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First tonight: On the day the A—level results are published the

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region gets ready for a record number of students coming here to

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university. Across Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk there

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think it is a disgrace in this day and age that they cannot get hold of

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the medical records. the state dummies helping to train a flying

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medics. And the disappointment continues for

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our athletes at the World Championships.

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First tonight: On the day the A—level results are published the

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region gets ready for a record number of students coming here to

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university. Across Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk

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there are more than 50,000 students at University. We contacted our

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universities about the number of offers they'd made this academic

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year. All of those who responded had seen an increase in student numbers.

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At the University Campus Suffolk admissions are up 5%. They are up by

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almost 4.5% at the University of Essex. Anglia Ruskin have seen an

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increase of just under 2%. Unfortunately the University of East

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Anglia couldn't provide us with any figures. This report from Alex

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Dunlop. Glasses of these, party balloons and

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cupcakes that see great result. Clearly the teachers at this academy

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in Norwich and now the grades in these gold envelopes. How did you

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do? I got an 80, a star. All of the teachers and pupils at

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this Academy are absolutely delighted.

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You have to get the good grades, you have to get into the good

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universities because that is what employers are going to want to three

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years down the line when they finish their degree course. They will not

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just look at the degree, they will look at where they got it from?

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indeed. some school leavers go turn their

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back on a degree. He walked straight into a media job after a course at

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Norwich College. the media learning company offered

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real experience whilst working in a commercial environment. The work 9—5

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is a real company. You work with real clients. We got real experience

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while getting a real qualification. University applications might be up,

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but I was struck by the amount of students who had the grades but did

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not want to take a degree. I am not a big fan of being in all of that

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debt. £27,000 at least. I want to stay at home and get an

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apprenticeship and work my way up that way.

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Nina from great Yarmouth is an example of how you can turn it

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around. He had previously dropped out of college, but today he got

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three A—star . Professor Jules Pretty, the Deputy

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Vice Chancellor of the University of Essex, joins me now.

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How busy has it been in Clearing today, what type of calls? It has

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been a very busy day. Students who have been successful have been

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accepted and students who have had to go into clearing to seek a place

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have been running up universities —— ringing up universities to see if

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they would be accepted. The National student satisfaction survey put

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Essex as second in the country. Not only either more students coming to

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the region, but there are more institutions able to offer an

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excellent education. You're offering four per cent more places this

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coming year. How much is that to do with students

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choosing to study close to home to keep costs down? When the new fee

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regime came and was an expectation that more students would lead

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locally. But interestingly, that has not happened. Part of the reason is

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that you come to university of course to study a degree but also

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you come for three years of transformational experience, which

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comes from the accommodation, the flats that you are then with other

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students, from joining student societies and clubs and playing

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sports. That comes from living on a campus such as the one we have here

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at Essex and engaging with students and academics for the whole of the

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year. That additional benefit on top of your degree is something that is

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the important thing for 18—year—olds.

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What is the impact likely to be of the new higher graders been able to

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trade up their places. Could universities like yours lose out

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because of that? Potential lady could do. This system called

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adjustment. You can reject your offer and go into clearing to seek

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another one. The activity is very tiny with this. If you think of

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yourself as an applicant, you have applied somewhere, you have done

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better but you still have your offer, you have already made an

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emotional attachment to that place and you think, I want to go there

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and know that they have the offer more students stay with that because

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it gives them the certainty on this busy and rather stressful day for

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many students. Now, we have not lost out to adjustment very much. I

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expect it will be a rather small proportion of the clearing business,

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as it was last year. A widow told Look East today that

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it's a disgrace that different parts of the NHS are not able to share

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vital information about patients out of hours. Six weeks ago Bill

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Detterding was admitted to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, but

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when the doctors tried to access his GP records in Holt, they couldn't do

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it. He was given aspirin, although his records would have told them he

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was allergic to it. They were married for 15 seven years

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—— 57 years, but Bill died last year. But what angered his family

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was that doctors could not access his medical records over a bank

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holiday. You'll mac it is appalling. They were trying, but they could

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not. He had a blocked artery, but before surgeons could operate he

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suffered a stroke. His family says that he received exemplary care, but

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for several days doctors could not see his notes, including his allergy

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to aspirin and do not resuscitate notice. she does have some valid

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concerns and we would actively encourage anything that encourages a

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safe and secure sharing of information. Solveig has that not

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happened? —— so fly has that not happened? This system promised to

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connect 30,000 GPs. But by 2006 it was in disarray. The project was

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scrapped in 2011 at a cost of £2.7 billion.

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There is a clear plan now to have a paperless NHS by 2018. We want to

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make a significant amount of progress before that. We want to

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create an IT fund which local hospitals can bid for. Build—out

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peacefully in a local hospital with his family at his side. —— will

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hide. Lifeguards on our beaches have

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rescued 21 people in the past six days. They say that without their

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help four of those would certainly have died. Richard Daniel has spent

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the day on the beach in Clacton, with four children were rescued

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yesterday. Over the years, this lifeguard has

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saved many lives. The latest, just yesterday. He spotted for people in

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trouble. I could see the four people in the water trying to get

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themselves back in. I knew that they were going to get in trouble because

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of the state of the tide. I gave a quick call to the office who were

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already on the case. Another couple of minutes and we could have been

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talking a different story. They pulled a 15—year—old boy and a

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16—year—old girl to safety. The colleague used a rescue boat to see

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—— save a 12—year—old boy and a girl, with seconds to spare. The mac

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if I was ten seconds later then he would have been under and possibly

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not alive. The younger one, I flew out to help him but he was still not

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a strong swimmer. As we work filming, —— as we were filming there

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was another alert. You can still feel the beach underneath, you only

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have to walk so far endured out of your depth again. They were lucky.

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It is almost four years to the day that I young girl died paddling in

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the same breakwater. And at Cromer yesterday afternoon lifeguard saved

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an eight—year—old boy. He had been swept out to sea by a rip currents.

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Back at Clacton, beach patrol see that people must seek advice if in

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doubt. It was a bit scary, but the canoe went out and got them. People

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go on boats and see that they cannot swim. I would not dare let anyone on

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a boat if they said that they could not swim. the message from

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lifeguards is follow safety advice and respect the power of the sea.

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A woman whose body was found in a lake at the University of East

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Anglia has been named. 43—year—old Nomeda Pundziene came

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from Lithuania but had been living in Norwich. Her body was found on

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August first. Her death is being treated as unexplained.

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Inspectors have been visiting the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King 's

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Lynn. Representatives from NHS England, the Care Quality Commission

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and the local watchdogs say that they need to deal with staff

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shortages. A clamp—down on knives in Clacton

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seems to have paid off. In the three months to July there were more than

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30 reported knife—point robberies. Extra police were drafted in and no

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similar robberies have been reported for the last month.

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Still to come: Another disappointing day for our athletes in Moscow.

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And invariably test state of the art dummies helping to train our flying

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medics. The news is all about those A—level

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results today, but exams, particularly English language exams

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for foreign students, are big business in our region.

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Tonight in our series looking at companies which export, we look at

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the work of Cambridge English Language Assessment, which has been

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doing business for 100 years. Dr written in Cambridge, printed in

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Cambridge, but these exam papers will be taken by students in 180

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different countries. The company that produces them is part of

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Cambridge University, recognised the world over. it is very well

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recognised because Cambridge University is one of the top five

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recognised brands in the world. That has helped this business grow. It

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has been exporting exams for over 100 years. The attention. This is

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the first exam paper that was set back in 1913. Among the tasks they

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had two hours to write an essay on subjects which include the effects

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of political movements on 19th—century literature in England.

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But here are just three candidates sat the exam. Not one of them

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passed. 100 years later they now use computer—based tests as well. But

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when you sell to the world, you need to be able to speak to the world as

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well. The mac ——. we offer support in other languages as well. the

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employee around 400 people. Jobs that depend on exporting success.

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Dr Mike Milanovic is the Chief Executive of the unit. When I spoke

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to him earlier and I asked him how the unit came into being. Originally

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it got involved as part of a programme for a teacher of modern

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languages. It has now grown in scale. Those exams 100 years ago are

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very different from today 's. Pretty different. The exam 100 years ago

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took over 12 hours to do. And there was only one exam. We are talking

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this week about exporting. You are exporting knowledge and

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examinations. Where does the money from that go? the money that we make

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from exams gets invested again in our business. We are part of a

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group, Cambridge Assessment. So some of that money will go back into the

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university, to support that work, which in turn supports us. how

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important is it to have the words Cambridge University on it? it is

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really important, it is one of the leading universities in the world.

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The quality that it represents underpins the work that we do as

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well. Everything that we do must reflect the same quality standards

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as are achieved in the University. At the moment I know you reach into

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130 countries. Either more that you are waiting to move into? English is

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so important that although we are in more than 100 and 30 countries now,

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I am sure we will eventually be present in almost every country in

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the world. The developing nations and the fast—growing economies,

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China, India, countries like that are very, very interested in English

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language and an English—language qualifications. A lot of our growth

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and development over the last decade has come from countries like that.

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But it is equally true in Europe that, as the European policy of

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mother tongue plus two languages spread around Europe, English is

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very important and that context as well. Hundreds of thousands of

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children are doing our exams in Spain and Italy and France.

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A 12 hour exam! It puts those A—levels into perspective.

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If you have a serious accident or if you are taken seriously ill you want

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the best care around you want it fast. For more than 40 years, MAGPAS

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has been playing a vital role in providing just that.

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At the moment the Cambridgeshire—based charity provide

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critical care cover 18 hours a day. But soon they will be working 24/7.

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They have a new training scheme to help provide more paramedics and a

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new helicopter. Landing close to the new Magpas

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training centre in Huntingdon, the new orange Explorer. On the board,

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next Foster, the first doctor in the UK to specialise in prehospital

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emergency medicine. It has now been recognised as a subspecialty, like

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gynaecology or paediatrics. They have approved a curricular minute

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and standardise training has started.

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Magpas also claim a first, with this new training scheme. Already a

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paramedic, Chris is giving up his time to complete the course, which

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will allow him to volunteer with the team. Made any mistakes? yes. We are

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learning from previous mistakes that have been made. This is the place to

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make mistakes. the doctors and paramedics work on a series of

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highly realistic scenarios. Chris and his team are trying to save the

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life of boys hit by a car. —— a boy. it is nice to be tested. We get hot

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and bothered and a bit stressed but it is well worth it. We sedated the

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child initially to maintain his earwig, gain control of his pain.

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#. Using a rapid response vehicle,

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Magpas do several runs a day. All of this is designed to help people who

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need critical care before they get to hospital. As a result, saving

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lives. It has been a tough day for our

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athletes at the World Championships in Moscow. This morning it was

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18—year—old Jessica Judd from Essex. This afternoon it was the high

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jumper Robbie Grabarz from St Neots. Jessica Field to qualify for

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the 800 metres final. And Robbie Grabarz missed out on a medal as

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well. It has not been a happy World

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Championships for either Greg Rutherford yesterday Robbie Grabarz

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today. Robbie actually spent his formative years training year at the

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Bedford athletic Stadium, but today two metres 29 centimetres was not

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quite good enough. It was won by a Ukrainian athlete. He just missed

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out on a world record, in fact. That is how high—quality it was today.

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Behind me you can see the sprinters erect Bedford County athletics club.

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Nigel Levine has still got a chance of winning a medal. He started he

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read Bedford as well. But Robbie Grabarz, like Greg, it just was not

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his day to day. They gathered to see if one of their

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own kid when Britain another priceless medal. Robbie Grabarz

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spent years at Bedford County athletics club. It has been a

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difficult year for him after the Olympics, but provided that he gets

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his act together now he is in with a chance. What do you think, is he

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going to be lucky today? yes, I think so. Bronze medal, I'm

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guessing. Robbie ran into trouble at two

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metres and 29 centimetres. He cleared it on the next attempt

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but it was last chance win at two metres and 32 centimetres after two

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failures. Two metres 29 centimetres was good

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enough for Bobby to win bronze last year. One year and the bar has been

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raised higher and Robbie could not make it over. The high jump

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collective stayed to watch the rest of the high—class competition.

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Earlier and another of Bedford 's finest, Nigel Levine, was rescued as

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his relay team—mates qualified for the final. But disappointment for

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Jessica Judd who failed to reach the final. A—level results wait at home

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for her, hopefully what is inside will be less of a disappointment. I

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am so disappointed, so many people have worked hard to get your. I

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thought I was going to do it and then my legs just went, but maybe

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that is something the site had lost. I am just so happy to be here in one

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piece and I wanted so much more than that.

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Not the best day for our region 's athletes but Jess and Robbie will

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both be back. Robbie presented the award tear at

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the ceremony last year, so he will certainly be back at Bedford. We

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have the young high jumpers at Bedford going through their paces

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now. One or two of them have actually broken his records that he

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set your all those years ago. This is their head coach. You know Robbie

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and his mum very well, how disappointed I you today? Very

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disappointed. He was expected to get towards the medals, we know that he

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had a problem with his knee, but we expected him to get through. He did

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look impressive up until the 229. It was sad that he did not get into the

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top. he will be back, that's for sure. You have some talent year.

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Quite a bit of talent. This girl is new to it, one for the future. This

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is my son. He is 12. He broke Robbie 's under 13 record 13 years to the

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day the other week. A lot of talent here. We hope to see 12 of these at

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the stage that Robbie has. my eldest son has broken Robbie 's under 17

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record year. He went to the World Championships and got a personal

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best. Your dynasty is certainly doing well year. Sadly for Robbie,

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not the case today. And time for the weather.

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Some very changeable weather conditions today. The pressure at

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the moment is more like what you would expect in the autumn. At the

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moment there is a mass of rain out to the West working. That will be

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with us into the early hours of tomorrow morning. Today we have had

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that perfect combination of humidity, warmth and sunshine. That

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has triggered showers. Pretty much anywhere is at risk of catching a

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sharp shower before the end of the evening. The first part of the night

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looks quite drivers clear spells. It can quickly turn cloudy. Much of

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this rain expected to arrive overnight. Quite a good soaking in

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places which may well be welcome for gardens and fields. In terms of

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temperatures once more and mild night. A moderate wind, still

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breezy. That weather front will take its time clearing tomorrow, so for

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the Eastern half it will be sticking around, bringing us these cloudy

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conditions and a wet start pretty much everywhere. It will gladly

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clearer way and at the end of the day we will see something a bit

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brighter, especially across the western half. Some rain, but not

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raining all of the time. A lot of cloud left a class this Eastern

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half. —— across. The temperatures could shoot up if we start to see

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some sunshine. We could see one to sharp showers into the evening where

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afternoon and they could turn thundery.

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This is not going to spoil the day froze because the rain is not

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expected to arrive until the evening. Much of Saturday looks dry.

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Brighter spells perhaps to start with but turning increasingly

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cloudy. Outbreaks of heavy rain, strong winds and gusts in excess of

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30 mph. We have some blustery, westerly winds for Sunday and

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Monday. That could mean some showers. Overnight lows here and a

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quick barometer cheque for you. That is all from us. Have a great

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evening.

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