13/02/2014 Look East - West

First Minister, Alex Salmond, what he would

Good evening. First tonight, the mother`of`two who

almost lost her life trying to help a couple trapped in an overturned

car. Keely Adams was the first at the scene of the accident near

Leighton Buzzard. But as she tried to help, an 18`tonne truck thundered

by. The driver didn't stop. In fact he hit Keely, and the wheels drove

over her right leg. 11 weeks on, she's struggling to come to terms

with the loss of her leg, and wants the driver to hand himself in. This

report is from Emma Baugh. It was here after midnight in late

November that Keely Adams's life changed for ever. She and her

partner stopped to help the couple turned in an overturned car. Then

she saw the lorry. And I thought, he isn't going to stop. So I ran

towards the verge, and as I did I towards the verge, and as I did, I

fell. And as I was laying there, he came up onto the verge, over my legs

twice, and then I saw him swerve to hit the car, avoid the taxi, and

then he drove off. And I remember Matt running over and fussing round

me, are you all right? And I said, no, I've been hit. Her leg had gone

under the wheels. The doctors were saying, don't let her look at it,

don't C it, and then I heard the word application. And the doctor

said this is too big for us, she needs to be transferred. They

thought she wouldn't survive. Her partner was told to expect the

worst. She had nine operations. I don't want to get back any `` get a

penny more. The days are long. I feel trapped in my own home unless

someone comes to visit. And I find that so hard, because I was such an

independent person, very outgoing. I did everything myself. But now I

can't. Nothing is at my level. Everything is a struggle. Police are

still investigating, but the driver has never been found. He obviously

knows what he has done now. At the time, he might not have realised

that he hit me. He hasn't come forward. There has been quite a bit

of coverage. He must've seen it or someone must know who he is. And he

just needs to do the decent thing and come forward.

Keely Adams talking to our reporter Emma Baugh. And if you have any

information that could help track down the driver, you should call

Bedfordshire Police on 101. The Government has been told that

Stansted Airport is being held back by poor rail links. A group of MPs

says the airport could play an important role in easing the

pressure on other London airports. Our business correspondent Richard

Bond has more. What MPs want to do is increase air

capacity in the south`east. Stansted is the only London airport with

spare capacity, set MPs are asking what is holding it back, and their

conclusion is it is the rail links, particularly Stansted express. The

journey takes up to 53 minutes, which they consider to be too slow.

They also say it is an unreliable service, and is driving passengers

elsewhere. The current state of these links means that 34 million

people in Stansted's catchment area avoid that airport and instead catch

flights largely from Heathrow or Gatwick. What MPs want is for a

section of the route in the London suburbs to be made four tracks

rather than two. They also want more trains earlier in the morning and

late in the evening. The rail company says it would welcome

greater investment in the line. But they say that is a decision for

Network Rail. The future of the region's oldest

and longest`serving MP is still being decided tonight. Salon

Hazlehurst will continue to be the candidate for saffron Walden. Some

in the party had suggested that it may be time for someone younger.

may be time for someone younger The Independent Police Complaints

Commission is to investigate the leak of confidential information

about the death in custody of a Luton man. Leon Briggs died in

November after he was detained by Bedfordshire Police. His death is

also the subject of a separate IPCC investigation. The county's Police

and Crime Commissioner Olly Martins has admitted sharing information

about the case with a third party. Two missing teenagers from

Northampton have been found safe and well this afternoon. 14`year`old

Katie Kelly and 17`year`old Karl Boyle went off together on Sunday

morning, sparking a search in the Birmingham and Northampton areas.

Police had been particularly concerned about Katie because of her

age. Kettering is hoping to become the

first town in the country to generate all of its own energy. The

plan is to build a energy park on the edge of town at Burton Wold The

park would cost ?113 million pounds, save 320,000 tonnes of CO2 a year

and create 775 jobs. Alongside Northamptonshire's

distinctive spires, these turbines are now familiar Cierra `` feature

of the county's skyline. Now more will be added, and this is just the

first part of an ambitious plan for the area. This will be an exemplar

project for the UK. It is going to have the first energy park in the

UK. And what would use it are those people who inevitably will have

concerns about such a large development right on the edge of the

town in open countryside? The point we would make is, look at the

development we have taken forward so far on the site. Look at the new

turbines we are building, come and talk was about the plans. The most

important things that I can say is that it is about public and business

consultation. Catering is planning to build 1 ,000

homes in the next few years, and they will need power, and it is

hoped that this energy park will provide a guaranteed and affordable

source of energy. It is all part of the growth puzzle. We are widening

the A14. We lobbied for the electrification of the Midland

mainline, and that is happening. And mainline, and that is happening. And

we are looking to improve the business and education offering with

new schools being built in the area as well as a new health centre, and

we are looking to all our public and private partners to enable us to

manage that growth. Today was the first day of the

official consultation. If these plans do get off the drawing board,

by 2020, Kettering could be self`sufficient in providing itself

with its own renewable and energy efficient and carbon neutral energy

supply. More money is to be pumped into the

regeneration of the area around Bedford's bus station. ?670,000 will

pay for landscaping along Thurlow Street as well as covered waiting

areas on the forecourt adjacent to the Greyfriars roundabout. The work

on the area so far has cost almost ?9.5 million. It's thought the

revamp will improve the station as the gateway to the town. That's just

about it from your Cambridge late team. Just time to hand you over to

Julie for the weather. Hello there. It is looking like a

dry night for most. We could see frost in places, perhaps ice. Then

the rain starts to push in from the south`west tomorrow, bringing

perhaps ten to 20 millimetres, an inch for some of us in places. And

initially accompanied by fresh and strong south`westerly winds. The

main rain band then clears away, and main rain band then clears away and

fruit tomorrow evening and into the early hours of Saturday, a rash of

showers. Gales could reach 70 mph. It is nick tonight with your

national forecast, but I leave you with the outlook. A quiet

has a national forecast. If you have any worries, do

few days and now we go to the weather centre for the national

forecast from Nick Miller. Hello, in this winter of perpetual

autumn, it seems we're never more than a day away from a storm so we

must be due another one and as you've just heard, here it comes,

deepening in the Atlantic Trio heading for us. Overall for the UK,

we're not expecting this to be as severe as the storm yesterday that

there will be some significant impact, particularly where the Met

Office has weather warnings in force and that means more rain will serve

to heighten the floods. All the while, the wind is picking up,

reaching its peak tomorrow night in southern England. This is the rest

of tonight and where we've had showers, south-west England and

Northern Ireland and Scotland, as icy patches