03/09/2014 Look East - West

Securing the future ` the towns reinventing themselves to mdet

Targetting the abusers ` the police force out to stop

We will be hit with treasurd which belonged to a Roman aristocrats 2000

years ago. It is discovered under a street in Colchester. We discuss the

revolution in women's crickdt with the England captain.

The towns and cities turning from traditional manufacturhng to

technology in order to secure their futures.

The East already houses sevdral centres of scientific excellence.

Cambridge is a world leader in fields such as computing

Stevenage is a hub for pharmaceutical research

and Milton Keynes is also b`sed around new technology.

The industries have allowed these places to weather the recession

Now Northampton and Peterborough have decided they can't afford to be

In a moment the changes being made in Northampton.

But first Emma Baugh reports from Peterborough.

Meeting the boss at his new billion pound plus company.

Tim Wilson is one of 11 graduates being taken on city

wide as a paid intern ` a chance to develop the company and himself

During university, you are taught theory and trust strategy and it

Israeli different in realitx. To gain the experience, being `ble to

amalgamate the two will be invaluable. `` it is really

different. We bring in more technical people and research based

people. This opportunity has proved very timely for us. They sax they

offer careers in innovation and technology. Peterborough is a

changing city. We haven't h`d a higher education presents and now we

have a university, graduates in the city and businesses are enjoying

that talent. At Peterborough, the 11 graduates, chosen from 700, found

out more about their jobs. Their companies pay around half their

salaries for six months and the government is stumping up the rest

to improve the city's skill sets. The funding has created a role that

wouldn't be available withott that additional funding. We are paying a

fraction of the cost. It allows us to provide that role with the ``

without the full risk of crdating a permanent position for them. He

hopes what he learns he could benefit him and the city.

Now let's take a look at wh`t's happening in Northamptonshire.

Here the county is planning to create 32,

One way it hopes to do that is to encourage small businessds

Well today saw the topping out ceremony at Northampton's ndw

Innovation Centre which it's hoped will be home to 46 new businesses.

A new iconic landmark for Northampton.

That's what this Innovation Centre promises to be.

It's costing ?8.5 million but crucially with room for up to

46 companies, it has the potential to create over 300 new jobs.

We are looking for more start`up companies starting up in anx area.

What we are providing here hs the opportunity for small busindsses,

low`cost start`up and we ard here to support that kind of innovation.

Businesses here will also h`ve access to all the research

and development facilities `t the university, a link set to bdcome

even stronger once its new campus opens in the Enterprise Zond.

And this building, perhaps lore than any other symbolises Northalpton's

Northampton has been recognhsed for what we have done to divershfy the

economy and it is important because you need a different sector of lots

of different types of jobs so if you see economic problems, you can

survive that and come out of it the other end.

We have a cross`section of jobs whether it is the financial subjects

Attempts have been made to laximum this projects local benefit.

We are a local contractor operating out of Rushton.

We have our supply chain and subcontractors and that will move

to anything up to 150 local people coming in over the 18 months that

With the topping out ceremony complete, the search now begins

for the businesses who will base themselves here

Our business correspondent Richard Bond is in our newsroom

Why are Northampton and Petdrborough keen to develop these industries?

They have great manufacturing industries. The fact is

manufacturing doesn't emplox the numbers of people it did ye`rs ago.

They have had to diversify their economies. They have had sole

success and have a decent shde `` sized service sector. There is scope

to develop their high`tech dconomy. There is a long way to go bdfore

they reach the likes of Cambridge. In Cambridge, one in four workers

work in life sciences. In the country, it is more like ond in

eight. How easy will it be to attract these industries to

Northampton and Peterborough? It will be a great challenge. The easy

bit is building the business park. The hard bit is attracting be high

calibre individuals who you need to run a knowledge based econoly. It

took Cambridge 30 years to develop what it now has.

As the authorities in Rotherham face criticism for their lack of action

over the thousands of young people groomed for sex, Cambridgeshire

Police have given Look East exclusive access to their unit which

actively seeks out the gangs exploiting vulnerable children.

Other forces are now following Cambridgeshire's lead

as our Home Affairs Correspondent Sally Chidzoy reports.

Two of this sexual attackers have been jailed for a total of 81 years

and they are the first of m`ny being targeted by police in

Cambridgeshire. This is Lincoln Road in Peterborough where policd have

previously concentrated thehr efforts on tracking down thd groups

who groom young girls for sdx. The Cambridgeshire police appro`ch is

different to what has happened in Rotherham. They target thosd groups

and nail them down. We need to recognise that a young girl of 3 or

14 who may be showing risky behaviour, they exploit thel. Two

years ago, social workers ddcided to go looking for potential victims of

these groups. That young girls they found were given the confiddnce to

speak and their forces were heard. What they said led to `` let the

police to their abusers. I was saying I didn't want to do ht. In

Peterborough, it is not hard to find people who have seen girls being

abused by older man. I have seen a young girl being held in a flat

being slapped, beaten, monex taken of her, not letting her leave the

flat. When I was homeless, H met a few young girls in homeless hostels

and they were telling me th`t they had a sugar daddy. He would give

them money but they would obviously have to do favours for them. In

Cambridge, they have increased the number of officers working on the

cases. We are developing cases and looking at the recommendations that

have come out of that. I thhnk we are far better equipped to recognise

and proactively deal with these types of investigations. We are

intent on stamping out and eradicating child exploitathon in

Peterborough together with the police. It is those close working

relationships with the police that have assisted us in bringing those

criminals to justice. Four new sexual exploitation cases are being

investigated and could end tp in court.

Outside the Glamis Hall day centre, one

topic dominates the conversation.

These people who use it are worried the hall's future remains uncertain.

If they close this place, a great number of people, including

myself, will be prisoners in our own home and all you faced with is

In June Wellingborough Council said the centre would have to close `

because running and repair costs were too hhgh.

But after 10,000 signed a pdtition, councillors have agreed to rethink

Campaigners say that's not dnough ` and they may yet launch

We were hoping they would reverse that decision and kdep the

building open until November next year so we could take some time to

form a community organisation and keep the day centre open for its

Wellingborough Council says it costs ?170,000 a year to run the hall

And they say it needs around ?200,000 worth of repairs.

We always said the building has finished its working life and it

is not the council's responsibility to run daycare centre. We h`ve three

organisations organisations interested in running and working in

partnership. That is an improvement on what we had.

People here clearly feel strongly about keeping this hall open.

Either way the council says it will have to close at least temporarily

for up to two months for essential building work to be done.

As to its long term future councillors will make a dechsion

The first City of Cambridge triathlon

which was due to take place at the end of the month has been c`ncelled

The swimming leg of the competition was scheduled for

the River Cam but water testing has revealed unsafe levels of e.coli

and the presence of Weil's Disease which can be fatal.

It's thought heavy rain may have caused the pollution.

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.

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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.