:00:00. > :00:13.question is whether the Games will deliver a
:00:14. > :00:18.Good evening. There's anger tonight over proposals to move the Suffolk
:00:19. > :00:22.Police control room to Norfolk. Dozens of jobs could be lost as part
:00:23. > :00:25.of a cost`cutting exercise. Staff were told of the plans at special
:00:26. > :00:33.briefings today. Jenny Kirk has more.
:00:34. > :00:37.Thanks. At the moment this is just a recommendation and no decision has
:00:38. > :00:41.been made but it is causing concern as around 70 jobs could be lost if
:00:42. > :00:43.it goes ahead. If they can prove to me, categorically, there will be no
:00:44. > :00:46.compromise on this, and it is all properlily costed, then I will auto'
:00:47. > :00:50.have a serious look at T but I'm not going to do it, if it is going to be
:00:51. > :00:52.a Is rock. You can't afford, in an emergency service like police, to
:00:53. > :00:54.have any doubt whatsoever in the public's mind that the service will
:00:55. > :01:05.be compromised if the control room moved to Norfolk or anywhere else
:01:06. > :01:09.for that matter . But something does need to be done. In the latest round
:01:10. > :01:12.of cuts imposed on police forces over the next four years, Suffolk
:01:13. > :01:15.needs to save more than ?16 million and Norfolk more than ?20 million
:01:16. > :01:19.but combining the control rooms will save less than ?2 million. This is
:01:20. > :01:22.what people in Ipswich had to say. It's not good. I think it should be
:01:23. > :01:25.more local. Control rooms have been centralised and people have ended up
:01:26. > :01:27.in a different county to the one they were intending to be in simply
:01:28. > :01:34.because there are two places with the same name. #24e probably don't
:01:35. > :01:37.know some of the idiosyncrasies. Is If it goes ahead, it'll mean all
:01:38. > :01:40.three emergency services for Suffolk are despatched from outside the
:01:41. > :01:43.county. The ambulance control room is in Norfolk. The fire is in
:01:44. > :01:46.Cambridgeshire. The Chief Constables of Norfolk and Suffolk will formally
:01:47. > :01:49.propose the idea to the Police and Crime Commissioners on Thursday. So
:01:50. > :01:52.we'll know more then. Thank you very much. Mark Trask from the union,
:01:53. > :01:56.Unison, is the Suffolk Police branch secretary. He joins me now. What are
:01:57. > :02:02.your concerns about these proposals? Well, it is a very sad day here in
:02:03. > :02:05.Suffolk, Susie. More than 120 of our dedicated police staff, with all
:02:06. > :02:10.their years of experience, have been told today that their future may not
:02:11. > :02:17.be here in Suffolk. But they do have to save ?16 million, as we heard.
:02:18. > :02:21.Tough decisions are going to have to be made, aren't they? Sure they do
:02:22. > :02:25.and many tough decisions have been made. We have been supportive of
:02:26. > :02:28.working with collaboration and finding savings where we can but
:02:29. > :02:34.this is a step too far. This is unprecedented. No other police force
:02:35. > :02:37.in the UK has done this. You see how the cuts have reached the
:02:38. > :02:40.Environment Agency. You know, I watch your programme and I see
:02:41. > :02:45.almost every night you are talking about the Ambulance Service and how
:02:46. > :02:48.they have reacted to the cuts and the centralised call centre.
:02:49. > :02:52.Obviously you are concerned about job losses, but do you believe that
:02:53. > :02:57.there actually would be an impact in the service the public gets if this
:02:58. > :03:01.goes ahead? Absolutely. I'm worried about my members. I'm worried about
:03:02. > :03:04.their livelihood and the impact on the community but they are also,
:03:05. > :03:08.they are expressing their concern, their serious concern, about the
:03:09. > :03:13.risk to the public and the lack of local knowledge. They are frontline.
:03:14. > :03:16.They are the people who answer 999 calls and they are the people who
:03:17. > :03:21.get the police to you when you need them. You need local knowledge. Many
:03:22. > :03:27.of them won't go to Norfolk and we won't retain that knowledge.
:03:28. > :03:30.A man has appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court charged with the murder
:03:31. > :03:33.of his ex`partner. Leanne Meecham, who was 26, died last week, nine
:03:34. > :03:36.days after being stabbed at her home in Westcliffe`on`Sea. Simon Meecham
:03:37. > :03:41.has been remanded in custody. He'll appear in court again in April.
:03:42. > :03:44.The widow of Simon Hall, the convicted murderer found dead in his
:03:45. > :03:49.prison cell yesterday, has told the BBC she plans to write a book about
:03:50. > :03:54.his story. He was found guilty of killing pensioner Joan Albert at her
:03:55. > :03:56.home in Capel St Mary in 2003. He consistently protested his
:03:57. > :04:00.innocence, before finally admitting his guilt last year. Stephanie Hall
:04:01. > :04:06.says she spoke to her husband at Wayland prison in Norfolk the day
:04:07. > :04:10.before he died. An inquest has recorded a verdict of
:04:11. > :04:13.accidental death after a man died in an industrial accident in Norfolk.
:04:14. > :04:18.Kevin Alderton, who was 34, was crushed by farm machinery in
:04:19. > :04:22.Seething more than a year ago. Paramedics were called but he died
:04:23. > :04:25.at the scene. The Education Minister, Liz Truss,
:04:26. > :04:28.is in Shanghai talking to officials about new ways to teach maths.
:04:29. > :04:31.Shanghai and Singapore are at the top of the international league
:04:32. > :04:36.tables, while England is in 26th place. We've been to an independent
:04:37. > :04:43.school in Ipswich which made its own decision to teach maths the
:04:44. > :04:49.Singapore way. Get your whiteboards out. At St Joe testify's College
:04:50. > :04:54.Prep School in Ipswich they've used the Singapore method to teach maths
:04:55. > :05:00.for the past three years. `` St Joe testify's. The system is so
:05:01. > :05:03.effective these ten`year`olds are doing secondary school equations. In
:05:04. > :05:09.the past the curriculum was wide but not deep. They would spend a week
:05:10. > :05:13.doing one topic and another week doing another topic. They didn't
:05:14. > :05:17.goad the depth they needed to understand and make the links that
:05:18. > :05:21.are important for learning. Today this year 5 class are working on
:05:22. > :05:25.this problem. This is how you traditionally work it out, using a
:05:26. > :05:28.series of equations. The Singapore method is different. Children use
:05:29. > :05:33.this bar shape to represent the sum and add, subtract or divide it, as a
:05:34. > :05:38.way of creating the answer, talking it through as they G Using the bar
:05:39. > :05:42.method has taken them that extra step because they are able it
:05:43. > :05:46.visualise the problem. Singapore adopted the bar methods in the
:05:47. > :05:53.1980s, the country's children are world beaters in maths. St Joe
:05:54. > :06:01.testify's say it has driven up attainment, year 6 pupils all attain
:06:02. > :06:05.attaining the results in their SATs. This school starts in reception.
:06:06. > :06:10.They are already learning the building blocks. With ministers
:06:11. > :06:11.already in the Far East, this school believes they have already found the
:06:12. > :06:16.answer. Now, all this week on Look East, we
:06:17. > :06:21.are looking at how people here were affected by World War I. Tomorrow we
:06:22. > :06:25.are finding out how the region's shoe`making industry helped the war
:06:26. > :06:32.effort. You can see our stories online at bbc.co.uk/w w 1. And your
:06:33. > :06:37.BBC local radio stations a more stories at 8. 15pm every morning.
:06:38. > :06:41.Now the weather. During the rest of tonight a be band
:06:42. > :06:47.of rain pushing eastwards, some on the heavy side. The cloud, the rain
:06:48. > :06:51.and the fact that the wind is going to pick up to a moderate to fresh
:06:52. > :06:55.south`westerly, means temperatures shouldn't drop lower than 6 to 8. A
:06:56. > :06:59.frost`free night. Tomorrow the last of the rain should clear. By the
:07:00. > :07:03.rush`hour, everywhere should be largely dry with brightness and
:07:04. > :07:08.sunshine and a few scattered showers. Temperatures at best around
:07:09. > :07:12.10 or 11, taking us into the low 50s Fahrenheit with a keen, fresh,
:07:13. > :07:18.south`westerly. We finish the day with a lot of fine, dry weather with
:07:19. > :07:21.a few showers here and there. Certainly not for everybody. In a
:07:22. > :07:25.moment Susan will have the national forecast but I'll leave you with the
:07:26. > :07:29.outlook. Coming up on Wednesday, a largely fine and dry day with a few
:07:30. > :07:31.isolated showers and then a band of rain moving eastwards during
:07:32. > :07:33.Thursday with brighter rain moving eastwards during
:07:34. > :07:37.will be more rain overnight into Thursday.
:07:38. > :07:43.Good evening. We have a spell of wet and windy weather working across the
:07:44. > :07:49.British Isles. Today brought many of us some decent spells of sunshine
:07:50. > :07:54.and it brought us some decent temperatures. In fact, our warmest
:07:55. > :07:59.day of the year so far. At the moment, though, things have
:08:00. > :08:05.changed. This is the gap in the satellite picture. Now, this curl of
:08:06. > :08:09.cloud looks like a snail's shell, it is an area of low pressure that is
:08:10. > :08:13.sweeping wind and rain across us. It's pushed into the west already
:08:14. > :08:17.and is now making rapid progress eastwards, moving into eastern
:08:18. > :08:23.England through the small hours Strong, gusty winds around the Irish
:08:24. > :08:28.Sea coasts. The weather front will weaken as it gets into eastern
:08:29. > :08:31.areas. Behind the weather front things are a good deal clearer and
:08:32. > :08:37.that is the way we will start tomorrow. Our wet and windy weather,
:08:38. > :08:38.the worst of it is out of the way as we look at Tuesday.