08/03/2017 Look East (West)

Hello and welcome to Wednesday's Look East.

Coming up in the programme tonight:

The search for Corrie McKeague comes to

Cambridgeas police fear his body may have ended up at a local tip.

and more money for science - we review what the budget

Improved help and support for victims of sexual assaults,

as a new centre opens in Hinchingbrooke.

The agony of not knowing, because when you don't know, you can still

believe. The agony is not knowing. And tomorrow will bring sunshine and

Mel temptress. Join me later for all the details.

Hello and welcome to Wednesday's Look East.

The search for Corrie McKeague comes to

Cambridgeas police fear his body may have ended up at a local tip.

and more money for science - we review what the budget

Improved help and support for victims of sexual assaults,

as a new centre opens in Hinchingbrooke.

Slowly and methodically, specially trained officers carefully rake

through waste, mindful that just below them

could lie the remains of

Nearby, a digger waits to collect it after each

Scented area is found across the site to mask the smell.

To search this area, we are using the

digger to draw out the waste, till it out on the ground carefully.

Katie Elliot from Suffolk Police has led a five-month investigation.

She was confident team will find Corrie here.

To the right, a site for household waste.

And further in, police have set up a compound with the search

teams, from which a specially built access route leads to the search

site, 920 square metre and 80 feet deep.

This is the last image of the 22-year-old a man in the early

Corrie went missing from this area of Bury St Edmunds, a rubbish lorry

made a collection from here within an hour of his disappearance.

The last movements of his mobile phone

coincided with the route the lorry took to the landfall.

Police say the error over the bins wait was made by

the waste company, who provided the data.

They say there was no intention to mislead the

Had police known at the outset about the true weight of

the bin, how different with this investigation had been?

It also begs two other questions - firstly, why did it take more

than five months for this fact to emerge?

And secondly, if Corrie was in that bin,

how can a body be taken to landfall like this and for no-one to

Frustrated by the apparent slow progress of the

investigation, Corrie's family had brought in their own intelligence

expert to sift through some of the evidence.

We would like to think that we had something to do with

From the very outset, and the family hold this opinion,

too, there should have been more work done on the bin...

We would like to think that we had something to do with

From the very outset, and the family hold this opinion,

too, there should have been more work done on the bin...

In five months, police only made one arrest.

Last week the man reported to be from the bin firm was arrested

on suspicion of attempting to pervert

Both men have been told they will face no further action.

All eyes are now focused on this landfill site near Cambridge.

Corrie McKeague's family are praying for the best,

but are now more than prepared for the worst.

Well, Alex Dunlop is still at the landfill site in Milton.

A few minutes ago, I asked him about the difference in the weight

There must be questions asked about the bin weight.

Well, it all hangs on the weight of this bin, which was

collected from the area where Corrie McKeague disappeared.

At the time, the waste disposal company said that

the contents weighed 11 kilograms, but here we are, five months on,

they've gone back to the police and said, "Actually,

we've done the number crunching, we've made a mistake.

It was pure error, but the true weight of that bin was ten

Now, if you bear in mind the average weight weight of an

adult male is between 70 and 80 kilograms, you don't need me to tell

Well, this is a large site to search, isn't it?

We are now at the end of day three of the

We could have another ten weeks to go.

I mean, police are preparing and are ready to

invest having million pounds into the search of the site alone.

You don't put that sort of money in unless you expect to get some sort

Now, if, and it is an "if," Corrie McKeague's remains are

discovered, it will then be up to a pathologist to decide how

he died and if there were any signs of

I think we should stress this is still a

Until or unless Corrie McKeague is found dead.

But certainly, I found the mood here today among officers to be

Let's not forget, Nicola Urquhart, Corrie's mother, she

herself is a police officer and she knows how these things work.

She certainly is prepared for the worst.

Phillip Hammond has unveiled his first Budget as Chancellor.

And, as expected, there's more money for the NHS,

with an extra ?2 billion earmarked for social care.

Over the next three years, hospitals will also benefit,

with ?100 million, buying in more GPs to work in A E

Science and research and development is another winner,

with ?270 million funding new technologies.

And a further ?300 million helping to create up to 1,000 PhD places.

But it was business rates that were the key concern

Jethro has run his pub in Cambridge for a decade, his business rates

more than ?20,000 a year. He feared they would go up dramatically, a

hand-out from the Chancellor however small welcome he says. Anything is a

help and yes, ?1000 is not too much help and yes, ?1000 is not too much

in the great scheme of things, but anything is a great help. A smooth

rate process, that's what the Chancellor has promised. With price

caps and a hardship fund for smaller businesses. The Government says this

region has come out of it well. Average rates on all these areas

will fall. Only in for both PC and increase and then only by 50%. A

Government criticised for an unfair system. Today, a pledge to spread

the burden. The Chancellor also announced setting up a review into

what the digital -based companies pay, because at the moment, it is

those who have a physical shop or where has our factory premises that

piggy rates. Rates are at Calgary did on the amount businesses pay and

the area they cover. They can vary from business to business, Street to

street and Tenterden. At the shop in Bedford, they are expecting their

rates to fall, but in tough times, they would like the amount they paid

to drop even further. I would quite to drop even further. I would quite

frankly have liked him to raise the threshold up a bit higher before you

paid any business rates, but I accept there is not enough money

around. I'm just pleased he's giving some money back to people who must

been really frantic worrying about their businesses. This recalculation

of rates had caused concern across our region. Thousands of businesses

here will have to dig deep and pay more.

The rising cost of social care has been providing a headache

People are living longer, but they often have more

Our Health Reporter Nikki Fox has been looking at what

British from Essex lives with her husband Ronald, who is diabetic and

has angina. Carers visit the house twice a day. At the moment, their

allowance covers their care costs, but from April, they will have to

the weight was generous, but it is the weight was generous, but it is

changing because they can no longer afford it. We cannot find another

?40 a week. Something will have to go. It's probably less care. Which

as you have probably seen would be very, very difficult. It is clear

budget cuts having impacts, so today, an announcement of extra

money. Today I'm committing additional grant funding of ?2

billion to social care in England. ?1 billion that will arrive in the

next financial year. One council leader is quite the optimistic, but

wants to decide how to spend it. Clearly, it will have an impact, but

Devon has always will be in the detail. -- the devil. How do we

reassess how that funding is allocated, that detail is still to

be worked out. The money will go to the NHS to reduce bed blocking. It

is at record levels in the east. Care homes like this one say with

some of the funding, they could help. With a 25% reduction in the

number of people receiving care in the last five years, we do not know

what has happened to those people. They may have had to go into

hospital and perhaps if they had been investment in care services,

the NHS crisis could be lower and people would not have had to go into

hospital. The Government has promised a future funding

consultation, but some said the discussion needs to be quicker and

wider. We cannot escape from the impossible pressures that the system

is under embassy take a more fundamental look at the Hall says

some, the whole health and care system. Reductions are already

affecting people like Patricia and Ronald, and the unlikely to be

dancing in the streets. Matthew Winn is the Chief Executive

of Cambridgeshire Community His role is to provide health care

closer to patients' homes and covers large

parts of the region - The Chancellor has ring fenced ?2

billion per social care, you know the pressures on the system in a

region. Will this really make a difference? Every pound is going to

help in sorting out how we fund and how we support lots of older people

to live at home better. I think the problem arises when we rely very

much on Purley paid minimum national levels, home carers, Kerry is in

care homes and that is where the line shared this money may end up

going. We need to give them the rate pay rises to attract the great

workforce so we can do that. It is really detailed and essential work

to support people better in their own homes. The Government has says

this money will allow them to act now to commission new care packages,

that must be a good thing? Of course it is a good thing. The reality is

that local Government Association 's have predicted that at the same time

that this extra money has been announced, their problem is probably

nearer ?6 billion. This is scratching the surface and has to be

welcomed, more packages have to be brought out for people living in

their own homes, but we have to tackle the fundamentals of long-term

funding in social care and if the Government carry on with their work

into the autumn to do a green paper and the tip cross-party consensus,

we would all be overjoyed about that. What about the ?100 million

earmarked for more GPs in A E. In January, nearly all of REM teesra in

black alert. We anticipate about ?1 million of that will go to each

hospital to do enabling works for better facilities for better care to

be provided. I am here in without model works really well in

partnership with social care and mental health providers. The problem

arises because it is not just about GPs. They need to be in their

surgeries providing really good day care services. We need to find in

the health service the balance of where to be one really well

educated, well skilled people to be spending their time? At the front of

A E entered GP surgeries? That needs to be the challenge of the

Thank you very much for joining us Thank you very much for joining

Thank you very much for joining us this evening.

Well, let's catch up with our Political Correspondent Andrew

this budget? First of all, it is this budget? First of all, it is

clear that the Chancellor has had to do a better firefighting today.

There was a big problem developing over business rates, he had to throw

money at that. There was a big row developing over social care, he

threw money that. There are all be pressures on hospitals reported all

winter, all the pressures on A E. He has thrown money at that as well.

Apart from that, the general consensus is that this has been a

rather dull budget. There were no dramatic announcements today. Labour

say he should have used the surplus he has to help those who are

suffering from posterity, but the Government says that with Brexit

looming, now is not the time to splash the cash. Whether any local

Buster Bagnall, there were not. The Buster Bagnall, there were not. The

local detail will emerge in the weeks and months to come. We know

there will be more money from local road schemes. That money will be

given to local councils will hear about that at some stage in the

future. Big announcement that jumped out for me was the extra ?270

million for research and development. The Government is very

keen as Brexit looms that pits were very little money it has entered the

things we are good at. When it comes to research and development, the

Chancellor spoke about space and biotech research, those are all

things which go on a lot in our region. I have been told to note

that we can expect a fair share of that money to be coming our way.

There is always bad news buried somewhere among the budget, have you

found it yet? There is one that row developing tonight which concerns

national insurance contributions by self-employed people. The Government

is going to increase those contributions. It is only by 60p a

week, but this is causing controversy on two fronts. It was a

Conservative manifesto pledge at the last election not to raise national

insurance and secondly, it is being seen as an attack on entrepreneurs.

We have a lot of self-employed people in the region. Tonight, you

could as saying that the Government has turned its back on weight than

men and women. The Government says it is only read that put the

employed and the self play pay the same when it comes to these

contributions, but this is a road that is going to develop. Thank you,

You're watching Look East from the BBC.

And why Bedfordshire is at the forefront

of a new campaign to fight liver disease.

A pioneering sexual assault referral centre

has been officially opened at Hinchingbrooke Hospital today.

The Elms aims to put the victim first

by focusing on their health and wellbeing,

while at the same time gathering evidence for prosecution.

Louise Hubball has been to take a look around.

Opened today by Baroness Newlove, the Government's

Her husband, Gary, was murdered ten years ago.

For her, this new centre for such a assault

victims is a national model, merging police and medical care under one

So, I think it works very well, because there is nothing worse

It means having the strength to go and visit another place to

speak to another individual, where this builds on the relationship.

This is from the victims' perspective.

This whole centre is focused on the victim.

There are examination rooms with those who

have just been attacked, and also homely counselling spaces.

This young women was raped and has been

supported by a similar referral centre.

Words, spoken by an actor, to protect her identity.

There was a nurse and a support worker.

They made me feel at ease and examined me.

The room we are in now, it's beautifully furnished.

There are flowers, how much a difference does

that kind of thing make when having to go through something

You need to feel in aplace that is warm and relaxing and right.

You don't want to be in a dreary room, where there's nothing

It'll just make you feel more low and scared.

What do you think about the new centre here?

The purpose here is to help victims cope and recover.

The presence of a video link system means they can also give evidence

By having a court link room within the facility, it

actually means that we can bring them into an environment where they

are still feeling comfortable and calm and hopefully have some

confidence around the support system that's in place.

So, the importance of that is that they can give the

The results of a specialised section for children.

Whatever the age of those who have been abused,

the goal to allow them to rebuild their lives.

Every year more than 200 people are admitted

to hospital in Bedford with liver disease.

A fifth of cases are alcohol related.

premature death rate from liver disease

So today, members of the public have been

offered free scans to test for early signs.

Kate Bradbrook has been to meet one man

Living and working with liver disease, Anthony Richardson is 54

and from Bedford. As a teenager, he used needles to take drugs and in

later life, well working as a prison officer, turned to drink to deal

with the stress. It took its toll. Alcohol destroys your lover as well.

It also destroys normal life. It destroyed my marriage, it ended me.

I lost everything. I was homeless. I ended up with no real hope. In the

last four years, Anthony has turned his life around and no work here at

this charity. I'm 54, I changed my life at 50. I wish I had listened to

what friends, family, doctors had been saying to me a lot earlier.

Here at Bedford Hospital today, staff and members of the public like

Anthony are being tested for liver disease to try and spot the signs

early. It shouldn't hurt. We are creating a wave on the patient's

skin of the liver and measure how quickly that we've transmits across

the liver. If we have a soft, normal liver, the wave takes an increased

time to pass through the liver. Risk factors include diabetes,

recreational drug use and access alcohol consumption, but there are

others. I'm not concerned about my drinking, but I thought I had excess

sugar in my diet, so I thought I would pop down. What did they tell

you? Really please, not abuse sugar anyway. Liver disease is known as

the silent killer. It is important to have test like this. We have

chose science, because there is a much higher rating of liver disease

in Luton and Bedford for the call of the east of England. Anthony has now

begun a new chapter, having made simple lifestyle changes. Around 90%

of cases are preventable and the hoped his stories like as will

encourage others to seek help sooner.

This week we've been looking at the issues

And tonight we meet a group of children

who're trying to make a difference in Bedford.

Every weekend the team, helped by their parents,

prepare food and distribute unwanted clothes to those in need.

Gareth Lloyd from Three Counties radio went to meet them

and made this film for our Facebook page.

take-up. My name is severe. My name take-up. My name is severe. My name

is Jacob. I feel very sorry for them. If you

would like to have a look at that home, you can do so on our Facebook

page. Let's have a look at

the forecast now with Alex. We can enjoy some fairly mild

temperatures of the last few days and you may have noticed that melt

filtered things throughout the course of the afternoon. This

frontier Protestant rain area today, but also great weather. The quoted

Tenterden and bakes some parts of the region. Lots of clouds still

here. Beautiful blue sky here. Some blue sky evident in Bedfordshire and

some sunshine. As we start the evening, we have clear sky around,

but as we have the smiles are here weather, it will not get to Chile.

Expecting lows of around 730 is through the night. Thicker cloud

across southern candies. Perhaps the odd spot of light rain or drizzle.

Looking mostly dry for much of the region tonight. Starting tomorrow on

a mild note. This weather system moving out the way. It is still to

be served, but shouldn't spoil things. A brisk breeze tomorrow, but

looking like we will enjoy fine weather and feeling mild as well.

With the sunshine and temperatures up to the mid-teens, it should feel

quite pleasant. A bit of a brisk wind coming from the surplus

initially and turning into a more westerly direction by the afternoon.

It is fine through the afternoon. Overnight once more a mild night

that follows. Change on the way, Friday has a pressure pattern

showing a weather system coming in from the West. Looking unsettled by

the weekend, there will be some rain around. Mostly dry for Friday, but

into the weekend itself, although there will be some sunshine, a bit

of rain around at times and it will of rain around at times and it will

certainly look cooler as we go through the weekend. Friday looking

cloudy generally, slightly cooler and it shouldn't rain for much of

the day. That weather system eventually coming in late in the day

on Friday. The chances are we'll start to see rain Western counties

into the evening and overnight and it could be a damp start to the

weekend. Mostly dry through much of Saturday. Rain turning up later in

the day and asked for a Sunday, there could be some showers around

during the day, but also sunshine. Those temperatures dropping away so

good idea, into cooler nights after the mild temperatures of tonight and

tomorrow. That's all from us here

in Cambridge tonight. I'll be back with the late

news at 10:30pm this evening, but until then

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