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Hello and welcome to Look East. Wednesday's headlines here. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
?13 million lost, as Corby Council says it | :00:09. | :00:09. | |
will not try to recover the overspend on its new building. | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
They lost control of the project and allowed costs to spiral. | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
We are no not going to be able to recover this ?13 million, | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
which is an enormous loss for the people of Corby and the | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
A booming young population in Peterborough, | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
We speak to the designer of the iconic '70s children's bike. | :00:25. | :00:36. | |
And how long as the beautiful weather going to last? Join me later | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
to find out. won awards for its design and has | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
become a Corby landmark. But building the Corby Cube cost | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
the taxpayer ?13 million Now Corby Borough Council | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
has publicly admitted that they are writing off that debt | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
and will no longer actively Opposition politicians have dubbed | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
the whole affair "appalling" and say the council "lost control | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
of the project". The icon has come at a cost. After | :01:09. | :01:28. | |
years of wrangling, the Council have decided they have no chance of | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
getting back the ?13 million overspend. The Administration | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
managed the project appallingly. The lost control of it and allowed costs | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
to spiral. We will know not get the money back, which will be enormously | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
damaging for Corby and the surrounding villages. Not | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
surprisingly, the news is not condone well. Ridiculous. They could | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
have used the money for extra housing. There should be a | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
full-scale enquiry. They seem to think they can use people's money in | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
any way the world. Nearly seven years after it opened, parts of the | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
building have still not been finished. The top floor was going to | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
be a restaurant. Then plans were revealed for it to be turned into | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
offices, but no one has moved in yet. In a previous statement, they | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
said the feelings or so we are with other parties connected with the | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
Corby Cube. They see them is insufficient evidence to show that | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
the conduct of the parties is the sole problem with the overspend. | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
They say that lessons have been lay. They had this to say about | :02:51. | :03:01. | |
large-scale programmes. We realise that these big scale projects on | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
teams do not come in on time and on budget. We are realistic about that. | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
It is not the first overspend. The Cambridge gated bus was over ?60 | :03:14. | :03:22. | |
million over budget. The gated bus for Luton was over ?6.5 million | :03:23. | :03:32. | |
overspend. And the abbey was over ?1.4 million overspend. And over ?2 | :03:33. | :03:41. | |
million was spent on the solar farm project, which was then shelved. I | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
can Corby, the Corby Cube is the centre of the regeneration, but it | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
does ask a question of whether councils like Corby should again | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
undertake such huge projects. So, why do councils | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
overspend like this? I asked an expert in local | :03:59. | :03:59. | |
government, from the London School of Economics, Professor Tony | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
Travers. Of course, big projects do not | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
come around very often, so whereas councils will | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
be relaying roads or putting up streetlights or mending | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
schools, in some cases, quite regularly, they will not be doing | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
that with major theatres or big projects very often | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
and there is just always the risk that that the skills needed to do | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
those are less present Is it also that council offices | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
and councillors are also not really qualified to deal | :04:20. | :04:36. | |
with the financial arrangements necessary for these | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
large-scale projects? I think, in fairness to councils, | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
they often get it right. We have seen examples of tramways | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
that run over budget or big But central government also gets | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
them wrong at scale, as well, So there is a wider public | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
sector problem here, but occasionally, councils do get it | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
wrong and not only in places Is there enough good quality advice | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
available to councils when they have taken | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
on this kind of thing? The question of advice is a crucial | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
one, because obviously councils do seek advice from various companies | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
who are used to big The problem may be that | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
all of the advisory industry, at some level, may have a vested | :05:21. | :05:30. | |
interest in big projects So, getting really good advice | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
and keeping the project motoring, when the taxpayer can | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
always step in at the end, is a little different from me | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
or you getting some work done on Should local councile | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
with a lower council tax take lower their expectations and not | :05:46. | :05:56. | |
take on these big projects? The problem is that | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
councils, who have the are ensuring it is attractive to | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
look at, has good facilities and has things that makes people want to go | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
there, to invest in business and to live there, they do | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
have to undertake these Nor have town centres left we did | :06:11. | :06:31. | |
not do that in the past. The trouble is, getting the expertise. Getting | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
all that expertise in one place is more difficult and may become more | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
difficult in the years to come. A human rights committee has been | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
grilling experts on how best to manage mental health problems | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
in our prisons. A record number of people killed | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
themselves in prisons Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes had | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
the highest number of suicides, with seven prisoners taking | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
their own lives in that period. Mousumi Bakshi was watching | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
the hearing at the House of Commons It was a distinguished panel of | :06:57. | :07:12. | |
speakers from both sides of the committee. The mother of Stephen | :07:13. | :07:21. | |
Lawrence. Harriet Harman. It is about the ability of the prison | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
service to deal with mental health issues. Around 70% of the prison | :07:25. | :07:35. | |
population has some sort of personality disorder. At one point, | :07:36. | :07:45. | |
two of the presence in the region were described as toxic. These | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
included Woodhill Prison. Prisoners expensive and ineffective. It does | :07:54. | :08:02. | |
not help quash conviction numbers. If we put people into | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
community-based provision, put them into good community projects, we | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
might have the more effective way of dealing with the problems which lead | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
people into the prison system in the first place. A more radical | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
solutions where proposed? Yes, you remember the Justice Secretary said | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
?100 million would be put into the prison service to hire more | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
officers, staff, nurses. But one key witness suggested that a specialist | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
prison be built to house some of the more critically ill inmates. People | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
who have to reoffend because of their mental health issues may have | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
to be in a more secure environment. We might be better dedicating a | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
pleasant to these people, these individuals and our people trained | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
to deal specifically with them, rather than have the situation | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
really are in the prison population amongst everyone else. More | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
witnesses will be here over the next few days. Thank you very much. The | :09:12. | :09:34. | |
former Northampton chairman has seen off a motion by the council to reap | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
the money that the loan term. Are Now, we are always hearing | :09:37. | :09:45. | |
about the challenges of an ageing population and how | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
services will cope in future. But the city of Peterborough | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
has another problem - how to support the rising number | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
of young people who live there. One in three people in Peterborough | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
is under the age of 25. It is one of the fastest-growing | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
cities in the country, with an expected growth rate overall | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
of 28% in the next decade. But the youth population | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
will grow by more than 50%. So, how is the city coping? | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
Emma Baugh reports. how do you get young people away | :10:06. | :10:28. | |
from their mobile phones? The answer, it would appear food. | :10:29. | :10:38. | |
Businesses identify the and the nightlife needs of teams. The focus | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
tends to be on older people who are more affluent. Younger people tend | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
to just fall off adults have gone. But it is not just sweet treats that | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
are helping young people. It is about schemes to help them into the | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
work place. They are getting some great experience and gaining | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
professional qualifications, as well. Has it help? It has steadily | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
been good experience. Probably a lot better than what they would of got | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
that university. It is not the same for everybody, but it was very good | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
for me. This year, a consumer group said the city was the best place in | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
the country for young people and families to move to. As you can | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
afford to buy a house, it is still one of the cheaper places in the | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
country. And for young people, there seems to be a better support | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
network. But not everyone is convinced. It needs to be something | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
like the job opportunities for young people. My husband wanted to go to | :11:53. | :12:01. | |
university. As a teenager, life is OK but rather boring. We want to do | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
as much as they possibly can. It is always difficult. We are listening | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
to what young people have to see. As the city continues to expand, the | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
challenge is to make sure the city has something for everyone and | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
retaining the young people by developing them as the city grows. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
A new foot and cycle path has opened, connecting villages in south | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
The cycleway, running along the A10 from Meldreth, cost over ?500,000 | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
and is the first project from the Greater Cambridge City Deal. | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
The aim is to provide safe, car-free routes between local rail | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
stations and key work areas like the Melbourn Science Park. | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
That is all from the team here on the west side of Look East. | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
Stay with us for our special guest - the man who invented the | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
Alex has got the weather and a new search begins in Essex | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
It's Day Three of the Look East Referendum Road Trip. | :13:03. | :13:12. | |
we are re-visiting the places we went to in June | :13:13. | :13:22. | |
to find out what people think about Brexit. | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
and last night went to Northamptonshire. | :13:25. | :13:26. | |
Tonight, we take the road to Cambridgeshire | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
where there are concerns around the availability of labour | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
While in Silicon Fen, the focus is more on where to recruit | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
Hannah Olsson is at the wheel for tonight's report. | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
On the road in the Fens, it may seem a long way | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
from Westminster but the effects of Brexit are far reaching. | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
And even here the debate over the EU is still growing. | :13:46. | :13:54. | |
7000 people in Cambridgeshire work in farming, | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
growing the food that ends up in our supermarkets. | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
8000 tonnes of leeks a year are grown by this | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
farm and they rely on migrant workers to pick them. | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
But after the Brexit vote, coming to the UK is | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
no longer the first choice for many Eastern Europeans. | :14:09. | :14:20. | |
Most of them, you know, they like to go more | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
to Europe countries, like | :14:23. | :14:23. | |
Sweden, Denmark, because Brexit and they are thinking of the future, | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
That's why they are taking a different kind of choice and the | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
After harvesting, the leeks arrive here | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
But in the future, will there be enough workers to | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
keep our supermarket trolleys full of produce? | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
We're trying to make as much as we possibly can and apply | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
technology where we can but if we can't find the jobs, | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
the workers to fulfil our jobs, we will go and find | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
the workers which means we will take our business abroad. | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
It's not just workers that farmers are | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
concerned about, there is also changes to subsidies. | :14:59. | :14:59. | |
They have got to sort out trade, where that has got to be, where the | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
Labour is going to come from so we can anticipate, from that subsidies | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
to make us more productive, more technically efficient in the future. | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
At the moment, the government has promised subsidies will be matched | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
until 2020. But after that, there are no guarantees. From farming to | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
pharmaceuticals, in Cambridge, developing drugs is big business. | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
When pharmaceutical giant moved to this camp later this year, it will | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
become one of the leading medical research centres in the wild, more | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
than 17,000 people working here. It is what we do with Brexit itself. | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
You see the building behind me represents real optimism about what | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
Cambridge can become if it is a real player in the global environment | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
which has been since its inception. There is a lot of optimism that can | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
be greeted from it as well, it is certainly not doom and gloom and you | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
don't feel that in Cambridge at all. That option -- opinion is not shared | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
by many. There are still questions what the pharmaceutical industry | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
will look like after Brexit. He at the outcomes research UK drug | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
discovery Institute, they are developing the dementia drugs of the | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
future. Like the farm, they have questions over funding and | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
immigration. They also want to make sure there are no issues with drug | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
regulations. The moment we do that wrap the whole of Europe with the | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
European medicines agency, if we lose that agency, we will have to | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
have our own process. I do not think we know at the moment what that | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
would look like. The concern that people have is that we might find | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
ourselves behind the rest of Europe in our ability to access the most | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
exciting new medicines. Keeping cross-border trials running | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
and collaborative with partners overseas is what the scientific | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
committees that is needed now to keep it in the driving seat. -- | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
scientific communities. And tomorrow night, Andrew Sinclair | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
will bring the mini to Norfolk to get the views of people | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
in fishing and farming. And a new bicycle came on the market | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
like nothing before it or since. which is the subject tonight | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
of a BBC documentary. Released in 1970, it | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
is arguably Raleigh's Motoring journalist | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
Mark Hughes got one There was just no way once | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
you've seen that as a ten-year-old kid, there was no way | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
you couldn't have that. It was just lust, that is | :17:36. | :17:46. | |
the only way you could Grown men still talk about that name | :17:47. | :18:02. | |
back. Tom Curran is the man who designed the Chopper. He is in our | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
Cambridge studio. Why do you think it became so iconic? I ought to | :18:08. | :18:16. | |
explain that in my design of it, I wanted every project to be a huge | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
success. I think the Chopper was a bit unusual in that it was a bit | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
unlike any other bike and it really caught the imagination of children. | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
I always meet people who either had one or desperately wanted one. It | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
just became a great success. We had a lot of those in our newsroom today | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
talking about it as well. What did you do to come up with the idea? How | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
did you come up with the idea, especially of the saddle? The | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
Raleigh, Raleigh needed to compete with something in America. They came | :19:03. | :19:11. | |
to me and asked me to design something which would compete with | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
this bike but had a different kind of flavour. I was very keen to make | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
it like a dragster with a big wheel at the back and a small wheel at the | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
front. I think that made it different from any other bike. It | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
had a lovely gear shift which children liked a lot and the saddle | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
was fun. It had make-believe springs on it, you may notice. It was all | :19:43. | :19:51. | |
about the looks, it was not necessarily the best bicycle to ride | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
but it was all about how it looked. It... I am not sure I am quite with | :19:59. | :20:08. | |
you. I was just talking about the fact | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
that the looks of it was so important rather than what it was | :20:12. | :20:27. | |
like as a right. -- ride. I have got one in my home, I am not answering | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
your question. I have got one in my home and it belonged to my | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
first-born who said a long time ago, early 70s and it was restored by the | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
Chopper club. I have got an 11-year-old grandson and he has got | :20:48. | :20:59. | |
his eyes on it. He drove it down my garden and went down some steps as | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
well. Get me back on track, if you will. You have invented so many | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
things as well as the Chopper. Including the also iconic marble run | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
which I think both your children and grandchildren have loved playing | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
with. I am glad you mentioned the marble run. I am so proud of that | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
because it has given pleasure to properly millions of children. -- | :21:28. | :21:37. | |
Raleigh too. I thought of it in 1970 and we made a prototype and it has | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
been running ever since. I was one of the people who love that as well. | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
Thank you so much for talking to us, Mr Karen. Thank you. | :21:51. | :22:01. | |
It's cold and dark, the shops are bursting | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
and the chances are the finalists will come from Essex, | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
Today, the search for a new star got underway in Essex on Clacton Pier. | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
# Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
# Oh, I do like to be beside the sea #. | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
If you want to find fame and fortune on reality TV, this is | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
where the X Factor journey starts - auditions in the spring. | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
Olly Murs, Matt Cardle and Louisa Johnson are all | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
In a room next door to the bowling alley, the | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
Clacton hopefuls are trying their luck. | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
I found out yesterday so I was like, why not? | :22:49. | :22:58. | |
# I'm leaning on a lamp post on the corner | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
Natalie Imbruglia could be good, I think. | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
Go on, give us a little burst of that now. | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
# I thought I saw a man brought to life | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
# He was warm, he came around like he was dignified #. | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
Waiting in the queue for more than two hours | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
is 28-year-old Toni Parker, she works for Asda and has always | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
For as long as she can remember, Toni has had a stutter | :23:29. | :23:41. | |
and would break down in tears when asked | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
No, it was always, I always used to sing a lot as a child and do | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
karaokes and everything and it was always all OK, the singing. | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
For the X Factor audition, Toni sings | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
an Alanis Morissette song called Thank You. | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
We can't film the audition itself but... | :24:01. | :24:12. | |
I have to wait either for an e-mail before I know | :24:13. | :24:28. | |
It is a long way between here and the X Factor final at Wembley | :24:29. | :24:39. | |
just before Christmas but if today proves anything, it proves that this | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
Mike Liggins, BBC Look East, Clacton. | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
He was desperate going. You could've gone on. Let's get the weather. | :24:50. | :25:01. | |
Blue sky today. 18 Celsius in Essex. Beautiful scene here in Suffolk | :25:02. | :25:12. | |
coastline and lots more lovely photograph sent in today showing the | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
fine weather. It is going to change a little bit through tomorrow, more | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
cloud around that ending the day on a clear night. It is expected to ten | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
quite misty as we go through the night, down to around six Celsius. | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
We start the day tomorrow with some mist bad thing. This weather from | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
coming in from the west will turn things cloudy. It should be a bright | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
bat for many of us, once the mist, some good sunshine, particularly | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
across eastern counties drain the morning. Across western counties, | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
the cloud coming in from the west so it is going to cloud over and it | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
will not be as warm as it was today. Up to 12, 13 Celsius. A notice or | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
breeze as well from the south-west. The evening and overnight, some | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
patchy rain but not expected to amount to very much. A splash of | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
rain for many others. And we are getting towards the end of the week | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
and into the weekend, looking unsettled. Some rain later in the | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
day on Friday, much of the day does that drive but cloudy. This is how | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
it shapes up for the next few days. We get a cold night for tomorrow | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
night, worth noting once that weather front has me through. We are | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
into cloudy forecast for much of the day on Friday with some rain | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
arriving later. Looking mostly for here in the east in the weekend, | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
temperatures lifting to mid teens. Not so much of the sunshine. | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
Thank you. We've had an e-mail to from Karen to say she was the only | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
girl who 'The UK has voted to leave | :26:46. | :27:06. | |
the European Union 'Ukip leader Nigel Farage | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
celebrated the result, 'declaring that dawn was breaking | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
on an independent nation. 'Prime Minister David Cameron is | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
expected to resign 'The pound fell sharply as the | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
referendum result became apparent, 'and traders are bracing themselves | :27:26. | :27:37. | |
for panic when the markets open. 'and England are confident | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
of advancing to the next stage 'ahead of their upcoming European | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
Championship game against Iceland.' | :27:47. | :27:50. |