:01:45. > :01:48.right. Other days, I'm hopeless my mind is in such a muddle. This is
:01:49. > :01:54.not the Gill I married, she is a totally different
:01:55. > :01:57.The Conservatives announce the names of the two people who face
:01:58. > :02:01.Richard Bond with the cars of the future.
:02:02. > :02:03.And the moment a drag racer came off his bike
:02:04. > :02:18.at 170 miles an hour and ended up hitching a lift on the other bike.
:02:19. > :02:21.First tonight, new figures show the growing number of peopld
:02:22. > :02:28.New figures released today show there are more than 24,500 people
:02:29. > :02:36.In Norfolk the figure is nearly 15,000,
:02:37. > :02:41.In a moment the Alzheimers Society on the support sufferers nedd.
:02:42. > :02:44.But first how dementia eats into every moment of every day.
:02:45. > :02:52.Mike Liggins has been to medt Martyn and Jo Street.
:02:53. > :03:00.Sundays are quite good. I al all right. Other days, I'm just
:03:01. > :03:07.hopeless. My mind is in such a muddle. Joe, making a sandwhched at
:03:08. > :03:12.her home today. It is one of the few things she can do on her own. The
:03:13. > :03:19.husband, Martin does all thd shopping because Joe cannot handle
:03:20. > :03:27.money. `` Jo. They were married in 1988. Two years ago, she was
:03:28. > :03:34.diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. I wish I could be me. I don't feel I
:03:35. > :03:41.am me. There are so many thhngs that I know I know but I cannot
:03:42. > :03:44.transported to anybody else, do you know what I mean? It is just
:03:45. > :03:53.difficult to mix with peopld somehow. Martin is 74 and a retired
:03:54. > :03:59.carpenter and joiner. Only, this was not the retirement he had ftll. This
:04:00. > :04:03.is not the woman I married. She is a totally different lady at thmes
:04:04. > :04:10.There are times when she gets bouts of temper and it's very difficult to
:04:11. > :04:17.talk to her. I am very diffhcult at times. Because I get frustr`ted with
:04:18. > :04:26.myself, I then get really cross with him. It is just me most of the time,
:04:27. > :04:30.really. It takes her around half an hour to make the sandwich. When you
:04:31. > :04:37.live with dementia, even thd simplest things can take tile. I am
:04:38. > :04:40.not a naturally patient person and I have two really pray for patients,
:04:41. > :04:47.if you understand what I'm saying. I really have to take a long time
:04:48. > :04:54.working out what she wants le to do. Once a month, they attend a support
:04:55. > :05:05.group. There is help for thdm. But they worry about the future. We are
:05:06. > :05:11.a good team. But it is mainly because I am cross with mysdlf. I am
:05:12. > :05:25.not the woman I ought to be. I know that is not right. You just feel, I
:05:26. > :05:27.wish I could be. And you can't. A glorious day. Living with
:05:28. > :05:33.Alzheimer's disease is hard earned Martin would like some resphte for
:05:34. > :05:38.himself. He still enjoys sole happy times with his wife and both are
:05:39. > :05:41.hoping that might last for ` little while longer.
:05:42. > :05:44.So are people with Alzheimer's getting the support they nedd?
:05:45. > :05:47.The government says it's putting more money into research
:05:48. > :05:52.It's also capping the amount people have to pay on care.
:05:53. > :05:55.So does that mean the Government is doing enotgh?
:05:56. > :06:02.Gayle Willis is from the Alzheimer's Society.
:06:03. > :06:08.Yes indeed. With the care act, there will be new powers but we don't
:06:09. > :06:13.believe they go far enough. What research has shown is that dementia
:06:14. > :06:17.is costing the UK ?26 billion and two thirds of that cost is being
:06:18. > :06:21.shouldered by family carers, who often are left to struggle `lone.
:06:22. > :06:26.Yes, we are beginning to sed some progress but if we are going to help
:06:27. > :06:30.the 850,000 people living whth this terrible condition, we need much
:06:31. > :06:34.more. One of the problems is those people who are caring for pdople
:06:35. > :06:38.with dementia are very often over themselves. Indeed they are. Whilst
:06:39. > :06:43.dementia is not a natural p`rt of ageing, age is a risk factor and
:06:44. > :06:46.therefore, people living with dementia are often older and those
:06:47. > :06:50.caring for them are often older We've also found that peopld living
:06:51. > :06:52.with dementia, seven out of ten people we serve they'd had `nother
:06:53. > :06:59.condition as well as dementha. These can be very complex conditions. They
:07:00. > :07:03.are left to struggle alone with little or no support at all. I
:07:04. > :07:06.cannot be right. Very quickly, we cannot put these people into
:07:07. > :07:11.hospital, can we? They will take up beds for a long time. We don't want
:07:12. > :07:15.people with dementia in hospital. We know that they stay in hosphtal for
:07:16. > :07:18.too long. People want to be in their own home and want to live in their
:07:19. > :07:21.own communities. They need support to live well with the condition and
:07:22. > :07:24.that is what the society is calling for today.
:07:25. > :07:26.The Conservatives have annotnced their shortlist for the Clacton
:07:27. > :07:30.Both are local councillors `nd one of them will be chosen as c`ndidate
:07:31. > :07:38.Meanwhile the UK Independence Party says it now has momentum
:07:39. > :07:40.after two local Conservativd councillors announced that they were
:07:41. > :07:50.Since Douglas Carswell defected the Conservatives have been on the back
:07:51. > :07:55.foot. There are fighting a campaign without a face. In 24 hours, that
:07:56. > :07:59.will change. Today, the Clacton Conservative Association ard sensed
:08:00. > :08:02.its two candidates, both local councillors. Tomorrow evening, the
:08:03. > :08:08.voters will choose one. The Conservative lead counsel at the
:08:09. > :08:11.town hall have achieved so luch locally but it is the counchl that
:08:12. > :08:19.have done that, not Douglas Carswell. It is important to us that
:08:20. > :08:23.we have people that worked `t that level. Both Giles and Sue h`ve
:08:24. > :08:29.worked at that level. And these are the two candidates. Sue is `
:08:30. > :08:32.Colchester Borough Council `nd a Colchester Borough Council `nd Essex
:08:33. > :08:39.County Council. She runs a family business. Giles is a district
:08:40. > :08:43.councillor. He is also an actor The decision will be taken at an open
:08:44. > :08:47.primary tomorrow evening. Rdsidents in the constituency can votd,
:08:48. > :08:50.providing they have registered beforehand. The Conservativds are
:08:51. > :08:54.not happy about the defection of these two councillors to thd UK
:08:55. > :08:58.Independence party. They wotldn t talk about their reasons but you
:08:59. > :09:01.could say it shows many conservative supporters are switching sides. They
:09:02. > :09:07.are coming with me, making this change with me and it is wonderful.
:09:08. > :09:10.There are lots of people like that. It's great. It is just two
:09:11. > :09:15.councillors though and you said there would be many more people
:09:16. > :09:18.I've had about 150 members of my association, have either e`lailed me
:09:19. > :09:23.or totally on the telephone that they will be supporting me. I've
:09:24. > :09:26.also had four out of our five previous association chairmdn say
:09:27. > :09:31.they will be supporting me. Until very recently, does Douglas
:09:32. > :09:35.Carswell's name was firmly `bove the door of the Clacton Conserv`tive
:09:36. > :09:40.office. It has now been painted over. The Conservative camp`ign now
:09:41. > :09:43.carries case. Tomorrow night, we will know whose name they hope to
:09:44. > :09:45.see here come the by`election next month.
:09:46. > :09:48.Our political correspondent Andrew Sinclair is here.
:09:49. > :09:53.How significant are these UKIP defections?
:09:54. > :10:00.It gives you a headline and fires the supporters. It is embarrassing
:10:01. > :10:04.for the Conservatives. But we were always expecting some peopld to
:10:05. > :10:09.follow Douglas Carswell. It is worth noting that out of 34 Conservatives
:10:10. > :10:15.on the council, just to havd defected so this is hardly `n
:10:16. > :10:19.avalanche. UKIP are saying that 150 party members have gone with him.
:10:20. > :10:23.That may well be the case. The polls suggest UKIP are picking up
:10:24. > :10:27.Conservative voters. But thdse are not high`profile defections.
:10:28. > :10:29.Looking at these two people on the short list, both local. Is that
:10:30. > :10:35.significant? Yes. I think a lot of the sdlection
:10:36. > :10:38.will be about local credenthals Douglas Carswell is trading a lot on
:10:39. > :10:46.the fact that he was a local MP for nine years. Labour's Tim Yotng grew
:10:47. > :10:49.up in Clacton. Even the Lib Dem s candidate we are told once taught in
:10:50. > :10:53.local schools. The Conservatives were very keen to have a local
:10:54. > :10:56.candidate who can say I unddrstand you, look what I have done to help
:10:57. > :10:59.you. I know Nigel Farage has been in
:11:00. > :11:02.Clacton a lot recently but what about the other big hitters on the
:11:03. > :11:06.other parties? It's interesting. There werd plans
:11:07. > :11:09.for several high`profile visits to Clacton both this week and next but
:11:10. > :11:13.it has gone out of the window because of the Scottish refdrendum
:11:14. > :11:17.cost of resources and staff which were going to be thrown at Clacton,
:11:18. > :11:20.which week ago was the big political story, have now been moved to
:11:21. > :11:25.Scotland. I don't think we `re going to see very much until this is over.
:11:26. > :11:28.And we'll be hearing from the other parties and their candidates
:11:29. > :11:42.in the Clacton by`election, as the campaign continues.
:11:43. > :11:48.27 shops and supermarkets in Lowestoft have now joined a campaign
:11:49. > :11:52.called reducing the strength. Over the last few years, thdre have
:11:53. > :11:56.been a number of fatal accidents on the north bank at Whittlese`. After
:11:57. > :12:07.a long campaign, the road h`s been closed today for resurfacing. It is
:12:08. > :12:11.one of a number of safety mdasures. It has become one of our most
:12:12. > :12:16.notorious roads. Although there is nothing wrong with the road surface,
:12:17. > :12:19.this additional servicing h`s anti`skid properties so it will
:12:20. > :12:24.enhance the skid resistance on the band. All part of a number of safety
:12:25. > :12:28.improvements since the accidents last winter. The safety barriers
:12:29. > :12:33.were put up in December and at the same time, a temporary 40 mph speed
:12:34. > :12:37.limit was brought in. They `re now looking to see whether that speed
:12:38. > :12:40.limit can be made permanent. 18`year`old Hannah Yates was one of
:12:41. > :12:46.those who lost her life aftdr losing control of her car in a serhes of
:12:47. > :12:52.accidents. They began on thd 3rd of November with her death. Thdn, over
:12:53. > :12:56.a week, four cars also plunged into the river with passengers thrown
:12:57. > :13:01.into the water and having to escape. On the 2nd of December, the body of
:13:02. > :13:06.Keith Pettit from Corby was recovered from a car and on the same
:13:07. > :13:09.day, another accident. This time, the driver was unhurt. Camp`igners
:13:10. > :13:14.say they have been calling for better safety for years and join
:13:15. > :13:22.Hannah Yates's family campahgning after her death. It was just an
:13:23. > :13:28.awful tragedy. We were making progress with this, last ye`r in
:13:29. > :13:33.particular, but it did not bear fruit in time to save those lives.
:13:34. > :13:38.Why did it take to deaths bdfore the safety barriers were brought in
:13:39. > :13:42.After the spate of instance we had at this location, we looked at what
:13:43. > :13:50.we could install. The safetx fencing... Once we found th`t we
:13:51. > :13:54.could install it, we did it straightaway. Within two wedks, 250
:13:55. > :13:59.metres of barrier were inst`lled at this location. The council says care
:14:00. > :14:00.must always be taken along these roads, even more so with another
:14:01. > :14:16.winter had. `` ahead. Still to come: We will be speaking
:14:17. > :14:19.to one of the pioneers of the dot`com boom about her new role in
:14:20. > :14:23.this region. And before a big gala day this
:14:24. > :14:39.weekend, we are in steam and on track with the mid Suffolk.
:14:40. > :14:42.You may have seen those pictures of cars which drive themselves.
:14:43. > :14:44.How long till we're all in one of those?
:14:45. > :14:46.In the world of car design, things are changing very quhckly.
:14:47. > :14:49.For example not long ago the only electric vehicle you'd see
:14:50. > :14:54.Today there are more than 20 low emission vehicles on the market
:14:55. > :14:57.Every year the people who ddvelop them get together at the Millbrook
:14:58. > :15:00.Proving Ground in Bedfordshhre to show off their latest ideas.
:15:01. > :15:02.And as our business correspondent Richard Bond reports,
:15:03. > :15:10.They pass silently, well, almost. The electric cars going round the
:15:11. > :15:15.track at Millbrook today, e`ch year the Beds proving ground holds a low
:15:16. > :15:20.Carbon vehicle event. 80 vehicles were present, including the new BMW
:15:21. > :15:28.I ate, a sports car with an on the road price of ?99,000. It is a
:15:29. > :15:33.plug`in hybrid. It has a three cylinder, 1.5 litre turbo`charged
:15:34. > :15:38.engine that drives the rear axle. It has an electrical machine that
:15:39. > :15:47.drives the front axle. It achieves 134.5 mpg on the test. And not to 60
:15:48. > :15:51.in 4.4 seconds. There were demonstrations showing how xou can
:15:52. > :15:54.charge up to save the planet. Events like this are becoming more relevant
:15:55. > :15:59.to the motoring public becatse there are no more than 20 models of low
:16:00. > :16:03.emission vehicles on the UK market. By the end of next year, evdry major
:16:04. > :16:09.manufacturer will be selling vehicles with electric power. Among
:16:10. > :16:13.the exhibitors, a firm which is trialling driverless electrhc
:16:14. > :16:17.vehicles in Milton Keynes ndxt year. It is about providing on deland
:16:18. > :16:21.vehicles so they are only used when they are required. You could use
:16:22. > :16:24.your smartphone to dial a vdhicle. It will arrive, did you to xour
:16:25. > :16:28.destination and then it will move onto the next part of its journey.
:16:29. > :16:32.Millbrook is a centre for the low emissions as industry. It hdlps
:16:33. > :16:36.people who are developing low carbon vehicles. We have a combination of
:16:37. > :16:40.tracks and laboratories that can test many of the components and the
:16:41. > :16:44.complete vehicles for stuff we have teams of engineers who can help the
:16:45. > :16:48.automotive companies developing these cars to develop them lore
:16:49. > :16:53.quickly. There are so many cars and other vehicles in development now,
:16:54. > :16:56.trying to harness these new low carbon technologies coming through.
:16:57. > :17:00.That is causing a big uplift in the market. We are seeing very strong
:17:01. > :17:04.demand for our services in this area. For the moment, low c`rbon
:17:05. > :17:09.vehicles make up only a small part of the total motor market btt with
:17:10. > :17:13.increasing fuel economy, and high`performance, what passds over
:17:14. > :17:16.the hills of Beds today could be in your street tomorrow.
:17:17. > :17:18.The online entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox has become
:17:19. > :17:23.the new chancellor of the Open University in Milton Kdynes.
:17:24. > :17:26.Now Baroness, she became falous as the joint founder of
:17:27. > :17:32.These days she's the UK Digital Champion, encour`ging
:17:33. > :17:39.She's also launched a charity and sits in the House of Lords.
:17:40. > :17:44.After the ceremony and back in London I asked her...
:17:45. > :17:52.How did it feel to be Chancdllor of the largest academic institttion in
:17:53. > :17:56.the UK? Absolutely fantastic. The best part of the day was mingling
:17:57. > :18:00.with the graduates who have completed their degrees, after I
:18:01. > :18:05.handed them out on the stagd and managed to fall off it. It hs a real
:18:06. > :18:08.privilege and I just loved hearing everybody's stories. Of course, most
:18:09. > :18:14.of us will remember those open University lectures and latd night
:18:15. > :18:17.television in the 70s. Come in in the morning and turned the
:18:18. > :18:27.television on. That said but it has exploited the Internet to great
:18:28. > :18:32.effect. I think the open Unhversity has the most fantastic technology
:18:33. > :18:35.project. I had no idea before I was lucky enough to be given a guided
:18:36. > :18:39.tour around all the different bits of educational technology they are
:18:40. > :18:42.working on and all of the incredible ways that they are how people learn
:18:43. > :18:51.in order to improve the expdrience, as well as using the Interndt to
:18:52. > :18:54.help people and help reach people. I think the open University is an
:18:55. > :18:58.early adopter of technology. They are doing everything from pttting
:18:59. > :19:02.out free courses all over the world to watching how your eyes rdad a
:19:03. > :19:05.screen and assimilate inforlation in order to make it more likelx that
:19:06. > :19:08.you will learn more in the future. It's quite interesting and
:19:09. > :19:12.innovative stuff. My only c`veat would be that this is the bdginning
:19:13. > :19:16.of everybody's journey into online education. There have been ` huge
:19:17. > :19:20.number of start`ups, partictlarly from America over the last few
:19:21. > :19:25.years. No one yet reached bhg scale and have become enormously
:19:26. > :19:32.influential, particularly in the academic world. I think the ODU is
:19:33. > :19:38.very well positioned to be ` world leader, a market leader. Wh`t do you
:19:39. > :19:40.think the future holds when it comes to electronic learning? I think it
:19:41. > :19:46.is a tremendously exciting time There are a number of enormously
:19:47. > :19:51.interesting developments and as a student, wherever you are in the
:19:52. > :19:55.world, you have more access, more opportunities and that is why I love
:19:56. > :19:58.the open University. It really does level the playing field likd no
:19:59. > :20:02.other institution. It's about Steve Woollatt. He lives
:20:03. > :20:07.in Hertfordshire and is a motorcycle drag racer. At the end
:20:08. > :20:10.of last week he was involved It happened at the Santa Pod
:20:11. > :20:16.raceway in Bedfordshire. The rider Steve was racing lost
:20:17. > :20:19.control and swerved into hil. In the impact, he somehow m`naged to
:20:20. > :20:37.cling on to the back of Steve's bike Six seconds from start to fhnish but
:20:38. > :20:43.in drag racing it doesn't always go to plan. The first round, Phil got
:20:44. > :20:47.the jump off me off the lind. I was soon catching him up. I could see he
:20:48. > :20:52.was in trouble. I knew therd was going to be an impact. He hht the
:20:53. > :20:54.side of me. He carried on for a little bit longer, thinking they
:20:55. > :21:02.would be a riderless motorcxcle about and there was. The rider had
:21:03. > :21:07.lost control, crossing the centre line, colliding with Steve's
:21:08. > :21:13.machine. The Greek's bike slid down the track. The bike didn't feel
:21:14. > :21:21.right. I look over my shoulder and that is where I saw feel, shtting on
:21:22. > :21:26.the bars. He had his leg catght at the side of the tire. This lode you
:21:27. > :21:31.see in the video was the tire rubbing on his leg. It has burdened
:21:32. > :21:36.his ankle but apart from th`t, he hasn't sustained any other hnjuries.
:21:37. > :21:40.The impact was at 170 mph. Incredibly, Phil hitched a ride in
:21:41. > :21:45.the wheelie bars, usually used to keep the bike stable. They hold
:21:46. > :21:51.around 50 events here each xear They've been racing here since 965.
:21:52. > :22:00.Never before have they seen the drag race... This was a very, very rare
:22:01. > :22:04.incident. What happened was one bike crossed into the other lane. That
:22:05. > :22:08.happens occasionally. From time to time, especially in the States, they
:22:09. > :22:13.can make contact. But we've never seen it here ever. We've never seen
:22:14. > :22:19.a bike crossed the lane and make contact with another one. So they's
:22:20. > :22:23.incident has become a big Internet hit worldwide. Phil is now back in
:22:24. > :22:35.Greece recovering. Steve was back at his Hertfordshire home. This film
:22:36. > :22:40.likely to be alive? Possiblx. He is lucky he has still got two legs He
:22:41. > :22:44.was caught up in the back qtite severely and we had to dism`ntle the
:22:45. > :22:53.bike at the end of the track to get his leg out. He was very lucky. We
:22:54. > :22:59.both win. A first for the rhders and drag racing. Sitting back on a deck
:23:00. > :23:08.chair, as one eyewitness put it Just not that relaxing at 170 mph.
:23:09. > :23:12.thousands of people who spend their spare time rebuilding things which
:23:13. > :23:24.because they love it. The sort of people who get involved with the Mid
:23:25. > :23:27.Suffolk Light Railway. Todax they have been getting ready for a big
:23:28. > :23:50.gala this weekend and that leans getting the engines all firdd up.
:23:51. > :23:56.This is the only steam presdrvation railway in Suffolk and its lix of
:23:57. > :24:03.volunteers is diverse. Zach is studying at Cambridge University,
:24:04. > :24:08.David is a former car mechanic. They are like women. They tell you what
:24:09. > :24:12.they need, what they want. People say engines talk to you and they do
:24:13. > :24:16.in a roundabout way. They'vd got funny little quirks. I suppose it is
:24:17. > :24:22.stepping back in time. Thesd machines have been going for more
:24:23. > :24:28.than 100 years. There is not much technology around today which we can
:24:29. > :24:35.say the same for. In 100 ye`rs time it will still be usable. Thhs line
:24:36. > :24:39.used to run 19 miles. Closure came in 1952. Today, the track is just
:24:40. > :24:44.half a mile long but talks `re underway with the council and locals
:24:45. > :24:53.to see if they can extend it. There is a wealth of expertise on site in
:24:54. > :24:58.one workshop. In another, a locomotive is being restored. An
:24:59. > :25:05.appeal is running to cover the costs, an estimated at ?400,000 We
:25:06. > :25:10.like to have people with genuine skills from the steam period.
:25:11. > :25:17.Somebody described it once `s old`age care with spanners. In the
:25:18. > :25:29.booking office outside, this model is motionless but back on track The
:25:30. > :25:32.locos are at last truly alive. I started with little railways, model
:25:33. > :25:39.railways and gradually the trains have been getting bigger. I find
:25:40. > :25:41.myself here. The gala takes place this Saturday and Sunday. They are
:25:42. > :25:44.desperate to showcase what they have achieved so far and their vhsion for
:25:45. > :25:55.the future. It was a misty start in
:25:56. > :26:05.Northamptonshire this morning. This was a beautiful scene. Moving over
:26:06. > :26:12.to Suffolk, Bury Saint Edmunds, Jason Smith was on an early`morning
:26:13. > :26:17.run. Another scene from verx Saint Edmunds last night, this was the
:26:18. > :26:21.moon over Moreton Hall. The