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And we will ask why so many more people over the age of 65 are | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
getting married these days. Hello and welcome to | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the Look East late news. The region's response to the threat | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
of serious flooding two months ago is | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
condemned as inadequate. Sleeping in a box - | :00:15. | :00:15. | |
an idea to cut infant death rates in Finland is now being hailed | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
a success in Essex. And the challenge was | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
a sketch a day for a year. We catch up with artist | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Kate Batchelor. A new report has found a catalogue | :00:27. | :00:37. | |
of errors in how authorities in Suffolk handled the tidal surge | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
earlier this year. Mistakes included a lack of training | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
losing a set of keys to emergency At a meeting in Lowestoft tonight | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
councillors have been considering the report which lists | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
64 lessons which must be learned. In a moment, we'll hear | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
from the council chief executive, The village of Snape knows only too | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
well about the impact of flooding, the surge of 2013 left | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
a pub and homes awash. So as trouble loomed again | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
in January, they were ready. A rest centre in the village hall | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
took in about 30 people, it emerged as one of the busiest for miles | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
around on that night. But one area of worry was a lack | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
of communication with council The initial concerns | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
we got as a community People were asking us as volunteers | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
in the community, are we going to be | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
asked to evacuate? So it took a bit of time | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
just to get the clarity That need for better | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
communication is the key one in this list of more than 60 | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
recommendations after council officials ordered a root and branch | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
review of how it handled the threat. On that night, this community | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
building in Leiston was set up as a rest centre but, | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
says the report, it lacked amenities and the team here hadn't been | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
trained or told what to do. There's also the question of public | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
car parks in flood zones. They weren't closed | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
off, it suggested they should be to avoid potential | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
damage to vehicles And Waveney's own council | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
base in Lowestoft is flagged up, home to the emergency | :02:18. | :02:26. | |
control centre but sitting in a | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
flood zone itself. And what about other niggles | :02:29. | :02:29. | |
there on the night, a missing key for a vital storage cupboard, | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
an emergency satellite phone which didn't work and staff being unsure | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
how to log in to or use a critical I think there are some big | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
lessons to learn but I think other smaller things, | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
sometimes it is human error, sometimes it is systematic failure | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
but the important thing is that they have done this review and they are | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
going to address it for the future. Well, officials are saying | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
it is important to keep this Yes, 60 odd recommendations but this | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
is a warts and all report. But they're adamant it's not | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
just the defences that need to be watertight, | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
but the systems too. Kevin Burch, BBC Look East, | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
at Felixstowe Ferry. Stephen Baker is the Chief Executive | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
of Suffolk Coastal and 64 recommendations in that report. | :03:11. | :03:25. | |
So a lot of what he did wasn't good enough? As Kevin just said, there | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
are 64 recommendations, they are points of actions. Some of them are | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
quite serious, like making sure we have adequate communication in the | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
committees. We will take that on board. We asked for root and branch | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
review, we pride ourselves on the quality of our response. Because of | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
that, we wanted to make everything that, we wanted to make everything | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
better if we could possibly do so. We want to continually improve. A | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
lot of those action points in real detail. Things like getting an extra | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
whiteboard in one of the rooms and so on. There is a lot of detail in | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
there. It was an internal document but we are happy to be open and | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
transparent with it. No, I would say not 64 errors as being reported. 64 | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
is that we can potentially improve. As you well know, the region escaped | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
on that night. Had things been worse, could some of those floors | :04:25. | :04:33. | |
actually have proved quite costly? -- flaws. I would not say that. We | :04:34. | :04:42. | |
have a good record. We work with it every day, flood risk, so, no, if we | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
had overtopping flooding, we were ready to respond. The rest centre | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
were open, on reflection, there might have been a case for better | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
training. On reflection, we could have been quicker opening a centre, | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
we could not get hold of the caretaker as quickly as we like. | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
These are areas that we can improve on and that is the whole point of | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
the review, to improve our response. Rest assured, and in the community | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
should rest assured, we are always ready to respond to the threat. That | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
is what the report is about. Stephen Baker, thank you very much indeed. | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
Next tonight, we can reveal that a pilot project in Essex to help | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
reduce the number of baby deaths is proving a success, | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
New mothers at Colchester Hospital are being given small cardboard | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
to stop them rolling onto their tummies. | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
The idea came from Finland but Colchester decided to try it | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
Midwife Tracey Baxter demonstrating to new parents Jenny and Stuart how | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
Baby Poppy, less than 24 hours old, will sleep in this | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
cardboard box to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome. | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
The idea is simple, first used in Finland | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
in the 1930s, the baby is placed on its back | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
in the box, preventing it | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
from rolling onto its tummy which could cause the infant to stop | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
A lot of families are telling us that if they have already | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
got a Moses basket, if they have already | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
got a baby, that they will | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
use these downstairs, they don't have to move their Moses baskets | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
around, they are there directly in front of them and encouragement | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
to put their babies down and not to cosleep with their babies. | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
In the eight years leading up to 2014, 221 babies in | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
the east have lost their lives to | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
Since these boxes were introduced at Colchester Hospital | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
a year ago, 700 have been handed out | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
to new parents in the hope of reducing that risk. | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
I think the most important part of it as well, | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
it's the basic yet really vital information that you get in the box | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
I think it's a wonderful idea, really. | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
Yes, yeah, we're definitely going to give it a go. | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
We have got a Moses basket as well and I'm sure | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
she'll have a preference, one or the other. | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
And it's good in an emergency as well. | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
Colchester Hospital was the first in the region | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
They are now being rolled out in hospitals in | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
Katherine Nash, BBC Look East, Colchester. | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
A year ago we featured an artist from Suffolk on the programme | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
She'd set herself a challenge of doing | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
Kate was also posting her sketches online. | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
Mike Liggins has been back to see the 'tweeting painter'. | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
I think one of the nicest things about doing a sketch a day was that | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
it reconnects you with your landscape. | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
Lots of people go, oh, I don't know what to paint. | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Well, if you get outside and sketch then you | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
are giving yourself new ideas all the time. | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
In 2016, Kate Batchelor made a New Year 's resolution to do | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
She couldn't give up chocolate and she wanted to stretch | :08:11. | :08:20. | |
herself as an artist and so out she went | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
in all weathers and, yes, Kate | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
did manage a sketch a day but did the sketching improve? | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
The sketches got more fluid and the mark making | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
more interesting so, yes, I think it did. | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
I think practice is one of those things, it's like being a | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
musician, you need to practice every day. | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
We first met Kate last year when she was sketching at | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
She exhibits in galleries all over Norfolk and Suffolk | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
The sketches were made available to a wider audience online | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
and this is the last sketch at Covehithe on New Year's Eve. | :08:53. | :09:00. | |
I was just really pleased when I'd finished it and I've got this little | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
162 crayons I got through and at the end of it, | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
I was very good at sharpening crayons. | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
she is planning to do one painted sketch a week. | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
This is a replica Dutch barge on the quay at Beccles. | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
And this is the finished work, proof, if proof were needed, | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
that good artists are always learning, | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
challenging themselves to improve and find new audiences. | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
Mike Liggins, BBC Look East, Beccles. | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
Just time to tell you about something our digital team is up to. | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
From midnight tonight until midnight on Thursday, they'll be | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
in the A department at Ipswich Hospital to reflect how | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
staff and patients are coping with the pressures. | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
You can follow live updates at bbc.co.uk/suffolk and you can | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
also follow the team on Twitter - #AandElive. | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
Coming up now the weather with Alex, | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
but from the rest of the late team, goodnight. | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
Thank you. Templars got to 18 Celsius. Not quite one tomorrow with | :10:15. | :10:24. | |
more cloud. It is likely to turn quite misty as we go through the | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
night. Temperatures not lower than six or seven Celsius for most of us | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
tonight. We start the day tomorrow with them mist two thing. Should be | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
some bright sunshine to start with but this weather system coming in | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
from the west, that will turn up our skies cloudier and bring in some | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
patchy rain. Probably not until the evening and overnight. Early mist, | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
some sunshine for the morning, into the afternoon, more cars coming in | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
from the west. Staying dry for the daytime areas. Temperatures will be | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
cooler under the cloud. 12 Celsius, a notable south western breeze. The | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
national been. The outlook, rain around, if | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
it stays dry I will be surprised. Here is Nick with the national | :11:06. | :11:06. | |
headlines. | :11:07. | :11:11. |