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Hello and a warm welcome to Thursday's Look East.

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Eight days to save a pioneering health centre as a legal battle

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We shouldn't be doing this in public, they should

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so that residents can feel secure and know they have that service

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Early intervention - how one council's making children

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And I'm in Cambridge where the latest technology

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has revealed the face of a man who died 700 years ago.

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Plus, if you are a fan of Countdown,

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I'm here in Northamptonshire to see how your money

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is being spent by Comic Relief right across the eastern region.

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There is confusion tonight about whether an urgent care centre

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The centre treats things like broken bones, cuts,

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or sudden back pain that can't wait for your next

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available GP appointment but aren't serious enough for A

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But, as we reported last night, those that run the service say

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they aren't paid enough and will have to stop

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Those that pay for the service say if that happens they'll find

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Stuart Ratcliffe is outside the centre

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This centre was designed to relieve the pressure on Kettering's A At

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the moment, it is run by Lakeside Plus which is a private health care

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company. They are paid to run it by the Corby clinical commission or

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group, a group of five GP practices. They committed the health services

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around 73,000 people in this area and they have a total budget of

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around ?88 million. There is a real threat that a dispute, a contract

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dispute between those two it's pitting the feature of this centre

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in doubt. -- is putting the future. The row about the future of this

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centre has now become a very public At its centre, the amount paid

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to treat each patient. The managers here say they only

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get ?44.50 per patient, below the required NHS level of 57,

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and because of that, they can no longer continue

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running this service. And at a rally this morning,

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it was clear whose side I just feel that Corby Commissioning

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Group should be putting their hands in their pocket and paying a fair

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price for a good service. Very surprised and very

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disappointed when I heard the news and that

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the commission weren't paying. People of Corby need this place,

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it's been wonderful. We've well-deserved it,

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I'm Corby born and bred and we've fought a long time

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to have something here. Yesterday, when the

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management announced it couldn't run this centre

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beyond March, the Clinical their contract runs until the end

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of November, something hotly They say they have a contract

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which clearly states The CCG went on to say

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the centre will remain open Today, in an extraordinary

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twist, the centre accused the CCG of

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misinformation and spin. The wording that they've

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used in their release doesn't reflect the true situation

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and so that's what we are saying, it is misinformation

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because it is not right. It is spin because what they

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are doing is implying something that isn't

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actually accurate in terms of securing

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the future of an urgent care service

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for the population of Corby. Presumably you're talking

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to them about the transfer of the centre, are they engaging

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with you about the future The centre says because of this lack

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of communication, no plans It's a situation the

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local council says is We shouldn't be doing

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this in public, they should be sorting this out

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so residents can feel secure and know they have that service

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after March the 31st. The council has offered to mediate

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between the two sides. But there's now just days left

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for an agreement to be put in place. We did ask the CCG for an interview

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to clarify this situation but they said they could not because of the

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ongoing legal issues. They have issued a statement to in which they

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say we are working to ensure that the urgent care will not close and

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the staff who deliver the services here will remain employment after

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the 31st of March. They go on the focus remains on upholding the

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values of the NHS and ensuring provision of health care for the

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people of Corby. Thank you.

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Well, Tom Pursglove is the local MP for Corby and has been

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working with both parties to resolve the deadlock.

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He says he's convinced the centre will stay open.

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I was very reassured to hear yesterday that the urgent care

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centre will not be closing on the 31st of March,

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This is a hugely valued service in our area, in fact,

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I welcomed the Secretary of State for Health to come and visit because

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personally I think Lakeside Plus have been doing a very,

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This is a top quality service so it makes absolute sense, in my view,

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for them to continue to provide that service beyond the 31st of March

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and so I would encourage everybody to get around the table

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Because the CCG won't tell us what their contingency plans are.

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Well, I'm a little bit in the dark on this as well.

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The CCG have said to me that there will be no interruption

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in service whatever happens and I'm determined to hold them to account

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But it does seem patently obvious to me that the best way

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forward is to settle these contractual disputes that there are

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at the moment because Lakeside Plus have been doing a very good job.

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Does it worry you that lots of money is being spent on lawyers and

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contractual battles that could be spent on care?

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I always think that if you can avoid going to lawyers

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that is absolutely the best thing to do.

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What I want to see is as much money as possible spent on

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We've seen quite significant increases in the health

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spending budget from government during this parliament

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I'm not complacent, there's always more to be done.

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But rather than spending money on lawyers, let's get around the

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table, let's get these parties together, let's talk about these

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contractual difficulties that there are and try to find a way forward

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because that's what's in the best interests

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and people who rely upon this service.

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How confident are you if someone sprains ankle

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or gets a really bad burn a week on Saturday

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there will be somewhere for them to go?

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They won't be shipped off to the hospital.

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Well, I'm taking the Corby Clinical Commissioning Group at their word.

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They have guaranteed to me that this service will remain open

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In fact, I think any interruption in service

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at Corby Urgent Care Centre would be detrimental on the situation,

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the wider situation in relation to Kettering General Hospital.

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So I am going to be keeping very close tabs

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on progress, keeping the Secretary of State updated

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and what I want to see is people come together to work

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through these things in a constructive manner.

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A coroner has expressed sadness that a baby who died at Luton

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and Dunstable Hospital wasn't properly cared for by medical staff

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10 month old Leo Stacey had severe sickness

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and dehydration and died from a rare bowel condition in October 2015.

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His parents from Hertfordshire told Ampthill Coroner's Court

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they believed he could have been saved.

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Coroner Martin Oldham recorded a short narrative verdict saying

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Leo hadn't been hydrated properly by hospital staff but had

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Next tonight - it's a pioneering project aimed at protecting

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vulnerable children in Hertfordshire.

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And the early intervention scheme has been so successful it's

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Bringing all the agencies involved together earlier has

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resulted in the police attending fewer call outs for domestic abuse -

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and a 50% reduction in cases of children

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Mike Cartwright has been to meet some of those helped.

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So, how's things going since I saw you two weeks ago, Angelina?

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Angelina, a mum with two young kids who was in desperate need of help.

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Donna, her social worker, helped to dramatically change her life.

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I was going through a lot, hiding a lot of things.

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My children would see some things that they shouldn't have seen

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and, you know, I woke up and realised that they don't need

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to see that any more because my boy was hitting me thinking

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Now he kisses Mummy and he says, "I want to be like you, Mummy.

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Her ability to parent her children was a concern.

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They were violent, I mean, very violent where

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they would be very abusive, pinching, biting, kicking and mum

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Like she said, she had been a victim of domestic abuse.

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And that's why it is so important for our domestic

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abuse worker to be involved and come on board and support mum with that.

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We have seven children within this family...

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Child services, substance abuse workers,

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Helping parents to improve their home life

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It's all here around the table so it's

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a much more open and honest approach to the way that we're working

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with families and they feel that because they know

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that we're all talking to each other

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and communicating and they know that there is a team of people

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rather than separate pockets of individuals.

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A success in Hertfordshire, Luton and Peterborough,

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among four authorities to adopt the model.

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I suppose instead of turning up with a

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clipboard to say to families you're just not good enough

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and we are now thinking about putting your children

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giving families one more chance to engage.

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I've gone from having no confidence and thinking

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Let's talk about how nice your shoes are.

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A mum and her children, a second chance to be a family.

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Mike Cartwright, BBC Look East, Hertford.

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Peterborough is hoping to cash in on being named as one of the best

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value places in Britain for the price of its commercial

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One company says its saved thousands by moving

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to the city and it could help some firms

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But it's also the city's location which it's hoped will

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Thousands of square feet of office space being made ready

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for the next tenant, in the city now named as being one

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of the cheapest in the country for commercial rents.

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One of the latest move here is an education charity

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The offices that we had in York were about half the size and

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about three times the price so, for us, as a charity,

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And now we're able to bring our team in from where ever

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they are in the country for the day and if they do need an overnight

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stay, it's generally cheaper for them here than it was before.

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But we estimate that we've saved about ?40,000 a year on

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our travel and accommodation costs for our staff.

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Research from Colliers, the commercial estate agent, says if

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you were to rent space in Manchester it would cost nearly ?30

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But here in Peterborough, it's almost a third of that

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Last year, more than 1500 businesses either moved or set up

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in Peterborough and while it's not all down to office space,

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A lot of those companies can access markets across

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the UK and I think the infrastructure for Peterborough

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So effectively you can look at a good price,

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good quality office space, you can access other markets

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and, most importantly, you can access a really good,

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diverse workforce because don't forget, people have got to get

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to work as well as getting products and services out of the city.

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And with the recent business rate changes, commercial renting here

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Business rate revaluation is based on rental values and, of course,

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there is small business rates relief so if your rateable value is below

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a certain number you could pay no rates at all.

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It'shoped that with lower business rates and

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cheaper rent, it will attract more businesses to the city.

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Emma Baugh, BBC Look East, Peterborough.

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That's all from me, I'm back at 10.45 with our late news

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assets there as well and that goes on a lot. E2v itself has done that.

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And the man who started running three years ago hoping

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Five years ago, about 400 complete skeletons were uncovered

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at the Old Divinity School at St John's College

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in Cambridge, on what was the old monastery hospital.

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Now, scientists have used the latest technology to recreate the face

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of one man who lived and died 700 years ago.

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In a peaceful corner of Cambridge and the old Divinity School, more

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than 400 medieval skeletons were unearthed. They were the sick or

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people with no money cared for by monks. One skeleton found at this

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spot has brought us face-to-face with the community we know little

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about, the medieval poor. Across the city at this laboratory a series of

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tests have been carried out on these bones. They revealed the man who

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died was around 40 and Fifa to seven. By taking the skull and

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digitally laying in muscle muscle and skin thickness a photograph from

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the past stairs out. It is the same reaction many of the viewers will

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have that it turns it much more from being a scientific specimen into a

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person and we have to treat him as both at the same time. The skeleton

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shows a wear and tear of a hard-working life and chemical

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analysis of the bones can reveal a remarkable amount about the man

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buried in a pauper's grave. He had a quite rich diet with a bit of fish

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and animal protein which was is a price considering as a poor person

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he would have eaten a lot of green. He may have had a life supplying

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food in one way or another. A closer look suggests he could have died in

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considerable pain. He had a condition called Galton caused by a

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Euro classic level build-up in the bloodstream and it can be quite

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painful. This is the beginning of a four year project. 400 skeletons are

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boxed here awaiting analysis and although this man died before the

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Black Death, it is thought many of the others will provide an

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unprecedented insight into the disease that proved so fatal in the

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medieval world. Three years ago, Dave Reading

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smoked 60 a day and wasn't Then a doctor told him

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something had to change. So Dave took up running and now he's

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hoping to beat the world record for running the 837 miles

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from Lands End to John O'Groats. In just three years, Dave has become

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a running machine. Pounding the pavements at steady speed for him it

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really is much, much more of a marathon than a sprint. I have only

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been running since 2014. I was a heavy smoker and gave up and running

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helped with the craving. Trouble is I did not know where to stop. He is

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now taking on a truly epic challenge running all the way from lands end

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to John O'Groats raising money for the charity walking with the

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wounded. You are trying to run 837 miles in eight and half days, what

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are you thinking? Hopefully raise a lot of money. It is a great cause.

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It is a long way so we will see what happens. Daunted? A little. We have

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driven the route and it does make you realise how far it is. Pretty

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extraordinary feat. It represents the courage, determination, staying

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power and mental fortitude of those that serve in the Armed Forces. Dave

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is testament to that as a Bertrand himself but it is extraordinary. As

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it is finding the time to train. At home his wife and eight children

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keep him busy. He was not very good at running. He could barely make it

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up the stairs. Can you believe him now? It is crazy. I thought he was

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stupid but it is inspiring. He has a loyal support group. His son is

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cycling the route. We have a toilet on-board, cooking facilities, a

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small bed for Dave to have a rest on if he needs to have a lie down. Do

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you think he will be up for the challenge? He is more than up for

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it. It is not like running a marathon. I will run four marathons

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a day so that is the equivalent and 33 marathons in eight and a half

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days. A body is not thought to do that? Mine is. Sleep will be a

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luxury. The record stands at just over nine days. His attempt to beat

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it already makes him a hero. Over the last two years,

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?1.3 million has been spent on 169 different good causes

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in this region. And all of that money came

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from you for Red Nose Day. And, of course, Red

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Nose Day is tomorrow. The Countdown presenter

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Nick Hewer has been to see how some of the money

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was spent in Northamptonshire. All aboard the bus. A lifeline for

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older, disabled and isolated people. It is a personal door to door bus

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service for people who would be trapped at home without it and today

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on board, that bloke from the telly. Without the bus life could be

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lonely? Definitely. It is a community on the Demuth because it

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is the same people all the time and for ?20 a year, which is what you

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pay, it is nothing. It is fantastic, a great service, a lifeline to many.

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Sometimes they would go on shopping trips, to craft fairs or the coast

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but it is not about the destination, it is the journey. It is better to

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travel than to arrive. A lot of them are isolated. If it was not for this

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vehicle and five others, they would sit there looking at four walls and

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doing little at all. One person looking at four walls for the best

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part of four years was former prison officer John Jones. After two

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amputations, kidney failure and a triple heart bypass he was a

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prisoner in his own home with his wife who was also his carer. But

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this bus has given him his life back. It doesn't matter where it is

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going, it is so nice to get out and chat to different people. It is a

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lovely atmosphere. I am a candidate for this sort of thing. I am 73, I

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feel quite lonely sometimes. Yes there is public transport but not

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everyone can get to the bus stop, not everyone can get on the bus.

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This bus comes to them and takes them to the best place ever, a place

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full of friends. A place called freedom.

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We want to hear what you're doing for Comic Relief and we want your

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You can get in touch by email, you can post your videos on Facebook

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We'll be showing some of your fundraising tomorrow.

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Let's have a look at the weather. Lots of lovely spring sunshine

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across the region today. Some beautiful blossom here in Milton

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Keynes and a lovely scene across a field in Essex. It was feeling

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chilly in that north-easterly breeze but things should be warmer

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tomorrow. Tonight, clear skies does generally translate into a cold

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night but cloud comes in from the North Sea so particularly for the

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north eastern half of the region, temperatures staying at six or 7

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degrees, go further west we could record lows of three or four

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Celsius. We start tomorrow with cloud but high pressure is here and

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it is here to stay into the weekend and beyond bringing us some

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sunshine. We cleared the cloud away first thing tomorrow and then we see

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good spells of sunshine and the wind will not be as strong. It will be

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cooler on the coast, do further inland we will record highs of 12

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Celsius. Some good spells of sunshine for the afternoon. Looking

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beyond, not a lot is changing. High-pressure sticks around, so a

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fine weekend. It will stay try with good spells of sunshine but some

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fairly chilly nights. In the next few days out of the two days of the

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weekend, Saturday looks better in terms of sunshine. Cloudy on Sunday

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but the fine weather will stay into next week so we will record highs of

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30 Celsius but chilly overnight. The clocks go forward on Saturday night

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into Sunday morning, so from all of us here, thank you for your company.

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Good night.

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