:00:16. > :00:19.Hello. First today, an exclusive interview with the partner of an
:00:19. > :00:30.army veteran jailed for an armed He is very ill. He is not a bad
:00:30. > :00:37.army veteran jailed for an armed I am not stupid. I would not stay
:00:37. > :00:40.with somebody who was a bad person. The university is fighting for the
:00:40. > :00:46.cream of the crop. Stepping into the world of work, the students saying
:00:46. > :00:54.no to debt and yes to a wage packet. And a year on from Olympic bronze,
:00:54. > :01:07.the World Championship bar proves too high. First this evening, an
:01:07. > :01:10.interview with a partner of an Army veteran jailed for an armed siege
:01:10. > :01:12.Jane Hill—Phillips has hit out at the sentence given to Mark McLees
:01:12. > :01:16.post—traumatic stress disorder. the sentence given to Mark McLees
:01:16. > :01:20.Beds. He thought he was in a war zone, as he held police at bay for
:01:20. > :01:28.five hours at his home in Leighton Buzzard. She says he needed help,
:01:28. > :01:33.Jane Hill—Phillips is standing by her man. She believes Britain will
:01:33. > :01:37.do nothing to help her partner's post—traumatic stress disorder.
:01:37. > :01:41.Throughout her relate —— throughout their relationship she has witnessed
:01:41. > :01:49.his suffering. He gets quite angry. We get nightmares, he does not
:01:49. > :01:52.sleep. He suffers night sweats. All the typical sort of symptoms you
:01:53. > :02:01.get with post—traumatic stress Corporal Mark McLees believed he was
:02:01. > :02:06.This is the moment he was arrested after an armed stand—off in Leighton
:02:06. > :02:10.buzzard. This week, he was jailed for two years after pleading guilty
:02:10. > :02:16.to making threats with an imitation firearm. It is a sentence which
:02:16. > :02:19.to making threats with an imitation left his devastated. What happened
:02:19. > :02:25.that night and the events of that night must have been terrified ——
:02:25. > :02:34.terrifying. I accept that. Do I think the sentence was hired? Yes, I
:02:34. > :02:38.do. Mark served with the Sutherland Regiment for 18 years. He had been
:02:38. > :02:44.struggling to adjust to life with a civilian and had spent a number
:02:44. > :02:49.struggling to adjust to life with a A charity which helps ex—service
:02:49. > :03:00.case. Trustees say many others could situation. There is no emergency
:03:00. > :03:05.pick—up from this problem. Charities help, but they have got to get to
:03:05. > :03:11.rock bottom before anyone recognises there is a problem. The day before
:03:11. > :03:15.his breakdown, Mark McLees tried to seek help but without success. His
:03:15. > :03:20.partner accepts many people were terrified by his actions that night,
:03:20. > :03:28.but she wants people to know the probe soldier and not the prisoner.
:03:28. > :03:38.He is not a bad person. He is the most caring and lovable person I
:03:38. > :03:43.punished, but face prison will do more harm than good. —— she fears.
:03:43. > :03:55.In a statement the Ministry of Justice said: Sentencing is a matter
:03:55. > :04:03.for the independent judiciary. Defence, around 4% of veterans
:04:03. > :04:06.Stress, an organisation set up to help struggling veterans, estimates
:04:06. > :04:09.that around 20% have some form of mental health issues and they say
:04:09. > :04:14.that 3.5% of the prison population Well, earlier I spoke to Steve
:04:14. > :04:18.Pettitt from Combat Stress and I began by asking him, what is being
:04:18. > :04:22.done to ensure that more veterans don't end up being sent to prison? I
:04:22. > :04:28.hear a lot that we did not know don't end up being sent to prison? I
:04:28. > :04:40.to do, we did not know who to seek help from. It would be beneficial
:04:40. > :04:43.for ours if, if you have problems, contact Combat Stress or the Royal
:04:44. > :04:47.British Legion. That signposting is what the Government could do. But
:04:47. > :04:55.organisations like ourselves to what the Government could do. But
:04:55. > :04:59.trouble is, you see, that quite often the veteran does not know
:04:59. > :05:03.trouble is, you see, that quite has a problem. It is only when some
:05:03. > :05:06.family member or friend says that he thinks he might be suffering that he
:05:06. > :05:13.take stock and do something about it. That could be ten years after he
:05:13. > :05:20.has left the services. There will be those who say the law is the law.
:05:20. > :05:24.And that as tragic as it is, this punishment had to be in some shape
:05:24. > :05:33.or form issued as a result of the distress that was caused. I would
:05:33. > :05:37.agree with that. I don't think any veteran seeks exemption from the
:05:37. > :05:42.law, and I don't think the civilian society would expect him to. Mark
:05:42. > :05:48.McLees's partner thought he had society would expect him to. Mark
:05:48. > :05:54.harsh sentence, I could point her in the direction of people who had
:05:54. > :05:59.And if you or anyone you know is affected by the issues raised, you
:05:59. > :06:03.As you'll know it's A—level results day, and across the east students
:06:03. > :06:04.have been finding out how they've done. For some of our universities
:06:04. > :06:09.university admissions mean they done. For some of our universities
:06:09. > :06:17.have to work harder to attract the best students. Mike Cartwright
:06:17. > :06:26.nervous moments, as students open their results. Most here are hoping
:06:26. > :06:32.to go to university. It is not what I was hoping for, but I know I have
:06:32. > :06:51.got in any way. I have a scholarship I got a A in biology, and a A in
:06:51. > :06:55.At the University of Bedfordshire's students find a course. This year
:06:55. > :07:00.2,500 have enrolled. There is a relaxation of the rules, —— but
:07:00. > :07:13.there's a relaxation of the rules put more pressure on universities
:07:13. > :07:22.performance, so we are a university that takes people at all ranges
:07:22. > :07:29.performance, so we are a university applications this year are up. It
:07:29. > :07:32.has made an interesting market for higher education, and universities
:07:32. > :07:41.are now having to think differently about how we recruit students.
:07:41. > :07:47.is that time of year when students discover how they have done, and
:07:47. > :07:52.As the financial pressures of going to university grow, more and more
:07:52. > :08:05.apprenticeships. Anna Todd has been Cambridgeshire who has landed a
:08:05. > :08:14.Turning his back on student life, Ross Payne has landed an accountancy
:08:14. > :08:27.company Deloitte, to earn a decent outsider sometimes, but there has
:08:27. > :08:31.university has risen a lot lately. So it seems more beneficial to get
:08:32. > :08:37.some practical experience, and earn money in a salary rather than come
:08:37. > :08:42.out with a lot of debt. Kelly also became a trainee straight from
:08:42. > :08:55.Deloitte's bright sparks programme We are looking for very strong
:08:55. > :09:00.candidates. The places feel very quickly, we are recruiting now for
:09:00. > :09:08.next September, and the competition has definitely increased over the
:09:08. > :09:15.Apprenticeship Service say A—level results day is now its biggest time,
:09:15. > :09:19.benefits of learning and learning. If a person is apprentice trained,
:09:19. > :09:24.they will have a premium over the kind of qualifications. The gap
:09:24. > :09:28.they will have a premium over the narrowing between that which premium
:09:28. > :09:38.and —— between being apprentice Ross will have to get used to buying
:09:38. > :09:42.Well, a little earlier I spoke with John Bridge from the Chamber of
:09:42. > :09:45.Commerce in Cambridge, and began by asking what he thought the education
:09:45. > :09:52.system could do better to prepare We need to understand how we can
:09:52. > :10:08.equip young people much better for the work environment. We obviously
:10:08. > :10:11.achievements that young people have made and the results they have got
:10:11. > :10:14.today, but the end result is that most of them need a job or a career
:10:14. > :10:17.in order to earn money and get the deserve. But how do businesses get
:10:17. > :10:23.into the schools? This seems to deserve. But how do businesses get
:10:23. > :10:27.big disconnect between schools and worse. One problem is the funding
:10:27. > :10:32.mechanism that is being used by worse. One problem is the funding
:10:32. > :10:35.education department, where cash is number of pupils in sixth form.
:10:35. > :10:40.education department, where cash is the schools are focused on how many
:10:40. > :10:43.they do not want them in vocational training or in businesses because
:10:44. > :10:51.clearly that has an impact on the way they run the school. But between
:10:51. > :10:57.the age of 14 and 18 you are not thinking about your first job, you
:10:57. > :11:04.are thinking about University. But particular areas, they need to
:11:04. > :11:12.understand the type of companies we available, and the skills that they
:11:12. > :11:20.wherewithal as well, and they need to know where the —— this can be
:11:20. > :11:26.connectivity, we need to get better careers advice. At the moment what
:11:26. > :11:29.we are finding is that lots of careers advisers are being made
:11:29. > :11:33.redundant because of the current situation in the way the schools are
:11:33. > :11:40.focusing in a completely different way. Businesses are really concerned
:11:40. > :11:42.about the end product, and the young people are being disadvantaged
:11:42. > :11:51.because they are not equipped for Peterborough has stopped running
:11:51. > :11:54.Firefighters believe that a spark from a locomotive caused the fire
:11:54. > :11:59.which destroyed 40 acres of crops yesterday. Trains are now being
:11:59. > :12:03.New technology has allowed police in Cambridgeshire to drastically cut
:12:03. > :12:06.Operators used to answer calls within an average three minutes
:12:06. > :12:17.Operators used to answer calls but now 95% of calls are answered
:12:17. > :12:19.England, the Care Quality Commission and the local watchdogs say that
:12:19. > :12:26.they need to deal with staff shortages.
:12:26. > :12:30.A clamp—down on knives in Clacton seems to have paid off. In the three
:12:30. > :12:33.months to July there were more than 30 reported knife—point robberies.
:12:33. > :12:36.Extra police were drafted in and no similar robberies have been reported
:12:36. > :12:38.for the last month. Still to come: Another disappointing
:12:38. > :12:41.day for our athletes in Moscow. And invariably test state of the art
:12:41. > :12:48.dummies helping to train our flying medics.
:12:48. > :12:53.The news is all about those A—level results today, but exams,
:12:53. > :12:58.particularly English language exams for foreign students, are big
:12:58. > :13:01.business in our region. Tonight in our series looking at
:13:01. > :13:04.companies which export, we look at the work of Cambridge English
:13:04. > :13:14.Language Assessment, which has been doing business for 100 years. Dr
:13:14. > :13:20.written in Cambridge, printed in Cambridge, but these exam papers
:13:20. > :13:26.will be taken by students in 180 different countries. The company
:13:26. > :13:32.that produces them is part of Cambridge University, recognised the
:13:32. > :13:35.world over. it is very well recognised because Cambridge
:13:35. > :13:40.University is one of the top five recognised brands in the world. That
:13:40. > :13:48.has helped this business grow. It has been exporting exams for over
:13:48. > :13:52.100 years. The attention. This is the first exam paper that was set
:13:52. > :13:58.back in 1913. Among the tasks they had two hours to write an essay on
:13:58. > :14:01.subjects which include the effects of political movements on
:14:01. > :14:06.19th—century literature in England. But here are just three candidates
:14:06. > :14:14.sat the exam. Not one of them passed. 100 years later they now use
:14:14. > :14:18.computer—based tests as well. But when you sell to the world, you need
:14:18. > :14:32.to be able to speak to the world as well. The mac ——. we offer support
:14:32. > :14:41.in other languages as well. the employee around 400 people. Jobs
:14:41. > :14:45.that depend on exporting success. Dr Mike Milanovic is the Chief
:14:45. > :14:51.Executive of the unit. When I spoke to him earlier and I asked him how
:14:51. > :14:58.the unit came into being. Originally it got involved as part of a
:14:58. > :15:10.programme for a teacher of modern languages. It has now grown in
:15:10. > :15:17.scale. Those exams 100 years ago are very different from today 's. Pretty
:15:17. > :15:28.different. The exam 100 years ago took over 12 hours to do. And there
:15:28. > :15:32.was only one exam. We are talking this week about exporting. You are
:15:32. > :15:36.exporting knowledge and examinations. Where does the money
:15:36. > :15:41.from that go? the money that we make from exams gets invested again in
:15:41. > :15:48.our business. We are part of a group, Cambridge Assessment. So some
:15:48. > :15:53.of that money will go back into the university, to support that work,
:15:53. > :15:59.which in turn supports us. how important is it to have the words
:15:59. > :16:03.Cambridge University on it? it is really important, it is one of the
:16:03. > :16:06.leading universities in the world. The quality that it represents
:16:06. > :16:11.underpins the work that we do as well. Everything that we do must
:16:11. > :16:17.reflect the same quality standards as are achieved in the University.
:16:17. > :16:24.At the moment I know you reach into 130 countries. Either more that you
:16:24. > :16:31.are waiting to move into? English is so important that although we are in
:16:31. > :16:38.more than 100 and 30 countries now, I am sure we will eventually be
:16:39. > :16:42.present in almost every country in the world. The developing nations
:16:42. > :16:50.and the fast—growing economies, China, India, countries like that
:16:50. > :16:54.are very, very interested in English language and an English—language
:16:54. > :16:58.qualifications. A lot of our growth and development over the last decade
:16:58. > :17:05.has come from countries like that. But it is equally true in Europe
:17:05. > :17:09.that, as the European policy of mother tongue plus two languages
:17:09. > :17:13.spread around Europe, English is very important and that context as
:17:13. > :17:21.well. Hundreds of thousands of children are doing our exams in
:17:22. > :17:29.Spain and Italy and France. A 12 hour exam! It puts those
:17:29. > :17:32.A—levels into perspective. If you have a serious accident or if
:17:33. > :17:38.you are taken seriously ill you want the best care around you want it
:17:38. > :17:41.fast. For more than 40 years, MAGPAS has been playing a vital role in
:17:41. > :17:43.providing just that. At the moment the
:17:43. > :17:47.Cambridgeshire—based charity provide critical care cover 18 hours a day.
:17:47. > :17:50.But soon they will be working 24/7. They have a new training scheme to
:17:50. > :17:58.help provide more paramedics and a new helicopter.
:17:58. > :18:08.Landing close to the new Magpas training centre in Huntingdon, the
:18:08. > :18:17.new orange Explorer. On the board, next Foster, the first doctor in the
:18:17. > :18:24.UK to specialise in prehospital emergency medicine. It has now been
:18:24. > :18:29.recognised as a subspecialty, like gynaecology or paediatrics. They
:18:29. > :18:34.have approved a curricular minute and standardise training has
:18:34. > :18:40.started. Magpas also claim a first, with this
:18:40. > :18:44.new training scheme. Already a paramedic, Chris is giving up his
:18:44. > :18:53.time to complete the course, which will allow him to volunteer with the
:18:53. > :18:56.team. Made any mistakes? yes. We are learning from previous mistakes that
:18:56. > :19:02.have been made. This is the place to make mistakes. the doctors and
:19:02. > :19:06.paramedics work on a series of highly realistic scenarios. Chris
:19:06. > :19:17.and his team are trying to save the life of boys hit by a car. —— a boy.
:19:17. > :19:23.it is nice to be tested. We get hot and bothered and a bit stressed but
:19:23. > :19:31.it is well worth it. We sedated the child initially to maintain his
:19:31. > :19:41.earwig, gain control of his pain. #.
:19:41. > :19:48.Using a rapid response vehicle, Magpas do several runs a day. All of
:19:48. > :19:51.this is designed to help people who need critical care before they get
:19:51. > :20:00.to hospital. As a result, saving lives.
:20:00. > :20:03.It has been a tough day for our athletes at the World Championships
:20:03. > :20:11.in Moscow. This morning it was 18—year—old Jessica Judd from Essex.
:20:11. > :20:15.This afternoon it was the high jumper Robbie Grabarz from St
:20:15. > :20:23.Neots. Jessica Field to qualify for the 800 metres final. And Robbie
:20:23. > :20:30.Grabarz missed out on a medal as well.
:20:30. > :20:32.It has not been a happy World Championships for either Greg
:20:32. > :20:38.Rutherford yesterday Robbie Grabarz today. Robbie actually spent his
:20:38. > :20:43.formative years training year at the Bedford athletic Stadium, but today
:20:43. > :20:50.two metres 29 centimetres was not quite good enough. It was won by a
:20:50. > :20:56.Ukrainian athlete. He just missed out on a world record, in fact. That
:20:56. > :21:02.is how high—quality it was today. Behind me you can see the sprinters
:21:02. > :21:08.erect Bedford County athletics club. Nigel Levine has still got a chance
:21:08. > :21:14.of winning a medal. He started he read Bedford as well. But Robbie
:21:14. > :21:19.Grabarz, like Greg, it just was not his day to day.
:21:19. > :21:22.They gathered to see if one of their own kid when Britain another
:21:22. > :21:33.priceless medal. Robbie Grabarz spent years at Bedford County
:21:33. > :21:38.athletics club. It has been a difficult year for him after the
:21:38. > :21:45.Olympics, but provided that he gets his act together now he is in with a
:21:45. > :21:51.chance. What do you think, is he going to be lucky today? yes, I
:21:51. > :21:58.think so. Bronze medal, I'm guessing.
:21:58. > :22:08.Robbie ran into trouble at two metres and 29 centimetres.
:22:08. > :22:12.He cleared it on the next attempt but it was last chance win at two
:22:12. > :22:26.metres and 32 centimetres after two failures.
:22:26. > :22:30.Two metres 29 centimetres was good enough for Bobby to win bronze last
:22:30. > :22:35.year. One year and the bar has been raised higher and Robbie could not
:22:35. > :22:39.make it over. The high jump collective stayed to watch the rest
:22:39. > :22:47.of the high—class competition. Earlier and another of Bedford 's
:22:47. > :22:51.finest, Nigel Levine, was rescued as his relay team—mates qualified for
:22:51. > :22:56.the final. But disappointment for Jessica Judd who failed to reach the
:22:56. > :23:06.final. A—level results wait at home for her, hopefully what is inside
:23:06. > :23:10.will be less of a disappointment. I am so disappointed, so many people
:23:10. > :23:14.have worked hard to get your. I thought I was going to do it and
:23:14. > :23:19.then my legs just went, but maybe that is something the site had lost.
:23:19. > :23:23.I am just so happy to be here in one piece and I wanted so much more than
:23:23. > :23:28.that. Not the best day for our region 's
:23:28. > :23:32.athletes but Jess and Robbie will both be back.
:23:32. > :23:38.Robbie presented the award tear at the ceremony last year, so he will
:23:38. > :23:41.certainly be back at Bedford. We have the young high jumpers at
:23:41. > :23:46.Bedford going through their paces now. One or two of them have
:23:46. > :23:52.actually broken his records that he set your all those years ago. This
:23:52. > :23:58.is their head coach. You know Robbie and his mum very well, how
:23:58. > :24:02.disappointed I you today? Very disappointed. He was expected to get
:24:02. > :24:08.towards the medals, we know that he had a problem with his knee, but we
:24:08. > :24:14.expected him to get through. He did look impressive up until the 229. It
:24:14. > :24:21.was sad that he did not get into the top. he will be back, that's for
:24:21. > :24:32.sure. You have some talent year. Quite a bit of talent. This girl is
:24:32. > :24:41.new to it, one for the future. This is my son. He is 12. He broke Robbie
:24:41. > :24:49.'s under 13 record 13 years to the day the other week. A lot of talent
:24:50. > :24:59.here. We hope to see 12 of these at the stage that Robbie has. my eldest
:24:59. > :25:03.son has broken Robbie 's under 17 record year. He went to the World
:25:03. > :25:09.Championships and got a personal best. Your dynasty is certainly
:25:09. > :25:10.doing well year. Sadly for Robbie, not the case today.
:25:10. > :25:19.And time for the weather. Some very changeable weather
:25:19. > :25:25.conditions today. The pressure at the moment is more like what you
:25:25. > :25:30.would expect in the autumn. At the moment there is a mass of rain out
:25:30. > :25:35.to the West working. That will be with us into the early hours of
:25:35. > :25:38.tomorrow morning. Today we have had that perfect combination of
:25:38. > :25:45.humidity, warmth and sunshine. That has triggered showers. Pretty much
:25:45. > :25:51.anywhere is at risk of catching a sharp shower before the end of the
:25:51. > :25:57.evening. The first part of the night looks quite drivers clear spells. It
:25:57. > :26:01.can quickly turn cloudy. Much of this rain expected to arrive
:26:01. > :26:05.overnight. Quite a good soaking in places which may well be welcome for
:26:05. > :26:14.gardens and fields. In terms of temperatures once more and mild
:26:14. > :26:20.night. A moderate wind, still breezy. That weather front will take
:26:20. > :26:24.its time clearing tomorrow, so for the Eastern half it will be sticking
:26:24. > :26:29.around, bringing us these cloudy conditions and a wet start pretty
:26:29. > :26:32.much everywhere. It will gladly clearer way and at the end of the
:26:32. > :26:37.day we will see something a bit brighter, especially across the
:26:37. > :26:42.western half. Some rain, but not raining all of the time. A lot of
:26:42. > :26:50.cloud left a class this Eastern half. —— across. The temperatures
:26:50. > :26:56.could shoot up if we start to see some sunshine. We could see one to
:26:56. > :27:00.sharp showers into the evening where afternoon and they could turn
:27:00. > :27:03.thundery. This is not going to spoil the day
:27:03. > :27:14.froze because the rain is not expected to arrive until the
:27:14. > :27:17.evening. Much of Saturday looks dry. Brighter spells perhaps to start
:27:17. > :27:21.with but turning increasingly cloudy. Outbreaks of heavy rain,
:27:21. > :27:29.strong winds and gusts in excess of 30 mph. We have some blustery,
:27:29. > :27:33.westerly winds for Sunday and Monday. That could mean some
:27:33. > :27:41.showers. Overnight lows here and a quick barometer cheque for you.
:27:41. > :27:42.That is all from us. Have a great evening.