showcasing their | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
talents. There is a nine`year`old from | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
Bishops Stortford who lost his leg to cancer. An elite teenage swimmer | :20:13. | :20:22. | |
who turned to grams six years ago. He is now aiming to become a | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
professional. So what sort of opportunities are? | :20:26. | :20:45. | |
Off the back of London and the Paralympics, I think it has opened | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
everybody's eyes to what some people can do. If it gets more people | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
interested in disabled golf and knowing we can play as well as | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
others. In the build`up to the PGA seniors championship, is left, Carl | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
Mason and defending champion Paul Wessel Ling took part in the | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
challenge. Anyone can play with anyone and with the handicap system, | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
you can play against the best in the world. It is wonderful to see that | :21:23. | :21:32. | |
today and try it on one leg. This 13`year`old struggles with autism | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
but golf has helped him deal with life challenges. It has got me more | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
social because can be awkward not to talk to somebody and you have to | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
socialise. What was it like playing with the professionals? Nerve | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
wracking. I could not talk. It is hoped disabled golf will become a | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
Paralympic sport in years to come. Familiar faces have gathered with | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
star is holding the game ahead of the seniors championship. You got a | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
glimpse of him in the film and he joins me now. Fantastic work going | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
on to promote disabled golf. Disabled players can be so inspiring | :22:20. | :22:27. | |
and had a good fortune to play with a man with one leg who played better | :22:28. | :22:37. | |
than many pro`s. The course is in great shape and we're looking | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
forward to a good championship. There's free coaching for disabled | :22:44. | :22:53. | |
golfers in this week call and in fact for youngsters of all ages and | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
abilities. There was a time when school dinners | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
meant spam fritters, Now the standard of cooking is | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
so high there is a national This year the title goes to | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
a school cook from Bedfordshire, whose Spanish themed dinner wowed | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
judges of all ages. Anna Todd has been to meet her | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
and her food savvy customers. An extra lunch an hour before | :23:17. | :23:41. | |
lunchtime. What a great job for these schoolkids. The food was very | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
nice, I would have more. It was very juicy and not right. Really soft and | :23:49. | :23:57. | |
enjoyable. It was so nice. Plating up, Tanya Watkin, recently named the | :23:58. | :24:07. | |
best new school chef in the country. Judges liked her Spanish menu. | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
She is a floating chef who works in schools across Beds. She had just an | :24:15. | :24:28. | |
hour and they have to create a two course menu that was nutritious, | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
balanced and ?1 60. She has entered the competition six times. In 2012 | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
she forgot to put sugar in the muffins and in 2013 and | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
pan a court heard that not set. There was almost a sponge disaster | :24:47. | :24:56. | |
this year. `` pannacotta. I had to get more ingredients and work very | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
hard to make it in the time but it was all good in the end. Competitors | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
cooked all morning and then waited. It was a nightmare. I was over the | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
moon. The proof of heritability is... In the pudding. Demolished by | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
schoolchildren in seconds. `` have ability. | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
We heard they managed to dodge most of the showers. | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
Many parts of the region had dry weather. Here is the radar picture | :25:30. | :25:45. | |
and you can see a lot of rain this morning with much of it towards the | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
north`west. This is currently over Wales is working its | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
way back towards us. downhill through the second half of | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
the evening. Lords tomorrow morning, gradually | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
clearing towards the end of tonight. The weapons are also picking up with | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
moderate westerlys. Tomorrow will be a bit of a slow start thanks to this | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
easier of low pressure. Things will improve with time through the course | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
of the day saw a bit of a cloudy and upstart to day. Gradually clearing | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
with brighter weather from the south`west. And improving picture. | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
Quite breezy with a moderate westerly. 18 and up to 19 Celsius. | :26:36. | :26:45. | |
The Antiques road show is coming to Northampton tomorrow. Through | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
tomorrow night, clear skies and light winds mean it will be chilly | :26:54. | :27:01. | |
but into Friday, very warm and humid coming up from the south. Lots of | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
sunshine around and quite warm but on Saturday this weather front | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
destabilises the humidity and we could get some thunderstorms | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
developing through Saturday. Not a lot of detail but the risk of some | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
heavy downpours. High pressure builds from the south on Sunday and | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
it will be less humid late in the weekend. Very war on a Friday night | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
with the risk of That's all from us, have good | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
evening. When the first travellers crossed | :27:39. | :27:53. | |
America, they were faced with this - | :27:54. | :27:57. |