25/10/2016 Look East

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one of the biggest studies into Type two diabetes

An eight month wait for a broadband connection,

And the campaign to create a giant nature reserve in Suffolk,

That's how a leading specialist has described the rise in Type two

It is caused mainly by lifestyle, things like bad diet

In Norfolk, the number of sufferers is rocketing.

20 years ago, around 17,000 people had the condition.

Now it's up to 40,000, and by 2030 it's predicted

In a moment we'll hear from the Professor who's leading one

of the biggest studies into the condition at the Norfolk

Jo Price has been living with type two diabetes for 12 years.

She is not the only member of her family

I mentioned to the doctor that my grandmother had

it, my mother had, I got it, my sister has got it

While family history may play a part in your chances of developing

the condition, experts say most cases are preventable.

The amount of people you see walking about that

are really overweight, and especially the children.

I think they need to get a checkup and they

Because that does and it is a big contributor the factor to this.

Jo Price and her family are among the

40,000 people in Norfolk living with type two diabetes.

Medical experts say early diagnosis is is crucial.

You have a thirst and a few entire, you are perhaps having

You have an infection that is not clearing

All of these things can be a symptom of diabetes so if you have any of

that happening then make an appointment to see your GP or

practice nurse and have a test which is very simple to see if you have

Jo Price keep the condition under control with medication and

insists she refuses to let it all her back.

Mike Sampson - is running a six year

diabetes prevention study - which has screened 13,000

people in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex who are at risk

I asked him where it's most prevalent.

If you look at the map of the East of England in Norfolk and

Suffolk and Essex the prevalence of diabetes maps beautifully against

In the obesity is much more common in areas

with high social deprivation, so it is quite a toxic mix of social

deprivation and obesity and high risk of type two diabetes.

You have screened 13,000 people across

Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex as part of your research.

I know you are in the middle of it, but what have you

We have been surprised that the prevalence of these

prediabetes categories, so that means as well as

there being 70,000 people with diabetes

same number of people or more in there will be the same number or

more with prediabetes, the very earliest stages, raised glucose,

before you get diabetes, so big numbers.

So now you have identified some pretty high risk people in our

region, what are you going to be able to do to prevent them from

We're looking at different ways of diabetes prevention, one of which is

where we actually trained people who have diabetes

themselves to give the

You can always give advice, but whether or

not people take it on board, I mean that is the only thing that is going

People find it hard to change and one of the

real benefits of our programme, of the National programme,

is that it is quite intense so it is not a

short-term you shouldn't do this shouldn't do that, we contact people

very frequently every 2-3 months for 3-4 years.

If those numbers, if that projection you told me about, those

huge amount of numbers are not controlled, what do you think would

I'm very concerned that we might reach a

tipping point in five or ten years' time where the system would be able

to cope either clinically or financially.

A family who've been waiting for a broadband connection for eight

months say they are struggling to work and study.

In March, the Burroughs moved into a brand new house in Essex.

Since then, the phone calls to Openreach have been going almost

non-stop.This report from Gareth George.

Morgan is applying for music colleges but without

-- this piece could almost be a lament for a long forgotten Internet

connection. It means I can't get the University

prospectus up and it is making e-mail is hard to access,

I have had to go to the school to check my e-mail

on various occasions. The family moved into this new built

house in Newport not far from Stansted back in March,

and are still settling in and still waiting for a telephone

line and broadband. Ducks for a new cable needs to be

put in across the road at the bottom of the drive but the Burroughs say

it should have happened by now. Every weekend we are hoping somebody

comes out, we have had numerous failed visits, I think we're

probably about the 11th now, so we are hoping each weekend

that there will be someone at the end of the drive digging up

the road and putting the ducting It is definitely needed and to be

without it for eight months now, it can be a bit harder times

for everyone in the household. Because the Burroughs lived opposite

to what appears to be a telephone exchange,

Morgan hopes he will soon be playing something more upbeat to celebrate

getting back online. Are gave reporters with me. What

have open Reach had to say? They say they have been working with the

highways authorities to get the permissions they need. They say it

has taken to long and have apologised. We have heard a lot

about the roll-out of superfast broadband, how's it going in this

region? The latest figures show that in

terms of the number of homes covered things have approved, over the last

three years in Norfolk coverage has jumped from 45% to just over 85%, an

additional 190,000 homes and businesses in Suffolk, coverage has

risen to 86% in Essex won better at 87%. You do pay considerably more to

get a superfast broadband package. Broadband is regarded as a key

service like electricity gas and water and people are quick to

complain if they are not getting the service they think they deserve or

getting very per customer service. Sir David Attenborough says

a campaign to create a giant nature reserve would "rescue a precious

corner of East Anglia". The Suffolk Wildlife Trust wants

to create a thousand acre reserve in the Broads National Park,

but it needs to raise This from our Environment reporter,

Richard Daniel. Wetland, grazing marsh,

a reserve that could now almost double in size.

This nature reserve is literally It is a great opportunity for people

just to access nature. This is all about scale,

at the moment this reserve They hope in future to incorporate

all the land behind me Nature conservation

on a landscape scale. 1000 acres, it would become

a national nature reserve, within the Broads National Park,

supporting hundreds It is scarily exciting,

the opportunity for the land purchase means that it creates

a dinner any opportunity for things like the fen raft spider to move out

from the existing reserve, right down to the tiniest

of things like a water By recreating these

good-quality tax systems. The plan has the backing

of Sir David Attenborough. The Trust needs to raise ?1 million

to secure around ?4 million They have two years

to raise the money. If they succeed it will be

the biggest purchase in the Wildlife Trust's history,

creating a reserve to rival Just time to tell you that Norwich

city have been knocked out of the League Cup by Leeds United after a

3-2 defeat in a penalty shoot out. That's all from me, coming up as the

weather. Clear skies have led to some mist

and fog patches forming across the region and they will continue to

become more extensive as they go through the night. Dense fog patches

and places in temperatures down to around seven or 8 degrees.

Tomorrow's weather forecast, it may be a bit this the end for the first

thing but we have some high-pressure bringing a settled forecast for the

week. The westerly wind and mild wind direction but that mist and fog

could be thought to shift through the morning, remaining quite murky

and overcast but hopefully brightening up with some sunshine is

you go through the day, temperatures around 15 degrees with a light -

modelled westerly wind. The National weather is coming up and he was our

output, a fairly settled and two-week,

settled and on the mild side. Nick now has all the national weather.

Hello. Autumn is the season of change, most noticeably with those

autumn colours on display today in Buckinghamshire, as photographed by

one of our weather watchers. Always helps when there is blue sky above.

Our weather is always changing regardless of the season. One of

those changes is taking place, we are losing last week's Easterly

winds and now a westerly wind. That means it's turning milder by day and

night but it does mean the return of Atlantic weather fronts, especially

to north-western parts of the UK. The reason, high pressure in Germany

and low pressure Iceland. Here is the first of those weather fronts

for Scotland and Northern Ireland through the night, the first part of

tomorrow. There isn't a huge amount of rain associated with this. Could

see