05/12/2011 Look East - East

Good evening. This was the day the cabinet met in this region for the

first time. Ministers went to Ipswich and the Prime Minister

visited in this laboratory. challenge is to rebalance the

economy and make sure that instead of just financial services in the

south-east of England we have got proper investment in manufacturing,

technology, making things and selling things to the world. It was

not just David Cameron. A whole series of ministers were out on a

PR offensive. A woman narrowly escaped injury

when a concrete block was thrown at her car. I was very shaken.

Is this chilly weather set to stay? We are live from BT's Research

Laboratory on the outskirts of Ipswich. The company has been

showing off its latest technology to the Prime Minister. On the

government's agenda today was a life sciences. In particular on

display was Tele-Care Health. We will have more on that later. First,

this place. 3,000 people are employed by a B T. 500 people are

employed by other companies on the same campus. It is worth �830

million to the economy. It is the sort of place for politicians wish

to be seen. David Cameron had his to it this morning.

Then it ministers met for a full cabinet meeting. Our political

correspondent was what the Prime Minister. We start to write with

his report. Extra commuters arrived this

morning. Look closely among the passengers and you will see the

deputy prime minister, the business Secretary, and the Chancellor and

the Defence Secretary. Is this more than a publicity

stunt? It is not just to have a meeting that to make sure that the

Education Secretary is visiting schools, to make sure that the

Justice Secretary is seeing a local community payback schemes. To get

the Cabinet to see what is happening here. First they had to

hold their weekly meeting. On the agenda was the eurozone crisis, the

economy, and Afghanistan. That is pretty good. That was very good.

David Cameron was shown how to broadband can help doctors to

monitor patients from a distance. Her it gives the patient greater

control over their own health care. It provides accurate medical

readings. It allows them to stay in their homes for longer. The Prime

Minister said there were many very good high-tech businesses in the

East. This is where he believes the future of the country lies. After

meeting for one hour he and his ministers headed off - not for

London, but for different parts of the region. But some people are

sceptical. I would have liked him to have a meeting with me. I want

to tell them facts about what is going on in Ipswich and not just an

airbrushed image. There are things such as high unemployment going on

in Ipswich. The Prime Minister a believes these days are useful. He

says it reminds his ministers that there is life outside London and it

shows the regions that they are appreciated.

Andrew Lansley is the Health Secretary and their MP for South

Cambridgeshire. He is back in London now. Was it worth the visit?

Yes. It is important that the Cabinet should meet in places

across the whole of Britain. Not least to give us an opportunity to

see, in my case my constituency is in that region, but for Michael

Gove to be in a school in Ipswich, for the Transport Secretary to go

to Felixstowe. Actually doing this together gave us an opportunity to

get a picture of the whole region. Not only how important the work is

at BT, that picture of the entire economy. Are you getting a real

picture? Labour said it is an re- addressed view that the Cabinet is

getting. You do not see their infrastructure problems or that

unemployment. When we go I am sure that we receive a straight account

of what is happening. There is the opportunity to see what is good and

what is a problem. People take these opportunities. There are some

good things happening. We a rebalancing the economy. We are

moving away from an over-dependence on financial services. We were

saying today that we intend to build on that our scientific

expertise. A lot of that is in Cambridge and Norwich. Clearly

these places are internationally renowned in terms of their science.

Can I talk specifically about health? The Prime Minister was

looking at technology related to health. Are you frustrated that

more is not made of new and emerging technology in the NHS?

are determined that in the future we must get not only good ideas in

the NHS, but make sure that their good ideas are carried through

across the service. Today we have seen an example of where we have

piloted a scheme that can support people at home with new technology.

The example of Cornwall is useful. It is using super-fast broadband

similar to that which was demonstrated today. The evidence

shows this can make an enormous difference. Over the next five

years we are looking to offer this across the country to 3 million

people living at home with long- term conditions such as diabetes.

Time does not permit, but it can make a big difference. We have had

a 45 % reduction in mortality. will have to leave it there. Thank

you. Our political reporter is here with me. What is the point of being

a cabinet out like this? Gordon Brown started taking the Cabinet a

wave for the occasional a weedy. The thinking goes that politics can

be very London centric. It does no harm to show the regions that they

are loved by Parliament. Thank you. Later we will be seeing

what the other ministers have been up to. Time now for more news we

you are. -- Weir you are.

Two women have described a terrifying moment are larger rock

smashed into their car as they drove along the A12. That incident

happened last Thursday night. 40 minutes later a concrete bowler was

thrown from West Hanningfield Bridge seriously injuring a woman

passenger. These women were told they were

lucky to walk away after a granite block was dropped on their car.

remember seeing a shadow come down on the car. There was an explosion.

That was of is the the rocketing the car. At the time I thought it

was something from an aeroplane. was scared to drive. I will not be

going down the A12. I am scared that I never have come home to my

children. That scared me a lot. I know how precious life is. This

concrete bollard was dropped from a second bridge on the A12 on to the

windscreen of another car. The driver suffered serious injuries.

Police are treating both incident as attempted murder.

Police say they have had an overwhelming response from the

public but the need to know more. They know that they're all of which

was dropped from his bridge came from a nearby residential area, but

they do not know whether rock came from. The asking people to look in

their gardens, in their rockeries, to see if one has gone missing.

we are linking the two incidents you need a vehicle. The weight of

the concrete block used - you need a vehicle. Whether one or two

persons arable it is difficult to say. Police are looking at a spate

of similar incidents on the same stretch of Courage League in recent

years to see if there is any link. Meanwhile police in Essex are also

investigating an incident where a bowling ball was thrown from a

balcony in Basildon town centre. It narrowly missed a teenage girl. It

is believed the bowling ball was stolen from Basildon Bowl on

Saturday. Fire and laces and chips are no

longer up routinely carried out on nightclubs. -- Fire and licensing

checks. Meanwhile police in Cambridgeshire

have warned nightclubbers of the risk of mobile phone theft. There

is a 50 % increase in the number of phones stolen in Cambridge compared

to last year. Friday night, Cambridge city centre.

As Christmas celebrations gather momentum, the police put across a

more sober message. There is a 50 % increase on last year. At the top

of the wish-list this Christmas is the mobile phone. The response of

the police is to raise awareness. Cambridge has fallen victim to

organised gangs. It has been a bad night. But his form is covered on

the insurance. We appreciate the police highlighting the dangers. We

really appreciate it. It has been welcome advice. The message is

simple. If it is not in public view you were less likely to have it

stolen. Just leave it on the side. Definitely. The majority of people

Today, Cambridgeshire police confirmed they had three phones

reported stolen this weekend. Late Leigh, the number has been 20.

In sport, Norwich City lost 5-1 away to Manchester you City in the

Ipswich had a weekend to forget yet again. What for it at home. Their

mission was to break the run of defeat which stood at six ahead of

kick-off. After losing 4-0 to Burnley, the manager told the media

that his side looked like a pub team. In the first half, his

message got through. Keith Andrews found the back of the net. For the

fighting talk, this didn't stop what first. They scored from the

penalty spot. All three points were sealed with this close range effort.

It is their worst run since the 1994/95 season. Anyone who was at

the game, knew we should have won. The crowds stayed there to the end.

The bars added that his side are in a relegation scrap. The Blues are

just above drop zone on goal difference. It is too soon to get

him out. I am not one of those people that will do that. Something

has to change. I thought the commitment was good but they were

unlucky. Next is a trip to Barnsley on Saturday and if they lose, their

manager will have only one half of his matches since taking over at

the start of the year. On the hall it was a good weekend

for three of our side trying to progress to the third round of the

FA Cup. -- on the whole. They have to play Macclesfield after drawing

at home. They will host Bolton. Southend's unbeaten run continued.

They drew as well add have to replay Oldham for a chance to play

Liverpool in the next round. Colchester were knocked out by

Swindon. Here are the fixtures. As well as

Chelmsford and Southend's chance of hosting Premier League, Norwich are

at home to Burnley. Graham Gooch is quitting as first

team backing coach of Essex to focus on his England role. He will

remain as club ambassador as well as being a code for the national

side. He said he is said to be living the coaching set-up at Essex.

He says his England climmers have grown.

We return to Susie at British Welcome back to Adastral Park on

the outskirts of Ipswich, home to BT's research laboratories and

where the Cabinet have their meeting today. This is the kind of

home that BT thinks we will be living in in years to come. How

many years to come? That is dependent on super-fast broadband.

Tim Whitley is in charge of research and technology here. How

long will it be before we all have super-fast broadband? We were

talking about our commercial deployments and BT is investing

billions of pounds in rolling out super-fast broadband. We have

accelerated when we think we might be done with that. We hope to have

two thirds of it by 2013. We were looking at how far we can go and in

what timescale with the help of the Government funds that have been

made available. We have been sharing her vision when we think it

is realistic to get super-fast broadband out to 90%. What about

the other 10%? They of rural areas that are struggling to get any

broadband. Good news for the 10%. What we have shed is that the close

customers who today are less than two megabytes per excessive -- per-

second, by the time have over two that 90%, that figure will be

reduced to less than 10% -- 2%. That is an improvement. 2% still

sounds too many so we are also innovating to fix those problems as

well. Here, we are looking at a range of new technologies, some

Wireless, there will allow all customers to enjoy the benefits of

broadband. Very optimistic there. Thank you. Back now to that Cabinet

visit. It wasn't just David Cameron doing photo-opportunities, they

were ministers out across the region and we have been with three

of them to stop we start with the Deputy Prime Minister in Colchester.

Nick Clegg met the chefs of the future at Colchester is astute and

picked up tips on preparing a chicken, admired Christmas

decorations made of sugar and tried his hand at piping. After meeting

business leaders, he told students about the �1 billion youth contract.

They are 1100 unemployed young people in Colchester. I know how

demoralising it is and how people feel cot -- feel cut off when they

can't find work. I don't want people to give up hope because

there will be it support for everyone in that situation. From

April next year, every 18 to 24 year old will have the opportunity

to either earn all learned. In the kitchens, you could bottle the

enthusiasm on the first-year course. We have places at college and are

learning everything we need to know for the future. Both if you are

good enough, you will get a job. you work hard, you will get

somewhere in life. It I have been here 25 years and have seen people

leaving when they are about 19 years of age, going to five-star

hotels and achieving what we hope will be executive chef positions in

the future. That is the situation here at Colchester Institute. Now

to Mike in Ipswich with Ken Clarke. He is a fan of Nottingham Forest,

real ale and a suede shoes but Ken Clarke is not an artist. That said,

he was visiting a group doing community pay back and was asked to

join in. Graffiti is being replaced by Muriel's -- murals. This is

authorised graffiti. But Justice Secretary met Derek Lander who is

doing 120 hours' community payback for fraud. Some of that group told

me that committee payback can be cushy poet Derek says it works.

have done what I have done and regretted but so let's get some of

the punishment. We are here to do a job and let's do it properly.

do one day a week, seven hours unpaid. Some say it is cushy.

could be worse. I am not sure I regard being made to work all day

without being paid as cushy. You don't want them breaking rocks.

This as a higher quality to it. From justice to transport, Fiona

has been with the Transport Secretary in Felixstowe.

3 million containers passed through the docks in Felixstowe every year.

This is the UK's busiest container port. With the announcement last

week of plans to improve the a 14, today the Secretary of State for

Transport came dockside to understand why that investment is

so important. They need to get freight all around the country.

Being able to get around is critical. We are putting in some

investment and some long term plans to relieve capacity. If when we

will hear about the details of those plans? We have a group of

local authorities, business and ourselves working on this. We will

have more details by spring next year.

These are the biggest container cranes in the world. Every year the

sport is getting busier, meaning the need for bigger and better

cranes, more employees and more efficient ways of transporting

goods around the country. If if our experts are going to grow, it is

important they can get to the port as quickly as possible.

That is why the Transport Secretary is here. Improved transport links

here and you put can help the whole of Britain's economy. -- you can

help. Time for one of the story. The BBC

East Sports Awards take place on Thursday and this week will be able

-- we will be featuring a some of the unsung heroes. Dawn Barnard has

been a champion for girls and women's football.

I get back from football at 5:30pm and my hall will be full of kits

from where the teams that play. I get those washed, that is while I

am cooking the tee for the kids and hobby. There are times when she has

got up in the middle of the night to do paperwork. It is on her mind

and she feels she has to get it done. Are you looking forward to

Saturday? You are going to play in your first tournament. She is so

approachable, so fan, easy to talk to. When I was little, I was a

tomboy and wanted to play football but couldn't. I couldn't join in

with the boys. Over the years, I have budget to get football off the

ground. The hardest thing is getting it off the floor and

running in the first place. She has played a pivotal role in this.

the war, it was bound. It has come a long wait. A lot of men are still

anti- women's football. She has fought no end of battles to get the

women to be equally respected. she was to leave the club or she

wasn't around, it would be like having your right arm cut off.

is not going to be as big as the men's game, certainly in my

lifetime. It is the beautiful game. You don't get any play acting, but

generally, it is honest football played in really good spirit. The

glories -- the girls enjoy themselves and play football the

way it is supposed to be played. It If tomorrow night, our second

nominee, Rick Townsend, an athletics coach from Milton Keynes.

Now a look at the weather. The air was coming all the weight

down from Iceland and it was very cold today. It is fairly dry out

there. We have one or two showers are still lingering but for most of

us, a mostly dry it evening. We will see one or two showers

clipping that coast and they could be on the wind Raeside. We have

some clear spells overnight tonight and temperatures dropping to around

zero. They may drop lower in that some of the more sheltered shops --

spots. Tomorrow, we have this weather front pushing him from the

South West but I don't think it would bring any rain until later

tomorrow evening. We get off to a cool start. For most, drive with

sunshine. Cloud increasing through the first part of the afternoon.

Temperatures similar to today. Around five Celsius but these

blustery winds making it feel colder. During the afternoon,

largely drive with one or two show was happening just about anywhere.

-- largely dry. We have some rain on Thursday and a mild day before

we return to cooler conditions on Friday and Saturday. He is a quick

look of the overnight loans. look of the overnight loans.

-- here is. Research here it started in the days of the GPO it

when it was the only region doing this work. Now, as well as Ipswich,

they are high tech clusters around Cambridge, Norwich and Stevenage.