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Hello, and welcome to Look East In the programme tonight: No food or | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
drink for eight days before his death. | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
Today a coroner hears complaints and concerns about this man's care at | :00:15. | :00:15. | |
Addenbrooke's. Kicked out of home and living in a | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
tent ` the mother and daughter left homeless by a long`running row over | :00:20. | :00:29. | |
council tax. We'll be here later looking at the | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
problem of staffing A, and why it is costing our hospitals millions in | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
temporary cover. And why do penguins climb? An | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
Antarctic mystery being solved in Cambridge. | :00:41. | :00:49. | |
First tonight, a Home Office pathologist has told a coroner of | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
his concerns over the death of a man in Addenbrooke's Hospital. Bob Goold | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
had been put on the so`called Liverpool Care Pathway, which was | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
designed to provide palliative care for patients in their last few hours | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
and days. But Mr Goold's family says he was left without food and drink | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
for eight days. Mike Cartwright has been at Huntingdon Coroner's Court | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
and joins me now. We have had a day of medical | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
evidence at this inquest. We heard about then ammonia which Mr Goold | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
developed in hospital and which caused his death. We heard about his | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
worsening condition and the staff who wanted to stop his suffering `` | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
and ammonia. His family were listening and say his final days in | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
hospital were horrendous. Bob Goold's wife arrived supported by | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
her family who feel he was written off by a hospital that stopped his | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
food, fluids and oxygen for more than a week. Aged six to nine, Bob | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
Goold had Alzheimer's. After falling at home, he was taken to hospital | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
with a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain. The pathologist who | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
carried out the postmortem cold the inquest he had concerns that | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
treatment was withdrawn. Head injuries and Alzheimer's contributed | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
to Mr Goold's death at Addenbrooke's but bronchial and ammonia caused it. | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
Bob Goold arrived at Addenbrooke's on the 3rd of February. On the 8th | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
he was placed on the Liverpool Care Pathway. The family say this was | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
without their permission. On the 25th of debris, he died. This Doctor | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
in charge of the intensive care unit he told the inquest he thought the | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
family understood, but the hospital had not specifically mentioned the | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
Liverpool Care Pathway. The inquest heard his condition deteriorated and | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
medical staff acted to relieve his suffering. Although in Goring Goold | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
nude the prognosis was not good if treatment was continued, the family | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
say, he might be alive today `` although Goring Goold was aware | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
Although this treatment was controversial, how did it work at | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
Addenbrooke's? For patients to be put under treatment, patients told | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
there were `` there was a form. The first part asked if it was futile to | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
continue treatment and the inquest was told in this case it was. The | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
second part say, is the family in agreement? The family say they were | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
never asked. Tomorrow we will hear from family members and staff who | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
were involved in the care of Bob Goold his final days. This inquest | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
should finish tomorrow. A woman from Bedfordshire says she's | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
having to live in a tent after her home was seized in a long`running | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
row over her council tax bill. Marilyn Robinson`White and her | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
daughter believed they were exempt, and that the bill had been sent in | :04:04. | :04:14. | |
air. `` by mistake. A bedroom, kitchen and cupboard For | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
this mother and daughter in Kempston, it is their home. They | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
were kicked out of their house and have been sleeping on wasteland We | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
know the neighbours are wondering what is going on. We will stay here | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
and hopefully, I'll I wanted was an apology from the council. Money is | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
not huge compensation, just an apology, but to lose my home I am | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
going nowhere. She believed they do not have to pay council tax because | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
her late husband was disabled and they were his carers. The borough | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
council say the family had not applied for the discount. They were | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
asked to pay the debt in instalments but it grew and they were litter | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
forced into bankruptcy. The house has been repossessed and there is a | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
notice in the window giving the women 14 days to remove their | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
belongings. Bedford Borough Council said Marilyn Robinson`White was | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
liable to pay council tax arrears dating back to 2006. They said they | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
had offered advice but she had chosen not to accept. When | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
neighbours realise the woman had been locked out, they became | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
concerned. It was such cold weather and such a terrible night, you | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
wouldn't leave your pets out in this weather, so we felt sorry for them | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
and have been doing what we can Neighbours are rallying round, we | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
have brought a tent for them because they were sitting at a table with | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
small umbrellas over the top which didn't shelter them from the rain | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
and not from the cold. The two women are challenging the bankruptcy order | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
and fighting for their home back, but with legal bills on top there | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
are doubts now run into tens of thousands of pounds. `` their debts. | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
Next tonight, the police boss who's been given a severe reprimand today | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
for sharing confidential information about a sensitive case. Olly Martins | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
is the Police and Crime Commissioner for Bedfordshire. Today he was | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
hauled over the coals for discussing the case of a Luton man who died in | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
police custody. Our home affairs correspondent Sally Chidzoy reports. | :06:30. | :06:38. | |
Seen before the police and crime panel alongside his Chief Constable, | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
Olly Martins face what was described as an angry panel today. Behind | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
closed doors, he was given a stiff dressing down and reprimanded. He | :06:49. | :06:58. | |
was very contrite. Our decision today was to issue a written | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
reprimand for the air he made. Mr Martin's admitted leaking | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
confidential information on the case of a man who died in custody. He | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
passed it to a friend at the Home Office. Bedfordshire Police | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
investigated the police complaints commission, which is investigating | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
the death. Mr Marten faced the panel member and in the words of one | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
member but a bit of a fright at realising the enormity of what he | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
had done. Panel members were very angry. It also emerged he had | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
considered his resignation. Mr Martin's said he decided it was best | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
to continue in his job and gave this reaction to the reprimand. If people | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
are prepared to accept that even a Police Commissioner can make a | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
mistake, and I have been straightforward about the fact I | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
made a mistake and I have learned lessons and provided it is not | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
getting in the way of me doing my job. Mr Martin's has potentially | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
damaged his credibility on the authorities of his office, but the | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
IPCC still has the power to call in this breach and take action itself. | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
Corby Borough Council has apologised after admitting some of the plans it | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
had published for a controversial waste site were misleading. Gretton | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
Brook Estates wants to build an energy park which would convert | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
waste into heat and electricity But not all the details were published | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
on the council's website as part of a consultation process. These plans | :08:37. | :08:47. | |
have always been controversial, so as the public are now being asked | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
for their opinion, as part of the consultation process, there was | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
anger that new information was not published online. Today the council | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
admitted it had made a mistake. I apologise for that. We sent out | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
consultation letters that were inaccurate. We are now putting out a | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
new notice, new consultation letters, containing apologies and | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
they are accurate. People are concerned they won't have time to be | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
consulted on those plans. Can you reassure them? Yes, the consultation | :09:24. | :09:32. | |
date will be extended. It is currently extended from the 14th of | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
debris and will be extended as long as it need be. These plans are | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
divisive. Aside from current proposals, a waste incinerator has | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
been approved to the site just north of Corby. You have the motor | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
Speedway in the distance, then the line of trees and that is where the | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
recovery plant could be. It is the fact that the site is covered in | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
trees that causes some people concerned. People are worried that | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
they don't know what is going to happen. They see 40 to 50% of the | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
Woodlands disappearing, so the nature of the area, conditions will | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
be put on traffic but we note traffic will go where it wants to | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
go. The company behind the plan says the plant will bring much needed | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
jobs to the area and it is a green solution to energy needs, but | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
critics say there is nothing green about chopping down this woodland | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
and say they will continue to fight the plans. | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
A pensioner needs extensive surgery for a fractured eye socket and | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
broken jaw after being assaulted in Bedford. It happened in the early | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
hours of Sunday morning as Carol Oxenham and his friend walked home | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
from a kebab shop along a footpath in Cavendish Street. They were set | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
upon by a group of around ten men, some of whom who punched and kicked | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
them. Nothing was stolen. Police are appealing for witnesses. | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
A search is under way in Bedford for a disabled man who's gone missing | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
whilst out with his carers. Edwin Townley was last seen at the library | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
at 11:15am this morning. The 34`year`old suffered a brain injury | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
two years ago, and won't be able to find his way home or ask for help. | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
He was wearing a cap, white trainers and walks with a slight limp. | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
Football, and Peterborough will look to ease some of the pressure on | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
their manager Darren Ferguson by winning tonight's FA Cup tie with | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
non`league Kidderminster. Posh have lost their last four matches. MK | :11:31. | :11:39. | |
Dons are looking to set up a tie with Crystal Palace. Elsewhere in | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
League One, bottom`of`the`table Stevenage entertain Swindon at the | :11:43. | :11:43. | |
Lamex Stadium. Football and Norwich and Ipswich | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
will try and join Southend in the fourth round of the FA Cup tonight. | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
Both face third round replays, with Norwich travelling to Fulham and | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
Ipswich heading to League One side Preston. | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
Still to come: Signs of growth at Stansted Airport. Our correspondent | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
Richard Bond on what that means for the economy. | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
And why climate change means penguins are heading for higher | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
ground to breed. But how on earth do they get there? | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
Such a good question! I can't wait to find out. New figures out today | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
show that spending on temporary doctors to fill hospital vacancies | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
in Accident and Emergency has risen by more than 75% in three years. | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
This is much higher than the national average of 60%. The numbers | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
come from the Labour Party after a Freedom of Information Act request. | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
They show that in this region, hospitals are spending on so`called | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
locums has gone up from ?7 million pounds to more than 13 million. The | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
details now from Jenny Kirk. Thank you. Not all of our hospitals | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
` including The Lister, Basildon and the James Paget actually replied to | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
the FOI request, so that headline figure of 75% could be higher or | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
lower. However, of the 17 that did respond, those with the greatest | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
rises are in the west of our region. Kettering General has seen by far | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
the biggest increase. Its spending on emergency locums has more than | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
quadrupled. In a statement, the hospital's medical director said | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
that in that time the pressure on A has increased by more than 10% | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
and admits they're "struggling to fill posts with staff", blaming the | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
problem on "the national shortage of A staff." The Luton and Dunstable | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
has more than tripled its spending on locums, as in the last three | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
years, the number of people using A has risen by a fifth. They say | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
that they "have recently recruited more doctors to permanent posts" | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
which should make a difference to next year's figures. And the third | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
biggest rise in the region is at Milton Keynes Hospital, which has | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
more than doubled its spend. Now these locums can earn more than | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
staff doctors, up to ?1,500 a shift, and the Shadow Health Secretary says | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
we're paying more for less. I'm not sure we get the best care when we | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
have A departments staffed by temporary doctors. They don't have | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
the same commitment to those hospitals. They are not their day | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
in, day out, like full`time doctors. We end up paying more for a worse | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
service. The President of the College of Emergency Medicine has | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
called it a "workforce crisis", as recruitment and retention are a big | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
problem for A departments. However, the government has | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
announced plans to tackle the shortage by creating extra training | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
places. And two of our hospitals, Peterborough and the Norfolk and | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
Norwich, are bucking the trend. They've actually decreased their | :14:30. | :14:31. | |
spending on temporary emergency doctors. The Norfolk and Norwich has | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
cut its locum bill by a fifth. Thank you very much. The government | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
says this was a problem that started when the Labour Party was in power. | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
But I spoke to the Health Minister and Suffolk MP Dr Dan Poulter | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
earlier, and put it to him that the situation had got a lot worse under | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
the Coalition. It does take six years to train and A consultant, | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
and the challenge is for us now as a government to address that. We're | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
now seeing more junior doctors beginning to fill training places | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
and begin the process of becoming a consultant, but the long`term | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
workforce planning, I'm afraid, was not there, and this was something | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
that was the responsibility of the previous government. It takes six | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
years to train a consultant. That long`term workforce planning was not | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
in place, and the long`term thinking was not there, and we are paying the | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
price for that. But this is a chronic problem, particularly in | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
A Do we need to pay the permanent staff more to work in a neat cos of | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
the pressures they face? That would still be cheaper than hiring locums. | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
The first thing is to get more junior doctors to choose acute | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
training, something that has really happened. We have seen a 100% fill | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
rate of that training, and that speciality training, this year. We | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
also have to make sure that A is more sustainable as a career, so | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
looking at the consultant contract, properly recognising the fact that | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
A doctors have to work a lot of nights, a lot of weekends, and have | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
a very tough job. Properly incentivising that in the contract, | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
looking at the important issue of the worklife balance or things we're | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
looking at with our contract negotiations with the DNA. I spoke | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
to you last year about the number of local nurses being hired by the | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
NHS. We know how the NHS is reliant on foreign doctors and nurses. More | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
at being trained up, but maybe not enough? We have actually seen a | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
record number of doctors coming out of training, and there are over 5000 | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
more doctors now working in the NHS under this government than they're | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
worth before, so there are more people historically going into | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
training under the previous comment on this one, and we have seen new | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
medical schools opening in the last decade. There is also a | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
responsibility for local health care trusts to get this right, because as | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
you have indicated, the unacceptable variation in the use of locum | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
staff, and we need to see hospitals tackling this issue more seriously, | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
and playing and looking to employ more permanent staff generally. That | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
is something they need to take on board. Temporary staff are not good | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
for patient care, and it is short`changing patients. | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
Dr Dan Poulter speaking earlier this afternoon. | :17:12. | :17:12. | |
There was another sign today the economy is getting stronger. | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
Stansted Airport says last month was its best December since 2009, with | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
1.3 million passengers. It's also had a full year of growth for the | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
first time since 2007. Our business correspondent Richard Bond is here. | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
What should we read into these figures? For Stansted, I think the | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
figures are encouraging, because the airport has had a rotten time since | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
the recession. Passenger numbers have plummeted from 24 million in | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
2007 to 17 million in 2012, and they have been bumping along through | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
while. As you say, this is the first year of full growth since 2007. They | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
have a new owner. At that make any difference? Possibly, yes. | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
Manchester Airport's group is determined to grow the airport and | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
add new routes. They have signed long`term agreements for growth with | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
Ryanair and EasyJet, which is probably a smart move. They are | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
getting on with ?80 million worth of improvements to the terminal. But | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
last month, they were knocked back when Stanton was left off the short | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
list for a new runway by the airports commission. Why does it | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
matter to the region whether Stansted is growing or not? Stansted | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
is a great barometer of how our economy is doing generally in the | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
east. If Stansted is declining, it is a fair bet our economy is | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
struggling. If it is growing, the opposite usually applies. Also bear | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
in mind that Stansted is the largest single site employer in the east, | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
with 10,000 staff. We will look very closely at what happens this year. | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
Thank you very much. A new landlord will take over at a | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
village pub in Suffolk this weekend. But he can't do it before then ` | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
because he isn't old enough. He has to wait until he's 18. That will | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
make Charlie Watts the youngest publican in the country. Kevin Burch | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
is at The Cherry Tree in Yaxley now. Kevin. | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
Yes, they always say you know when you're getting old because police | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
officers lured young. Well, what about pub landlord? In my day, they | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
were normally older, quite imposing. They did not need to ring the bell, | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
they just used to glare at you. But today, well, things have changed. | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
The Cherry Tree at Yaxley has been a vital part of this community for | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
generations, and now the latest chapter in its history is about to | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
be written, courtesy of Charlie Watts. He will take on the role of | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
host at one minute past midnight on Saturday. Going from not waking up | :19:39. | :19:47. | |
early and going to bed as late as I want to getting up early and going | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
to bed when I shut the pub is hard, and getting into that routine is | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
going to be hard work, but I'm going to have to buckle down and get used | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
to it, I think. You enjoy your life ends at the moment? Senator yes! | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
Charlie originally had his heart set on being a police officer, but when | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
he weighed up his job options for the future, this opportunity seemed | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
too good to turn down. He has been pulling pints anyway since he was | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
17, under the watchful eyes of his landlord parents. But while pad | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
takes a break from the trade, mum will still be on hand. She runs the | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
Post office side of the business. What could this do to the mother son | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
relationship? It can only make it better! Absolutely can only make it | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
better. We work well together, we work as a team. When we Arabs dead | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
in the flat, I'm his mum, down here, we are a team. How does it feel to | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
have that title in the country? That is quite cool. It is very exciting. | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
All my friends alike, that is cruel. What is the best quality a good | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
landlord needs to have? A sense of humour. Have is if you're stepping | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
into dance shoes? A lot of people have told really big shoes to fill, | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
but if I can do at 50% as good as he did, I will be making a good job of | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
it. In most pubs, age can be a barrier, but now it could be the | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
teenager serving, not supping, who gets the quizzical glances. | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
Back here in the pub, this is Andy, whose boots he has two Phil. Hello, | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
Andy. At the moment, everything Charlie does has to be approved by | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
mum and dad. Come the weekend, he can go crazy. Well, not crazy, but | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
he can do that. He won't need me to tell him that running a pub is tough | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
these days. Running a country pub is incredibly difficult. He knows he | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
has his work cut out. Let's be honest, if you run a pub, you have | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
to make it pay. Fingers crossed he has the energy and time to make it | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
work. But from here in the pub, back to the studio. Thank you much. | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
Good luck to him. They're not known for athleticism. | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
In fact, they struggle to walk at all. But now scientists in Cambridge | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
have discovered emperor penguins are somehow climbing 30 metres to reach | :22:03. | :22:19. | |
safe breeding ground. The population in Antarctica ` | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
precious, pompous, a little portly, but with a problem of epic | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
proportions. As their breeding ground belts, the Emperor Penguin | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
has set its sights higher `30 metres of those cliffs. That is like | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
climbing King 's College Chapel in Cambridge, for stacking up five | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
double`decker buses, or doing three Tom Daly high dives one after the | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
other. How do they get there? Nobody knows. You think they can go onto | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
ice shills because of their nature. They waddle, sometimes they slide on | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
their bellies, but they are not the most agile things. We are unsure how | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
they get up and down. They may climb or they may flop onto snowdrifts. It | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
is something we're going to have to find out. Satellite imagery | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
collected by the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge looked set for | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
colonies, all of whom have left their usual breeding ground for the | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
heady heights of the ice shelf. But the for food is exhausting, a 30 | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
kilometre or 18 mile waddle for every meal. Some of these ice | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
shelves are to 100 feet high, or higher. They often move several | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
miles inland onto the ice shelves to make sure they are not too close to | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
the edge, and they sometimes fall off. It must take an enormous effort | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
for them to go backwards and forwards each day to their foraging | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
grounds from their colony location. So is this migration a worrying | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
develop that? The Penguins are less reliant on the sea ice is self, and | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
that can only be a good thing, because it means they are less | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
susceptible to climate change. However, going onto the shelves will | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
have a cost to them. It is windy, further to their foraging grounds, | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
so we need to assess what the benefits or the costs are for this | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
new breeding behaviour. Later this year, scientists will be in | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
Antarctica solving the mystery of how these clumsy flightless bird | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
gets a very high. Handsome things. Staying with snow | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
and before the weather take a look at these pictures. This was Norfolk | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
exactly a year ago tomorrow. Don't we remember it? Schools were | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
closed, huge problems for commuters, 63 crashes on the roads. | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Lots of skidding. What a difference a year makes. Alex. | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
If thank you. Yes, it is hard to imagine, because it has been chilly | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
today, but on the whole, January has been wet, windy and mild. There is | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
more wet and mild coming our way tonight. This is the pressure | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
pattern. This is a warm front. Behind it is milder air, but ahead | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
of it, we are recording temperatures as low as two Celsius, so possibly a | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
touch of frost between now and midnight as temperatures get close | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
to freezing. But the rain band starts to push eastwards during the | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
evening and overnight. It will be mainly light and patchy, but there | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
could be some heavy downpours. Temperatures at around ten o'clock | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
will be two to five Celsius, and as that rain band head eastwards, they | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
will left. But the wind will freshen as well, and there could be some | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
heavy bursts of rain. By five o'clock, these are the sort of | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
temperatures we can expect `5 or six degrees. The winds are moderate | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
southerly. We start tomorrow feeling much milder, but there will be | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
patchy rain around, and much of tomorrow will be rather cloudy. | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
Particular through the morning, when they will be some outbreaks of | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
rain, dry interludes, and perhaps something brighter, but some showers | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
follow one behind for the after noon. Those temperatures, 10 | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
Celsius, 50 Fahrenheit, very much a mild cabbage for the time of year. | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
Six or seven degrees. Winds still quite breezy tomorrow. Moderate | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
south to south`westerly. Still the risk of further showers through the | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
afternoon. Then the next weather front starts to bring as overnight | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
rain tomorrow. We will continue to see a unsettled weather, because low | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
pressure will be very much the dominant feature of our weather. | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
This is Thursday and Friday's whether pressure pattern. Certainly | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
for Thursday, the chance of some fairly sharp showers around, and | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
then a spell of perhaps more heavy and persistent rain arriving on | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
Friday. So, into tomorrow, expect a milder day. Don't expect it to be | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
really bright, though. There will be cloud and patchy rain around, and | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
the risk of showers. It stays quite breezy through the week. Ringing of | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
the overnight Bridges, you can see they become milder for a few nights. | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
Some rain arrives on the next weather front for Wednesday night. | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
It will be around on Thursday, but it introduces slightly cooler and, | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
at Mass for Thursday, so although they will be patchy rain on | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
Thursday, it will become brighter with sunshine and showers around. On | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
Friday, it looks very unsettled. We may start to dry, but rain pushes | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
them, and it will become more persistent and heavy in places. At | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
the moment, it looks like Saturday into the weekend will be unsettled | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
with rain. Then, we start to bring back clearer conditions overnight on | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
Saturday, so that means we are back into the territory of frosts. Thank | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
you very much. That is all from us for this evening. Have a very good | :27:37. | :27:38. | |
evening. Goodbye. | :27:39. | :27:43. |