:00:06. > :00:14.The latest problem on the railways - power lines which droop in the
:00:14. > :00:20.heat. Commuters give their verdict. We do not cope with any weather
:00:20. > :00:23.here? Hello and welcome to Look East.
:00:23. > :00:27.Also tonight: The seeds at the centre of another European E-coli
:00:27. > :00:29.row. The company insists it will be cleared.
:00:29. > :00:32.Preventative breast surgery - we catch up with one patient three
:00:32. > :00:42.months on. And Elton John hits them for six
:00:42. > :00:52.
:00:52. > :00:58.First tonight, another day of problems for commuters as Network
:00:58. > :01:01.Rail admits it power lines can't cope with the hot weather.
:01:01. > :01:08.There were delays and cancellations across Essex from my day, as train
:01:08. > :01:12.slowed down to deal with sagging overhead lines. A normal service
:01:12. > :01:21.was meant to resume at 5pm, but tonight there are still problems.
:01:21. > :01:25.Gareth George is at Colchester now. It seems to be getting worse. Pity
:01:25. > :01:32.the poor commuter this evening. The latest figure is that there may be
:01:33. > :01:42.up to 60 cancellations. Norwich to London, delays, Southend to London,
:01:43. > :01:43.
:01:43. > :01:48.delays. Part of the problem is the heat. It was in the 80s in
:01:48. > :01:50.Colchester here earlier today, too hot for the power cables. It was
:01:51. > :02:00.not just the commuters who were wilting in the heat, the power
:02:01. > :02:01.
:02:01. > :02:06.cables where, too. -- the power cable were, too. The older ones
:02:06. > :02:12.stretch and saga. That meant delays. Does it surprise you that they
:02:12. > :02:21.struggle with hot weather? No, when they struggle with leaves, snow and
:02:21. > :02:31.the vandals. We cannot keep -- cope with the weather here - rain, wind,
:02:31. > :02:33.
:02:33. > :02:38.snow. It is something they should allow for when the design things
:02:38. > :02:45.like that. This is just a normal summer's day. I do find it
:02:45. > :02:54.surprising and disappointing. The power cable should be tight,
:02:54. > :03:01.but in hot weather the metal expands. If they sag, high-speed
:03:01. > :03:04.trains can pull them down. Work to upgrade the cables between
:03:04. > :03:14.Chelmsford and Southend and London is Network Rail's biggest project
:03:14. > :03:23.
:03:23. > :03:30.in the UK. These problems may add to commuters' frustrations. Network
:03:30. > :03:35.Rail is using -- spending �200 million replacing the cables.
:03:36. > :03:43.Commuter groups say that they are getting frustrated waiting for the
:03:43. > :03:51.cables to be sorted out. As ever, If you have been affected
:03:51. > :03:55.by any other stories on tonight's programme, do get in touch.
:03:55. > :03:58.A seed company caught up in the latest E-coli scare says it is
:03:58. > :04:00.convinced that tests will clear it of any blame. A French government
:04:00. > :04:03.minister says that two people who contracted the disease in Bordeaux
:04:03. > :04:13.had eaten seeds from Thompson and Morgan in Ipswich. The crucial test
:04:13. > :04:16.
:04:16. > :04:18.results are not expected to Thursday.
:04:18. > :04:22.It now numbers its worldwide customers in millions, but it all
:04:22. > :04:24.began more than 150 years ago when an Ipswich back garden when William
:04:24. > :04:32.Thompson, a baker's son and passionate botanist, got together
:04:32. > :04:42.with businessman John Morgan. The rest was history. There is a vast
:04:42. > :04:48.catalogue of seeds dating back to 1877. The latest catalogue was sent
:04:48. > :04:53.out to thousands of customers in the UK alone. This is the warehouse.
:04:53. > :05:03.The French market is second only to the UK. Products for France stretch
:05:03. > :05:08.
:05:08. > :05:11.as far as the iCAN see down there. Environmental health officials from
:05:11. > :05:14.Babergh Council have taken for testing these three sprouting seed
:05:14. > :05:16.varieties implicated by the French. Stephanie Schuller is a lecturer in
:05:16. > :05:18.infection and immunity at the University of East Anglia.
:05:18. > :05:26.We are keen to help with his investigation and we look forward
:05:26. > :05:36.to it reaching a satisfactory conclusion. She suspects the E-coli
:05:36. > :05:41.
:05:41. > :05:47.contamination doesn't rest with the seed manufacturer. I think that's
:05:47. > :05:50.been spreads could have been infected by water during irrigation.
:05:50. > :05:57.In the village of Bramford, near Thompson and Morgan's headquarters,
:05:57. > :06:01.some suspected the French were barking up the wrong tree. I think
:06:01. > :06:07.that is wishful thinking. I think they are trying to push it on to
:06:07. > :06:16.someone else. We will take our chances. You could contract at
:06:16. > :06:18.disease at any restaurant. company has sold 100,000 packets of
:06:18. > :06:20.sprouting seeds in France with no reported incidents.
:06:20. > :06:30.Test results expected on Thursday at the earliest will prove whether
:06:30. > :06:37.
:06:37. > :06:46.the ban on three varieties imposed by the French was overly hasty.
:06:46. > :06:49.Vicky Ford is a Euro MP. I ask her about the potential impact. What we
:06:49. > :06:56.learned from the Germans pinning the blame on the Spanish cucumber
:06:56. > :07:01.incorrectly was quite how much damage that can do to a company, to
:07:01. > :07:08.a business, by getting it wrong. I am concerned. This is a global
:07:08. > :07:14.company based in our region with over 150 years of selling seeds
:07:14. > :07:21.very happily to over 150 countries. The company says that the E. Coli
:07:21. > :07:29.could have come from the way that the beansprouts were handled.
:07:29. > :07:34.Absolutely. They sell thousands of packets of seeds. For this one case
:07:34. > :07:40.to spring up where others have not seen as very bizarre. In my view,
:07:40. > :07:49.the company has acted responsibly. They keep aside some of the seeds
:07:49. > :07:53.from each batch. Let us all take care but letters hopefully give his
:07:53. > :07:58.company some time. If they have been falsely accused then they
:07:58. > :08:01.should get compensated. Is there something that the European
:08:02. > :08:07.Parliament can do to stop this blame game that goes on between
:08:07. > :08:12.different countries? I think it is part of a much bigger issue in
:08:12. > :08:17.agriculture, where we constantly see bits of EU register -- EU
:08:17. > :08:21.legislation put on our producers and then not implemented. I think
:08:21. > :08:30.that is part of a much bigger issue about making agreements and people
:08:30. > :08:33.sticking to them. Later in the programme Alex will
:08:33. > :08:39.tell us how long this hot weather is likely to last. And Elton John
:08:39. > :08:42.on tour at a cricket ground. A 19-year-old from Essex who is
:08:42. > :08:46.accused of computer hacking has been released from custody on
:08:46. > :08:49.conditional bail. Ryan Cleary will have to observe an overnight curfew
:08:49. > :08:53.at the family home in Wickford, wear an electronic tag, and have no
:08:53. > :09:00.access to the internet. He is accused of hacking into websites
:09:00. > :09:03.including the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
:09:03. > :09:07.New rules which mean that festival organisers have to pay at least
:09:07. > :09:09.part of the cost of policing the event are starting to taken across
:09:09. > :09:13.the region. Aldeburgh Carnival in Suffolk will be charged �5,000 for
:09:13. > :09:17.the first time this year. And it also affected any event this
:09:17. > :09:20.weekend at Caistor in Norfolk. Kevin Burch reports.
:09:20. > :09:23.There has been a festival in Caistor for almost 40 years,
:09:23. > :09:30.traditionally with a procession through the village. But not this
:09:30. > :09:35.year. Instead, it was confined to the playing field. The police have
:09:35. > :09:43.always been superb. They used to close the roads, advise on parking.
:09:43. > :09:46.They were great and very helpful. But not any more. The organisers
:09:46. > :09:50.say they found out, in their words, at the 11th hour during talks with
:09:50. > :09:53.the county council, that the police would no longer be on hand to help
:09:53. > :09:56.control traffic. They weren't sure they could do it themselves safely,
:09:56. > :09:59.and to use a private firm would have cost hundreds. Norfolk Police
:09:59. > :10:02.told us that they had warned 12 months ago that they could not
:10:02. > :10:04.provide road closures. They denied their approach had anything to do
:10:04. > :10:07.with cost cutting. In fact, the Association of Chief Police
:10:07. > :10:10.officers has given forces nationwide fresh guidance on how to
:10:10. > :10:13.handle such events. It also tells them how to work out charges based
:10:13. > :10:16.on size, the charitable nature and the resources needed. In Aldeburgh
:10:16. > :10:19.it means they are being charged for the first time for their annual
:10:19. > :10:21.carnival this August. The cost of staging this year's event has
:10:21. > :10:24.already risen by �14,000. Officers cannot be in two places at once. We
:10:24. > :10:26.have to make a judgment about whether or not we can bear that
:10:26. > :10:29.redeployment of officers and whether it is substantial enough
:10:29. > :10:32.and the event is such that we do need to make some sign -- some sort
:10:32. > :10:38.of charge. We have to find a way to cover these rising costs or we give
:10:38. > :10:41.up. And we do not want to do that. The bill for policing alone will be
:10:41. > :10:44.�5,000. They are trying to find fresh financial backing, but say
:10:44. > :10:54.they will be forced to pass some of the cost on by raising admission
:10:54. > :10:55.
:10:56. > :11:00.prices for cars at the carnival. Kevin Burch, BBC Look East in
:11:00. > :11:03.Aldeburgh. A coroner has recorded a verdict of
:11:03. > :11:06.suicide on Mark Ostler, who killed himself after shooting and wounding
:11:06. > :11:09.a former girlfriend. It happened last year at Feltwell in Norfolk.
:11:09. > :11:12.Mr Ostler's ex-wife told the inquest in King's Lynn that she had
:11:12. > :11:15.warned the police that he had a gun two days before the shooting. The
:11:15. > :11:18.police say they could not identify the officer she spoke to.
:11:18. > :11:21.The owner of a bar in Haverhill has started to fingerprint its
:11:21. > :11:23.customers to help it comply with under-age drinking laws. Bar Vu
:11:24. > :11:26.says the new technology is also keeping drinkers safer. Come Friday
:11:26. > :11:29.night, this place will be heaving, the best part of 250 people
:11:29. > :11:33.enjoying the end of another week. First of all, they have to get in.
:11:33. > :11:38.If your name is not on this list you are not coming in. We asked for
:11:38. > :11:43.a driving licence or passport, place it in the scanner and then
:11:43. > :11:45.link the information to their finger. The place that on the
:11:45. > :11:53.fingerprint scanner and we do not ever have to ask for identification
:11:53. > :12:03.again. If you're too young or you are a known troublemaker, do not
:12:03. > :12:04.
:12:04. > :12:07.bother. It would not stop me. 58 and I come here all the time. I
:12:07. > :12:16.do not like going out in town because the security is a lot
:12:16. > :12:20.better here. I like the scanner, I think it is a very good idea.
:12:20. > :12:24.firstly to completely nullified under 18 drinking. It is not
:12:24. > :12:30.possible for an under 18 to come in and drink in our bar.
:12:30. > :12:38.This is going to run some people up the wrong way, isn't it? I thought
:12:38. > :12:42.Sol, but the under-25s want to be involved in it, too.
:12:42. > :12:52.The figures seem to back it up. Only one person refused to use it
:12:52. > :12:53.
:12:53. > :13:03.in the first month. The collapse of one of the region's
:13:03. > :13:04.
:13:04. > :13:07.to his bodies will leave a big hole A shipping line has stepped in with
:13:07. > :13:10.funding to save a rescue service in suffered from closure. The
:13:10. > :13:13.Felixstowe Volunteer coast patrol lost its major sponsor, but says
:13:13. > :13:23.this year it has already helped save the lives of five people. The
:13:23. > :13:28.
:13:28. > :13:30.shipping company, Safmarine, will pay to keep the service going. The
:13:30. > :13:33.former Norwich City footballer Darren Eadie is launching a new
:13:33. > :13:35.website which will auction personal belongings from celebrities in aid
:13:35. > :13:37.of charity. The likes of Orlando Bloom, Sir
:13:37. > :13:40.Bruce Forsyth and Sharon Osbourne have already donated items. Darren
:13:40. > :13:49.Eadie was a fans' favourite, a talented winger whose career was
:13:49. > :13:53.cut short by injury at the age of 28. His new venture in retirement
:13:53. > :13:55.is an auction website called Sellebrity. People will be able to
:13:55. > :13:57.bid for a variety of items including Joan Armatrading's guitar,
:13:57. > :14:07.Orlando Bloom's sword, Sharon Osbourne's handbag, Mark Webber's
:14:07. > :14:13.
:14:13. > :14:20.helmet. Is there some Darren Eadie stuff on there? Yes, I was told to
:14:20. > :14:23.put some up there. I put myself as Darren Eadie, celebrity founder.
:14:23. > :14:25.Darren will take a commission to do the work, but charities will
:14:25. > :14:33.benefit, the Prince's Trust initially, then others. Football
:14:34. > :14:39.pundit and friend Robbie Savage has donated a Dolce and Gabbana jacket.
:14:39. > :14:47.I think he'll only wore it wants. He keeps telling me he played
:14:47. > :14:53.�3,500 for it. What else would he do with it? It would be stuck in
:14:53. > :14:56.the wardrobe at home. TV presenters Simon Thomas and Gabby Logan are
:14:56. > :15:06.two other celebrities to be involved. The auction starts on the
:15:06. > :15:13.
:15:13. > :15:16.More people in this region are choosing to have surgery to remove
:15:16. > :15:19.healthy parts of their bodies to prevent cancer. Three months ago,
:15:19. > :15:22.we filmed Linda Speller having a second mastectomy and breast
:15:22. > :15:27.reconstruction after she was told there was an 80% chance of her
:15:27. > :15:35.cancer returning. Her operation was not a total success, but she says
:15:35. > :15:38.she has no regrets. Tonight's special report is from Debbie Tubby.
:15:38. > :15:40.Linda Speller is still recovering from her mastectomy and breast
:15:40. > :15:44.reconstruction. There have been complications. She's had an
:15:44. > :15:48.infection, four more operations, and lost two stone. The
:15:48. > :15:58.reconstruction has failed. She knew the risks of the operation but the
:15:58. > :15:59.
:15:59. > :16:07.risk of getting cancer was higher. Be hard -- it is very hard not
:16:07. > :16:11.being the woman that you were. It is very hard having to face my
:16:11. > :16:15.husband with the way I look. That is just life and we get on with it.
:16:15. > :16:19.I am here to tell the tale. I do not like it and they know why do
:16:19. > :16:25.not like it. That is why they said they would do everything they can
:16:25. > :16:28.to make it right. I just want to get on with life a bit at the
:16:28. > :16:32.minute and not go back in hospital and have to go through all that
:16:32. > :16:35.again. In March we filmed Linda's 10-hour mastectomy operation.
:16:35. > :16:38.Richard Heywood and two other surgeons working at the same time,
:16:39. > :16:43.reconstructing her breast from her buttock. Her first mastectomy
:16:43. > :16:53.removed cancer, this one is to prevent it coming back. Because of
:16:53. > :16:54.
:16:54. > :16:57.her family history and genetics she had an 80% chance of it recurring.
:16:57. > :17:06.That was a no-brainer. What do you do when you have a chance like
:17:06. > :17:16.that? You have to have the operation done to reduce the risk.
:17:16. > :17:17.
:17:17. > :17:20.I am glad I have had it done. It reduces my risk of cancer. I do not
:17:20. > :17:27.want to sit around as if I am waiting for it to come back. I know
:17:27. > :17:29.I have done everything in my power to stop it coming back. Linda
:17:29. > :17:35.Speller is now considering whether to have further surgery. Despite
:17:35. > :17:38.what she has been through, Linda Speller has no regrets. Mr Hayward
:17:38. > :17:45.has assured me that he will do everything he can to make me feel a
:17:45. > :17:54.woman again. She hopes her decision will mean she will live to see her
:17:54. > :17:56.family grow up. Well, earlier today I spoke to
:17:56. > :17:59.Richard Heywood, the consultant plastic surgeon who operated on
:17:59. > :18:05.when the speller at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. I
:18:05. > :18:12.started by asking him just why Linda's procedure had not worked.
:18:12. > :18:17.The procedure depends upon the blood supply. Moving the block of
:18:17. > :18:21.tissue requires microsurgery where the vessels you are joining
:18:21. > :18:24.together are half a millimetre in diameter. You are using needles
:18:24. > :18:29.which are smaller than your eyelashes and threats that are
:18:29. > :18:33.thinner than your hair. You have to get blood flowing into the block of
:18:33. > :18:40.tissue and blood flowing out. In Linda's case, the blood flow coming
:18:40. > :18:48.out of the block of tissue was not satisfactory, so it has created a
:18:48. > :18:54.block of tissue that is not as healthy as it would be normally.
:18:54. > :19:02.How successful has this procedure normally? My failure rate is 1.2%.
:19:02. > :19:12.It is a bit higher nationally. There is a broad range of
:19:12. > :19:28.
:19:28. > :19:34.microsurgery is. The failure rate We do a lot of research into the
:19:34. > :19:38.genetics that predispose people to cancer. Patients discuss more
:19:38. > :19:42.family issues. It is far more common that if a patient has had a
:19:42. > :19:49.cancer in the family that they will know about it. Linda and others
:19:49. > :19:59.like to say it is difficult to make the decision to remove healthy body
:19:59. > :20:00.
:20:00. > :20:10.parts to prevent cancer. Why is that? If they are presented with a
:20:10. > :20:21.
:20:21. > :20:25.cancer, the decision is harder. do you get young people interested
:20:25. > :20:28.in science at school? It has been a question asked ever since Robert
:20:28. > :20:31.Bunsen invented the Bunsen burner back in 1885. The latest device is
:20:31. > :20:34.called Lab 13. It is where pupils as young as nine run their own lab,
:20:34. > :20:37.developing experiments for themselves. There are only six in
:20:37. > :20:44.the country, and the first in our region has just opened in
:20:44. > :20:54.Northamptonshire. For years, science has appeared
:20:54. > :20:58.
:20:58. > :21:04.dull and boring. Programmes like Bank Goes The Theory, try to do
:21:04. > :21:09.something about it. This project aims to make science more fun.
:21:09. > :21:12.you know what you're going to use? Jennifer is the scientist in
:21:12. > :21:17.residence here. She oversees the work that the children do, but that
:21:17. > :21:22.is it, because, ultimately, they are in control. The learning is
:21:22. > :21:26.based on their curiosities about the world. They help run a budget
:21:26. > :21:33.and even interviewed Jenifer for her job. They asked the harder
:21:33. > :21:36.questions. One of them was, how do I think I am better than other
:21:36. > :21:41.people attending interviews? They tend to ask those kind of blunt
:21:41. > :21:47.questions. Today's lesson is about how to make a volcano from
:21:47. > :21:51.household products. It is exploding! Where will the
:21:51. > :21:57.experiments take the next? To build a rocket car. I have seen them on
:21:57. > :22:01.TV and they look quite hard to build and I want to give it a go.
:22:01. > :22:05.See how plants grow feeding a massive instead of water. I would
:22:05. > :22:12.love to breed chickens but I am not sure we would be allowed. What
:22:12. > :22:22.experiment would you most like to do? Blow up a teacher! Well, let us
:22:22. > :22:24.
:22:24. > :22:28.hope that not all the ideas get off the drawing board!
:22:28. > :22:31.He is the star behind songs like Candle in the Wind and Rocket Man,
:22:31. > :22:34.and all in all he has sold more than 250 million records. At the
:22:34. > :22:37.moment, Elton John is on tour. This Saturday it was Northampton, where
:22:37. > :22:39.he was performing for the first time in more than a decade. Our
:22:39. > :22:43.entertainments reporter, Dawn Gerber, was there.
:22:43. > :22:52.The rain held off and the fans poured in. The star attraction -
:22:52. > :22:57.Elton John. This will be my 14th time. I am looking forward to
:22:57. > :23:01.because my dad is a big fan. He is looking forward to his first big
:23:01. > :23:04.concert. We have known football clubs to host concerts, but now it
:23:04. > :23:08.is the turn of cricket clubs. And over 14,000 fans have packed into
:23:08. > :23:18.this Northampton ground. This is what they have come for - the new
:23:18. > :23:20.
:23:20. > :23:24.It has been 11 years since Elton John last came to the town, and the
:23:24. > :23:31.club are thrilled he chose to perform here. It is usually
:23:31. > :23:37.important to us. It is important to us to show that we can stage major
:23:37. > :23:41.concert events, attract major artists. The economic benefits are
:23:41. > :23:45.huge as well. Tomorrow Elton heads to Sussex for his last tour date
:23:45. > :23:49.and then he is off to Europe. But, for fans, this may not be the last
:23:49. > :23:59.star performer they see. The club is now hoping to host more concerts
:23:59. > :24:01.
:24:01. > :24:05.It looks like he enjoyed being there. He was not the only
:24:05. > :24:09.superstar performing in the region this weekend, Susie was performing,
:24:09. > :24:14.too. What I think he means is that we
:24:14. > :24:20.were asked to provide aback inquire for Russell Watson. Just before we
:24:20. > :24:24.went on stage, Russell told us why he always liked to use choirs from
:24:24. > :24:34.the region he is performing in. am a bigger advocate of using local
:24:34. > :24:38.choirs. I think having a local choir brings that sense of being
:24:38. > :24:46.here and being proud of the local musicians.
:24:46. > :24:56.I must also say that our colleague, Louise, is also in the choir.
:24:56. > :24:58.
:24:58. > :25:06.Many locations hit 30 Celsius and above. These pictures show people
:25:06. > :25:16.in Cambridge enjoying the weather, lazing around by the river. Many
:25:16. > :25:19.
:25:19. > :25:23.locations got a 32 Celsius. That is 90 degrees Fahrenheit. It will get
:25:24. > :25:32.quite a bit cooler but more normal temperatures for this time of year,
:25:32. > :25:42.but not before some thunderstorms. It will turn increasingly cloudy
:25:42. > :25:45.
:25:45. > :25:49.through this evening, and we do have a chance of thunderstorms. In
:25:49. > :25:57.the second half of the night, the showers could merge together to
:25:57. > :26:07.provide a longer spell of rain. The lowest overnight temperature will
:26:07. > :26:09.
:26:09. > :26:19.be 14 Celsius. Tomorrow will feel cool. There will be showers in
:26:19. > :26:20.
:26:20. > :26:30.Norfolk and Suffolk, especially along the east coast. 22 Celsius
:26:30. > :26:32.
:26:32. > :26:42.will feel a bit different from today. There is still a risk of
:26:42. > :26:52.
:26:52. > :26:56.heavy showers in the afternoon., for the rest of the week, we have
:26:56. > :27:00.fine, settled weather to look forward to. Not as hot as it has
:27:00. > :27:05.been. Some showers will linger around Norfolk and Suffolk
:27:05. > :27:10.particularly tomorrow. Wednesday looks fine and dry. There is the
:27:10. > :27:16.chance of an isolated shower. Temperatures will be back nearer to
:27:16. > :27:26.normal for this time of year. The winds will be reasonably light for
:27:26. > :27:26.