:00:00. > 3:59:59on settling down and turning warmer. That is all from the BBC News at
:00:00. > :00:00.Six. Goodbye Local people depend on the trains
:00:00. > :00:16.to get them from one place to another on time, and yet thdy
:00:17. > :00:20.have become reliably unreli`ble More coverage of that train chaos
:00:21. > :00:23.coming up, plus an interview with Safety warning to parents
:00:24. > :00:30.after this toddler is killed A special report from Newmarket
:00:31. > :00:36.where equine vets are leading And the memories come floodhng back
:00:37. > :00:44.as these majestic planes return to Train services
:00:45. > :01:02.in this region are under fire again tonight after thousands of commuters
:01:03. > :01:06.were left waiting on a platform Network Rail who are responsible
:01:07. > :01:14.for the line were upgrading tracks and signalling at Ipswich Station
:01:15. > :01:17.over the weekend. But engineers faced major problems
:01:18. > :01:20.overnight which meant cancellations The train operator
:01:21. > :01:26.Abellio Greater Anglia was bombarded The mess prompted the strongest
:01:27. > :01:33.words yet from the region's MPs Abellio Greater Anglia should
:01:34. > :01:41.be stripped of its franchisd. And in an interview,
:01:42. > :01:44.Ipswich MP Ben Gummer said " In a moment we'll hear from
:01:45. > :01:48.Network Rail. But first let's go to Gareth George
:01:49. > :02:00.at Colchester train station. It was signalling at Ipswich that
:02:01. > :02:04.needed replaced over the wedkend. That should have taken Network Rail
:02:05. > :02:17.eight hours, that is the tile they had scheduled for that job. It ended
:02:18. > :02:35.up taking much longer, hencd the main line behind me was not ready
:02:36. > :02:45.for the rush hour this mornhng, and that caused chaos. Another lorning
:02:46. > :02:55.to forget for these unfortunate passengers, queuing for bosses at
:02:56. > :03:05.Ipswich station. At Colchester, the delays came as no surprise.
:03:06. > :03:12.They should have been able to plan how long the engineering works would
:03:13. > :03:19.take. This happens too often after a weekend or Tuesday after a bank
:03:20. > :03:40.holiday. Every time they do engineerhng work,
:03:41. > :03:48.it seems to overrun. One MP called for Abelio Grdater
:03:49. > :03:53.Anglia to be stripped of its franchise.
:03:54. > :04:02.Local MPs depend on the trahns, and yet where it comes to Abelio Greater
:04:03. > :04:06.Anglia, they have become reliably unreliable.
:04:07. > :04:18.And other MP criticised Network Rail. We need to get somebody who
:04:19. > :04:24.can do the work so that this does not happen again.
:04:25. > :04:30.A Network Rail executive was asked whether he would resign.
:04:31. > :04:30.Abelio Greater Anglia apologised and to respond to what
:04:31. > :04:32.Abelio Greater Anglia apologised and said that the scope of engineering
:04:33. > :04:34.work would be reviewed. We will sit down with Network Rail
:04:35. > :04:36.to identify the actions the need to be taken to ensure that the work
:04:37. > :04:40.programme is completed on thme. The BBC's political editor was also
:04:41. > :04:46.stranded today. There were queues of people, a
:04:47. > :04:53.stationary train, people wahting for a bus, people waiting for t`xis
:04:54. > :04:58.people bewildered. Some delays said to continud into
:04:59. > :05:05.the evening, check the Abelho Greater Anglia website. The question
:05:06. > :05:08.for Network Rail is, did thdy try to squeeze too much engineering work
:05:09. > :05:12.into two short space of timd. Many engineers say that for this line to
:05:13. > :05:17.really improve the government needs to invest much more money.
:05:18. > :05:19.You saw Robin Gisby, Network Rail's managing dirdctor
:05:20. > :05:21.of network operations, in that report responding to calls
:05:22. > :05:25.When I spoke to him earlier I asked whether this was
:05:26. > :05:27.a case of poor planning, bad management or incompetence.
:05:28. > :05:29.What we found at Ipswich is intervening
:05:30. > :05:32.in 40`year`old equipment we have stumbled, and stumbled badlx, and I
:05:33. > :05:36.can only apologise to passengers for what we did to them this morning.
:05:37. > :05:39.We have stumbled in dealing with some really quite
:05:40. > :05:46.We opened it up at the weekdnd and when we tried to put it back
:05:47. > :05:48.together in the small hours, what was there just wouldn't work
:05:49. > :05:53.We have to put safety first, in the testing we were doing,
:05:54. > :05:55.and this became one of the most frustrating overruns.
:05:56. > :05:59.I went to bed last night re`sonably confident it would come back
:06:00. > :06:05.I spent the small hours of this morning trying to gdt some
:06:06. > :06:16.the project teams that we work with, nobody else, and we've just got to
:06:17. > :06:24.I wanted to ask you about that, because as you say there has been
:06:25. > :06:28.One MP has said the company should lose its
:06:29. > :06:36.Are you saying the problems are entirely the fault of Network Rail?
:06:37. > :06:39.Yes, this is not the problel of the train operator.
:06:40. > :06:42.They can only run the service as well as the infrastructure,
:06:43. > :06:49.I understand it is major infrastructure work,
:06:50. > :06:52.but I spoke to one of your colleagues a few wedks ago,
:06:53. > :06:55.he said something similar to you and that lessons would be ldarned.
:06:56. > :07:01.Some of them were, but I thhnk this has gone higher up the food chain,
:07:02. > :07:07.We have just got to get mord into the details.
:07:08. > :07:10.This 40`year`old equipment, when you go and intervene
:07:11. > :07:13.and improve it, you find thhngs you did not expect to be there.
:07:14. > :07:18.We thought we were on top of this, we planned this much better,
:07:19. > :07:21.but we still got it badly wrong in the small hours.
:07:22. > :07:25.I think we are through the worst of it now, and I have got to work
:07:26. > :07:28.with the train operator and passengers to rebuild a bit
:07:29. > :07:32.of trust here, because we h`ve let people down very badly thred times.
:07:33. > :07:38.There will be more, and more reliable, services in the
:07:39. > :07:42.future as part of the 25 million we are spending at Ipswich and the 2
:07:43. > :07:46.billion we are spending across the whole of East England in thd future,
:07:47. > :07:51.but it is a sorry performance this morning and we have to do bdtter.
:07:52. > :07:58.Passengers are understandably furious,
:07:59. > :08:03.One e`mailed us to say that the economy of the whole cotntry is
:08:04. > :08:06.suffering because of Network Rail, and it is a national scandal.
:08:07. > :08:09.We did 1,000 jobs this weekend across the network.
:08:10. > :08:13.We're to rebuild the railwax in real time.
:08:14. > :08:15.Major open`heart surgery we did at Ipswich this weekend.
:08:16. > :08:22.But we are trying to do that so we can run a railway on ` Monday
:08:23. > :08:25.We had the extra day becausd of the bank holiday weekend.
:08:26. > :08:29.I think it would be a step backwards if we got
:08:30. > :08:34.so risk averse we planned to put everybody on replacement buses.
:08:35. > :08:38.But passengers want reliability whether it is
:08:39. > :08:42.on buses or the train, at ldast they can get to work on time.
:08:43. > :08:48.These are people who cannot get to important meetings and are not told
:08:49. > :08:52.That is what was even more frustrating
:08:53. > :08:58.I spent the early hours this morning working with
:08:59. > :09:02.the operating team trying to get the service back to restore somd kind
:09:03. > :09:04.of train service, in the me`ntime, looking around at short nothce
:09:05. > :09:09.On a first day back after the holidays there ard many
:09:10. > :09:14.It was not by any means our finest hour.
:09:15. > :09:16.I'll hold my hand up, we got it wrong,
:09:17. > :09:21.But we are through the back of it now, and I do think wd will
:09:22. > :09:24.have a much better railway for passengers in the futurd.
:09:25. > :09:29.Robin Gisby, from Network R`il, speaking to me earlier.
:09:30. > :09:33.In other news a safety warnhng tonight from a coroner after she was
:09:34. > :09:36.told that a two year old girl died when a fireplace fell on top of her.
:09:37. > :09:39.It was made of marble and stone and had been fixed to
:09:40. > :09:45.The inquest today into the death of Trinity Coward from Norwhch
:09:46. > :09:51.Coroner Jacqueline Lake said Trinity Coward's death was
:09:52. > :09:56.Her father, following advicd, had used industrial strength glue
:09:57. > :09:58.to secure the stone and marble structure to the wall
:09:59. > :10:02.at the family home in the L`kenham area in Norwich.
:10:03. > :10:06.The court heard the second`hand fireplace h`d been
:10:07. > :10:09.bought on eBay two years ago and did not come with fitting instrtctions.
:10:10. > :10:12.In a statement read to the hnquest, Trinity's father Sean told how she
:10:13. > :10:15.had been playing around happily then she stood on tiptoes,
:10:16. > :10:22.put her hands up to the mantelpiece and started to swing.
:10:23. > :10:27.All of a sudden, the firepl`ce had fallen away from the wall.
:10:28. > :10:29.Trinity had landed on her b`ck, the fireplace surrounding hdr.
:10:30. > :10:32.He bent over to pick her up, and when he did so,
:10:33. > :10:37."I am absolutely devastated at the loss of Trinity",
:10:38. > :10:42."She was my rock, a real daddy 's girl.
:10:43. > :10:46."I wish that I could have dhed so that she could have lived."
:10:47. > :10:49.In 2005, Matthew Green from Northamptonshire died
:10:50. > :10:59.Trinity is one of 11 childrdn under the age of seven to have bedn killed
:11:00. > :11:06.Our advice is not to considdr this as a DIY type installation, it is
:11:07. > :11:09.a matter for professionals who can survey the site to insall it with
:11:10. > :11:13.knowledge on how to fix the various components together so that they are
:11:14. > :11:19.stable not only for the immddiate future but for the long`terl.
:11:20. > :11:21.And not present a risk not only to children
:11:22. > :11:28.The coroner made no criticism of Trinity Coward's father.
:11:29. > :11:31."He had simply been trying to make the family home look nice",
:11:32. > :11:42.she said, "unaware of the potential d`ngers."
:11:43. > :11:45.A Suffolk man who contracted Ebola whilst volunteering as a nurse in
:11:46. > :11:47.Sierra Leone has been treatdd with an experimental drug called ZMapp.
:11:48. > :11:50.William Pooley from Eyke was given the first dose yesterday at
:11:51. > :11:54.Doctors say it will take a week before they have a clear idea
:11:55. > :12:01.The owner of Stansted Airport has signed a ten year deal for `ir
:12:02. > :12:06.traffic control and engineering services at the airport.
:12:07. > :12:08.The new contract with NATS, the country's leading air traffic
:12:09. > :12:12.control provider, will begin next April.
:12:13. > :12:14.Ten affordable homes which are being built in Felixstowe
:12:15. > :12:17.might have to be pulled down after a landslip made the site unsafe
:12:18. > :12:20.People living near Phillip @venue say they warned the land was
:12:21. > :12:27.By now, people should be living herd.
:12:28. > :12:30.But four months ago building work ground to a halt.
:12:31. > :12:35.Some now stand just feet from a sharp drop.
:12:36. > :12:38.Locals say the land has always been boggy.
:12:39. > :12:41.They say they warned it was unsuitable, but the ?1.3
:12:42. > :12:46.I'm not saying building new affordable houses is not
:12:47. > :12:50.a good idea, but it's got to be done in the right place and I thhnk they
:12:51. > :12:53.should have listened to us because local residents know best.
:12:54. > :12:56.I don't see how anybody could move into them with all the slippage
:12:57. > :13:01.Since April there has been no building work taking place.
:13:02. > :13:04.Further down the slope, two foot paths have had to be shut,
:13:05. > :13:08.meanwhile up here the rainw`ter in all ten properties is behng
:13:09. > :13:12.channelled through a series of pipes into holding tanks, all to prevent
:13:13. > :13:19.Down below, the holiday park has had to move two caravans.
:13:20. > :13:23.The homes were being built for the housing association.
:13:24. > :13:28.It says it did all the necessary checks before going ahead.
:13:29. > :13:32.We took advice from ground condition reports, structural engineers,
:13:33. > :13:37.which all came back but the site was OK to build on
:13:38. > :13:41.It's the professional advice that we rely on.
:13:42. > :13:44.This is extremely frustrating for us.
:13:45. > :13:46.We want to resolve it as quhckly as possible.
:13:47. > :13:48.The matter is now in the hands of insurers.
:13:49. > :13:54.The soil bank could be shordd up to make it stable, but if that proves
:13:55. > :14:21.too expensive, some or all of these homes might have to be demolished.
:14:22. > :14:27.Still to come, MK Dons against Manchester United.
:14:28. > :14:31.And a nostalgic day out for this veteran.
:14:32. > :14:34.All this week on Look East, we are shining the spotlight on Newmarket.
:14:35. > :14:36.Most people know it's the headquarters of the UK racing
:14:37. > :14:39.industry and the venue for some of the country's best race meetings.
:14:40. > :14:45.The equine labs in Newmarket lead the way in keeping
:14:46. > :14:49.In the first of our special reports Louise Hubball has been to
:14:50. > :14:57.the Newmarket Equine Hospit`l to see the very latest in animal wdlfare.
:14:58. > :15:03.In resources, injury is alw`ys a risk. The biggest threat dud to
:15:04. > :15:09.repetitive strain our leg fractures. Newmarket's equine
:15:10. > :15:13.Hospital treats hundreds of fractures a year. All hands are
:15:14. > :15:18.needed as the latest patient is sedated. A little extra help is used
:15:19. > :15:21.to get this two`year`old thoroughbred onto the operating
:15:22. > :15:32.table. Other technology is lore familiar, like this CT scan, the
:15:33. > :15:35.only equine one outside America We can see on the screen the fracture
:15:36. > :15:39.is running down from this joint to this joint, and the scan helps us to
:15:40. > :15:46.plan where we will put the screws to repair this effectively.
:15:47. > :15:52.There are more medical staff than a human hospital here because of the
:15:53. > :15:59.size of the patient. There hs no room for error to ensure thhs course
:16:00. > :16:03.can race again. We will make little incisions, and
:16:04. > :16:07.that is where we will drill the screws into place. You can see on
:16:08. > :16:12.the smaller screen the x`rax at the end of surgery, and we can no longer
:16:13. > :16:20.see the fracture lines becatse they have been compressed by the screws.
:16:21. > :16:23.Its a myth that horses that break their legs automatically it is
:16:24. > :16:28.It is very common for top athletes to be off
:16:29. > :16:31.for a period with an injury, if you follow football or athletics,
:16:32. > :16:44.Presumably it has parallel benefits for horse welfare in general.
:16:45. > :16:47.Without question. It needs the economic driver of the racing
:16:48. > :16:53.industry to allow us to perfect and develop these techniques, and it can
:16:54. > :16:56.be applied to any horse. One hour after the operation, this
:16:57. > :17:04.course can walk out of the dther. She could be back in training in six
:17:05. > :17:18.months. Our operation cost her owner ?3500. This one sector in Ndwmarket
:17:19. > :17:32.packs a financial punch. A recent study found that vets and scientific
:17:33. > :17:42.research in Newmarket contrhbutes ?6.5 million to the local economy.
:17:43. > :17:44.Many feel that is a conserv`tive estimate. Just down the road is the
:17:45. > :17:45.next step, scientists using stem cell research to identify which
:17:46. > :17:46.racehorses are genetically prone to leg fractures. Eventually could you
:17:47. > :17:55.prevent fractures? I don't think we will be able to
:17:56. > :17:58.building up our understanding, we building up our understanding, we
:17:59. > :17:59.can develop training resumes for high`risk horses so they ard less
:18:00. > :18:03.likely to have fracture. Tomorrow Louise will be reporting
:18:04. > :18:05.on the research at Cambridgd University into how genetics
:18:06. > :18:09.influence the speed of race horses. In football, the biggest match
:18:10. > :18:12.in the history of MK Dons is The Dons play Manchester Unhted
:18:13. > :18:15.in the Capital Cup. Our sports editor Jonathan
:18:16. > :18:45.Park is there now. I'm afraid we had trouble whth the
:18:46. > :18:48.sound their. We will try to go back to Jonathan in a little while.
:18:49. > :18:52.When you go to an air show xou expect to see the Red Arrows and the
:18:53. > :18:55.latest fighter but it's the old war time flights which are guar`nteed to
:18:56. > :18:59.That's what happened at the weekend when a pair of Lancaster bolbers and
:19:00. > :19:03.They were at Little Gransden in Cambridgeshire.
:19:04. > :19:06.And for one RAF veteran, it proved to be a very emothonal
:19:07. > :19:30.This area shall always draws crowds. `` this airshow. It is to
:19:31. > :19:39.Lancaster bombers and one Vtlcan that is packing them in. Thhs
:19:40. > :19:49.the war ended, here as a 23`year`old the war ended, here as a 23`year`old
:19:50. > :19:56.pilot serving in Egypt. Why is it such an iconic aircraft?
:19:57. > :20:01.I think we're getting more lore interested in history, and the
:20:02. > :20:08.Lancaster was the main forcd during the Second World War.
:20:09. > :20:14.A war in which more than 55,000 crew members lost their lives, once more
:20:15. > :20:27.than 7000 Lancaster bombers filled the skies. This is the site Peter
:20:28. > :20:30.and 10,000 others have been waiting for, the planes flying together for
:20:31. > :20:41.the first time in a century. I'm tearful, literally.
:20:42. > :20:48.This would be one month's flying. This was proof that he went on to
:20:49. > :20:52.fly the Vulcan. The only ond still flying, Peter flew this verx same
:20:53. > :21:01.aircraft more than half a cdntury ago.
:21:02. > :21:07.Dear old Vulcan. I lived through the Cuban crisis, when we were written
:21:08. > :21:15.for minutes of running out to the aeroplanes, already Thomas to go
:21:16. > :21:17.off, and that would have bedn the end of the world.
:21:18. > :21:22.You were at war, the cold w`r. Yes.
:21:23. > :21:27.For Peter and others here it was the Lancaster bombers and the Vtlcan
:21:28. > :21:33.that stole the show. Make the most of the view and the sound. These to
:21:34. > :21:37.fly together for the last thme this summer. The Vulcan will rethre next
:21:38. > :21:48.year. We are still having problems with
:21:49. > :21:52.our sound from Milton Keynes, we will try to get that fixed, so we
:21:53. > :21:59.will go to the weather a little early.
:22:00. > :22:05.Thank you. Yesterday it felt as if summer had ended early. The rainfall
:22:06. > :22:14.totals show that in some parts of the region we recorded over half an
:22:15. > :22:20.inch of rain. I suspect the totals for today could be higher. @cross
:22:21. > :22:25.part of Essex, this is the `rea of low pressure responsible. It has
:22:26. > :22:29.moved south and taken the r`in with moved south and taken the r`in with
:22:30. > :22:32.that. This is a satellite phcture from the last hour. You can see some
:22:33. > :22:40.breaks appearing across the northern half. Some brightness and stnshine
:22:41. > :22:48.to end the day they are. Thd cloud is expected to break overnight. It
:22:49. > :22:51.will allow some clear spells, and perhaps just barring the odd shower
:22:52. > :22:58.it looks largely dry overnight. That could be quite a variation hn
:22:59. > :23:02.temperature overnight. For lany it will linger in double figurds, but
:23:03. > :23:10.under clear skies it is possible in the countryside we could record low
:23:11. > :23:16.temperatures of nine Celsius. Alight north`easterly wind. Into tomorrow,
:23:17. > :23:23.not bad at all. It will be lainly dry with sunny spells, so an
:23:24. > :23:25.improvement for many of us. Still the chance of an isolated shower for
:23:26. > :23:31.parts of Norfolk, but elsewhere some parts of Norfolk, but elsewhere some
:23:32. > :23:39.good breaks in the cloud. It will feel warmer. We have a southeasterly
:23:40. > :23:46.wind. Further inland, 19 or 20 Celsius. Looking good for the
:23:47. > :23:50.afternoon across the eastern half. Across the West we see some more
:23:51. > :23:59.close. This is the next weather system coming in bringing p`tchy
:24:00. > :24:06.rain. Here is the pressure pattern, original high`pressure starting to
:24:07. > :24:13.build, low pressure not far away, things will turn more unsettled Not
:24:14. > :24:17.bad on Thursday, the return of showers by Friday, and it looks like
:24:18. > :24:23.the start of the weekend is unsettled, but it looks likd it will
:24:24. > :24:34.improve for the second half and the start of next week.
:24:35. > :24:40.Archaeologists have unearthdd an ancient oven.
:24:41. > :24:45.The kiln is almost perfectlx preserved, and experts say ht is a
:24:46. > :24:50.rare find. Residents have come to see what lies
:24:51. > :24:55.beneath the ground. Archaeologists have unearthed a vast array of
:24:56. > :25:01.treasures here. Victorian glassware and jugs and parts dating b`ck to
:25:02. > :25:07.the 13th century. Experts s`y this was a huge industrial site.
:25:08. > :25:15.We are in the heart of an industrial area, there is baking, brewhng and
:25:16. > :25:19.tanning going on, next we h`ve the knackers yard and the ball object to
:25:20. > :25:24.being recycled. This is the nuts and bolts of Northampton town in the
:25:25. > :25:27.medieval period. It shall so important Northampton was. Hn a 13th
:25:28. > :25:38.and 14th century it was bigger than London. It has given us an hnsight
:25:39. > :25:43.into how important the area was Some parts are almost perfectly
:25:44. > :25:48.preserved, the stone floor of this brewery chard from fires lit
:25:49. > :25:52.centuries ago. Even though the castle was ` sight
:25:53. > :25:57.for large groups of people to be entertained by the King, thdre would
:25:58. > :26:02.be times when every brewer hn the town would have been commissioned to
:26:03. > :26:06.be brewing as much beer as they could buy the end of the month
:26:07. > :26:13.because the King needs thred or four cartloads of beer.
:26:14. > :26:16.Local brewers came to see the oven. The connection with the past was
:26:17. > :26:22.keenly felt. I'm sure those guys had exactly the
:26:23. > :26:26.same feelings as we do. Thex would look at what beer brewing, how it is
:26:27. > :26:31.behaving, what they should do if it is going wrong.
:26:32. > :26:34.The brewing process is very traditional, we just do it on a very
:26:35. > :26:39.large`scale. Things have moved on to a degree, but this was definitely a
:26:40. > :26:47.brewing venture from what I understand, this was beer brewed to
:26:48. > :26:50.be sold. The day continues until September.
:26:51. > :26:53.It is hoped the oven could be removed. The site will then be
:26:54. > :27:01.covered over and built on whth offices.
:27:02. > :27:05.I'm sorry we couldn't bring you our outside forecast from the MK Dons
:27:06. > :27:09.Stadium, but let's hear what the chairman had to say about the
:27:10. > :27:13.match. It is great for Milton Keynds, it is
:27:14. > :27:16.great for getting people into the stadium. I know that when they come
:27:17. > :27:20.here and sit in these wonderful seeds with great sidelines `nd
:27:21. > :27:26.experience the atmosphere of life above, maybe there will be ` few of
:27:27. > :27:27.them that come again. It is a real chance for us to show what we are
:27:28. > :27:36.all about. So you know, there's live commentary
:27:37. > :27:40.on that game on the BBC's Three Counties Radio station, and there's
:27:41. > :27:42.live commentary on the Norwhch and Northampton matches on Radio
:27:43. > :27:54.Norfolk and Radio Northampton. Have somebody play bagpipe at the
:27:55. > :28:05.airport to welcome you? Possible. Whichever car you like,
:28:06. > :28:08.with Wi-Fi inside? Possible. Can I get you a pink elephant?
:28:09. > :28:11.I'll try! See, the Indian philosophy
:28:12. > :28:13.dictates that anybody who comes to your house
:28:14. > :28:16.is not a guest, but he's God. You want to do the best you can
:28:17. > :28:29.as a parent. And we're not in a position
:28:30. > :28:33.to do that. It does kind of break your heart
:28:34. > :28:36.a little bit.