:00:10. > :00:15.In Look East tonight, in million pounds fine for Network Rail six
:00:15. > :00:20.years after two girls were killed at a nil -- level crossing.
:00:20. > :00:24.Also tonight, a school coach in flames by the side of the road just
:00:24. > :00:29.minutes after it children are led to safety. Tonight, praise for the
:00:29. > :00:34.driver. He did very well to get all 28
:00:34. > :00:39.children out and the four adopts before the fire did develop.
:00:40. > :00:45.Gearing up for Formula One, in you name this season - Caterham.
:00:45. > :00:55.And celebrating the life of David Croft, the man behind so many of
:00:55. > :01:00.
:01:01. > :01:04.First tonight, Network Rail is fined �1,000,000.60 years after two
:01:04. > :01:08.girls were killed on a level crossing in Essex.
:01:08. > :01:12.The parents of Olivia Bazlinton and Charlotte Thompson where at
:01:12. > :01:16.Chelmsford Crown Court today, they described the sentence as
:01:16. > :01:20."symbolic" but added that more needed to be done. Tonight in
:01:20. > :01:29.Robert -- ill-will union described the action of senior Network Rail
:01:29. > :01:33.managers as "wicked beyond belief". As the judge put it today, no fine
:01:33. > :01:36.could reflect the loss of two young lives or the prolonged pain
:01:36. > :01:43.suffered ever since by their families. But he said that that
:01:43. > :01:48.would where was guilty of what he called "and narrow thinking" and
:01:48. > :01:57."culpable corporate blindness." to Ooh mothers arrived at court
:01:57. > :02:03.holding their daughters soft toys. The judge said impact statements
:02:03. > :02:07.from the two families had been preferred -- profoundly moving.
:02:07. > :02:12.The two friends died instantly after opening the wicket gate at
:02:12. > :02:17.the Elsenham crossing. They did not see a Stansted train
:02:17. > :02:22.hurtling towards them at 65 mph. The Essex coroner and an inquest
:02:22. > :02:26.jury visited the crossing in 2007, a verdict of accidental death
:02:26. > :02:31.returned, but the jury and previous inquiries were denied access to key
:02:31. > :02:35.documents including a report from a level crossing standards manager.
:02:35. > :02:39.This warned that the risk of disaster was real. In new
:02:39. > :02:43.footbridge has been installed now, the pedestrian gates now lock when
:02:43. > :02:48.it train approaches. But it has come too late for a Libya and
:02:48. > :02:52.Charlotte. Finding that work -- finding a
:02:52. > :02:57.Network Rail �1 million, Judge David Turner said that warnings
:02:57. > :03:01.went unheeded. He said critical questions were UN asked an and
:03:01. > :03:10.answered. He said the level of complacency entered the realms of
:03:10. > :03:15.criminal failure. First, the family's' Reaction outside a few
:03:15. > :03:20.years ago. I did not want it -- I do not want
:03:20. > :03:26.to come here today, I wanted to go to parents' evening and sake -- and
:03:26. > :03:33.here the teachers say that Bolivia talked too much in class. And see
:03:33. > :03:40.how bring a bag of washing home from university. And look into the
:03:40. > :03:48.eyes of her newborn babies. They took our daughters from us and
:03:49. > :03:56.Brook our hearts. I do believe that because of what has been done, that
:03:56. > :04:01.Charlotte and a Libya -- Libya, at least the railways will be safer.
:04:02. > :04:07.We made a few mistakes, which directly led to the deaths of all
:04:07. > :04:11.Libya and Charlotte. I don't think anything I say, company says, can
:04:11. > :04:18.ever cope with the pain their families must feel. Actions are
:04:18. > :04:20.just as important as words. Network Rail pointed out that its
:04:20. > :04:27.approach to a level crossing safety has changed very radically since
:04:28. > :04:35.this tragedy six years ago, and that 520 crossings had been closed
:04:35. > :04:39.altogether across the country since 2009. It was investing �130 million
:04:39. > :04:43.on improving level crossing safety. But the families really did not
:04:43. > :04:48.feel the money, the opposed fine, was what it was all about, they
:04:48. > :04:53.still feel there are questions tonight which are unanswered.
:04:53. > :04:56.Within the last hour I have spoken to Chris Bazlinton, the father of
:04:56. > :05:00.Olivia Bazlinton. I asked him for his reaction to the sentence given
:05:00. > :05:04.to Network Rail. I am pleased it is a serious amount
:05:05. > :05:09.of money, but it is very much symbolic because you and I, the
:05:09. > :05:14.taxpayer, other people paying this fine because Network Rail is
:05:14. > :05:18.heavily subsidised. As far as getting them to admit what they
:05:18. > :05:23.have admitted, how much satisfaction does that give you and
:05:24. > :05:28.the other family members? It is grim satisfaction, it has taken
:05:28. > :05:34.more than six years to get to this point. Why did we have to wait that
:05:34. > :05:41.long? They also have promised to make level crossings safer, they
:05:41. > :05:47.say they have already done a lot of work. I used satisfied by that? --
:05:47. > :05:50.are you satisfied? I think they are satisfied -- I think they are
:05:50. > :05:56.serious. But I think they are working on the most dangerous
:05:56. > :06:01.crossings. But I would say that Network Rail and his predecessor,
:06:01. > :06:06.in their annual reports, have always promised that safety is the
:06:06. > :06:10.biggest priority. That has not been the case. It has been a very long
:06:10. > :06:15.drawn-out battle for you and the other family involved. Do you feel
:06:15. > :06:21.now this has happened and the fine has been given, and it would will
:06:21. > :06:25.have admitted what they have, but you can feel it has come to a close
:06:25. > :06:31.in some respects and just grief personally? The judicial process
:06:31. > :06:35.have finished, but there are people in Network Rail who must know why
:06:35. > :06:43.their -- those documents took so long to appear. Why have we had to
:06:43. > :06:47.wait six years for them to come to the surface? Bano somebody inside,
:06:47. > :06:54.-- Bano, somebody inside nose, and we want some sort of inquiry to
:06:54. > :06:58.look into what really went wrong. I am not giving up on that.
:06:58. > :07:02.There has been praise today for a driver who their children to safety
:07:02. > :07:05.from a school coach just minutes before it burst into flames. The
:07:05. > :07:10.college was travelling from Peterborough to Whipsnade Zoo when
:07:10. > :07:13.the driver noticed smoke coming from the engine. Firefighters told
:07:13. > :07:20.us tonight that swift action from the Driver and teachers could well
:07:21. > :07:26.have saved lives. The safety of school trips is
:07:26. > :07:30.uppermost in People's minds, and today it has come close to home for
:07:30. > :07:35.a people's at this school. Parents were told that their coach had just
:07:35. > :07:40.broken down, but then they suddenly realise things worse for forming --
:07:40. > :07:44.things were far more serious. The moment a school outing turned
:07:44. > :07:51.into a major incident, a few miles from their destination the bus
:07:51. > :07:55.burst into flames. This footage was taken by 11-year-old Joseph
:07:55. > :08:00.recalled how smoke was coming up the aisle of the coach. It pulled
:08:00. > :08:05.over, they were taken to safety, before they were pulled to safety.
:08:05. > :08:12.I panicked. I was frightened, at first I thought they had just
:08:12. > :08:17.broken down, and then you find out it was a fire, and you think how
:08:17. > :08:23.lucky you are but your children are safe. We are all lucky that the
:08:23. > :08:26.school acted the way they did, and that they are all safe. Fire crews
:08:26. > :08:33.and police were quickly at the scene. They praised the bus
:08:33. > :08:39.driver's fast actions. He did very well he did very well to get all
:08:39. > :08:42.the children out before the fire developed. He acted very quickly by
:08:42. > :08:46.pulling over to the side of the road.
:08:46. > :08:50.Pupils returned to school this lunchtime.
:08:50. > :08:56.The children were pleased to see their parents, they had had an
:08:56. > :09:01.exciting adventure because they had been in a police van. But they were
:09:01. > :09:07.quite calm, but relieved to see their parents. I did not hear about
:09:07. > :09:12.flames until we came to pick the children up, and that really did
:09:12. > :09:19.get my heart going. I thank the Lord that they are all safe. A how
:09:19. > :09:26.is your child? I have spoken to him and he was upset that he missed his
:09:26. > :09:30.trip. But now it is, this was a big thing that happened to us today for
:09:30. > :09:36.stock the bus has been taken away by police.
:09:36. > :09:40.An investigation into what caused the fire has begun.
:09:40. > :09:45.We are hearing tonight that the bus had only been serviced yesterday,
:09:45. > :09:51.so the bus company is going through that service to see if there are
:09:51. > :09:56.any clues as to why it might have suddenly burst into flames.
:09:56. > :10:00.Still to come to light, it is BBC School Report day. Our reporters
:10:00. > :10:10.from Peterborough have been to the Olympic Stadium.
:10:10. > :10:11.
:10:11. > :10:16.And remembering David Croft, the There's been a potential
:10:16. > :10:20.breakthrough in the hunt for the killer of a teenager whose body was
:10:20. > :10:23.found on the one estate at Sandringham. 17-year-old Alisa
:10:23. > :10:27.Dmitrijeva was found near the village of Anmer two months ago.
:10:27. > :10:31.Police have now recovered because she was last seen in at a scrapyard
:10:31. > :10:36.in Whisby age. The discovery of human remains a
:10:36. > :10:42.mile away from Sandringham is still a mystery, but police are on the
:10:42. > :10:46.verge of a major breakthrough. The site where Alisa Dmitrijeva was
:10:46. > :10:51.discovered has unique biological fingerprints, a rare composition of
:10:51. > :10:57.fungal spores. 17-year-old Alisa from that the are lived in Wisbech.
:10:57. > :11:01.It was here from which police recovered the car. Inside, traces
:11:01. > :11:06.of salt. If the supporters in it match those where she was
:11:06. > :11:10.discovered, it will be a major development. -- the spores for
:11:10. > :11:14.stock if we find a match do something on someone's footwear or
:11:14. > :11:19.in his vehicle. We may be able to put them at the
:11:19. > :11:24.scene where at least a's body was found. Norfolk police have always
:11:25. > :11:29.said that this would be a complex investigation which is relying on
:11:29. > :11:34.complex evidence. Detectives are also interviewing a handful of key
:11:34. > :11:40.witnesses, all eastern European and all known associates of Alisa
:11:40. > :11:48.Dmitrijeva. Ten years ago the bodies of Holywell and Jessica
:11:48. > :11:53.Chapman were found near Lakenheath. Detectives find that soil near the
:11:53. > :11:58.site was also in the car of Ian Huntley, who murdered them.
:11:58. > :12:04.It'll be another four weeks before police know if there is a match
:12:04. > :12:08.between the wood and the green car. There's been a fire at the sugar
:12:08. > :12:12.processing factory in Cantley near gripe Yarmouth. It is thought to
:12:12. > :12:16.have started in a cooling tower. British Sugar say nobody was
:12:16. > :12:20.injured. This year the drought and the
:12:20. > :12:27.economy are up-to- of our biggest stories. Tonight we meet a man
:12:27. > :12:30.finding a financial silver lining in the lack of rain clouds. Tony
:12:30. > :12:38.Roberts earns his living drilling boreholes. Because of the drought,
:12:38. > :12:41.business has never be in better. Tony is having it could drought. He
:12:41. > :12:46.kills boreholes all over East Anglia for farmers, and keen
:12:46. > :12:51.gardeners. He says he can find water in 95% of the region in
:12:51. > :12:56.abundant qualities, and that the drought is making little difference.
:12:56. > :13:02.We have done hundred us of boreholes of the the years, most of
:13:02. > :13:06.them fluctuate throughout the year, and some are down to two metres.
:13:06. > :13:10.there is not a water shortage? Exactly.
:13:10. > :13:14.Tony is critical of the water companies and the amount of leaks
:13:14. > :13:20.in their systems. We were contacted by Chris Wilson, who claims there
:13:20. > :13:25.has been a leak in his village for two years. It is an everyday
:13:25. > :13:31.occurrence. We cannot really estimate the amount of water about
:13:31. > :13:35.has been wasted.'s Anglian Water say engineers are investigating an
:13:35. > :13:40.will repair any leak as soon as they can.
:13:40. > :13:44.At the RSPB reserve here, springs which normally feed the sight of
:13:44. > :13:49.very dry. Although water has been stored over the winter, these are
:13:49. > :13:52.worrying times. At the moment are macro priorities would be managing
:13:53. > :13:56.the mid bed habitat and particularly birds such as the bid
:13:56. > :14:06.terms. We would do whatever we can to maintain the water levels within
:14:06. > :14:10.
:14:10. > :14:16.The average cost of having a borehole is around �6,000 but you
:14:16. > :14:20.can extract of up to 20,000 litres per day without a licence. He is
:14:20. > :14:24.expecting a busy summer. Do A Norwich teenager's hopes of
:14:24. > :14:29.competing in the Paralympics have been boosted. Amy Ottaway plays
:14:29. > :14:32.goalball, a team sport for blind athletes. The aim is to score by
:14:32. > :14:35.rolling a rubber ball into a goal. Amy's in the national squad and
:14:35. > :14:37.it's now been confirmed goalball WILL be included in the games. Amy
:14:37. > :14:47.qualifies for the sport because she's partially sighted. She's
:14:47. > :14:59.
:14:59. > :15:02.The ball contains a bell and the game is played in total silence. A
:15:02. > :15:06.mother returned to hospital with her baby today to thank the doctors
:15:06. > :15:08.who saved her life eight weeks ago. Clare Braybrook had to be rushed to
:15:08. > :15:11.Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire after suffering chest pains. First
:15:11. > :15:14.the team delivered her baby by caesarean section. Then they
:15:14. > :15:22.carried out major heart surgery. Mike Cartwright reports. Thank you
:15:22. > :15:29.very much for saving her life and looking after her. Seeing her in
:15:29. > :15:37.his arms, what does that mean to you? It means a lot. It is so
:15:37. > :15:44.special. I never thought we would have this moment. It is so precious.
:15:44. > :15:50.She had operation -- she had a heart surgery operation here to
:15:50. > :15:58.save her life. Only moments before her daughter had been born by
:15:58. > :16:03.Caesarean section. It was challenging. We had to work with
:16:03. > :16:10.fluctuations in her blood pressure, it could have been fatal for her
:16:10. > :16:17.baby. She is a physical education teacher and did not know that she
:16:17. > :16:24.had a heart problem. I did not know that the hospital could cater for
:16:24. > :16:30.me and looked after me and saved my life. They it is probably the most
:16:30. > :16:38.fatal heart condition you can have. The survival rate is about 1%. It
:16:39. > :16:44.is probably the most really true emergencies we deal with. We have
:16:44. > :16:54.to fix it as soon as possible. are now a family and they say they
:16:54. > :16:58.
:16:58. > :17:02.The new Formula One season begins on Saturday - and there's a new
:17:02. > :17:05.name on the grid - Caterham F1 from Norfolk. Caterham started life as
:17:05. > :17:10.Team Lotus a couple of years ago but changed their name after a long
:17:10. > :17:20.legal battle. This is likely to to be their last year based at their
:17:20. > :17:24.
:17:24. > :17:30.factory in Hingham. Tom Williams reports. A new season, and you look.
:17:30. > :17:40.And union, fresh faces on the get and in the pet. They are now all
:17:40. > :17:43.
:17:43. > :17:48.revved up to make a real impact and this year shift up a gear. The
:17:48. > :17:56.finished 10th in their first two seasons. This year their aim is to
:17:56. > :18:06.get a amongst the points. We will keep pushing 110 % to get the car
:18:06. > :18:07.
:18:07. > :18:12.did enough. He has got an new team- mate. The Russian has already
:18:12. > :18:17.visited the factory. It was a chance to get acquainted and check
:18:17. > :18:23.out his new heels. I know the potential they have shown for the
:18:23. > :18:32.last two years. They were the quickest in the new teams. They are
:18:32. > :18:37.planning to relocate to Oxfordshire in August to bring the F1 team and
:18:37. > :18:41.sportscar company under one roof. It is a fact of life that most
:18:41. > :18:47.people live in that part of the country and we need to attract them
:18:47. > :18:54.to us which will be much easier to do if we live close to them. You
:18:54. > :19:00.will remain a manufacturing office for us. This company has been
:19:00. > :19:07.producing parts for Formula One teams since the 1970s. Suspensions,
:19:07. > :19:11.seats, all sorts. It is very light. That is the beauty of the material.
:19:11. > :19:16.Half of their business comes from Formula One. They are hoping the
:19:16. > :19:21.move will not affect them. We look after other teams and I do not
:19:21. > :19:27.think it will have an impact on us as we can still continue to do work
:19:27. > :19:34.for them. So, a new beginning and a year of challenge and change. Time
:19:34. > :19:36.to accelerate to greater success. And tomorrow night we're looking at
:19:36. > :19:39.Red Bull. And I've been to interview the team principal,
:19:39. > :19:42.Christian Horner. It's BBC News School Report Day, the day when
:19:42. > :19:45.more than 1,000 schools and more than 30,000 students turn their
:19:45. > :19:50.classrooms into newsrooms - with a little help from journalists at the
:19:50. > :19:54.BBC. Among the young reporters today, two students from the Thomas
:19:55. > :19:57.Deacon Academy in Peterborough. With other children from across the
:19:58. > :20:07.country they have been behind the scenes at the Olympic Park in
:20:08. > :20:08.
:20:08. > :20:14.London. And they got the chance to interview Lord Coe. This is the
:20:14. > :20:19.Olympic Park here in east London. The games feel a long way away.
:20:20. > :20:28.have come today to find out how our area it can benefit from the
:20:28. > :20:35.Olympics. We are having a tour of the Olympic Park. I enjoyed looking
:20:35. > :20:41.around this place with its fantastic multi-coloured seats. How
:20:41. > :20:47.can area is like ours benefit from the Games when we are not close to
:20:48. > :20:51.the Olympics site? I have spent some time in Peterborough, I talked
:20:51. > :20:58.a little bit about the engagement with schools but we have also got
:20:58. > :21:02.an engagement with colleges and local clubs. We have an
:21:02. > :21:07.organisation called nations and regions, there are nine English
:21:07. > :21:13.regions and there are also Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. They
:21:13. > :21:19.have all set themselves strategic objectives around the Games. In
:21:19. > :21:24.East Anglia I have done a lot of Olympic project work. It is also to
:21:24. > :21:30.encourage more people, of the back of the Games, when they have been
:21:30. > :21:35.to London, to go and visit a beautiful places like Ealing and
:21:35. > :21:40.Cambridge and those big centres which can drive much more interest.
:21:40. > :21:45.There is a big sports participation programme in what we would call the
:21:45. > :21:51.East of England. Some of it is driven through local universities
:21:51. > :21:56.and colleges. There is a lot happening. Her can we help the
:21:56. > :22:06.game's be more real to us? -- how can we help the Games be more real
:22:06. > :22:07.
:22:07. > :22:10.to us? Well done to them. And you can view School Reports from across
:22:11. > :22:14.the East on the BBC website. The stars turned out in London today
:22:14. > :22:17.for a memorial service to celebrate the life of David Croft. Of course,
:22:17. > :22:20.he was the man who gave us comedy classics like Dad's Army, Hi-de-Hi,
:22:20. > :22:24.and Are You Being Served? David, who lived in Suffolk, died last
:22:24. > :22:34.year at the age of 89. Kevin Burch has been to meet his widow Ann to
:22:34. > :22:40.reflect on a glittering career. This was actually David's office as
:22:40. > :22:44.you can probably see from the photographs on the wall. These all
:22:44. > :22:49.captured the remarkable legacy of one man who is gone but can never
:22:49. > :22:56.be forgotten. He had just been to see a palm reader who said success
:22:56. > :23:03.is just around the corner. They were married for 60 years. She had
:23:03. > :23:08.been a theatrical agent. He started out as a young actor, then as Senna,
:23:08. > :23:15.but eventually found his niche as a comedy writer, producer and
:23:15. > :23:23.director. It is usually about the second or third sees that you begin
:23:23. > :23:30.to realise the public are warming to it. You are Lord muck now,
:23:30. > :23:34.aren't you? Yeah s! Do you think he was aware of just how much
:23:34. > :23:42.affection there was from the British public towards him and his
:23:42. > :23:52.work? Not really until he got very old and started to see the dads
:23:52. > :23:56.
:23:56. > :24:01.Army appreciation Society. -- P dads Army Appreciation Society.
:24:01. > :24:06.was a gifted, modest man who said that if he made just a few people
:24:06. > :24:10.laugh some of the time then he was happy. He said it was very nice to
:24:10. > :24:15.be recognised, he said he meant in general, he was hoping he would
:24:15. > :24:21.leave behind something that would continue to make people laugh. That
:24:21. > :24:25.is how he saw things. He hoped that his show was would live on in some
:24:25. > :24:32.form of another and his sense of humour or would live longer than
:24:32. > :24:39.the actual shows. He is buried in the garden you know, I still talk
:24:39. > :24:42.to them. A man never really dies if people go on talking about him.
:24:42. > :24:49.Whether it is in the bones of his family or anything else, I think
:24:49. > :24:53.there is a lot of truth in that. We have been very lucky. He had a
:24:53. > :24:59.marvellous life and was very successful. People seem to like him
:24:59. > :25:05.a lot and he was highly respected, what more can people ask for really.
:25:05. > :25:11.Let's have a look at the weather. Good evening. What a stunning
:25:11. > :25:16.spring day it was today. This is how warm it got across the region,
:25:16. > :25:22.between 16 and 18 degrees. Exceptionally mild. Eight Celsius
:25:22. > :25:27.is average for this time of year. With the clear skies we will get
:25:27. > :25:33.mist and fog patches forming once more overnight tonight. It will get
:25:33. > :25:39.fairly chilly. We will have values close to those which will bring us
:25:39. > :25:44.ground frost. It will be once more at bit of a cloudy and misty start
:25:44. > :25:49.tomorrow. There will be more cloud around but we should see some
:25:49. > :25:56.brighter spells and even sunshine into the afternoon. It will still
:25:56. > :26:01.be very mild. A bit more of a noticeable wind for tomorrow. A
:26:01. > :26:11.moderate south-westerly 3D. Through the afternoon sunshine will turn to
:26:11. > :26:13.
:26:13. > :26:19.turn hazy. There is something for everyone, there is some rain on the
:26:19. > :26:23.way which will come at the weekend. This area of low pressure will form
:26:23. > :26:30.right over the top of us. There could be a persistent spell of rain
:26:30. > :26:35.into the weekend and once it has cleared away it will turn colder.
:26:35. > :26:41.For tomorrow, a little bit more cloud around but there should be
:26:41. > :26:45.some sunshine and Abbey's. Into the weekend most locations might get
:26:45. > :26:51.away with a dry start but there will be outbreaks of rain which
:26:51. > :27:01.could turn persistent into the evening and overnight on Saturday.
:27:01. > :27:05.
:27:05. > :27:10.By Sunday it should gradually clear through. -- sunshine and a breeze.
:27:10. > :27:16.By Monday and Tuesday we could be up to 10 or 11 Celsius with sunny