:00:00. > 3:59:59Nick Clegg tells his supporters to stand firm, dismissing talk
:00:00. > :00:00.of Hello and welcome to Wednesday
:00:00. > :00:00.on Look East. We learn 400 police jobs ard
:00:00. > :00:10.at risk across Norfolk and Suffolk. But Suffolk's PCC stands by his
:00:11. > :00:26.claim there will be no redundancies. There is no secret programme that
:00:27. > :00:27.will mean that 250 people will lose their jobs.
:00:28. > :00:33.How a small Norfolk charity made a supermarket giant sit up
:00:34. > :00:41.It just feels incredible to have a company like Tesco's supporting us
:00:42. > :00:45.The doctor cleared of wrongdoing after treating cancer
:00:46. > :00:47.patients who'd been told nothing more could be done.
:00:48. > :00:50.And one of the biggest coastal defence schemes in the country
:00:51. > :01:11.I will be here later in the programme live from the Suffolk
:01:12. > :01:16.Show, where the BBC has this special event to mark 100 years since the
:01:17. > :01:20.beginning of the First World War. We have this re`creation of a school
:01:21. > :01:23.classroom, where they are doing reading and writing. We havd
:01:24. > :01:28.reading and writing. We have had a lot of things going on in this
:01:29. > :01:32.marquee, lots of stories about the First World War. We will be hearing
:01:33. > :01:36.from historians later in the programme. And if you look where
:01:37. > :01:40.those two soldiers are, there is a re`creation of the recruitment
:01:41. > :01:43.office, where you can get these identification papers made up.
:01:44. > :01:44.office, where you can get these identification papers made tp. More
:01:45. > :01:46.identification papers made up. More about that later, first the news
:01:47. > :01:53.with Suzy. The Police and Crime Commissioner
:01:54. > :01:56.for Suffolk has dismissed as "complete nonsense" reports that the
:01:57. > :01:59.force needs to lose up to 240 staff. BBC Look East has learnt th`t up to
:02:00. > :02:02.400 police jobs across Norfolk The two forces must save ?36
:02:03. > :02:07.million over four years. A month ago,
:02:08. > :02:09.a cost`cutting plan to merge both The idea was backed
:02:10. > :02:13.by both chief constables. The plans for the two forces to
:02:14. > :02:16.share a single control room at the Norfolk Police headqtarters
:02:17. > :02:18.ran into strong opposition. There were protests
:02:19. > :02:20.from officers and civilian staff And, when it came to making
:02:21. > :02:25.a final decision, the two Police and Crime Commissioners werd facing
:02:26. > :02:27.in different directions. In the end,
:02:28. > :02:30.Suffolk's PCC Tim Passmore pulled the plug on the merger plan, with a
:02:31. > :02:34.package of economies aimed at saving His opposite number in Norfolk
:02:35. > :02:40.cannot understand And so, whatever we do,
:02:41. > :02:52.it will have an effect on pdople You were talking about a freeze
:02:53. > :02:58.on recruitment? We will freeze the recruitment
:02:59. > :03:01.of PCSOs. We will try and keep the officer
:03:02. > :03:05.numbers as they are at the loment But we will have to wait and see in
:03:06. > :03:12.the long`term, because we are going But at the Suffolk Show tod`y,
:03:13. > :03:18.Tim Passmore stuck to his previous commitment
:03:19. > :03:22.on no compulsory redundancids. I cannot give a 100% guarantee, but
:03:23. > :03:25.there is no secret programmd which I had huge public support
:03:26. > :03:36.about the decision that was made A lot of people have been telling me
:03:37. > :03:41.it was the right thing to do The Police Federation in Suffolk
:03:42. > :03:45.say that the force need all its It is intent
:03:46. > :04:04.on protecting that position. When will we know exactly how many
:04:05. > :04:09.jobs will go? As far as Norfolk is concerned, the
:04:10. > :04:12.announcement will be made on July the force after a meeting with
:04:13. > :04:17.the force after a meeting whth the police panel. Before that, the staff
:04:18. > :04:23.will have been informed what is happening. But the PCC said that it
:04:24. > :04:27.could be the end of the year before the review is completed. The two
:04:28. > :04:30.constables are not seeing exe to constables are not seeing eye to
:04:31. > :04:32.eye, but these two forces are intertwined. They share an
:04:33. > :04:35.investigation teams, forensics investigation teams, forenshcs
:04:36. > :04:38.police dogs. That cooperation to share money deepening has got to go
:04:39. > :04:39.on. There are several military charities
:04:40. > :04:41.that help ex`service people and their families operating
:04:42. > :04:43.across our region. But today, Britain's biggest
:04:44. > :04:45.retailer put its weight behhnd Tesco has teamed up with
:04:46. > :04:49.Scotty's Little Soldiers, which is based in Norfolk, to launch
:04:50. > :05:06.a new fashion range for children. On today's performance, Jessica
:05:07. > :05:11.could model anything. Today, it is a Scottie's pink T`shirt. Her father
:05:12. > :05:17.was killed in a bomb blast five years ago. Scotty's Little Soldiers
:05:18. > :05:24.helps families recover from the loss, buy gifts and days out.
:05:25. > :05:29.It has given her a group of friends who understand what she has going
:05:30. > :05:33.through. If she has difficult moments, there are other children
:05:34. > :05:35.there who she can talk to. The charity's founder, Mickey
:05:36. > :05:35.there who she can talk to. The charity's founder, Mickdy Scott,
:05:36. > :05:42.The charity's founder, Mickey Scott, approached Tesco about a range of
:05:43. > :05:48.children's clothes. All the profits will go to the charity. The range
:05:49. > :05:53.will form part of Tesco's clothing range. The charity says that while
:05:54. > :05:57.the money raised will be very welcome, the backing of a major
:05:58. > :05:59.retailer will also be important. We help 143 children, so we know
:06:00. > :06:04.that there are hundreds more out that there are hundreds mord out
:06:05. > :06:09.there. The more people who `re talking about our charity, the more
:06:10. > :06:14.families will be able to re`ch. Increasingly, charities need to
:06:15. > :06:19.raise their profile. This Hdlp For Heroes garden was pride of place at
:06:20. > :06:27.the chart `` Chelsea flower show. And this jacket even helped Harry to
:06:28. > :06:35.walk with people to the South Pole. Our fear is that the funding will
:06:36. > :06:38.run out, and it is our job and the two princes are brilliant at raising
:06:39. > :06:46.the profile of the charities. Charities know that those scarred by
:06:47. > :06:47.conflicts will need help for years after war.
:06:48. > :06:49.Earlier, I talked about the success of the military
:06:50. > :06:52.charities with the former head of the British Army, Lord D`nnatt.
:06:53. > :06:55.He said there'd been a welcome upsurge in support for those in
:06:56. > :07:00.Despite Iraq being an unpoptlar war and Afghanistan is still
:07:01. > :07:03.a misunderstood war, there hs huge admiration and respect and support
:07:04. > :07:06.for soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who are willing to risk
:07:07. > :07:08.their lives on behalf of the nation, and
:07:09. > :07:13.From your involvement with charities like
:07:14. > :07:17.Help For Heroes, how important is it to build that profile and to get
:07:18. > :07:24.corporate sponsorship or involvement with the Chelsea Flower Show?
:07:25. > :07:27.Military charities are a reflection of the enthusi`sm
:07:28. > :07:32.of the population at large to get behind our servicemen and veterans.
:07:33. > :07:38.Whether someone just puts a pound in a tin or bakes a cake for
:07:39. > :07:44.But often the big money, when projects can really be taken
:07:45. > :07:47.forward, that has come from foundations
:07:48. > :07:54.If you look at the 200 millhon that Help For Heroes has raised in the
:07:55. > :08:01.last seven years, a fair chtnk of that has come from large donations.
:08:02. > :08:04.That has enabled the big programmes and projects like the personal
:08:05. > :08:07.recovery centres up and down the country, to be taken forward.
:08:08. > :08:11.So, corporate help is important and corporate recognition is
:08:12. > :08:16.How easy will it be to maintain this profile?
:08:17. > :08:19.Are you concerned that, as troops withdraw from Afghanistan,
:08:20. > :08:22.interest in these charities might dip, although the issues th`t they
:08:23. > :08:32.I think the point that has to be made clearly and as often as we can
:08:33. > :08:36.is that for those who have been injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, the
:08:37. > :08:39.physical battles on the battlefield might be over, but their personal
:08:40. > :08:46.Their personal battles with their physical injuries ` and we have
:08:47. > :08:50.a large number of those, as well, single, double and triple alputees.
:08:51. > :08:53.But there will be a large number and there are already
:08:54. > :08:57.a large number who are having to battle with psychological injuries.
:08:58. > :08:59.Those physical, psychologic`l and mental injuries will continue
:09:00. > :09:06.So the support that we are `ble to give them now,
:09:07. > :09:11.which has come through the great generosity of the publi , which is
:09:12. > :09:16.brilliant for today, it needs to be their ten or 20 or 50 years time.
:09:17. > :09:19.So the physical battle might be over, the personal battles
:09:20. > :09:28.A doctor from Norfolk who was accused
:09:29. > :09:30.of giving unauthorised chemotherapy to two patients has been cldared
:09:31. > :09:35.Dr Henry Mannings founded the Star Throwers Cancer Charity and
:09:36. > :09:42.was treating patients who'd been told nothing more could be done
:09:43. > :09:51.Dr Henry Mannings reading the e`mail saying that he has been cle`red of
:09:52. > :09:53.all allegations and no further action will be taken. He said that
:09:54. > :09:55.it has taken 18 months, affdcted it has taken 18 months, affdcted his
:09:56. > :09:59.patients lives and almost cost him his career.
:10:00. > :10:10.I became very depressed abott it. That this could happen to me in the
:10:11. > :10:15.first place. We had to stop treatment on a number
:10:16. > :10:20.of patients who were doing exceptionally well and that was
:10:21. > :10:23.heartbreaking. Dr Henry Mannings has treatdd
:10:24. > :10:28.Dr Henry Mannings has treated cancer patients for more than a decade He
:10:29. > :10:33.set up start throw was to ghve cancer patients a second chance, but
:10:34. > :10:40.was called to a hearing last year. He heard that a doctor had written a
:10:41. > :10:45.complaint letter, saying that Dr Henry Mannings was not authorised to
:10:46. > :10:48.give these two women chemotherapy. Both died in 2012, both families
:10:49. > :10:52.Both died in 2012, both famhlies praised his treatment and all
:10:53. > :10:52.believed that he extended their lives.
:10:53. > :11:01.We are so pleased that he has been We are so pleased that he h`s been
:11:02. > :11:06.cleared and that the truth has come out. Henry helped Rachel so much,
:11:07. > :11:08.that we could not have faulted anything that he did.
:11:09. > :11:17.In a statement, the council said that it had a duty to investigate
:11:18. > :11:18.when concerns RA 's. The doctor at the Norwich Hospital has made no
:11:19. > :11:20.comment. We need to work together. Those
:11:21. > :11:26.people who suffer from cancer, they people who suffer from cancdr, they
:11:27. > :11:33.do not need opposing sides, they need is to work together for their
:11:34. > :11:36.well`being. If it was not for the patients and the staff here, I
:11:37. > :11:39.probably would have thrown the towel in.
:11:40. > :11:45.Dr Henry Mannings says that the publicity has highlighted the work
:11:46. > :11:50.of his charity. There have been more patience and a view more donations.
:11:51. > :11:54.He now plans to complain to the GMC, but says that his patients are his
:11:55. > :11:54.priority. ?36 million
:11:55. > :11:56.of work to improve coastal defences It covers 5 kilometres from
:11:57. > :12:12.Holland Haven to Clacton Pier. At Holland on Sea, the wall
:12:13. > :12:19.struggles to hold back the waves. The barriers cordoned off the prom
:12:20. > :12:21.where it is sinking. So how would the Council described the state
:12:22. > :12:26.the sea defences? In parts, lamentable. Because of the
:12:27. > :12:31.complexity of the marine environment, we have lost a lot of
:12:32. > :12:36.the beach which is undercutting the existing defences.
:12:37. > :12:42.So, today, the council, the Environment Agency and a contractor
:12:43. > :12:45.said that urgent work to improve the sea defences will start in eight
:12:46. > :12:50.weeks time and take 18 months. We are here today to announce the
:12:51. > :12:58.start of a really important new coastal defence scheme, covering the
:12:59. > :12:59.coast protection front of Clacton on Holland. It is a ?30 million scheme.
:13:00. > :13:10.9000 cubic metres of shingld 9000 cubic metres of shingle will be
:13:11. > :13:16.moved in to replenish the bdach You can see these
:13:17. > :13:24.coast, they will be replaced by a more modern
:13:25. > :13:28.which was sand and shingle being washed away.
:13:29. > :13:33.asked test `` artist's imprdssion shows.
:13:34. > :13:37.beach and left even when the tide comes
:13:38. > :13:43.It will look better than it does now. We hope that it will ilprove
:13:44. > :13:51.parts of the seafront will be closed as the work
:13:52. > :13:54.The former chief executive of Lotus has reached
:13:55. > :13:56.He'd been due to bring a ?6.7 million claim against Lotus, which
:13:57. > :14:14.We will go to Stuart at the Suffolk Show in Ipswich.
:14:15. > :14:24.Welcome back to the Ipswich Showground at the BBC events marking
:14:25. > :14:29.100 years since the outbreak of the First World War. This has bden one
:14:30. > :14:36.of the most popular events here. You get the chance to be a World War I
:14:37. > :14:42.reporter. They have and pretend to be a reporter. We
:14:43. > :14:56.will find out A new recruit for kitchen's army.
:14:57. > :15:00.This one is perhaps a little young. This one is a little older. He would
:15:01. > :15:08.not recruitment office is just one of
:15:09. > :15:11.the features of the BBC's N`tional World War I tour, a tour
:15:12. > :15:15.truth. Everyone has a fixed idea about what
:15:16. > :15:28.the great War was about. It is black and white and always raining. The
:15:29. > :15:32.veteran I talked to said that it was 90% bored stiff, 10% frozen stiff,
:15:33. > :15:37.colour. The tour includes a seven hour show
:15:38. > :15:44.of music, theatre, debate. Today, it was the great wall
:15:45. > :15:56.question Time. that never took place?
:15:57. > :16:07.We would have been quite old soldiers. Being 18, we would have
:16:08. > :16:12.imagine how difficult it would have been for people our age out
:16:13. > :16:14.Good, better, best. Never ldt it rest until your good is better
:16:15. > :16:17.your better best. Going to the school from a wartime
:16:18. > :16:22.Britain, and a demonstration of Morse code.
:16:23. > :16:29.You need to listen to the pattern. There is a geniality units, where
:16:30. > :16:37.people can trace their relatives. And inside here, young people having
:16:38. > :16:41.a go at being war reporters. The World War II or is travdlling
:16:42. > :16:49.the country. Next, it will visit will visit Norwich on Saturday. ``
:16:50. > :16:58.world war talk. We will introduce you to a historian
:16:59. > :17:05.from the area, trenches. Just outside the town
:17:06. > :17:11.What effect would it It would have had a massive effect
:17:12. > :17:18.on East Anglia. A lot of the farms. The farming became
:17:19. > :17:21.crucial to keep the country fed Even here, partway through the war,
:17:22. > :17:27.the division come to Ipswich to train. They are put in houses around
:17:28. > :17:31.the town. Even now, 300 yards away, there are trenches in the fhelds for
:17:32. > :17:34.training. They are in the golf course. It had a big impact. 30,000
:17:35. > :17:45.men arrive, and author wrotd men arrive, and author wrote about
:17:46. > :17:49.his time here. It was a massive amount of people in the town.
:17:50. > :17:55.How important were we in the region to what was happening in thd war? We
:17:56. > :18:00.were crucial. There is the coast, there are factories here. View ``
:18:01. > :18:07.the East Anglia Munitions committee were very important, huge amounts of
:18:08. > :18:11.work going on. Feeding the country, using farming. And all of the people
:18:12. > :18:24.who went to I know a lot of people will have
:18:25. > :18:29.seen the film all the play Wall `` but the British Army used the
:18:30. > :18:39.courses better than the Gerlans courses better than the Gerlans
:18:40. > :18:44.Yes, the Germans used many of their horses straightaway, and thdn their
:18:45. > :18:52.farming had to be done by hand. The British Government use the farmers,
:18:53. > :18:57.the British farmers were looking after the horses that were already
:18:58. > :19:02.owned by the army. There were many horses left on farms so that farming
:19:03. > :19:10.could carry on. Such big, heavy horses to move
:19:11. > :19:12.really heavy guns, the Suffolk horses played a very important
:19:13. > :19:13.really heavy guns, the Suffolk horses played a very import`nt role.
:19:14. > :19:23.horses played a very important role. We will find out more about that set
:19:24. > :19:35.of courses now. `` horses. It has been bred here for
:19:36. > :19:41.generations. In 1914, it was providing horsepower
:19:42. > :19:52.in its purist form. A tractor would have been a rarity.
:19:53. > :19:55.They were coming through and farmers who had them a lot. But the
:19:56. > :20:01.ruled the fields. With their plodding power, they were
:20:02. > :20:06.untouchable. The war effort was critical, a decision was looming.
:20:07. > :20:13.Food production was very reliant on men and the power of horses. But
:20:14. > :20:18.these were also needed for the wall. There was a big debate about how
:20:19. > :20:22.many horses and men should be taken to be used on the Western front or
:20:23. > :20:26.should they be used to help the food situation.
:20:27. > :20:32.That period has been well documented as part of a drive during food
:20:33. > :20:36.production, this land was amongst swathes of countryside that return
:20:37. > :20:40.to farming. The country had little choice. Germany was trying to
:20:41. > :20:45.blockade Britain, which relhed heavily on imports.
:20:46. > :20:49.It proved a turning point, not least because it gave fresh impetts to the
:20:50. > :20:56.because it gave fresh impetus to the development of new machinerx.
:20:57. > :21:00.The necessity was the mother of invention. That happen in the Second
:21:01. > :21:05.World War, as well. When you look back on the changes
:21:06. > :21:09.that we have seen, where will we be on 100 years time? I have no idea.
:21:10. > :21:16.When you look at the machinds can do next.
:21:17. > :21:19.As for the punch, it has gone from being essential to endangerdd. But
:21:20. > :21:34.it is still hanging on, We have been learning about life
:21:35. > :21:38.here for ordinary people. How did it change from 1914 to 1918?
:21:39. > :21:43.There was a big change. People thought it would be a short war, but
:21:44. > :21:47.they became aware. One of the problems for agriculture was, when
:21:48. > :21:53.the war broke out, we imported 50% the war broke out, we imported 50%
:21:54. > :21:59.of all our food. 80% of our wheat and 40% of our beef. The Germans
:22:00. > :22:06.started to cut the supply is off with their boats by 1915, and with
:22:07. > :22:10.conscription in that same ydar, the men were going off and the women had
:22:11. > :22:14.to do all the work. It had hands on deck.
:22:15. > :22:18.So the lives of women changed massively? Yes, that is right. They
:22:19. > :22:24.had to leave being in service and either work in agriculture or
:22:25. > :22:33.factories. After the war, service ended, if
:22:34. > :22:38.people had gone into it? They did not want to go back to it
:22:39. > :22:48.after the war. They did not go back to being servants. After the
:22:49. > :22:52.war, the men had to have thdir jobs and the priority was given to them.
:22:53. > :22:59.the home and have families. So women had a life that ch`nged so
:23:00. > :23:02.much on them they were expected to forget it? Yes. That women could not
:23:03. > :23:07.forget it totally, because they were given the vote. Not everybody,
:23:08. > :23:13.you were under the age of 30, you did
:23:14. > :23:20.was that step forward. And, of course,
:23:21. > :23:25.equal country after the Second World War. Before the First World War the
:23:26. > :23:26.population, 90% of the wealth was aimed `` earned by 4% of the
:23:27. > :23:33.population. That changed gr`dually. population. That changed gr`dually.
:23:34. > :23:37.The men went off and they fought in some horrible conditions. They were
:23:38. > :23:41.expected to come back and get on with their lives. And imagine that
:23:42. > :23:45.nothing had happened. How dhd they do that?
:23:46. > :23:52.I think a lot of men were lost, psychologically. For four years of
:23:53. > :23:57.their life, they had had th`t new existence and they had a camaraderie
:23:58. > :24:02.of an all`male environments. It was very extreme circumstances.
:24:03. > :24:07.Suddenly, they have lost all of that they had to come back to thdir
:24:08. > :24:10.families and to a country that they felt to did not understand them.
:24:11. > :24:14.And East Anglia would have looked very different to them?
:24:15. > :24:19.Yes, that is right. And life would have continued what they were way?
:24:20. > :24:23.Yes, but with being geared up for the war effort. Factories change
:24:24. > :24:29.what they were producing, more people were working in agriculture.
:24:30. > :24:35.The government had a bigger role. We have been looking at the sky The
:24:36. > :24:37.temperatures had fallen slightly and there is a cloud above us. Here is
:24:38. > :24:48.the Tomorrow, there could be some
:24:49. > :24:53.showers around. There has bden low pressure today, a a lot of cloud.
:24:54. > :24:59.Some of that cloud has produced rain and drizzle. Misty conditions
:25:00. > :25:08.throughout the region. A further risk of light rain and drizzle
:25:09. > :25:15.overnight. For many of us, we should end the night
:25:16. > :25:20.The temperatures will not f`ll very low, because there will be
:25:21. > :25:25.Celsius at the lowest, and ` light easterly breeze.
:25:26. > :25:30.but it will improve with the brightness and
:25:31. > :25:38.breaking through the cloud. That will bring with it the risk of
:25:39. > :25:42.and slow moving. If you catch a shower, it
:25:43. > :25:49.southern counties. And where we get sunshine, the temperatures will
:25:50. > :25:55.maybe climb to around 16 or 17 degrees. There will be a moderate
:25:56. > :25:59.easterly winds, and that will have the effect of making our
:26:00. > :26:04.temperatures are little cooler, especially on the coast, highs of 14
:26:05. > :26:10.or 15 degrees. Be aware of the showers, you may get away with it,
:26:11. > :26:21.but if you catch one, you about it, because they could be
:26:22. > :27:07.heavy and long, possibly with some promising pressure chart for the
:27:08. > :27:35.the showers at the weekend, there will be some sunshine,
:27:36. > :27:47.in here and they get access to of the Imperial War Museum.