15/04/2014 Look East - West

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Good evening. Keeping a vigil by their son's bed.

The family of nine`year`olds Sebastian Goold.

Simply a scam? A job`seekers warning over the online ads for vac`ncies

that don't exist. Later in the programme: Bushness is

booming, but will it mean a new town for Cambridgeshire? A clean bill of

health for our beaches. The parents of the nine year old boy

who fell from a moving coach on the A47 are at his bedside tonight in

Addenbrooke's Hospital. Seb`stian Goold was travelling back home to

Peterborough after a rugby latch on Sunday when the accident happened.

Sebastian's injuries are described as life threatening. Today, his

parents Nick and Tracey thanked people for their prayers at a deeply

distressing time. Our chief reporter Kim Riley is at Addenbrooke's now:

The news from the hospital tonight is that nine year old Sebastian

Goold, from Wansford near Peterborough, remains in a critical

condition after suffering vdry serious head and leg injurids.

He was transferred here frol the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at Kings

Lynn. He is a member of Stalford Rugby Club, and the family has been

overwhelmed with messages of support from the world of rugby.

Sebastian had been heading home with team`mates from a club after taking

part in a mini rugby tournalent at Holt. He fell from the main door of

a double`decker coach, as it was heading along the A47.

In a statement released by his parents, today, they say...The

coach, operated by Hamiltons Coaches of Rothwell in

The coach, operated by Hamiltons Coaches of Rothwell in

Northamptonshire, is now in a police pound. It is being examined by

officers and experts from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agencx. The

focus is on the main door, `round the middle of the coach, from which

Sebastian fell. The police say he was among a group

of boys queueing to use the toilet, which is next to the door, but they

refused to speculate on how the door came open.

If there were any witnesses to the incident, then please call hn on

101. Ask to speak to me, or the Serious Collision Investigation

Team. If you were in the arda, on the A47, travelling towards

Lincolnshire on Pullover Ro`d, near Tilney All Saints. It's the main

road. Anyone who saw anything, then please call us on that numbdr. Ask

for me, or the Serious Collhsion Investigation Team.

There were 30 passengers on board the coach at the time. 20 children

and ten adults. Sebastian's father was among them.

We Lang said yesterday that Sebastian's mother was travdlling

alongside the coach. `` we liked yesterday. We can tell you that

neither parent witnessed wh`t happens.

`` what happens. They are very grateful for the

messages of support. Her focus remains on keeping a vigil `t

Sebastian's bedside. They ask to be left alone to deal with this as a

family. Tonight there vigil continuds.

The coach, operated by There's a warning to job sedkers

this evening about fake advdrts for security guards at one of otr

airports. Applicants are told they have a job and are then encouraged

to hand over cash for checks and training, only to discover that the

whole thing is a scam. Luton Airport says the fraudsters have bedn

copying genuine ads. Maria's luck was finally in. Within

days of applying online for a security post at Luton Airport, she

was offered the job. I was really excited at first,

because I've always thought that I wanted to work at the airport. It's

really nice and busy, and you were meeting lots of different pdople. A

breath of fresh air, no intdrview and I've got a job!

The email said: But it went on to give cave`ts to

secure the position...Both paid directly to the company via online

payment system Ukash. I read it over and over and thought

something is not right here. Then I forwarded it on to my sister and she

said no. Maria, who asked not to be

identified, then rang the stpposed head office in Watford.

She said no, there is no Unht 1 here. It's a scam. I hope you

haven't sent any money. People had actually been going to the centre

because they had sent the money and then didn't hear anything.

We've acted immediately as soon as we heard. We've had the advdrt and

that user blocked from that particular job site. We will always

work with anyone who is maybe inadvertently helping these crimes

to be targeting people in the UK. Luton Airport employs thous`nds of

staff. But much of the work is subcontracted, so it can be hard

keeping tabs on recruitment. If you are interested in working at

the airport, go to the airport's official website. Look on the

recruitment tab and you will see the available jobs here at the `irport.

For other organisations who are part of the airport, your best point of

contact is going to them directly. The fraudsters used a reput`ble

company name, the adverts sdemingly identical. The recruitment site

Indeed, told us job seekers need to be cautious, especially dealing with

unknown third parties. Keith Rosser is from Safer Jobs ` an

organisation that tackles job fraud. He joins us from our Glasgow

newsroom now. How much of a problem is this?

Job fraud is really on the hncrease. The Daily Telegraph put it `s one of

the top 102014 for job`seekdrs to watch out for. We've had a number of

high`profile cases this year. `` the top ten for the year of 2014.

We have seen a rise in the volume and fried sea of job scams.

The scans are pretty convincing There are two key areas. Ond of them

is the audience. Most of us will have been on job`seekers at some

point. People want to believe that this is the right job done. We are

coming tentatively out of a recession. Many people want to move

jobs. When you put that togdther with the rise of online technology,

you've got a real potent mix. What's your advice?

I would say never give up any money in advance for any kind of

job`related service. Whilst online technology has seen a rise hn job

scams, it's also a way for people to do their own research. Check with

the company that they are actually hiring. Try to meet people face to

face. Try not to go through only online or e`mail routes. Like you

very much. `` thank you very much.

People in Peterborough are facing a cost of living crisis ` that's

according to the Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls who visited the city today.

But his comments come as figures show, nationally, inflation is

falling and wages are on avdrage rising. Mike Cartwright reports

The Shadow Chancellor chooshng a Peterborough supermarket to

highlight the cost of living. Inflation down, wages up an average.

But many people in places lhke Peterborough, he says, are still

struggling. People are facing a cost of living

crisis. The vast majority of people are really struggling and under

pressure. That's particularly true in places like Peterborough, where

times have been hard for thd last few years.

The workers he spoke to, we couldn't, ASDA said. So outside on

the street, were people worried about the money in their pockets?

For the average family, it's quite hard. I've seen probably a net

decrease in my salary as my pension contribution has gone up. W`ges

aren't moving ` we've had a pay freeze for two years.

I've got a kid so things ard tight all the time. Finding the money to

pay the bills. We've had pay rises.

You've had a pay rise? Last year, which is better than

we've had in the years before that. Can't complain too much.

Peterborough ` a city that has seen high private investment, with nearly

two jobs for every applicant. Recent figures show that around 3,000 jobs

are created in Peterborough every year, with an average wage rising to

?465 a month. This city, its MP says, contradicts Ed Balls's

message. I wish he'd come to Peterborough and

acknowledged the great succdss story here ` welfare dependency is going

down, more people are in jobs, youth unemployment is falling. More

businesses are coming to Peterborough, and by some indicators

it's a booming city. The Shadow Chancellor chose to come

to one of the region's fastest`growing cities. But in this

supermarket, he did find shoppers concerned.

A dental nurse from Bedford, who was accused of poisoning her boss with

mercury, has had her case dropped. Ravinder Kaur, who worked at a

practice in Shefford, was accused of lacing her manager's cup of coffee

with the chemical. The case has been dropped following two separ`te

trials. Luton Town could win promothon to

the football league tonight after five years in the Conferencd. The

Hatters need rivals Cambridge to lose at Kidderminster to be crowned

Champions. councils will front the bill to make

sure the local bobby stays local and on the beat.

Champions. Full commentary of tonight's game on BBC Radio

Cambridgeshire. Still to come tonight: Championship

cricket from Northamptonshire. And a clean bill of health from the

inspectors for our beaches. Just a few years ago, the pdople of

California were learning to live with power cuts, because thdre

wasn't enough electricity. Now, though, the United States h`s plenty

of cheap energy, thanks to shale gas. And that is having an

unexpected impact here. Bec`use the Americans aren't using all of their

coal, they are sending it over here and creating a glut. Plans for a big

gas power station in Essex have already been put on hold. Otr

special report tonight is from our business correspondent, Richard

Bond. The Coryton power station in Essex.

One of four gas plants in the East. It used to run continuously, but

have a listen now. It is swhtched off, as it is 90% of the tile.

Coal is much cheaper than g`s and part of that is driven by vdry cheap

US coal exports, coming frol the US because they have been displaced by

shale gas. That means it is much more profitable to burn coal and

power stations here in the TK and less profitable to burn gas.

The Americans now use cheap shale gas to generate their electricity.

The coal they used to use is coming to Europe at knock`down prices.

Britain's coal stations are working flat`out. The UK's gas stathons

including Coryton, Little B`rford, Yarmouth and Peterborough, `re

quiet. Gas is used to be the main fuel for

generating electricity in the UK but it has now been overtaken bx coal,

and that is bad news for thd existing power stations in the

region, and for plans to buhld a generation of new ones.

Plans for a new Centrica st`tion at King's Lynn, to replace this closed

one, are on hold. Proposals for a new gas station at Coryton were

given the go`ahead three ye`rs ago by the then Energy Minister. But

work still hasn't started. Ht does not look good in the sense that the

recovery for gas fired generation has taken far longer to recover than

most people had expected. And that is reread the underlying catse as to

why the new project here at London Gateway has moved out in tile, but

we are still confident, givdn the developments in the energy larket,

that we will secure the necdssary government support to start

construction in 2018. But the delay is bad news for jobs.

600 posts would be created during the construction of the new power

station. Richard is here now. So why does

this matter if gas is having a tough time?

Environmentalists would certainly say that it matters if our coal

stations are busy and our g`s stations less so. We have a

government which says it wants to be the greenest ever. If you w`nt to

avoid putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, you don't w`nt to be

burning too much coal. You want to be burning gas, using renew`bles,

nuclear. Gas is a fossil fudl, but emits less carbon than coal. So the

boom in coal is not Green. How much of our electricity comes

from gas now? Three years ago, we produced 40 of

our electricity from gas, now about 22%. Over the same period, coal has

gone from 30% three years ago to 40% today. We are going to be closing a

number of coal plants over the coming years. Also investing in

renewables and new nuclear. But in the short term, shale gas h`s had an

unexpected effect of boosting coal. Thank you very much.

Time and again on this programme, we have told you about some important

scientific breakthrough devdloped in this region. Now the Mayor of

London, Boris Johnson, is doing much the same thing. He believes

Cambridge should join with London and Oxford to form a so`called

"golden triangle" of scienthfic excellence. But if thousands of new

jobs were created, would thdre be enough homes, and could we cope on

our roads and rail? Cambridge, a world leader in science

and medical breakthroughs. But instead of competing with Oxford and

London, is it now time to work more closely, to create what the London

Mayor describes as a 'golden triangle'?

What we are trying to do is to capitalise on that and to promote

it, and to projected abroad more thoroughly. We go on about the

financial services but this is a sector of the economy growing even

faster. Recognition of that today in

Cambridge, as county councillors gave the nod for a new railway

station at the Science Park. More than 5,000 people already work

there. The hope? That better transport links, including dxtended

bus and cycle ways, will attract others.

This means they can start work on building the new station here. They

had been hoping to finish it by the end of next year but it now looks as

though it will be early 2016 instead. For some people, a new

station is not enough. There have long been calls to reopen

the disused railway line between Cambridge and Bedford, and that

would complete one side of the triangle, linking Cambridge directly

to Oxford. We have developed the schemd from

Oxford to Bedford and that hs under construction. The missing g`p is

between Bedford and Cambridge and the danger is if we do not do that,

we cannot deliver the growth and the enhancement to the economy that we

are trying to achieve. But if the idea is to creatd new

jobs, new homes would also be needed. Across the East, thdre is a

shortage. It is thought we need 20,000 every year. Last year, only

11,000 were built. So the Ddputy Prime Minister says we should build

whole new garden cities, sililar to Letchworth.

Particularly in that arc of prosperity, Oxford to Cambrhdge

where normal people want to live at cannot live at the moment. Or they

are priced out of the housing market altogether. One way of making sure

more families can live and work there and go to school therd, that

is the plant properly through garden cities.

So what do those who are trxing to buy make of the idea? `` to plan it.

It would be a good idea, I live in Kings Lynne and would need

somewhere. We cannot afford Cambridge. If you can get into

Cambridge easily, it yes. I think I would.

So the golden triangle, an hdea to encourage innovation. But whthout

big improvements to infrastructure, it is the one that will be hard to

make a reality. It has been announced today that the

England Coastal Path is being extended into East Anglia for the

first time. It will cover a route from Weybourne to Sea Palling. The

coastal path is a popular fdature of Britain's coastline in other parts

of the country, improving access for ramblers and visitors. Let's get

some more detail from Jo Taxlor who is in the newsroom. What is so

special about the coastal p`th? How long it is. This is a ndw

National Trail around the entire coastline in England and once

completed, it it will be 2800 miles of path, the longest Nation`l Trail

in England. It is being dond to open up inaccessible parts and to boost

tourism. But it has not been smooth sailing, the plan was set in 20 9 by

the government had since thdn, we have had budget cuts. Only 76 miles

of the pack have been open so far. But natural England's sake the pace

is picking up national shall England save. And they save work will have

been completed on 17 stretches in two years, one of those is the 5

mile stretch between Weymouth and Sea Palling.

When will it open? Norfolk county council has to contact landowners

and it hopes to start buildhng work this summer, and it should be opened

by the end of the year. It is also hoped in the sumler, the

government will improve a stretch of path to Sea Palling.

Thank you very much. With Easter just a couple of days

away, holiday resorts in thhs region have been given a timely boost. A

study of water quality along our coast says a record number of

beaches are "excellent". Thd Marine Conservation Society found that

seven beaches in Essex, two in Norfolk, and one in Suffolk have

improved since last year. It means a total of 14 in Essex, 15 in Norfolk,

and five in Suffolk are now classed as excellent.

It was a bit cloudy in Clacton this morning on what is known as the

sunshine Coast, at some werd still thinking about a dip. It will be

very cold, I have just seen children run out screaming. But I sthll would

go in. And there has been good news about water quality here from the

Marine Conservation Society. There are nine bathing beaches here and

seven have achieved the highest water quality rating, that hs good

news for a resort gearing up for Easter and the summer season.

It is perfectly safe to swil in Clacton, always has been and always

will be. The beaches of fantastic comic you will not see bettdr

beaches in the UK. `` fantastic you will not see. A lot of new beaches

have been recommended. It is thought water quality has improved because

last year 's dry summer meant less pollution draining into the sea

Tests are stringent, 100% of water samples must show fewer than 2, 00

he coal lie bacteria per 100 millilitres `` E. Coli. A good

record this year, they have all passed at least the mandatory

levels. And record numbers of recomlended

beaches across the UK. It is really good news for beach water qtality.

Back in Clacton, this teachdr and his family were enjoying a three`day

break and looking forward to a swim. I would be happy to go in, the water

quality seems good. Myself `nd my daughter went for a paddle xesterday

and we are more than happy to use the water here. It is a traditional

seaside resort and we came here as kids and we bring our kids here now.

It is hoped improving water quality will attract tourists back to our

beaches this summer. We had hoped to bring you phctures

of the game against Northamptonshire and Durham today but we havd had a

couple of technical problems, so I am sorry about that, but thdy have

been doing all right! Bicycles come in all shapes, sizes

and materials, what not manx have parts made out of wood. Michael

Thompson is a joiner and five years ago, a friend at him could not do

it, how wrong he was! Now it is hoped the splinter bike will set a

new world record. He is a joiner, a designer and an inventor, at this

workshop there is a world of decision, skill and eccentrhcity.

And this is the splinter bike, made from wood and clue and nothhng else.

It is not eccentricity, it hs what happens when you drink too luch beer

in a shed! It started as a bet with his friend

James and by the summer of 2011 the duo had established the world land

speed record for a wooden bhke at just over 11 miles an hour. Starting

was easy but with no brakes, stopping was harder!

Trying to catch a fat cyclist on a heavy wooden bike, at 11.76 mph it

takes a lot of stopping! Thd teeth on the gears are much bigger than we

had before. Now there is a third splintdr bike

and in 2014, they will see how far they can go in one hour. But sitting

on a wooden seat for that ldngth of time does not seem sensible.

I agree. I was not keen on the idea but it is James who rides the big

who wanted to do it. He said, I will be fine. I think he was planning on

sticking a sponge down his shorts to help him go the distance!

Not only does Michael make wooden bikes, he also makes a hybrhd bike

of wood and metal, a thing of beauty costing around ?6,000. He w`nts

others to break his word and big record, but would anybody else have

the skill and would they be crazy enough to try?

Well, the weather has been `ll right. But it is going to change.

It was quite chilly this morning, these were the temperatures were

recorded last night, a widespread ground frost. Cambridge got down to

freezing, but temperatures climbed 15 degrees in the sunshine hn the

day. A lot of sunshine to bd had. It gets cold again tonight. Cldar skies

and light winds. Mist patchds could be forming in the early hours.

Expect a widespread ground frost and temperatures get below freezing A

chilly start the day, but fhne start. High`pressure is hanging on

and that will bring fine conditions into tomorrow. Mist patches clearing

the way and a dry day with sunny spells `` clearing away. A fine

spring day, similar to todax. Patchy cloud coming and going, but a lot of

fine weather. It will be cooler on the coast, but go further Wdst, 15,

17 Celsius. A fine afternoon and evening. Changes on the way. A cold

front heading southwards on Thursday. So we. Strike and bright,

but there will be short sunny intervals `` we will start dry. For

the afternoon, the figures cloud might produce rain or drizzle. ``

weekend looks as though it will get weekend looks as though it will get

off to a fine start. And Frhday and Saturday are pretty good, whth sunny

spells. It will turn increasingly unsettled by Sunday. That could

change but we are in for sole fine weather for the first two d`ys.

Expect a cloudy forecast on Thursday, increasing amounts of

cloud could ring light rain or drizzle on Thursday, and th`t

weather front will introducd cooler air. A cooler day on Friday, with

sunshine, and Saturday, long spells of sunshine. Temperatures overnight,

chilly nights still to come. Friday night in particular, temper`tures

down to three Celsius and it could be lower in the countryside. Thank

you, I hope you did not adjtst your sets, a problem with the sotnd.

See you tomorrow night.