:00:00. > :00:16.In the programme tonight: if you had to find the words to describe the
:00:17. > :00:21.people that would do something like this to you, what will that work be?
:00:22. > :00:24.Evil. An 89`year`old describes the masked
:00:25. > :00:26.men who attacked her in her own home.
:00:27. > :00:30.Truckloads of aid ` the farmers here helping flooded colleagues on the
:00:31. > :00:33.Somerset Levels. And claims of a postcode lottery
:00:34. > :00:45.when it comes to resuscitation by paramedics. And freshly restored `
:00:46. > :00:52.the map that shows the 700 bombs that fell on the city of Norwich.
:00:53. > :00:59.Hello. First tonight, a vulnerable pensioner assaulted in her own home
:01:00. > :01:02.by three masked men has hit back at her attackers. She told Look East
:01:03. > :01:04.they are evil and she would have them whipped.
:01:05. > :01:07.Connie Hallford was alone in her bungalow in Lakenheath on Monday
:01:08. > :01:12.evening when the men burst in, knocked her down and demanded money.
:01:13. > :01:17.Suffolk Police described the attack as despicable. Connie, who's just
:01:18. > :01:20.over five feet tall, had to be treated in hospital. This afternoon
:01:21. > :01:34.she spoke to our reporter Kevin Burch. There was a bang on the
:01:35. > :01:41.door. I thought, there is someone banging at the door. Then Dave and
:01:42. > :01:49.again really loudly. One of them really went for it and the door came
:01:50. > :01:56.in, you see. So they were trying to bang their way in? Yes, they smashed
:01:57. > :02:02.the door and the window in the top part of it. That is when I went to
:02:03. > :02:08.the hallway and asked them what they were doing there? I told them to
:02:09. > :02:13.clear off. I told them to get out. He did not say anything. He hit me
:02:14. > :02:19.on the head with something and knocked me down onto the floor. All
:02:20. > :02:26.the blood was running down and he said, money. Where is your money? I
:02:27. > :02:32.said, I have not I am a widow. He said, you must have some down the
:02:33. > :02:41.side of your city or something. He went into local. He looked down the
:02:42. > :02:49.settee and the armchairs, everywhere. One of them look down at
:02:50. > :02:58.me and said, are you all right. I said that I wasn't. I was bleeding.
:02:59. > :03:02.Where you scared and angry? I was angry that they came in. I could not
:03:03. > :03:13.make out what they were doing really. They said they were looking
:03:14. > :03:20.for money. I want to cede the law do the right thing. If you have to find
:03:21. > :03:26.the words to describe people who would do this to someone like you,
:03:27. > :03:34.what would those words be? Evil. They are evil. They should bring
:03:35. > :03:39.back whipping or something. Thank you for talking to us. So many
:03:40. > :03:48.people's thoughts will be with you. Please rest and get better. I have
:03:49. > :03:54.already got a teddy bear, a bunch of flowers and some chocolate sent from
:03:55. > :03:57.someone who I don't know. Hundreds of tonnes of hay and straw
:03:58. > :04:00.donated by farmers from this region are on their way to their
:04:01. > :04:06.counterparts flooded in the South West. Farmers on the Somerset Levels
:04:07. > :04:08.have been left without food to give to their cattle, but colleagues
:04:09. > :04:14.across East Anglia have rallied round to help. Forage being loaded
:04:15. > :04:21.onto a lorry in Essex. Help for flood hit farmers in the south`west.
:04:22. > :04:27.Our farmers had to do something to help those whose farms had been
:04:28. > :04:35.destroyed. Feed and bedding from livestock has been donated. All of
:04:36. > :04:40.their hay and straw is ruined, it is underwater. The animals need to be
:04:41. > :04:45.fed. It has been an awful few weeks for them. Farms are still being
:04:46. > :04:51.evacuated. The water level is still rising. I cannot imagine what is
:04:52. > :04:57.going through their heads. It must be truly awful. If a farmer is in a
:04:58. > :05:01.model, you help them out. If it was asked, someone would come to our
:05:02. > :05:08.aid. The farmers save they are overwhelmed. This barn is for of
:05:09. > :05:15.hundreds of tonnes of donated straw and how. This is the feed and
:05:16. > :05:20.bedding donated in Suffolk and Norfolk has contributed as well. We
:05:21. > :05:30.have 24 articulated lorries going out. The farming community
:05:31. > :05:38.brilliant. It is a fantastic effort. It has been an extraordinary week.
:05:39. > :05:45.We have collected over ?17,000 in financial donations. Back in Essex
:05:46. > :05:50.they are thinking of the situation faced by their fellow farmers in the
:05:51. > :05:57.south`west. You cannot imagine it until you are in that situation.
:05:58. > :06:01.People have watched their livelihoods and future be destroyed.
:06:02. > :06:08.Tonight, some young farmers are heading to Somerset to do what they
:06:09. > :06:12.can to help. The floods have brought the farming community together.
:06:13. > :06:15.Late this afternoon I spoke to vet and farmer's wife Jenny Winslade in
:06:16. > :06:17.Bridgwater, who's co`ordinating the distriubution of donations in
:06:18. > :06:24.Somerset. She started by telling me how they had to evacuate all their
:06:25. > :06:31.cattle. We sold a hundred at market and we have hunch and 50 cattle on
:06:32. > :06:38.eight host farms. They are within a ten, 20 mile area. They are
:06:39. > :06:43.scattered far and wide. How grateful you for the donations that have been
:06:44. > :06:48.coming in? We could not still be in business without the donations. All
:06:49. > :06:56.of the forage was left on the farm. There was no way of getting it out
:06:57. > :07:01.in time. We would have had to sell 550 cattle on one day without these
:07:02. > :07:06.donations. We are from a third`generation farm. My husband
:07:07. > :07:11.loves his farm and it would have destroyed him. The fact we can feed
:07:12. > :07:15.them, maybe just sort of in limbo at the moment until we know what the
:07:16. > :07:21.situation is going to be, allows our some time to make some informed
:07:22. > :07:29.decision `` decisions and see if we can get back to the farm and salvage
:07:30. > :07:34.anything. However, the water is still waist high. There was no
:07:35. > :07:39.likelihood of us going back to our farm any time soon. It is one thing
:07:40. > :07:43.getting the donations, but you would then have two distribute them around
:07:44. > :07:51.the various places they are needed. Yes. This is a complete emergency.
:07:52. > :07:57.We are getting donations from all over the country. Tesco have been
:07:58. > :08:02.very kind why helping us with the logistics. We are using Sedgemoor
:08:03. > :08:07.market as a base to drop off the forage, but we have limited storage.
:08:08. > :08:12.We could do with a weak storage area so we can accept or the donations,
:08:13. > :08:18.but as you can imagine, a couple of farmers wives in the bedroom, we are
:08:19. > :08:22.finding it tough. We wish you the best of luck and hope things settle
:08:23. > :08:29.down for you soon. Thank you for talking to us. Thank you.
:08:30. > :08:32.Standards of care at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich have to improve,
:08:33. > :08:35.according to the Government's main health watchdog. It treats people
:08:36. > :08:37.with mental health problems in Norfolk and Suffolk. But the Care
:08:38. > :08:41.Quality Commission highlighted failings in the care and welfare of
:08:42. > :08:46.patients and failure to treat them with respect. Inside this hospital
:08:47. > :08:49.are some of the most bombed rubble, yet when inspectors came they found
:08:50. > :08:57.patients had been left with incomplete care plans and even left
:08:58. > :09:00.in dirty clothes. That was a one`off case that is unacceptable. I have
:09:01. > :09:05.been talking to the nursing staff to make sure we supplied the
:09:06. > :09:09.fundamentals of care when people come into hospital. People are
:09:10. > :09:18.tolerable and they want to be looked after. They need to be clean and
:09:19. > :09:25.cared for. The union Unison says it frees that cuts to the services is
:09:26. > :09:29.having an impact. To a certain extent their hands are tied by their
:09:30. > :09:33.budget, but on certain things they have taken their eye off the ball
:09:34. > :09:40.and are focusing too much on reaching financial targets. They are
:09:41. > :09:46.not listening to the people who work in the service. ?40 million worth of
:09:47. > :09:53.savings are being made in four years. One of the issues raised by
:09:54. > :09:57.inspectors is a clock in mental health assessments by community
:09:58. > :10:00.nurses. Some people have been waiting two months to find out how
:10:01. > :10:07.young they are and whether they actually need to be treated in
:10:08. > :10:12.hospital. `` how young they are. But the trust says they are taking
:10:13. > :10:17.action. Our redesign services are prioritising people with urgent
:10:18. > :10:24.needs. We have been recruiting extra nurses and running additional
:10:25. > :10:28.clinics at weekends to catch up. We are seeing people within the time
:10:29. > :10:35.frame is that we think we should be working too. Despite the
:10:36. > :10:38.criticisms, the trust did achieve in some areas, including having
:10:39. > :10:43.safeguards to stop abuse, at the report today has added to the
:10:44. > :10:48.pressure of trying to cope demand at a time when cuts are being made.
:10:49. > :10:52.There's been another fall in the number of people out of work in the
:10:53. > :10:55.East. In the last three months of 2013, 180,000 people were
:10:56. > :10:57.unemployed. That's down 1,000 on the previous quarter.
:10:58. > :11:00.In the East the unemployment rate now stands at 5.7% compared to 7.2%
:11:01. > :11:04.nationally. Nationally, more women are in work `
:11:05. > :11:16.just over 14 million ` than at any time since records began in 1971.
:11:17. > :11:20.There was traffic gridlock in Lowestoft today after a hole five
:11:21. > :11:23.metres long opened up, blocking the A12 in the town centre. The road was
:11:24. > :11:27.closed last night and nearly 24 hours later parts are still closed.
:11:28. > :11:30.The cause of the hole remains unknown.
:11:31. > :11:34.It was the last thing drivers and traders in Lowestoft wanted to see
:11:35. > :11:42.this morning dash a large hole in the ground. It opened up last now ``
:11:43. > :11:50.last night. This was Station Square in December. For a local restaurant
:11:51. > :11:56.owner it has been a difficult time. For a new business, that is a
:11:57. > :12:02.killing point. We are struggling, but I hope it gets cleared as soon
:12:03. > :12:13.as possible. He is not the only one. Other traders are frustrated. There
:12:14. > :12:18.are one or two cars coming down, but it really is disrupting businesses.
:12:19. > :12:24.It goes from bad to worse really. But the one thing that defines this
:12:25. > :12:30.town is its resilience. Daniel Newman says that Lowestoft will take
:12:31. > :12:33.this on the chin. It is disappointing rather than
:12:34. > :12:39.frustrating. There are challenges, but the town is open for his knees
:12:40. > :12:45.and it is accessible. The highways agency says that drivers can get
:12:46. > :12:47.through, but the area around Denmark Road will open only when it is safe
:12:48. > :13:02.to do so. Still to come on the programme dash
:13:03. > :13:06.the big name in brewing that has come back to its historic home after
:13:07. > :13:11.40 years. And if you have caught the Olympic curling bark, what you can
:13:12. > :13:13.do if you want to have a go yourself.
:13:14. > :13:16.The region's Ambulance Service nsists poor response times are not
:13:17. > :13:19.to blame for the fact that fewer people are being resuscitated. The
:13:20. > :13:23.BBC has obtained figures which show the East of England Ambulance Trust
:13:24. > :13:26.is in the bottom three in the country for the number of
:13:27. > :13:29.resuscitations attempted. And it's led one former ambulance executive
:13:30. > :13:35.to claim there's a postcode lottery when it comes to life saving
:13:36. > :13:42.treatment. Amy Carter and her partner Scott
:13:43. > :13:46.lost their three`month`old daughter last year. She had a congenital
:13:47. > :13:53.heart condition. It took the East of England Ambulance Service 26 minutes
:13:54. > :13:57.to get to her, a delay described why the local coroner as indefensible.
:13:58. > :14:01.It is bad enough that you lose your daughter, but when there is someone
:14:02. > :14:10.to blame, you feel more angry. You have grief and anger together. It is
:14:11. > :14:17.too much. Staff in this control room in Bedford received 1000 emergency
:14:18. > :14:22.calls every day. Their dedication is not in doubt and they know the
:14:23. > :14:29.urgency of a cardiac arrest. Failure to reach a sufferer in eight minutes
:14:30. > :14:32.usually results in death. The East is in the bottom three when it comes
:14:33. > :14:41.to attempts to refer to take patients.
:14:42. > :14:50.Some experts believe this is due to a difference in the response times
:14:51. > :14:53.and medical procedures. This ambulance executive says the figures
:14:54. > :15:03.expose a frightening state of affairs. We have an HF that should
:15:04. > :15:12.be as good anywhere in the country. `` we have an NHS. They should not
:15:13. > :15:15.be a postcode lottery. The gamblers service admits there are
:15:16. > :15:24.shortcomings, but discrepancies can be explained by factors such as age
:15:25. > :15:29.and income. We are recruiting more paramedics so to make sure we have
:15:30. > :15:34.enough, we are on a campaign to recruit 400 more. The Ambulance
:15:35. > :15:38.Service has a good survival rate for those who they do this after take,
:15:39. > :15:45.but that will be little consolation for the parents of this baby for
:15:46. > :15:48.whom the help arrived too late. Every four years at the Winter
:15:49. > :15:51.Olympics we become a nation of curling fans. Today, of course,
:15:52. > :15:56.Britain's men and women have both been in action in Sochi and it's had
:15:57. > :15:59.us on the edge of our seats. But what happens once the Olympics are
:16:00. > :16:03.over? If you've been bitten by the bug, how easy is it to take up
:16:04. > :16:11.curling? Curling ` a bit like holes on ice.
:16:12. > :16:22.The sport and is back to 16th century Scotland. `` the sport dates
:16:23. > :16:27.back. It is a community sport and anyone complain from the age of
:16:28. > :16:34.eight up until 80. The major problem is where to do it. It is played in
:16:35. > :16:38.40 countries, but Steve has to travel four hours a day to practice
:16:39. > :16:46.in Tunbridge Wells in Kent. It is the only dedicated ice curling rink
:16:47. > :16:52.in England. In Scotland it is a mainstream sport. Here and in Wales
:16:53. > :16:56.we need more ice rinks. The more ice rinks you get, the more accessible
:16:57. > :17:02.it is and a lot of people if they are just getting into something new,
:17:03. > :17:07.they want it closer. I started in Chelmsford, but they stopped it
:17:08. > :17:15.there because they `` because it did not pay. They stopped curling and I
:17:16. > :17:18.had to go further. For the highly skilled and dedicated few, the
:17:19. > :17:22.English championship swept into action today. A world away from
:17:23. > :17:36.Sochi Web written's with men and women are battling for medals. ``
:17:37. > :17:42.where Britain's best men and women. No need to work up a sweat here
:17:43. > :17:49.though, there is no ice. The sport at this community Centre in Norwich
:17:50. > :17:53.is played at a more sedate pace. It is similar to curling on ice without
:17:54. > :17:59.the ice. As you throw the stone, the ball bearing does all the work for
:18:00. > :18:07.you. The British team were granted ?5 million of funding to repair for
:18:08. > :18:17.Sochi. The curlers are all from Scotland. Unless facilities
:18:18. > :18:21.improved, it is likely that the best players will remain on the other
:18:22. > :18:23.side of the border. John Brown from Bedfordshire is part
:18:24. > :18:27.of the English Curling Association and he's in Tunbridge Wells for the
:18:28. > :18:30.national championships. I spoke to him earlier and asked him why he
:18:31. > :18:34.thinks we've become so transfixed with curling. I think it is because
:18:35. > :18:42.it is an unusual sport and we are good at it. Unfortunately though, it
:18:43. > :18:48.is on every four years. Do you think it is down to the Olympic effect?
:18:49. > :18:54.The interest waned after that? I think so because there is nowhere
:18:55. > :19:03.really for people to practice in most of written. `` most of Britain.
:19:04. > :19:14.Said there is one place where people can do curling seriously. Can it not
:19:15. > :19:25.be done on an ice rink? It can, but you need to play its on a proper
:19:26. > :19:32.rink. So how do people practice if they want to get to the level we are
:19:33. > :19:37.seeing in Sochi? In England there is only one ice rink in Kent, but in
:19:38. > :19:41.Scotland there are 25 curling rinks where people can practice. That is
:19:42. > :19:45.why the majority of the team of Scottish because they have had the
:19:46. > :19:50.time and experience to play a lot. In England you have two travel to
:19:51. > :19:56.Kent to get that experience. It seems a real shame. We are a nation
:19:57. > :20:00.of winter, but not necessarily winter sports. This is something we
:20:01. > :20:06.are good at and you would have thought there would be more
:20:07. > :20:14.facilities. Absolutely. There are two ways to start playing curling.
:20:15. > :20:18.One is to find someone with few hundred thousand pounds to build an
:20:19. > :20:23.ice rink or you can ask a time on the ice. If there is someone out
:20:24. > :20:29.there who wants to put money into building eight curling ice rink,
:20:30. > :20:37.that would be great for sport. Thank you for talking to us all.
:20:38. > :20:41.If you live in Northampton you will know that until the 1970s there was
:20:42. > :20:45.one big name brewery in the town. It was called Phipps, but after more
:20:46. > :20:49.than 200 years it closed down. The name was revived by a new company
:20:50. > :20:51.five years ago and now they have become so successful that they're
:20:52. > :20:55.moving Phipps back into Northampton to the original Victorian brewery.
:20:56. > :20:59.The cover has come off of one of Northampton's newest, but oldest
:21:00. > :21:08.businesses. ?1 million plan to create a new brewery 40 years on
:21:09. > :21:23.from when Phipps closed in the town. Bringing company back row back wall
:21:24. > :21:38.at `` bringing Phipps back well bring something back to the town.
:21:39. > :21:47.The new team hope to trade on the brewery's previous heritage.
:21:48. > :21:52.Providence is expensive `` important. We are using water from
:21:53. > :22:00.our own well. It is crucial that in this day and age where so many
:22:01. > :22:11.things come and go so quickly, Phipps is steeped in history in this
:22:12. > :22:17.area. The brewery is hoping to strengthen its position by selling
:22:18. > :22:23.its products all over the region. The interest in real ale has been
:22:24. > :22:30.growing every year. It has been good news to hear that they are coming
:22:31. > :22:35.back. It is hoped that brewing will start here within the month.
:22:36. > :22:38.When we hear the word blitz, we normally think of the wartime
:22:39. > :22:41.bombing of London or Coventry. But there was another smaller blitz in
:22:42. > :22:44.Norwich. In 1942, hundreds of German bombers raided the city on two
:22:45. > :22:49.consecutive nights and nearly 250 people were killed. At the time the
:22:50. > :22:52.authorities made a map showing the exact position of every bomb blast
:22:53. > :22:55.in the war, but over the years its condition deteriorated. Now it's
:22:56. > :23:13.been painstakingly restored, as Kim Riley reports.
:23:14. > :23:21.Secrets revealed this afternoon of five months of work bringing this
:23:22. > :23:28.bomb map back to life. Each of these tags represent a bomb that rained
:23:29. > :23:35.down on the city. The exact position, date and size of the bomb
:23:36. > :23:51.are detailed. Just over 250 people died during the Blitz. It happened
:23:52. > :23:56.over a couple of nights. In July 1940, 27 people were killed. Five
:23:57. > :24:04.girls were walking up Karen Hill and were killed. Many people remember
:24:05. > :24:11.that. It's difficult to think that happens when you walk around Norwich
:24:12. > :24:15.now. Here in the city centre this is the site of the John Lewis store.
:24:16. > :24:22.There is nothing to show for it now, but during the war the building then
:24:23. > :24:24.on this site was alone apart. By marrying together the streetscape of
:24:25. > :24:30.the present day with the aftermath of the bombing raids, graphic
:24:31. > :24:36.designer Nick Stone has created ghost images. It is a case of
:24:37. > :24:42.standing in the footsteps of the original photographer. It is on
:24:43. > :24:52.every residential street in the city. A phenomenal amount of damage
:24:53. > :24:57.was caused. The restored map will be preserved under controlled
:24:58. > :25:03.conditions, but detailed images from it are available on CD. Street
:25:04. > :25:10.high`street telling the story of a city under attack. Those pictures
:25:11. > :25:26.are amazing. Now, let us have a look at the weather. New line ``
:25:27. > :25:31.temperatures up to 12 degrees today. Quite a range of temperatures
:25:32. > :25:37.through the day. It will be quite mild tomorrow, but it will be windy
:25:38. > :25:41.up with a brain in the morning. It is this Atlantic weather system that
:25:42. > :25:45.will bring rain later tonight. A lot of clouds moving in off the Atlantic
:25:46. > :25:50.and already our skies are turning cloudy. There will be patchy rain,
:25:51. > :26:00.but not until around midnight. It will track eastwards. It will not
:26:01. > :26:06.read all the time `` rain all the time. And while night with
:26:07. > :26:18.temperatures no lower than six Celsius. We have this weather front
:26:19. > :26:22.that will swiftly cleared through. It will be windy with rain in the
:26:23. > :26:26.morning. It will clear and improved in the afternoon. The skies will
:26:27. > :26:41.turn brighter and we should see some sunshine. It will be drier and
:26:42. > :26:48.temperatures will be on the mild side with ten or 11 Celsius our
:26:49. > :26:53.high. If you factor in the wind though it will feel slightly colder.
:26:54. > :27:03.There could use and showers around, which will be isolated. Let us look
:27:04. > :27:07.ahead to the end of the week that it will stay windy right into the
:27:08. > :27:11.weekend, but the forecast is not bad. This is the weather front
:27:12. > :27:16.arriving later on Sunday. Some uncertainty about the timing, but
:27:17. > :27:25.there should be quite a lot of dry weather before that. It will feel
:27:26. > :27:36.cooler and fresher. By Sunday, starting to turn cloudy with a
:27:37. > :27:39.chance of rain arriving later. Not looking too bad. That is all
:27:40. > :27:46.from ask. Have a good evening.