31/07/2014 Look East - East

A record number of patients are attending hospitals

in this region, leading to luch longer waiting times and putting

Last week, the Accident and Emergency at Norfolk and Norwich

had its busiest day ever and the A at Ipswich its busiest week.

People often think Accident and Emergency departments are pushed

But this summer they are also feeling the heat, as they experience

The James Paget Hospital, near Great Yarmouth, recently had

Normally its A would have expected around 180 patients ` inste`d,

It meant the hospital was barely able to cope.

I think people are more keen now to come up to Accident and Emergency.

We are getting people coming up who have had a couple hours of this,

or a couple of hours of the other, who possibly the next morning would

feel a bit better with some paracetamol or ibuprofen.

In July 2011, just over 1,300 people attended James Paget's A

in one week, compared to more than 1,500 the same week this sulmer

Up from 1,200 to 1,700 at Ipswich Hospital, at the Norfolk

and Norwich up from 1,700 to more than 2,000, and at Colchestdr

It means that waiting room targets are missed

Colchester will soon run a trial to ease the pressure on A

GPs will treat some patients who arrive there.

If it works, they may set up a permanent urgent care centrd ` note

Pressures within the NHS are not helping either.

Some turn up at A rather than wait days

They are almost victims of their own success, because they

People want to go there, but I think they forget it hs

Accident and Emergency and sometimes they regarded it

Obviously, it is not there for that reason.

Many rural surgeries like this are struggling to attract doctors.

This one in Watton is having to de`register 1,500 patients to

At the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, they are adapting

The hospital boss says that some people see themselves

We want it, and we want it now, and we want to right.

That is not the way that our parents would have thought about

accessing healthcare, but because we do our weekly shopping like that,

because in every other walk of life we consume in that way ` why

After all, it is probably the most important thing that we consume.

And she went on to say that they may soon have to re`brand as A

The health service is having to adapt ` and fast.

If you want to hear more, tomorrow's breakfast show on BBC Radio Suffolk

will be discussing the issud with the Suffolk MP and health minister,

A huge plume of sand and gravel was blasted ashore in Essex today.

It marks the start of a ?36 million project to defend over

three miles of shoreline between Clacton Pier and Holland on Sea.

Sand and gravel dredged 12 miles offshore thunders

This is the start of work to create a platform out to sea.

From it, the first of 23 groynes will be built.

300,000 tonnes of granite whll be shipped in from Norway.

We will bring the material about three miles offshore from hdre.

We will load it onto a bargd, and then the barge will shuttle

and come here at high water, and will offload the rocks

at high water, and then we will retrieve the rocks at low w`ter

That is the process and it will be repeated for every groynd.

Along the prom, scaffolding props up handrahls.

While steps that used to lead to sandy beaches now go nowherd.

Jean and George Smith cannot wait to get the beach back.

There used to beautiful beaches down here

and they have gradually disappeared, which is such a shame for pdople

who bring their grandchildrdn and their children down here.

So why is this scheme being funded when so many others

It all comes down to the Government rules that state that every pound

spent on coastal defences, there must be ?8 of damage prevented.

Behind these vulnerable cliffs are some 3,000 homes.

One of the worries this winter has been that this could have gone.

It is in critical condition in places.

This will help to establish them and when we have that schemd we will

It has pulled in the sightseers and it is on schedule.

If the weather holds, the whole project could be finished

Richard Daniel, BBC Look East, Holland on Sea.

It has been a blistering dax for our athletes at the

Commonwealth Games ` two golds and two silvers claimed by sportsmen

Tom Williams is in Glasgow for us tonight.

He is quickly becoming the star of the Commonwealth Games for England.

South Essex gymnast Max Whitlock today won his third gold medal.

After the team and all`around titles,

He also won a silver on the pommel horse,

This evening, Whitlock claimed fifth in the men's rings final.

To come out with floor gold is a major achievement for me.

It gives me a lot of confidence and it makes me chill out

With those medals under my belt, I can just go and enjoy the rest

of the experience and just try to stay as relaxed as I can.

Max tonight admitted he is pretty tired after four days

One more final to come tomorrow in the parallel bars `

And there were more medals today in cycling's time trial.

Silver for Norfolk's Emma Pooley ` who has announced she is retiring

Hunger and desire are commonplace in elite sport.

Alex Dowsett had anger too, fuelling his veins,

He missed London 2012 with injury, he has battled haemophilia

his whole life, illness scuppered his Tour de France ride through

No one wanted that today more than I did.

Obviously there was disappointment I was not picked

Right back to when I was a kid, I pull something out of the bag

Emma Pooley was battling emotions too.

Her time trial was her cyclhng swansong before retirement.

A straight shootout for gold with the New Zealand

It was close, but I am happy to be on the podium.

Obviously, when you come through and you have the quickest thme and

the person behind you was qticker, it is a little bit disappointing.

But I do not think I could have done any better.

Even if I had come last, I would have had to be satisfied.

There is no rest for these two either.

Both are back on the bike in the road race on Sunday.

Our Suffolk hockey trio of Harry Martin,

George Pinner and Tim Whitelan are safely through to the semis, after

They now face the favourites Australia.

On the track, master against apprentice in

Legendary David Weir saw off his training partner with ease,

but at just 17 years old Norwich's Will Smith, who c`me fifth

and joined in the lap of honour showed he is one to keep an eye on.

And elsewhere tonight at Halpden Park, Canvey Island's Jess Judd

was in impressive form ` winning her semi`final in the 800 mdtres.

She will be hoping for a medal tomorrow.

Essex squash duo Peter Barker and Daryl Selby are going wdll

And keep an eye on Jamie Chdstney in the lawn bowls `

he is going for gold tomorrow in the men's fours final against Scotland.

That is the way the news looks tonight.

It will not be a cold night. Temperatures will not drop below

14`15 Celsius. Tomorrow will start off fine, but there will be

increasing cloud by the afternoon. The showers could be heavy `nd

The showers could be heavy and thundery in places. But there will

be sunshine in between, allowing temperatures to rise to 23`24?C.

There will be thundery rain overnight

Rain for Saturday. Now to John who will take you through the national

forecast across the UK. Hello there. You may have to find

ways of occupying the children. A lot of rain for some, not so much

for others. That was the way in July but overall whelmingly warm. Not as

warm as last year but it continues the run of months with higher than

average temperatures. The eighth now in a row. On to August, a few

showers around. That is across the north and the west. Lots of dry

weather between. A mild night at dawn, the temperatures about the

mid-teens. You may wake up to sunshine but the general trend

through the day is for things to deteriorate across the northern and

western parts of England and Wales where the showers will begin to

merge into