:00:00. > 3:59:59Adebowale show nod remorse. That is all from us. Now we join our news
:00:00. > :01:03.teams where And some of your Christmas lights in
:01:04. > :01:07.all their splendour. Good evening. First tonight ` he was
:01:08. > :01:11.a hit`and`run driver who tried to cover his tracks. But tonight, Adam
:01:12. > :01:13.Reeve is starting a 12`year prison sentence. The 22`year`old from
:01:14. > :01:16.Wisbech deliberately targeted a pedestrian, and in the days after
:01:17. > :01:19.driving into him, he disguised his car. His victim spent six days in
:01:20. > :01:22.hospital. Louise Hubball reports. Fire has ripped though a restaurant
:01:23. > :01:31.on a leisure park in Northampton, damaging a gas main. June last year,
:01:32. > :01:36.and three men aimlessly kick a can in a Wisbech Street. Just before
:01:37. > :01:43.this, one had greeted 22`year`old Adam Reeves, mistakenly thinking he
:01:44. > :01:50.knew him. Matt `` Adam Reeve takes objection, getting his car and
:01:51. > :01:54.liberally ploughing into his victim. The 25`year`old listen when you
:01:55. > :01:59.victim survived, but spent six days in hospital. Adam Reeve initially
:02:00. > :02:04.denied being there. He tried to cover his tracks by changing the
:02:05. > :02:09.look of his car. He later claimed an innocent friend had been driving.
:02:10. > :02:13.Sentencing Adam Reeve to 12 years, half of which to be served in
:02:14. > :02:20.prison, the judge told him that he had got himself extremely drunk
:02:21. > :02:25.When the victim hailed him, you noted he was foreign. He used his
:02:26. > :02:32.car as a weapon, a potentially lethal one. Due to the injury is the
:02:33. > :02:36.victim sustained, he has lost all confidence in relationships. There
:02:37. > :02:41.were no brake lights prior to the impact. Eyewitness accounts, the
:02:42. > :02:45.vehicle was accelerating towards the victim and hit him head on, so it
:02:46. > :02:49.could easily have killed the victim. I think the sentence befits the
:02:50. > :02:55.crime. It was very serious. Hopefully, that sentence should give
:02:56. > :03:00.the victim a bit of closure. Tonight, Adam Reeve will begin his
:03:01. > :03:04.prison sentence. His victim, only guilty of being in the wrong place
:03:05. > :03:08.at the wrong time, remains in constant pain and may face further
:03:09. > :03:12.operations. Fire has ripped though a restaurant
:03:13. > :03:15.on a leisure park in Northampton, damaging a gas main. Firefighters
:03:16. > :03:19.spent more than 12 hours trying to put out the flames, but the Red Hot
:03:20. > :03:22.World Buffet has been reduced to ash and cinders. Hundreds of people had
:03:23. > :03:26.already booked in for Christmas meals. We can go live now to our
:03:27. > :03:37.reporter Neil Bradford in Northampton. Yes, this is a busy
:03:38. > :03:42.leisure complex in Northampton. There are many other pubs and
:03:43. > :03:47.restaurants here too. Last night it was very busy, with people enjoying
:03:48. > :03:51.the final week before Christmas Thankfully, the Red Hot World Buffet
:03:52. > :03:55.was closed at the time of the fire, but for those at the neighbouring
:03:56. > :04:00.cinema that had to be evacuated the reality outside was more dramatic
:04:01. > :04:04.than anything they had seen on the screen. When they named this
:04:05. > :04:08.restaurant the Red Hot World Buffet, this isn't what anyone would have
:04:09. > :04:13.had in mind. Last night it was completely destroyed in a fire. By
:04:14. > :04:19.daylight, the scale of the damage is breathtaking. Chris Datsun works at
:04:20. > :04:25.another restaurant nearby. He couldn't believe what he had
:04:26. > :04:29.witnessed. I came out and had a look. Originally, it was black
:04:30. > :04:38.smoke, and then the flames built and built until it was sky`high. And
:04:39. > :04:43.neighbouring cinema was evacuated, as 60 firefighters spent the night
:04:44. > :04:47.bringing the flames under control. It is almost 12 hours since the
:04:48. > :04:51.start of the fire, and the roads surrounding the restaurant remained
:04:52. > :04:56.closed. Gas engineers here are working to cut the supply, because,
:04:57. > :05:02.as you can see, there are still flames coming from the building The
:05:03. > :05:06.fire alarm was activated just before 11pm as Claire `` as staff were
:05:07. > :05:14.closing up. No customers were inside. There were 11 staff in the
:05:15. > :05:19.building. Everyone was evacuated with no injuries to report. We had
:05:20. > :05:26.eight fire engines and specialist support, and about 60 firefighters.
:05:27. > :05:30.Robert was part of a party of 1 0 guests who were planning a Christmas
:05:31. > :05:36.meal at the restaurant last week. He is now looking for an alternative
:05:37. > :05:42.venue. We don't want to have to let all those people down at the last
:05:43. > :05:45.minute. Today police and firefighters began an investigation
:05:46. > :05:49.into what caused the fire. The restaurant's owners are yet to
:05:50. > :05:56.assess what this will cost them financially. Everyone here is
:05:57. > :06:00.thankful that no one was hurt. Some good news tonight ` the Hilton
:06:01. > :06:05.hotel in Northampton are able to accommodate Robert and his 100
:06:06. > :06:10.diners, who were supposed to be having their Christmas meal here on
:06:11. > :06:13.December the 27th. Thank you. The Police and Crime Commissioner
:06:14. > :06:16.for Bedfordshire says the county is being held to ransom, after learning
:06:17. > :06:20.its police force will have to find an extra ?1 million of savings in
:06:21. > :06:23.the next two years. Olly Martins told me earlier tonight he was
:06:24. > :06:26.expecting to have to save ?7.5 million pounds, but discovered
:06:27. > :06:36.yesterday that it's been upped to ?8.5 million. We had anticipated
:06:37. > :06:42.that there would be what is called a top slice for the IPCC and also for
:06:43. > :06:46.the innovation fund. But when it came, the cut was actually double
:06:47. > :06:51.what we were expecting, so that was a bit of a surprise, and it is going
:06:52. > :06:57.to be difficult for us to deal with. Forces are inspected by the
:06:58. > :07:01.HMI sea, and they say you are financially vulnerable force. Where
:07:02. > :07:07.is this extra money going to come from? It is the impact it will have
:07:08. > :07:12.on our long`term plans. In the short to medium term, we are actually
:07:13. > :07:16.recruiting officers, so we are putting more officers into the front
:07:17. > :07:21.line. We are still able to do that. It is the longer term impact, in
:07:22. > :07:26.terms of the collaboration, in terms of the transformation work that we
:07:27. > :07:31.were going to do by investing in IT. The government still haven't
:07:32. > :07:35.told us whether we are going to get any flexibility in terms of
:07:36. > :07:39.increasing the precept, which is what people play the Dutch people
:07:40. > :07:45.pay for their policing through the council tax locally. We are not so
:07:46. > :07:48.sure if we are going to be able to increase that locally. If you can
:07:49. > :07:53.increase it through council tax is that the way you want to go? I don't
:07:54. > :08:00.particularly relish increasing people's council tax, but it is
:08:01. > :08:05.about the only option that there is if the government keeps cutting our
:08:06. > :08:12.budget. Knife crime is an issue in the region, with a spate of recent
:08:13. > :08:17.stabbings. Do you think the force is being treated unfairly? We don't get
:08:18. > :08:22.a share that reflects the needs we have. We are a small, rural leave
:08:23. > :08:30.funded force that faces urban challenges, challenges that are only
:08:31. > :08:33.seen elsewhere in the country in the large metropolitan forces, who are
:08:34. > :08:39.clearly in a better position to deal with them. We do suffer from that.
:08:40. > :08:44.You do have to decide your budget by the end of January. You don't have
:08:45. > :08:48.much time, do you? No, it is going to be difficult. We are going to
:08:49. > :08:53.have to be burning the midnight oil to make sure that the budget
:08:54. > :08:56.balances. For our postmen and women, it's the
:08:57. > :08:59.busiest time of the year. Nationally, Royal Mail are
:09:00. > :09:02.delivering 1.2 million items a day. But as emails and texts replace
:09:03. > :09:07.cards, parcels make up a larger share ` a bit under a third of the
:09:08. > :09:15.total. They all go to 29 million addresses. Emma Baugh has been to
:09:16. > :09:22.the Peterborough sorting office Alan Gudgeon is a workplace coach.
:09:23. > :09:28.You are putting it in the right place? He has been at the Royal Mail
:09:29. > :09:35.for 19 years, and has seen its business change. The parcels have
:09:36. > :09:39.actually increased, and the floor space has expanded, where we need
:09:40. > :09:46.space for parcels. Before, this was an area we sorted letters in and
:09:47. > :09:51.packets. We still need more space. This is the intelligent letters
:09:52. > :09:56.sorter which handles 45,000 letters an hour. It is part of
:09:57. > :10:01.modernisation, but the company still relies on a large labour force. Here
:10:02. > :10:07.at Peterborough, they employ more than 400 people throughout the year,
:10:08. > :10:11.taking on an extra 150 to cope with seasonal demand, adding up to the
:10:12. > :10:18.24,000 people employed throughout the region in a year. With recent
:10:19. > :10:24.price hikes for stamps, will there be fewer cards are sent this
:10:25. > :10:28.Christmas? We haven't seen that Customers next choices based on
:10:29. > :10:33.value. We have not seen a decline, which I think shows that the pricing
:10:34. > :10:37.is right and people still see it as relevant. Online shopping is
:10:38. > :10:42.growing, and we enjoy the lion's share of that growth. Out on the
:10:43. > :10:48.streets of Peterborough, are people still sending cards? I won't be
:10:49. > :10:53.posting them this year. I will be sending them electronically, because
:10:54. > :10:56.it is cheaper. I am sending cards. I posted them today, but there were
:10:57. > :11:02.definitely less than in previous years. I write them out but never
:11:03. > :11:09.send them! Do you prefer electronic or not at all? Not at all. I do
:11:10. > :11:17.still send them, but mostly I take them personally. I tried to deliver
:11:18. > :11:21.as many as I can myself. Whether to send or not to send, no matter how
:11:22. > :11:27.you address it, it is up to these people to get it delivered in time.
:11:28. > :11:30.A camera capable of capturing something as small as a button on
:11:31. > :11:33.the surface of the moon has blasted into space, cheered on by the
:11:34. > :11:37.Hertfordshire scientists who designed it. It's called Gaia ` and
:11:38. > :11:41.is the most advanced camera of its kind ever made. Its mission ` to
:11:42. > :11:44.photograph more than a billion stars, and create a 3D map of the
:11:45. > :11:52.Milky Way. Mike Cartwright watched the launch.
:11:53. > :11:57.Five, four, three, two, one! Decollage. Physicists, designers,
:11:58. > :12:04.technicians ` scientists in Stevenage whose work could help
:12:05. > :12:09.uncover the secrets of our universe. The successful launch an emotional
:12:10. > :12:12.moment. How often and how many people get to say that something
:12:13. > :12:16.that they have worked on has been to space? I can see you welling up
:12:17. > :12:19.there. It's that emotional? It really is. It's fantastic. You must
:12:20. > :12:24.feel really proud today? Really proud. Of everything that our team
:12:25. > :12:28.has accomplished. Gaia's mission ` produced the most detailed map of
:12:29. > :12:33.our galaxy ever. On board, a one billion pixel camera. From Earth, it
:12:34. > :12:37.could pinpoint a penny on the moon. Mind`boggling technology developed
:12:38. > :12:40.right here in the East. For science, this is hugely significant
:12:41. > :12:46.` Gaia carrying the largest ever camera into space. But for
:12:47. > :12:49.economics, it's massive too. This is a ?19 million project for our
:12:50. > :12:56.region, with hundreds of people here working on it in the last seven
:12:57. > :13:00.years. It's international. It's a European project. But about a
:13:01. > :13:07.quarter of the engineering, the manufacturing and testing was
:13:08. > :13:12.actually done here in the UK. The spacecraft work here in Stevenage,
:13:13. > :13:17.and the camera itself, the CCD array, built in Chelmsford. Whatever
:13:18. > :13:23.passes in front of the lens will be tracked. Comets, asteroids, planets
:13:24. > :13:27.beyond our system. What is found will then be studied at the
:13:28. > :13:33.University of Cambridge. You can effectively redo a lot of astronomy
:13:34. > :13:39.this way. It is much higher accuracy. You can learn more about
:13:40. > :13:43.the charter of the stars. You can learn about stars that are much
:13:44. > :13:48.further away. It will remap the Milky Way. Our understanding of what
:13:49. > :13:52.is out there will change forever, thanks to ground`breaking work
:13:53. > :13:59.carried out right here. Amazing. Cambridgeshire Fire service
:14:00. > :14:03.says it has plans in place to ensure the public remains stays during
:14:04. > :14:10.three planned strike days. Members of the Fire Brigades Union will walk
:14:11. > :14:13.out between 7pm on Christmas Eve and again on New Year's Eve. They are
:14:14. > 0:07:18taking action on pay