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welcome to Spotlight. Tonight: Milton Keynes we are welcome | :00:00. | :00:21. | |
welcome to Spotlight. Tonight: Warnings about the desks while | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
driving, it could be the toughest winter getaway for years. The day | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
they have called manic Monday, people are looking for a bargain. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
And we are on the wards of Peterborough City Hospital on one of | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
the busiest nights of the year. Also the tiny village with the giant | :00:45. | :00:45. | |
Advent calendar. First tonight. The day they have | :00:46. | :00:57. | |
called Manic Monday. For travellers in the region, disruption and | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
cancellations on the trains and delays on the roads. In all, misery | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
for people trying to get home or getaway for Christmas. High winds | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
and heavy rains have brought down power lines and closed roads and | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
bridges. We start in Milton Keynes where London Midland and Virgin West | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
Coast Trains have been seriously affected. Neil Bradford is there | :01:16. | :01:27. | |
now. Idea see those who took the advice to travel earlier today are | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
feeling smug right now because then the last half`hour London Midland | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
have announced they are only able to operate one service in each | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
direction between London Euston and Northampton. Those services will be | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
restricted to the 50 mph speed restriction. Like many travellers | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
today, this 18`year`old from Milton Keynes was preparing for the worst. | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
She has allowed extra time for her journey to Kent where she will be | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
joining her boyfriend for Christmas. We are heading down the but we are | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
having to set off early because the trains are being cancelled and it is | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
even worse down in Kent. Milton Keynes had minor delays with the | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
speed limit due to be introduced warmly at seven o'clock this | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
evening. Other services had a speed limit introduced at four o'clock. | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
About 20 line blockages so far, we will get many more as we go through | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
this. While some passengers seemed prepared, others were taking their | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
chances. We thought we would head off earlier than we did to beat the | :02:52. | :03:00. | |
four o'clock deadline. It was busier than be expected but we were | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
expecting that. Hopefully they will be all right it is the long journey | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
but fingers crossed and we will see how that goes. Passengers continued | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
to arrive by the dozen knowing full well that the journey might not be | :03:16. | :03:25. | |
easy. Because of the disruption ticket restrictions have been | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
lifted. Other lines out of London are not feeling any better. There | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
are delays to services through Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
because of the tree on the line There is also a tree on overhead | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
power lines in the West Hampstead ADF. Those who was born on their | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
journeys to model do not know what the weather is going to bring. `` | :03:50. | :04:00. | |
West Hampshire region. Well that's the picture in Northamptonshire and | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Bedfordshire, but the disruption is having its effect right across the | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
region. Greater Anglia trains into and out of Cambridge are not | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
expecting to run any service tomorrow until at least ten o'clock. | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
Mike Cartwright reports Well Mike joins me now, Mike, what's the | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
latest? On the roads this Christmas getaway there are warnings of high | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
winds. These are urging people not to drive for the next 24 hours | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
unless they really have to. Take her, avoid areas with the lot of | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
standing water, fallen trees and fall and fallen electricity pylons. | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
Trees and power lines have been brought down on train tracks. Some | :04:41. | :04:50. | |
routes are closed in case there is more damage. Ticket restrictions | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
have been relaxed to allow people to travel earlier but tomorrow morning | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
Greater Anglia trains will not run until ten o'clock so that tracks can | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
be checked for debris. The highest winds will be overnight. They will | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
drop off quickly by the daylight hours. After the storms are fears of | :05:17. | :05:27. | |
flooding with standing water and swollen rivers. Heavy rainfall is | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
expected in Bucks and Beds. Some of the rivers are likely to flood. As | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
the rain and wind arrives there are warnings that if you do travel this | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Christmas take extra care and allow extra time. What is the very latest? | :05:49. | :06:02. | |
Nothing major to report since we have come on year. The live one | :06:03. | :06:11. | |
flood warning on the outskirts of no fountain `` Northampton. You can | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
ring the flood line number. The trains have a restrictive service in | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
operation and network rail will be checking the track for fallen trees | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
and power lines. People are warned not to drive through floodwater The | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
bridge on the M25 is closed tonight because of strong winds but the | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
tunnels are open. It is the case of watching and waiting at the moment. | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Thanks, Mike. And you can keep fully up to date with the latest on the | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
weather and travel tomorrow morning with your BBC local radio station. | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
Well it's also been Manic Monday for our shops ` thousands of people | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
across the region have been hitting the High Streets today in pursuit of | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
bargains, and last minute provisions. In Milton Keynes alone | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
they were expecting 150,000 people today. But, as Louise Hubball | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
reports, not everyone's been heading for the big centres. This is the | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
story of manic Monday revealing the last`minute dash at two very | :07:17. | :07:25. | |
different centres. The traditional festive approach is working its | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
magic here. In Milton Keynes they expect 100 and the thousand through | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
the doors today, more than on Saturday. This is one of the top ten | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
shopping centres in the country In the battle against online buying | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
right offering retail are and are the thing they have the right idea. | :07:47. | :07:57. | |
You can get wrapping done, we have got to the cruisers, we have the | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
lights you cannot get that at home. Add the part of manic Monday by | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
accident or design, the people who have come here? I am on holiday so I | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
have sent my wife of somewhere else so she cannot see what I am buying. | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
I have bought things for myself that I should not have bought! The macro | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
it is nice to see lots of sales going on which has been quite nice | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
but I do not think it has been as bad as last year. The main item on | :08:34. | :08:42. | |
people's to buy list here is good. How long would you queue for the | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
butchers? One hour. We started at ten to ten and now it is ten to 11. | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
What are you waiting to pick up I have forgotten my list! Do we really | :08:58. | :09:06. | |
need the sausage meat? It is important to keep the small shops | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
going, the supermarkets get too much. I will have to look for my | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
parsnips elsewhere, they are sold out. Managers at a hostel for the | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
homeless in Hertfordshire have criticised workers who've gone on | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
strike over Christmas. Five employees from the St Mungo's hostel | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
in Hitchin walked out yesterday afternoon. The charity says the | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
strike couldn't have come at a worse time. Last`minute preparations for | :09:33. | :09:41. | |
Christmas. This year temporary workers from other hospitals are | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
running this homeless hostel in Hitchin. Five permanent staff have | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
walked out on strike for 12 days. Even industrial action comes after | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
the shelter switched from opening only at night to 24 hours per day. | :09:56. | :10:04. | |
They were offered the same terms and conditions as other employees but it | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
did not happen, the say. The staff that look after those vulnerable | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
people that do an incredibly challenging and experienced job for | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
Saint Mungo 's. The centre here houses up to 17 homeless people at | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
the time, they are getting clean clothes, and evening meal and a | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
place to sleep. They are encouraged to get into independent | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
accommodation. We thought we had reached agreement with the new | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
rotors and terms and conditions for staff, we are very disappointed that | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
they have chosen this time of year to go on strike because it is a very | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
difficult time of year for homeless people. Some residents support the | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
strike. I think they are fighting for what is the right. They could | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
not have made it feel any more Christmassy for me. I've fully back | :11:07. | :11:16. | |
them up. They deserve fair pay. Controversial bells in a | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
Hertfordshire village are to be silenced at night after complaints | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
from local residents. The bells of St Mary's Church in Ashwell have | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
rung out every quarter day and night for more than a century. | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
be long before the community is tested again. | :11:35. | :11:44. | |
Still to come on the programme tonight: Chris Bell will be here | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
with the latest on those storms. And in football, another manager | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
bites the dust. Aidy Boothroyd pays the price after a torrid season at | :11:51. | :12:03. | |
Northampton Town. Hospital managers have been warning | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
for months about the building pressure in our Accident and | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
Emergency departments this winter. And we were warned that last weekend | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
would be particularly bad ` so much so that they were predicting last | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
Friday would be 'Black Friday'. But what was the reality for the NHS? | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
Well, we were on the wards at Peterborough City Hospital. Jo | :12:21. | :12:32. | |
Taylor has this report. It's only 8pm and the place is full. This | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
woman is having breathing difficulties. She has a history of | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
health problems. In the next cubicle, a man has been brought in | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
uncoscious. He's been in a road accident and is being taken for a | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
scan to assess how badly injured he is. The Emergency Department has | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
seen more than a 50% rise in the number of people turning up over the | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
Christmas fortnight over the last five years. When I first started we | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
had a minor injury unit and another area... It was rare to use it, never | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
mind fill. This is three times the size and full. This man is worried | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
about redness following a hernia operation. He called the | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
non`emergency 111 number and told not to come here. They said a GP | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
would ring us in six hours. We didn't want to wait. We were a bit | :13:26. | :13:38. | |
concerned. So we came down here and hopefully we will be seen soon. One | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
in ten who turn up do not need to. The problem is that doctors deal | :13:48. | :13:57. | |
with are getting more serious. We have got a wide range of patients. | :13:58. | :14:07. | |
Patients with cases revolving around XS alcohol and many other things. `` | :14:08. | :14:19. | |
excess alcohol. Dominic was a week after row. He is being transferred | :14:20. | :14:31. | |
to Addenbrooke's Hospital. That is life. But they are not able to save | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
everybody. There are two deaths this evening. It was quite moving for us. | :14:40. | :14:48. | |
The patient had died but they were still very grateful. That is | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
touching. If we don't feel like that then we shouldn't be nurses. By | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
midnight, another 40 patients have come through the door. It is a | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
typical Friday night for staff as they head towards Christmas. Dr Dan | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
Poulter is a Health Minister. He's also the MP for Central Suffolk and | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
North Ipswich. Late this afternoon, I asked what we could do about so | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
many people going to A when they don't need to. It's absolutely right | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
that if someone is unwell they should be seen quickly. That's what | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
A is for. But the challenge is to help people understand that it's not | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
in their interests ` or the interests of other, sick patients ` | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
to put extra pressure on A for routine complaints like a sore | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
throat. The appropriate thing to do is go to see their GP the next | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
morning. Part of that is about doctors in A pointing it out to | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
people. Next time they might want to see their GP rather than come to A | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
when it's a relatively minor complaint. One of the big problems | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
is that it's not always easy to see your own GP. Do we have enough? Do | :16:01. | :16:11. | |
we pay them enough? The average GP is paid around ?105,000 a year which | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
is a good salary by anybody's standards. Most of them won't be | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
doing evenings or weekends. Some will, of course. The challenge is to | :16:21. | :16:30. | |
increase the number of GPs. If we want to move to a position where we | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
have more working over evenings and weekends then it's not just about | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
getting the current GPs to work later... It's about making sure we | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
have enough bodies on the ground to provide the service. Is one of the | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
problems that people move around so much in the country, and Europe as a | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
whole, that they don't bother signing up with a GP? There is a | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
challenge relating to high population. It happens in inner`city | :16:57. | :17:06. | |
areas as well as some rural ones. As much as a third of the GP register | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
can change on a yearly basis. `` an annual basis. Younger people are | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
particularly bad at signing up. It tends to be them who turn up at A | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
for more trivial complaints. When they do turn up with a minor | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
complaint, the A department should link them to a GP so that in the | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
future that person won't be putting extra pressure on. Thank you. And | :17:31. | :17:49. | |
the BBC is keeping a close eye on how our Accident and Emergency | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
departments cope this winter. You can actually see how your local | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
hospital is getting on by going to the BBC website online and searching | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
for 'NHS Winter' You can put a post code in ` the studio here is NR2 1BH | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
` and we get the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. | :18:05. | :18:14. | |
You can see how many patients are being seen within four hours in A | :18:15. | :18:24. | |
And if you scroll down you can also compare how your hospital is doing | :18:25. | :18:33. | |
compared to the England average. Plenty of opportunity on the site to | :18:34. | :18:41. | |
share your own NHS experiences too. In football, Northampton Town go | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
into Christmas and the New Year battling for survival in the | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
Football League and trying to find a new manager. Aidy Boothroyd was | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
sacked at the weekend following a heavy defeat. Back in May they were | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
at Wembley in the League Two play`off final. But they've only won | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
four games this season and the manager paid the price. Saturday. | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
Wycombe Wanderers at Sixfields. Aidy Boothroyd needed a win but he didn't | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
get it. The Cobblers lost 4`1 ` and at 5:39pm, less than an hour after | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
the final whistle ` Boothroyd was sacked. We lost the manager at the | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
weekend. He was a friend, particularly to me. The players got | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
on with him well. But they reacted. We had a little talk and I thought | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
they trained very well. Aidy Boothroyd joined Northampton Town | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
just over two years ago. He'd already taken Watford into the | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
Premier League, followed by spells at Colchester United and Coventry. | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
In May, the Cobblers made it to the League Two play`offs and the Wembley | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
final... But they lost. And this season has been a disaster. This is | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
what Boothroyd told Look East just a few weeks ago. You know you're going | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
to have highs and lows. There are more lows than highs. Fortunately, | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
I'm getting the opportunity to change it and turn it around. A lot | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
of guys in this day would have been chopped by now. `` in this day and | :20:02. | :20:10. | |
age. Whether he realised or not, the board was losing patience. The | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
Cobblers are bottom of League Two with just four wins. I know there | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
was gloom after the decision. I just feel we have to have a lift. We | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
can't have a negative opinion. I think the club are taking a gamble | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
by replacing him at this stage. He knows the players. He's been backed | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
financially. He looked to be getting more in January as well. After | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
Saturday's final whistle, maybe Boothroyd did know what was coming. | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
Instead of thanking the players on the pitch, he looked on then turned | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
and walked straight down the tunnel. Within minutes he'd be sacked. | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
Another manager looking for another job. | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
A former sports editor here at BBC Look East has died at the age of 82. | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
John Myatt presented sports bulletins during the 1970s and | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
1980s. He was also a reporter and presenter on the radio programme | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
Roundabout East Anglia. He died at Southwold Hospital yesterday. | :21:13. | :21:24. | |
There was a time when you knew what to expect with an advent calendar. | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
Mary and Joseph round the crib, perhaps a few shepherds in a field | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
or some wise men on camels. These days it's anything from a Christmas | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
tree to pop groups like One Direction. And behind every door, | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
anything from chocolate to whiskey. But in the village of Abington Pigot | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
in Cambridgeshire they've gone one better. The whole village has, in | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
effect, become an advent calendar. Every night throughout December, | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
people have gathered at a house and opened another window. Alex Dolan | :21:47. | :21:59. | |
explains. It is the eve of Christmas Eve. For a small Cambridge village | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
the countdown has been extra special. People usually open and | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
Advent calendar but here in Abington Pigotts they have taken the idea | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
even farther. They have transformed the house is in two Advent calendar | :22:18. | :22:30. | |
windows. `` their houses. `` into Advent calendar windows. I tried to | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
gauge interest and I had a great response. We have got lots of things | :22:39. | :22:57. | |
here. Beyers, rabbits... `` Bears. What has it been like seeing all | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
these windows? Everybody has had a different slant. It has been great | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
to get together with people even just for 15 or 20 minutes. It has | :23:08. | :23:24. | |
been lovely. It has been amazing. We are new to the village of this is | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
our first experience. 24 minced pies. 24 glasses of wine. Lots of | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
friendly people. The villagers have really got into | :23:35. | :23:58. | |
the spirit of things. With just two windows left to open, they are | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
likely that next year will be even better. `` they are all agreed that | :24:04. | :24:12. | |
next year will be even better. That music will be in my head all night! | :24:13. | :24:25. | |
Now for the weather. I am going to show you some graphics. Here are | :24:26. | :24:40. | |
some very cold air over my homeland of North America. `` Here is some. | :24:41. | :24:53. | |
There is a real contrast in temperature. It has allowed these | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
big areas of low pressure to develop. You can see at streaming | :24:57. | :25:12. | |
over. `` it. Some of these winds have been very fast. When you get | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
strong winds like this, over the top of low pressure, it becomes quite | :25:19. | :25:31. | |
fierce. Fort and eight, across our region, there will be gale force | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
winds and some strong gusts. `` For tonight. The Met office has a wind | :25:38. | :25:52. | |
their brain will be with us right throughout the night. `` the rain. | :25:53. | :26:14. | |
60 to 70 mph is for the winds. These will come at around midnight. There | :26:15. | :26:25. | |
could be some damage done. At the end of the night it will be confined | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
to eastern areas. It will start to ease down eventually. The rainbow | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
sweep away to the east leaving us with a much nicer day. `` the rain | :26:37. | :26:46. | |
will. High temperatures of 78 Celsius. `` seven to eight Celsius. | :26:47. | :26:58. | |
For Christmas Day it looks like a mild day. That is how things will go | :26:59. | :27:08. | |
into Boxing Day. We will see the wind is picking up again. That could | :27:09. | :27:22. | |
potentially cause some strong winds. See you tomorrow. | :27:23. | :27:26. |