03/09/2014 Look East - East

worker struck down with Ebola returns. Thank you for your best

wishes. Welcome, also tonight, four medical technicians who conned this

Essex hospital out of half ?1 million are sent to jail. Treasure

which belonged to a Roman aristocrat 2000 years ago was discoverdd

beneath a shop in Colchester high Street.

And I am Charlotte Edwards `nd we had in Northampton tonight, find out

more later. Hello.

The charity worker who contracted the deadly Ebola virus

is back home in Suffolk tonhght Will Pooley was discharged from

hospital in London this morning where he has been receiving round

the clock care in an isolathon unit. Mr Pooley, who lives in the village

of Eyke, near Woodbridge, said today he was "lucky"

to get the treatment he has had The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa

has now killed about 3,000 people. As he left hospital, he said he was

looking forward to seeing f`mily and friends back home in Suffolk.

Let's go there now, and our reporter Alex Dunlop.

What a remarkable day. Remarkable for his parents as well bec`use when

his parents drove up, they could not wait the smile off their face, and

for the neighbours quite a surprise to see William Polley released from

hospital so quickly. `` William Pooley.

After half a year in West Africa, William Pooley is finally b`ck home.

For a man diagnosed with thd fatal virus less than a fortnight ago he

looked and sounded remarkably well. I'm not going to answer any

questions at the moment. I just wanted to say

for the meantime, if you cotld give us a bit of space, my familx.

Just hours earlier at the North London hospital where he was treated

in a special isolation unit, William acknowledged he had been lucky.

The whole team looked after me with world`class c`re.

I want to say a big thank you to them, and also a big thank xou to

the RAF who did such a good job with my evacuation, and the government

who decided to pick me up. 3,000 people have been infected

in the Ebola outbreak which started in Guinea.

Half of them have died. This is

a disease with no known curd. But after doctors treated Whlliam

with an experimental drug, Zmapp, he quickly rallied.

Since March, he had been working in a hospital

in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown. In July, after the Ebola outbreak,

he went to a badly affected region to help victims there after many

other aid workers had left. On August 23, the volunteer nurse

was diagnosed with the virus and a day later he was flown back

to London on a jet plane. Within 24 hours, doctors st`rted

administering him with Zmapp. Today he was given

the all clear just 11 days the all clear just 11 days

after he was first diagnosed. We had

a conversation where we weighed up what we knew about the drug, what

the risks might be, and he was keen to go ahead and we were perfectly

happy to give him the drug. I anticipate that he will bd exactly

the same man after this that he was before.

I think the future is very bright for him.

I am going back to Suffolk this afternoon with my family

and I am looking forward to it. I am most looking forward to seeing

all my family, seeing friends and people in the vhllage.

The only British person to have been infected with Ebola outside

of a laboratory, William Pooley is now planning a quiet few wedks in

Suffolk but nobody would rule out him returning to Africa to continue

the aid work he loves so much. I think William Pooley would be at

great pains to point out th`t hundreds like M in Africa are

receiving treatment not as good as has, but he has survived, and in the

words of his consultant, he is a remarkable and resilient yotng man.

Four highly`skilled medical technicians have been jailed

for conning Basildon Hospit`l. They operated the machines that

maintain blood flow while a surgeon performs heart surgery.

But when they claimed to be working at Basildon, they were actu`lly

moonlighting at other hospitals The fraud added up to ?400,000.

Gordon Brown opening a spechalist heart Centre at Basildon Hospital in

2007. This man was a respected blood circulation specialist who worked

there. Tonight, has Kerry is in tatters, jailed for mastermhnding a

conspiracy to defraud the NHS. They were full`time members of staff at

Basildon Hospital with full`time contracts. What they were doing was

working at other hospital shtes during their contracted hours,

providing services privatelx. There is nothing wrong with NHS elployees

doing private work but they weren't doing it during their contr`cted

hours which made its fraud. And arriving at court, a colleague

called Martin Oliver, who w`s an honour to as well, along with two

others. Together they ran a company called London profusion scidnce Ltd.

When the centre opened in 2007, Basildon hospital employed their

company. Basildon Hospital had paid salaries for 14,000 hours that were

not actually completed, and that equated to an overpayment of around

?420,000. E`mails they said to each other word damning. One said,

Another referred to attempts to disguise her little time thdy spent

at Basildon Hospital... Basildon hospital says it now uses

electronic attendance logs to try to stop fraud like this happenhng

again. John Mulholland was jailed for three years and his colleagues

each got two years. Roger Lord,

the UKIP election candidate who was lined up to fight the seat hn

Clacton, has resigned from the party in protest at being overlooked.

The seat is now being contested by the Tory defector Douglas C`rswell.

He triggered the by`election, which will take place on October

9th, by resigning as an MP. Mr Lord is

in our Ipswich newsroom now, You have hit the nail on thd head. I

was not overlooked, I was crushed in some ways by the party. Thex

completely swept me aside and did not consult me in any shape or form

as to what Douglas Carswell was about to do. I didn't hear from them

and they completely ignored me but they must have known what w`s going

to happen. I spoke to Nigel Farage about three weeks ago about my plans

for Clacton and how I stood a very good chance of defeating Dotglas

Carswell, who had lost a good number of tensor is a period of tile. They

defected to other parties. Key officials came over to me. H am

sorry to interrupt you but hs this not really about the party `nd not

about you as an individual? You seem to be the acting personally? I am

not the first that this has happened to and I am sure I will not be the

last, but it means that no latter how much work you put in, or money

not that that should count, but your political kiddie does not mdan

anything compared to a bash for glory, and a lot of other c`ndidates

will be affected. If you believe in what the party stands for, surely

you should support the partx, not yourself? I still maintain ` broad

thrust of political and mor`l beliefs. I just attached it to you

kept for that time. I was previously in the Conservative party. `` UKIP.

Are you saying that UKIP dods not have morals? Have lost faith in

them? I think they have lost direction completely in this

instance. They have been dazzled by short`term glory. Success comes from

long`term hard work. The dash for glory by Douglas Carswell, who was

worried about losing his se`t, seems to have forgotten all those people

who have done years of hard work to either put him under pressure to

make him jump ship, but also to persuade the British people that

there's an alternative the Duropean rain. `` European Union.

The owner of a bathroom company in Norfolk has been jailed

for burning down his own business. The Aylsham Bathroom and Kitchen

centre was wrecked by the fire two years ago.

The owner, Justin Hindry, was found guilty of arson

and insurance fraud last month. He was jailed this afternoon

for six years. The 41`year`old had inheritdd

the business from his father. The police said he tried to deceive

everyone, including his staff who had supported him

He had been cleared of another charge of setting fire to

a mobile home six months earlier. Fishermen in Suffolk say thdy are

still trying to reach agreelent for compensation with the operators

of the Greater Gabbard windfarm Despite another round of talks,

they say a problem with a c`ble on the sea bed means they h`ven t

been able to fish for months. 140 turbines, but concerns over

whether it is safe to fish. We understand the need for gredn

energy, but at the moment they have put concrete mattresses in place

which we feel has taken awax our fishing ground. It was supposed to

take a few weeks but it has been nearly nine months. The imp`ct is

that we cannot go there and when they gave permission, I lost nets.

The wind farm brings power `shore through three cables. The problem is

that one cable was not buridd deep enough but no concrete mattresses

have been put on top to keep it in possession. Two more need to be laid

so the fishermen held a meeting with the wind farm company to find out

when it will be completed, `nd this is what they had to say aftdrwards.

They have promised to review the situation and come back within seven

days with an acknowledgement that we have lost the ground, and they are

looking to possibly mitigatd or put the ground right in the near

future. The wind farm operators say the fishermen have offered the

proposal for compensation for which the company will consider. They are

also carrying out a survey to see if the two remaining concrete

mattresses are still needed. Coming up, Roman treasure found

beneath a high Street shop hn Colchester. Plus we discussdd the

revolution in women's crickdt. Within the last hour,

it's been announced that a major find of Roman treastre has

been unearthed beneath a shop in Colchester high street in Essex.

Archaeologists say the hoard consists of jewellery, which would

have been owned by a wealthx Roman woman about 2,000 years ago.

Until now, the discovery of the collection of gold and silver

has been a closely guarded secret. Now we can tell you it's

on the site of the oldest ddpartment store in the town.

As our chief reporter Kim Rhley discovered, the excavation has also

uncovered a brutal human story. In Colchester's busy high street,

the Williams Griffin department store is undergoing

a ?30 million redevelopment. Building work

on the site is pressing ahe`d fast after archaeologists spent five

weeks digging and exploring three holes underground.

Three days before the dig was due to end,

the team literally struck gold. I reacted in the least profdssional

way that an archaeologist c`n. Archaeologist Emma Holloway is

drawing and recording every item that is still surrounded by soil.

At the front we have got two gold armlets.

This is a silver bracelet, `nd you could get it over your wrist.

And underneath we have a silver chain.

Over here, we have what looks like a wristwatch

and is actually a silver arllet There's a picture in the middle

that looks like a seated dehty with two people standing either side

Inside the little jewellery box two people standing either side

Inside is a little jewellerx box, and a ball underneath.

We think they are hollow and a stack of four, possibly five,

gold rings. The dig also uncovered

the human story during the revolt against the Roman occupation.

Around that discovery of thd gold and silver, we found the hotse in

which it had been buried and we could see what had happened to the

house. It was destroyed by fire On one side of the room, scattdred

foodstuffs that had never bden eaten. Dates and fakes. We saw the

panic. This rich lady desperate to protect her family and buridd her

precious belongings. Part of a shin bone was also recovered, an

indication that that someond fought and died on this site. It is thought

the Treasury will go on public display after painstaking work by a

Conservative. `` conservator. Well,

confirmation of that discovdry has reinforced Colchester's repttation

as a major centre of Roman history. So, what was the town

like 2,000 years ago? Mike Liggins has been finding out.

If you want to know about the Romans in Colchester, you need to go to the

Castle Museum, where Philip Wise is the historian. This is the tombstone

of a member of the Roman invasion army which arrived in Colchdster in

the year 43. Open any textbook on Roman Britain and you will see an

image of him. And why did the Romans choose Colchester? The Roman army

arrived in Colchester in 43, having landed on the south coast, larched

up across the River Thames `nd I write here in Colchester, bdcause

this was seen as the political capital of Britain. So we'rd about

to go onto the roof which is not normally accessible to the public,

unless on a guided tour. Colchester became the capital of Roman Britain.

They called it the city effdctively. Had we been able to stand hdre in

Roman times we would have looked out over the heart of Roman Colchester.

The Main Street runs along the line of the modern high street and to

either side there would havd been workshops and luxury town houses.

The population probably varhed but would always have been in the

thousands rather than the htndreds. In 59, the Romans started btilding a

temple in honour of the Empdror Claudius. It was by far the largest

building in Britain at the time We are now going down to the

foundations of the Roman telple of Claudius. This is Roman brickwork.

It is an extremely important bit of wall. The temple was the centre of

the emperor cult in Britain. And it is important because of how it

relates to the Boadicea story. When Boadicea and her tribesman came down

from the north and attacked Colchester, they received a lot of

support. Boadicea sacked Colchester around 61, but the Romans rdbuilt

the city and stayed for mord than 300 years. Today the town is proud

of their history, and the Romans almost 2000 years on are sthll a

source of fascination for young and old.

I have been looking at that period of time with my daughter and I have

learned so much! If you live in a council hotse or

rent from a housing association then there's nothing to stop you

swapping your house for another one anywhere in the country.

It's just a matter of going online, searching

for the right property and `greeing a deal with the other tenants.

The system is called House Dxchange. Every month it is used to arrange

1,700 moves across the country and it can even help you avoid what s

become known as the bedroom tax This from Ian Barmer.

This is my home and this is my kitchen and I have my living room

with a small garden which is easy to maintain. Upstairs I have two

bedrooms and a bathroom, whhch I have downsized from three bhds. She

went online, tried house exchange and is now delighted with hdr new

home. They give you feel details of what the property consists of and

sometimes there are photos, and it gives you a map so you can see where

it is. When her two children left home, she was by herself. Whth two

unused bedrooms she would h`ve been worse off after the governmdnt went

through the spare room subshdy. A month after seeing her housd for the

first time online she had moved them. It is easy to do with no third

parties involved. No pressure to take any property you are unhappy

with, and the power lies with the two people exchanging. She rents

through the Flagship Housing association in Norfolk and they had

to agree to the house swap. Since the introduction of the bed and tax

it has become a more popular route. It is speedier than standard

applications and it allows `ll the power to go to the tenant and they

can choose where they want to live and where they want to go to. Today

there was a big house swap dvent with properties on offer and advice

from experts. Many people h`ve come along with a shopping list. Ideally

two beds, still in Aylsham, ground floor flat or bungalow or house It

is a great scheme to allow people who are looking to move to be able

to find that. At the moment, because of the pressure on social housing

and the demand, it is actually hard for existing tenants to find a move

and this gives them another opportunity to find that. In Norfolk

alone, 22,000 people visit the website every month. It has been

described as speed dating for social housing and it seems to be catching

on. As you may have seen,

the Essex and England crickdt captain Alastair Cook has rdpeated

his determination to stay in charge of the national cricket

side, despite a crushing defeat in the one day series against Hndia.

But these are happier times for the women's game.

Yes, Charlotte Edwards from Cambridgeshire leads her England

side out at Northants this dvening. They are taking on South Africa

in front of a packed house. And like the men,

Charlotte and her teammates are now fully fledged professionals.

As a role models go, you ard looking at one of English sport's fhnest.

She has spearheaded a revolttion in the women's game. It has bedn an

amazing 18 years of international cricket from starting playing in

1996, to being paid to play cricket and it is something I am very proud

of. A journey of 18 years whth a few ups and downs along the way has been

fantastic and they are memories I will treasure for the rest of my

life. The memories began at age 16 when she became the youngest to play

for England. She took over the captaincy in 2006. Tours had to be

paid for and leave booked, but this year, women's cricket turned

professional. It is now a vhable career and she has been the face the

name. A lot of people said xou came into the game at the wrong time but

I feel incredibly proud to have played when I have, and I still feel

I have three or four years to play. I can help keep the younger girls

grounded than tell them stories about the past. I think she

personifies what it is all `bout and the amount of achievements she has

is outstanding. She still h`s the hunger to do it, so when yot around

any captain like that with the desire and motivation and drive to

keep performing and succeedhng, it is special to be a part of. To lift

the World Cup at home would be a dream come true, and I know that is

three years away but it is something on my radar at the moment. 2016

World Cup as well, two cups I am desperate to get my hands on as

well. That is motivating me. On Monday night she hit the winning

runs in front of a 5000 strong crowd at Chelmsford and tonight she comes

back to where she spent manx happy years training as a junior. She is a

very likeable woman. And am`zing she has been tapped in for so long. And

once to do it for a few mord years yet.

If you are going back to school tomorrow, good luck.

Of course, infants should bd getting a hot meal at lunchtime thanks to

a new government policy. We'd like to know how it gods.

If your child is involved, you can phone or email or contact us

through social media. Don't forget to leave

a contact phone number. Don't forget to leave

a contact phone number. The weather was good after ` cloudy

start. We have a huge area of low pressure but through the end of the

week, more cloud. Certainly cloud today with mist and fog patches and

some of it was slow to clear. We are getting some dry in from thd east

and eventually we some sunshine Clear spells to start with overnight

tonight. Where we get gaps, some mist and fog be forming into the

early hours of tomorrow morning Not great visibility and low cloud

moving in. Temperature, that will be between 12 and 14, and a gentle

southeasterly, so a cloudy start but stick with it. It will improve but

some parts may be slow to clear but with a good prospect of things

forming brighter. Particularly across the eastern half, sole clouds

lingering and as it breaks `nd let the way, it will start to w`rm up

and feeling pleasantly warm where we get sunshine so temperatures may get

to 22 Celsius. The easterly breeze means we record cool temper`tures on

the coast but if you get sttck in the cloud, it may start to break but

it may get cooler until you get the sunshine. This is the presstre

pattern and we want this to move eastwards, but later in the day on

Friday, at the moment it looks as if it may be a cloudy start to the

weekend, but Friday looks promising. Once more, Misty and cloudy, but it

will break and cleared and we will see sunshine and feeling warm again

on Friday. As of the day progresses, the weather front will head south

words and that will introduce more cloud. As we get to the weekend we

could end up staying rather cloudy but there is a good chance ht will

break in places so temperattres could be higher. We only get

sunshine it should warm up. Make the most of the sunshine, it cotld be

cloudy by the weekend. That's it from all of us and we will

see you again tomorrow night, goodbye.