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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
In the programme tonight, the government promises millions more to | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
people here our roads, but hs it enough to fill the potholes. Another | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
jewel in the Crown is set to sparkle the stock market. How pionedring eye | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
laser surgery has restored the site of this woman who was told she would | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
never see again. And life after the Harrier jump jet. Life behind the | :00:34. | :00:42. | |
scenes at the RAF base. First tonight, the battle to beat the | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
potholes. Today, we learned that councils in our region will get | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
almost ?8 million to help rdpair roads damaged by the wettest winter | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
on record. And more money could be coming our way. Chancellor George | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
Osborne paid tribute to one of our MPs when he announced anothdr pot of | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
pothole money in his Budget speech. My honourable friend has bedn a | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
persistent campaigner for rdsources to repeal the potholes in hhs | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
constituency and across the country. His persistence has paid off. I am | :01:19. | :01:27. | |
making ?200 million available, which local authorities can bid for Allied | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
trust Northampton will be m`king an application form. We will bd hearing | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
from Michael Ellis in a momdnt. But first, let us take a look at today's | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
cash announcement in a little more detail. | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
Northamptonshire will get about ?1.5 million, Cambridgeshire is hn line | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
for a similar amount, while Bedfordshire will receive more than | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
?870,000. But just how far will that actually go? Anna Todd has been out | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
on the streets of Northamptonshire. You just go bump, bump, bump, even | :01:59. | :02:11. | |
on a bus. It is not nice at all People blow it out of proportion. We | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
are a nation of morning people. This garage and roughed Rushton takes in | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
45 cars a day, one quarter of them with problems caused by potholes. | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
With the force of it hitting the portal, it is correct the rhm of the | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
real. It will require a new real, and one like this, is not cheap | :02:40. | :02:50. | |
This man has become known as pothole Pete, because of its campaign to | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
improve the roads. How does he feel? Thrilled? Delighted? Ht will | :02:57. | :03:07. | |
not even scratch the surfacd. 5 years ago, a recovery required to | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
300 million to repair the road and the Chancellor has given th`t to | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
repair the roads of the enthre country. The county council hopes to | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
have around ?15 million. Calpaigners say it is a drop in the oce`n. This | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
is a massive problem. It is a legacy going back through several | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
governments through the dec`des Is this a losing battle? We will | :03:39. | :03:49. | |
improve the quality of the work so the rate of progress is painfully | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
slow. Five years ago, Pete was pleased that this road was patched | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
up and made perfect. But tr`ffic in time have opened up old wounds. | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
Michael Ellis, the MP for Northampton North, has been | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
spearheading the campaign for more money for potholes. He joins me now. | :04:12. | :04:20. | |
The announcement today, ?1.4 million former phantom share, it is a drop | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
the ocean? It is good news. The state of the roads in my | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
constituency are not good enough and people have put up with it `nd had | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
to put up with that for too long. There have been decades of | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
underinvestment in the roads and I think everyone knows that. This is | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
nearly a quarter of ?1 billhon. It is not a drop in the ocean. It is | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
not everything that we need, but we can fix a lot of roads with it. I am | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
delighted. It reflects well on the people of the constituency because | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
of the petitions they have filled out and surveys may have colpleted. | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
You are talking about the ?200 million George Osborne menthoned in | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
the budget yesterday. There is no guarantee, is there, that | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
Northampton will get any of that money? The council will havd two bed | :05:20. | :05:29. | |
for it. I am heartened that the Chancellor invited Northampton to | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
bid for the money in the budget speech. I think we have the | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
respectable chance of being successful. I will do everything I | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
can to make sure Northampton makes a successful bid. We want as luch | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
money as possible. I have bden riding the council about thhs | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
probably about 1,000 times. We have done a lot of work on the stbject. | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
Potholes are a blight, becatse a lot of damage and something needs to be | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
done about them. But there `re parts of the country that suffered much | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
more severe flooding than Northampton who will need money | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
There are many people in thd south`west who need the mondy and it | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
may result in your constitudnts losing out. It is right where these | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
places which suffered seriots structural damages by floods hit | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
money to help fix that. I think the Chancellor will make other | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
announcements about that. Btt there also needs to be the pot of money | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
for potholes. The government has two cross the board and has different | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
power priorities. I am confhdent that under this Chancellor, he knows | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
exactly where to look to pl`ce his priorities, which is great news and | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
I think there will be more to come. Thank you for joining us. | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
A company near Cambridge is promising to double its workforce | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
after floating on the stock market later this month. Horizon Dhscovery | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
helps major drugs companies to develop new treatments. It hs the | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
biggest flotation of a Cambridge biotech company for many ye`rs and | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
it hopes to raise more than ?25 million for expansion. In Shlicon | :07:10. | :07:23. | |
fen, the signs of recovery `re never far away. The biotechnology company | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
is about to float on the stock market. The help major drugs | :07:32. | :07:40. | |
companies to develop new trdatments. Research can be carried out on test | :07:41. | :07:49. | |
tubes rather than real people. We take the discoveries from the human | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
genome Project and project results which allowed pharmaceutical | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
companies to develop drugs. It could save millions for the drugs | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
companies. Horizon Discoverx Was born seven years ago and has grown | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
quickly. It plans to double the amount of stuff they have in the | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
next couple of years. The money raised from flotation will be | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
ploughed back into the business This drives our ability to dxport | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
around the world. It will also mean we can recruit more employeds | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
locally and top`class scientists for the future. The biotech centre had a | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
rough ride in the recession. But in the last couple of years, confidence | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
has returned. Cambridge alrdady has a $1 million biotech companx. There | :08:55. | :09:08. | |
are 15,000 employees in this area of research alone. In the East of | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
England, compared to the rest of the innate Kingdom, I think it has about | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
one third of all the life science businesses in the country. Ht looks | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
as if Cambridge will soon h`ve another jewel in its high`tdch | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
crime. `` Crone. More than 100 jobs are at rhsk at a | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
Co`Op logistics centre in Huntingdon. The Co`Op Group is | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
currently consulting with staff over plans to close the centre, which | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
supplies food stores. The company is looking to cut national running | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
costs by ?500m. It is proposing to close the depot in the summdr. It | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
says job losses would be regrettable, but a similar number of | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
jobs would be created elsewhere in the country. | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
Next tonight, the continuing merging of operations by three of otr police | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
forces. Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshhre | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
forces already share resources on major incidents. Last week, Look | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
East revealed that the idea of merging control rooms was bding | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
talked about. Now, we understand the police and crime commissiondrs are | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
also considering introducing shared police cells. In custody in | :10:11. | :10:30. | |
Peterborough, like in so many stations, the police cells have not | :10:31. | :10:40. | |
changed much to four years. No, the kind commissioners are lookhng at | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
going a step further with wholesale moving around of prisoners, | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
achieving sales and maybe btilding you custody suites across the three | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
counties. I am more comfort`ble about the merger of a control room. | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
When it comes to the transporting of people to different locations, it | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
means that a lot of police officers are going to have to be used and it | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
will be wasted from other front`line duty. It could mean the people being | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
held in cells many males from home in different parts of the county. | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
Critics say this will cost lore as police and solicitors and others | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
working in the criminal justice system end up travelling grdater | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
distances to see clients. There are 86 cells there, 44 in Cambrhdgeshire | :11:33. | :11:45. | |
and 49 in Bedfordshire. The idea of sharing sales is not new. Norfolk | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
and Suffolk police she knew custody buildings. The union welcomds any | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
collaboration which keeps jobs in the public sector. Instead of the | :12:00. | :12:09. | |
money once leaving the police force and going in profit to priv`te | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
companies, I would want thel to invest in more efficient working | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
ways. The police say the new custody centres will provide a more | :12:22. | :12:22. | |
efficient service for the ptblic. The government has announced that a | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
new research institute will be set up in honour of the World W`r Two | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
code`breaker Alan Turing. Hd was based at Bletchley Park durhng the | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
war, where his team cracked the Enigma code. He went on to develop | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
early computers. Universitids will be invited to bid to be the home of | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
the new institute, which will research ways of collecting, | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
organising and analysing data. The Red Bull Formula One Racing team | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
is being awarded the freedol of Milton Keynes today. The cotncil is | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
granting the honour to mark the impact Red Bull has had on the | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
Milton Keynes economy. It is also for bringing positive international | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
attention to the town through its Formula One success. Today's award | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
comes on the day Red Bull announced it was appealing against thd | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
disqualification of Daniel Riccardo in last Sunday's Australian Grand | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
Prix. The reason why we appdaled against the disqualification was | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
that we do not feel he brokd any regulations. We will have the | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
hearing shortly to hear what the outcome will be through the | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
independent court of appeal. another attempt at Southend, saying | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
it has merely been postponed until September next year. | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
Sport Relief begins tomorrow, and good luck to the thousands of you | :13:33. | :18:42. | |
who are raising money during the three day event. One of the key | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
themes this year has been food poverty, which has been highlighted | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
in the BBC Two Sport Relief programme Famous, Rich and Hungry. | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
Much of the money you raise is spent in this region. In Milton Kdynes, it | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
has helped a charity food b`nk buy a delivery van. | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
It could happen to any of us. One day life is good, the next ht is | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
not. Food banks are an emergency service. It is in the weeklx | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
shopping, it is a desperate measure to help people through despdrate | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
times. The Milton Keynes foodbank has been going for ten years, | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
through labour and coalition governments. Even in this prosperous | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
place, there are many peopld living on the thin line between having a | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
lot and losing the lot. It's a leveller. It isn't about politics, | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
it's about people having re`l needs, and we can all think of timds in our | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
lives one have things go wrong, and you look for help. We are there to | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
give you. That is all we can do as a charity. It is really difficult for | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
me to get into my head somebody only having one meal a day. Survhving and | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
charity hand`outs. If it wasn't for the foodbank, we would go htngry. | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
The problem has been highlighted in this relief programme Famous, Rich | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
And Hungry, where celebritids live with families living on the | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
breadline. And Sport Relief has also helped to pay for this van, so the | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
Milton Keynes foodbank can take the parcels to the people. You'll we are | :20:19. | :20:27. | |
there to help them minicrishs. `` in a crisis. Hopefully, in the span of | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
the time we are dealing with them, the different agencies will have | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
helped them to get over thehr problems. Without this, I | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
would've... I don't know wh`t I would have done. I would have ended | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
back in prison. And I don't want to go to prison again. I spent most of | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
my life there, and I don't want to do it's no more. All the people | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
using the foodbank are referred by agencies like social servicds, | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
Citizens Advice and Age UK. Normally, they can only havd five | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
parcels a year to get them through the hard times. It is not a food | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
chain. It means they won't fall into further debt. They won't take out | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
payday loans and have extortionate amounts to pay back. Last ydar, they | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
supply 13,000 parcels. This year, it will be 20,000, and having the van | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
means they can. I'm never going to be rich doing this job, not in | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
pockets, but I am in the he`rt. That's the thing. These people touch | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
your heart everyday, and it's a real great thing. It blesses us `s much | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
as it blesses them. Great thoughts. Now, tomorrow night we'll bd finding | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
out how you are raising mondy for Sport Relief. You can find out | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
what's happening near you bx going to sportrelief.com. And you are | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
running a mile, aunty? U Amhn! I am starting of the Norwich race, | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
setting off from outside City Hall here. That starts at nine, ten, and | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
1030. I am making my eight`xear`old daughter run for me! | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
Many people share their thotghts and keep us updated by blogging about | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
the latest fashion trends, politics, but also wildlife. Tonight, we meet | :22:16. | :22:25. | |
a science teacher from Reepham High School in Norfolk has been doing. | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
Sarah Holmes is one of 20 whldlife bloggers from across UK to be | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
featured in the BBC Wildlifd magazine. She will write about what | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
she sees and hoping to insphre her students to get involved. | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
Nesting blue tits, moth cocoons and soon a new bee club. These `re some | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
of the ways Sarah Holmes is inspiring her pupils to find out | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
more about nature. So if yotrs is wiggling, it means it's alive. It | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
will turn into a moth at sole point soon, hopefully. We've been | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
participating in looking at the moths, which we've rescued from the | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
greenhouse to have a look at. Seeing the birds in the bird box, `nd | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
seeing the stages they go through to actually nesting, I find th`t really | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
enjoyable. Really nice learning about nature, because when H was in | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
primary, we had a wildlife garden, but we didn't really learn too much. | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
Their teacher Sarah is a kedn nature blogger, and has just been picked to | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
write about her local area for the BBC's Wildlife magazine. Shd's one | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
of only 20 people who'll be local patch reporters. We had hundreds of | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
applicants for this I was really excited, because | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
apparently they were inundated by lots of people, and I wasn't really | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
expecting to be picked. I w`s really happy when I got the e`mail to say | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
yeah, we'd like you to do this. We had hundreds of applicants for this | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
project up and down the country and Jews | :23:53. | :23:52. | |
project up and down the country and Sarah | :23:53. | :23:52. | |
project up and down the country and Jews and | :23:53. | :23:52. | |
project up and down the country and Sarah really stood out from the | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
crowd because of her energy and enthusiasm, but in particul`r, she | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
was really, really interestdd in getting the next generation into | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
wildlife and the natural world. It's places like this, Foxley Wood, just | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
down the road from where Sarah teaches, that inspires her to write | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
about nature. It's the largdst remaining ancient woodland hn | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
Norfolk, so it's full of historical flowers. Butterflies thrive here, | :24:12. | :24:13. | |
and it's great for bird spotting. Over the pass a few years, there has | :24:14. | :24:25. | |
been a lot of research done into nature deficit disorder, whhch is | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
basically talking about children not having as much connection whth the | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
outdoors, and I thought it would be quite nice to try and address that | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
and have a few more things to get kids more connected with nature But | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
Sarah wants us all to venture out a bit more. Her blog is about what she | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
has seen, and what we should look out for, meaning we don't h`ve to | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
travel abroad to see somethhng special. It's all just around the | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
corner. That's great, isn't it? We ought to | :24:53. | :24:53. | |
say that you were doing the and That's great, isn't it? We ought to | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
say that you were doing the race on Sunday. Yes, but there are dvents | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
all over the region. Check out the website. | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
Good evening. It might be whndy but we have seen some fine weather | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
across the region. This photograph was sent into us, shoving a | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
beautiful scene in Bury St Ddmunds, with some spring flowers in the | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
foreground. The cathedral in the background. We did record some gusts | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
of up to 40 mph today, so cdrtainly a windy forecast, but also, the | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
warmest spot wasn't in Suffolk, but in Norfolk. 16.4 Celsius in Norwich, | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
but look at the temperatures tomorrow. Quite a drop in | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
temperatures. We will reallx notice the difference. It is coming in on | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
this front, bringing quite ` lot of cold air behind, which will really | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
stick around into the weekend and the beginning of next week. There | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
might be the return of some frost, and cooler temperatures by day. If | :25:49. | :25:50. | |
we look in and cooler temperatures by day. If | :25:51. | :25:50. | |
we look at and cooler temperatures by day. If | :25:51. | :25:50. | |
we look in the and cooler temperatures by day. If | :25:51. | :25:51. | |
we look at the progress of the rain in the last few hours, it is getting | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
into the north`west of the region, and as you can see, it rattles | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
through by midnight. For most of us, it should have cleared away, and no | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
great rainfall totals, but the significant thing is the cooler air | :26:06. | :26:06. | |
that starts to make its mood significant thing is the cooler air | :26:07. | :26:08. | |
that starts to make its way right across the region, and later | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
tonight, with light winds and clear skies, temperatures could f`ll away. | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
Close to freezing, two or three Celsius, cold enough for a touch of | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
ground frost and icy patches where there has been earlier rainfall | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
Tomorrow, and entirely for the there has been earlier rainfall | :26:24. | :26:25. | |
Tomorrow, and entirely diffdrent feeling day. Another weather front | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
is on its way, but it shouldn't spoil the day. It will be qtite | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
windy. Here is the weather front first thing tomorrow morning. It | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
will bring some showers, but probably not until the evenhng rush | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
hour. The bulk of the day whll feel cooler and fresher, but quite a bit | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
of sunshine through the morning into the afternoon. Some patchy cloud | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
rings one or two isolated b`ll the afternoon. Some patchy cloud | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
rings one or two isolated showers, but into the afternoon, there could | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
just be more widespread showers Temperatures between ten and 12 | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
still a brisk and Temperatures between ten and 12 | :26:57. | :26:58. | |
still a brisk breeze as well, so quite a blustery feel. The showers | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
become more widespread into the evening. They could be on the heavy | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
side, possibly with hail mixed in and accompanied by a blustery wind. | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
Into the weekend, this is how it shapes up: Much cooler, highs of | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
just nine Celsius sunshine `round, and also some showers, which could | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
be on the heavier side. The return of some overnight frost, so | :27:22. | :27:22. | |
gardeners beware. had a of some overnight frost, so | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
gardeners beware. Any bloomhng flowers may be quite vulner`ble A | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
quick barometer check should help. Thank you very much. Do you remember | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
spring? That is all from us. Have a good evening. See you tomorrow. | :27:40. | :27:41. |