:00:14. > :00:18.Hello. Name approval had. A Basildon council leader roads to
:00:18. > :00:23.Dale Farm travellers, encouraging them to leave peacefully.
:00:23. > :00:29.Forensic scientists call for all samples to be protected after the
:00:29. > :00:34.labs are closed next year. archives are absolutely invaluable.
:00:34. > :00:40.You cannot put a price on it. and frustration as Cable thieves
:00:40. > :00:43.scupper the day's commute. I will be finding out what a gold
:00:43. > :00:53.medal-winning Olympic mountain- biking cyclist thinks of our course
:00:53. > :00:58.
:00:58. > :01:01.Hello. Four days to go till the eviction at Dale Farm and today
:01:01. > :01:04.there was an impassioned plea from the council leader.
:01:04. > :01:07.In an open letter to the travellers, Tony Ball urged them "from his
:01:07. > :01:11.heart" to leave the site in a "peaceful and orderly fashion." He
:01:11. > :01:14.said any violence would be hugely damaging. In a moment, we'll have a
:01:14. > :01:17.look at some of the activists from Camp Constant who've turned up to
:01:17. > :01:22.support the travellers, and we'll be hearing from local people as
:01:22. > :01:32.Monday's eviction approaches. But first, let's get more on
:01:32. > :01:32.
:01:32. > :01:35.today's developments from Alex Dunlop, who's at Dale Farm. The we
:01:35. > :01:39.are now in the heart of the illegal part of Dale Farm.
:01:39. > :01:42.You get a sense that things are coming to ahead. The contractors
:01:42. > :01:47.are still building up their preparations in advance of the
:01:47. > :01:53.addictions next week. There is an increased sense of defiance and
:01:53. > :01:56.desperation. An open letter was sent to the travellers by Tony
:01:57. > :02:03.bought this after them. He said, "at the time for talking is almost
:02:03. > :02:07.at an end. I'm very concerned that resistance might lead to law-
:02:07. > :02:11.breaking and even violence, and if this happens, it will not be in
:02:11. > :02:15.anyone's interest. I am therefore taking this last opportunity to
:02:15. > :02:23.urge you from my heart to pack up your belongings and leave Dale Farm
:02:23. > :02:26.in a peaceful and orderly fashion.". He also said to the activists, "I
:02:26. > :02:29.would ask you to think of the actions of the supporters who claim
:02:29. > :02:36.to have your interests at heart. Any unlawful behaviour of violence
:02:36. > :02:42.from them will be hugely damaging". I had a reaction from one of the
:02:43. > :02:49.travellers here. We never asked for a ban and eviction. He is making
:02:49. > :02:55.out we brought people here for a violence eviction. -- we never
:02:55. > :03:04.asked for his violent eviction. you leave in a peaceful manner?
:03:04. > :03:12.cannot leave because we have no way to go. What happens next?
:03:12. > :03:21.Today has been pretty low-key. About eight of the 86 or so
:03:21. > :03:23.families have already left. Thank you.
:03:23. > :03:28.Today, some travellers have clearly been making plans to leave, despite
:03:28. > :03:31.weeks of defiance. No-one really knows how many will remain. But
:03:31. > :03:40.some people are staying. They're the protestors who have set up camp
:03:40. > :03:45.on a pitch inside Dale Farm Travellers Camp.
:03:45. > :03:49.A glimpse inside Camp constant. For three weeks, they have donned
:03:49. > :03:54.century duty and befriended the travellers. Many supporters have
:03:54. > :03:59.come and gone. I had caught 50 remains. Among them, these three.
:03:59. > :04:05.On ex paratrooper, a university student and a human rights activist.
:04:05. > :04:13.I name is been. I'll make film maker and a concerned citizen.
:04:13. > :04:16.name is Kallie. I live locally. I am a student at Bristol. MCV. I
:04:16. > :04:20.look after people with mental illness. Different backgrounds but
:04:20. > :04:30.a common goal, to hold up the bailiffs the non violently.
:04:30. > :04:32.
:04:32. > :04:35.What difference can you make? will be Sharon for the next
:04:35. > :04:42.travellers' site or for the wider public that she cannot suppress a
:04:42. > :04:47.people -- it will be shown. I do not believe they will restore this
:04:47. > :04:54.to a green field site. It is not about planning, it is about human
:04:54. > :05:00.rights and prejudice. Reflecting on what these two have said, I do
:05:00. > :05:04.think this is ethnic cleansing. It is abhorrent to try and move these
:05:05. > :05:08.people into bricks and mortar. I cannot stand by and watch it happen.
:05:08. > :05:18.You are from a military background. Some might say you will be on the
:05:18. > :05:19.
:05:19. > :05:22.front line on Monday. Possibly. For security reasons, I cannot say.
:05:22. > :05:28.will not be leaving the Dale Farm and Messiaen in handcuffs all been
:05:28. > :05:31.invited back for Christmas dinner - - unless I am in handcuffs or being
:05:32. > :05:34.invited back for Christmas dinner. Dean Puckett, one of the activists
:05:35. > :05:38.at Camp Constant ending that report. The planned eviction is also having
:05:38. > :05:41.an effect on locals living near the site. Many are concerned about what
:05:41. > :05:48.will happen on Monday and today the council revealed the eviction could
:05:48. > :05:53.cost their taxpayers the equivalent of more than �100 each.
:05:53. > :05:58.Their new town and Borough of Basildon. Population approximately
:05:58. > :06:02.170,000, although that figure could reduced by around 400 next week,
:06:02. > :06:06.depending on what happens at Dale Farm. For residents living in the
:06:06. > :06:13.shadow of the stand-off, these are tense times. They people who live
:06:13. > :06:19.very near to the site, in Oak Road, will, I would imagine, be quite
:06:19. > :06:24.fearful of what might happen. is the image of Basildon many would
:06:24. > :06:29.like the world to see. Its new �38 million Olympic pool will host the
:06:29. > :06:35.Japanese Olympic team for training next year. Will the 10-year-old
:06:35. > :06:40.Dale Farm disputes leave a tarnished legacy? Anybody listening
:06:40. > :06:50.to Basildon will be thinking of Dale Farm and not the other aspects
:06:50. > :06:55.of Basildon. I think that image is stronger and will not be affected
:06:55. > :06:59.by a temporary news item. Why has reputations can be restored, the
:06:59. > :07:04.public purse is not always as forgiving. Dealing with Dale Farm
:07:04. > :07:10.could cost the council up to �8 million. -- whilst reputations can
:07:10. > :07:14.be restored. We are optimistic that the travellers will choose to move
:07:14. > :07:21.of their role her cot. The consequence is that we will spend
:07:21. > :07:31.much less than was budgeted for. -- IDP, the travellers will move of
:07:31. > :07:32.
:07:32. > :07:34.their own accord. Police investigating allegations of
:07:34. > :07:42.slavery at a travellers' site near Leighton Buzzard have arrested a
:07:42. > :07:45.fifth person. 30-year-old Josie Connors faces two counts of
:07:45. > :07:50.servitude and two of false labour after the Green Acres site was
:07:50. > :08:00.raided by the police early on Sunday morning. She has been bailed
:08:00. > :08:00.
:08:00. > :08:03.to appear in court later this month. There are calls for the government
:08:03. > :08:09.to secure the future of cold cases after the decision to close down
:08:09. > :08:19.the forensic Science Service. The Huntingdon Team have helped crack
:08:19. > :08:21.
:08:21. > :08:24.scores of rapes and murders. Judith is a forensic scientist, a
:08:24. > :08:28.detective in a white coat. She spends a large part of her life
:08:28. > :08:34.helping police track down killers and rapists. The evidence can be
:08:34. > :08:40.found here. There is a range of things for us to examine. You can
:08:40. > :08:45.see here in this particular case, we have some knotted flags. Who
:08:45. > :08:55.knows what evidence might be on their? At the lab in Huntingdon,
:08:55. > :08:56.
:08:56. > :09:01.they advised thousands of file -- files. The archives are absolutely
:09:01. > :09:06.invaluable. You cannot put a price on it. Forensic scientists and
:09:06. > :09:09.natural borders, and they love hoarding stuff and samples, because
:09:09. > :09:13.they know that one day, even there and they may be dead and gone, the
:09:13. > :09:20.case could be solved. The future of this national archive has not been
:09:20. > :09:26.secured. Huntingdon is one of five archives in the country. In it is
:09:26. > :09:31.extremely worrying. It is not replaceable. Once the forensic
:09:31. > :09:36.Science Service is closed down, we do not know where that resource
:09:36. > :09:41.will be. The service holds almost 2 million cases, going back to the 19
:09:41. > :09:47.forties. 20,000 requests a year are made to access material from the
:09:47. > :09:52.archives. In Huntingdon, advances in DNA technology helps them catch
:09:52. > :09:57.killer when Dougherty 25 years after he raped and murdered a woman.
:09:57. > :10:03.This man, Phil Collins, just 20 years after he raped a teenager in
:10:03. > :10:08.Suffolk. We are still working with the same passion, and we will do
:10:08. > :10:13.until a lap closes. It is in our bones. Scientists at Huntingdon are
:10:13. > :10:17.working on unsolved 1980s murders and rapes across Essex and Kent,
:10:17. > :10:22.but they do not know if the project will be completed. There is anger
:10:22. > :10:26.that no decision has yet been taken on who will manage the archive, and
:10:26. > :10:34.there is fear that it could be broken up. The Home Office says it
:10:34. > :10:37.is still considering what to do. Coming up later in the programme.
:10:37. > :10:40.How the midwife shortage in our region is among the worst in the
:10:40. > :10:48.country. And Shaun Peel's been to meet a very important mountain
:10:48. > :10:53.biker. He was the first man to win a gold medal in mountain biking, in
:10:53. > :10:59.Atlanta. He is in Essex to test our Olympic mountain biking course.
:10:59. > :11:02.Will find that what he thinks of it. -- we will find out what he thinks
:11:02. > :11:04.of it. Thousands of commuters have been
:11:04. > :11:07.left angry and frustrated that trains have had to be cancelled
:11:07. > :11:10.between Cambridge and London Liverpool Street. Network Rail says
:11:10. > :11:15.overhead lines were damaged last night, and delays are continuing
:11:15. > :11:24.tonight. As Mike Cartwright reports, it's thought cable thieves are to
:11:24. > :11:31.blame. A silent station. Commuters left
:11:31. > :11:37.waiting, angry and frustrated. The same at train stations all along
:11:37. > :11:44.the line. With no replacement buses, commuters were left desperately
:11:44. > :11:50.trying to find different ways into the capital. I mean, I do not know
:11:50. > :11:54.what to say. It's terrible. I need to get to the cos I'm doing at
:11:54. > :11:59.university, and I am not going to be able to get in this morning.
:11:59. > :12:03.Huge impact, as there is no real alternative. It should be addressed
:12:03. > :12:07.by the weather is in charge of the lines. At the moment, it is half an
:12:07. > :12:13.hour, but I think it will take two and a half hours to get to
:12:13. > :12:16.Liverpool Street. Roger they want the cables for? I do not understand.
:12:16. > :12:24.A Network Rail said the problems were caused by damage to overhead
:12:24. > :12:28.power lines. It is thought cable theft was to blame. The railways
:12:28. > :12:32.are difficult to protect. They run through open country. I am not
:12:32. > :12:39.necessarily in areas where the line side is overlooked. We have a lot
:12:39. > :12:44.of work going on with British Transport Police undertaking overt
:12:44. > :12:48.and covert operations. We had -- we have been told the cables have now
:12:48. > :12:58.been fixed. Passengers are being warned to expect disruption through
:12:58. > :12:58.
:12:58. > :13:03.Rail commuters from Norwich to London have been hit by serious
:13:03. > :13:07.delays due to a broken-down train. The destruction comes as every MP
:13:07. > :13:12.in Norfolk and Suffolk has signed a letter to the transport secretary
:13:12. > :13:17.calling for improvements to the line. A cyclist has been killed
:13:17. > :13:22.taking part in a trip from Land's End to John O'Groats. Kim Caplin,
:13:22. > :13:28.who was 40, came off her bike in the Yorkshire Dales. She died at
:13:28. > :13:31.the scene. A new survey has revealed that 45 % of companies in
:13:31. > :13:35.our region would not offer a job interview to someone with a
:13:35. > :13:39.criminal record. A survey was carried out by Business in the
:13:39. > :13:46.Community, which is staging a series of training exercises for
:13:46. > :13:51.companies about employing ex- offenders. When I first started to
:13:51. > :13:55.get into trouble it was petty things, smashing windows. John
:13:55. > :14:00.Finlayson was in a young offenders' institute at the age of 12. He led
:14:00. > :14:06.a life of crime, and in 1997 was sentenced to six years for
:14:06. > :14:09.aggravated burglary and threats to kill. Today he is a changed man and
:14:09. > :14:15.runs his own landscape gardening business. He always said that up
:14:15. > :14:19.because nobody else would give him a job. We are doing really well.
:14:19. > :14:25.The application never asked whether I had a criminal record, and at the
:14:25. > :14:28.end of the interview, I said there is something you need to know, I
:14:28. > :14:32.have a criminal record. They said that was fine and they would not
:14:32. > :14:37.hold it against me but I never heard against them -- I never heard
:14:37. > :14:42.from them after that. In Bury St Edmunds, a training session for
:14:42. > :14:45.companies thinking of employing ex- offenders. We are working on
:14:45. > :14:49.understanding the court system. If someone is Cosham, how long does
:14:49. > :14:55.that last? When things go to magistrates' courts do they go on
:14:55. > :14:58.to crown courts? John is now a Christian with a family who works
:14:58. > :15:04.with ex-offenders. He says companies must get the right advice
:15:04. > :15:10.and work with the right people. People ask me whether ex offenders
:15:10. > :15:14.deserve to be employed. I say 100 % yes. Was there needs to be employed,
:15:14. > :15:18.Iran a lot of guys out there that have not changed, do not want to
:15:18. > :15:23.change, and will rip you off as soon as you turn your back. You
:15:23. > :15:31.must find the Golden nugget. They are great workers. Fantastically
:15:31. > :15:36.skilled people. Give them a chance. The honour of Stan steady Airport,
:15:36. > :15:41.BAA, has vowed to fight a ruling that they must sell the Essex
:15:41. > :15:46.terminal. They have already sold Gatwick and own Heathrow. Stop
:15:46. > :15:51.Stansted Expansion, the campaign group, says it an abuse of legal
:15:51. > :15:57.process. The remains of an archbishop had
:15:57. > :16:01.been revealed, 630 years after his death. His skull has been kept and
:16:01. > :16:08.his face has now been recreating using modern reconstruction
:16:08. > :16:12.techniques. Simon of Sudbury was made the Archbishop of Canterbury
:16:12. > :16:17.in the 1300s. Five years later, he became the Chancellor of England
:16:18. > :16:21.and introduced the poll tax. It was unpopular and led to peasants
:16:21. > :16:26.storming the Tower of London and seizing him but were dragging him
:16:26. > :16:31.to Tower Hill where he was beheaded. His head was spotted by a man from
:16:31. > :16:36.Sudbury to grab it and brought it back to his home town. He had a bad
:16:36. > :16:43.press over the years which obscured a lot of good things about him. We
:16:43. > :16:50.have a picture of somebody who is very human. I lived with Simon for
:16:50. > :16:57.two years developing the project, to finally see his head was a very
:16:57. > :17:00.emotional moment. Using skeletal detail taken from his skull, Adrian
:17:00. > :17:06.Barker used state-of-the-art techniques to recreate his facial
:17:06. > :17:12.features. Because he has facial tissue still attached it to his
:17:12. > :17:19.skull, we needed to work out a way of getting that skeletal detail. In
:17:19. > :17:22.Dundee we have a computer software that turns the scans into clear, so
:17:22. > :17:32.we can delete parts we do not need. One of the models will be on
:17:32. > :17:38.
:17:38. > :17:47.permanent display in Sudbury. Coming up: John Hurt talks to us
:17:47. > :17:49.live from the Cambridge Film Festival. The Royal College of
:17:49. > :17:54.Midwives says shortages are having a real and significant impact on
:17:54. > :18:01.the quality of care available to women. New figures released today
:18:02. > :18:06.by the RCN says we need many more midwives in this Easter. That puts
:18:06. > :18:13.us among the worst shortages in the country, behind London. The
:18:13. > :18:21.rocketing birthrate is to blame. There is an increase of more than
:18:21. > :18:30.one-fifth on 10 years ago. This baby is just four hours through
:18:30. > :18:34.ball. This unit gives women more choice. Over 5,000 babies are born
:18:34. > :18:40.at this hospital, one of the busiest in our region. They are
:18:40. > :18:45.still under staff, 20 midwives short. We have to appreciate we
:18:45. > :18:49.have an ageing workforce. There are a number of midwives approaching
:18:49. > :18:54.the 50 plus age group, but in anticipation of that, we have an
:18:54. > :19:01.increase in the student midwife population. There is a Nick
:19:01. > :19:05.anticipation we will replace them. I have been in before, and I have
:19:05. > :19:11.noticed it is much busier than my previous sections. The care has
:19:11. > :19:15.been very good but you can see the staff are very stretched. Figures
:19:15. > :19:19.today shows midwife numbers have not kept place with -- not kept
:19:19. > :19:26.pace with the birth rate. The Department of Health says a record
:19:26. > :19:29.number are being trained, so what is happening? We would certainly
:19:29. > :19:33.like the Government to make a commitment to ensuring that there
:19:33. > :19:41.are adequate numbers of midwives in training. We think this needs to be
:19:41. > :19:47.looked at on an England wide basis. Trainees like this person will be
:19:47. > :19:55.graduating next summer. I think it is incredibly concerned that there
:19:55. > :20:01.is not a recruitment drive going on. It does not bode well. Today we
:20:01. > :20:11.were told that they had more midwives than put it. It said they
:20:11. > :20:14.
:20:14. > :20:20.were the highest performing Arguments about figures may
:20:20. > :20:24.continue but babies keep on coming. So too must the midwives.
:20:24. > :20:29.Now the Olympic record: tonight we are checking out one of our Olympic
:20:29. > :20:33.venues. It is the mountain biking course at Hadleigh farm in Essex.
:20:33. > :20:37.The Dutch have been there because they hope to stage the Olympic
:20:37. > :20:47.Games in 17 years time. They had been looking to Essex for
:20:47. > :20:48.
:20:48. > :20:53.inspiration. The Netherlands are thinking of staging the Olympic
:20:53. > :20:58.Games in 2028, and today at Dutch delegation were learning from
:20:58. > :21:02.Essex's experience of being a host county. The men in suits were
:21:02. > :21:11.accompanied by another Dutchman. This was the first man to win an
:21:11. > :21:19.Olympic gold in mountain biking. is a beautiful course. It is
:21:19. > :21:23.handbill and beautiful. I have respect for it. It was quiet today
:21:23. > :21:28.but six weeks before there were a lot of people here to witness the
:21:28. > :21:37.ride away. It will be back next summer. The stakes will be a bit
:21:37. > :21:41.higher. This man had the course to himself giving a masterclass to
:21:41. > :21:46.children from the nearby sports college. One of the challenges is
:21:47. > :21:52.named after the school. Somebody came down here on the training day,
:21:53. > :21:58.and they had a crash. It looks really scary. There are lots of
:21:58. > :22:03.drops. One of the buzzwords around London 2012 his legacy, essentially
:22:03. > :22:08.what happens when the Olympic circus has left town. The people
:22:08. > :22:12.Essex are being asked what they would like to happen. We want to
:22:12. > :22:16.retain it and adapted so it can be used by the public, but what we're
:22:16. > :22:21.doing in the first phase is asking a wide range of people to give us
:22:21. > :22:29.their views. This man has retired, but having seen the course he
:22:29. > :22:31.wishes he could turn the clock back and be here next year. Do not
:22:31. > :22:37.forget to tune into your local radio station every Thursday
:22:37. > :22:42.morning For regular Olympic update. The Cambridge Film Festival starts
:22:42. > :22:46.tonight. It has been going for 31 years and it is opening with the
:22:46. > :22:50.screening of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It is a remake of the 70s spy
:22:50. > :22:57.drama starring Alec Guinness. The actor John Hurt is in the new film
:22:57. > :23:03.and he joins us live. John, this is a remake of the iconic production
:23:03. > :23:10.at that we just mentioned. How much pressure does that put on the cast
:23:10. > :23:18.to follow on from that? Let me say this, it is not a remake of
:23:18. > :23:23.anything, it is a film. The other making of it was a television
:23:23. > :23:29.programme. It was fantastic. We appreciated greatly, but this is a
:23:29. > :23:34.film, not a remake of the television show. I have seen the
:23:34. > :23:44.trailer and it is full of tension. Is that what the movie is like? Can
:23:44. > :23:44.
:23:44. > :23:54.we expect at tense thriller? Definitely. It is of course at the
:23:54. > :23:55.
:23:55. > :24:01.genre at of a thriller. The content is a great deal more, it is to do
:24:01. > :24:07.with all kinds of human strengths and weaknesses. The trail,
:24:07. > :24:12.friendship, so on. -- betrayal and friendship. It is dense and it has
:24:12. > :24:22.a great deal of stuff in it. It never loses the excitement. There
:24:22. > :24:23.
:24:23. > :24:30.is a great cast alongside you. Tell us about your role. My character
:24:30. > :24:39.speaks for himself. His name is control. He is the head of MI6.
:24:39. > :24:49.Most of what you see is in flashback of me. It is the story of
:24:49. > :24:49.
:24:49. > :24:54.the arrival of a man in the circus. It is a MI6. Smiley is played by
:24:54. > :24:59.Gary Oldman and quite brilliantly. I am sure you play your part
:24:59. > :25:03.equally as well. You have spent a lot of time in the region, how is
:25:03. > :25:13.it -- how important is it that people like yourself support film
:25:13. > :25:14.
:25:15. > :25:19.festivals like Cambridge? I live in Norfolk! That is my home. I do not
:25:19. > :25:25.want it to seem as though I just spent time here, it is my life. It
:25:25. > :25:34.is fantastic and I love it. I'm thrilled to be on this programme! I
:25:34. > :25:44.have seen it many times and never been on. Enjoy the festival. Thank
:25:44. > :25:47.you very much indeed. That was really exciting! It was John Hurt.
:25:47. > :25:51.He is obviously watching the He is obviously watching the
:25:51. > :25:57.weather all the time. You must be star-struck. It was a rather chilly
:25:57. > :26:01.and find the start to the day. High pressure was dominating the scene.
:26:01. > :26:06.There is low-pressure heading in from the West, it turned conditions
:26:06. > :26:15.about cloudier. Tonight it should stay dry to start with, then the
:26:15. > :26:24.cloud will vary. Cloud will bring the odd spot of chilly rain. It
:26:24. > :26:34.will not be as chilly as last night. Tonight the cold spot is likely to
:26:34. > :26:39.
:26:39. > :26:46.be eight Celsius. The wind will stay light. This frontal system
:26:46. > :26:55.will be arriving on Friday. The bulk of the day will not be too bad.
:26:55. > :27:01.There will be a band of showery rain. Most places get away with a
:27:01. > :27:06.dry day. Temperatures still likely to be about 19 Celsius. The wind
:27:06. > :27:11.speed will gradually increase today. It will be a moderate south-
:27:11. > :27:15.easterly wind. For the rest of the week I am afraid it looks a little
:27:15. > :27:19.unsettled. This is the pressure chart for the weekend. Low-pressure
:27:19. > :27:24.very close by. We know it will be rather windy. There will be some