25/10/2016 Look East (West)

as one company says it won't expand here following the Brexit vote.

This plan has now changed and we are looking to create these

Crisis in our emergency departments - we investigate why so many people

A warning about flammable Halloween costumes -

Strictly host Claudia Winkleman tells us about her

Just patting and patting and patting it, but it kept...

It was like one of those horrific birthday candles that you blow out

And it's always rude to ask a woman her age,

so I'm not going to, but you can guess, and I guarantee

First tonight, the company taking its expansion overseas

because the UK voted to leave the European Union.

Encocam is a hi-tech firm from Huntingdon.

It needs to recruit dozens of skilled engineers to fuel

its growth in the years ahead, but it's found fewer EU migrants

are applying for jobs here since the referendum,

so it's decided to expand in Poland or Spain instead.

Here's our business correspondent Richard Bond.

Britain's vote to leave the EU has given business

Encocam, of Huntingdon, has had more to ponder than most.

It makes crash barriers and dummies used by the car industry.

It wanted Britain to remain in the EU.

Now we are leaving, it has decided to expand elsewhere.

We were planning to create 120 new jobs here in Huntingdon.

This plan has now changed and we are looking to create these

It means these plans to expand Huntingdon will be shelved.

The 180 jobs on site are not at risk, but the firm has found

fewer EU workers have applied for vacancies since referendum.

People are worried about what is going to be the future for them,

so if somebody was planning to come out of their country

and going to the UK or Germany, right now they have decided

This is one of the first companies to specifically link an investment

Elsewhere, the effect has been mixed.

A drop in inward investment was predicted after the vote,

but the takeover by a Japanese firm of Britain's biggest technology

firm, ARM Holdings, of Cambridge, suggested otherwise.

The Cambridge office of commercial agents Savills says foreign

Well, certainly for the first six months of this year

Post-Brexit, we have been quite surprised by the upturn

and the level of interest from companies looking

But what we've been really interested to see as well is how

much inward investment, in terms of new business coming

Our economy is resilient, but no government wants to hear

How worrying is this decision by Encocam?

Well, some will think it is worrying to hear an engineering employer

commentating that skilled EU migrants are less ready to apply for

jobs now than they used to. In the referendum, public opinion was most

concerned about the movement of unskilled migrants from the EU into

this country and was less concerned about skilled workers. In a time

like Huntington one Parliament is very low it is not always possible

to fill vacancies with local British workers. Companies like temp three

have become reliant on skilled EU workers and the need them to keep in

line for vacancies. Is there any way around this problem? The government

wants to do a deal with the EU to allow the workers we need to come in

and live and work here. But advance to have control over the quantity

and quality is of those workers. It remains to be seen if they would do

such a deal and in the meantime there will be uncertainty for

companies like Encocam, some of which need to make important

decisions. Yesterday, we looked

at intense pressure Northampton General Hospital

is under to free up bed space, with the second

worst record in England Today, Sam Read looks

at who is arriving at A and the impact they are having

on the hospital. Another busy morning at Accident

Emergency and another But does every patient

need to be here? I got acrylics on them

and I banged it last week. Was the nowhere else you could go

other than A? I couldn't do it myself and I don't

know where the GP is. I know there should be another way

to solve the problem. Alan sometimes has

difficulty breathing. I come here are three times

a week and get it sorted. A admissions have

gone up 9% in a year. Traditionally, hospitals

prepare for a spike There is no winter

pressure any more. Our number of attendances

through A continues to climb Patients are not visiting their GPs

as much as they used to. They come straight to A

because they want instant Staff are having to cope

with unprecedented demand - people like Valerie who,

for the last two years, has had the job

of greeting patients. Since I first started,

the department has The amount of people that come

through the doors, yeah, it seems While overall demand is on the rise,

doctors are also having to deal with an increasing number

of mental health issues. We are not a specialist

mental health unit. We have had mental health teams

from our other organisations who come and help us

in A, but they have The pressure on the NHS is complex,

but hospital bosses believe there needs to be a change

of attitude among some patients if waiting times

will ever be reduced. As we saw in Sam's report,

people turning up to A with mental health problems are adding

to the strain. In our region there are over 100,000

unresolved mental health cases - Today, the Government has announced

an ?8.4 million plan, but the only people to get that

money in this area are Bedfordshire and Luton, who get two street triage

ambulance vehicles to treat mental and Hertfordshire, which gets money

to fund places of safety Earlier, I asked Steve Mallen,

who is from a mental health campaign Well, obviously, we have seen,

as per your news item, there is a significant drain on A

resources with people People that turn up at A

who are often in deep crisis, so if the are triage facilities,

more community-based, more street level which are able

to treat people in crisis it obviously should alleviate some

of the burden on A What about the 'Place of Safety'

they are getting in Hertfordshire? There is an issue at the moment

where there is not enough capacity in the mental health system in this

country for people in crisis. There are not enough beds,

there are not enough We have heard many stories

about people being shipped hundreds of miles away and so one

and so forth. So, obviously, we need more

facilities which are able to look after people who are experiencing

crisis and difficulty. So, in that sense, we must

welcome this initiative. So, why do people who are

experiencing a mental health crisis One of the problems that we have

with mental illness is that, because of the stigma surrounding

it, people often find themselves deep in crisis

before they seek help. One of the things that we really

ought to be educating our communities and schools

about is that people with problems should come forward earlier,

they shouldn't need to go to A because most mental health

problems are entirely treatable, entirely curable

with appropriate early intervention. There are too many people waiting

too long before they are in deep crisis and then turning up

at the health system. So, if you live somewhere

which hasn't got money today and you are having

a mental health crisis, where should you go,

if not A? There are many, many community

groups that exist, many charities, there are many

organisations which exist through the Public Health

Directorate of county councils and many organisations

within our region who are actually plugging the gap between what should

be happening, between family, and also between what should be

happening in the health system. Really what is happening is that

third sector, the charity organisations, are stepping

into the gap which really should be What should money be spent on,

and how much? Essentially, we obviously need

to spend more money on the treatment There needs to be more beds,

there needs to be more psychiatrists But, at the end of the day,

most mental illnesses are entirely preventable if it is

treated early on. That can be done at a community

level. That can be done through county

council Public Health Directorates. That can also be done

through the better use of the school system in order to educate and bring

people to be more aware of mental health issues so that,

essentially, they don't reach Why don't we give

the NHS less to do? That is entirely possible

with mental health. Steve Mallen, founder of the MindEd

trust, speaking earlier. BBC Radio Northampton are examining

the issues facing our hospitals throughout this week

on their Breakfast Show with Stuart A man from Milton Keynes has

admitted killing his Paul Hemming cried at

Luton Crown Court as he pleaded guilty to the manslaughter

of Natalie Hemming, the mother of their three young children,

but he denies murdering her. Natalie Hemming was

described as "lovely". A normal mum of three children,

aged three, six and ten. She lived with her partner,

Paul Hemming, at their home in Milton Keynes, but on 1st May

this year she went missing. A three-week long search began,

with police combing the forests around Milton Keynes,

and Hemel Hempstead, where she was last seen alive

at her mother's home. On 22nd May, her body was found

in woodland at Chandlers Cross, Paul Hemming is accused

of her murder, which he denies, but at the start of his trial

at Luton Crown Court today Paul Hemming wept in the dock

as the charges against When asked how he pleaded

to murdering Natalie, he replied, "Not guilty,

but guilty to manslaughter". When asked whether he had prevented

the burial of her body by hiding it in woodland,

he replied, through tears, "Guilty". The prosecution told the court that

Hemming's plea of guilty to the manslaughter of Natalie

was not acceptable and tomorrow he will stand trial for murder,

when the jury will be A man from Luton had a lucky escape

when his car almost fell in a hole Simon Marks thought it was a sink

hole at first, but it's now thought it could be a war time

air raid shelter. He had been reversing out of his

driveway when his wheel got trapped. The hole contained a ladder

stretching three metres down. And, with the help of a selfie

stick, Simon saw a room at the bottom, with

another room beyond that. And we meet Eileen, just a few days

off 105, and she's fit, It's an astonishing fact that one

in 17 people will develop a rare disease at some point

in their lives. Something that only a handful

of other people may have. The diseases mostly

take hold in childhood, Some of that research is carried out

across Europe with funding Today a summit is being

held in Cambridge, what happens now that Brexit

is only months away? Anna Todd has been

to meet four families who know what its like to live

with a rare disease. My name is Eleanor and I am nine

years old. How I feel is, happy and excited because I like to dance a

lot. Keller has sought 's syndrome, a rare genetic disorder

characterised by excessive Phyllis -- physical growth. Shikhar site

eight feet, so borrowing daddy 's shoes. She has big hands and is very

tall for a silly thing she could possibly, she will be a good 6-foot

when she is older. Every step is a battle, no one really gets it. When

we first took her to school and explained her condition nobody

understood what that was, when we got the extra diagnosis of ADHD

which is what, then, it was like everything clicked together. My name

is Erica and I am 11 years old. I am going to be doing a whole week of

skiing. I am looking forward to it. Not everything comes so easily.

There have always been difficult -- differences between Eric and other

children, he has been very fortunate that he had equal group of friends

at school who kept with him, but as he gets older the gap definitely

widens I think. Eric has a rare condition, it is a bit like autism

but does not have a name. He is the only one known to have it. Eric

being completely unique, we do not have any information to actually go

and look at to find out what lies ahead for him. My name is Lily and I

am seven. Lily has a progressive condition called mitochondrial

disease, her ability to walk unaided is long gone. I used these to help

the walk. -- to help me walk. It helped my legs because I have a

disease that is called a mitochondrial disease. Little Willow

also has this rare disease which is life limiting and has no cure but

awareness can make a world of difference. Just asking the

questions, and we are on holiday and she is calling about the beach you

will hear children often say, why she crawling? She looks too big to

be crawling. And the evidence shish them but I then go over to them and

speak to them and tell them. For remarkable children, precious and

rare. Kay Parkinson is the CEO of

the Cambridge Rare Disease Network. Late this afternoon she told why

she was worried about Brexit. My main concerns regarding Brexit

are losing money through grants, through a rise in projects that

provided money for rare diseases in ways that we have

not seen in the UK. And rare diseases need to work

pan-European wide to get patient Is there any reason why

that shouldn't continue, Of course scientists can still work

together and part of the recently had the meeting today was really

to and ensure that we all try What has happened is uncertainty,

and that is not good. We don't know, after the two years

will become out, what our position will be and therefore

it is actually halting progress, not only for the UK but for other

European countries who rely very The truth is that we have scientists

here and scientists are in Europe and all of same you are looking

to do the thing, so Brexit or no Brexit, I can see that you're

going to stop working together I have said I have just come back

from that meeting in Madrid, for a European Patient Organisation,

and we really couldn't afford because nobody knows

what our position was going to be We don't know if we can put

in a grant application now with an idea, and you see it

in the press it will be a "hard Brexit," that certain countries

are not going to make it easy for the UK, so really

we are being one step ahead here and really coordinating pur

voice so that we can ensure that the research funding and health

requirements don't stop with Brexit. So it is the not knowing that you're

worried about rather than the detail Uncertainty is halting the work

in progress that has been moving very rapidly in this sphere

and the thing up and rare disease patients, most

are life limiting, we don't The MK Dons Chairman Pete Winkleman

says it was a decision but sacking the clubs

long serving manager The Dons have suffered a hangover

from relegation last season with Robinson unable

to stop a slide down with around 200 applications already

received by the club. A day of interviews before the real

interview starts to find the next manager of MK Dons. Six long years

side by the, but 13 home games without a win and it was time for

Carl Robinson. In the chairman, I have to take these unbelievably big

decisions. This is one I did not want to have to take. There are a

lot of people who have been with me on this journey who are still here,

losing Karl, if Karel wasn't such a good manager, would be in another

place in the business but he gets the project. Just because you get it

does not mean it is always OK because that Gates shows you it's

not. Is critical MK Dons get the next managerial appointment correct.

The stadium here was designed for Premier League football, not the

bottom of League 1, and it is why so many people have already gone in

touch with the club to express an interest in the job. Currently

stands at 200 and that is within 48 hours. What kind of manager do you

go for next? There is an opportunity to do something different this time,

even with an experienced manager, which we rarely do, because it is in

the middle of the season and be absolutely have to turn it around.

However, I know what I might as well it depends if somebody catches my

eye, would I still take a risk? I'm confident that if I get that right

field from somebody that I will be a good appointment. What I am hoping

they can get that connection with somebody. Winkleman needs to find a

way to get his side back on course following this painful split.

There's lots to consider and it could take several weeks to find MK

Dons eight full-time manager. Halloween is just a few days away,

but the costumes have been And most are made

from the same material, Which means they can be very

dangerous, which is why firefighters in Bedfordshire

are going into schools To show children what to do

if their costumes catch fire. It may look like fun

but these three steps called stop drop and roll

could just save a life. Children here at this school

in Bedford are being shown the technique by local firefighters in

the hope it will keep them safe over The fancy dress outfit

and everything are quite plastic, so if they are

involved in a fire, not to remove them, because obviously that

could cause further injuries. But obviously to educate the parents

as well, to make sure

the children are not involve around flames

were any naked flames or anything

like that, or heat sources. This issue hit the headlines when TV

presenter Claudia Winkleman spoke about the burns

suffered by her daughter whose Just patting and patting

and patting her, but it kept, it was in front of her

eyes, it was like those horrific birthday candles that you blow

out and they come back. At the moment fancy dress outfits

are classified as toys and not subject to the same

safety standards as children's They are so flammable and obviously

children get excited and Today was to educate the children

that if they were with someone who was going to be involved

in fire and this was unfortunately going to happen, they

themselves knew what to do. I have been doing it in case

I catch, my clothes catch fire, I need to learn the techniques

so I would burn myself. Campaigners say safety

standards needs to be But for now, education

seems the most effective In the case of Eileen

Ash from Norwich. because Eileen is actually

older than most. In fact, in a few days'

time, she'll be 105. She's extremely fit,

funny and full of beans. Eileen Ash is very

much like the custard Very nippy, very distinctive,

and something special. Yoga is one thing which she says

health mind and body. She has been doing it for 30 years

and today with another big birthday moment looming,

they couldn't let that pass She is our Yoga Queen,

our star of small screen. It helps your brain because you have

to think, and it improves your muscles and, you know,

you just feel fit. Did you wake up

with aches and pains? We first met Eileen some years ago,

born in Highbury in 1911, In the 30s and 40s she captained

the England women's cricket team, she toured Australia, this treasure

that signed by Don Bradbury. And she still gets trespass

treatment at Lords, this snap with the recently retired cricketer

Charlotte Edwards was taken Everybody will ask

you this, what is it? What is the one thing

you think has helped I think sport, being outdoors

and active and even when I was younger I used to climb

a lot of trees. I have a little brandy occasionally,

but touchwood I am very, very lucky. Well it has been an absolute

privilege and joy to meet you. Joyous is the one word

I would use to sum up today. This is from day one,

that is why I have friends! In the company of someone they call

an inspiration and with another set of birthday candles due to be blown

out this weekend, easy to see why. I think we will see her again in ten

years! She is grey. Time for the weather.

It is a bit of a misty start to the day tomorrow. Today it was misty and

it is likely to be misty again tomorrow. Look at this photo taken

in Telstra, the autumn colours are lovely. Lots of sunshine across the

region. This stunning photograph from Milton Keynes, and another one

from Bury St Edmunds and Suffolk. The satellite shows the death of the

sunshine across the region once we got rid of the mist, we did pretty

well for fine weather with some beautiful autumn sunshine. It might

be cloudy tomorrow, we start the evening with clear sky and are

likely to see Mr Fogg developing once more and by the end of tonight

the fog patches could be Benson places. Temperatures are seven or 8

degrees, the lowest value through the night, with a lighted westerly

wind. The pressure pattern shows high pressure coming brand that Izzy

south-westerly wind, a much milder wind direction so it is likely to

stay miles through this week and closely quite settled. The mist and

fog lifting to low-level cloud. For some counties it could end up

staying cloudy and overcast day but hopefully it will break up and we

will see some brighter spells and some sunshine. Temperature wise we

will get up to 15 degrees. Looking ahead, high pressure still keeping

us pretty settled, still the wind direction west so it stays rather

mild and the outlook is pretty settled. Likely to be good dose of

sunshine on Thursday. As we get to the end of the week Friday and

Saturday are looking cloudier times, heritage is still in the mid teens

at temperatures overnight into single figures but not fall into

law. Back to you. I lean to copy over 30 years ago.

She was 75! She's incredible. Goodbye.