:00:00. > :00:09.A Look East exclusive tonight, as the Cambridge woman gored by a
:00:10. > :00:19.highland stag describes the moment she was almost killed. There I am
:00:20. > :00:23.very, very lucky that I can talk at all, walk at all.
:00:24. > :00:27.I am lucky to be alive. Hello and welcome to the programme with
:00:28. > :00:32.Stewart and me. In other news tonight: A protest outside the
:00:33. > :00:35.police HQ over plans to merge control rooms in Norfolk and
:00:36. > :00:39.Suffolk. All stacked up and nowhere to go ` the trader paying the price
:00:40. > :00:42.for one of the warmest winters on record. And I meet the pop star
:00:43. > :00:55.turned vicar as he re`traces the steps of a First World War hero.
:00:56. > :01:01.Hello. A scientist from Cambridge who was gored in the throat by a red
:01:02. > :01:04.stag during a holiday in Scotland, has spoken about the accident for
:01:05. > :01:08.the first time. She says she is lucky to be alive. Dr Kate Stone was
:01:09. > :01:11.on a night out with friends, when the startled animal bolted. The
:01:12. > :01:15.deer's antlers gashed her neck, almost hitting her spine. She was
:01:16. > :01:20.critically injured, but is making a recovery. She has now spoken for the
:01:21. > :01:27.first time about her ordeal to Look East reporter Alex Dunlop.
:01:28. > :01:32.Seven weeks after she was brought out of a medically induced coma,
:01:33. > :01:37.Kate Stone still has to feed herself through a tube. The stag's antlers
:01:38. > :01:46.punctured her windpipe, stopping just a couple of millimetres short
:01:47. > :01:52.of paralysing. It damaged my vocal cords, fractured my neck and went
:01:53. > :01:56.into my spine. I am told it stopped a few millimetres from my spinal
:01:57. > :02:03.cord. That is why I am very lucky that I can talk at all, walk at all.
:02:04. > :02:06.I am lucky to be alive. Dr Stone had been enjoying a short break in the
:02:07. > :02:14.Highlands with friends. After a late`night party in a pub, they were
:02:15. > :02:18.invited by a local musician for a nightcap. Unbeknown to him, a stag
:02:19. > :02:27.had wandered into the garden. As they approached, it panicked. I felt
:02:28. > :02:31.a massive sword. `` thawed. Then I was on the ground. I knew I had been
:02:32. > :02:40.hit by an animal. I knew that my neck was in a bad way. I remain very
:02:41. > :02:45.calm. One breath out for about 40 minutes. You were giving
:02:46. > :02:52.instructions? Yes. I think I was quite calm. I was very self`aware.
:02:53. > :02:55.Red stags are common in the Scottish Highlands are by nature very shy.
:02:56. > :03:06.Attacks on humans are virtually unheard of. The stag was panicked.
:03:07. > :03:11.In the darkness, it ran into the first person along the path. After
:03:12. > :03:20.two operations, Kate still faces more surgery. For now she is
:03:21. > :03:23.managing heard technology company from Dundee, where she is
:03:24. > :03:28.recuperating with her family. Weirdly, I don't wish it never
:03:29. > :03:34.happened because I am alive. And if I could change anything, who knows
:03:35. > :03:37.what the outcome would be? It strengthens how I feel. And when I
:03:38. > :03:42.try to communicate with people about life and how to be positive, I can
:03:43. > :03:47.give them one hell of a story. What do you hope to take away from this?
:03:48. > :03:52.I am one of these people that tell my friends and people I meet that
:03:53. > :03:57.life is short and that any moment anything can happen. I was told it
:03:58. > :04:08.would be a carrot accident. I think a stag accident is much more my
:04:09. > :04:13.style! While Kate lay in hospital, her
:04:14. > :04:19.16`year`old knees wrote and dedicated this song to her. It is a
:04:20. > :04:22.red family coming together, friends coming together and looking after
:04:23. > :04:30.each other. `` it is about family coming together. It made me cry a
:04:31. > :04:33.lot. Civilian staff working for the
:04:34. > :04:38.police in Suffolk held a protest today over a plan to close the main
:04:39. > :04:41.control room. The staff union says hundreds of jobs will disappear in a
:04:42. > :04:47.plan to merge the two control rooms in Suffolk and Norfolk. It comes at
:04:48. > :04:54.a time when both forces are trying to save money.
:04:55. > :04:59.Control room staff outside the hall and today's meeting of the
:05:00. > :05:03.collaboration panel. Moving staff to a joint control room at Wyndham to
:05:04. > :05:08.save ?1.8 million a year, described by the union as a step too far. Lisa
:05:09. > :05:15.Brown has worked in Martlesham for 20 years. Suffer this at the heart
:05:16. > :05:20.of all of us. We are here to provide a service to Suffolk people. Having
:05:21. > :05:23.worked here a long time and working with people I have known for so many
:05:24. > :05:28.years, and not coming here for the first time ever since I left
:05:29. > :05:32.school, not coming here to work, it will devastate me. Phil has just
:05:33. > :05:40.worked `` moved from Oxfordshire with his family. We have moved a
:05:41. > :05:44.long way for a job that six weeks after I started potentially is not
:05:45. > :05:49.going to exist in 18 months. Not just disappointed for us but
:05:50. > :05:53.disappointed for Suffolk. This is a critical policing role and it is a
:05:54. > :05:58.real sign of the cuts operational services are being targeted. We have
:05:59. > :06:03.relocated our children. We have put our eldest in a school. He is
:06:04. > :06:13.settled, he is happy. Realistically for to Norfolk is not ideal. It is
:06:14. > :06:16.an hour and a half. The Police and Crime Commissioners Suffolk insisted
:06:17. > :06:22.the plan was no done deal. His approach appeared to be at odds with
:06:23. > :06:26.Norfolk counterpart. The two chief constables put forward a second
:06:27. > :06:32.proposal to move back office staff from Norfolk to Suffolk. Norfolk's
:06:33. > :06:36.Chief Constable told the meeting he had addressed staff about that plan
:06:37. > :06:42.with a heavy heart. But the harsh truth was the two forces faced a
:06:43. > :06:52.funding gap in the next four years of ?36 million. Every option to save
:06:53. > :06:55.money had to be looked at. When the meeting was over it soon
:06:56. > :07:00.became apparent that an agreement was a long way off. One person told
:07:01. > :07:05.me negotiations were trying `` were like trying to pin a jelly to a
:07:06. > :07:11.wall. Stephen bet was unwilling to sit down with the Police and Crime
:07:12. > :07:15.Commissioner for soft rock. I spoke to them individually and put the
:07:16. > :07:21.ranters together. I think there is a difference of opinion. He is more
:07:22. > :07:29.Suffolk centric. He feels that we can make these savings in Suffolk. I
:07:30. > :07:35.feel we have to have a regional look at where we are going. And we are
:07:36. > :07:39.doing quite a lot in the region at the moment. And to make these
:07:40. > :07:46.savings, because there are cuts going to come and will continue
:07:47. > :07:52.coming, they will still come. You say that financially you can cope
:07:53. > :07:56.into the foreseeable future? No. I never said that. There are some big
:07:57. > :08:03.changes. We need to look at a wider range of options apart from just a
:08:04. > :09:02.control room shared service is the I am not paid to make a decision
:09:03. > :11:59.until I have the evidence. If the decision is due base
:12:00. > :12:07.He will fight for a place against Joe Hart. A murder investigation has
:12:08. > :12:13.been relaunched into the murder of a young father seven years ago.
:12:14. > :12:20.The victim disappeared after a visit to a local pub. A reward of ?5,000
:12:21. > :12:24.is being offered. A family man with two children,
:12:25. > :12:29.Terry disappeared after a night out. His body has never been found,
:12:30. > :12:36.but detectives are convinced he has been murdered. I am certain that our
:12:37. > :12:39.people out there who know why and how he disappeared and I am
:12:40. > :12:44.confident that there is information that could help us and people felt
:12:45. > :12:49.they could not come forward at the time. His last movements on the
:12:50. > :12:55.night of the first and 2nd of March saw him spending the evening at this
:12:56. > :13:05.up. He also visited the local Tesco before returning to his home. There
:13:06. > :13:09.last year a judge dismissed the case against a Wisbech man. Today,
:13:10. > :13:12.Crimestoppers have put up a ?5,000 reward for any information that
:13:13. > :13:17.leads to the arrest or conviction of those responsible for Terry
:13:18. > :13:31.McSpadden's Beth. `` death.
:13:32. > :13:36.Still to come, we have just had one of the mildest winters on record.
:13:37. > :13:44.That is bad news for the trader who has stocked up with everything you
:13:45. > :13:48.need for cold weather. Next tonight, a vicar, a pop star and the
:13:49. > :14:11.First World War. Do you remember this?
:14:12. > :14:14.There Yes, that was the Communards from the eighties. Jimmy Somerville,
:14:15. > :14:17.of course, and on the keyboards, Richard Coles. These days the
:14:18. > :14:20.Reverend Richard Coles is a vicar and broadcaster. For tonight's World
:14:21. > :14:24.War One at Home series, Richard came in to tell me about a fellow vicar
:14:25. > :14:27.from Northamptonshire who won The Victoria Cross. Bernard Vann went
:14:28. > :14:32.from being a man of the cloth, to a man of war.
:14:33. > :14:36.How interesting if you find it, following in this priest's
:14:37. > :14:43.footsteps, when you have so many similarities in your background? I
:14:44. > :14:47.was completely fascinated. He is someone I can identify with,
:14:48. > :15:56.although First World War. Do you remember
:15:57. > :16:04.this? We are trying to get a feel for what he did here. Imagine it,
:16:05. > :16:21.dense fog, he has to get his men across this canal anyway he can. To
:16:22. > :16:27.dry them back. This is where he won his Victoria Cross. He fought and to
:16:28. > :16:33.hand combat. He did see the whites of their eyes as he took their
:16:34. > :16:43.lives. It is very intense, very personal. He is actually killing. He
:16:44. > :16:50.becomes a killing machine. He shoots the Germans, and shows a marvellous
:16:51. > :16:57.example and drive the whole line forward, and for that he gets The
:16:58. > :17:02.Victoria Cross. He never got to receive it. Just weeks before the
:17:03. > :17:07.end of the war, he was killed by a German sniper. It was just before
:17:08. > :17:12.sunrise he fell, shot through the heart. He would never return to his
:17:13. > :17:18.beloved wife, never see his son she was carrying. Just three miles away
:17:19. > :17:24.is the British centre where I find his grave. According to his
:17:25. > :17:38.obituary, he never forgot he was a priest of God.
:17:39. > :17:41.A great priest who pleased God. In some ways I feel quite close to him.
:17:42. > :17:47.We are both priest 's, we come from the same place, but in other ways I
:17:48. > :17:51.cannot imagine what it must have been like to have led his men in
:17:52. > :17:55.battle so heroically full is all I feel close to him again. In the
:17:56. > :18:01.cemetery as he lies alongside his fallen comrades. It reminds us that
:18:02. > :18:12.we all come to the same place. The souls of the righteous are in the
:18:13. > :18:16.hands of God. Such an interesting story, but it
:18:17. > :18:23.begs the question of how a man of the cloth would go and kill people,
:18:24. > :18:28.literally, up to their eyes. It is hard to imagine how that happens.
:18:29. > :18:34.Lots of warrior Christians in history. Whenever people content for
:18:35. > :18:39.things, conflicts emerge and people get drawn into it. Perhaps they
:18:40. > :18:47.discover themselves not to be the person they. They were. He probably
:18:48. > :18:51.thought he was doing God's work. It takes a huge effort to imagine what
:18:52. > :18:56.it must be like to raise a weapon as a priest and shoot and kill people.
:18:57. > :19:03.I hope I do not find out what that feels like. Extraordinary to think
:19:04. > :19:09.he was only 31 when he died. He lived such an enormous life in such
:19:10. > :19:14.extraordinary circumstances. So many of those stories ended in that
:19:15. > :19:21.church. Many of these young guys 18, 19, 20. You said you learn so much
:19:22. > :19:26.by following one person's story. What do you take away from this? The
:19:27. > :19:32.extraordinary tragic cost of the war, so many people cut down before
:19:33. > :19:39.they really got going and it is terribly sad. People discovering
:19:40. > :19:55.themselves not to be the people they. They were. I do not think
:19:56. > :19:59.anything was the same. Thank you. Tomorrow, the tragic story of a
:20:00. > :20:03.school in Norfolk and how 100 boys lost their lives in the war. Their
:20:04. > :20:10.headmaster died soon after the war was over, it was said of the broken
:20:11. > :20:14.heart. One of our universities received an
:20:15. > :20:20.award for the tree surgeons of the sexual exploitation of children. The
:20:21. > :20:24.University of Bedfordshire collected the Queens anniversary prize at
:20:25. > :20:27.Buckingham Palace, the highest award available in higher education, and
:20:28. > :20:31.reflects the growing problem of the sexual abuse of children often by
:20:32. > :20:37.organised gangs and involving human trafficking.
:20:38. > :20:44.We were driving through an area and we saw an opposite gang and they
:20:45. > :20:49.were waving a gun at us. I was thinking, this is my life going to
:20:50. > :20:58.be over. The tag line, it is wrong, but you get used to it, young women
:20:59. > :21:04.talking about the fear and entrapment within gangs. Filmed the
:21:05. > :21:06.complimentary University of Bedfordshire's ground`breaking
:21:07. > :21:11.research into child sexual exploitation, violence and
:21:12. > :21:16.trafficking. Today, at Buckingham Palace, awarded the anniversary
:21:17. > :21:21.prize for further and higher education, the highest accolade
:21:22. > :21:26.possible. We want to make some difference. We do not want to do the
:21:27. > :21:30.search that sits on book shelves. We want to make a difference with
:21:31. > :21:35.practitioners and policymakers. In the heart of Luton, the hub of
:21:36. > :21:39.nationally important work into child sexual exploitation. The royal
:21:40. > :21:48.anniversary trust described the work as exceptional and distinctive. Last
:21:49. > :21:51.week, sentencing of two men, three teenagers, after the horrific sexual
:21:52. > :21:58.abuse of five girls from Peter Brussels up another story on the
:21:59. > :22:05.television, another tragic loss of innocence, proves there will always
:22:06. > :22:09.be more to do. The destination has not been reached. This is a lovely
:22:10. > :22:15.station to have passed through, but it is not a case of job done. The
:22:16. > :22:18.University of Bedfordshire's work has influenced change and policy,
:22:19. > :22:24.bettering the lives of young people like these.
:22:25. > :22:29.It has been confirmed this winter has been one of the warmest in the
:22:30. > :22:34.last 100 years, it has also been the wettest on record. The mild weather
:22:35. > :22:46.has been good news if you dread snow and ice, but not so good for many
:22:47. > :22:50.traders and companies. Last winter cold and snowy, this
:22:51. > :23:01.winter mild and wet, it is a change that has caught many retailers.
:23:02. > :23:08.Kevin and his son run a car park business with 45 shops across the
:23:09. > :23:13.region. There might have a glut of stop including 100 pallets of
:23:14. > :23:20.de`icer. Sales are down by ?250,000. The warehouse is bulging. Sledges,
:23:21. > :23:28.snow shovels, all kinds of products. Not only that, if it is
:23:29. > :23:34.wet, people do not come out unless they have to. The warm weather has
:23:35. > :23:40.had us turning down the heating. This company supplies customers with
:23:41. > :23:48.domestic heating oil from Norfolk. Demand has dropped about 25% on last
:23:49. > :23:55.winter. It was a cold winter. Very wet this year. Not so much demand.
:23:56. > :24:02.Every cloud has a silver lining. At this umbrella shop, they design and
:24:03. > :24:11.supplies 700 types of umbrella. Sales are 50% higher than normal. If
:24:12. > :24:15.it rains for one day we get areas enable interest `` a reasonable
:24:16. > :24:22.increase in sales. It is as if everybody goes home and says, that
:24:23. > :24:27.is it, I am getting an umbrella. They have not given up hope of
:24:28. > :24:35.selling their stock, sledges do not have a best before date. Let's hope
:24:36. > :24:40.it is going to sit there for a long time. I don't mean that in a
:24:41. > :24:45.business sense. It is going to get quite cold tonight. Today's weather
:24:46. > :24:52.has brought us all sorts. Rain first thing. Then the sunshine. And then
:24:53. > :24:56.showers. Much of these showers have now cleared out into the North Sea.
:24:57. > :25:00.For parts of ethics and Sussex, there are still a few around. They
:25:01. > :25:05.will take time to clear away. The first part of the night looks
:25:06. > :25:13.relatively calm. Overnight it will get chilly. Cold enough for Frost
:25:14. > :25:18.and icy patches. For the second half of the night, it starts to change.
:25:19. > :25:23.We have been closely following this area of low pressure. There was some
:25:24. > :25:26.uncertainty about the track of it. As it moves in overnight, it is
:25:27. > :25:32.expected to bring us here in the East mainly rain. There may be
:25:33. > :25:36.something wintry across counties like Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire
:25:37. > :25:39.and Hertfordshire. Heavy rain later tonight from most. This is really
:25:40. > :25:47.going to set the scene for not the best of the day is tomorrow. ``
:25:48. > :25:50.days. It is miserable, cold and wet. Into tomorrow morning. Outbreaks of
:25:51. > :25:53.rain. Some could be on the heavy side. It will clear into the
:25:54. > :26:00.afternoon and we'll see some showers. Not the best of days. The
:26:01. > :26:06.winds picking up as well. Quite a cold day. Six or seven degrees. The
:26:07. > :26:12.low is not really in a rush to go anywhere. It will hang on through
:26:13. > :26:16.much of the afternoon. It is an improving picture through Saturday.
:26:17. > :26:20.Although it may be cloudy and wet to start the weekend, it will gradually
:26:21. > :26:25.improve. Then we have got the next low lining up. That will bring rain
:26:26. > :26:28.but not until much later on Sunday. Much of Sunday does log drive. It
:26:29. > :26:40.will stay quite cold by day. Still the risk of some frost. It looks
:26:41. > :26:43.brighter on Sunday. The weather front gradually clearing away.
:26:44. > :26:47.Sunshine on Sunday before the next low brings rain on Sunday night. An
:26:48. > :26:51.unsettled start to next week. The winds picking up. A quick tap of
:26:52. > :27:04.your barometer will give tonight's reading. 29.68 inches. Was it on
:27:05. > :27:09.Tuesday when you said that spring was here? Yes! Goodbye.