23/09/2013 Look East - West

Hello and welcome to a new week Look East. In the programme tonight:

The Labour Party says they could scrap plans to toll part of the

road, if they win the next election. What they've come up with this not

at all convincing. We would want to have a look at whether or not what

they are proposing is the right have a look at whether or not what

forward. That and the rest of the top stories now with James Burridge.

warnings. The new plan to control prostitution in Luton — but is it

Beating teenage depression — the Peterborough student offering a

And a return to the glory days of Lister Cars, now back in production

Hello, first tonight, the future of the a 14 has been thrown into doubt

by the Labour Party. Two weeks ago, the government announced it wanted

to replace a busy stretch of road with a toll road. Now Labour says it

could scrap the plan if they win the next election. This report from

could scrap the plan if they win the political correspondent, Andrew

Sinclair. Everyone is agreed that this road is in desperate need of

improvement, but with a price tag of £1.5 billion, how would you afford

Here at the Labour Party, the issue keeps coming up with debates about

transport. The effects of putting on this toll have not been thought

through. The evidence from tolls elsewhere and the M6 toll road is

actually there is a lot of diversion and people go a long way not to

actually there is a lot of diversion Our concern is the road macro —— A14

will not solve the problem is that it may make things worse over a

will not solve the problem is that wider area. In the summer, Labour's

Fitzpatrick came to Cambridge and suggested the party supported the

plans but now there is a different message coming from the person who

could be Transport Secretary in message coming from the person who

years time. What they have come message coming from the person who

with is not at all convincing. We would want to have a look about

with is not at all convincing. We they are proposing and whether it is

the right way forward. I do not think they will have got very far

with it. It gives us a chance to see what the right way forward is. But

of the Iurii Tsaruk is not the right way forward, how would you improve

the road —— is a toll is not the right way forward, how would you

improve the road? We would have right way forward, how would you

have a discussion about it. There are concerns that drivers would

have a discussion about it. There congestion on other roads. What

have a discussion about it. There government is proposing is a tax on

particular the Port of Felixstowe. That will be facing competition

particular the Port of Felixstowe. the London Gateway and this will

make things worse. We can hear more from Andrew Sinclair at the Labour

Party conference. I asked a short planned to upgrade the A14, even if

they did not agree with toll on planned to upgrade the A14, even if

Maria Eagle said that Labour Party would take a close look at the

project. But also she said she was argument. She also told me that

project. But also she said she was next Labour manifesto will not be

proposing any toll roads anywhere. Also there is a lot of opposition to

the scheme like the Cambridgeshire Chamber of Commerce and suddenly,

you wonder whether the scheme has a big question mark hanging over it.

The government says the only way they can improve the road is by

The government says the only way on it. Maria Eagle disagrees. She

says you should put the whole of the public purse behind it, not use

says you should put the whole of the toll road. And I understand there

lines, the East Coast Mainline and HS2? Yes, they are being talked

lines, the East Coast Mainline and lot about down here. Maria Eagle

made it clear she wanted to keep the ownership. The government were

hoping to put it back in the private sector. She said if she is Transport

Secretary and it has not happened yet, she will make sure it stays in

the public sector. HS2, there is an interesting row developing tonight.

Maria Eagle says it is a good idea because it will ease congestion

Maria Eagle says it is a good idea other rail lines. But Rachel Reeves,

the shadow secretary to the Treasury expensive, Labour might pull the

scheme altogether. Andrew Sinclair at the Labour Party conference.

scheme altogether. Andrew Sinclair is two months since the launch of a

the strategy working? Neil Bradford intensive operation to clean up

the strategy working? Neil Bradford Tackling curb crawlers and street

walkers, it was a tactic that seemed to bring instant results. They are

just making things harder for us girls. We are putting ourselves

just making things harder for us more danger because we are having to

take what we can. It is now two months since that operation and

take what we can. It is now two start of a new strategy by police

and the local council. There are some early signs that are starting

to have an impact but it is clear that prostitution is still a problem

in this area. Many residents say there has been an improvement since

the strategy was introduced, but others say progress has been too

slow and they question whether the Shopkeeper Shahzad Khadam, who

started campaigning for action, feels momentum has been lost. It'll

take a lot longer than five. We feels momentum has been lost. It'll

be lucky if we get anything in ten years. They made so many promises,

but they are not doing enough. Those behind the strategy say they are

doing all they can. Both the police Commissioner have given a commitment

that we are working with partners to tackle this issue. Some residents

feel the progress is too slow. The experience from Ipswich and other

places is this is not a quick fix. straightaway. In Ipswich it took 18

months. Residence in Hightown will Talks are back on track for a major

development near Wellingborough including 3000 new homes, schools,

offices and shops. The project to the north of the town was given

outline planning permission three years ago but could not go ahead

until the council agreed to sell some of its land. The council says

it is now ready to sell the 66 acre site. Stuart Ratcliffe is there

it is now ready to sell the 66 acre us now. Good evening. If you look

behind me, as far as the eye can see, this could be a brand—new

housing estate. Planning permission was granted in 2010. Now the council

is willing to sell this land and they say there are no shortage of

developers willing to buy. This they say there are no shortage of

£400 million filament. The people of yards in that direction see the

local roads simply will not be able to cope. Wellingborough council

local roads simply will not be able this scheme is vital. They say just

keep pace with demand, they will need to build 1000 new homes every

single year. Completes a jigsaw which the council has been working

identified as part of the growth. We sustainable building plan. It spells

out that Wellingborough is open sustainable building plan. It spells

business. This is part of £1 billion investment into the borough. This

area is not the only one being singled out. What is the bigger

picture? Northamptonshire claims to be the fastest—growing county, not

just in our region, but in the whole development underway now, which

just in our region, but in the whole even larger than this one. There

will be 3500 new homes. Around the county in Corby they are planning

5000 homes, 5000 homes in Kettering Northampton, Daventry and South

Northamptonshire, they are planning to build 22,000 homes in the next

An 18—year—old from Peter Brett to build 22,000 homes in the next

offering a new lifeline to teenagers Peterborough. Cydney Beagley says

there is not enough support for Hello, I'm Sydney. Talking about

teenage depression, something which Cydney Beagley feels is not done

enough. She is training to be a Cydney Beagley feels is not done

up artist but four years ago she was diagnosed with depression after

finding out her mum had cancer. I was aching, a lot of it was physical

and I was stuck in bed a lot of was aching, a lot of it was physical

usually would but I did not know where to turn because obviously

usually would but I did not know mum was ill and I did not want to

put pressure on anybody else. I mum was ill and I did not want to

myself. Now her depression is under control. She says changing her diet

has made a difference but she is keen to help other teenagers who

themselves. She has launched a website to do just that. It is an

issue a lot of hoopla experiencing. We got a group of Sydney's friends

together and nearly all had some experience. It is one of those

issues that when you talk about experience. It is one of those

is easier to deal with. Mandy is a councillor who deals with teenage

depression. She said tell—tale symptoms including being lethargic

and very tired which can be confused with normal teenage symptoms. There

are many triggers, parents arguing, parents splitting up, rivalry, the

trauma of some kind. It can even be stress of exams and worrying about

doing their best. An estimated 80,000 children in Britain suffer

sharing her story will help others Northamptonshire are having problems

accessing the Internet after a major The blaze at the JBJ Business Park

in Blisworth was next to an exchange used by O2. The company says they

stable countries like Russia. It is open to debate but what can't be

disputed is that local jobs were lost on a development unlikely to be

resurrected. Still to come, we are in Frinton

MIDI Champion Sand sculptor. It has been warm and humid but what

does the rest of the week have in store? All the details later.

Last week we reported on the problems facing our councils

becasuse of our ageing population. Tonight, we hear from the man who

was asked to come up with the answers in Essex.

Among the ideas from Sir Tom Hughes—Hallett: Recruiting

volunteers who will offer to help the sick and elderly who live

nearby. Encouraging people to use their pharmacists more. We'll hear

from Sir Tom in a moment but first Debbie Tubby on a challenge facing

every council in this region. Milton Keynes is said to have become

Britain's pensioner capital. By 2030, the government predicts a 110%

rise in over 65 is. In the next decade, the number of people aged 18

or over will double. This will put pressure on services. Norfolk County

Council already has 22% of its population 65 or over. We have about

13,000 people diagnosed with dementia. That figure will bubble in

the next 15 years. To describe it as an explosion is possibly an

understatement. Cambridge is said to be the fastest—growing county in the

country in terms of population. The County Council says it is taking

that into account in all of its planning. Meanwhile, Suffolk County

Council has transferred the running of its care homes into the hands of

a private provider in preparation for its ageing population. Others

say an ageing population creates economic and social benefits. Many

old people choose to work as a matter of choice or out of financial

necessity. The idea that old people are burden is not accurate at all.

Meanwhile, this report says people should take more responsibility for

their own health. They should be prepared to pay for some services

and that communities could support some people.

Earlier today, I spoke to Sir Tom Hughes—Hallett, the man behind that

report, and I started by asking about what he has learned and what

he hopes will happen now. My findings were targeted at trying to

just come up with a few bold ideals to solve a very big problem. The

first key idea was to hand back to the people of Essex the

responsibility for their own health care. From the evidence I took, it

was quite clear that the ball were up for that and, indeed, almost

wanted to do it. People were prepared to look after their car, so

they were prepared to look after their body as long as the state is

there to fix it when there is a problem. What should happen to those

people who don't look after themselves very well? Well, I think

there will always be cars that breakdown on motorways at 2am

without insurance. There is not a lot you can do about that but the

reality is people are changing already. 40% of the people I

interviewed in Braintree now regard their first point of call for health

care being their pharmacy or Google. A lot of the people were talking

about getting into their 60s or 70s or 80s are people who have paid in

from cradle to grave health care and now you're saying we can't afford

it. That is not the case. What people paid in for, they should get.

If you break your head when you're 75 then of course you should expect

a hospital to be available to you to provide you with urgent care. What

I'm saying is that we need to make sure, as communities, that we know

who is really vulnerable and take the time to look out for people in

our street who are likely to trip or fall or who need support to get

drugs from their pharmacy, rather than standing by and letting them

crash and burn. If we don't adopt these measures, what will happen to

health care? I may be wrong but I don't think I am. I had a fantastic

team working with me and we interviewed hundreds of people. What

I do know is if we don't take action now, in 15 years' time, our children

and people in their 30s and 40s are going to face problems that make the

problem is that I will face look like a picnic. What are those

problems? There won't be enough people to care. That is why I called

this commission who will care? Anyone familiar with the history of

motor racing knows names like Maserati and Ferrari. But back in

the 1950s and 1960s there was another big name.

Lister of Cambridge doesn't have quite the same ring about it, but 60

years ago they were taking on the big boys and beating them. And now

Lister is making a comeback. Racing green and its yellow stripe.

The Lister Jaguar. In the late 50s, it on pretty much everything. It was

built on a shoestring budget in Cambridge. This car was the first of

the new generation Lister. ALL the Lister cars were great. He won 11 of

his 14 races. On his right, the man who built the first Lister. Not many

were made. Now, a new investor has relaunched the Lister, once again to

in Cambridge. We will build four and next year we hope to build six. We

build them very slowly. It is a craftsmanship product, not mass

produced. When we see them on the road? The bodywork is sent in pieces

and assembled here. Eventually, when put together it will look like that.

Just like the original. They won't be cheap, costing in the hundreds of

thousands, but they will produce jobs. It is a fantastic thing for UK

manufacturing. We have already employed a number of people to start

working at the factory and this is the start of the UK manufacturing

recovery. It is a car from Cambridge that led the way in motor sport. 60

years on, the Lister is back. For every second of every day, our

brains are working, controlling everything we do and say. But what

happens when the brain is damaged because of a serious head injury?

James Piercy was involved in a serious road accident. His wife

died, his children were injured and he was left battling with damage to

his brain. James is with us now. How are you and what has happened to

the brain in that time? I'm well, thanks. Over the last two and a half

years, my brain has been rewiring itself and learning new ways to do

things. I still have some problems and struggle a bit but mostly I am

much better. I suffered some other damage in the accident which left

one of the muscles which controls my eyeball not functioning some it

doesn't move quite right and I get double vision. On the +8, I get to

wear a cool patch. What did your brain need to retrain? What is

important is the pathways and connections between different cells

in your brain. There are something like a million pathways for every

second you are alive. If they are disrupted, the connections break and

your brain finds it harder to work and has to find new ways to do that.

I just want to show a clip of what can happen to you when the brain

isn't going as well as you like it. Getting a little bit tired... And

sometimes I get a twitch... And my words won't come out quite right.

I'll probably need to eat something soon.

Food and arrest, is it? After that clip was filmed, I had a meal and

rested for an hour and I was fine. You are giving talks to people to

educate them about brain injuries. That's right, I am going round the

country to talk about brain injuries. I have been enormously

lucky. There are millions living with the aftermath of a serious head

injury. I hope your recovery continues to go well.

You can see David Whiteley's film about James in Inside Out East at

7:30pm on BBC One. Most of us struggle to make a good

sand castle, let alone a sand sculpture. But for a talented few,

it's an artform, complete with its own world championship.

Nicola Wood is a two—time world champion and today she's been busy

on the sea front at Frinton in Essex today. Alex Dolan has been watching.

Yes, Nicola is still hard at work. It has taken her two days to create

this voluptuous lady. She has not finished yet but has come a long way

since lunchtime. You have to work from the top down because after a

certain stage, I can't walk back a bit. Nicola loves working with sand.

Today she is working with tonnes of the stuff. I'm working on her arms

at the moment. She will just be relaxing in the sun. Nicholl has

created sand sculptures all over the world. Her latest takes inspiration

from traditional seaside postcards. When you're carving something of

this scale, the kind of SanDisk ritual. The sand here is very old.

It has been washed back and forth with the tide and the greens are

very round. A young sand is... It is not brilliant to work with but that

is the fun of it. It is challenging to work with. What is it like to

work for days on something that gets washed away? I like the whole circle

of it. Nicholl has just stopped work to join us now. I am in awe of what

you have achieved. However you feeling about where you have got to?

I think we are on target to finish tomorrow. I'm happy so far. Are

getting there. What about whether? What happens if it rains? Not a

great deal, hopefully. The sand is very absorbent. Hopefully if it

rains, it will just the surface damage that we can repair. You can

come and have a look at her tomorrow evening.

What did they call her? Strapping.

Is it going to rain? No, not as it stands.

You can see that the best of the sunshine was in eastern and southern

parts, taking the temperatures up to 21 Celsius. Even where we had

thicker cloud, it didn't feel too bad because we had warm and humid

air feeding across the country. Overnight, good news for sand

sculptures. It is set to stay dry. The combination of clear spells and

light winds means we will see some mist and dense fog patches

developments. It is not a cold night anywhere. Tomorrow, this is actually

a ridge of high pressure which keeps this system at bay for the time

being and keeps this front away, too. Tomorrow, a dry start to the

day. It may take a while for the mist and fork to clear but once it

has gone a dry day with some of us seeing some brightness and sunshine.

There will be some areas of thicker cloud which will remain for much of

the day. Temperatures will be up to around 22 or 23 Celsius in the

sunshine. In the cloud, it will be a little cooler and temperatures not

so high around the coast. On the whole, very light winds mainly from

the south—east. Some evening brightness and sunshine. This is the

five—day forecast. I have said it is cloudy tomorrow but there will be

some sunshine. Almost a repeat performance on Wednesday. Quite a

lot of cloud around. Staying relatively warm and humid. Some of

us will see some sunshine. Thursday, again, almost a repeat

performance. A subtle change, we are expecting some showers for the

south—west. That is the same for Friday. But, again, the showers

fairly well scattered. Those are your overnight loans.