:00:00. > :00:10.Good evening. First tonight, a scientist from Cambridge who was
:00:11. > :00:13.gored in the throat by a red stag while she was on holiday in Scotland
:00:14. > :00:25.has spoken about the accident for the first time. I'm very lucky that
:00:26. > :00:30.I can talk and walk. I'm totally lucky to be alive. Caught on
:00:31. > :00:34.camera, the motorists turning their temper on Peterborough's traffic
:00:35. > :00:39.wardens. And a weather story with a twist.
:00:40. > :00:45.One trader pays the price for one of the warmest winters on record.
:00:46. > :00:52.I meet the pop star turned thicker as he retraces the steps of a World
:00:53. > :00:58.War I hero. `` pop star turned vicar.
:00:59. > :01:05.Good evening. A scientist from Cambridge who was gored in the
:01:06. > :01:07.throat by a red stag on holiday in Scotland has spoken about the
:01:08. > :01:11.accident for the first time. Dr Kate Stone says she feels "lucky to be
:01:12. > :01:14.alive". The deer's antlers penetrated her spine and came very
:01:15. > :01:17.close to paralysing her. Dr Stone, who runs a print technology firm in
:01:18. > :01:27.Cottenham, spoke exclusively to our reporter, Alex Dunlop.
:01:28. > :01:31.Seven weeks after she was brought out of a medically induced coma
:01:32. > :01:37.Kate Stone still feeds herself through a tube. The actors punched
:01:38. > :01:43.her windpipe and entered her spine, stopping two millimetres short of
:01:44. > :01:47.paralysing her. It went through my trachea, my oesophagus and damaged
:01:48. > :01:53.my vocal chords, fractured my neck and went into my spine. I am top ``
:01:54. > :01:59.told it stopped a few millimetres from my spinal`cord so I am very
:02:00. > :02:06.lucky I can talk, walk... You are lucky to be alive. Totally. She had
:02:07. > :02:10.been enjoying a short break in the Highlands with friends and after a
:02:11. > :02:17.late`night party, they were invited by a musician to it `` his home for
:02:18. > :02:25.a nightcap where a stag had wandered into the garden. As they approached,
:02:26. > :02:29.it panicked and bolted. I felt a big third and then a second third and I
:02:30. > :02:36.knew I had been hit by an animal. I knew my neck was in a bad way. I
:02:37. > :02:43.remained very calm and I just took one breath in and one breath out and
:02:44. > :02:47.I did that for about 40 minutes So you are giving instructions? Kind
:02:48. > :02:54.of. I was telling people a bit what to do. I was very self`aware. Red
:02:55. > :03:01.stags are common and are by nature shy. Attacks on humans are virtually
:03:02. > :03:10.unheard of. The stag was panicked and in the darkness, it ran into the
:03:11. > :03:15.first person on the path. After two operations, Kate still
:03:16. > :03:20.faces more surgery. For now, she is managing her Cambridge `based rent
:03:21. > :03:26.firm from Dundee where she is recuperating with her family.
:03:27. > :03:30.Weirdly, I don't wish it never happened because I am alive. If I
:03:31. > :03:35.could change anything, who knows what the outcome could be. It
:03:36. > :03:41.strengthens how I feel and when I communicate to people about life and
:03:42. > :03:47.how to be positive... What do you hope to take away from this? I am
:03:48. > :03:52.one of those people who tells my friends and people I meet that life
:03:53. > :03:58.is short. It is something I have felt for quite awhile I always
:03:59. > :04:06.thought it would be a car accident. A stag accident is much more my
:04:07. > :04:12.style! While Kate lay in hospital, her
:04:13. > :04:18.16`year`old niece, Charlotte, wrote and dedicated this song to her. It
:04:19. > :04:21.is about family and friends coming together and looking after each
:04:22. > :04:24.other. Any moment, something can take us
:04:25. > :04:32.away. It made me cry a lot. Dr Kate Stone talking to Alex
:04:33. > :04:35.Dunlop. Next tonight, parents fighting to
:04:36. > :04:38.save a network of children's centres across Peterborough have vowed to
:04:39. > :04:42.continue their campaign despite the council confirming closures. There
:04:43. > :04:46.are 15 Sure Start centres in Peterborough, but under the plans,
:04:47. > :04:49.that would change to four super hubs and three outreach centres, saving
:04:50. > :04:55.the City Council just over a million pounds. In a moment, we'll hear from
:04:56. > :04:56.the council's cabinet member for Children's Services, but first this
:04:57. > :05:10.report from Emma Baugh. Refusing to give up, campaigners
:05:11. > :05:15.plan their next move after the council said the budget could not be
:05:16. > :05:21.changed to save the centres which parents say are a lifeline. There is
:05:22. > :05:26.a lot of social isolation in Peterborough. A lot of people don't
:05:27. > :05:32.have parents around so a lot of people struggle in silence. They are
:05:33. > :05:39.often ashamed or embarrassed to admit they are having problems.
:05:40. > :05:42.There are 15 children centres across Peterborough, four of them will be
:05:43. > :05:48.turned into super hubs and there will also be three outreach centres.
:05:49. > :05:53.But they will not be open to everyone as they are now. Only the
:05:54. > :05:58.family is seen as being in the most need. Last night, an extraordinary
:05:59. > :06:03.meeting of the council discussed changing the budget to keep the
:06:04. > :06:08.centres as they are but it was rejected by 26 votes to 23.
:06:09. > :06:14.Opposition is `` campaigners have been coming up with alternative
:06:15. > :06:21.budget plans. We said other schemes could maybe be stopped. They want to
:06:22. > :06:30.replace pavements but we do not need to do that. We are also suggesting
:06:31. > :06:35.they cut the trees every so many years rather than every two or three
:06:36. > :06:41.years. I am suggesting some of them give up some of their expenses.
:06:42. > :06:44.A final decision is due next week but parents say they are still
:06:45. > :06:47.prepared to take their campaign National.
:06:48. > :06:52.Sheila Scott is the cabinet member for Children's Services. A few
:06:53. > :06:55.moments ago, I put it to her that these changes would isolate mothers
:06:56. > :07:02.and children at one of the most vulnerable times.
:07:03. > :07:08.I have set from the beginning that to do nothing is not an option
:07:09. > :07:11.because of changes in local government funding. What we have
:07:12. > :07:18.tried to do is maintain a service in all parts of the city and where
:07:19. > :07:23.people need specialist services outreach workers will go to their
:07:24. > :07:27.homes or communities to deliver those services. We will not deprive
:07:28. > :07:32.any body of the essential services they need.
:07:33. > :07:41.But at the moment, everyone can access these 15 Sure Start Centre
:07:42. > :07:46.and that will not be the case in the future, will it?
:07:47. > :07:50.We will continue with some of the services because we consulted widely
:07:51. > :07:55.with parents and we discovered which services they value the most. We
:07:56. > :07:59.identified an additional ?100,0 0 which will be used to deliver their
:08:00. > :08:03.services to the families in Peterborough.
:08:04. > :08:09.But the parents say that is a drop in the ocean.
:08:10. > :08:14.I don't think that is fair. The services we will be able to provide
:08:15. > :08:20.` midwives, child development services, they are all essential.
:08:21. > :08:25.But you want the super hubs to be in the most deprived areas of
:08:26. > :08:30.Peterborough. Someone who is vulnerable might not necessarily
:08:31. > :08:34.come from a deprived area. A first`time mother might suddenly
:08:35. > :08:42.become very vulnerable whatever background she is from?
:08:43. > :08:46.That is right. And we do it now We provide outreach services to people
:08:47. > :08:51.in local communities and we will continue to do that.
:08:52. > :08:56.If you are saying the service will continue to be just as good, how are
:08:57. > :09:02.you going to be able to do that while saving over ?1 million?
:09:03. > :09:07.I am not saying it will be the same service.
:09:08. > :09:11.But you are saying it will be just as good.
:09:12. > :09:16.There will be changes, but there have been changes to our funding.
:09:17. > :09:17.Services will be different but children's services will continue to
:09:18. > :09:22.be provided. Detectives have renewed their appeal
:09:23. > :09:25.for information about the disappearance of a father of two
:09:26. > :09:29.seven years ago. Terry McSpadden, who's 24, was last seen in March
:09:30. > :09:34.2007 after a night out at the Locomotive pub in Wisbech. He didn't
:09:35. > :09:38.return to his home in the nearby village of Elm. Police fear he may
:09:39. > :09:48.have been murdered. Crimestoppers has offered a reward of ?5,000.
:09:49. > :09:52.I am absolutely certain there are people out there who know why and
:09:53. > :09:56.how Terry disappeared and I feel confident there are people with
:09:57. > :09:58.significant information that could help us who perhaps didn't feel they
:09:59. > :10:04.could come forward at the time. An inquest has been hearing that an
:10:05. > :10:08.inmate at Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes was found hanging in his cell
:10:09. > :10:11.despite being on suicide watch. Kevin Scarlet had a history of self
:10:12. > :10:14.harm and complex mental health problems. The hearing is due to
:10:15. > :10:17.finish on Monday. An investigation is under way after
:10:18. > :10:21.fire destroyed a car workshop in the centre of Northampton. Crews were
:10:22. > :10:24.called to the JPS Commercial Automotive Works in Horsley Road in
:10:25. > :10:29.Kingsthorpe just before nine o'clock last night. People living nearby
:10:30. > :10:31.were asked to keep windows and doors shut because of gas cylinders and
:10:32. > :10:38.asbestos in the roof. Recent assaults against traffic
:10:39. > :10:43.wardens in Peterborough have led the council to fit them with CCTV
:10:44. > :10:47.cameras. The body cams are for the safety of staff and will be used to
:10:48. > :10:57.record intimidating or threatening behaviour. Footage can then be
:10:58. > :11:04.passed onto the police if necessary. It is what every motorist dread a
:11:05. > :11:08.ticket for parking illegally. Most drivers if they are in the wrong
:11:09. > :11:11.accept the fine and pay gap, but some become abusive and their anger
:11:12. > :11:17.is often directed towards the traffic warden.
:11:18. > :11:23.People haven't got as much money as they did do ten years ago. Nobody
:11:24. > :11:27.wants a parking fine. They only do their job. If you get a ticket or a
:11:28. > :11:33.PCN you have done something wrong and there is no need to assault them
:11:34. > :11:40.verbally abuse them. You just need to follow the appeals process.
:11:41. > :11:45.In Peterborough, there are ten enforcement officers. Now they are
:11:46. > :11:49.being kitted out with CCTV cameras attached to their chests. If someone
:11:50. > :11:52.is aggressive, as in this demonstration, they will issue a
:11:53. > :12:00.warning, flicked a switch and start filming. A PCN will be issued in the
:12:01. > :12:04.post. In the past month, for wardens have
:12:05. > :12:09.been assaulted. One was verbally abused, one pushed and two had eggs
:12:10. > :12:13.thrown at them. The council hopes these cameras will cut the number of
:12:14. > :12:19.attacks on their staff. Body cams like these are used increasingly by
:12:20. > :12:23.councils and police forces. In Essex, officers wear them to
:12:24. > :12:27.incidents of domestic abuse to record accurately what is said.
:12:28. > :12:33.Another police force is trialling WebCams after someone died in
:12:34. > :12:38.custody. It is said there has to be a balance to the public 's right to
:12:39. > :12:44.privacy or so. In Peterborough, evidence can be passed to police but
:12:45. > :12:45.they hope the cameras will act as deterrents soap traffic wardens can
:12:46. > :12:50.do their jobs in peace. The National Bowl in Milton Keynes
:12:51. > :12:54.looks set to be transformed into an indoor water park and sports village
:12:55. > :12:57.at a cost of ?26 million. It's the first major scheme earmarked for the
:12:58. > :13:00.concert venue which was built in 1973. The Milton Keynes Development
:13:01. > :13:02.Partnership has granted More`rye Capital as its preferred bidder for
:13:03. > :13:12.the work. Those are the top stories. Katherine
:13:13. > :13:13.will be here just after ten with the late headlines. Now, over to Stewart
:13:14. > :13:16.and Susie. those responsible for Terry
:13:17. > :13:30.McSpadden's Beth. `` death.
:13:31. > :13:35.Still to come, we have just had one of the mildest winters on record.
:13:36. > :13:43.That is bad news for the trader who has stocked up with everything you
:13:44. > :13:47.need for cold weather. Next tonight, a vicar, a pop star and the
:13:48. > :14:10.First World War. Do you remember this?
:14:11. > :14:13.There Yes, that was the Communards from the eighties. Jimmy Somerville,
:14:14. > :14:16.of course, and on the keyboards, Richard Coles. These days the
:14:17. > :14:19.Reverend Richard Coles is a vicar and broadcaster. For tonight's World
:14:20. > :14:23.War One at Home series, Richard came in to tell me about a fellow vicar
:14:24. > :14:26.from Northamptonshire who won The Victoria Cross. Bernard Vann went
:14:27. > :14:31.from being a man of the cloth, to a man of war.
:14:32. > :14:35.How interesting if you find it, following in this priest's
:14:36. > :14:42.footsteps, when you have so many similarities in your background? I
:14:43. > :14:46.was completely fascinated. He is someone I can identify with,
:14:47. > :15:55.although First World War. Do you remember
:15:56. > :16:03.this? We are trying to get a feel for what he did here. Imagine it,
:16:04. > :16:20.dense fog, he has to get his men across this canal anyway he can. To
:16:21. > :16:26.dry them back. This is where he won his Victoria Cross. He fought and to
:16:27. > :16:32.hand combat. He did see the whites of their eyes as he took their
:16:33. > :16:42.lives. It is very intense, very personal. He is actually killing. He
:16:43. > :16:49.becomes a killing machine. He shoots the Germans, and shows a marvellous
:16:50. > :16:56.example and drive the whole line forward, and for that he gets The
:16:57. > :17:01.Victoria Cross. He never got to receive it. Just weeks before the
:17:02. > :17:06.end of the war, he was killed by a German sniper. It was just before
:17:07. > :17:11.sunrise he fell, shot through the heart. He would never return to his
:17:12. > :17:17.beloved wife, never see his son she was carrying. Just three miles away
:17:18. > :17:23.is the British centre where I find his grave. According to his
:17:24. > :17:37.obituary, he never forgot he was a priest of God.
:17:38. > :17:40.A great priest who pleased God. In some ways I feel quite close to him.
:17:41. > :17:46.We are both priest 's, we come from the same place, but in other ways I
:17:47. > :17:50.cannot imagine what it must have been like to have led his men in
:17:51. > :17:54.battle so heroically full is all I feel close to him again. In the
:17:55. > :18:00.cemetery as he lies alongside his fallen comrades. It reminds us that
:18:01. > :18:11.we all come to the same place. The souls of the righteous are in the
:18:12. > :18:15.hands of God. Such an interesting story, but it
:18:16. > :18:22.begs the question of how a man of the cloth would go and kill people,
:18:23. > :18:27.literally, up to their eyes. It is hard to imagine how that happens.
:18:28. > :18:33.Lots of warrior Christians in history. Whenever people content for
:18:34. > :18:38.things, conflicts emerge and people get drawn into it. Perhaps they
:18:39. > :18:46.discover themselves not to be the person they. They were. He probably
:18:47. > :18:50.thought he was doing God's work. It takes a huge effort to imagine what
:18:51. > :18:55.it must be like to raise a weapon as a priest and shoot and kill people.
:18:56. > :19:02.I hope I do not find out what that feels like. Extraordinary to think
:19:03. > :19:08.he was only 31 when he died. He lived such an enormous life in such
:19:09. > :19:13.extraordinary circumstances. So many of those stories ended in that
:19:14. > :19:20.church. Many of these young guys 18, 19, 20. You said you learn so much
:19:21. > :19:25.by following one person's story. What do you take away from this? The
:19:26. > :19:31.extraordinary tragic cost of the war, so many people cut down before
:19:32. > :19:38.they really got going and it is terribly sad. People discovering
:19:39. > :19:54.themselves not to be the people they. They were. I do not think
:19:55. > :19:58.anything was the same. Thank you. Tomorrow, the tragic story of a
:19:59. > :20:02.school in Norfolk and how 100 boys lost their lives in the war. Their
:20:03. > :20:09.headmaster died soon after the war was over, it was said of the broken
:20:10. > :20:13.heart. One of our universities received an
:20:14. > :20:19.award for the tree surgeons of the sexual exploitation of children. The
:20:20. > :20:23.University of Bedfordshire collected the Queens anniversary prize at
:20:24. > :20:26.Buckingham Palace, the highest award available in higher education, and
:20:27. > :20:30.reflects the growing problem of the sexual abuse of children often by
:20:31. > :20:36.organised gangs and involving human trafficking.
:20:37. > :20:43.We were driving through an area and we saw an opposite gang and they
:20:44. > :20:48.were waving a gun at us. I was thinking, this is my life going to
:20:49. > :20:57.be over. The tag line, it is wrong, but you get used to it, young women
:20:58. > :21:03.talking about the fear and entrapment within gangs. Filmed the
:21:04. > :21:05.complimentary University of Bedfordshire's ground`breaking
:21:06. > :21:10.research into child sexual exploitation, violence and
:21:11. > :21:15.trafficking. Today, at Buckingham Palace, awarded the anniversary
:21:16. > :21:20.prize for further and higher education, the highest accolade
:21:21. > :21:25.possible. We want to make some difference. We do not want to do the
:21:26. > :21:29.search that sits on book shelves. We want to make a difference with
:21:30. > :21:34.practitioners and policymakers. In the heart of Luton, the hub of
:21:35. > :21:38.nationally important work into child sexual exploitation. The royal
:21:39. > :21:47.anniversary trust described the work as exceptional and distinctive. Last
:21:48. > :21:50.week, sentencing of two men, three teenagers, after the horrific sexual
:21:51. > :21:57.abuse of five girls from Peter Brussels up another story on the
:21:58. > :22:04.television, another tragic loss of innocence, proves there will always
:22:05. > :22:08.be more to do. The destination has not been reached. This is a lovely
:22:09. > :22:14.station to have passed through, but it is not a case of job done. The
:22:15. > :22:17.University of Bedfordshire's work has influenced change and policy,
:22:18. > :22:23.bettering the lives of young people like these.
:22:24. > :22:28.It has been confirmed this winter has been one of the warmest in the
:22:29. > :22:33.last 100 years, it has also been the wettest on record. The mild weather
:22:34. > :22:45.has been good news if you dread snow and ice, but not so good for many
:22:46. > :22:49.traders and companies. Last winter cold and snowy, this
:22:50. > :23:00.winter mild and wet, it is a change that has caught many retailers.
:23:01. > :23:07.Kevin and his son run a car park business with 45 shops across the
:23:08. > :23:12.region. There might have a glut of stop including 100 pallets of
:23:13. > :23:19.de`icer. Sales are down by ?250,000. The warehouse is bulging. Sledges,
:23:20. > :23:27.snow shovels, all kinds of products. Not only that, if it is
:23:28. > :23:33.wet, people do not come out unless they have to. The warm weather has
:23:34. > :23:39.had us turning down the heating. This company supplies customers with
:23:40. > :23:47.domestic heating oil from Norfolk. Demand has dropped about 25% on last
:23:48. > :23:54.winter. It was a cold winter. Very wet this year. Not so much demand.
:23:55. > :24:01.Every cloud has a silver lining. At this umbrella shop, they design and
:24:02. > :24:10.supplies 700 types of umbrella. Sales are 50% higher than normal. If
:24:11. > :24:14.it rains for one day we get areas enable interest `` a reasonable
:24:15. > :24:21.increase in sales. It is as if everybody goes home and says, that
:24:22. > :24:26.is it, I am getting an umbrella. They have not given up hope of
:24:27. > :24:34.selling their stock, sledges do not have a best before date. Let's hope
:24:35. > :24:39.it is going to sit there for a long time. I don't mean that in a
:24:40. > :24:44.business sense. It is going to get quite cold tonight. Today's weather
:24:45. > :24:51.has brought us all sorts. Rain first thing. Then the sunshine. And then
:24:52. > :24:55.showers. Much of these showers have now cleared out into the North Sea.
:24:56. > :24:59.For parts of ethics and Sussex, there are still a few around. They
:25:00. > :25:04.will take time to clear away. The first part of the night looks
:25:05. > :25:12.relatively calm. Overnight it will get chilly. Cold enough for Frost
:25:13. > :25:17.and icy patches. For the second half of the night, it starts to change.
:25:18. > :25:22.We have been closely following this area of low pressure. There was some
:25:23. > :25:25.uncertainty about the track of it. As it moves in overnight, it is
:25:26. > :25:31.expected to bring us here in the East mainly rain. There may be
:25:32. > :25:35.something wintry across counties like Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire
:25:36. > :25:38.and Hertfordshire. Heavy rain later tonight from most. This is really
:25:39. > :25:46.going to set the scene for not the best of the day is tomorrow. ``
:25:47. > :25:49.days. It is miserable, cold and wet. Into tomorrow morning. Outbreaks of
:25:50. > :25:52.rain. Some could be on the heavy side. It will clear into the
:25:53. > :25:59.afternoon and we'll see some showers. Not the best of days. The
:26:00. > :26:05.winds picking up as well. Quite a cold day. Six or seven degrees. The
:26:06. > :26:11.low is not really in a rush to go anywhere. It will hang on through
:26:12. > :26:15.much of the afternoon. It is an improving picture through Saturday.
:26:16. > :26:19.Although it may be cloudy and wet to start the weekend, it will gradually
:26:20. > :26:24.improve. Then we have got the next low lining up. That will bring rain
:26:25. > :26:27.but not until much later on Sunday. Much of Sunday does log drive. It
:26:28. > :26:39.will stay quite cold by day. Still the risk of some frost. It looks
:26:40. > :26:42.brighter on Sunday. The weather front gradually clearing away.
:26:43. > :26:46.Sunshine on Sunday before the next low brings rain on Sunday night. An
:26:47. > :26:50.unsettled start to next week. The winds picking up. A quick tap of
:26:51. > :27:03.your barometer will give tonight's reading. 29.68 inches. Was it on
:27:04. > :27:08.Tuesday when you said that spring was here? Yes! Goodbye.