:00:09. > :00:13.I felt that I had to do something to make things better for other
:00:13. > :00:23.people and for some kind of sense or purpose to come out of Olivia's
:00:23. > :00:23.
:00:23. > :00:27.death. In the programme tonight, fighting to improve our level
:00:27. > :00:31.crossings. The mother who does not want her daughter's death to be in
:00:31. > :00:35.vain. Also tonight, should patients be
:00:35. > :00:38.sent home in the middle of the night? Milton Keynes Hospital in
:00:38. > :00:46.the spotlight. A lucky escape as a mudslide causes
:00:46. > :00:53.this wall to collapse. And the best of Brazil at a Lincoln
:00:54. > :00:57.training cat in Lincolnshire. -- a Lincoln training camp.
:00:57. > :01:01.First tonight, "I will fight for change so others do not suffer like
:01:01. > :01:05.us". The words of Tina Hughes, who lost her daughter when she was hit
:01:05. > :01:09.by a train in Essex. Tina Hughes is now working with Network Rail to
:01:09. > :01:11.improve safety at level crossings. Olivia Bazlinton and her friend
:01:11. > :01:17.Charlotte Thompson were killed crossing the line at Elsenham
:01:17. > :01:23.station six years ago. Last month Network Rail was fined �1 million
:01:23. > :01:25.after admitting it had breached health and safety regulations. The
:01:25. > :01:35.company is now spending �130 million assessing and improving
:01:35. > :01:39.hundreds of crossings across the UK with Tina's help.
:01:40. > :01:44.Level crossings are the biggest risk on the railway. There oz six
:01:44. > :01:50.deaths and almost 300 near-misses between pedestrians and trains last
:01:50. > :01:58.year. This man loses his shoe and narrowly escapes losing his life.
:01:58. > :02:03.And as near misses go, this is as close as it gets. More than six
:02:03. > :02:08.years after losing her daughter, Olivia, on the crossing here, Tina
:02:08. > :02:13.Hughes, a project manager with an engineering company, is now working
:02:13. > :02:17.with Network Rail to make crossings savour. I felt I had to do
:02:17. > :02:23.something to make things better for other people. And to give some
:02:23. > :02:29.sense of reason of purpose for Bolivia's death. But whilst she was
:02:29. > :02:33.examining plans for this footbridge, this is what happened. While we
:02:33. > :02:40.have been here, several have gone through while the barriers of going
:02:40. > :02:46.down. It makes my stomach turnover. At this Centre in Colchester, Tina
:02:46. > :02:50.is meeting Martin Gallagher, the head of Network Rail's Department
:02:50. > :02:56.for crossings. Level-crossing safety has become a key priority
:02:56. > :03:01.for Network Rail. �130 million will be spent over the next two years.
:03:02. > :03:08.Hundreds of crossings will be cruising -- closing and many
:03:08. > :03:12.footbridges are being built. She is helping to check decisions we are
:03:12. > :03:18.making, things we do. Tina is a professional herself and has
:03:19. > :03:23.managed project herself. She understand risk. So she can head up
:03:23. > :03:28.the team we have got with this big and exciting challenge. A damning
:03:28. > :03:32.assessment carried out four years ago said there was a real risk of
:03:32. > :03:37.disaster. There is now a pedestrian footbridge and gates locked
:03:37. > :03:40.automatically when a train is coming. Tina Hughes also proved
:03:40. > :03:46.that Network Rail has changed as well.
:03:46. > :03:51.Tina Hughes is at her home in Elsenham and joins me now. Can you
:03:51. > :03:55.tell us more about what your role wind with Network Rail, because as
:03:55. > :04:02.we heard, you come from a civil engineering background and
:04:02. > :04:05.management so you can bring a lot to the table? Yes. I guess I can.
:04:05. > :04:10.The reason I got involved was because as the accident reports
:04:10. > :04:14.were coming out in the first year, I started to become more and more
:04:14. > :04:20.concerned about what her was seen in terms of risk assessment. So for
:04:20. > :04:24.a period I learned a lot about managing risk at level-crossing. I
:04:24. > :04:29.manage risk in projects normally but nothing as serious as the
:04:29. > :04:35.interface between a train and a person. That is obviously much more
:04:35. > :04:40.critical. Martin Gallagher refers to you as the conscience of Network
:04:40. > :04:45.Rail. Is that something you would like to be seen as? I am not sure I
:04:45. > :04:49.am their conscience. I am probably more like a pricked to their
:04:49. > :04:54.conscience. Certainly in the last year, since the investigation has
:04:54. > :05:04.been going on, there has been much more acceptance about what has got
:05:04. > :05:08.
:05:08. > :05:13.to change in Network Rail. Martin has a good history and heritage
:05:13. > :05:17.from the Olympic delivery for the Olympic Park so he wants to bring
:05:17. > :05:25.that safety culture into Network Rail. How bars are divided about
:05:25. > :05:35.the work being done? Because you said you had spent so long
:05:35. > :05:40.
:05:40. > :05:44.attacking Network Rail that it was time for some good news? soon after
:05:44. > :05:49.Olivia's death, about nine months later, the school started going
:05:49. > :05:53.back after the summer holiday and nothing had changed at Elsenham.
:05:53. > :05:57.So I became involved with the community safety team. It built up
:05:57. > :06:00.from there. Thank you. Now more on that story about
:06:00. > :06:03.hospitals sending patients home in the middle of the night. Of all the
:06:03. > :06:07.hospitals involved, Milton Keynes is in the top six. It's claimed
:06:07. > :06:11.that more than 6% of their patients are sent home between 11pm and 6am.
:06:11. > :06:19.The hospital says figures are misleading. Earlier I spoke to
:06:19. > :06:24.their medical director, Martin Wetherill. They believe the figure
:06:24. > :06:30.should be more like 2%. I started asking him why for two figures are
:06:30. > :06:35.so different. If you take the patients who come into our A&E
:06:35. > :06:40.department, it probably is 6% but they are not admitted patients.
:06:40. > :06:44.They are those who come here who go to the assessment unit, waiting for
:06:45. > :06:50.the results of tests or awaiting observations. So they are not
:06:50. > :06:55.really admitted patients. If you look at those from our in-patient
:06:55. > :07:00.beds, those are the people that we think are 2% and, as I have said,
:07:00. > :07:07.the majority are patients who are mostly young people who want to
:07:07. > :07:13.leave hospital after a period of time, for example, after a general
:07:13. > :07:18.anaesthetic. So no elderly patients are asked to leave hospital during
:07:18. > :07:22.the middle of the night? To my knowledge, nobody has been asked to
:07:22. > :07:28.leave in the middle of the night. So it is not because of a shortage
:07:28. > :07:31.of beds? No, that is not the case. It is really important for
:07:31. > :07:36.patients' safety, for people to understand that no patient will be
:07:36. > :07:42.pushed out, as has been implied, pushed out of hospital for the sake
:07:42. > :07:48.of creating a bed at 2am. That is not the case. The vast majority
:07:48. > :07:55.leaving a hospital are doing voluntarily -- are doing so. It
:07:55. > :07:58.would be expected they would leave in any event. We have heard stories
:07:58. > :08:02.of an elderly people being forced to get a taxi home in the middle of
:08:02. > :08:06.the night from other hospitals and stopping at a cash machine to get
:08:06. > :08:10.money for the taxi. You can assure us that nothing like that would
:08:10. > :08:17.happen at your hospital? I would be appalled if it did. I would love to
:08:17. > :08:21.give you a categorical "no" that it had not happened here and I have
:08:21. > :08:24.been assured by my clinical colleagues that it has not, but
:08:24. > :08:29.without analysing every single discharge I cannot give you that
:08:29. > :08:33.assurance. What we can tell you is that from time to time, we do stop
:08:33. > :08:37.patients from going home because we do not feel it is safe and we do
:08:37. > :08:40.not feel they have the facilities appropriate at home for discharge
:08:40. > :08:44.late in the evening. Thank you very much for being with us.
:08:44. > :08:48.Later in the programme, the Polish newspaper making headlines.
:08:48. > :08:57.And Mike Liggins on the trail of an old track in the Suffolk town of
:08:57. > :09:02.Leiston. We are in the middle of Leiston and once upon a time, this
:09:02. > :09:07.used to be a railway line. If enthusiasts get their way, it will
:09:07. > :09:17.be a railway line again one day. That story after more news from
:09:17. > :09:20.The funeral of Tony Newton, who was MP for Braintree for more than 20
:09:20. > :09:24.years, was held at Coggeshall in Essex today. 650 mourners packed
:09:24. > :09:33.the village church. They included former Prime Minister John Major
:09:33. > :09:38.and Cabinet ministers past and present.
:09:38. > :09:43.John Major arriving at the parish church with bodyguards in tow. The
:09:43. > :09:48.presence of a former Prime Minister underlined the importance of Tony
:09:48. > :09:54.Newton's contribution to politics. Many came to give thanks for the
:09:54. > :09:57.work Tony Newton did for local charities and organisations.
:09:57. > :10:06.think this service will bring together a huge amount of respect
:10:06. > :10:10.for Tony from both national public and community local life. He has
:10:11. > :10:15.made a huge contribution in a number of ways. He was the MP for
:10:15. > :10:21.Braintree for 20 years and a minister in the governments for
:10:21. > :10:26.Margaret Thatcher and John Major. He was also a leader in the Commons.
:10:26. > :10:30.More than 600 filled the church. Others listen to the service
:10:30. > :10:34.outside on loudspeakers, and as mourners left the church, John
:10:35. > :10:39.Major paid this tribute to an old friend. I don't think there's
:10:39. > :10:43.anywhere else I would have wished to be today and many others in the
:10:43. > :10:48.church. Tony was a very special person so were very much wish to be
:10:48. > :10:52.there. And how will you remember him? With very great affection. We
:10:52. > :10:56.worked together for a long time and we had a lot of fun together.
:10:56. > :11:00.People forget that. In politics, you form a very close alliances
:11:00. > :11:05.with people. We work together across departments and I have so
:11:05. > :11:12.many memories of working with him. He was loved and respected on all
:11:12. > :11:18.sides of both Houses of Parliament. He dedicated his life to public
:11:18. > :11:21.service. A Life described today as so well and fully lived.
:11:21. > :11:25.The police say they are becoming increasingly concerned about a man
:11:25. > :11:29.who went missing after a stag night. Sam Watson was out with friends in
:11:29. > :11:38.Great Yarmouth on Sunday night but they split up in the early hours of
:11:38. > :11:43.the morning. As I said, we are really not clear where Sam is or
:11:43. > :11:47.his vehicle. We have searched in the Great Yarmouth area, which is
:11:47. > :11:52.where we believe he possibly could still be, but at the moment we are
:11:52. > :11:55.unable to locate him or his vehicle. A 12-year-old boy has had a lucky
:11:55. > :11:58.escape after a mudslide and a wall collapsed in Gorleston near Great
:11:58. > :12:01.Yarmouth. Rhys Chaplin was on a flight of steps just moments before
:12:01. > :12:07.they were covered with a torrent of mud and sludge. An investigation is
:12:07. > :12:13.now underway. It was just after a short
:12:13. > :12:19.thunderstorm that the wall of this series of steps collapsed, creating
:12:19. > :12:25.a mudslide in the road. Rees was on his way to his grandmother's house.
:12:25. > :12:30.He had got to the top of the steps when it happened. The rain was
:12:30. > :12:36.mixing with the mud. It came down and flooded the road so I went up
:12:36. > :12:40.and then I heard cracking. So I ran up and then I got across the road
:12:40. > :12:45.and it collapsed. He went and it must have been 10 seconds or stop
:12:45. > :12:50.he spun around on the spot to see it happening. He was pretty close.
:12:50. > :12:53.I would never have wanted to be that close! His mother knew he had
:12:53. > :12:57.seen the mudslide but had not realised until this morning just
:12:58. > :13:01.how close he had been. It could have been very different.
:13:01. > :13:09.Especially with the height of the wall with the concrete and how
:13:09. > :13:15.thicket was as well. But... No, mud everywhere. He was the last one up.
:13:15. > :13:19.We heard it. It was like thunder yesterday. It thundered down and I
:13:19. > :13:24.did not realise it was him. So scary. Many who live here spend
:13:24. > :13:27.hours cleaning the mud off of the road. The council says the house is
:13:27. > :13:31.structurally sound but it is liaising with the developer to
:13:31. > :13:34.clear the steps and repair the damage as soon as possible.
:13:34. > :13:38.An elderly woman seriously burned in a gas explosion in Clacton has
:13:38. > :13:43.died in hospital. Five others were hurt in the blast which destroyed a
:13:43. > :13:52.three-storey building a week and a half ago. The woman died at the
:13:52. > :13:54.specialist burns unit at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford.
:13:54. > :13:57.While most regional newspapers across the country are having a
:13:57. > :14:00.tough time, news tonight of one that is planning expand to meet
:14:00. > :14:05.increasing demand. It's published in Peterborough and carries stories
:14:05. > :14:10.from across the region and is written in Polish.
:14:10. > :14:15.The latest edition of this paper after a multi-million pound
:14:15. > :14:20.Cambridge printing press. It gets up to 10,000 readers a month. At a
:14:20. > :14:24.cost of 30p, it is the only paid for Polish title in the country.
:14:24. > :14:30.The editors said starting it here was easier than in his native
:14:31. > :14:36.Poland. There is so much competition. Every city, every town
:14:36. > :14:42.has its local newspaper. So to open a newspaper is quite expensive in
:14:42. > :14:47.Poland. Really expensive. Figures suggest there are 25,000 Polish
:14:47. > :14:57.people living in Peterborough alone. Mike Webb created Peter. He says
:14:57. > :15:01.
:15:01. > :15:06.the paper tells of life here, unlike internet sites. -- like
:15:06. > :15:14.website creator Peter. It is much easier here and who doesn't speak
:15:14. > :15:18.English? You can read it in Polish! Contracts like this are helping an
:15:18. > :15:22.ever-shrinking industry. More and more people are coming to worse for
:15:22. > :15:29.bespoke printing like this. So we are creating Arabic titles,
:15:29. > :15:34.Filipino titles. All sorts. We pretty much do everything from he -
:15:34. > :15:44.- 300 copies to 200,000. The plan now is to set up more regional
:15:44. > :15:48.
:15:48. > :15:53.titles as more people choose to It looks like banks could be
:15:53. > :15:56.trouble again. A number of small businesses in the region say
:15:56. > :15:59.they're struggling to stay afloat after being sold complex financial
:15:59. > :16:02.deals. They were meant to protect them from rising interest rates but
:16:02. > :16:05.with rates at a historic low, many firms are paying through the nose.
:16:05. > :16:08.Lots of us are feeling the benefits of low interest rates up hundreds
:16:08. > :16:12.of small companies say they are stuck in high-cost agreements and
:16:12. > :16:17.are struggling to survive. Colin Aldous runs a hotel and golf
:16:17. > :16:21.course in Suffolk. Six years ago, he doubled the size of Ufford Park
:16:21. > :16:27.with a �5 million loan. But in doing so, he made what he describes
:16:27. > :16:32.the worst decision of his life. He took out interest rates with his
:16:32. > :16:38.bank in a product made to protect him from future rises. When the
:16:38. > :16:46.rates dropped, Colin was stuck, paying a rate of 8%. Up until now,
:16:46. > :16:50.we have paid out �620,000. It has been about 15,000 a month. What
:16:50. > :16:54.sort of strain has that put on the Business? It has been very
:16:54. > :17:02.challenging. We have not been able to pay out increases in wages and
:17:02. > :17:06.have had to be very careful to survive this time. Colin has
:17:06. > :17:10.protected his 150 staff from the full impact of the crisis by not
:17:10. > :17:16.giving them pay increases. And he will have to forgo these for the
:17:16. > :17:20.next six years. So many jobs are attached to it. We're desperate. We
:17:20. > :17:25.would not want to lose the staff or the building so we are doing
:17:25. > :17:28.whatever we have to to see us through this difficult time. Up to
:17:28. > :17:33.2000 firms are thought to have bought this sort of agreement in
:17:33. > :17:39.this region. Some are understood what they were getting into. Others
:17:39. > :17:44.didn't and say they were mis-sold products by their banks. This
:17:44. > :17:50.electric retailer is paying 9% interest on a commercial loan of
:17:50. > :17:54.�900,000 from Barclays. I would not have believed that a bank that has
:17:54. > :17:59.supported our business for the last 100 years could potentially ever
:17:59. > :18:03.dream of selling us a product that has done such irreparable damage to
:18:03. > :18:08.our business. Barclays Bank says it gave customers enough information
:18:08. > :18:12.to make their own decisions about which product to choose. But at
:18:12. > :18:19.Ufford Park, Colin is in talks with his bank, which he declined to name
:18:19. > :18:25.in hope of finding a compromise. And if your business has been
:18:25. > :18:29.affected by those sorts of deals, we would love to hear from you. The
:18:29. > :18:33.details are below. Over the next few months a number
:18:33. > :18:36.of foreign teams will be moving to the region in preparation for the
:18:36. > :18:39.London Olympics. At Waresley in Cambridgeshire, you'll find the
:18:39. > :18:41.Brazilian three-day eventers. The eight-strong team includes a doctor
:18:41. > :18:51.and an aeronautical engineer, and they've been telling James Burridge
:18:51. > :19:10.
:19:10. > :19:18.This is my horse. She has been with me for eight years so far. Who is
:19:18. > :19:24.the better sportsmen? You or the horse? That is a good question!
:19:24. > :19:30.This is home? This is where we spend the most time as horse-riders.
:19:30. > :19:39.We have got competitions and we live here. This is a small home. It
:19:39. > :19:46.is a home from home. Hopefully this is my Olympic horse for London.
:19:46. > :19:50.This is Tommy. He has been one of my top horses. He is the kind of
:19:50. > :19:57.animal that is there for me. You really connect with him and he
:19:57. > :20:04.makes things easy. What have you had to give up to make your Olympic
:20:04. > :20:12.dream come true? It has been hard for me with the weather. Brazil has
:20:12. > :20:17.the hot weather. But family and friends as well. But if you want to
:20:17. > :20:22.succeed in this event, eventing, you have to be where the top teams
:20:22. > :20:27.are, and that is here. How did you get them to come from Brazil?
:20:27. > :20:32.a lot of persuasion. They have do this -- the desire to want to
:20:32. > :20:36.succeed. A few have given up a lot to be here. They realise that to
:20:36. > :20:41.gain a potential medal placing, they need to apply themselves to
:20:41. > :20:47.the sport. They need to give things up. Are you a hard taskmaster?
:20:47. > :20:52.would say I can be! I am boss. England has been home for me and
:20:52. > :20:57.London is my home for the Olympics. Even though rear is the next
:20:57. > :21:07.Olympics, it is important, I cannot wait to go to London. -- even
:21:07. > :21:13.
:21:13. > :21:16.Now, when it comes train news, it's often bad news, isn't it? But
:21:16. > :21:21.here's a positive story. A group of railway enthusiasts in Suffolk are
:21:21. > :21:25.restoring an old line. The line was bought recently for �17,000 and
:21:25. > :21:29.runs right through the town of Leiston. One day it's hoped it
:21:29. > :21:39.might even link the Long Shop Museum with the branch line, as it
:21:39. > :21:45.
:21:45. > :21:50.once did. They already have an She is not particularly posh and
:21:50. > :21:56.she is not particularly pretty, but there is something a bit special
:21:56. > :22:04.about Sirapite. She looks well enough. How was she? She is fine...
:22:04. > :22:07.Trevor Wrench was the man largely responsible for restoring her.
:22:08. > :22:12.are looking forward to getting her out fairly soon. They look better
:22:12. > :22:19.with steam coming out of them, don't you think? She was a little
:22:19. > :22:24.shunting engine and worked at the engineering works at Leiston. They
:22:24. > :22:28.employed 2,500 people. Sirapite ran on a line which ran right through
:22:28. > :22:34.Leiston, linking factories at the top and bottom of the pound. What
:22:34. > :22:38.was she pulling, Trevor? Materials. That was on the Great Eastern
:22:38. > :22:44.Railway. She brought them down to the works and distributed them
:22:44. > :22:48.around the site. When she stopped working, she fell into disrepair,
:22:48. > :22:53.but with �100,000 and a lot of elbow grease, she was restored. And
:22:53. > :23:01.in 2010, we were there to see Sirapite chug up and down a very
:23:01. > :23:07.short piece of track in part of the car park of the Long Shop Museum.
:23:07. > :23:14.But now, enthusiasts want to restore the 250-yard stretch of
:23:14. > :23:18.line she once ran up and down. The Leiston works railway was formed.
:23:18. > :23:24.It was completely overgrown but has now been cleared. What was it like
:23:24. > :23:30.a couple of months ago? Totally fly-tipping, debris, branches,
:23:30. > :23:34.trees. Rubbish and a terrible mess. Another plan is to lay a track and
:23:34. > :23:38.perhaps a year or two's time, Sirapite will get to run on the
:23:38. > :23:44.line again. It might even cross the road in the centre of town, as it
:23:44. > :23:50.once did. And that's not all. The dream for this brilliantly
:23:50. > :24:00.eccentric project is to, one day, link up with the branch line. It is
:24:00. > :24:00.
:24:00. > :24:10.just up there. But that could never happen... Could it?
:24:10. > :24:11.
:24:11. > :24:16.Thursday night. Barometer night! It has been a day of "dodge the
:24:16. > :24:21.showers". There are still some out there and they really got going in
:24:21. > :24:26.the day. Some were thundery. This is about an hour ago, so still a
:24:26. > :24:30.few lingering, and elsewhere as well. A few more showers this
:24:30. > :24:34.evening but they will fade gradually overnight to leave much
:24:34. > :24:39.of the night dry. A few temperatures will tip away and we
:24:39. > :24:45.could also get the odd mist patch as well. We are expecting an
:24:45. > :24:49.overall low of one degree. Light northerly winds as well. A similar
:24:49. > :24:52.sort of day tomorrow with some sunshine and some showers. The
:24:52. > :25:00.change will be that the showers will not be as widespread and not
:25:00. > :25:05.as heavy. You can see a dark spot there where the computer thinks it
:25:05. > :25:11.might be heavier. So don't be surprised if you get stuck and do
:25:11. > :25:15.that. Temperatures will be typically between 10 and 12 degrees.
:25:15. > :25:19.The showers will take a time to clear and still no further chance
:25:19. > :25:24.of showers through the afternoon, but in between, still some sunny
:25:24. > :25:29.spells. Looking ahead to Sunday, we have a ridge of high pressure which
:25:29. > :25:33.starts to build on Saturday into Sunday. So a dry bay for most of us
:25:33. > :25:38.on Sunday but not far behind, this weather front is waiting to bring
:25:38. > :25:45.in some wet weather later on Monday and into Tuesday, and introducing
:25:45. > :25:51.some cooler air with it. So the weekend, fewer showers, feeling
:25:51. > :25:56.cooler and it will also be a bit breezier. So, for the next five
:25:56. > :26:02.days, showers on Saturday, but mainly isolated and lighter. Many
:26:02. > :26:08.places getting a dry based on Sunday and cooler as well. The
:26:08. > :26:13.northerly wind will drag in some cooler air. The rain will be backed