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Hello, welcome to Look East. The headlines: A bereaved mother from

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Essex welcomes proposals to impose restrictions on young drivers. So

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many young people are dying every week in road crashes and if that

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many people were dying in a plane crash every week, something would be

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done. A financial boost for Addenbrooke's Hospital and the

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specialist unit for people with brain injuries. We are excited, I

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cannot put it into words. It is an enormous award. The rise and rise of

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the academies, we talk to the man behind one of the biggest changes in

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British education. The extraordinary art collection amassed over 50

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years, it is going under the hammer. Hello. A bereaved mother from Essex

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was among those today who have welcomed proposals to improve road

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safety by imposing restrictions on young drivers.

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The figures tell their own story. Last year in Suffolk, Essex, and

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Norfolk 237 people were killed or seriously injured in road accidents

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involving drivers who are 25 years old or younger. One idea floated

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today is to raise the minimum age for driving from 17 to 18. Another

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is to ban young people from driving after dark which is considered to be

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a more dangerous time. As we have been finding out, many people in

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this region believe these measures are long overdue. This report from

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Nikki Fox. Helena was 14 when she was killed by

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a teenage driver near Southend. He had passed his test just three weeks

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before the crash. 14 others were injured. Helena's mother says

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something needs to change. The system is not working and so many

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young people are dying through road crashes. If that many people were

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dying in a plane crash every week, something would be done. Because it

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is cars, nobody seems to take notice. The insurance company Aviva

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links a financial incentive could help. Premiums could help. This

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entitles me to a discount of 10% of my insurance premiums. There is

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still a question over the lack of experience that people have on the

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roads. We would like to see a ban on intensive driving courses because

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what is important is that young drivers have the chance to

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experience lots of different types of driving. Just this week, a

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15—year—old was killed on the a 12 near Lowestoft. It is too early to

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tell what has happened but the 18—year—old driver remains in a

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critical condition and Addenbrooke's Hospital. Many young people in this

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region rely on their cars to get to college or work. There are huge

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concerns that this will limit opportunities for young people and

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their parents who may need to continue to be their taxi driver for

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a little longer. Callers to this radio station voiced their concern.

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In Norfolk it is quite hard. If you live in the countryside it is hard

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to get a job and why are they not allowed a car? Some thinking raising

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the legal age limit is taking away liberties but others argue that

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saving lives is more important. We do not want to punish them but we

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would like something to protect them.

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Mike Rees is the Managing Director of Drive Alive, a company based in

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Norfolk which advises on driver safety. Do you think a one—year

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difference would make a difference? I don't think so, not on its own. It

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would bring us into line with everyone else in Europe, but not on

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its own. There are different rules in Europe, like having to drive with

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an experienced driver for a while. There was a statutory education

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period full stop in Finland it is 1.5 years. Most countries have an

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experienced driver sitting next to them for the following 12 months

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after passing a test. There is also a speed limit. You would then make

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younger drivers have faster reflexes and be able to spot something coming

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up quicker, but why are they more prone to having accidents? Is it

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concentration or experience? It is experience. The training they

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received is purely to pass a driving test and not to develop skills.

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Vehicles are faster and more powerful and the experience they

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have macro the reaction times are there, but they have no experience

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to anticipate and not as important. You teach them about the psychology

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of driving. What you think would make a difference? That particular

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aspect of human behaviour behind the wheel of a car, realising and

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analysing other people, would make a massive contribution, but time is of

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the essence in terms of wanting to pass their tests. The questions are

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how long and how much? They are talking about life and death

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situation here. You were pleas officer have seen first—hand the

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consequences of these accidents. It was some time ago but you never

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forget. There is nothing worse or a police officer to do than knock on

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the door of parents and tell them their child has been killed.

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As you probably know a lot of the people who are injured in crashes in

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this region are taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge

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for specialist care for serious head injuries. Today that unit was given

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a major financial boost. The details from our chief reporter Kim Riley.

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The critical care units at Addenbrooke's Hospital is the

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region's major trauma centre. Nurses and dog tours attends to patients in

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different levels of consciousness. Today they chose to lead a £25

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million research programme into traumatic brain injuries. Derek

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Russell was in the critical care unit six years ago with his life

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hanging by a thread. He was loading up his lorry when he fell 15 feet

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onto the tarmac. He was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital by air and

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lives. He remembers nothing. I do not remember 12 weeks before the

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accident and four weeks after the accident. My memory started to come

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back to me very sporadically. It takes a long time for your mind to

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heal. It is like thousands of chains in your head with each chain having

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lots of links. They each have to be mended and your mind can only men's

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one link at a time. His wife has written a book which she has read to

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him. It fills in the blank memories. She was planning his

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funeral at the beginning. What did you feel when you first saw him?

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That I had lost him. I thought it was a lifeless body that was lying

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there, and I thought it was too late. Derek's fight against the odds

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reduced some valuable lessons and Addenbrooke's Hospital is playing a

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key role in gathering data from 5000 patients. I am excited about the

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prospect of getting on with this research. It is part of the reason

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why we exist. We want to use the research as a clinical tool to

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improve patient's outcomes. You must be proud to work here. I'm extremely

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proud. Derek is back as Elvis in shows that have raised thousands of

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pounds for charity. Christine says his survival is a miracle. She

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thanks those who brought him back to life. News is coming in this evening

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of security alert at Stansted Airport. The alarm was raised after

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a flight was diverted there an hour ago. The easyJet flight from Hamburg

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was on its way to Luton when it was diverted. It is not known why the

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plane was diverted. The A11 northbound carriageway going into

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Norfolk will be closed this weekend. The route will be shut from the

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Fiveways Roundabout at Barton Mills to Red Lodge, from ten this evening

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until 6am on Monday. It's all part of the project to dual the remaining

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single carriageway section of the road. As part of this, one lane on

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the A14 east bound will also be shut. That's on the approach to the

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junction 38 Waterhall Interchange with the A11.

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Final campaigning is underway in the election to choose a new Deputy

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Speaker for the House of Commons. It's a highly sought after job which

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doesn't come up very often. Of the seven candidates standing, five are

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from this region. Westminster is gripped by election

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fever. Yesterday it was the dog of the year contest. None of our local

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MPs won but even here there was a chance for a bit of campaigning for

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Parliament's other big election. I think politicians are misaligned and

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I want to be part of the journey as we we store the prestige of

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Parliament. Order! Who succeeds Nigel Evans as Deputy Speaker is

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being taken seriously. Away from the cameras, candidates have been doing

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the hustings. Bespeak a's department has a lot to do with what happens

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behind the chair and I think experience in business would be

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useful in that respect. It is something I have always had my eye

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on. It is one of the oldest offices in the house and I believe it

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requires someone who will be competent and gets on with

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colleagues. Getting on with colleagues. A few of the candidates

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do not get on with John Virgo, the president candidate. He was famously

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called a sanctimonious little dwarf. When asked to apologise, he

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said he was sorry for offending dwarfs. It helps if you get on. It's

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does and it doesn't. The history of politics is littered with people who

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have done a good job working together even if they do not get on.

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As Deputy Speaker, you do not just gets to chair debates. There is a

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lot of behind—the—scenes staff as well. It is a prestigious job. The

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MP for saffron Walden holds the job but 13 years. People on all sides of

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the house believe in your integrity and basically, they like you. With

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seven candidates, are compensated electoral system, and most MPs

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undecided, it is impossible to see who will next win week's boat. Could

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it be possible that we have an eastern MP in that famous chair? ——

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vote. Still to come, what you can expect from the weekend weather, do

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not miss the forecast. Plus, interest from around the world in

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these art treasures which go on sale in Essex next week.

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Tonight we're going to introduce you to one of the most influential

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people in education. There is a very good chance you have never heard of

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him but he has a lot to say about education and what he says is heard

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at the very highest level. He is Theodore Agnew a man who has

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been instrumental in driving forward the change—over of hundreds of our

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schools into academies. And just look at the pace of change. The

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first academy opened in Northampton in 2004. We reckon a total of 550

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schools in the region have converted to academy status since then. Today,

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a primary school in Lowestoft became our newest academy.

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Ray holders could not have faced a tougher challenge in his first post

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as headteacher . The only realistic option was to become an academy and

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one year on, the official opening. We have 180 children at the school,

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aged from nursery up to year six, and it is an amazing place to be

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with great teachers, rates parents and great children. We aren't

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excited about the future. It used to be a primary school but now there is

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a new name, a new uniform and a new teaching team. It is part of the

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active learning trust, based in Cambridge, and they already sponsor

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for schools. It does not matter what you call the school. It is what

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happens within the classroom that matters. If you as a headteacher are

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not completely in touch with what is happening in every classroom then

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you are not doing your job properly. They make it fun, it is not boring.

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They go, we are going to do some writing today. My teacher is quite

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fun. Lots more people are behaving in lessons now. They believed that

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stabilised teaching in new Morrissey is important. —— new Morrissey. How

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hard has it been? It has been a hard process. But what is great is that

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we are working with the Trust and they have wrought assistant to our

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school that is tailored to our needs. Ofsted is yet to give its

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verdict on progress but the team here are determined to sustain this

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progress. That was the picture in Lowestoft today. So let's find out a

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bit more about this education expert who is having such a big impact on

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our schools? Theodore Agnew is a wealthy man who has tried his hand

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at everything from sheep farming to insurance. These days he is a

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familiar figure in the corridors of Whitehall. I'll be speaking to him

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after this, from Mike Liggins. I was considered too thick to do the

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sciences as individual subjects. Theodore Agnew was talking to

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students at this new academy in Norwich. In truth, the students want

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sure who he was, but why would they be? Theodore Agnew is a private man

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and much more comfortable staying out of the limelight. He is the son

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of a Norfolk farmer and at age 18 he travelled to Australia for work. A

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year later he bought his first sheep farm. He always wanted to work for

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himself but he did once have an interview with computer giant IBM.

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At the end they said to me that they did not think I would be a good

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person for IBM. Thank God. They wanted someone to be an homogenised

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drone. In 1989, he started an insurance business. He could not

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find enough staff to expand so we moved part of his business to India.

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They were all maths and science graduates and they were being paid

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is $1800 a month. I realise in a globalised world that if we do not

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lift the whole game of our educational system, the living

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standards for the next generation are going to be dramatically low

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because they are competing with people in India. Today he is a

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family man, a multimillionaire and spends three days a week at the

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Department for Education for government adviser. He is not beyond

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having a chat in the kitchen but he is clearly driven. Failure at the

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Trust on which has seven academies in Norfolk, is not an option. He

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brings the best business practice and is very loyal and hard—working.

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He makes phone calls at seven o'clock in the morning, he really

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works hard. There was a lot of work to be done. Academies remain

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controversial. A spokesman for the Nu Teed told me that they are the

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beginning of privatisation. —— N U T. He said the break—up of the

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authority system is preventing any strategic planning. How are you

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going? I am enjoying it. Theodore Agnew is chatting to A—level

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chemistry students and he is impressed by them. He is passionate

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about driving up standards in education and believes that

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academies are the way forward. Theodore Agnew is here now. The

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National union of teachers is that the beginning of privatisation. We

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should remember that Ofsted carried out an inspection of schools in

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Norfolk and told us that half were less than good or outstanding. This

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is about raising standards. Is it about breaking up the education

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system? No, absolutely not. There is no prospect of it becoming

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privatised. I cannot understand where they got that from. People say

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somebody is making a big buck out of it. Are you making a big buck? I

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wish I was. I made a commitment to our first school in extending the

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school day but there is no way I'm taking a penny out of it, quite the

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opposite. What is the most important thing in a successful school? Good

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teaching and learning and good leadership. That is the main

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priority. Are you able to find those people? That is the challenge but

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what the Academy does is take an outstanding head and put them in

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charge of several schools. Rachel, who was in the clip a moment ago,

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was outstanding in a school in Norwich, and she can take that

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knowledge and put it into several other schools. Why can they not do

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that in the state system? They have not done it. One of the first things

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we are doing is identifying future leaders. Does that mean you are

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cherry picking them from state schools? No, all of these teachers

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are all existing teachers in the schools that we took over a month

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ago. Why can they not do that in the state system? One problem is that

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they cannot attract headteachers. Academies are state schools. You

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will have two direct that question to the local authorities. That goes

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to the heart of the problems. Good leadership is what turns schools

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around and that is what I am focused on in our trust. That is what will

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lift the standards. Is there too much politics in education? That is

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the other advantage of academies. It strips out politicians. I'm here to

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where my cap as the head of an academy chain and not as the face as

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director in Whitehall. I can speak with some passion about my trust. We

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want to get bureaucrats out. Those bureaucrats would say that what you

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can do, if you keep all the schools together, is how strategic

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planning. If you take some out and give them priority treatment, they

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cannot do that. As a businessman, I look at outputs, and the standards

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in schools is not good enough. They have had plenty of time to do all

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these things and they have not done it. Academies still have to work

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closely with their local authority on pupil placed planning because at

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the moment we have the largest surge in infant population since records

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began. We have to work with local authorities on that. Will there be

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any local authority schools in five years' time? I cannot look into the

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future and I think it is important to remember that two thirds of

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schools they become academies do so of their own volition. It is only

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struggling schools that are pushed towards becoming an Academy. So, our

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sister programme Sunday Politics is covering the subject of Academy

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schools this weekend. That's with Amelia Reynolds at 11.15 on Sunday,

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here on BBC One. Buyers from across the world are

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expected in Essex next week for a remarkable auction. The entire

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contents of a country home owned by one of our most important architects

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the man who designed New Scotland Yard.

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The interest has been sparked by works of art, collected over a

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lifetime, by Bobby and Virginia Chapman. The treasures are being

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exhibited in an auction room which has been designed to look like their

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original home. Richard Daniel has been for a preview.

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Debord and manner Debdon Manor. His commissions included new Scotland

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Yard and the refurbishment of London St Pancras station. Now the contents

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of Debdon Manor have been reassembled for sale a few miles

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down the road. It is an eclectic mix and we have works here that Mr

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Chapman commission. Other items are also here and what I love about this

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collection is that it is 40 years of the Chapman is 40 years of the

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Chapmans building this. We get to the Lowry 's. They stick figures

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from the 1970s. I was always naive I am quite struck by it. It is almost

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a Halloween typeface. There was quite a skull like, slim, scary

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person. Every piece has a tail. Take this seat, made of mahogany. No

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upholstery. It was designed for servants visiting stately homes and

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they didn't want them passing on any illnesses. The main reason for us

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doing the sale was to keep it all together as a house, at the home, as

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the collection. It shows what they enjoyed. Various items like the

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sardine dishes. The collection of over 1000 lots is being sold after

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the family moved to a smaller home. Some estimates exceed £30,000. A

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lifetime 's collection goes under the hammer next week.

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Amazing. Let's get the weather. I do not think it is looking too great,

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is it? We have had better weather around. It will be unsettled in

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places. It has been wet and windy in many regions. That is thanks to this

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front which is moving across the country. You can see the blue on

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this map where the rain was. That is where the heaviest rain was and in

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fact we had 15.2 millimetres reported, that is about a quarter of

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a month's rain in one hour. We could have problems on the roads,

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particularly in Essex. A windy day in the region with gusts up to 43

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mph. Many places reaching 40 miles an hour. The Met office does have a

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yellow weather warning out indicating 20 millimetres more rain

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in parts of Essex. That is where the heaviest rain will be. Temperature

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is will be around 11 or 12 Celsius. Not too cold but with that fresh

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north—easterly winds, it will be chilly. There will be unsettled

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weather in places tomorrow but the rain will become more confined to

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the north as we go through the afternoon. In fact, down in the

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south, we may see the sun break out. Tomorrow's temperature is raising

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from 11 or 12 Celsius. We could see 14 Celsius in places. The other

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thing to notice is lighter winds so we will have a light and variable

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breeze. It will be a bit warmer tomorrow then. You can see the rain

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in the north of the region and it spreads into other parts of the

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region overnight. We start Sunday on a wet picture. This area of low

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pressure still with us at the end of the week and it will bring us rain

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through the day on Sunday. Rain mainly in the north of the area on

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Saturday, spreading across most of the region on Sunday. The low begins

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to weaken and things improve on Monday. A drier day on Tuesday.

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Temperature around 12 or 13 Celsius on Tuesday. No frost to worry about

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yet. Thank you. Saturday night, Monday morning looks a real gem!

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Have a great weekend, goodbye. Bye—bye.

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