:00:14. > :00:20.Welcome to BBC Look East. Tonight: An investigation is under way after
:00:20. > :00:22.a woman with Alzheimer's was left over light on a bus. To be put in
:00:22. > :00:27.that situation must have been really distressing for a person
:00:27. > :00:31.with dementia. It would be very distressing for all of us.
:00:31. > :00:35.flooding evacuees back in their home after two nights in a leisure
:00:36. > :00:41.centre. I just felt a little neglected that no-one from the
:00:41. > :00:49.Environment agency was in there, no-one from Social Services was in
:00:49. > :00:54.there for the old people. falcon chicks hatching 250 ft up on
:00:54. > :01:04.a cathedral spire. And how they serve -- save water when there is
:01:04. > :01:12.
:01:12. > :01:17.first hello. First, an investigation into why a woman with
:01:17. > :01:21.dementia was left overnight on a bus. It seems that nobody noticed
:01:21. > :01:26.that she did not get off the bus. She was then discovered next
:01:26. > :01:29.morning at the depot in Luton when it opened for business. The council
:01:29. > :01:36.this credit as a serious incident and said that one person has been
:01:36. > :01:43.suspended. Nikki Jenkins is in look and now it -- Luton now.
:01:43. > :01:48.This is where Luton Borough Council Park a rubbish trucks and have
:01:48. > :01:53.their recycling. It is where the also park their patient Transport
:01:53. > :01:59.buses. It is also where the left and 80-year-old lady who was
:01:59. > :02:05.suffering from dementia. We have spoken to people who work for the
:02:05. > :02:09.bus service and they say that she was discovered in the morning when
:02:09. > :02:13.the the driver found her. He almost collapsed in shock when he heard a
:02:13. > :02:16.small voice coming from the back of the bus. We have spoken to the
:02:16. > :02:20.Alzheimer's Society and asked what kind of effect that would have.
:02:21. > :02:25.think for someone who has dementia, who is may be unsure of where they
:02:26. > :02:32.are and at times of their surroundings, to be in a situation
:02:32. > :02:36.where they don't know, they're not sure, to be aware that -- away from
:02:36. > :02:40.where they are comfortable, safe, to be put in that situation must
:02:40. > :02:46.have been really, really distressing. Have we heard anything
:02:46. > :02:50.from the council? The council have always said that
:02:50. > :02:54.they will confirm that someone has been suspended without prejudice
:02:54. > :02:58.and that it would be inappropriate to comment any further at this
:02:58. > :03:03.moment. We understand that that is the female driver of the bus
:03:03. > :03:08.concerned. This raises far more questions than answers. They would
:03:08. > :03:14.not confirm where this woman had been. We believe that she had been
:03:14. > :03:20.at a day-care centre and was making the journey three miles across town
:03:20. > :03:24.to a specialist housing area where she is a resident. Obviously, the
:03:24. > :03:29.fact that she was not then discovered to be missing is also an
:03:29. > :03:34.issue of concern. It is Luton Borough Council that provides not
:03:34. > :03:41.only the bus services but also the care services at the residential
:03:41. > :03:46.area. They say that they want to provide quality and dignity that --
:03:46. > :03:51.dignity in every service they provide to dementia services. There
:03:51. > :03:58.have been cuts to serve Mrs. There was no escort on the service and it
:03:58. > :04:06.is this end of thing that is leaving patients in danger.
:04:06. > :04:15.1,500 people who live and billing at were drawn in -- billing Aqua
:04:15. > :04:17.Dromore had been able to go back home. Some spend two nights
:04:17. > :04:21.sleeping in a leisure centre. With the possibility of more flooding,
:04:21. > :04:26.they are prepared to be evacuated again.
:04:26. > :04:31.Leaving with their plastic bags at of bedding and clothes, or relief
:04:31. > :04:36.and resentment. Felt a little bit neglected that no-one from the
:04:36. > :04:39.Environment agency was in there, no-one from Billing Aqua Dromore
:04:39. > :04:42.was in there, no-one from Social Services was there for the old
:04:42. > :04:46.people, and they should have been. If what more could they have done?
:04:46. > :04:53.They could have explained to us and told us earlier on, given us a
:04:53. > :05:00.chance to pack things. You know, we could have had a suitcase. We
:05:00. > :05:05.panicked and we rushed off. It was the right thing to do. The
:05:05. > :05:11.Environment agency called the shots. It is one of those things. Life is
:05:11. > :05:20.more valuable than property. site at Great Billing covers nearly
:05:20. > :05:24.240 acres and contains around 1,200 caravans. Today there were fresh
:05:24. > :05:29.warnings as residents return. The Environment agency say that the
:05:29. > :05:33.river here is full and that, with more rain possible tonight,
:05:33. > :05:39.residents had been warned there could be a second evacuation.
:05:39. > :05:46.will work with the park to make sure that the sirens are our
:05:46. > :05:49.operational in case people me to leave. We will make sure that any
:05:49. > :05:56.evacuation will be done as effectively as possible. We're back
:05:56. > :06:06.to normal pretty much everywhere. Should the contingency change we
:06:06. > :06:08.
:06:08. > :06:12.are ready. This weekend is May back the holiday. -- Bank Holiday. The
:06:12. > :06:15.people at the Park hope that it will stay dry.
:06:15. > :06:18.A former bouncer who is accused of murdering his former partner and
:06:18. > :06:27.their daughter has been giving evidence to be the first time.
:06:27. > :06:30.David Oakes denied to shooting Jenna and claimed it will -- denied
:06:30. > :06:35.shooting Shania and said it was Christine Chambers who pulled the
:06:35. > :06:40.trigger. David Oakes said he had a volatile
:06:40. > :06:50.relationship with Christine Chambers. He said he had dropped by
:06:50. > :06:50.
:06:50. > :06:54.her flat to drop off some DIY tools. Today, David Oakes claimed his
:06:54. > :06:58.former partner attacked him, first with scissors, then with kitchen
:06:58. > :07:02.knives. David Oakes told the court he had gone to the bathroom and
:07:02. > :07:06.that two-year-old Shania had come towards him. He said, all of a
:07:06. > :07:15.sudden there was a flash and the baby was shot. She was lying in the
:07:15. > :07:22.hallway. He added that he was not sure whether Christine Chambers had
:07:22. > :07:29.shot their doctor deliberately or by accident. David Oakes told the
:07:30. > :07:33.court he was not sure who was shot next. He was due in court the next
:07:33. > :07:40.day for a custody battle. He told the court that Christine Chambers
:07:40. > :07:45.was drunk and on drugs. In court, he was accused of lying. Be QC for
:07:45. > :07:50.the prosecution told 10, it is your account that Christine Chambers ask
:07:50. > :07:54.for a shotgun. It is a contrived account, it is alive. David Oakes
:07:54. > :07:59.denies two counts of murder, the case continues.
:07:59. > :08:05.More than 120 airmen are due to return home to Suffolk in the next
:08:05. > :08:12.few minutes after six months in Afghanistan. 2 Squadron, based at
:08:12. > :08:14.RAF Honington, lost a man earlier this year. Our defence reporter is
:08:15. > :08:24.at RAF Honington now with family and friends of the returning their
:08:25. > :08:25.
:08:25. > :08:35.men. -- the returning airmen. The families are all lined up,
:08:35. > :08:40.ready to see the men home. The men it landed at Brize Milton just
:08:40. > :08:43.after 2pm. They should arrive here just after 7pm. The relatives who
:08:43. > :08:53.waved them off last October will be here to give them an ecstatic
:08:53. > :08:54.
:08:54. > :09:04.welcome. This is called a Jekyll. This is what the men used to patrol
:09:04. > :09:07.
:09:07. > :09:12.in. They have to dominate ground miles from their base. That puts
:09:12. > :09:19.them in danger of ambush and snipers, as well as improvised
:09:19. > :09:25.explosive devices. This woman's has been is due back. You must be so
:09:25. > :09:34.excited? Yes, cannot wait to see him. It has been a long six months.
:09:34. > :09:38.I have some butterflies. Any idea what he has been up to? He does not
:09:38. > :09:43.talk much about what he does. We tried to keep it away from the
:09:43. > :09:46.children. Are you looking forward to seeing that the? Yes. I hope you
:09:47. > :09:52.have a lovely evening with him. This welcome home is tinged with
:09:52. > :09:59.sadness because one of their number, 21-year-old Ryan Tomlin, was killed
:09:59. > :10:05.in a gun attack on 13th February. He was described by his commanding
:10:05. > :10:09.officer as one of the regiment's very best. Let us have a quick chat
:10:09. > :10:15.with the wing commander. It shows it is still very dangerous out
:10:15. > :10:20.there. It is a dangerous job but we do it well. It is great to have the
:10:20. > :10:29.men back. You're role has not changed - you're still very much in
:10:29. > :10:32.the firing line. Yes. We do our part along with everybody else. We
:10:32. > :10:36.manage our risks and I am sure that other elements of the deployed
:10:36. > :10:44.Force manage their risks as well. Another squadron is going out in
:10:44. > :10:51.the next few weeks. Yes. I was there in 2010, there are other
:10:51. > :10:55.elements out there in 2010. -- at the moment. We are looking forward
:10:55. > :11:00.to welcoming them back in the next 20 minutes or so.
:11:00. > :11:02.Still to come tonight: The calm before another storm - Alex will be
:11:02. > :11:05.here with details of more rain to come.
:11:05. > :11:15.And battleground Harlow - the Labour leader pays another visitor
:11:15. > :11:16.
:11:16. > :11:20.head of the local elections tomorrow. -- visit to a head off.
:11:20. > :11:25.There has been more criticism of ambulance response times for people
:11:25. > :11:29.in Suffolk. People have described the service as second rate and said
:11:29. > :11:31.that most people -- that people were waiting longer than the target
:11:32. > :11:37.time of eight minutes for emergencies.
:11:37. > :11:46.The issue of response times is not new. Last year, assurances were
:11:46. > :11:49.giving debt -- given by the Chief Executive of the East of England
:11:49. > :11:54.Ambulance Trust that improvements would be made.
:11:54. > :12:00.We should not have to take greater risks with our help because we live
:12:00. > :12:05.here. It must not get any worse and it needs to get better. Dan Potter
:12:05. > :12:15.and Peter Aldous say that a response time of 55% against a
:12:15. > :12:17.
:12:17. > :12:27.target of 75% is not good enough. Framlingham saw one of the worst
:12:27. > :12:28.
:12:28. > :12:33.response times. By day, Judy is a finance officer for a school in
:12:33. > :12:39.Framlingham. But she is always -- also a volunteer first responder.
:12:39. > :12:42.Our job is to help ambulance crews to take longer to get an emergency.
:12:42. > :12:46.I know how demoralising it must be for the ambulance crews, who are
:12:46. > :12:49.out there at all times of day and night and in all weathers,
:12:49. > :12:53.absolutely doing their best. I do not feel it is therefore that they
:12:53. > :13:03.cannot make response times. They have a vast area to cover and they
:13:03. > :13:08.
:13:08. > :13:13.do not have enough vehicles to They say to meet all of their
:13:13. > :13:17.targets they would need an extra �80 million worth of funding per
:13:17. > :13:22.year. Two men have been arrested in
:13:22. > :13:28.connection with the theft of Chinese art from the Fitzwilliam
:13:28. > :13:31.Museum. The arrests for an appeal on Crimewatch last night. The items
:13:31. > :13:34.were stolen from at the museum last month.
:13:34. > :13:40.An armed robber who threatened a bakery worker with a sawn-off
:13:40. > :13:44.shotgun has been found after going on the run. Michael Roode was
:13:44. > :13:49.jailed in 2007 after a raid at a bakery in that Long Stratton. He
:13:49. > :13:53.escaped from prison in Derbyshire, but was found this morning.
:13:53. > :13:59.Three months ago this week a new operator took over the rail service
:13:59. > :14:03.in this region. Greater Anglia is now run by the Dutch firm Abellio.
:14:03. > :14:13.The promised improvements to the service. Even today there have been
:14:13. > :14:23.delays. We are sorry that the service is
:14:23. > :14:23.
:14:23. > :14:32.delayed by 15 minutes. As so often, the problem was to do with
:14:32. > :14:37.signalling, and the impact was felt by passengers. Abellio has run the
:14:37. > :14:43.franchise for three months now. They have been on time are more in
:14:43. > :14:50.the morning and on time more in the evening. What difference have you
:14:50. > :15:00.noticed? I have not noticed a difference. The same delays.
:15:00. > :15:02.
:15:03. > :15:10.livery. Abellio got off to an unlucky start in the February snow.
:15:10. > :15:14.unlucky start in the February snow. unlucky start in the February snow.
:15:14. > :15:18.But punctuality has been steady. had a difficult start in the first
:15:18. > :15:22.week with all this goal. After that the reliability has been quite good
:15:22. > :15:29.most of the days. The big issue is that if it goes wrong we struggle
:15:29. > :15:32.to keep a good service going. Abellio's current franchises on the
:15:32. > :15:38.for two years. It has always made clear it cannot commit to major
:15:38. > :15:43.investment in that time. But a 15 year franchise will be awarded in
:15:43. > :15:50.2014. Whoever wins that will be expected to cough up for new trains
:15:50. > :15:54.and line speed improvements. At 20-year-old man has been charged
:15:54. > :15:59.with murder after a stabbing at the home of former world boxing
:15:59. > :16:03.champion Herbie Hide. Joshua up Burton will appear before
:16:03. > :16:07.magistrates tomorrow. Ali Carter, the snooker player from
:16:07. > :16:11.Essex, is still going well in the snooker championships in it
:16:12. > :16:18.Sheffield. This morning he maintained his two-frame advantage
:16:18. > :16:23.and now lead by 9-7. It is the first to 13 frames who will
:16:23. > :16:29.progress to the semi-finals. Just over one month ago a pair of
:16:29. > :16:33.peregrine falcons laid four eggs in the spire of Norwich Cathedral.
:16:33. > :16:37.Since then are we have been the following the progress. Today came
:16:37. > :16:44.the pictures we have been waiting for. The first peregrine cheque to
:16:44. > :16:50.hatch in Norwich for 200 years. The city of Norwich, home to
:16:50. > :16:56.150,000 people. Also home to one pair of peregrine falcons. But no
:16:56. > :17:03.cosy bedroom for these two. Look at where they live. 250 ft up on the
:17:03. > :17:10.spire of Norwich Cathedral. They are a bird of cliffs, mountain tops,
:17:10. > :17:20.and wild places. They have adapted to city life. The spire is a cliff.
:17:20. > :17:20.
:17:20. > :17:25.It is surrounded with pigeon food. They were almost extinct in the
:17:25. > :17:29.1950s and 1960s. They have come back. They have adapted to city
:17:29. > :17:34.like. They are doing well. There are such exciting birds to watch.
:17:34. > :17:42.She is not the only one who is excited. They are amazing. They are
:17:43. > :17:47.quite fast. This is one of hundreds of visitors who has turned up to
:17:47. > :17:51.watch the progress. In the past month the pair have laid four eggs.
:17:51. > :17:57.For weeks the birds have worked around the clock to incubate the
:17:57. > :18:07.eggs whatever the weather. Today their dedication paid off.
:18:07. > :18:13.One of the eggs hatched this morning. We are very optimistic for
:18:13. > :18:23.three or four begs to hatch. These are the first peregrine
:18:23. > :18:24.
:18:24. > :18:32.falcons to successfully breed been at Norwich and 200 years.
:18:32. > :18:40.-- breed in at Norwich in 200 years. Still to come - and no rain in
:18:40. > :18:44.Spain, and what they do their when there is a drought.
:18:44. > :18:47.Labour leader Ed Miliband has been campaigning in the region today
:18:47. > :18:52.with the local elections tomorrow. The party is hoping for some big
:18:52. > :18:54.gains at the expense of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrat.
:18:54. > :19:01.Not everywhere has elections Not everywhere has elections
:19:01. > :19:11.tomorrow. There is floating in 19 councils across the East. --
:19:11. > :19:14.
:19:14. > :19:18.councils across the East. -- floating. One council more than any
:19:18. > :19:22.other has been a battleground. It is Hamel in Essex. That is where
:19:22. > :19:27.the Labour leader went today. Our reporter was there.
:19:27. > :19:31.Ed Miliband has a spring in his step at the moment. His party is 10
:19:31. > :19:37.points ahead in the opinion polls. He is hoping to make big gains in
:19:37. > :19:42.tomorrow's elections. What are you doing here? The are visiting Harlow
:19:42. > :19:47.because there is an election tomorrow.
:19:47. > :19:50.This afternoon he visited the local supermarket. Labour want tomorrow's
:19:50. > :19:56.elections to be a referendum on the government. Ed Miliband believes
:19:56. > :19:59.things are going his way. David Cameron promised change, but things
:19:59. > :20:06.have not changed for the better, they have changed for the worse.
:20:06. > :20:12.Tomorrow is an opportunity. We will try and bigger difference in tough
:20:12. > :20:15.times. Harlow has been the main battleground in these elections.
:20:15. > :20:21.The Conservatives have a majority of just one on the local council.
:20:21. > :20:27.That is why Labour has been sending in the big guns. They are doing the
:20:27. > :20:33.job. So too have the Tories. The Home Secretary was here yesterday.
:20:33. > :20:37.She sold how vandalism was being tackled. The people at Harlow needs
:20:37. > :20:42.to look at the value the local council has given them. In tough
:20:42. > :20:47.times, freezing council tax over the years can really help people.
:20:47. > :20:51.The concern that has run most of the region's councils and there are
:20:51. > :20:54.braced for losses tomorrow. So too are the love a Democrat. There are
:20:55. > :20:58.campaigning to keep control of Cambridge. Last year they lost one-
:20:58. > :21:03.third of their seats in the region. They're hoping voters will
:21:03. > :21:07.concentrate on the local picture. hope we will not be punished
:21:07. > :21:10.because of what is happening at national level. We need to make
:21:10. > :21:15.sure that whoever is elected a people who are intelligent and you
:21:15. > :21:20.can get on and do the job. In some places there have been a few local
:21:20. > :21:24.issues playing on the doorsteps but on the whole, as usual, these local
:21:24. > :21:34.elections have been dominated by national issues. The Budget, the
:21:34. > :21:34.
:21:34. > :21:38.economy, Rupert Murdoch. In 2008 the Labour did badly. Ed
:21:38. > :21:43.Miliband hopes it will be different this time round.
:21:43. > :21:46.I am sure all you know that despite all the heavy rain in April most of
:21:46. > :21:50.us are still in drought and most of us have a hosepipe ban.
:21:50. > :21:54.That is nothing compared to Spain, which has been suffering its worst
:21:54. > :21:59.drought for 70 years. David Whiteley has travelled to Barcelona
:21:59. > :22:03.to see what they have had to do to cut down on water use.
:22:03. > :22:07.This church has stood here in this valley in northern Spain for more
:22:07. > :22:12.than 500 years. But I should not even be able to be here because
:22:12. > :22:18.this is the bottom of a reservoir. That spire is usually submerged
:22:18. > :22:24.under thousands of tons of water. The reason it is so dry is Spain is
:22:24. > :22:29.going through its worst drought for 70 years. Can Spain give us a
:22:29. > :22:33.glimpse into an uncomfortable future?
:22:33. > :22:41.Four years ago the situation got so bad that the taps in Barcelona
:22:41. > :22:49.almost run dry. The City was forced to ship in the supplies from France.
:22:49. > :22:53.We became conscious of how precious water was when we had that drought.
:22:53. > :22:59.Their children taught about it at school. At first they adapted more
:22:59. > :23:03.easily. They were the water police. Through a determined campaign to
:23:03. > :23:06.save water at home and used to recycled water around the city,
:23:06. > :23:13.Barcelona is well on his way to becoming a world leader in
:23:13. > :23:17.conserving water. People here use 107 litres per day, compared to 150
:23:17. > :23:23.in the UK. To solve the crisis they had to
:23:23. > :23:27.think big. This place was answer. They built
:23:27. > :23:32.this massive desalination plant. It is the largest in Europe.
:23:32. > :23:35.By taking sea water from the Mediterranean, the plant can
:23:35. > :23:39.produce 180 million litres of drinking water per day.
:23:39. > :23:46.It is used as a stop-gap when the reservoirs are low.
:23:46. > :23:49.What is our big idea if we have another unprecedented dry winter?
:23:49. > :23:54.Difficult to say, that too would be in a very bad place. We have never
:23:54. > :23:58.worked out the consequences of three dry winters in a row. We have
:23:58. > :24:02.never had three dry winters in a row. You would be expecting
:24:02. > :24:05.measures that were quite dramatic. There would be standpipes in the
:24:05. > :24:10.streets. People would have to take buckets and containers down to the
:24:10. > :24:16.standpipes. We don't know how many people could be involved but it
:24:16. > :24:19.could be tens of thousands easily. Top of standpipes may sound
:24:19. > :24:25.extraordinary, but as they have discovered here in Spain, the world
:24:25. > :24:29.is changing. Climate change and an expanding population means demand
:24:29. > :24:34.for water is set to increase. Even if the rains to come this winter,
:24:35. > :24:39.pretty soon we will all have to start thinking of drinking water as
:24:39. > :24:49.the precious and scarce natural resource it really is.
:24:49. > :24:51.
:24:51. > :24:56.There is more on that story in Inside Out tonight at 7:30pm.
:24:56. > :25:06.Today we saw some blue skies. Here Today we saw some blue skies. Here
:25:06. > :25:07.
:25:07. > :25:12.is the weather: Low-pressure is driving our weather. It is drawing
:25:13. > :25:22.up unstable air from across the Continent. Heavy thundery rain is
:25:23. > :25:23.
:25:23. > :25:27.approaching. It is heading across the North Sea. That is already
:25:27. > :25:34.affecting parts of Essex and Suffolk. The met Office have issued
:25:34. > :25:42.a yellow warning for heavy rain. We could get torrential downpours.
:25:42. > :25:46.There may be up to one inch in places. It looks as though it will
:25:46. > :25:56.cross the region through much of tonight. Most places should get a
:25:56. > :25:57.
:25:57. > :26:07.good covering of rain. Central parts of the region it may get most
:26:07. > :26:10.
:26:10. > :26:17.rain. Winds generally light to moderate.
:26:17. > :26:26.Tomorrow, how quickly the reigning clears, depends on the front. --
:26:26. > :26:30.how quickly the rain clears. It will gradually become drier later.
:26:30. > :26:40.The most intense rain will be in central and northern parts of the
:26:40. > :26:41.
:26:41. > :26:51.region tomorrow. That rain will become patchy during the day. It
:26:51. > :26:52.
:26:52. > :27:00.will feel quite cold. Winds will be north-easterly once more. Light to
:27:00. > :27:07.moderate in strength. The rain it will gradually clear a way that it
:27:07. > :27:16.will leave behind a lot of cloud. And settled spell continues. Friday
:27:16. > :27:26.will have up light rain or drizzle. On Saturday it will be colder by
:27:26. > :27:26.
:27:26. > :27:31.day and by night. We will see the return of frost. Unsettled weather