:00:09. > :00:14.Hello and welcome to Look East as we begin a week's worth of programmes
:00:15. > :00:28.looking at the impact World War One had in this region. And we're
:00:29. > :00:31.starting in the trenches. This is a film set on the outskirts of
:00:32. > :00:35.Ipswich. And these trenches have been used in countless dramas `
:00:36. > :00:38.everything from The Last Tommy to Downton Abbey. Our theme is World
:00:39. > :00:43.War One at Home. All that's coming up after the news from your part of
:00:44. > :00:47.the region. Hello and welcome to Look East and
:00:48. > :00:50.the news from Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. In the programme tonight:
:00:51. > :00:53.Could Suffolk Police lose its control room as the force looks to
:00:54. > :00:56.share costs with Norfolk? Making maths add up. The Ipswich
:00:57. > :00:59.school doing it the Singapore way. And Snodgrass helps City sink Spurs
:01:00. > :01:17.as Norwich climb four points clear of the relegation zone.
:01:18. > :01:21.Our top story tonight: Proposals to move the Suffolk Police control room
:01:22. > :01:29.to Norfolk have been condemned by trade unions. Dozens of jobs would
:01:30. > :01:32.go as part of a larger cost`cutting exercise. Staff were told of the
:01:33. > :01:34.plans at special briefings today. But tonight both forces stressed a
:01:35. > :02:09.final decision has yet to be made. It's a move that would save millions
:02:10. > :02:12.of pounds but at what cost? To get rid of the Suffolk Police control
:02:13. > :02:16.room and route all calls to Norfolk instead ` both forces think it's a
:02:17. > :02:20.bold move. It'll go before both Police and Crime Commissioners this
:02:21. > :02:23.week. Suffolk's PCC remains to be convinced. Our team will look at it.
:02:24. > :02:27.Look at the different scenarios. If it's not workable, we won't do it.
:02:28. > :02:42.I'm not hot on the idea... Not cold either. We have to make savings but
:02:43. > :02:54.control rooms can be sensitive. It's not like a call centre. We're
:02:55. > :02:58.talking about people's lives. Norfolk and Suffolk Police say it's
:02:59. > :03:05.one of 15 cash saving ideas. It's certainly the most controversial.
:03:06. > :03:07.People in Suffolk are wary. It's not good. It should be local. They've
:03:08. > :03:11.been centralised and people have ended up in the room place! They
:03:12. > :03:22.won't know certain things about the area. The union says such a move
:03:23. > :03:25.would impact on 120 jobs in Suffolk. There are hundreds of years of
:03:26. > :03:32.experience ` people who know Suffolk... They would be
:03:33. > :03:40.transferring that out to another county. This hasn't been done
:03:41. > :03:43.anywhere else in England. Police briefed the media hours after the
:03:44. > :03:53.plans were revealed by the East Anglian Daily Times. Police insist a
:03:54. > :03:57.merger would not compromise safety, but have a sound business case to
:03:58. > :03:59.make it work. But the PCCs will have the final say.
:04:00. > :04:02.The widow of Simon Hall ` the convicted Ipswich murderer, found
:04:03. > :04:07.dead in his prison cell yesterday ` has told Look East she believes she
:04:08. > :04:10.now has all the answers as to why he committed his crime. Stephanie Hall
:04:11. > :04:13.says she spoke to her husband at Wayland prison in Norfolk on
:04:14. > :04:18.Saturday before he was found by prison staff early yesterday
:04:19. > :04:22.morning. This is the prison where Simon Hall's life came to an end. A
:04:23. > :04:33.prison statement said he was found unresponsive in his cell on Sunday
:04:34. > :04:39.morning. His window was too distressed to go on camera, but she
:04:40. > :04:44.told Look East... 12 years ago, Simon Hall murdered Joan Albert.
:04:45. > :04:57.Police believed it was a burglary gone wrong. A local man, he was
:04:58. > :05:00.convicted in 2003. But for ten years he protested his innocence. There
:05:01. > :05:02.was a high profile campaign to free Simon Hall. The BBC broadcast a
:05:03. > :05:10.rough justice programme which cast doubt on his conviction. Not knowing
:05:11. > :05:22.when I'm going home... It keeps me awake. But last year he finally
:05:23. > :05:25.admitted his guilt. The detective who led the investigation said his
:05:26. > :05:30.thoughts were with the family of Joan Albert. We always told them we
:05:31. > :05:40.thought he was responsible. We didn't pluck him out of the sky. We
:05:41. > :05:49.followed evidence. It led to him. They stuck with us. Finally we've
:05:50. > :05:53.been vindicated. Stephanie Hall told me today her husband had been in a
:05:54. > :05:58."bad place". She now plans to write a book about him. According to the
:05:59. > :06:00.prison service, the Independent Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will
:06:01. > :06:03.now conduct an investigation into Simon Hall's death.
:06:04. > :06:06.The Education Minister Liz Truss has been in Shanghai today, talking to
:06:07. > :06:09.officials about new ways to teach maths. Shanghai and Singapore are at
:06:10. > :06:13.the top of the international league tables while England is in 26th
:06:14. > :06:16.place. We'll have more on her visit tomorrow. Tonight the school in
:06:17. > :06:25.Ipswich is teaching maths the Singapore way. At St Joseph's
:06:26. > :06:29.College in Ipswich, they've used the Singapore method to teach maths for
:06:30. > :06:33.the past three years. It works by getting children to visualise and
:06:34. > :06:46.discuss sums. It's so effective, these ten`year`olds are already
:06:47. > :06:52.doing secondary school equations. In the past the curriculum was wide but
:06:53. > :06:59.not very deep. They would spend a week doing one topic then a week
:07:00. > :07:12.doing another. They didn't get the depth they needed. Today the class
:07:13. > :07:15.are working on this problem. This is how you traditionally do it, using
:07:16. > :07:19.equations. The Singapore method is different. Children use a bar shape
:07:20. > :07:23.to represent the sum then add, subtract or divide. They talk about
:07:24. > :07:29.it as they go through. Using this method has taken them further. They
:07:30. > :07:39.visualise the problem. Singapore adopted the method in the 1980s and
:07:40. > :07:52.now they are world`beaters at maths. This school say it's driven up
:07:53. > :08:03.attainment. I can see it in my head. When you have the questions, it's
:08:04. > :08:08.easier. We work together. We write it down and see which one will be
:08:09. > :08:22.right. They teach this from reception. Ministers in China are
:08:23. > :08:26.looking at what we can learn. This school believes it's already found
:08:27. > :08:30.the answer. In football, there were plenty of
:08:31. > :08:33.nerves at Carrow Road last night as Norwich City held on to an unlikely
:08:34. > :08:36.1`0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur. The win moves the Canaries up to
:08:37. > :08:40.14th in the Premier League, four points clear of the relegation zone.
:08:41. > :08:44.We're seconds away... Victory for Norwich City! You could almost feel
:08:45. > :08:47.the pressure lift from the Norwich camp after one of their finest
:08:48. > :08:51.victories of the season. In a weekend that saw many other results
:08:52. > :08:55.go their way, Chris Hughton's men held up their own end of the bargain
:08:56. > :08:58.to move four points clear of the drop zone and take their place on
:08:59. > :09:02.the front and back pages of today's papers. In terms of the performance
:09:03. > :09:08.and result, the way they went about it... It was their best performance
:09:09. > :09:11.of the season. It's been a season short of genuine highs but Sunday
:09:12. > :09:14.was definitely one of them. While few column inches were required for
:09:15. > :09:18.the first half, after just two minutes of the second period hard
:09:19. > :09:24.work from Ricky van Wolfswinkel led to a chance for Robert Snodgrass.
:09:25. > :09:27.The Scot obliged with finesse. It could have been more convincing `
:09:28. > :09:30.the Canaries tried placement and then power with a couple of
:09:31. > :09:37.free`kicks but neither could make the net bulge. And if you thought it
:09:38. > :09:39.was a one`sided affair, you'd be wrong. Norwich's England
:09:40. > :09:43.international proved how much of a team performance the win was. The
:09:44. > :09:47.save was fantastic. It could easily have gone straight between his legs.
:09:48. > :09:56.I suppose that's the little bit of luck... If things are really going
:09:57. > :10:00.badly for you that drifts in. Commanding. I think he's got a nice,
:10:01. > :10:04.settled back four in front of him now. The finger waving and the heavy
:10:05. > :10:10.breathing will be back next Sunday, when Norwich try to build on their
:10:11. > :10:21.victory. They have a trip to Aston Villa. The clubs are level on
:10:22. > :10:24.points. There will be plenty more headlines written on the Canaries
:10:25. > :10:30.again this season ` Norwich fans will be hoping to see more like
:10:31. > :10:33.today's in the near future. And you can see what happened when
:10:34. > :10:37.David Whitely joined the doctors on tonight's Inside Out at 7.30pm.
:10:38. > :10:40.You'll also be able to see the latest pictures from under the North
:10:41. > :10:45.Sea, of Europe's longest chalk reef. Now it's time to go back to Stewart
:10:46. > :10:51.who's on a World War One film set on the outskirts of Ipswich.
:10:52. > :11:08.Welcome back to the Trench Farm film set in Suffolk. We're here to mark
:11:09. > :11:22.100 years since the War. There is a periscope here. Water in a petrol
:11:23. > :11:32.can... Corned beef! Bullets as well, for the rifles. It was very cold
:11:33. > :11:46.down here. They would spend virtually the whole day here. But
:11:47. > :11:51.there was a new kind of warfare. And a new word too. The Zeppelin. On a
:11:52. > :11:54.foggy night in January 1915, people in Great Yarmouth were transfixed by
:11:55. > :11:58.an eerie noise above. A terrifying, new style of attack was about to be
:11:59. > :12:01.unleashed by aerial invaders. People would stupidly come out of their
:12:02. > :12:04.houses and say 'look, it's the Zeppelin!' All of those people would
:12:05. > :12:10.be standing in their doorways when they threw the bombs out of the side
:12:11. > :12:13.of the gondola. Three bomb were released, doing little damage, but
:12:14. > :12:17.then a fourth one exploded, killing two people ` Martha Taylor and
:12:18. > :12:25.Samuel Smith. Gladys and Katherine were young girls at the time. ``
:12:26. > :12:33.Kathleen. The window was coming in. My mother was thrown onto the couch.
:12:34. > :12:40.Mr Smith was killed. Ms Taylor too. They were killed, yes. This plaque
:12:41. > :12:44.marks the spot of the first aerial bombardment on Britain. They may not
:12:45. > :12:48.have done much physical damage but the Zeppelins were very effective
:12:49. > :12:55.weapons of terror. Local press called them aerial babykillers, sent
:12:56. > :12:58.over by blood`mad fiends. At a high altitude, the Zeppelins were safely
:12:59. > :13:03.out of range but British pilots soon had shells which could bring down
:13:04. > :13:09.the giant airships. In Autumn 1916, L33 was shot down in Essex. The
:13:10. > :13:18.German crew scrambled free and were soon made to surrender. This man saw
:13:19. > :13:23.it all. They passed the gate. There was a Special Constable who met them
:13:24. > :13:30.in the next village. He took them in hand. In St. Peter's Church in
:13:31. > :13:36.Suffolk, another souvenir of another downed Zeppelin ` L48. This woman
:13:37. > :13:42.helped maintain the memories of those who witnessed the event and
:13:43. > :13:47.the 16 Germans who perished. It burnt up quickly. There was just the
:13:48. > :13:54.skeleton left. People for miles around saw it burning. Lots of
:13:55. > :13:58.souvenir hunters! I think they tried to keep a lot of that away. The
:13:59. > :14:07.local militia sorted it out, to keep people away! In four long years, as
:14:08. > :14:21.a weapon of war the Zeppelin had failed, but as a weapon of terror it
:14:22. > :14:33.made a lasting, local impression. I told you this was a film set. It's
:14:34. > :14:38.a big place! Earlier today, when the sun was up, I looked at the other
:14:39. > :14:41.parts. As you can see, they've got everything here for the modern film
:14:42. > :14:45.set, looking back at the First World War ` about 200 metres of trenches.
:14:46. > :14:51.This is what it would have been like in the early years, with water in
:14:52. > :14:54.the bottom. Some of the soldiers got something called 'trench foot',
:14:55. > :15:05.caused by standing in damp water. They'd been here for about ten
:15:06. > :15:18.years. This is one of the trenches. Where we are tonight... You can see
:15:19. > :15:26.people getting ready. You will have seen these in shows like Downtown
:15:27. > :15:30.Abbey and many other programmes. There's everything here but it shows
:15:31. > :15:49.you what life was like for the soldiers working in the trenches day
:15:50. > :15:52.in, day out. These trenches are the brainchild of
:15:53. > :16:02.one man ` Taff Gillingham. An expert on World War One. You're an expert.
:16:03. > :16:12.How long did they spend here? They were all ages. People who were too
:16:13. > :16:21.old as well as young lads. It depended on where you were. In some
:16:22. > :16:35.places, only for a day. In other areas... Maybe a week or ten days.
:16:36. > :16:45.It depended on the situation. In the other trench it was wet! The
:16:46. > :16:54.soldiers were suffering? Trench foot was a real problem. They were
:16:55. > :17:08.waterlogged. There were problems with drainage. They found a way to
:17:09. > :17:17.fight nature. They also, about trench foot, made it the officer's
:17:18. > :17:30.problem! This is very much a built trench. Some felt dug, in contrast.
:17:31. > :17:46.Yes. They were built in different ways. German ones were built for
:17:47. > :18:02.permanence. To the Allies, it was temporary. Thank you for having us.
:18:03. > :18:06.It's been fascinating! Away from the trenches we're going
:18:07. > :18:09.to be looking at how life changed for ordinary people during the First
:18:10. > :18:13.World War. Tonight we're going to set the scene. What did the East
:18:14. > :18:16.look like 100 years ago? This report is from our chief reporter Kim
:18:17. > :18:20.Riley. In the picture files he doesn't have a name ` billed as a
:18:21. > :18:24.typical Norfolk labourer. The year is 1912. He was one of over 200,000
:18:25. > :18:27.farm workers across the region. At the Gressenhall farm and workhouse,
:18:28. > :18:32.they've turned back the clock to those tough times. Male life
:18:33. > :18:37.expectancy was 52 and wages for farm workers were around ?50 a year. Work
:18:38. > :18:41.was seasonal and employment was casual. For some it was a life of
:18:42. > :18:44.grinding poverty and eventually the stigma of becoming an inmate at the
:18:45. > :18:47.local workhouse. The years of childhood were brief. Going to
:18:48. > :18:53.school had only been made compulsory in the 1880s. There could be up to
:18:54. > :18:57.60 children in a class. This is a typical classroom of the time. It
:18:58. > :19:00.was compulsory for children to go to school up to the age of 12, but
:19:01. > :19:06.there were many ten`year`olds who actually had jobs. It was very
:19:07. > :19:11.unusual for many children to go on to secondary school. Few homes had
:19:12. > :19:14.electricity and many had no piped water or fixed bath. Even going
:19:15. > :19:17.through the motions of doing the laundry... Lighting a fire to heat
:19:18. > :19:21.the water, using a washing dolly to agitate the clothes... Putting them
:19:22. > :19:26.through a mangle and pegging on the line... It's a world away from
:19:27. > :19:31.today's wash and spin cycles. In 1911, the world was just beginning
:19:32. > :19:34.to become really petrol`fuelled. It's true cars were becoming common
:19:35. > :19:38.in London, but in eastern England the bicycle held sway. With 4% of
:19:39. > :19:43.the population owning 90% of the wealth, only 7% of people paid
:19:44. > :19:47.income tax. Protestors from this region joined the suffragettes `
:19:48. > :19:53.militants burned down the Bath Hotel in Felixstowe in April 1914.
:19:54. > :19:56.Professor Jane Chapman, research associate at Wolfson College in
:19:57. > :20:00.Cambridge, says there was still a clearly defined class structure.
:20:01. > :20:07.Domestic service was the main employment for women but so much was
:20:08. > :20:10.about to change. The First World War has a tremendous legacy. It really
:20:11. > :20:14.was a turning point. Legacies we don't think about... Not just women,
:20:15. > :20:22.but the beginning of the modern world ` the 21st century as we know
:20:23. > :20:27.and understand it now. `` 20th. Women played a vital role in the war
:20:28. > :20:31.effort. Children, too. Here they are, lining up to help out on the
:20:32. > :20:34.land. Patriotism, and a belief the war would soon be won, brought men
:20:35. > :20:40.rushing to join our county regiments. But for many, the reality
:20:41. > :20:54.was terrible losses amidst the horror of life in the trenches.
:20:55. > :20:58.Major Dave Walker is a soldier with Seven Para RHA. He's served in both
:20:59. > :21:05.Iraq and Afghanistan. Trench warfare ` it's traditional. How much
:21:06. > :21:21.relevance is there now? You'd be surprised. An awful lot has changed
:21:22. > :21:25.but the human experience... You could transplant a soldier from 1916
:21:26. > :21:36.and it's not that different. Trenches are still used in training.
:21:37. > :21:57.It's not something we've experienced in Afghanistan. But in 2003, in
:21:58. > :22:20.Iraq, I was sat in a bunker. I saw Marines stood in trenches. I think
:22:21. > :22:31.the effects are the same. Knowing the lifeline is there, with friends
:22:32. > :22:40.at home is a good coping mechanism. The opposite side is that that can
:22:41. > :22:47.bring anxieties of its own. Technology has improved, and
:22:48. > :22:55.improved those links. Afghanistan has good infrastructure. My soldiers
:22:56. > :23:07.still discovered the art of letter writing. The big difference is they
:23:08. > :23:19.virtually knew the people they were fighting. You rarely get up close
:23:20. > :23:28.and personal. Rarely. But you are in and among the people. The proximity
:23:29. > :23:42.is there, in a different context. Thank you. And tomorrow on Look East
:23:43. > :23:44.we'll be reporting on how the shoemaking industry of
:23:45. > :23:47.Northamptonshire rallied to help. That's World War One At Home,
:23:48. > :23:49.tomorrow night on Look East. And there are many more stories
:23:50. > :24:05.online.And tomorrow on Look Time for the weather now. Over to
:24:06. > :24:17.Julie, back in the studio. Temperatures have been impressive.
:24:18. > :24:23.We got into double figures. Most of us started with unbroken sunshine.
:24:24. > :24:33.Thicker cloud spread in from the west. Heavier bursts eventually.
:24:34. > :24:45.This band is now heading in our direction. Some outbreaks of rain to
:24:46. > :24:52.come later. Some of this could be on the heavy side. The winds will pick
:24:53. > :25:02.up too. Perhaps touching strong at times. It is going to be a mild
:25:03. > :25:14.night. Tomorrow, the front pulls away. That takes the rain with it.
:25:15. > :25:28.The bulk of the day should be fine and dry. It's going to be blustery.
:25:29. > :25:37.Temperatures not as high as today. Some of us will get into double
:25:38. > :25:51.figures. We finish with a scattering of showers. For most of us it will
:25:52. > :25:58.be a dry end to the day. On Wednesday, showers few and far
:25:59. > :26:08.between. On Thursday, a new weather front coming in. Brighter
:26:09. > :26:17.eventually. Friday will see another scattering of showers. Some chillier
:26:18. > :26:32.nights to come. Maybe even some frost. We'll keep you posted. Thank
:26:33. > :26:45.you. Lots of stories on the website.
:26:46. > :27:03.Thousands of men went off to war from here. There was a monument
:27:04. > :27:07.built in 1916. On it, 72,194 names. Not those of people buried next
:27:08. > :27:14.door, but those who were missing in action. 72,194 who couldn't be
:27:15. > :27:21.found. Goodnight.