:00:00. > :00:07.military activity in the area tonight. That is all from
:00:08. > :00:11.Repeated failings and missed opportunities. The verdict on
:00:12. > :00:17.Northamptonshire Police over the death of this grandmother.
:00:18. > :00:19.Shape up or shut down! The final warning to an organisation running
:00:20. > :00:30.schools and colleges in Bedfordshire.
:00:31. > :00:38.The longest aircraft in the world in the biggest hanger in Britain.
:00:39. > :00:42.And he's the ultimate in ultimate fighting and he comes from
:00:43. > :00:45.Cambridge! Hello. First tonight, how systematic
:00:46. > :00:51.failures in policing ended in the brutal killing of a grandmother
:00:52. > :00:56.Mavis Clift died in a fire at her Northamptonshire home in 2008. It
:00:57. > :01:00.had been started by her son`in`law who poured petrol through the
:01:01. > :01:03.letterbox. But his target was actually his wife who had contacted
:01:04. > :01:12.the police on several occasions saying she was terrified of what he
:01:13. > :01:20.might do. When pulled from her home, Mavis was
:01:21. > :01:26.already dead, badly burned and suffocated by smoke. The fire,
:01:27. > :01:34.started by her fiery `` son`in`law. A final, fatal act in his campaign
:01:35. > :01:41.of harassment. Mavis's daughter was the target. She wept when she heard
:01:42. > :01:46.the verdict. Northamptonshire police criticised for failing to protect
:01:47. > :01:51.her. Sitting through the evidence over the last month, it has shocked
:01:52. > :01:55.us to be reminded of how many times Susan and her family and friends
:01:56. > :02:03.asked for help from police and received no response. How many times
:02:04. > :02:07.he escaped justice? It has been painful to hear that a lot more
:02:08. > :02:15.could have been done to remove the threat Paul post. The inquest heard
:02:16. > :02:21.of an escalating pattern of abuse. But despite the family polling the
:02:22. > :02:27.police on 23 occasions, Paul was free and able to start the fire The
:02:28. > :02:33.police didn't listen to them, say the family. That complaint was
:02:34. > :02:38.upheld. There were systematic failings in our computer systems,
:02:39. > :02:47.the training and awareness of our staff, elements incompetence and, in
:02:48. > :02:50.addition to that, the lack of investigation around the incidents
:02:51. > :02:59.reported to us. Paul Barber died here. His campaign of abuse linked
:03:00. > :03:04.to Parkinson's disease. His family say he is medication was wrong and
:03:05. > :03:09.he needed help. He was a proud man and didn't like to show the effects
:03:10. > :03:16.of Parkinson's. To the outside world, you looked normal but he
:03:17. > :03:21.wasn't. Psychologically, the ova medicating her drastic effect on his
:03:22. > :03:26.mental health. The effects of the drugs were making him irrational.
:03:27. > :03:31.This wouldn't have happened if he was kept in custody, say the family.
:03:32. > :03:38.Less and have been learned and systems changed, say the police
:03:39. > :03:43.A federation of academy schools in Luton has been told to get its act
:03:44. > :03:45.together or face closure. A damning government report has highlighted
:03:46. > :03:48.significant "financial irregularity" at the Barnfield Federation which
:03:49. > :03:55.runs a college and half a dozen academies and schools across
:03:56. > :04:05.Bedfordshire. It has been given a month to improve.
:04:06. > :04:11.Just three years ago, the federation was held up by the government as a
:04:12. > :04:16.beacon of the Academy movement. Now it is being used by opponents as a
:04:17. > :04:23.glaring example of what could go wrong. Investigations began last
:04:24. > :04:23.October and today, a report has identified significant financial
:04:24. > :04:58.irregularity. The police advise the government not
:04:59. > :05:04.to publish its report until they had concluded their own enquiry. This
:05:05. > :05:08.week, officers reviewed all the material and say it doesn't warrant
:05:09. > :05:13.any criminal investigation and that is why this document has been
:05:14. > :05:25.released today. And it is damning. Other criticisms include: All this
:05:26. > :05:33.was news to people picking up students today. I am shocked. My
:05:34. > :05:40.son's education seemed to be going well. I am surprised. I've bought
:05:41. > :05:44.Banfield was doing great because they have taken over the most of the
:05:45. > :05:52.schools in Luton. They are my constituents. Thousands of
:05:53. > :05:55.students, they are the ones who will suffer if the college doesn't
:05:56. > :06:00.function well and we have got to seed up and running as well as was
:06:01. > :06:04.years ago. We want the government to take strong action and we want to
:06:05. > :06:24.see a new governance and management at the federation.
:06:25. > :06:29.The federation has been given a month to set out how it will
:06:30. > :06:32.improve. I'm joined by Paul Scoins, BBC Three
:06:33. > :06:41.Counties Radio's political reporter who's been following this story from
:06:42. > :06:45.the start. So what next, Paul? They have got to take tough decision The
:06:46. > :06:49.government has been telling the federation it has got to make pretty
:06:50. > :06:52.significant improvements quickly or else it will take further action.
:06:53. > :06:59.That could involve the splitting of the academies. That's a direct
:07:00. > :07:04.request by the two ministers involved. There are several schools
:07:05. > :07:11.waiting to become academies. Tonight, those conversions had been
:07:12. > :07:17.placed on hold. This has been a disastrous report. It is. It's worse
:07:18. > :07:23.than we expected. It's hugely embarrassing. This was an
:07:24. > :07:29.organisation which was the first of its kind to take over academies It
:07:30. > :07:34.was celebrated by the Labour and coalition governments, and now, it
:07:35. > :07:39.maintains its academic standards are not in question, but whether the
:07:40. > :07:42.federation we see opening its doors to new pupils in September looks the
:07:43. > :07:45.same as it does to Knight looks unclear.
:07:46. > :07:49.As you may have heard, Peterborough serial killer Joanne Dennehy will
:07:50. > :07:53.spend the rest of her life in prison with no chance of parole. Dennehy is
:07:54. > :07:56.only the third woman ever to have been given a whole life tariff.
:07:57. > :07:58.Before her, Myra Hindley and Rose West. Our home affairs
:07:59. > :08:02.correspondent, Sally Chidzoy, was at the Old Bailey as Dennehy and her
:08:03. > :08:12.accomplices were sentenced and Sally joins us now. It has been a day of
:08:13. > :08:19.justice finally for the friends and family, who have cost the two men
:08:20. > :08:25.she attempted to murder stabbed to death. Here, she and her accomplices
:08:26. > :08:35.are now isolated from each other in jail. Joanna would cackle and smile
:08:36. > :08:42.and the dog. The woman who killed men sat with many men behind glass.
:08:43. > :08:48.Her three accomplices were surrounded by nine officers. The
:08:49. > :08:52.judge told her she was a crawl, calculating, selfish and
:08:53. > :08:58.manipulative serial killer who killed to gratify her own sadistic
:08:59. > :09:01.lust for blood. Today, she was in handcuffs throughout and showed no
:09:02. > :09:09.remorse. She will spend the rest of her life in prison for her life will
:09:10. > :09:14.mean life. We saw what can a person she is today, constantly spiralling
:09:15. > :09:20.in front of Billy Reeve to families at times when she showed disrespect
:09:21. > :09:25.for everyone. The fact she will never see daylight again in the
:09:26. > :09:31.outside world is a huge comfort to the family. Relatives and friends of
:09:32. > :09:37.the victims sat yards away from her. We feel she brainwashed Kevin. He
:09:38. > :09:42.has paid for that with his life We feel that justice has been served.
:09:43. > :09:48.But each day, we live would the pain created by this monster and her
:09:49. > :09:53.accomplices. But unfortunately, no amount of Justice will bring Kevin
:09:54. > :10:02.back. The woman who was said to have a spell over men said nothing as she
:10:03. > :10:07.was led out. She was a psychopath and had written a letter to the
:10:08. > :10:11.judge, explaining her murderous actions. She told him she had no
:10:12. > :10:16.remorse for the murders but did regret the attempted murders. The
:10:17. > :10:20.judge said, you told the psychiatrist that you killed to see
:10:21. > :10:26.how it would feel, that it got moreish for you and you got a taste
:10:27. > :10:32.for it. Punishment and retribution required the imposition of a whole
:10:33. > :10:40.live or die. Her accomplice got life. That will be a minimum of 19
:10:41. > :10:43.years. Leslie got 14 years and Robert three years for helping to
:10:44. > :10:46.cover up. It's been announced there's to be a
:10:47. > :10:49.major review of health care services in Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes.
:10:50. > :10:54.Managers say it's not sustainable to continue to provide a whole range of
:10:55. > :11:00.services across all sites. They re asking for feedback from patients.
:11:01. > :11:01.The proposed professional. Ogogo will start as
:11:02. > :11:16.favourite. Still to come, the man becoming a
:11:17. > :11:21.big name in the world of ultimate fighting.
:11:22. > :11:24.And our world War I week comes to a close and night it is the story of
:11:25. > :11:32.creche and's School in Norfolk where 100 boys were killed. Now I wonder
:11:33. > :11:37.if you know what this is? It's more than 90 metres long and
:11:38. > :11:40.one of the owners is the rock star Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden and
:11:41. > :11:43.it can fly for three weeks without refuelling.
:11:44. > :11:46.It's called the Long Endurance Multi`Intelligence Vehicle and today
:11:47. > :11:51.it was unveiled at Cardington in Bedfordshire. It's the longest
:11:52. > :11:55.aircraft in the world and it's due to fly later this year. The BBC's
:11:56. > :12:04.transport correspondent Richard Wescott reports.
:12:05. > :12:10.Inside Britain's biggest aircraft hangar, something is growing.
:12:11. > :12:16.Beating into life, the world's longest flying machine. Looks like
:12:17. > :12:26.an airship but it isn't because it doesn't float.
:12:27. > :12:35.What you can see from here is that unique shape. It is designed more
:12:36. > :12:40.like a wing than a traditional airship so it can generate lift.
:12:41. > :12:43.Airships float away and you need 50 people to stand there holding ropes
:12:44. > :12:49.when they land. With this, you can land it with no one around. How else
:12:50. > :12:55.would a rock star arrive? Bruce Dickinson is helping to fund the
:12:56. > :13:08.project. He is an airline pilot, businessman and this also.
:13:09. > :13:17.I want to get in this thing and fly it Pole to Pole in stock we will fly
:13:18. > :13:21.it over the world's greatest cities and show the whole world live on the
:13:22. > :13:27.Internet exactly how beautiful this planet is. We don't need to go into
:13:28. > :13:32.outer space to do that. The US Army bought it a few years ago but budget
:13:33. > :13:37.cuts mean the developers have now bought it back. It will be able to
:13:38. > :13:41.carry 50 tonnes using a third of the fuel of a cargo plane and can stay
:13:42. > :13:49.in the air for three weeks at a time. You can get hundreds of people
:13:50. > :13:54.on board. The view is brilliant, you can get plenty of people on board.
:13:55. > :14:13.This hangar oozes history and the ghosts of airship past. The
:14:14. > :14:20.ill`fated model was consumed by fire after it was built many years ago.
:14:21. > :14:23.It might not be pretty. You decide what this looks like. The first UK
:14:24. > :14:28.flight is planned for later this year.
:14:29. > :14:33.The UK Independence Party has changed the political landscape on
:14:34. > :14:36.many of our local councils. Last year they won 48 seats and they're
:14:37. > :14:41.talking about doing even better in the elections coming up in May.
:14:42. > :14:49.So spirits are high at their Spring Conference in Torquay. Because
:14:50. > :14:57.despite predictions that success would be short lived there is no
:14:58. > :15:00.sign support is waning. Torquay is a long way from Essex but that hasn't
:15:01. > :15:05.stopped many UKIP councillors to celebrate a year of success. Why is
:15:06. > :15:10.it happening now? They say it is because the public has had enough of
:15:11. > :15:14.the main political parties. There has never been a time before when
:15:15. > :15:23.the public and the ruling elite so far apart. What are the main parties
:15:24. > :15:28.operate `` offering their people? Absolutely nothing. The membership
:15:29. > :15:33.of the party has more than doubled, we aim to deliver what Nigel Farage
:15:34. > :15:39.has caused `` has called on earthquake in British politics. UKIP
:15:40. > :15:45.is gaining many supporters. They had a significant presence on many
:15:46. > :15:49.county councils and now a new analysis of local by`election
:15:50. > :15:53.results in this region over the last five months has found that while the
:15:54. > :16:00.number of votes cast for the main parties is down, subvert `` are
:16:01. > :16:07.bought for UKIP is down. `` is up 17%. The main parties still won most
:16:08. > :16:11.of the season when you consider that UKIP polls more than 20% in opinion
:16:12. > :16:17.polls in this region, higher than anywhere else in the country, it is
:16:18. > :16:21.clear this is now a party to be taken seriously. The other parties
:16:22. > :16:26.to believe UKIP's success will be short lived and they say none of its
:16:27. > :16:33.policies are achievable. It is a successful pressure group but not a
:16:34. > :16:39.credible political party. The way to leave the EU is to get a referendum
:16:40. > :16:43.from the Conservative Party. This is a party with very few policies but
:16:44. > :16:51.it seems at the moment most voters don't seem to mind. And on the
:16:52. > :16:54.Sunday Politics this weekend, does UKIP have any policies? We'll hear
:16:55. > :16:56.both sides of the argument. And World War One and the controversial
:16:57. > :17:03.issue of conscientious objectors. That's 11 o'clock, BBC One on
:17:04. > :17:06.Sunday. In football that are some important
:17:07. > :17:11.games. Marriage are away to Aston Villa.
:17:12. > :17:35.Think of some martial arts, karate, tae kwon do.
:17:36. > :17:40.But there is only one which combines them all. It's called Ultimate
:17:41. > :17:42.Fighting and we have one a rising star in this region.
:17:43. > :17:46.Luke Barnatt comes from Essex but lives and trains in Cambridge. He's
:17:47. > :17:55.unbeaten and preparing for a big fight at the O2 Arena. Our Sports
:17:56. > :18:02.Editor Jonathan Park reports. This is Luke's last training session
:18:03. > :18:07.before the biggest fight of his career. I will be fighting next week
:18:08. > :18:16.and when I walk out, I have many fans cheering. He is building up
:18:17. > :18:25.quite a reputation in the ultimate fighting championship. Fists, feet,
:18:26. > :18:31.knees, anything goes. So far so good. Seven fights and no defeats.
:18:32. > :18:33.It is one of the most demanding sports out there and contains a
:18:34. > :18:40.relevance of many Olympic sorts `` sports. Some say it is the ultimate
:18:41. > :18:48.test of stamina, power and mental strength. He has become an amazing
:18:49. > :18:53.athlete. Lots of skills that you have to learn and he has fast
:18:54. > :19:01.tracked through them all. Not everyone can do that. To its fans,
:19:02. > :19:08.it is mixed martial arts but it has its fair share of detractors. I have
:19:09. > :19:16.to train four hours a day six times a week. I am dedicated with my
:19:17. > :19:22.diet. My life is 100% dedication. It is not two folks getting into a cage
:19:23. > :19:32.and fighting, it is two athletes in their best shape competing to win.
:19:33. > :19:39.We are doing jujitsu. I am looking to get my opponent by trapping his
:19:40. > :19:48.arm, his head and isolating him in a part of his body to make him tapped
:19:49. > :19:56.out. His opponent is from Sweden and will have his hands full. He is in a
:19:57. > :20:00.hurry to make a real name for himself.
:20:01. > :20:03.All this week on Look East, we've been looking at how the First World
:20:04. > :20:06.War affected people in this region. Tonight the story of one school.
:20:07. > :20:09.Gresham's in Norfolk. More than 100 former students lost their lives in
:20:10. > :20:13.the war. The scale of the losses had a
:20:14. > :20:22.profound effect on the school and its headmaster. Mike Liggins is
:20:23. > :20:27.there now. I am in the chapel at the school.
:20:28. > :20:34.Building work on this chapel started in 1912 and when war broke out and
:20:35. > :20:39.the pupils at Gresham began to die, it became clear this building would
:20:40. > :20:44.be a memorial to them. Here are the 20 names of the young man who went
:20:45. > :20:45.to war and never came back. Three quarters of them were under the age
:20:46. > :21:10.of 24. Gresham's lost 103 boys in the First
:21:11. > :21:26.World War. It was shattering to the people who had known them well. ``
:21:27. > :21:33.23 boys. Central to that story is the headmaster of the time, George
:21:34. > :21:39.Howson. He was the charismatic leader, the one that everybody
:21:40. > :21:46.wanted to be with. For him particularly, the war was utterly
:21:47. > :21:51.shattering. George had a favourite. His name was Alec Heron. This
:21:52. > :21:58.photograph was taken in 1911 when he was head of house and school. He
:21:59. > :22:04.went on to Oxford and then into the Kings Royal rifle Corps. In March
:22:05. > :22:11.1915, he was killed in action. He was 21. His commanding officer wrote
:22:12. > :22:16.to his father. He was leading his men most gallantly and were shot
:22:17. > :22:23.quite close to the German trenches. Nobody knew what this war was going
:22:24. > :22:26.to be like. I think the day that he received the news that he had died
:22:27. > :22:44.was a very black day. A year nine history lesson at
:22:45. > :22:54.Gresham's. Charlie Shepherd is in the lesson. Every year, the school
:22:55. > :23:03.visits the World War I battlefield. His namesake, Charlie Shepherd was
:23:04. > :23:08.killed in action at the age of 20. These boys were in the same
:23:09. > :23:12.situation as we now. They went to war and never came back. If you
:23:13. > :23:22.would like to look the photograph albums. Today they maintain a world
:23:23. > :23:28.`` they maintain a World War I archive. He had a special service of
:23:29. > :23:33.intercessions and at that service, the list of the forum was read. I
:23:34. > :23:41.think to hear that week after week and to see that list getting
:23:42. > :23:49.longer, it was that renewed sense of disaster and grief. George Howson
:23:50. > :23:59.died weeks after the Armistice. After losing 103 of his brightest
:24:00. > :24:05.and best, it has been said he died of a broken heart. In 1921 the names
:24:06. > :24:10.of the fallen were carved into the chapel stalls here. Someone thought
:24:11. > :24:19.it appropriate that the names of George Harrison and his protege,
:24:20. > :24:25.Alec Heron, should sit side`by`side. Now for the weather.
:24:26. > :24:46.After a miserable day, there was quite a pleasant weekend. It is
:24:47. > :24:50.still raining across many of the southern counties. There was a
:24:51. > :24:55.glimmer of sunshine this afternoon. It wasn't bad everywhere. For many
:24:56. > :25:01.of us, it will rain on and off through this evening and overnight.
:25:02. > :25:08.That front is lingering for Sussex and six. Elsewhere, it is largely
:25:09. > :25:17.dry. If you go further west, there could be a few fog patches.
:25:18. > :25:21.Temperatures close to freezing. Further east, hovering at five
:25:22. > :25:26.Celsius. We start tomorrow quite chilly and the temperatures won't
:25:27. > :25:30.really recover much through the day. It does look mainly dry across a lot
:25:31. > :25:32.of the region. There's quite a bit of cloud around although a better
:25:33. > :25:46.chance of something bright across the rest `` West. Temperatures are
:25:47. > :25:51.around six Celsius. For the rest of the day, it does look as if it dries
:25:52. > :25:56.out. The showers will clear out into the North Sea and we are left with a
:25:57. > :26:01.dry afternoon. The prospect of more rain coming in on Saturday although
:26:02. > :26:06.it should clear on Sunday. This is our pressure pattern as we get into
:26:07. > :26:12.Sunday. Here is our next weather system which will bring us some
:26:13. > :26:16.rain. The wind will freshen as it moves through. Expect a largely
:26:17. > :26:22.cloudy day on Sunday and temperatures slightly higher. Rabies
:26:23. > :26:32.moving through by the end of Sunday. `` rain is moving through. That is
:26:33. > :26:36.it from us but before we go, let us return to Gresham School in Norfolk.
:26:37. > :26:42.Today is the end of our week of special reports on Look East about
:26:43. > :26:45.the first world war and how it affected this region. We end the
:26:46. > :26:47.programme tonight with the choir from Gresham's singing For the