:00:00. > :00:00.again. Something to look forward to. That is all from the
:00:00. > :00:23.should engineers carry out more work this weekend? I will be reporting
:00:24. > :00:28.from the a 14 where there is a warning that a shortage of lorry
:00:29. > :00:34.drivers could affect the economy in the region. Build your own bollards,
:00:35. > :00:40.`` Sikhs. The pensioner whose health has been hit by drivers 13 times.
:00:41. > :00:45.What happens when a fund`raising stunt goes viral, the charity
:00:46. > :00:58.reaping the rewards of the Ice Bucket Challenge `` bollards. A
:00:59. > :01:00.meeting is being held tonight to discuss the fallout from the
:01:01. > :01:06.shambles on the railway us. Network Rail are now just four
:01:07. > :01:08.months into a five year programme They say, by 2019,
:01:09. > :01:11.the railway will be transformed. But that long term ambition is
:01:12. > :01:14.bringing a short term dilemma. Having made passengers so angry
:01:15. > :01:17.yesterday, should they go ahead with In a moment
:01:18. > :01:20.the railway expert Christian Wolmar, A second day of disruption
:01:21. > :01:26.at Ipswich station, today the problem is the branch line
:01:27. > :01:28.to Felixstowe, a direct result Passengers had to be bussed,
:01:29. > :01:35.because yesterday freight trains could not move
:01:36. > :01:40.and were stacked up near the port. At least 10 people walked away
:01:41. > :01:43.from the station in disgust. One lady said she would have to go
:01:44. > :01:50.and get her car It was a terrible Bank Holiday
:01:51. > :02:02.for rail travellers, engineering work around Ipswich
:02:03. > :02:05.overran on Monday by seven hours. The results,
:02:06. > :02:07.no trains on the Norwich to London mainline until 11am on Tuesday, with
:02:08. > :02:09.more disruption into the evening. This is Network Rail's issue,
:02:10. > :02:12.I know there have been some comments about the franchise, but this is
:02:13. > :02:14.fundamentally my business and the project teams that we work
:02:15. > :02:18.with, nobody else and we have just It is not
:02:19. > :02:24.the first time that Network Rail has It has been a summer of disruption
:02:25. > :02:31.on the Norwich to London mainline. In May, we had engineering work that
:02:32. > :02:34.overran near Colchester and in June, thousands of passengers were locked
:02:35. > :02:38.in Liverpool Street station with no trains, one overhead cable problem
:02:39. > :02:41.near Chelmsford closed the line Earlier this month, it was Ipswich
:02:42. > :02:47.again, where work on signalling overran and each time, Network Rail
:02:48. > :02:50.came onto Look East to apologise We will try our very best to stop
:02:51. > :02:59.this happening again, we are fully committed to giving a right time
:03:00. > :03:06.railway line back on Monday morning. It works 99 percent of the time,
:03:07. > :03:10.but when it does not work, it is unacceptable
:03:11. > :03:12.and we have to get better. We have to make sure that we deliver
:03:13. > :03:15.our promise each and every weekend and every night,
:03:16. > :03:35.when we undertake vital works that Tonight, bosses will meet to discuss
:03:36. > :03:37.what went wrong on whether engineering work next week will go
:03:38. > :03:39.ahead. Network Rail comes under regular
:03:40. > :03:42.criticism when anything goes wrong with the tracks or the signals or
:03:43. > :03:45.the overhead cables, but it has a huge job on its hands here in East
:03:46. > :03:49.Anglia and over the next five years, it is spending ?2.2 billion
:03:50. > :03:51.in this part of the world. With much of the infrastructure
:03:52. > :03:54.being 40 years old, more delays Christian Wolmar is a transport
:03:55. > :04:05.journalist and a railway historian. Late this afternoon,
:04:06. > :04:20.he told me that Network Rail have I think there are really two
:04:21. > :04:26.choices, they can either say, look, every Monday is going to be messed
:04:27. > :04:29.up, we will provide a bus replacement service to make it
:04:30. > :04:34.efficient so you can get into town, or it they will have to say, we are
:04:35. > :04:38.going to close the railways for a couple of weeks, and sometimes they
:04:39. > :04:43.do this, but both options are unpopular. I remember years ago the
:04:44. > :04:55.tunnel near Ipswich was closed for a long time and it made it a hassle to
:04:56. > :04:58.get to Ipswich and Norwich. Are we right to keep blaming Network Rail?
:04:59. > :05:04.It is a little bit unfair to blame it all on Network Rail. This railway
:05:05. > :05:09.line is 106 years old. They are digging it up more of their early,
:05:10. > :05:14.there is climate change, things are wetter, which causes problems, so
:05:15. > :05:20.some of this is unexpected. On the other hand, this is Network Rail's
:05:21. > :05:26.main job and they should be experienced at dealing with this
:05:27. > :05:29.sort of eventuality. Are there any lessons we can learn from other
:05:30. > :05:36.parts of the world? The problem with the British Railways is that they
:05:37. > :05:40.are very heavily used. Most railways in the rest of the world are
:05:41. > :05:48.slightly `` lest used which gives them more time to repair them ``
:05:49. > :05:53.lest used. We really use our railways and use them to the full
:05:54. > :06:02.extent. We have to grin and bear it? No, it is up to Network Rail to sort
:06:03. > :06:06.it out better. There might be periods when you can close the
:06:07. > :06:12.railway, Chris Mears is the traditional time, Easter is another,
:06:13. > :06:26.you can close it for several days `` Chris Mears. There is a cost factor
:06:27. > :06:27.involved `` Christmas. It will cost extra money. These are cash`strapped
:06:28. > :06:30.times. If you live on a busy road,
:06:31. > :06:34.especially on a corner, you will have worried about some driver
:06:35. > :06:36.crashing into your house or garden. But spare a thought for Owen Allen,
:06:37. > :06:39.who lives in Braintree. It's become so bad,
:06:40. > :06:53.he's put up his own steel bollards. Owen Allen checks his home`made
:06:54. > :06:59.defences and hope they are strong enough. These are the steel Sikhs,
:07:00. > :07:07.filled with concrete, five of them and they are behind `` and behind
:07:08. > :07:12.them there are three concrete bollards `` bollards. This is why he
:07:13. > :07:18.has turned his home into a fortress, the last time a car ploughed into
:07:19. > :07:22.his garden it took a crane to remove it. Although driving was exemplary
:07:23. > :07:28.today, he says some drivers speed down this hill and fail to take the
:07:29. > :07:36.corner outside his house. Over the past 15 years, I have had about 13
:07:37. > :07:41.incidents when the car crashed into the hedge. He has spent years trying
:07:42. > :07:44.to get something done. He wrote to everyone, from the local council to
:07:45. > :07:54.the government, it even to the Queen. Ultimately, 200 letters, they
:07:55. > :07:59.were sent out to various departments and officials, from whom, I thought
:08:00. > :08:05.I would get some results. He did not, so he built his own bollards
:08:06. > :08:09.and when they were destroyed, his strength of the barricades. Essex
:08:10. > :08:14.County Council says it has approved the scheme here and a spokesperson
:08:15. > :08:17.says it will provide additional signs and lines to highlight road
:08:18. > :08:20.alignment and emphasise the requirement to maintain an
:08:21. > :08:24.appropriate speed, but Owen Allen does not think it is enough and he
:08:25. > :08:27.fears his defences will soon be tested again.
:08:28. > :08:30.There's a warning tonight that a shortage of lorry drivers could
:08:31. > :08:33.Haulage firms across the East are struggling to recruit.
:08:34. > :08:35.And now drivers need to get a new European qualification
:08:36. > :08:44.by September 10th, which some say is making the problem worse.
:08:45. > :08:51.It is every lorry driver's worst nightmare, five days, stuck in a
:08:52. > :08:58.classroom to get what is called a CPC, a certificate of professional
:08:59. > :09:04.competence, this is a company that deals with this. The drivers have
:09:05. > :09:08.had five years to do the CPC, but now with the deadline looming there
:09:09. > :09:14.is a panic on to complete the course. If, come the deadline, they
:09:15. > :09:19.have not completed the training, they can incur a ?5,000 fine for the
:09:20. > :09:24.driver and a fine for the company for which they are driving. The
:09:25. > :09:30.drivers need a card like a drivers license, this man has won, but he
:09:31. > :09:33.does not rate the CPC. The certificate covers driver hours,
:09:34. > :09:41.health and safety and even healthy eating, but according to this man,
:09:42. > :09:45.it is the worst kind of European bureaucracy. Rubbish, a waste of
:09:46. > :09:49.time. It is an attendance course, most of Europe will not be
:09:50. > :09:54.implementing it as quickly as we are and it is costing drivers that are
:09:55. > :09:59.already hard up, expense for themselves. The UK is already
:10:00. > :10:10.suffering from a shortage of hate GB drivers and in this region, firms
:10:11. > :10:12.are worried that the CPC is making a charge is worse `` HGV. Older
:10:13. > :10:18.drivers are choosing not to take the training. They do not see the point
:10:19. > :10:22.of taking this. We have an ageing population of HGV drivers, it is not
:10:23. > :10:26.an attractive job now, people do not want to be away from home,
:10:27. > :10:32.congestion on the road, the stress levels, the whole thing has changed.
:10:33. > :10:38.Back here, this training firm insists the CPC does make lorry
:10:39. > :10:44.driver saver, but with just 1% now under 25, haulage firms say the
:10:45. > :10:48.driver shortage is arguably a bigger problem.
:10:49. > :10:51.A company in Cambridgeshire is using its equipment to help stop
:10:52. > :10:54.Thermo`tecknix, based in Waterbeach, has produced a system to measure
:10:55. > :10:58.Three thermal image scanners are being sent to Nigeria to screen
:10:59. > :11:04.people in places like airports, train stations and factories.
:11:05. > :11:07.In football, Norwich City are through to the third round
:11:08. > :11:09.of the Capital One Cup, after beating Crawley 3`1 at Carrow Road.
:11:10. > :11:22.Crawley found themselves here after knocking out Ipswich, but they could
:11:23. > :11:27.not pull off a double. 14,000 fans were in the ground to see a new look
:11:28. > :11:31.Norwich, injuries `` injuries meant the accent was on news and they
:11:32. > :11:37.booked their place in the third round. Cameron, on his debut put
:11:38. > :11:42.Norwich ahead after the away goal keeper had fumbled this initial
:11:43. > :11:48.effort. Joshua Murphy scored the first of two second`half goals, but
:11:49. > :11:53.Crawley were gifted a ray of hope after Carlos scored a peach of a
:11:54. > :11:56.goal in the wrong end. It did not matter as Murphy tied up the tie
:11:57. > :12:00.with this strike in the last minute. The Norwich manager said the
:12:01. > :12:10.injuries from the weekend meant they had to put their trust in the kids,
:12:11. > :12:18.but he said I know what they are capable of and we saw that tonight.
:12:19. > :12:23.Still to come, Alex will be here with the weather. Have you been
:12:24. > :12:26.nominated yet? As the Ice Bucket Challenge sweeps the country, we
:12:27. > :12:33.talk to the charity reaping the rewards.
:12:34. > :12:35.At Newmarket they've been selectively breeding horses
:12:36. > :12:44.The whole idea is to find the very best.
:12:45. > :12:47.But now science is offering help from another quarter with experts
:12:48. > :12:49.in Ireland saying they've managed to identify the gene responsible.
:12:50. > :12:52.Louise Hubball has been finding out more, for the second of her
:12:53. > :13:07.Standing outside Newmarket's Jockey club, one of the greats. He is the
:13:08. > :13:18.favourite. He was the small horse with big victories including the
:13:19. > :13:22.1933 Epsom Derby. Now, his skeleton has been involved in a DNA
:13:23. > :13:27.experiment, a gene in racehorses was identified which showed over which
:13:28. > :13:31.distance they would be quickest and Cambridge university, they tested 12
:13:32. > :13:37.dead champions for this gene and surprisingly, all had the same
:13:38. > :13:41.stamina variant. We had a horse from the 1760s and the most recent horse
:13:42. > :13:44.we had was 1930 and we might have expected that there would be some
:13:45. > :13:50.difference, but they were all the same, despite their being low
:13:51. > :13:54.statistical probability of them having the same variant. The gene
:13:55. > :13:58.revolves around a muscle Mass development and cannot tell how fast
:13:59. > :14:05.a horse will run, but which distance it will be strongest over. There are
:14:06. > :14:09.three possible genetic types, a stamina type which all of them had,
:14:10. > :14:15.one which favours middle`distance or another which favours Brent type.
:14:16. > :14:22.This pioneering discovery was made here in Ireland. We monitor heart
:14:23. > :14:27.rates in relation to speed on a treadmill. She has built up a
:14:28. > :14:31.company in Dublin which tests racehorses for the gene. With
:14:32. > :14:37.clients in 15 different countries, including Newmarket, she is focusing
:14:38. > :14:42.on enhancing an elite performance test to identify the fastest horses.
:14:43. > :14:48.We are always trying to improve, using the most recent genetic
:14:49. > :14:52.technologies available and the best physiological information available
:14:53. > :14:59.and the best exercise information. Does this take away the skill and
:15:00. > :15:03.the competition? Absolutely not. Anyone who understands pedigrees or
:15:04. > :15:09.users pedigrees is trying to best guess genes that come from
:15:10. > :15:13.ancestors. On this yard, horses here have been tested and it influences
:15:14. > :15:19.decisions on how they are trained. That trainer is this man, one of the
:15:20. > :15:25.most experienced names in racing, responsible for a number of
:15:26. > :15:30.winners. On his immaculate yard, two hours outside Dublin, he trains and
:15:31. > :15:36.breeds 100 horses and as a co`founder of the speed gene
:15:37. > :15:40.company, he says knowing if a horse has the variance, it is invaluable.
:15:41. > :15:45.It is a wealth of information to have, as soon as they are born, we
:15:46. > :15:49.find out where they fit in from point of view. People will say, I
:15:50. > :15:56.know what type they are by looking at them, but that is not true. Does
:15:57. > :16:02.that don't `` have an economic benefit? Yes. We have our types and
:16:03. > :16:07.we leave them in the paddocks and only take the men when the weather
:16:08. > :16:10.dictates. It is cheaper to have a horse out on the grass than have
:16:11. > :16:16.someone caring for it in doors and the animal itself is better off
:16:17. > :16:20.being left until that time. It is a growing area, publicly funded
:16:21. > :16:27.research in Ireland is examining the role of genetics in the performance
:16:28. > :16:30.of horses. In terms of using genetics to select horses best
:16:31. > :16:36.suited for their intended purpose, it will help to reduce the risk of
:16:37. > :16:41.injury. Ultimately, racing can never be an exact science, either here in
:16:42. > :16:44.Ireland or Newmarket. As well as investment, the brilliance of the
:16:45. > :16:48.trainer, the judgement of the jockey and the dedication of those on the
:16:49. > :16:54.yard, the horse has to perform on the day.
:16:55. > :16:57.And tomorrow Louise will be looking at the doping scandal last year
:16:58. > :17:02.and whether Newmarket's reputation has recovered.
:17:03. > :17:04.It's the latest internet craze and it's for a good cause.
:17:05. > :17:06.Within a few weeks, the "Ice Bucket Challenge"
:17:07. > :17:10.has raised 2 million pounds for the Motor Neurone Disease Association.
:17:11. > :17:11.The charity, which is based in Northamptonshire,
:17:12. > :17:17.So, how has the internet changed the way we give to good causes..
:17:18. > :17:19.And are smaller local charities losing out?
:17:20. > :17:28.Tonight's special report is from Alex Dunlop.
:17:29. > :17:35.But neuron disease attacks the nervous system and it is often
:17:36. > :17:40.fatal, incurable and this man has had it for 13 years `` motor neurone
:17:41. > :17:43.disease. His younger brother has had `` has the disease and it has
:17:44. > :17:50.claimed the lives of other members of the family. I was thinking, why
:17:51. > :18:00.our family. What have we done wrong in a previous life? I just do not
:18:01. > :18:06.know why we have all got it. Chris may find hope in this story from
:18:07. > :18:11.Stephen Hawking who has defied the disease from more than four
:18:12. > :18:16.decades, but scientists at this association are trying to find a
:18:17. > :18:23.cure. Now, recipe of ice, water and our need to suffer for a good cause
:18:24. > :18:27.has given it a global reach `` a recipe. Take the Ice Bucket
:18:28. > :18:34.Challenge, donate to the charity and nominate others to do the same. We
:18:35. > :18:38.have been delighted and amaze. It means that for people with the
:18:39. > :18:43.disease, there is a public awareness of what the disease is. Because it
:18:44. > :18:48.is so rare, not many people have heard of it. Shaking the tender for
:18:49. > :18:53.charity is no longer enough, bathing in baked beans is last century and
:18:54. > :18:59.now the internet is taking over. Social media sites have changed the
:19:00. > :19:03.dynamic, which is why the charity is now ?2 million richer. Does that
:19:04. > :19:08.mean that smaller local charities like this one for injured horses or
:19:09. > :19:13.this one for people who have suffered road collisions are
:19:14. > :19:18.sidelined? Fundraising online has been a huge opportunity for all
:19:19. > :19:24.charities, but especially smaller ones with low budgets. You can set
:19:25. > :19:30.up a Facebook page or a Twitter account and you do not have to pay
:19:31. > :19:34.to register it. Chris's wife likes to to put her money where her mouth
:19:35. > :19:37.is and stepped up to the plate, all for a good cause and for the love of
:19:38. > :19:44.her husband. Andy Brady is an expert
:19:45. > :19:46.on charities and social enterprise I asked him
:19:47. > :19:49.whether he'd been surprised by the enormous, global, success
:19:50. > :20:01.of the ice bucket challenge... It is not a complete surprise, we
:20:02. > :20:05.have seen the success of similar viral campaigns earlier this year,
:20:06. > :20:12.there was no make up selfie challenge which took Facebook by
:20:13. > :20:16.storm and raised ?8 million in six days for Cancer Research Uk. The
:20:17. > :20:22.nature of the Ice Bucket Challenge is what has surprised people. In the
:20:23. > :20:26.long run, is that the best way for a charity to raise money or do they
:20:27. > :20:30.prefer to have the regular subscriptions, direct debits of the
:20:31. > :20:35.money keeps on coming? I would argue, probably that the best thing
:20:36. > :20:38.for charities to do is to look across the piece, although a lot of
:20:39. > :20:43.money is raised through these campaigns, they are unpredictable
:20:44. > :20:50.and you cannot imagine when the next one will come along. Last, ?15
:20:51. > :20:53.billion went to UK charities from individual and corporate donations.
:20:54. > :21:01.This is only a small percentage of that. ?2 billion last year came in
:21:02. > :21:07.the form of legacies, for example. Charities need to mix the old and
:21:08. > :21:12.new methods. Are there any risks to this, that people might tire of it?
:21:13. > :21:19.They might not actually take on board what the charity is doing.
:21:20. > :21:25.There is definitely a case that donor fatigue might set in, but the
:21:26. > :21:30.beauty of this kind of campaign, is that they harness all the creativity
:21:31. > :21:37.and energy of the general public, so who knows where the next exciting
:21:38. > :21:42.idea will come from? The BBC knows from its own charity campaigns that
:21:43. > :21:46.people like doing crazy things, do you think that people give more when
:21:47. > :21:51.they are doing something silly? Potentially, there is all is a risk
:21:52. > :21:55.that they do not give anything, they forget to donate, there have been
:21:56. > :22:01.examples were people have got a number wrong in the text to donate
:22:02. > :22:06.and they begin to adopt a polar bear rather than donate to a cancer
:22:07. > :22:09.charity. There are pitfalls. The beauty is that you are getting
:22:10. > :22:16.people involved who would otherwise not get involved in raising money
:22:17. > :22:20.for charity and back can only be a good thing. Thank you. `` that can
:22:21. > :22:23.only be. A reminder now of the big
:22:24. > :22:25.football news from last night. MK Dons, of League One,
:22:26. > :22:28.beat Manchester United 4`0. Not only was it the biggest win
:22:29. > :22:30.in the Dons' history. It was also their biggest crowd,
:22:31. > :22:33.a whisker under 27,000. And there's only one person to
:22:34. > :22:41.talk to after a night like that. He joins us live now.
:22:42. > :22:49.Congratulations, what was it like for you? I want you to say that
:22:50. > :22:54.score again, to be honest! I thought the draw was unbelievable. Almost a
:22:55. > :22:59.dream come true. To get a result like that, obviously, we had to
:23:00. > :23:03.catch Manchester United at the right time and all our players had to
:23:04. > :23:08.perform well. The fans were amazing, I thought so many of them would be
:23:09. > :23:12.here perhaps because of Manchester United and not to support MK Dons,
:23:13. > :23:26.but when the third and fourth goals went in, the raw in this stadium is
:23:27. > :23:28.something I will always remember. I suppose you were not making any
:23:29. > :24:03.noise club, we have a short history, but
:24:04. > :24:07.history was made last night. An amazing night, an amazing moment,
:24:08. > :24:16.but what does it mean for the club off future? `` Michael club's
:24:17. > :24:23.future. It gives us a glimpse into the potential future. Milton Keynes
:24:24. > :24:26.needs a professional sports team doing really well and that burden
:24:27. > :27:56.has been something which has been harder to achieve than I
:27:57. > :28:00.You asked for it. You got it. SHRILL WHISTLE