:00:13. > :00:27.Did Hello. First tonight: the council goes on trial. It follows a
:00:28. > :00:35.grandmother being killed by a runaway horse at the community fear.
:00:36. > :00:41.Aiming high and fighting back, Olympian Goldie Sayers wins her
:00:42. > :00:45.appeal for funding. And I am in Shanghai for a report on the close
:00:46. > :00:58.links between the Eastern counties and the far east. Anger as
:00:59. > :01:02.communities are still cut off two weeks after a storm hit the region.
:01:03. > :01:05.Look East has been contacted by homes and businesses who are still
:01:06. > :01:08.without phones and Internet connections. The say they've been
:01:09. > :01:11.given no information about when they are likely to be reconnected. Simon
:01:12. > :01:29.Newton is in Drinkstone in Suffolk now. This telephone tells its own
:01:30. > :01:37.story. They are without phone lines or broadband. First let us hear from
:01:38. > :01:45.another villager who wants answers from British Telecom. This man is 74
:01:46. > :01:48.and lost his wife in February. An invalid, key depends on the
:01:49. > :01:56.telephone to keep in touch with his daughters. Two weeks on from the
:01:57. > :02:02.storm his phone is still dead. I have got no contact with anyone. My
:02:03. > :02:09.daughters, the doctors. The phone is dead. Key and 17 of his neighbours
:02:10. > :02:17.have now been without telephone or broadband connection for 14 days.
:02:18. > :02:23.This is the problem. The phone line which should connect them to the
:02:24. > :02:30.rest of the world lies in the hedge. The ends are covered with lasting
:02:31. > :02:38.bags. This man works from home and has also been cut off. What
:02:39. > :02:45.infuriates him and others in the village is the inaction of British
:02:46. > :02:51.Telecom. It is appalling behaviour in terms of customer service. We
:02:52. > :02:56.have tried to contact the call centres in India and elsewhere, we
:02:57. > :02:59.received the same information that the engineers are investigating the
:03:00. > :03:05.problem. It has been two weeks now and nothing has happened. In a
:03:06. > :03:12.statement, British Telecom apologised and said they hoped to
:03:13. > :03:24.have 18 homes here back in service by the weekend. We heard that there
:03:25. > :03:38.are concerns BT are failing to meet their targets. So far this man has
:03:39. > :03:43.not had a reply to his e`mail. His phone and that of his neighbours is
:03:44. > :03:53.silent. There is a bit of an update this evening. This evening I
:03:54. > :04:00.telephoned BT and there was a report that the latest entry is that they
:04:01. > :04:05.need to assess tree management and traffic control before they can
:04:06. > :04:08.begin work. The fault there no logged and the say it has been
:04:09. > :04:16.caused by forces beyond their control. Which is the weather? Well
:04:17. > :04:19.BT have now given the word that the homes here will be reconnected by
:04:20. > :04:22.the weekend. A council has been accused in court of failing to keep
:04:23. > :04:26.visitors safe at a country fair where a woman was killed by a
:04:27. > :04:29.runaway horse. The animal and its cart hit Carole Bullet two years ago
:04:30. > :04:33.at Nowton Park in recent Edmunds. Today, the council which organised
:04:34. > :04:43.the event went on trial. It denies putting people at risk. This was the
:04:44. > :04:49.scene in June 2011. For the family of the 57`year`old grandmother, a D
:04:50. > :04:59.I turned to tragedy. Today, two years on, the council when accused
:05:00. > :05:05.of failing in their duty to safety. On the half of the Health and Safety
:05:06. > :05:09.Executive the jury where Sean dramatic and upsetting photographs
:05:10. > :05:25.of the aftermath. The horse had been like a missile, startled and
:05:26. > :05:32.charging. Even when the horse came to the rest child was found trapped
:05:33. > :05:40.underneath. A safety document produced after the accident was
:05:41. > :05:45.woeful and holy inadequate. The council relied on trust, assumption
:05:46. > :05:51.and hope. It did not we are the risks. There were catastrophic
:05:52. > :06:03.consequences. The danger could have been shut out with controls put in
:06:04. > :06:09.place. An expert in horses fed those under six years old should not be
:06:10. > :06:16.used on carriage rights. They are like stroppy teenagers and can react
:06:17. > :06:21.badly, especially if tired and hungry. The trial is expected to
:06:22. > :06:25.last two weeks. Plans for an east`west rail link have moved a
:06:26. > :06:28.step closer today. It would transform journeys from Stansted,
:06:29. > :06:38.Ipswich and Norwich, through to Oxford. The latest piece of funding
:06:39. > :06:43.has now been confirmed. It is a small but important step. This
:06:44. > :07:02.evening, representatives of seven councils promised to pay a total of
:07:03. > :07:13.seven 5p to reopen the line. `` 7.5 million. Hopefully we will manage to
:07:14. > :07:21.go further afield and the project will generate 12,000 jobs. For the
:07:22. > :07:27.last 30 years there has been talk about the direct line from the east
:07:28. > :07:38.coast to Oxford. Today's news means the best to Bletchley line will be
:07:39. > :07:49.open as soon as 2017. The last part will be all that remains. The local
:07:50. > :07:55.MP told the conference today that plans are so advanced, it is only a
:07:56. > :08:00.matter of time. Once we have the business case there will be the
:08:01. > :08:07.money to make that happen. Everybody can see the advantage of having that
:08:08. > :08:13.East West connection. Any east`west rail link is still 15 years away but
:08:14. > :08:18.with so much political support both locally and nationally, there is a
:08:19. > :08:24.real sense of momentum now behind this project. What had seemed to be
:08:25. > :08:30.an impossible dream a few years ago is now becoming a reality.
:08:31. > :08:36.Enforcement action against Basildon Hospital has now been lifted. It has
:08:37. > :08:43.been under the spotlight for over one year since damaging reports.
:08:44. > :08:48.Good progress has been found. This follows the Keogh Review into high
:08:49. > :08:55.death rates. Basildon emerged as having one of the highest.
:08:56. > :08:59.Children's services have improved. There are still shortages in
:09:00. > :09:04.administration. A professional cyclist says bad drivers are
:09:05. > :09:08.endangering lives. He says training for cyclists has become dangerous
:09:09. > :09:14.and he is backing an Essex Police campaign to make the roads safer.
:09:15. > :09:22.This was him at the Commonwealth Games, he trains 25 hours per week
:09:23. > :09:27.but he says it is dangerous. Every day, hour and minute out there I am
:09:28. > :09:33.putting my life in the hands of drivers. They need to be aware that
:09:34. > :09:40.we are vulnerable, we do not have a big metal shell surrounding us. The
:09:41. > :09:49.statistics are worrying, so far this year 25 cyclists have been in severe
:09:50. > :09:56.accidents, five of those where deaths. Cycling is more popular than
:09:57. > :10:06.ever of which means more cyclists on the road. It brings an element of
:10:07. > :10:12.risk. Our campaign is about mutual respect and shared responsibility
:10:13. > :10:18.between drivers and cyclists. Say the key thing at this time of year
:10:19. > :10:23.is to make sure cyclists have lights that work effectively, to Wear
:10:24. > :10:29.reflective clothing and a helmet. And on wacky autumn days drivers are
:10:30. > :10:39.urged to give cyclists more space when overtaking. The family of this
:10:40. > :10:46.cyclist are worried, his mother was also a cyclist until she had an
:10:47. > :10:55.accident. I was driven off the road and had to have a week in hospital,
:10:56. > :11:00.had to have my shoulder rebuilt. Given the amount of time Alex spends
:11:01. > :11:15.on the road training he really hopes the safety message can get through.
:11:16. > :11:26.Still to come, the weather for the week ahead and Goldie Sayers on
:11:27. > :11:32.winning back her funding. This week, we are exploring the links
:11:33. > :11:37.between the East and the far east. China is one of the Legion's biggest
:11:38. > :11:47.export market is worth over ?700 million. `` one of the region's.
:11:48. > :11:54.This is Shanghai, a truly remarkable city. It is the place where modern
:11:55. > :12:00.communism and consumerism live side`by`side. A place of big ideas
:12:01. > :12:06.and big buildings. Here they do not will out, the build up. If you do
:12:07. > :12:11.not like people, you probably will not like Shanghai. Officially 23
:12:12. > :12:16.million people live here, and officially it is probably 30
:12:17. > :12:20.million. We are looking at the close ties between the East of England and
:12:21. > :12:26.the far east. Everything from business to education. Tonight it is
:12:27. > :12:32.to do them. Many come to our region, to college and hunting. They also
:12:33. > :12:41.come to visit something most of us have never heard of. Another tour
:12:42. > :12:47.taking in the sights. For Chinese visitors kings and punting is a
:12:48. > :12:53.must. This student here showed me what is at the very top of their
:12:54. > :13:08.list. Just over this bridge, a piece of Chinese cultural history. It
:13:09. > :13:17.means gently I am living just like gently I came. It is a poorly to
:13:18. > :13:32.every child in China written by this modernist poet from the 1920s who
:13:33. > :13:37.went on to become a Chinese icon. Harbour or Princeton would be just a
:13:38. > :13:44.good university but coming here to Cambridge is like a dream come true
:13:45. > :13:53.because of the podium. The numbers of Chinese visitors have swelled. ``
:13:54. > :14:04.one. They know the importance of the poet. I had to be able to say his
:14:05. > :14:10.name properly. They learn to say it and the excitement they have when
:14:11. > :14:14.they the bridge. It is the most boring one on the River but the
:14:15. > :14:23.excitement they have at seeing it is beautiful. And on the rainy day in
:14:24. > :14:34.November, people from China filled every punt. We know the history. We
:14:35. > :14:41.want to see and experience it. The Chinese market is growing. Around
:14:42. > :14:46.350,000 Chinese visitors Carmen to getting each year currently. That is
:14:47. > :14:57.expected to go up to 1 million x 2015. Cambridge is a big stop of on
:14:58. > :15:05.the grand Chinese tour. This poem is about how hard it is to leave year.
:15:06. > :15:10.That is all from Shanghai for this evening but tomorrow we will be at
:15:11. > :15:19.the busiest container port in the world and looking at the close links
:15:20. > :15:26.between that and Felixstowe. That is tomorrow night in Look East. The
:15:27. > :15:31.Royal British Legion says awareness of Armistice Day is increasing among
:15:32. > :15:38.young people. Children across the region observed a two`minute
:15:39. > :15:47.silence. There was a special school assembly in a six. Bringing together
:15:48. > :15:52.those who have grown old and those who are still young. Every pupil at
:15:53. > :16:00.this academy in Braintree today welcomed local veterans. From
:16:01. > :16:06.conflicts as distant as Singapore to the current campaign in Afghanistan.
:16:07. > :16:13.I thought our love would last forever, I was wrong. This is my way
:16:14. > :16:24.of remembering my grandad. I never knew him personally. The veterans
:16:25. > :16:36.sheared lunch and history with the pupils. They find them attentive.
:16:37. > :16:43.They appreciate what we do. Boys and girls of tenure is old put money
:16:44. > :17:01.in, that is very nice. `` of Ken years old. The observed the silence.
:17:02. > :17:09.Any are too young to take on the enormity of the sacrifice paid by
:17:10. > :17:16.those in war. It is quite the poignant service. For them to
:17:17. > :17:20.appreciate people who have lost their lives in the world wars and
:17:21. > :17:27.conflicts thereafter, I think it is very important that we understand
:17:28. > :17:33.the sacrifice made on their behalf. Today they remembered and
:17:34. > :17:41.Northamptonshire lad awarded the highest honour for valour, the VC.
:17:42. > :17:49.He gave his life for his country, we have got to be respect back. They
:17:50. > :18:00.are still dying. Different creeds, and nations marked Armistice Day. In
:18:01. > :18:05.Norfolk today the children look to the future as hundreds of schools
:18:06. > :18:11.were given poppy seeds to plant in the spring. I feel like I am part of
:18:12. > :18:19.the people who did because I am doing this for then, I am returning
:18:20. > :18:32.the favour for them. Saying it kind of shows that we are not forgetting
:18:33. > :18:36.them. In 12 months we will mark the centenary of the outbreak of the
:18:37. > :18:48.great war from which Armistice Day was born. This Friday it is BBC
:18:49. > :18:59.children in need. `` Children in Need. People give up their time to
:19:00. > :19:03.fundraiser. It helps projects such as Pulse in Luton. It brings young
:19:04. > :19:09.people together and for some is a lifeline. We meet one young man who
:19:10. > :19:15.says he would have gone off the rails without it. Saying putting my
:19:16. > :19:25.trust into a stranger was probably the most difficult bit. He went into
:19:26. > :19:28.here at 15, his relationship with his father had broken down and his
:19:29. > :19:35.grandmother was not able to look after him. They are macro I came
:19:36. > :19:44.here to take my mind off what had happened. It is part of the project
:19:45. > :19:50.from Saint Mary's church. It is a group under the church with pool and
:19:51. > :19:57.ping`pong, a safe place for young people to meet, talk and get
:19:58. > :20:03.guidance. I would take it out on a lot of objects and people, I did not
:20:04. > :20:06.hit people but I would shout. They would pool me aside and make media
:20:07. > :20:14.lies that what I was doing was wrong. The thing that unites
:20:15. > :20:20.everyone here is football. Now, at 18, he is giving something back to
:20:21. > :20:29.the group as a leader. They are macro I am excited now that I am the
:20:30. > :20:36.one they are listening to. I could have mist up to be doing drugs and
:20:37. > :20:42.smoking and having children at the age will stop that is for adults.
:20:43. > :20:50.They need to get their heads down, go to school, get good careers. We
:20:51. > :20:58.are here to make sure they are on the right path. Over the past five
:20:59. > :21:03.years this project has received ?27,000 in Children in Need funding.
:21:04. > :21:12.Organisers say they could not have done without it. This boy is in no
:21:13. > :21:23.doubt that it saved him. He wants to the teacher, work at a college or in
:21:24. > :21:28.football. If someone had told me I would be a success I would have
:21:29. > :21:41.laughed in their face. I have come a very, very, very long way.
:21:42. > :21:46.Tomorrow, I will be reporting on the charity that helps victims of the
:21:47. > :22:03.mystic violence. The big Children in Need event for this region is in
:22:04. > :22:10.Kettering. `` domestic violence. Goldie Sayers from Cambridgeshire
:22:11. > :22:17.injured her elbow three weeks before the last Games and came away without
:22:18. > :22:22.a medal. For the last 15 months she has been through major operations
:22:23. > :22:31.only to find her funding cut. But she appealed that decision and one.
:22:32. > :22:35.Olympic Games should be about performing at the peak of your power
:22:36. > :22:41.but for Goldie Sayers it was not to be. I would like to thank everyone
:22:42. > :22:51.and hopefully I can do the country proud. The recovery has been
:22:52. > :22:57.googling. Two operations on her elbow was hard enough but then she
:22:58. > :23:01.lost her funding from UK athletics. The wind is biting, no`one is here
:23:02. > :23:08.in Cambridge today but ironically this is what it has been about for
:23:09. > :23:17.Goldie Sayers. Despite her setbacks she is back throwing the javelin. I
:23:18. > :23:23.really mist it when I was watching friends and team`mates last summer.
:23:24. > :23:36.Not that you take competing for your country for granted but if I get
:23:37. > :23:43.back to grade I was I will take nothing for granted at all. She took
:23:44. > :23:49.on the funding cuts and won. It is not like you get paid and of lot of
:23:50. > :23:54.money, probably the minimum wage but more the medical support. If you
:23:55. > :23:58.have to have a scan to see how ligaments are progressing, you will
:23:59. > :24:07.not have to shell out ?350 to do that. In terms of representation, if
:24:08. > :24:12.she can get through this year to re`establish herself then hopefully
:24:13. > :24:17.by the Commonwealth, may be a top place in the European Championships
:24:18. > :24:25.as well. It would be a great year to re`establish our on the world stage.
:24:26. > :24:34.Is life a lot sweeter? I just feel like I have bought a normal elbow
:24:35. > :24:42.past. I have some cracking scar is but it is amazing what you can do
:24:43. > :24:47.when you look after it. Now let us get the weather. It has been a
:24:48. > :24:53.grisly day. It was a beautiful sunrise this morning. I am sure
:24:54. > :25:00.there were very few of us up at that time. We have some pictures to prove
:25:01. > :25:07.it. This was the sun coming up at seven o'clock this morning. Next,
:25:08. > :25:14.this was captured this morning at Ocean leak. And a beautiful double
:25:15. > :25:21.rainbow at one of the highest points in Norfolk. Thank you so much for
:25:22. > :25:34.these photographs. Sadly, we have not got time to show all of them. It
:25:35. > :25:40.did all go downhill. Men will like rain and drizzle. There were a few
:25:41. > :25:47.heavier bursts. `` mainly light rain. This evening and overnight
:25:48. > :25:53.some of the rain could turn quite heavy at times. There will be some
:25:54. > :26:00.fog patches forming for some of us. The temperatures will not do much,
:26:01. > :26:09.staying where they are now in built up areas, dropping to eight Celsius
:26:10. > :26:15.in more rural spots. The wind will become the light north`westerly
:26:16. > :26:26.later in the night. That dream will move erratically to the east. Most
:26:27. > :26:31.places starting tomorrow cloudy but the rain will push away south`east.
:26:32. > :26:40.The further north and west you are the more likely you are to see the
:26:41. > :26:44.best of tomorrow's sunshine. And we finish the day fine and dry with
:26:45. > :26:53.some further sunshine before it gets dark. Skies will continue to clear
:26:54. > :26:58.so overnight it will be quite chilly with a frost for some of us by
:26:59. > :27:03.Wednesday morning. Wednesday will not be too bad at all. The bulk of
:27:04. > :27:09.the day generally fine and dry. There will be some sunny spells. You
:27:10. > :27:14.could be a little rain as wet and windy conditions spread down from
:27:15. > :27:20.the north`west late in the day. That will rattle through leaving a
:27:21. > :27:27.blustery but bright day on Thursday. Some decent spells of sunshine and a
:27:28. > :27:32.few showers. That is similar to Friday, for many of us it will be a
:27:33. > :27:40.dry day but perhaps a few showers around. That is all from us. Good
:27:41. > :27:51.evening. Goodbye.