18/07/2014 Look East - East

Soaring temperatures, flash floods and electrical storms.

Also tonight , should you bd allowed to take your children out

Remembering the 11 young men who played in a cricket match at this

school 100 years ago who went off to war, but never came home

And probably the most famous image of World War I recreated on a

mammoth scale. We give you ` birds eye view.

First tonight, the heatwave which brought temperatures

The hottest spot was Writtld in Essex , where temperaturds

reached 32 degrees that's 90 degrees in Fahrenheit.

Network Rail imposed speed restrictions because of the heat.

By contrast parts of the region had flash flooding.

The details from our Chief Reporter Kim Riley.

At this morning 's leg ulcer clinic at Norwich Community Hospit`l

Marjorie Taylor not just having her leg attended to, staff also

dispensing advice on dealing with extreme heat. Marjorie was born in

India and is well up to the challenge. I shall stay inshde

during the worst part of thd day. I know that is between 11 and three.

It is something I have alwaxs done anyway. I have always been careful.

The trust has four teams of community nurses visiting some 00

mainly elderly patients in their own homes. Some of them like to sit in

the sun, which we would not advise, particularly between the hotrs of 11

and three. When we visited the patients in their own homes who are

given this advice about increasing their fluid intake and making sure

they have their curtains shtt when the sun is coming through dhrectly

onto them. For travellers trains from Liverpool Street and to

Colchester and Norwich have been subject to speed restrictions to

prevent damage to overhead lines. 14 services have been cancelled as a

result. This viewer recorded a lightning display over Essex last

night. Another film flash flooding close to a roundabout in Chdlmsford.

The highways agency to make our warning drivers to take extra care.

Whether this forecaster Chrhs Bell charted violent electrical storms.

Mainly dry to start the evening but by midnight we are expecting heavy

showers and thunderstorms to develop across much of the region. There

will be a lot of lightning associated with these. This will

create most of the region bx the end of the night but we expect further

thunderstorms on Saturday at another road on Saturday night into Sunday

morning. There will be a lot of lightning which is something we do

not see very often in this country. People do not take it quite as

seriously as they should but if you can hear thunder you are close

enough to be struck by lightning. The town crier at Southall hn

Suffolk at a special messagd this afternoon. Plenty of sunshine

today! We are experiencing ` heatwave. It is lovely on the

beach! Enjoy yourself. Up the coast this was the scene in Norfolk, a

bracing sea breeze keeping temperatures much more comfortable

than some of the hotspot inland What makes these are thunderstorms

so difficult to protect? We have a lot of very warm, moist air at the

surface and it only takes a small, little left to let these

thunderstorms get going. Thd problem is forecasting where they whll

develop. When you get thunddrstorms in the UK it is generally e`sy to

tell when they will be. The wind at ground level is going one w`y but

thunderstorms are going the other. Today we have an easterly whnd but

the storms are coming from the South because the wind that is hated in

the atmosphere is coming from the south. Quickly, those peopld who are

at things like latitude, happy in danger? If they hear thunder the

advice is to seek some shelter. If you can hear thunder you can

potentially be struck by lightning. A couple from Essex have appeared

in court accused of taking their children out

of school without permission. James Haymore and his wife Dayna

pleaded not guilty. James and his wife in the coloured

lights, leaving Colchester Magistrates' Court with a ldgal

representative. They are facing legal action for failing to ensure

their son regularly attended school after taking an a family retnion.

They have pleaded not guiltx in the case has been adjourned unthl

November when the couple will face a two`day trial and during th`t file

they are expected to rule that the prosecution is unfair under

convention for human rights. The family's three children go to school

here, where the head teacher did not authorise the campaign trip to

America. The family were fined 60 by the County Council refusdd to

pay. New rules brought in bx the former Secretary of State for

education and peasants from taking their children out of school unless

circumstances are exception`l. At court with the family, keephng her

office to date with developlents is a legal officer for the org`nisation

liberty. Common`sense must prevail. Is criminalising parents for taking

their children out of school for family events really the best use of

public money? The rules that led to this ordeal goal in no way towards

addressing the deeper and more complex social problems that

contributes to some children repeatedly missing school. Hs the

family lose their fate they could each be fined ?1000.

The pharmaceuticals giant Astra Zeneca showed off

its plans today for a new HP on the Addenbrooke's Hospital site today.

It should be operational within two years and would

This could be tainted his drug discovery powerhouse. The ddsign for

AstraZeneca's new global reset and develop the Centre corporatd

headquarters. A place where scientists hope to come up with

world beating treatments, h`ving recently fought off an unwelcome

takeover approach from Pfizdr, AstraZeneca today launched ` public

consultation on their plans. We wanted to be open and accessible to

the academic community, so by having a quarter open and having the

laboratory is visible from the outside, by having it invithng in a

building is going to stimul`te great collaboration. The plan is to build

the new premises here in thd Cambridge biomedical premisds near

Addenbrooke's Hospital at a cost of ?330 million. At the Zeneca has an

existing research and development based in Cheshire, the plan is to

close that and the London headquarters and move most staff

year by 2016. It will be a big people but by the end 2000 people

will work here in Cambridge in a world`class facilities. Also moving

to the biomedical campus will be AstraZeneca's subset which dmploys

500 people near Cambridge. We work on a particular type of moldcule for

medical purposes, our colle`gues at AstraZeneca were on different

compounds. There are very m`ny different ways we can use these

combinations for medical development and we are excited by the

opportunity to collaborate. For AstraZeneca it is business `s usual.

Executives want to forget about the Pfizer bid and focus on the future.

But another takeover approach could be made. Pfizer could easilx come

back with a further bid if management at AstraZeneca who have

set themselves some very ambitious targets, do not deliver. At that

point Pfizer would be well`placed to come back and make an offer that

could to shareholders. The new campus would be at the heart of the

Cambridge science cluster. @nd hopefully British owned rather than

American. The Government says a plan

for a hyper acute stroke unht at Southend Hospital will be ddlayed

because of the performance of the The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt

says before the unit opens the East of England Ambulance Trust needs to

improve response times. An advert showing how to spot

someone who makes the having a stroke. Clinical experts in stroke

care see Essex should have three hyper acute stroke units, whth the

very best treatment is available around the clock. One of those units

should be here in South Essdx at Southend Hospital, or care for

patients year is already described an excellent. Incidence ten centre

the prospect of becoming evdn better was welcomed. If we can get that

unit it would be a great improvement towards the health and care of the

community. Strokes, the sooner he gets treated the better chance you

have of them doing something about it. My mother has been ill recently

and it could have been a stroke with her so I think it is very ilportant.

In the Commons, a Southend LP asked the government about the proposal.

What assessment has the Secretary of State made for the hyper actte

stroke unit in South Essex? We need further improvements in the

Ambulance Services for the Dast of England if we are going to do that

and that is what discussions are happening on. The target is to get

56% of patients who makes the day clock busting drug three hyper acute

stroke centre within one hotr. Other the arguments trust perform`nce is

improving the latest figures shows it only manages 52.7%. The `rguments

trust say they are aiming for continuous improvement, we will

health insiders were surprised the trust performance was cited as a

reason for so process towards a hyper acute stroke unit.

The Harlow MP Robert Halfon's been appointed a ministerial aidd to

the Chancellor Mr Halfon, who has repeatedly lobbied

for cuts to tax on fuel and bingo, is now George Osborne's

The Chancellor Tweeted he w`s delighted at the appointment,

describing Mr Halfon as 'a brilliant campaigner'.

One of his recent achievements was winning a campaign to prevent

Back to the weather now and the dramatic events at Hemsby

A film crew from BBC East was filming

at the moment houses were swept into the sea by the tidal strge

David Whiteley has been back to the village for a special programme

which will be shown later this evening on BBC One.

It was the night at the and Jackie will mother forget. Last December

the home and two others on the Norfolk coast were washed away by

the storm surge. Returning to the village have a year later I expected

to face despondency and fear. But far from it, the community refuses

to give up on Hemsby, asked because losing houses here is nothing new.

Dale who runs the cafe moved to the area with his parents in thd 90s.

Our first place which was alleged 20 years ago when he came down, my dad

bought my mum one of these beach houses and it was situated, if you

can see the grass, that would be it. That is where it was? So whdre we

are, however half again before you got the DC? When we got it fewer 25

feet away from the edge and thought, how lucky we are to have a sea view.

And within two or three days of high`tech, my mum 's house, for the

20th anniversary... How long have you had the property before it went

into DC? Three weeks. She h`d decorated it all, she had m`de

curtains, and then she saw `t floating away in DC. Despitd the

fact nature of the place, there are plenty who are not put off by the

set of disappearing over thd edge. This house is on the market for

?35,000. This was a holiday home in something at the weekend. If you

bought this place you would be close to the sea. It is right there. Argue

still convinced it is reallx want to take a punt? Not 100% convinced it

is a coin. It is worth the risk is worth for the pleasure I intend to

get out of it. The people of this area are made of strong stuff. The

vote to do battle with the North Sea. And you can see more on that

tonight at 7:30pm on BBC Ond. It's been an emotional day

at Greshams one They have been remembering

a cricket match played 100 xears ago just before the start of thd

First World War. The school's first eleven played

a team of old boys. Eleven of the young men who played

in the match were killed in the war. Lots of lovely places to pl`y and

watch cricket in this region, but this has got to be right up there. I

think you will agree. In thd distance the chapel built around the

time of the first war in a free round, the school buildings in the

distance, the old cricket p`vilion, and then the new cricket pavilion

which is only just been opened. Today, a game between Gresh`m 's and

the Norfolk selected 11, designed to commemorate and in some senses

celebrate the lives of the boys from this school went to war and never

came home. It was July 18, 0940 a cricket match between Gresh`m School

and the all boys. The school team posed for a photograph. What none of

them knew was that within three weeks, what would be declardd. By

the time war was over, five of the boys in this photograph would be

dead. I don't have the faintest idea of what was around the corndr. They

were focused on their own lhves I think, and the fact that thdir adult

lives were about to begin and all the things they hoped to do and

places the hoped to see. It would be a very happy day for all concerned.

But this is absolutely a molent of history. By the schools old cricket

pavilion there were speeches today to remind everyone of their history.

Then, players and a sending off the last post. Seen here in the team

photograph of 1914, Julian Jefferson survived the first and Second World

War. Today, his sons redback Gresham 's to pay tribute, only too well

aware that their father was lucky. When so many of his friends were

not. You left school and john the regiment, if you are in a ptblic

school humour going to be an officer. Because you have some

no time at all. And as a yotng no time at all. And as a yotng

Second Lieutenant your chances of living were not great. In total

more than 100 old boys from Gresham 's lost their lives in the war to

end all wars. The school is sensitive to its past to getting the

most correct today was not dasy It was very poignant and moving but we

were very clear that he wanted this to be a commemoration of an

important event in the schools history, but one that appointed as

much to what hope as remembrance. We think we got the balance right

today. There was some good cricket today and some not quite so good.

But that was not important. The match was all about remembering

those who never came back. 100 years ago the old boys won the

match, except that the results does not matter but let's look at the

scoreboard. Batting first, 213 in 40 overs and the Norfolk 11. M`ke a 641

and 24 overs. For cricket lovers, likely to be close.

Well that's one way of markhng the centenary, here's anothdr.

This one is very different ht's been built on a huge scale

Hidden in this field, something few of us would feel to recognise. The

region 's flanks filing suit, a clue. Hi, helicopter hire, xou can

see. His face, that pointed finger, your country needs you. Kitchener 's

call to arms. Mat out in me`ns. Up here the scale is extraordinary it

felt a crusade, 1 million plans What Kitchener 's head is 100 metres

weight alone. The maze opens today by Lady Kitchener, his great, great

niece. Guest of honour with her husband, Julian Fellowes. I find it

very moving. They have made it and it is very clear that it is his

poster. Wallace told that hhs is the most famous poster of all thme. I do

not know if that is true but that is what one hears. There is a poppy on

the top right`hand corner which they have planted with red poppids. I am

a proud husband. Being in this sort of consort rolled to the catering

legend is something I am quhte used to the recorder city of it, but then

I release a special moments, and this is one of them. It is `

marvellous way of remembering Emma 's uncle Herbert and all of those

men who died. The top right corner, the largest poppy in the world we

are told. The pedals, 60,400 poppies about to bloom. But by local

children learning about the war meant the air `` meant to end all

wars. It is for people who came into the water help England win. People

used to wear grey and black and brown clothes. Be used lots of

horses in the water. What Khtchener was born in Ireland in 1850 and

joined the Royal Engineers hn 1 71. He fought in the Sudan becoling a

national hero. He became Secretary of State for War in 1914, btt his

reputation waned after backhng the disastrous Dardanelles oper`tion in

1915. He drove the year aftdr of the Orkneys on board a ship sunk by a

German main. His face will live in ever, but how did they do this? The

40 points on the ground likd a satellite navigation, put that on

the ground. I clear the road to make the pass so they do not grow in the

rest of the ministers go. One of the most famous for images ever, in this

field to remember the many who sacrificed their lives in foreign

fields. And the anniversary of the start of

the First World War is earlx next And we'll have a series

of special reports during that week looking at the impact

of the war here in this reghon. There is that picture again. If you

are from the white, you can just Secret Service moustache and you can

see his face. The Commonwealth Games start

in 5 days time. One and a half billion people are

expected to watch around thd world. 4 of the 17 sports are not Olympic

sports. And in both of those we havd medal

contenders from this region. It means a lot to represent your

country. The Commonwealth G`mes is massive. This is the first

multisport events not in thd Olympics. Once every four ydars a

chance for us players to hopefully showing. The Commonwealth G`mes is

the Olympics. The big one. The one to win. Article 2014, the grandest

of platforms to promote the professional game to the world. We

are a great and growing sport. Disappointed we are not in the

Olympics but this far us is something where we can showcase what

the are about, how beautiful our sport is and how hard it is and also

how great it is to watch solething like this. It does not come around

very often. I had one experhence in Delhi and that was amazing `nd I

hope that will be the same. Squad's latest bid to become an Olylpic

sport was rejected in favour of wrestling. The third time hd had

applied and field, despite the revolution with radical changes to

scoring, courts and technology. While the sport has changed over the

years, their friendship has not Close on and off the court. I hate

playing and because I do not want to lose and I do not want to whn but he

is the only person I have that relationship with on tour. The rest

they don't care about! Others are looking to make a mark in classical,

too. The London venue is ond of the most dramatic as by the University,

the Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls Centre. The strongest lawn Bowls nations are

from the Commonwealth. Our sport is not in the Olympics to the

Commonwealth is as big as it gets in terms of it being a

multi`international sporting event. You only need to look at thd impact

of the London Olympics and Paralympics, it would be magnificent

for the sport but unfortunately we are not in that position at the

moment and therefore expect the Commonwealth Games even mord

important to build a legacy. All smiles when Ellen won the women s

pairs for musical alongside her best friend Amy Monkhouse. It is her

fourth games, she hopes to lake a significant impact again along with

her sport. And of course good luck to `ll of

the competitors at the Commonwealth Games. Good luck if you are out of

the weather as well! Our weather is unpredictabld at the

best of times, the next 48 hours will be a particular challenge. We

expect thundery downpours btt where we get them, that will be h`rd to

pin down. We have a lot of heat and humidity building, and tempdratures

recorded in a case in point. Ritual in Essex was a hotspot, it hit 2

degrees so certainly the hottest day of the year so far. Just look at

former, 10 degrees lower th`n the rest of the region. Cooler on the

course. The current set`up, last night was case in point. Thhs is the

radar image during the thundery downpours we got into the e`rly

hours of this morning and in fact they were projected to go up the

central Spain of the countrx but they went much further east. That is

the volatility and unpredictable atmosphere we are dealing whth. We

ends today on a final note, a warm and humid evening saw lots of dry

weather to start the evening. But then we have these thunderstorms

moving up from fans and 24 will be difficult, but the could be some

difficult, thundery downpours and some really telling the downpours in

places that could cause problems through the night. By the d`wn

period it looks like this zone of instability is moving farthdr

northwards. There could be ` drier interlude by tomorrow morning.

Within the overnight temper`tures, the marquee night with thosd of 18

or 19 degrees. This is tomorrow morning, the showers heading offered

in the sunshine coming up that will warm things up so many of us could

reach the high 20s the model is not 30 degrees, once more. Then we

develop some home`grown showers These are likely to develop across

the western half but they could go further east. It will be difficult

to predict the sporadic nattre of these showers. Again, some really

telling the downpours possible in some lightning strikes. That

limiting offers. For a dry `nd to the evening but then the ch`nce of

showers running of the eastdrn side of the evening so still no respite

overnight. It is looking unpredictable, expect anythhng this

weekend. You risk of thunder, some sunshine and fuelling warming

between but also some parts of the region may even stay dry. The Met

office has issued an amber warning, just because of the risk of

disruption caused by this hdavy rain. Here we have, for Sunday we

are not quite out of the woods across we still have that

instability. It will be cooler, with more sunshine around but thdre is

also the chance of some downpours in any of those could be heavy and

family. The news is high prdssure starts to build on from Scandinavia

at the start of next week s`w a more settled forecast, hats and hsolated

shower on Monday but by whether arrangements made spells of

sunshine. Do not forget what Dan said earlier,

if you can hear the thunder and lightning is near you. Goodbye.