26/01/2012 Look East - East

Hello and welcome to Look East. In the programme tonight:

The manhunt for a violent prisoner who escaped from hospital with an

who escaped from hospital with an armed accomplice. He made threats

that they should release him immediately. A Gunn was pressed

against his head. The Business Secretary Vince Cable

on a new type of apprenticeship for young people.

Police teams search a beach in the hunt for the killers of a Latvian

teenager in Norfolk. And the Cambridgeshire village who

says that they invented it she's so they should be allowed to use the

name. -- at the end vented to the Hello. First, more on the manhunt

for a violent prisoner who escaped from a hospital A&E department

after an armed accomplice threatened prison guards with a gun.

This is how it unfolded. At 6:50pm last night, Andrew Farndon arrived

at the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds. He had been driven

12 miles from High Point Prison in a taxi with stab wounds. Hospital

staff saw a man with a gun outside A&E and contacted police. The

prison officers were threatened with a gun and released the

prisoner. Farndon and the gunman ran down a footpath to the nearby

Hardwick Heath car park and escaped. Let's go live to the hospital in

Bury St Edmunds and our Home Affairs Correspondent.

As you say, there is a nationwide manhunt tonight for Andrew Farndon.

He is described as highly dangerous. He inflicted a hammer attack in

2007. This escape appears to have been planned meticulously. He

arranged his on stab wound which he knew would result in hospital. He

was brought to this hospital in handcuffs. When they got out of a

taxi, they faced the gunman. Having a firearm placed against your head

is clearly very disturbing. But they have been able to give us some

help in describing the gunmen. The gunman is described as a white male,

aged in his forties, stocky build with short cropped hair and wearing

dark clothing. He is believed to have a Scottish accent. At High

Point Prison today, police have been searching every cell trying to

get leaks. Back at his trial, Andrew Farndon and jumped the dock

and fled the Crown Court. It was weeks before he was recaptured.

This case raises a number of questions. Obviously, the risk

assessment failed to identify certain threats and dangers of

escape. But to save what has gone wrong, -- to say what has gone

wrong, yes, more should have been done but that is with hindsight.

One question could have been why was he deemed to be a low risk

Category C prisoner? Police are also looking at other lines of

inquiry. Did he use a mobile phone to compromise security and get out

of the Prison? But the priority tonight is to get this man and back

this up -- back behind bars where he belongs. Back to you in the

studio. Earlier, I spoke to Dean Acaster

from the Prison Officers Association. I started by asking

him if he was concerned that an apparently dangerous man was being

held in a category C prison. What we're saying is that there

might be cases where people have been incorrectly categorised. This

man obviously had the means to make an escape and has done so. There

must be questions asked during the investigation process as to why

this man was placed in Category C can editions. A lot of people

believe a mobile phone was used in this is gate. How concerned are you

about their availability in prison? The seem to be readily available in

prison these days. They are an illegal ITEM to have in prison.

Prisoners are running crime industries from inside prisons and

apparently organising escape attempt as well. In prisons, the

ability to search proficiently with the resources we currently have is

being severely questioned by budget restraints and cuts. You're saying

that because you don't have enough staff you cannot run the prison

save the? When you keep cutting frontline operational staff, there

will be implications that will affect the ability to maintain

order and discipline, and to secure research establishments. It appears

this man was being transported by taxi. Do you have concerns about

that? Taxes are commonly used it to Escort category C prisoners. The

situation is that the security category dictate that the method of

transport. If he was in the wrong category of prison, he could have

been transferred by taxi and no one would have raised an eyebrow, but

if he had been in a higher category they would not have used attacks

the? If he was Category A, the situation would have been a more

secure. This man could have been in the most secure vehicle available,

but at some point he has to be taken out of the vehicle and moved

in the hospital grounds. That is where and when our staff become

very vulnerable. How vulnerable to prison officers feel? Every day,

they are faced with violent and extreme conditions. We need the

support and the resources in place to be able to defend ourselves in

these situations. Thank you very much.

The Business Secretary Vince Cable has been in Northampton today to

see a new way of employing young apprentices. In a moment, we'll be

hearing from the Dr Cable himself, but first our reporter has been

finding out what the new scheme means and how it will work.

In our region, there are now over 80,000 young people unemployed.

Building sites like this provides the ideal place for apprenticeships

to learn their trade. The number of building site has almost halved

during the downturn. Now the number of apprenticeships is starting to

of apprenticeships is starting to rise. The real question has always

been, is there any work for been, is there any work for

apprenticeships -- those apprentices to do? Today, Vince

Cable came to look at the situation. Apprenticeships are directly linked

to planning applications under the new scheme. Each scheme is

allocated a number of hours of training. The local authority can

decide which trades that budget is applied to on each individual

project. Here, these apprenticeships are all taking

advantage of this on-the-job training. Most of my mates don't do

anything. They either go to college or are unemployed. I and the only

one I know with a job. I go to college one day a week and spend

four days a week here. For the scheme to work, planning

applications have to be submitted. Builders need the confidence to

build for consumers who want to buy. Pastor coalition insist market

conditions are improving, but the elusive the upturn for many still

seems some way off. I spoke to Dr Cable during his

visit and started by talking to him about those problems facing the

construction industry. It meant there was a massive gap between the

number of homes needed in our region and the number actually

being built. No, you're quite right. The

construction industry has been through a terrible time. There was

a massive property bubble which has burst. It was badly damaged by the

collapse in that the banking system. The Government is trying to move

forward on this. We have a mortgage indemnity scheme to help first-time

buyers. Construction companies like the one man with here are now

beginning to build new houses again. They have been through a bad time,

no doubt about that, but I think we are through the worst of it now.

Last year, we had below was number of permanent dwellings being built

in the last 20 years. Isn't the Government compounding decisions --

compounding the problem by allowing local decisions to be made? We want

these decisions made locally. In Northampton, you have a development

corporation here which is driving things along. There is growth here.

The important thing is to have not just housing going up, but also

jobs. That is why there is a new enterprise zone being launched here

to create thousands of new jobs in the years ahead. I will go to see

that shortly. You have always had a strong, personal vision for the

economy. A few months ago, you said it was important that we pull all

the levers available. Do you believe that is the case? Yes, we

are. The Government has a major problem that we have inherited of

sorting out the public finances. We're not backing off that. But

there are things the Government can-do and are doing to try to get

growth. The key thing is training and apprenticeships. Putting more

money into that. Supporting new technologies and innovations.

Supporting the supply chain and advanced manufacturing. These are

all things we can do to support the economy, but that is not an

alternative to getting the public finances in order, it has to go a

long side of. You want to get a pension and insurance funds

investing in infrastructure projects like housing. That is a

long-term project, is an dead? certainly will not happen overnight,

but we have an absurd situation of vast amounts of savings for British

people would have been put into pension funds and they are looking

for a safe home to get a return for pensioners. There are lots of good

project in Britain who can absorb their money. I think once we have

got us going we will find a Infrastructure really beginning to

improve in Britain. We are badly behind other developed countries.

Still to come on Look East: Alex with the full weekend forecast. And

the cheese that they can't call Stilton even though it is made

There have been new developments in the hunt for the killers of a

teenager found murdered on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk. The

police have been searching the beach close to the village of

Snettisham a few miles from Anmer where the body of Alisa Dmitrijeva

was found. On a delight today, the beach at

Snettisham can be quite bleak. Norfolk police believe Alisa

Dmitrijeva was here when the weather was warmer in August. The

search teams were looking for something which belonged to the 17-

year-old Latvian. It could still be lying in the undergrowth. The

police officers searched on the beach and in the car-park, looking

for some small clue which might lead them to the person or persons

who killed Alisa Dmitrijeva. have indications that Alisa

Dmitrijeva visited the beach car- park during the evening of the 30th

and returned there in the early hours of the morning. We understand

there was a party going on involving members from the eastern

European Community for. One local paper has produced a video in

Russian appealing for help from the area's eastern European Community.

As well as sightings of Alisa Dmitrijeva herself, the police are

keen to find her mobile phone. It is an L G mobile phones similar to

this one. They want more information about a car that looks

like this one. She was seen getting into it on at 31st August. Contact

details for the police are on screen now.

The police believe that a man sought in connection with the

murder of a jeweller in Suffolk could be hiding out in Essex. They

want to talk to Pyotr Melaniuk and to hear from anyone who's seen him.

The body of Peter Avis was found 13 days ago above Collis and Son in

Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds. A homeless man has been charged

with murder and two other men with conspiracy to burgle.

The Government says it will do all it can to help find a buyer for the

Coryton Oil Refinery in Essex. Up to 1,000 jobs are at risk after the

refinery's parent company went into administration.

The tankers are rolling in as the refinery is now delivering to

customers again. The administrator said it was pleased it was able to

resume flow -- resume of fuel supplies to the region. That has

eased fears that garages would run short. The crisis began when its

Swiss owners got into deep financial trouble. But one local MP

insists the Coryton Oil Refinery has a few too. This is a very good

business. It is profitable. It got caught up in the problems of the

parent company. I think there is a long-term future here. Coryton need

another shipment of oil to refine. Something the energy sector had --

the energy secretary himself was aware of when he made this stage

and in the Commons. There is a cargo ready to be delivered this

morning. BP has been working on this with us. I hope that normal

activity will resume soon. After a meeting this afternoon, another

Meanwhile, Coryton staff will be at a union meeting tonight. Their

future still uncertain. A man has been seriously hurt after

becoming trapped in machinery on a building site in Suffolk. The man

who is in his 40s received injuries to his abdomen, hand and pelvis. It

happened at Hitcham, near Stowmarket. He was flown to the

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital where his condition is

stable. In cricket, the Essex batsman

Alastair Cook fell just short of a 20th Test century for England

against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi. He was at the crease for nearly five

hours and hit 10 boundaries on his way to 94. He was just six runs

away from equalling Graham Gooch and Ken Barrington's record of test

hundreds. Cook and Jonathan Trott shared a second-wicket partnership

of 139 before the Essex opener was bowled lbw by Saeed Ajmal.

In the Commons today, the Government confirmed it will go to

the supreme court after judges in the appeal court decided it acted

illegally by ending the generous subsidy for fitting solar panels

earlier than planned. But many companies which fit the panels say

they could still face financial ruin.

This man's solar panels were fitted in 2010. Despite the cut in subsidy,

he would do it again. This is a very attractive option. You just

need the ability to spend the capital in the first place. Last

month, the subsidy was halved. Solar firms expected the cut, but

not until April. As customers pulled out, they had to lay off 10

staff and the rest went part-time. Now the Appeal Court said the

Government acted illegally and they have proposed a new cut-off date of

third more art. It has been a struggle to sell business. Are some

still being put off? Absolutely. We're here it -- we're hearing this

every day. If the Government can wrecked respectively change it from

40 p to 80 p, what might happen next month? We were seeing and

number of applications because the subsidy being paid was so out of

kilter with the real costs. Had they not taken urgent action, we

would have blown the whole budget. That is the nub of the argument.

The government say if they don't stick to their date of December for

having to Paris, it will cost energy companies billions and that

cost will be passed on to customers. But solar firms say that nuclear

and coal industries get huge You are watching Look East from the

BBC. Coming up: The statue, the gymnast and her dreams of London

2012. There was a cheese tasting at

Stilton in Cambridgeshire today. On the menu, a delicious cheese made

in the village. It is called white bell, but really everyone wanted to

call it something else. It is made in Stilton, it tastes like stilton,

but European Union rules mean they just can't call it stilton.

This cheese looks like Stilton, it tastes like Stilton and is made in

Stilton. Butty cannot be called Stilton. Today, it was on the menu

for the first time. They have stipulated we must be producing

cheese to be an interested party. Is at the same as Stilton? It is

identical, really. But we cannot call it that. A recipe from the

1800s is the proof that this village is the cheese's historical

home. It was always said that the cheese was never made in Stilton,

but just sold here. We can now provide evidence that it originated

here. We're simply reclaiming our heritage instilled at an. If the

cheese is not named after here, why is it called Stilton? There is no

official answer, but this cheese is officially Stilton. Only three

counties can call it that. And that is how we like could. You can't

have people using the name anywhere in the world. Consumers know what

they're getting when the by Stilton. They know that it can only be made

in Leicestershire, Derbyshire are Nottinghamshire. So, how important

Very, it seems. The evidence is irrefutable and the village should

have that recognition. It is a lovely community. Put us on a map

properly! Brussels will now decide whether this cheese from Cambridge

MUSIC. In old England, very hard Not many statues have been made of

sportsmen and women. There is one of Sir Bobby Robson in Ipswich and

Graham Gooch in Chelmsford, but now there is also one of a gymnast from

Northamptonshire. Her name is Frankie Jones. It has just been

unveiled at Heathrow Airport as part of the celebrations for London

2012. The women's national team failed to qualify for the Games,

but Frankie should still be there because she has made the grade in

her own right. There is no hiding in the shadows.

Frankie Jones is on show for all to see. It is the power of the

Olympics at work. Having a sculpture dedicated to her was

something which would never have happened, had London not one of

these games. The piece will greet travellers at Terminal 5 of

Heathrow Airport. A huge honour for an athlete whose sport get next to

a no coverage in the UK. It is a great thing. Many people get to see

the grace and beauty of rhythmic gymnastics. This is so good for the

sport. Grace and beauty is just one part of her sporting life.

Relentless graft and struggling against the odds also characterised

the road to London. Sometimes, it gets too much. The training

sessions are made harder by a three hour return journey from Kettering

to Birmingham every day. She gets no funding from British gymnastics

and often doesn't know how she will pay for petrol. She used to train

at Wellingborough, but the ceiling was too low, there was not enough

carpet and floorspace. I am struggling all the time. It has

been very difficult for the last three years. I am managing to stay

in it and do everything, so I can't really complain. It will all be

worth it if she becomes an Olympian. She has already met the official

selection criteria. But until the official announcement is made, she

is still worried that Team GB might not pick her. You want to do it for

the crowd. They are excited for you and you don't want to let them down

if -- down. That is great motivation for this five times

world champion. Beautiful to watch. Very graceful.

And on Look East tomorrow, we will be live at the new diving centre in

Southend with some of Britain's best divers, including Tom Daley.

They are there for a national competition ahead of London 2012.

Another person who is great to watch. Let's return to our top

story now. The police have just released a these CCTV images

showing potential witnesses they would like to talk to. The escape

happened just before 7pm last night. There are images of a man

approaching the hospital with a gun and two men are running away.

Anyone with information should contact Suffolk Police, telephone

contact Suffolk Police, telephone number 101.

We are gradually moving into a cold a spell of weather. A cold front

swept across the country last night. It left a fair legacy of cloud,

especially in the east over region. But had moved into the North Sea.

What cloud we did have brought up quite widely. Under clearing skies

tonight, it will get fairly chilly. We are expecting some frost tonight

which could lead to some icy patches on the roads. There is

enough cloud to produce the odd isolated shower in the West to

start work. But then skies will clear and temperatures will dip

down to around freezing. Some places just above that, but in the

valleys we could see values Laura Sandys suggest. There will be a

light south-westerly wind. For tomorrow, we average of high

pressure that starts to build end. But we have this active features

you're moving into the west of the region later. That could bring a

line of showers, but it will be a chilly and bright start tomorrow.

Plenty of sunshine through the morning. The clouds starting to

gather in the West as we head towards lunchtime. Seven degrees

could be possible and the winds will be light or moderate. These

showers will track eastwards. They could be sharp and there could be

some wintry showers. So watch out for those. Looking ahead, our

interesting day of whether his Monday. A warm front crosses the

region which marks the boundary between a mild air from the

Atlantic and cold air pushy in from the east. That will mean that there

will be some showers. Where the warm air meets the cold air, there

could be sleet or snow. The weekend looks quite right but chilly. On

Sunday, increasing cloud and we will see some sunshine. The winds

changed to an easterly direction which could mean there are problems

on Monday. Rain initially on Monday, but there is a potential for a

wintry showers. Daytime temperatures are heading downwards.