:00:09. > :00:19.Hello, welcome to Look East. The headlines: A bereaved mother from
:00:19. > :00:24.Essex welcomes proposals to impose restrictions on young drivers. So
:00:24. > :00:28.many young people are dying every week in road crashes and if that
:00:28. > :00:32.many people were dying in a plane crash every week, something would be
:00:32. > :00:34.done. A financial boost for Addenbrooke's Hospital and the
:00:34. > :00:42.specialist unit for people with brain injuries. We are excited, I
:00:42. > :00:49.cannot put it into words. It is an enormous award. The rise and rise of
:00:49. > :00:55.the academies, we talk to the man behind one of the biggest changes in
:00:56. > :01:05.British education. The extraordinary art collection amassed over 50
:01:05. > :01:09.years, it is going under the hammer. Hello. A bereaved mother from Essex
:01:09. > :01:11.was among those today who have welcomed proposals to improve road
:01:11. > :01:25.safety by imposing restrictions on young drivers.
:01:25. > :01:28.The figures tell their own story. Last year in Suffolk, Essex, and
:01:28. > :01:31.Norfolk 237 people were killed or seriously injured in road accidents
:01:31. > :01:35.involving drivers who are 25 years old or younger. One idea floated
:01:35. > :01:38.today is to raise the minimum age for driving from 17 to 18. Another
:01:38. > :01:44.is to ban young people from driving after dark which is considered to be
:01:44. > :01:47.a more dangerous time. As we have been finding out, many people in
:01:47. > :01:54.this region believe these measures are long overdue. This report from
:01:54. > :01:58.Nikki Fox. Helena was 14 when she was killed by
:01:59. > :02:05.a teenage driver near Southend. He had passed his test just three weeks
:02:05. > :02:09.before the crash. 14 others were injured. Helena's mother says
:02:09. > :02:13.something needs to change. The system is not working and so many
:02:13. > :02:17.young people are dying through road crashes. If that many people were
:02:17. > :02:22.dying in a plane crash every week, something would be done. Because it
:02:22. > :02:29.is cars, nobody seems to take notice. The insurance company Aviva
:02:29. > :02:42.links a financial incentive could help. Premiums could help. This
:02:42. > :02:47.entitles me to a discount of 10% of my insurance premiums. There is
:02:47. > :02:56.still a question over the lack of experience that people have on the
:02:56. > :03:00.roads. We would like to see a ban on intensive driving courses because
:03:00. > :03:03.what is important is that young drivers have the chance to
:03:03. > :03:10.experience lots of different types of driving. Just this week, a
:03:10. > :03:14.15—year—old was killed on the a 12 near Lowestoft. It is too early to
:03:14. > :03:20.tell what has happened but the 18—year—old driver remains in a
:03:20. > :03:25.critical condition and Addenbrooke's Hospital. Many young people in this
:03:25. > :03:29.region rely on their cars to get to college or work. There are huge
:03:29. > :03:35.concerns that this will limit opportunities for young people and
:03:35. > :03:38.their parents who may need to continue to be their taxi driver for
:03:38. > :03:47.a little longer. Callers to this radio station voiced their concern.
:03:47. > :03:51.In Norfolk it is quite hard. If you live in the countryside it is hard
:03:51. > :03:57.to get a job and why are they not allowed a car? Some thinking raising
:03:57. > :04:02.the legal age limit is taking away liberties but others argue that
:04:02. > :04:06.saving lives is more important. We do not want to punish them but we
:04:06. > :04:11.would like something to protect them.
:04:11. > :04:15.Mike Rees is the Managing Director of Drive Alive, a company based in
:04:15. > :04:20.Norfolk which advises on driver safety. Do you think a one—year
:04:20. > :04:27.difference would make a difference? I don't think so, not on its own. It
:04:27. > :04:31.would bring us into line with everyone else in Europe, but not on
:04:31. > :04:37.its own. There are different rules in Europe, like having to drive with
:04:37. > :04:41.an experienced driver for a while. There was a statutory education
:04:41. > :04:48.period full stop in Finland it is 1.5 years. Most countries have an
:04:48. > :04:54.experienced driver sitting next to them for the following 12 months
:04:54. > :05:00.after passing a test. There is also a speed limit. You would then make
:05:00. > :05:05.younger drivers have faster reflexes and be able to spot something coming
:05:05. > :05:09.up quicker, but why are they more prone to having accidents? Is it
:05:09. > :05:15.concentration or experience? It is experience. The training they
:05:15. > :05:19.received is purely to pass a driving test and not to develop skills.
:05:19. > :05:24.Vehicles are faster and more powerful and the experience they
:05:24. > :05:34.have macro the reaction times are there, but they have no experience
:05:34. > :05:38.to anticipate and not as important. You teach them about the psychology
:05:38. > :05:44.of driving. What you think would make a difference? That particular
:05:44. > :05:49.aspect of human behaviour behind the wheel of a car, realising and
:05:49. > :05:54.analysing other people, would make a massive contribution, but time is of
:05:54. > :06:03.the essence in terms of wanting to pass their tests. The questions are
:06:03. > :06:06.how long and how much? They are talking about life and death
:06:06. > :06:11.situation here. You were pleas officer have seen first—hand the
:06:12. > :06:16.consequences of these accidents. It was some time ago but you never
:06:16. > :06:20.forget. There is nothing worse or a police officer to do than knock on
:06:20. > :06:25.the door of parents and tell them their child has been killed.
:06:25. > :06:29.As you probably know a lot of the people who are injured in crashes in
:06:29. > :06:31.this region are taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge
:06:31. > :06:35.for specialist care for serious head injuries. Today that unit was given
:06:35. > :06:43.a major financial boost. The details from our chief reporter Kim Riley.
:06:43. > :06:46.The critical care units at Addenbrooke's Hospital is the
:06:46. > :06:51.region's major trauma centre. Nurses and dog tours attends to patients in
:06:52. > :06:58.different levels of consciousness. Today they chose to lead a £25
:06:58. > :07:03.million research programme into traumatic brain injuries. Derek
:07:03. > :07:07.Russell was in the critical care unit six years ago with his life
:07:07. > :07:12.hanging by a thread. He was loading up his lorry when he fell 15 feet
:07:12. > :07:17.onto the tarmac. He was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital by air and
:07:17. > :07:20.lives. He remembers nothing. I do not remember 12 weeks before the
:07:20. > :07:27.accident and four weeks after the accident. My memory started to come
:07:28. > :07:33.back to me very sporadically. It takes a long time for your mind to
:07:33. > :07:39.heal. It is like thousands of chains in your head with each chain having
:07:39. > :07:46.lots of links. They each have to be mended and your mind can only men's
:07:46. > :07:51.one link at a time. His wife has written a book which she has read to
:07:51. > :07:54.him. It fills in the blank memories. She was planning his
:07:54. > :08:03.funeral at the beginning. What did you feel when you first saw him?
:08:03. > :08:06.That I had lost him. I thought it was a lifeless body that was lying
:08:06. > :08:12.there, and I thought it was too late. Derek's fight against the odds
:08:12. > :08:16.reduced some valuable lessons and Addenbrooke's Hospital is playing a
:08:16. > :08:20.key role in gathering data from 5000 patients. I am excited about the
:08:20. > :08:33.prospect of getting on with this research. It is part of the reason
:08:33. > :08:39.why we exist. We want to use the research as a clinical tool to
:08:39. > :08:45.improve patient's outcomes. You must be proud to work here. I'm extremely
:08:45. > :08:53.proud. Derek is back as Elvis in shows that have raised thousands of
:08:53. > :08:56.pounds for charity. Christine says his survival is a miracle. She
:08:56. > :09:01.thanks those who brought him back to life. News is coming in this evening
:09:01. > :09:06.of security alert at Stansted Airport. The alarm was raised after
:09:06. > :09:12.a flight was diverted there an hour ago. The easyJet flight from Hamburg
:09:12. > :09:24.was on its way to Luton when it was diverted. It is not known why the
:09:24. > :09:27.plane was diverted. The A11 northbound carriageway going into
:09:27. > :09:30.Norfolk will be closed this weekend. The route will be shut from the
:09:30. > :09:34.Fiveways Roundabout at Barton Mills to Red Lodge, from ten this evening
:09:34. > :09:37.until 6am on Monday. It's all part of the project to dual the remaining
:09:37. > :09:41.single carriageway section of the road. As part of this, one lane on
:09:41. > :09:44.the A14 east bound will also be shut. That's on the approach to the
:09:44. > :09:47.junction 38 Waterhall Interchange with the A11.
:09:47. > :09:50.Final campaigning is underway in the election to choose a new Deputy
:09:50. > :09:54.Speaker for the House of Commons. It's a highly sought after job which
:09:54. > :09:56.doesn't come up very often. Of the seven candidates standing, five are
:09:56. > :09:58.from this region. Westminster is gripped by election
:09:58. > :10:03.fever. Yesterday it was the dog of the year contest. None of our local
:10:03. > :10:08.MPs won but even here there was a chance for a bit of campaigning for
:10:08. > :10:15.Parliament's other big election. I think politicians are misaligned and
:10:15. > :10:21.I want to be part of the journey as we we store the prestige of
:10:21. > :10:25.Parliament. Order! Who succeeds Nigel Evans as Deputy Speaker is
:10:25. > :10:33.being taken seriously. Away from the cameras, candidates have been doing
:10:34. > :10:37.the hustings. Bespeak a's department has a lot to do with what happens
:10:37. > :10:44.behind the chair and I think experience in business would be
:10:44. > :10:49.useful in that respect. It is something I have always had my eye
:10:49. > :10:54.on. It is one of the oldest offices in the house and I believe it
:10:54. > :10:56.requires someone who will be competent and gets on with
:10:56. > :11:02.colleagues. Getting on with colleagues. A few of the candidates
:11:02. > :11:09.do not get on with John Virgo, the president candidate. He was famously
:11:09. > :11:13.called a sanctimonious little dwarf. When asked to apologise, he
:11:13. > :11:20.said he was sorry for offending dwarfs. It helps if you get on. It's
:11:20. > :11:23.does and it doesn't. The history of politics is littered with people who
:11:23. > :11:29.have done a good job working together even if they do not get on.
:11:29. > :11:32.As Deputy Speaker, you do not just gets to chair debates. There is a
:11:32. > :11:38.lot of behind—the—scenes staff as well. It is a prestigious job. The
:11:38. > :11:47.MP for saffron Walden holds the job but 13 years. People on all sides of
:11:47. > :11:53.the house believe in your integrity and basically, they like you. With
:11:53. > :11:57.seven candidates, are compensated electoral system, and most MPs
:11:57. > :12:02.undecided, it is impossible to see who will next win week's boat. Could
:12:02. > :12:15.it be possible that we have an eastern MP in that famous chair? ——
:12:15. > :12:20.vote. Still to come, what you can expect from the weekend weather, do
:12:20. > :12:23.not miss the forecast. Plus, interest from around the world in
:12:23. > :12:30.these art treasures which go on sale in Essex next week.
:12:31. > :12:34.Tonight we're going to introduce you to one of the most influential
:12:34. > :12:38.people in education. There is a very good chance you have never heard of
:12:38. > :12:44.him but he has a lot to say about education and what he says is heard
:12:44. > :12:48.at the very highest level. He is Theodore Agnew a man who has
:12:48. > :12:51.been instrumental in driving forward the change—over of hundreds of our
:12:51. > :12:55.schools into academies. And just look at the pace of change. The
:12:55. > :12:58.first academy opened in Northampton in 2004. We reckon a total of 550
:12:58. > :13:04.schools in the region have converted to academy status since then. Today,
:13:04. > :13:15.a primary school in Lowestoft became our newest academy.
:13:15. > :13:24.Ray holders could not have faced a tougher challenge in his first post
:13:24. > :13:30.as headteacher . The only realistic option was to become an academy and
:13:31. > :13:35.one year on, the official opening. We have 180 children at the school,
:13:35. > :13:40.aged from nursery up to year six, and it is an amazing place to be
:13:40. > :13:44.with great teachers, rates parents and great children. We aren't
:13:44. > :13:48.excited about the future. It used to be a primary school but now there is
:13:48. > :13:58.a new name, a new uniform and a new teaching team. It is part of the
:13:58. > :14:04.active learning trust, based in Cambridge, and they already sponsor
:14:04. > :14:09.for schools. It does not matter what you call the school. It is what
:14:09. > :14:13.happens within the classroom that matters. If you as a headteacher are
:14:14. > :14:18.not completely in touch with what is happening in every classroom then
:14:18. > :14:28.you are not doing your job properly. They make it fun, it is not boring.
:14:28. > :14:37.They go, we are going to do some writing today. My teacher is quite
:14:37. > :14:45.fun. Lots more people are behaving in lessons now. They believed that
:14:45. > :14:52.stabilised teaching in new Morrissey is important. —— new Morrissey. How
:14:52. > :14:56.hard has it been? It has been a hard process. But what is great is that
:14:56. > :15:01.we are working with the Trust and they have wrought assistant to our
:15:01. > :15:10.school that is tailored to our needs. Ofsted is yet to give its
:15:10. > :15:14.verdict on progress but the team here are determined to sustain this
:15:15. > :15:18.progress. That was the picture in Lowestoft today. So let's find out a
:15:18. > :15:22.bit more about this education expert who is having such a big impact on
:15:22. > :15:25.our schools? Theodore Agnew is a wealthy man who has tried his hand
:15:25. > :15:30.at everything from sheep farming to insurance. These days he is a
:15:30. > :15:37.familiar figure in the corridors of Whitehall. I'll be speaking to him
:15:37. > :15:43.after this, from Mike Liggins. I was considered too thick to do the
:15:43. > :15:46.sciences as individual subjects. Theodore Agnew was talking to
:15:46. > :15:51.students at this new academy in Norwich. In truth, the students want
:15:51. > :15:57.sure who he was, but why would they be? Theodore Agnew is a private man
:15:57. > :16:05.and much more comfortable staying out of the limelight. He is the son
:16:05. > :16:10.of a Norfolk farmer and at age 18 he travelled to Australia for work. A
:16:10. > :16:16.year later he bought his first sheep farm. He always wanted to work for
:16:16. > :16:23.himself but he did once have an interview with computer giant IBM.
:16:23. > :16:30.At the end they said to me that they did not think I would be a good
:16:30. > :16:41.person for IBM. Thank God. They wanted someone to be an homogenised
:16:41. > :16:44.drone. In 1989, he started an insurance business. He could not
:16:44. > :16:49.find enough staff to expand so we moved part of his business to India.
:16:49. > :17:02.They were all maths and science graduates and they were being paid
:17:02. > :17:06.is $1800 a month. I realise in a globalised world that if we do not
:17:06. > :17:08.lift the whole game of our educational system, the living
:17:08. > :17:12.standards for the next generation are going to be dramatically low
:17:12. > :17:17.because they are competing with people in India. Today he is a
:17:17. > :17:20.family man, a multimillionaire and spends three days a week at the
:17:20. > :17:24.Department for Education for government adviser. He is not beyond
:17:24. > :17:30.having a chat in the kitchen but he is clearly driven. Failure at the
:17:30. > :17:37.Trust on which has seven academies in Norfolk, is not an option. He
:17:37. > :17:44.brings the best business practice and is very loyal and hard—working.
:17:44. > :17:50.He makes phone calls at seven o'clock in the morning, he really
:17:50. > :17:55.works hard. There was a lot of work to be done. Academies remain
:17:55. > :17:59.controversial. A spokesman for the Nu Teed told me that they are the
:17:59. > :18:07.beginning of privatisation. —— N U T. He said the break—up of the
:18:07. > :18:15.authority system is preventing any strategic planning. How are you
:18:15. > :18:19.going? I am enjoying it. Theodore Agnew is chatting to A—level
:18:19. > :18:23.chemistry students and he is impressed by them. He is passionate
:18:23. > :18:32.about driving up standards in education and believes that
:18:32. > :18:38.academies are the way forward. Theodore Agnew is here now. The
:18:38. > :18:44.National union of teachers is that the beginning of privatisation. We
:18:44. > :18:49.should remember that Ofsted carried out an inspection of schools in
:18:49. > :18:54.Norfolk and told us that half were less than good or outstanding. This
:18:54. > :18:58.is about raising standards. Is it about breaking up the education
:18:58. > :19:02.system? No, absolutely not. There is no prospect of it becoming
:19:03. > :19:08.privatised. I cannot understand where they got that from. People say
:19:08. > :19:14.somebody is making a big buck out of it. Are you making a big buck? I
:19:14. > :19:19.wish I was. I made a commitment to our first school in extending the
:19:19. > :19:24.school day but there is no way I'm taking a penny out of it, quite the
:19:24. > :19:29.opposite. What is the most important thing in a successful school? Good
:19:29. > :19:33.teaching and learning and good leadership. That is the main
:19:33. > :19:42.priority. Are you able to find those people? That is the challenge but
:19:42. > :19:46.what the Academy does is take an outstanding head and put them in
:19:46. > :19:51.charge of several schools. Rachel, who was in the clip a moment ago,
:19:51. > :19:55.was outstanding in a school in Norwich, and she can take that
:19:55. > :19:59.knowledge and put it into several other schools. Why can they not do
:19:59. > :20:05.that in the state system? They have not done it. One of the first things
:20:05. > :20:09.we are doing is identifying future leaders. Does that mean you are
:20:09. > :20:15.cherry picking them from state schools? No, all of these teachers
:20:15. > :20:21.are all existing teachers in the schools that we took over a month
:20:21. > :20:32.ago. Why can they not do that in the state system? One problem is that
:20:32. > :20:36.they cannot attract headteachers. Academies are state schools. You
:20:36. > :20:42.will have two direct that question to the local authorities. That goes
:20:42. > :20:45.to the heart of the problems. Good leadership is what turns schools
:20:45. > :20:51.around and that is what I am focused on in our trust. That is what will
:20:51. > :20:59.lift the standards. Is there too much politics in education? That is
:20:59. > :21:04.the other advantage of academies. It strips out politicians. I'm here to
:21:04. > :21:08.where my cap as the head of an academy chain and not as the face as
:21:08. > :21:14.director in Whitehall. I can speak with some passion about my trust. We
:21:14. > :21:19.want to get bureaucrats out. Those bureaucrats would say that what you
:21:19. > :21:24.can do, if you keep all the schools together, is how strategic
:21:24. > :21:29.planning. If you take some out and give them priority treatment, they
:21:29. > :21:33.cannot do that. As a businessman, I look at outputs, and the standards
:21:33. > :21:36.in schools is not good enough. They have had plenty of time to do all
:21:36. > :21:41.these things and they have not done it. Academies still have to work
:21:41. > :21:48.closely with their local authority on pupil placed planning because at
:21:48. > :21:51.the moment we have the largest surge in infant population since records
:21:51. > :21:57.began. We have to work with local authorities on that. Will there be
:21:57. > :22:02.any local authority schools in five years' time? I cannot look into the
:22:02. > :22:07.future and I think it is important to remember that two thirds of
:22:08. > :22:11.schools they become academies do so of their own volition. It is only
:22:11. > :22:20.struggling schools that are pushed towards becoming an Academy. So, our
:22:21. > :22:23.sister programme Sunday Politics is covering the subject of Academy
:22:23. > :22:27.schools this weekend. That's with Amelia Reynolds at 11.15 on Sunday,
:22:27. > :22:30.here on BBC One. Buyers from across the world are
:22:30. > :22:33.expected in Essex next week for a remarkable auction. The entire
:22:33. > :22:37.contents of a country home owned by one of our most important architects
:22:37. > :22:42.the man who designed New Scotland Yard.
:22:42. > :22:45.The interest has been sparked by works of art, collected over a
:22:45. > :22:48.lifetime, by Bobby and Virginia Chapman. The treasures are being
:22:48. > :22:51.exhibited in an auction room which has been designed to look like their
:22:51. > :23:15.original home. Richard Daniel has been for a preview.
:23:15. > :23:18.Debord and manner Debdon Manor. His commissions included new Scotland
:23:18. > :23:24.Yard and the refurbishment of London St Pancras station. Now the contents
:23:24. > :23:29.of Debdon Manor have been reassembled for sale a few miles
:23:29. > :23:37.down the road. It is an eclectic mix and we have works here that Mr
:23:37. > :23:44.Chapman commission. Other items are also here and what I love about this
:23:44. > :23:57.collection is that it is 40 years of the Chapman is 40 years of the
:23:57. > :24:04.Chapmans building this. We get to the Lowry 's. They stick figures
:24:04. > :24:09.from the 1970s. I was always naive I am quite struck by it. It is almost
:24:10. > :24:15.a Halloween typeface. There was quite a skull like, slim, scary
:24:15. > :24:22.person. Every piece has a tail. Take this seat, made of mahogany. No
:24:22. > :24:26.upholstery. It was designed for servants visiting stately homes and
:24:26. > :24:32.they didn't want them passing on any illnesses. The main reason for us
:24:32. > :24:42.doing the sale was to keep it all together as a house, at the home, as
:24:42. > :24:46.the collection. It shows what they enjoyed. Various items like the
:24:46. > :24:52.sardine dishes. The collection of over 1000 lots is being sold after
:24:52. > :24:58.the family moved to a smaller home. Some estimates exceed £30,000. A
:24:58. > :25:09.lifetime 's collection goes under the hammer next week.
:25:10. > :25:14.Amazing. Let's get the weather. I do not think it is looking too great,
:25:14. > :25:19.is it? We have had better weather around. It will be unsettled in
:25:19. > :25:24.places. It has been wet and windy in many regions. That is thanks to this
:25:24. > :25:32.front which is moving across the country. You can see the blue on
:25:32. > :25:35.this map where the rain was. That is where the heaviest rain was and in
:25:35. > :25:43.fact we had 15.2 millimetres reported, that is about a quarter of
:25:43. > :25:47.a month's rain in one hour. We could have problems on the roads,
:25:47. > :25:56.particularly in Essex. A windy day in the region with gusts up to 43
:25:56. > :26:03.mph. Many places reaching 40 miles an hour. The Met office does have a
:26:03. > :26:07.yellow weather warning out indicating 20 millimetres more rain
:26:07. > :26:12.in parts of Essex. That is where the heaviest rain will be. Temperature
:26:12. > :26:16.is will be around 11 or 12 Celsius. Not too cold but with that fresh
:26:16. > :26:24.north—easterly winds, it will be chilly. There will be unsettled
:26:24. > :26:27.weather in places tomorrow but the rain will become more confined to
:26:27. > :26:35.the north as we go through the afternoon. In fact, down in the
:26:35. > :26:40.south, we may see the sun break out. Tomorrow's temperature is raising
:26:40. > :26:45.from 11 or 12 Celsius. We could see 14 Celsius in places. The other
:26:45. > :26:49.thing to notice is lighter winds so we will have a light and variable
:26:49. > :26:55.breeze. It will be a bit warmer tomorrow then. You can see the rain
:26:55. > :26:59.in the north of the region and it spreads into other parts of the
:27:00. > :27:04.region overnight. We start Sunday on a wet picture. This area of low
:27:05. > :27:09.pressure still with us at the end of the week and it will bring us rain
:27:09. > :27:14.through the day on Sunday. Rain mainly in the north of the area on
:27:14. > :27:19.Saturday, spreading across most of the region on Sunday. The low begins
:27:19. > :27:27.to weaken and things improve on Monday. A drier day on Tuesday.
:27:27. > :27:35.Temperature around 12 or 13 Celsius on Tuesday. No frost to worry about
:27:35. > :27:41.yet. Thank you. Saturday night, Monday morning looks a real gem!
:27:41. > :27:43.Have a great weekend, goodbye. Bye—bye.