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A shortage of nursery teachers is putting

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children's education at risk, according to a charity.

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The Muslim community react to Louis Smith's

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gymnastics ban after he was caught mocking Islam.

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And the coldest night of thd autumn coming up with a

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First tonight, a warning of a shortage of qualified nursery

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Save the Children says therd's been a sharp fall in the number of people

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applying for those teaching roles, partly because of low pay.

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And it means many children are at risk of falling behind

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A report by the charity found that in Peterborough 67%

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of children at independent nurseries don't have a qualified teacher,

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in Milton Keynes, where Sam Read spent the day.

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Zoe, we have to make sure that three eggs at the shop.

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Whoa, Carlos, you have been busy shopping, haven't you?

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This may look like just good fun, but these children

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at nursery in Milton Keynes are learning too.

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Bosses here say that is partly because there is a qualified

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My knowledge and expertise provide a better environment

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All children want to learn `nd it's just providing those opporttnities

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for them and seizing those loments where you see that you can `dd a bit

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of extra or teach them something new that they wouldn't

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But a report by Save the Chhldren says other nurseries

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The boss here say there is a recruitment crisis

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and while that is partly about salaries, operators s`y

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You can't have champagne nurseries with lemonade funding.

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If the funding levels are not sufficient to provide

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high-quality care and education then either the standards whll have

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to slip and corners will be cut or there just won't be

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There's currently 15 hours free childcare for three

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That's set to double to 30 hours but providers say the amount paid

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by the government for that care is not high enough.

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The Department for Education says the proportion of full-time nursery

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staff who have at least A levels is rising and that

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by the end of the parliament, it will be investing record

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But some in the industry remain concerned.

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What we know is that if children start behind when they start school,

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they are four times likely to be behind at 11 at that crucial stage

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And so they are just set up to stay behind for the rest

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That's why we have got to act early, we have got to try and invest

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in nurseries to help childrdn before they start school.

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Charities and nurseries say they want this month's Autumn St`tement

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They say the Chancellor needs to act if every child is to get

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Well, with pressures on nursery providers so gre`t,

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why is the government doublhng the amount of free childcard

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I asked our political reporter Tom Barton to explain.

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Well, Clare, this was a manhfesto commitment from the Conserv`tives at

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the last election to providd 30 hours of free childcare to families

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Of course, the point is to try and address the high cost

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It is going to be introduced from September next year

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and it's for parents of thrde and four-year-old children where

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both parents earn at least ?6,0 0 a year and neither parent e`rns more

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Of course though this is going to just increase the

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demand on an industry which, as we have just heard,

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Well, those who represent ntrseries say that the impact is going to

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According to the Preschool Learning Alliance,

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as many as half of their melbers say that they might have to close

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as a result of the funding shortfall in this scheme

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and while almost all nurserhes currently offer 15 hours

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of free childcare, as many as seven in ten

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say that they're considering not taking part in the extended scheme

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Now, it is worth noting that the Government has

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increased the amount of funding available by 7% but providers say

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that that increase to ?4.88 an hour just isn't enough

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Peterborough gymnast Louis Smith has been banned by his professional body

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after a video was leaked online showing him mocking Islam.

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British Gymnastics has suspdnded him from competing for two months,

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Our reporter Waseem Mirza joins me now.

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We all know Lewis Smith as ` British Olympics hero. He won silver in the

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London 2012 and just this stmmer, in Rio. He became famous to a luch

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wider audience on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing programme. Last month,

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video appeared online in whhch he and fellow gymnasts Luke Carson seen

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mocking his arm. He appears to be laughing while Carson is filmed

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mimicking prepositions. Smith later told BBC Look East he was ddeply

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sorry. I've caused big offence

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to the Muslim community and to the people that follow Islam,

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to the people that support le. You know, I've let,

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honestly, let so many people down, you know, it w`s a very

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silly and drunken moment th`t I thought would always stay

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behind closed doors, you know, it's the moment where you cringe

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the next morning and you thhnk What is the response into hhs band?

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Lewis Smith had been trying to rebuild bridges with the Muslim

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committee. He visited a mospue in London just a few weeks ago saying

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he needed to learn more abott the religion of Islam. I spoke to the

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head of the Browne today who said that we should cut him some slack

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for doing that but given Smhth's position, he said the ban w`s a fair

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punishment. -- the head of Ramadan Foundation.

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Young people growing up in our schools look up

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to him as a role model, not just through his

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sports but through his various public figures on TV

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You know, there seems to be a different standard applied when we

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talk about criticising Islal or mocking Islam, people talk about

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freedom of speech but when ht is the Jewish faith or the Chrhstian

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faith or the Hindu faith, there seems to be a different script

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so I think, you know, I think it is the right dechsion.

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Banned from two months, what kind of impact will have on his carder? He

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eventually taking a break from the spot anyway. He is touring `s a

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guest celebrity on the keep dancing stage production. There are no major

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competitions scheduled before the end of the any. The only dolestic

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event that he would stand to mist out on is the British pub tdam

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Championships and design December. Next, the pace of growth

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of Cambridgeshire's economy has slowed with manx

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firms struggling to find That was the conclusion at ` meeting

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of the top 100 companies But the group are still makhng

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combined profits of more than a billion pounds a year

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and say they're investing Our business correspondent

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Richard Bond reports. Outside London, the economy

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of Cambridgeshire is in the best A unique mixture of technology,

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advanced manufacturing World-beating companies

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such as ARM Holdings, The ecosystem of businesses

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and health care companies... Each year, the accountancy firm

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Grant Thornton looks at how the county's top 100

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companies are doing. Their combined sales were up by just

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1%, less than previous years. What we are seeing again is people

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having the confidence in the future of Cambridgeshire

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to grow and develop. We have seen employee numbers go up

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significantly and we have sden And we have seen investment

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in property plant Across the 100 companies,

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employment increased Average pay, at ?31,700,

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is above the UK average of ?28, 00. Technology remains the biggdst

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sector within the top 100 companies. But even it has seen a drop in sales

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and profits over the last 12 months. The perennial challenge

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for technology and for many other sectors in the county is access

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to people but what we are sdeing is that companies are incre`sing

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their people numbers and I think that is really good

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and a real strong... Something that we should be

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proud of for the county. Access to people is a big issue

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for this software company. Redgate employs nearly 300

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people in Cambridge. If we want to grow, there's not that

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many people in Cambridge, so we are poaching from somdone else

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who is then poaching from us. So it's hard to get enough skilled

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people into the business. A concern for this and other

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companies in the survey is that Brexit will make it even harder

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to recruit staff from oversdas. Richard Bond, BBC

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Look East, Cambridge. An investigation is underwax

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after a man was shot in Luton It happened at around

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1.30am in Dallow Road, and the man in his 20s was found

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in the car park of a Bedfordshire Police say

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there was a large scale disturbance. The injured man is in

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hospital with serious The threat of strikes by easyJet

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pilots over concerns about fatigue has ended after they acceptdd

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new proposals from the airlhne. The British Airline Pilots'

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Association said its members voted to accept the Luton-based

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carrier's offer. In September, a majority voted

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in favour of industrial acthon, but talks were held

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to resolve the row. That's it from me -

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we're back with news updates throughout BBC Breakfast

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from 6.30 tomorrow morning. I'll leave you with the weather

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with Alex Dolan. It's already close to freezhng

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in some parts of the region Some clear skies right

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across the region and althotgh these are the sort of temperatures we can

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expect in towns and cities, out in the

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countryside, it could get bdlow freezing so the risk of a

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widespread ground frost loc`lly We've got an area of high pressure

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bringing us some So expect that chilly

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start but also some long spells of autumn sunshine,

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quite a crisp day. Temperature wise, well,

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it is going to be on the chhlly side despite the sunshine so we're likely

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to record temperatures of around nine Celsius

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at their highest. And the wind coming

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in from the north should be quite a light wind

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through tomorrow but certainly The national weather's coming up

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but here's the outlook. And the cold is going

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to set in for the rest of the week, certainly

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a chilly outlook, mainly drx before turning unsettled. Good You

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know what, in

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