:00:05. > :00:08.In Look East tonight. It's the exit door for Britain's most
:00:08. > :00:14.controversial council boss. Andrea Hill is cleared of wrong-doing, but
:00:14. > :00:18.leaves her job in Suffolk with a six figure pay-off. I think that is
:00:18. > :00:21.the most brilliant news I have heard today. I do not think she has
:00:21. > :00:24.done anything for Ipswich at all. Hello from Susie and me.
:00:24. > :00:26.Also tonight. Europe's biggest illegal
:00:26. > :00:29.travellers' site erects the barricades as bailiffs hand out
:00:29. > :00:35.eviction notices ordering them to leave the site We are using gas
:00:35. > :00:39.cylinders. We will turn them on and set them on fire. Petrol bombs,
:00:39. > :00:45.generators. Whatever it takes to try and defend our homes, we are
:00:45. > :00:48.going to do. It is the end of an era at Papworth
:00:48. > :00:51.as the surgeon who pioneered heart and lung transplants around the
:00:51. > :01:01.world retires. And a special interview with
:01:01. > :01:14.
:01:14. > :01:17.Strictly stars Vincent and Flavia Hello. One of the most turbulent
:01:17. > :01:21.episodes in local government came to a close today as Andrea Hill
:01:21. > :01:23.stepped down from her post at Suffolk County Council. Three years
:01:23. > :01:28.after leading the council through a controversial shake-up of services,
:01:28. > :01:31.she leaves with a six-figure pay- off.
:01:31. > :01:36.The trouble began for Andrea Hill when she and not the council became
:01:36. > :01:39.the story. From the beginning to the end, she was dogged by
:01:39. > :01:42.complaints about her salary and her style of management.
:01:42. > :01:44.She was appointed to her post in March 2008. Her salary - �218,000.
:01:44. > :01:54.In September 2010, the council announced plans to outsource, what
:01:54. > :01:58.
:01:58. > :02:00.she called divesting, most of the services, including libraries. A
:02:00. > :02:03.month later, Local Government Minister Eric Pickles called on all
:02:03. > :02:07.council chief executives earning more than �200,000 a year to take a
:02:07. > :02:10.�100,00 pay cut. A call backed by the Prime Minister. In January this
:02:10. > :02:15.year, during an exclusive interview, she told me the job was a big and
:02:15. > :02:19.demanding one. So is the job of Prime Minister and he earns less
:02:19. > :02:25.than you do. I do not think that can be right. I think I have
:02:25. > :02:30.answered that question. But the Prime Minister makes the decisions
:02:30. > :02:39.and is running the country. You are running Suffolk council. The Prime
:02:39. > :02:41.Minister is a politician, I do not think you can compare the two.
:02:42. > :02:44.In April, council leader Jeremy Pembroke stepped down. Within a
:02:44. > :02:48.month, Andrea Hill was taking extended leave. First tonight,
:02:48. > :02:51.details of the deal that has seen her go.
:02:51. > :02:53.By the time the committee which would decide Andrea Hill's fate
:02:53. > :02:58.reconvened at nine this morning, rumours were already swirling,
:02:58. > :03:01.suggesting she was long gone. Just before ten, it seemed the meeting
:03:02. > :03:06.was over. We were promised a statement within the hour. But it
:03:06. > :03:08.didn't come until 1.30, confirming a parting of the ways. The
:03:08. > :03:18.investigation into the whistleblower claims complete, most
:03:18. > :03:19.
:03:19. > :03:24.notably those of bullying and harassment. The committee said
:03:24. > :03:31.there was claims had been robustly investigated. It went on, it is
:03:31. > :03:35.concern that such a allegation existed, but concluded there was no
:03:35. > :03:38.evidence to support them. The inquiry started after the death
:03:38. > :03:41.of David White, the council's former head of legal services. He
:03:41. > :03:44.was found hanging in woodland. But the committee said there was
:03:44. > :03:47.nothing to suggest Andrea Hill had been to blame. It also studied a
:03:47. > :03:49.report into expense claims she'd made. Among them, hotel bills. It
:03:49. > :03:52.said that while in the current climate, some might not have
:03:52. > :03:54.represented best use of public money, the committee accepted that
:03:54. > :03:57.there was no dishonesty in the claims made.
:03:57. > :03:59.The council said it felt there had been significant media attention
:03:59. > :04:02.attached to Mrs Hill which has become a distraction. Both parties
:04:02. > :04:09.accepted that it is better to allow the organisation to move forward
:04:09. > :04:16.with new managerial leadership. In truth, a return for Andrea Hill
:04:16. > :04:22.always seemed highly unlikely. The leader who appointed her, Jeremy
:04:22. > :04:25.Pemrboke, had stepped down. The first move of his successor Mark
:04:25. > :04:28.Bee was to kick the radical costcutting plan she so publicly
:04:28. > :04:32.championed into the long grass. It was that salary of �218,000 which
:04:32. > :04:37.seemed to define her and that is the sum which she will walk away
:04:37. > :04:40.with as a pay off in compensation. The council said it could have
:04:40. > :04:45.faced much higher costs had agreement not been reached. Kevin
:04:45. > :04:48.Burch BBC Look East in Ipswich. So what does all of this mean to
:04:48. > :04:51.people in Suffolk? The Andrea Hill years will be remembered by many as
:04:51. > :04:54.a time of protest with libraries under threat, school crossing
:04:54. > :04:58.patrols under threat and care homes under threat. Our chief reporter
:04:58. > :05:02.Kim Riley has been getting reaction to the news today.
:05:02. > :05:07.The news that, after weeks in limbo, the lady is on her way was the hot
:05:07. > :05:17.topic in Ipswich town centre. think it is the most brilliant news
:05:17. > :05:24.I have heard today. Good job. us some money. We overpaid. She was
:05:24. > :05:30.earning too much so it is good. There are people like myself
:05:30. > :05:35.working lots of hours for nothing. It is not fair. I cannot judge
:05:35. > :05:42.without knowing too many of the details. But it does seem an awful
:05:42. > :05:47.lot to be paid for what she is doing. The Ipswich Evening Star has
:05:47. > :05:52.been a maths or in the side of the former chief Executive. -- a thorn
:05:53. > :05:57.in the side. A pay the radical policies that we have seen in
:05:57. > :06:03.Suffolk with which she has been associated and which she has said
:06:03. > :06:07.she was enthusiastic about, I think people are left asking why it
:06:07. > :06:13.Suffolk are needed to be quite as radical as that. Or opposition
:06:13. > :06:21.leaders on the county council have welcomed today's developments.
:06:21. > :06:24.behalf of the people of Suffolk, I think it will be a relief. The fact
:06:24. > :06:30.that she would not take a pay cut even though she was being advised
:06:31. > :06:35.it to do so by national government, where as her colleagues had done
:06:35. > :06:41.elsewhere and the cancer was having to make so many millions of pounds
:06:41. > :06:47.of savings, I think it Stoke to the anger among the public. Andrea Hill
:06:47. > :06:57.was brought in to save millions of pounds. Whoever now takes over the
:06:57. > :06:57.
:06:57. > :07:06.hot seat faces a big challenge. If she has done nothing wrong, why
:07:06. > :07:09.is she going? A question for the council leader. We at the beginning
:07:09. > :07:14.of a new council political leadership. I think it was felt
:07:14. > :07:19.that now would be an appropriate time for a new head of paid service.
:07:19. > :07:25.We have gone through quite an exhaustive investigative process in
:07:25. > :07:30.looking at issues relating to Andrea Hill. While there has been
:07:30. > :07:34.nothing that we would say she has done wrong, there is clearly now a
:07:34. > :07:40.need for a new direction and that is what we are looking towards.
:07:40. > :07:45.have heard about her salary, that is what she is getting as a payout,
:07:45. > :07:53.�218,000. That is a lot of money from a council that has no money.
:07:53. > :08:03.Add the you will find that that is a very good deal. -- I think you
:08:03. > :08:04.
:08:04. > :08:10.will find. We are pleased to be paeon of one year's salary. In the
:08:10. > :08:15.press release, it was said that the preceding it has cost about quarter
:08:15. > :08:18.of a million pounds, add that to the salary and that is half-a-
:08:18. > :08:22.million pounds that you do not have that. We cannot summarily dismiss
:08:22. > :08:27.people, and neither should be. They have to go through the proper
:08:27. > :08:34.process and that is what we have done and that costs money. But we
:08:34. > :08:41.have tried to keep it to an absolute minimum. One of your local
:08:41. > :08:46.MPs said you will be looking for somebody who does not cost as much.
:08:46. > :08:51.We will be looking very quickly at what happens next. Salary will be a
:08:51. > :08:55.big and important part in that. You can be assured that we will not be
:08:55. > :09:05.looking at a huge salary for this role. We won something that is
:09:05. > :09:06.
:09:06. > :09:10.realistic. A in retrospect, was Andrea Hill about a partner?
:09:10. > :09:17.did an awful lot of good things within the organisation. I would
:09:17. > :09:25.not say she was a bad a point but. I think that -- and bad appointment.
:09:25. > :09:34.But things have moved on. What was a good appoint him back them is now
:09:34. > :09:37.a not relevant. -- appointment. somebody is watching this am
:09:37. > :09:41.thinking of applying, what is the going rate? I think that is
:09:41. > :09:46.something that we need to decide and I would have welcomed the view
:09:46. > :09:51.from all members of the council. It is not just up to me. This is a
:09:51. > :09:59.full council appointed. I will be wanting to get their views of all
:09:59. > :10:07.members across the political spectrum in the council. Thank you
:10:07. > :10:09.very much indeed. Travellers at the Dale Farm site in
:10:09. > :10:12.Essex have been erecting barricades today after bailiffs served them
:10:12. > :10:15.with notices ordering them to quit. The settlement, near Crays Hill,
:10:15. > :10:18.has been the scene of a bitter dispute for years. Today, 90
:10:18. > :10:28.families were ordered to quit by the end of August or face the
:10:28. > :10:33.bailiffs. Let's go live to Gareth George. They have been fighting
:10:33. > :10:36.eviction here at Dale Farm for 10 years. Every day brings the lives
:10:36. > :10:42.closer, but today they got something they had been dreading,
:10:43. > :10:48.it is their 28 day notice to leave. This was their reaction. A sign of
:10:48. > :10:54.what could be in store at Dale Farm. Worried council officials could
:10:54. > :11:00.return, defences were built. We are willing to die if that is going to
:11:00. > :11:05.be what it takes. We are using gas cylinders, we will turn them on and
:11:05. > :11:14.set them on fire. They will do whatever it takes to try and defend
:11:14. > :11:18.our homes. We will have caravans here that we was set alight. We are
:11:18. > :11:28.not going peacefully. Bet they want us out, they will have to bring us
:11:28. > :11:30.
:11:30. > :11:35.out in body bags. Prams were filled up to the barricades to show the
:11:35. > :11:39.danger children would face if any eviction goes ahead. We are willing
:11:39. > :11:47.for our babies and ourselves are to die fighting because otherwise, if
:11:47. > :11:55.we leave, we have no future. We have no where to go. Elsewhere,
:11:55. > :12:05.notices were appended to caravan doors. The Dale Farm Association
:12:05. > :12:08.said they were given to 50 families. It is one of the biggest a
:12:08. > :12:12.travellers' site in Europe's. The legal battle has gone on for 10
:12:12. > :12:18.years. Basildon council say that travellers on pitches built without
:12:18. > :12:23.planning permission have to go. all hope that this very late stage
:12:23. > :12:27.for a peaceful solution to this. No one wants to see a forced eviction.
:12:27. > :12:33.But at the end of the day, we have to go through with this and clear
:12:33. > :12:38.that side. Otherwise, we will be allowing people to break the log
:12:38. > :12:42.and there will be a big for sale sign over our green-belt. -- the
:12:42. > :12:48.law. It seems that the eviction is just weeks away, but the travellers
:12:48. > :12:58.say they will not go without a fight. The notice says it to make
:12:58. > :12:59.
:12:59. > :13:07.arrangements to vacate the land by 31st August. If you failed to do so,
:13:07. > :13:11.the council will clear the site in September, removing all moveable
:13:11. > :13:18.and fixed structures. The travellers say they will fight, but
:13:18. > :13:23.there -- but the council is appealing them to move off
:13:23. > :13:25.peacefully. Still to come tonight. Retirement
:13:25. > :13:28.for the surgeon whose work at Papworth Hospital changed
:13:28. > :13:31.transplant surgery around the world. Plus, I catch up with Strictly
:13:31. > :13:41.stars Vincent and Flavia as their new show rolls into the region. Get
:13:41. > :13:57.
:13:57. > :14:05.ready to tango after more news In a career over 30 years,
:14:05. > :14:10.Professor John Wallwork has prolong the lives of thousands of people.
:14:10. > :14:15.They gathered at two hail of the career of a great surgeon. What
:14:15. > :14:24.stands out at your greatest achievement? When they did the
:14:24. > :14:32.heart-lung transplant. It was the first one. You go away thinking I
:14:32. > :14:38.have done something no one else has ever done. That operation was in
:14:38. > :14:48.1986. Two years before that, at Papworth, he carried out a heart-
:14:48. > :14:48.
:14:48. > :14:52.lung transplant. He has prolong the lives of thousands. But what about
:14:52. > :14:58.a change in the law? I think there is a general feeling among the
:14:58. > :15:04.population that transplantation is a good thing. When you then say
:15:04. > :15:08.that you are going to take their organs and people object, that is
:15:08. > :15:13.always difficult. You may be in a difficult situation where you have
:15:13. > :15:20.the legal right to take the organs, but their relatives are objective.
:15:20. > :15:25.Do you have the moral right? After three decades at the forefront of
:15:25. > :15:31.transplant surgery, what is next? Probably one of the most important
:15:31. > :15:36.focus has is that we will be moving our hospital on to an environmental
:15:36. > :15:42.campus in Cambridge. We need a research institute and one of my
:15:42. > :15:47.tasks will be to help fund that. Unless we do that, we will be stuck
:15:47. > :15:54.always doing yesterday's medicine today. We need to do tomorrow's
:15:54. > :16:04.medicine today. The move to Addenbrooke's should happen by 2015.
:16:04. > :16:05.
:16:05. > :16:08.A new hospital, his legacy. A man has been charged after a 10-
:16:08. > :16:11.year-old boy was attacked by a dog in Norwich yesterday afternoon.
:16:11. > :16:14.Nathan Atkins has been charged with allowing a dog to be dangerously
:16:14. > :16:19.out of control in a public place causing injury. The boy has
:16:19. > :16:22.injuries to his arm and is in a stable condition in hospital.
:16:22. > :16:24.More than 4,300 knives have been handed in during the first six
:16:24. > :16:28.months of a year-long amnesty in Suffolk. Four permanent collection
:16:28. > :16:31.points and two mobile bins have been set up as part of the Bin a
:16:31. > :16:37.Blade campaign. The amnesty has been publicised by Holly Watson
:16:37. > :16:39.from Sudbury whose brother Lewis was fatally stabbed in 2009.
:16:39. > :16:41.Meanwhile several towns in the region are celebrating their
:16:41. > :16:47.traditional shops today. On American Independence Day, they are
:16:47. > :16:50.promoting the independence of small retailers. Among them is Bury St
:16:50. > :16:58.Edmunds which has a wealth of small shops which are not part of
:16:58. > :17:02.national chains. Supermarkets are markets with a roof on. They do not
:17:02. > :17:12.make anything themselves. They buy them and sell out. We make our own
:17:12. > :17:15.produce. That is why we are different.
:17:15. > :17:18.Work has begun to repair a multi- storey car park in Chelmsford which
:17:18. > :17:21.has been closed for nearly four months due to safety concerns. High
:17:21. > :17:23.Chelmer Car Park was closed in March after problems were found
:17:23. > :17:26.with concrete ramps and reinforcement bars. It is hoped the
:17:26. > :17:29.1,000 capacity car park will fully reopen in October following the
:17:29. > :17:33.�1.6 million project. The Defence Secretary has confirmed
:17:33. > :17:37.that a decision over the future of RAF Marham has been made, but he
:17:37. > :17:40.will not say what it is. Liam Fox told MPs today the findings of a
:17:40. > :17:46.review into the future of the UK's Tornado bases will be revealed in
:17:46. > :17:49.the near future. Answering a question tabled by a Scottish MP,
:17:49. > :17:59.Dr Fox disclosed that a number of the key decisions relating to the
:17:59. > :18:00.
:18:00. > :18:03.bases had been made over the weekend.
:18:03. > :18:13.More than 30,000 people are at RAF Feltwell in Norfolk for the
:18:13. > :18:14.
:18:14. > :18:17.American air force July 4th celebrations. Monday July 4th. In
:18:17. > :18:20.England just the start of the week. But for Americans, July 4th is
:18:20. > :18:22.special. A chance to celebrate independence and relax a little.
:18:22. > :18:25.The F15s are at Lakenheath, the 100th air refuelling wing at
:18:25. > :18:31.Mildenhall, and everyone gets to together for fun at Feltwell. Even
:18:31. > :18:40.the CO was in his baseball kit. Baseball is like cricket, but not
:18:40. > :18:46.as interesting. It all depends at your perspective. I bat. Are you
:18:46. > :18:50.any good? For my age, I hold my own. At the really looking forward to a
:18:50. > :18:53.fun day. Food is a big thing on July 4th.
:18:53. > :19:02.Not just burgers, but nachos, corn dogs and the American equivalent of
:19:02. > :19:06.a deep-fried Mars bar, the deep fried Twinkie. Soft and squishy.
:19:06. > :19:15.The deep-fry it for a little bit until it is golden brown and
:19:15. > :19:18.sprinkle sugar on it. So it is really good for you! The best.
:19:18. > :19:25.We all know Americans love cars, but how about an American with a
:19:25. > :19:33.love for English cars? Zak Kruly's day job is fixing aircraft but his
:19:33. > :19:40.passion is the Mini Cooper which he has restored from scrap. It took me
:19:40. > :19:50.about six months, about 1000 hours. A how much is it worth now? About
:19:50. > :19:52.
:19:52. > :19:55.�20,000. Aletta that more than the The Commanding Officer seemed to be
:19:55. > :20:00.doing well on the baseball field. But they probably let him win just
:20:00. > :20:10.to be on the safe side. And a deep fried Twinkie is a bit like a donut,
:20:10. > :20:21.
:20:21. > :20:26.They are to back of the most popular people on one of the BBC's
:20:26. > :20:31.most popular shows. Flavia and Vincent are famous across the whole
:20:31. > :20:41.country because of Strictly Come Dancing.
:20:41. > :20:48.Now they are touring with their own show, Midnight Tango. It is mostly
:20:48. > :20:53.the Argentine tango which is what we wanted to do. There are subtle
:20:53. > :20:59.influences from the ballroom world, but it is predominantly a tangle
:20:59. > :21:09.show. Is it for Strictly Come Dancing fans? I think we get a
:21:09. > :21:15.
:21:15. > :21:20.mixture. We get some time golf fanatics. -- tangle more fanatics.
:21:20. > :21:23.We obviously get a lot of women who come to see be. You are very
:21:23. > :21:28.popular on Strictly Come Dancing, you are a long-term partnership,
:21:28. > :21:38.how did it come together in the first place? We started to go there
:21:38. > :21:42.
:21:42. > :21:47.when I was 16 -- we started it together when I was 16. I was
:21:47. > :21:54.looking for an year partner and so was Vincent. That was 16 years ago.
:21:54. > :21:58.It was a match made in heaven. The looker, the height, the power that
:21:59. > :22:04.we had at the start, we matched straight away. Even our teacher
:22:04. > :22:08.could not believe it. How it two people can look so good so soon.
:22:08. > :22:16.You had been on strictly for years now, that must have changed your
:22:16. > :22:21.life? Yes, we worked our way up through all the acts over the years
:22:21. > :22:27.and became professional. We were very well known within the ball run
:22:27. > :22:37.industry, but strictly has changed that. Do you enjoy the celebrity
:22:37. > :22:39.
:22:39. > :22:46.side of it? Of course I do. I always wanted to be one. I remember
:22:46. > :22:52.talking to one of the couple's I used to teach. He remembered that I
:22:52. > :22:58.said I wanted to be famous. Strictly itself, you never know who
:22:58. > :23:02.you are going to get, is that true? You do not know this year? No. But
:23:03. > :23:10.I believe this year it will be live and so we will find out together
:23:10. > :23:19.with our fans and our audience. must know who is good to be good or
:23:19. > :23:24.not good, so you have to put a brave face on it? Of course we do.
:23:24. > :23:29.We do not mind who they get. As long as they enjoy the show. For
:23:29. > :23:36.myself, I have been quite lucky. All my partner's were all in love
:23:36. > :23:39.with the show. They were so lucky to spend every day with me. As long
:23:40. > :23:49.as they have got the commitment to do well and love the show and love
:23:49. > :23:59.dancing, that is it. I wish you all the very best of luck. Thank you
:23:59. > :24:08.
:24:08. > :24:14.A lovely day today, but the weather is starting to change after
:24:14. > :24:17.tomorrow. We have had fairly clear skies. The east got the best of the
:24:17. > :24:21.sunshine today. You can see that area of cloud in the West just now.
:24:21. > :24:23.What cloud is there should become broken over night. Some evening
:24:23. > :24:27.sunshine and lengthy clear spells overnight. Temperatures dropping as
:24:27. > :24:30.low as nine degrees in the West, around 12 or 13 the further east
:24:30. > :24:33.you are. The wind is coming from a south easterly direction, light,
:24:33. > :24:35.but picking up tomorrow. This is what is coming during tomorrow. Low
:24:35. > :24:38.pressure here over the Atlantic is pushing these weather fronts
:24:38. > :24:41.towards us during the day. We will start with sunshine tomorrow, a
:24:41. > :24:45.really warm day. As you see on the charts, clear skies, the East
:24:45. > :24:48.getting the best of the sunshine. But through the afternoon, that
:24:48. > :24:52.area of cloud starts to develop, bringing a distinct band of rain.
:24:52. > :25:01.Having said that, ahead of the rain, it will be very warm. Temperatures
:25:01. > :25:04.The wind light to moderate southerly. It will feel breezier
:25:04. > :25:07.tomorrow, but that will be cancelled out by the warmth. The
:25:07. > :25:13.rain will track eastward. Overnight, we will get some more heavy
:25:13. > :25:16.persistent bursts. For the rest of the week, low pressure very much
:25:16. > :25:19.with us. You can see the air moving anti-clockwise around the area of
:25:19. > :25:23.low pressure. That keeps conditions cooler, breezy with a chance of
:25:23. > :25:33.showers. A chance of showers right through the week. Stronger winds,
:25:33. > :25:41.
:25:41. > :25:43.feeling cooler. A reminder of the day's main news.
:25:43. > :25:46.Andrea Hill, the controversial chief executive of Suffolk County
:25:46. > :25:49.Council, has left her post. She is to receive a six-figure pay-off.
:25:49. > :25:51.And travellers at Dale Farm near Basildon have erected barricades
:25:51. > :26:01.after bailiffs served them with eviction notices ordering them off
:26:01. > :26:04.
:26:05. > :26:06.the site. Let's talk to our political
:26:07. > :26:10.correspondent Andrew Sinclair, who is at Westminster now.
:26:10. > :26:13.What's the reaction been to the departure of Andrea Hill?
:26:13. > :26:21.One of relief. For the past year, government ministers have been
:26:21. > :26:24.increasingly angry about this issue. Whenever they talk about councils
:26:24. > :26:32.cutting expenses, the whole business of Andrea Hill would come
:26:32. > :26:38.up. She was a huge distraction. Every other house cobwebby
:26:38. > :26:43.discovered I was an MP, they wanted to talk about this chief-executive.
:26:43. > :26:48.to talk about this chief-executive. Andrea Hill had become the story.
:26:48. > :26:58.When that happens, it is time for them to get off the stage. It is
:26:58. > :27:04.time to good this huge row between -- behind us, and hire someone to
:27:04. > :27:08.run services across Suffolk at a low were salary. Eric Pickles
:27:08. > :27:12.expects the new salary to reflect the tough economic circumstances
:27:12. > :27:19.that we are in. What's is being said about Dale
:27:19. > :27:24.Farm? MPs are being briefed about the
:27:24. > :27:27.police force's readiness to evict travellers. There is a
:27:27. > :27:31.determination dowdier which I am detecting that ministers and MPs
:27:31. > :27:37.feel that there has been enough talking and it is time to enforce