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military activity in the area tonight. That is all from | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Repeated failings and missed opportunities. The verdict on | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
Northamptonshire Police over the death of this grandmother. | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
Shape up or shut down! The final warning to an organisation running | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
schools and colleges in Bedfordshire. | :00:20. | :00:30. | |
The longest aircraft in the world in the biggest hanger in Britain. | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
And he's the ultimate in ultimate fighting and he comes from | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
Cambridge! Hello. First tonight, how systematic | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
failures in policing ended in the brutal killing of a grandmother | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
Mavis Clift died in a fire at her Northamptonshire home in 2008. It | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
had been started by her son`in`law who poured petrol through the | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
letterbox. But his target was actually his wife who had contacted | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
the police on several occasions saying she was terrified of what he | :01:04. | :01:12. | |
might do. When pulled from her home, Mavis was | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
already dead, badly burned and suffocated by smoke. The fire, | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
started by her fiery `` son`in`law. A final, fatal act in his campaign | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
of harassment. Mavis's daughter was the target. She wept when she heard | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
the verdict. Northamptonshire police criticised for failing to protect | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
her. Sitting through the evidence over the last month, it has shocked | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
us to be reminded of how many times Susan and her family and friends | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
asked for help from police and received no response. How many times | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
he escaped justice? It has been painful to hear that a lot more | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
could have been done to remove the threat Paul post. The inquest heard | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
of an escalating pattern of abuse. But despite the family polling the | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
police on 23 occasions, Paul was free and able to start the fire The | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
police didn't listen to them, say the family. That complaint was | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
upheld. There were systematic failings in our computer systems, | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
the training and awareness of our staff, elements incompetence and, in | :02:39. | :02:47. | |
addition to that, the lack of investigation around the incidents | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
reported to us. Paul Barber died here. His campaign of abuse linked | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
to Parkinson's disease. His family say he is medication was wrong and | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
he needed help. He was a proud man and didn't like to show the effects | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
of Parkinson's. To the outside world, you looked normal but he | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
wasn't. Psychologically, the ova medicating her drastic effect on his | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
mental health. The effects of the drugs were making him irrational. | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
This wouldn't have happened if he was kept in custody, say the family. | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
Less and have been learned and systems changed, say the police | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
A federation of academy schools in Luton has been told to get its act | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
together or face closure. A damning government report has highlighted | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
significant "financial irregularity" at the Barnfield Federation which | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
runs a college and half a dozen academies and schools across | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
Bedfordshire. It has been given a month to improve. | :03:56. | :04:05. | |
Just three years ago, the federation was held up by the government as a | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
beacon of the Academy movement. Now it is being used by opponents as a | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
glaring example of what could go wrong. Investigations began last | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
October and today, a report has identified significant financial | :04:24. | :04:23. | |
irregularity. The police advise the government not | :04:24. | :04:58. | |
to publish its report until they had concluded their own enquiry. This | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
week, officers reviewed all the material and say it doesn't warrant | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
any criminal investigation and that is why this document has been | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
released today. And it is damning. Other criticisms include: All this | :05:14. | :05:25. | |
was news to people picking up students today. I am shocked. My | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
son's education seemed to be going well. I am surprised. I've bought | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
Banfield was doing great because they have taken over the most of the | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
schools in Luton. They are my constituents. Thousands of | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
students, they are the ones who will suffer if the college doesn't | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
function well and we have got to seed up and running as well as was | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
years ago. We want the government to take strong action and we want to | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
see a new governance and management at the federation. | :06:05. | :06:24. | |
The federation has been given a month to set out how it will | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
improve. I'm joined by Paul Scoins, BBC Three | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
Counties Radio's political reporter who's been following this story from | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
the start. So what next, Paul? They have got to take tough decision The | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
government has been telling the federation it has got to make pretty | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
significant improvements quickly or else it will take further action. | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
That could involve the splitting of the academies. That's a direct | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
request by the two ministers involved. There are several schools | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
waiting to become academies. Tonight, those conversions had been | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
placed on hold. This has been a disastrous report. It is. It's worse | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
than we expected. It's hugely embarrassing. This was an | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
organisation which was the first of its kind to take over academies It | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
was celebrated by the Labour and coalition governments, and now, it | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
maintains its academic standards are not in question, but whether the | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
federation we see opening its doors to new pupils in September looks the | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
same as it does to Knight looks unclear. | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
As you may have heard, Peterborough serial killer Joanne Dennehy will | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
spend the rest of her life in prison with no chance of parole. Dennehy is | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
only the third woman ever to have been given a whole life tariff. | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
Before her, Myra Hindley and Rose West. Our home affairs | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
correspondent, Sally Chidzoy, was at the Old Bailey as Dennehy and her | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
accomplices were sentenced and Sally joins us now. It has been a day of | :08:03. | :08:12. | |
justice finally for the friends and family, who have cost the two men | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
she attempted to murder stabbed to death. Here, she and her accomplices | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
are now isolated from each other in jail. Joanna would cackle and smile | :08:26. | :08:35. | |
and the dog. The woman who killed men sat with many men behind glass. | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
Her three accomplices were surrounded by nine officers. The | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
judge told her she was a crawl, calculating, selfish and | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
manipulative serial killer who killed to gratify her own sadistic | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
lust for blood. Today, she was in handcuffs throughout and showed no | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
remorse. She will spend the rest of her life in prison for her life will | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
mean life. We saw what can a person she is today, constantly spiralling | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
in front of Billy Reeve to families at times when she showed disrespect | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
for everyone. The fact she will never see daylight again in the | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
outside world is a huge comfort to the family. Relatives and friends of | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
the victims sat yards away from her. We feel she brainwashed Kevin. He | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
has paid for that with his life We feel that justice has been served. | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
But each day, we live would the pain created by this monster and her | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
accomplices. But unfortunately, no amount of Justice will bring Kevin | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
back. The woman who was said to have a spell over men said nothing as she | :09:54. | :10:02. | |
was led out. She was a psychopath and had written a letter to the | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
judge, explaining her murderous actions. She told him she had no | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
remorse for the murders but did regret the attempted murders. The | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
judge said, you told the psychiatrist that you killed to see | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
how it would feel, that it got moreish for you and you got a taste | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
for it. Punishment and retribution required the imposition of a whole | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
live or die. Her accomplice got life. That will be a minimum of 19 | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
years. Leslie got 14 years and Robert three years for helping to | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
cover up. It's been announced there's to be a | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
major review of health care services in Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes. | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
Managers say it's not sustainable to continue to provide a whole range of | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
services across all sites. They re asking for feedback from patients. | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
The proposed professional. Ogogo will start as | :11:01. | :11:01. | |
favourite. Still to come, the man becoming a | :11:02. | :11:16. | |
big name in the world of ultimate fighting. | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
And our world War I week comes to a close and night it is the story of | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
creche and's School in Norfolk where 100 boys were killed. Now I wonder | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
if you know what this is? It's more than 90 metres long and | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
one of the owners is the rock star Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden and | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
it can fly for three weeks without refuelling. | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
It's called the Long Endurance Multi`Intelligence Vehicle and today | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
it was unveiled at Cardington in Bedfordshire. It's the longest | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
aircraft in the world and it's due to fly later this year. The BBC's | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
transport correspondent Richard Wescott reports. | :11:56. | :12:04. | |
Inside Britain's biggest aircraft hangar, something is growing. | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
Beating into life, the world's longest flying machine. Looks like | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
an airship but it isn't because it doesn't float. | :12:17. | :12:26. | |
What you can see from here is that unique shape. It is designed more | :12:27. | :12:35. | |
like a wing than a traditional airship so it can generate lift. | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
Airships float away and you need 50 people to stand there holding ropes | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
when they land. With this, you can land it with no one around. How else | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
would a rock star arrive? Bruce Dickinson is helping to fund the | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
project. He is an airline pilot, businessman and this also. | :12:56. | :13:08. | |
I want to get in this thing and fly it Pole to Pole in stock we will fly | :13:09. | :13:17. | |
it over the world's greatest cities and show the whole world live on the | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
Internet exactly how beautiful this planet is. We don't need to go into | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
outer space to do that. The US Army bought it a few years ago but budget | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
cuts mean the developers have now bought it back. It will be able to | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
carry 50 tonnes using a third of the fuel of a cargo plane and can stay | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
in the air for three weeks at a time. You can get hundreds of people | :13:42. | :13:49. | |
on board. The view is brilliant, you can get plenty of people on board. | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
This hangar oozes history and the ghosts of airship past. The | :13:55. | :14:13. | |
ill`fated model was consumed by fire after it was built many years ago. | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
It might not be pretty. You decide what this looks like. The first UK | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
flight is planned for later this year. | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
The UK Independence Party has changed the political landscape on | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
many of our local councils. Last year they won 48 seats and they're | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
talking about doing even better in the elections coming up in May. | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
So spirits are high at their Spring Conference in Torquay. Because | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
despite predictions that success would be short lived there is no | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
sign support is waning. Torquay is a long way from Essex but that hasn't | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
stopped many UKIP councillors to celebrate a year of success. Why is | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
it happening now? They say it is because the public has had enough of | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
the main political parties. There has never been a time before when | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
the public and the ruling elite so far apart. What are the main parties | :15:15. | :15:23. | |
operate `` offering their people? Absolutely nothing. The membership | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
of the party has more than doubled, we aim to deliver what Nigel Farage | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
has caused `` has called on earthquake in British politics. UKIP | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
is gaining many supporters. They had a significant presence on many | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
county councils and now a new analysis of local by`election | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
results in this region over the last five months has found that while the | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
number of votes cast for the main parties is down, subvert `` are | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
bought for UKIP is down. `` is up 17%. The main parties still won most | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
of the season when you consider that UKIP polls more than 20% in opinion | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
polls in this region, higher than anywhere else in the country, it is | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
clear this is now a party to be taken seriously. The other parties | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
to believe UKIP's success will be short lived and they say none of its | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
policies are achievable. It is a successful pressure group but not a | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
credible political party. The way to leave the EU is to get a referendum | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
from the Conservative Party. This is a party with very few policies but | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
it seems at the moment most voters don't seem to mind. And on the | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
Sunday Politics this weekend, does UKIP have any policies? We'll hear | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
both sides of the argument. And World War One and the controversial | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
issue of conscientious objectors. That's 11 o'clock, BBC One on | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
Sunday. In football that are some important | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
games. Marriage are away to Aston Villa. | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
Think of some martial arts, karate, tae kwon do. | :17:12. | :17:35. | |
But there is only one which combines them all. It's called Ultimate | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
Fighting and we have one a rising star in this region. | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
Luke Barnatt comes from Essex but lives and trains in Cambridge. He's | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
unbeaten and preparing for a big fight at the O2 Arena. Our Sports | :17:47. | :17:55. | |
Editor Jonathan Park reports. This is Luke's last training session | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
before the biggest fight of his career. I will be fighting next week | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
and when I walk out, I have many fans cheering. He is building up | :18:08. | :18:16. | |
quite a reputation in the ultimate fighting championship. Fists, feet, | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
knees, anything goes. So far so good. Seven fights and no defeats. | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
It is one of the most demanding sports out there and contains a | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
relevance of many Olympic sorts `` sports. Some say it is the ultimate | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
test of stamina, power and mental strength. He has become an amazing | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
athlete. Lots of skills that you have to learn and he has fast | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
tracked through them all. Not everyone can do that. To its fans, | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
it is mixed martial arts but it has its fair share of detractors. I have | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
to train four hours a day six times a week. I am dedicated with my | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
diet. My life is 100% dedication. It is not two folks getting into a cage | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
and fighting, it is two athletes in their best shape competing to win. | :19:23. | :19:32. | |
We are doing jujitsu. I am looking to get my opponent by trapping his | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
arm, his head and isolating him in a part of his body to make him tapped | :19:40. | :19:48. | |
out. His opponent is from Sweden and will have his hands full. He is in a | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
hurry to make a real name for himself. | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
All this week on Look East, we've been looking at how the First World | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
War affected people in this region. Tonight the story of one school. | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
Gresham's in Norfolk. More than 100 former students lost their lives in | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
the war. The scale of the losses had a | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
profound effect on the school and its headmaster. Mike Liggins is | :20:14. | :20:22. | |
there now. I am in the chapel at the school. | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
Building work on this chapel started in 1912 and when war broke out and | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
the pupils at Gresham began to die, it became clear this building would | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
be a memorial to them. Here are the 20 names of the young man who went | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
to war and never came back. Three quarters of them were under the age | :20:45. | :20:45. | |
of 24. Gresham's lost 103 boys in the First | :20:46. | :21:10. | |
World War. It was shattering to the people who had known them well. `` | :21:11. | :21:26. | |
23 boys. Central to that story is the headmaster of the time, George | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
Howson. He was the charismatic leader, the one that everybody | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
wanted to be with. For him particularly, the war was utterly | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
shattering. George had a favourite. His name was Alec Heron. This | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
photograph was taken in 1911 when he was head of house and school. He | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
went on to Oxford and then into the Kings Royal rifle Corps. In March | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
1915, he was killed in action. He was 21. His commanding officer wrote | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
to his father. He was leading his men most gallantly and were shot | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
quite close to the German trenches. Nobody knew what this war was going | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
to be like. I think the day that he received the news that he had died | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
was a very black day. A year nine history lesson at | :22:27. | :22:44. | |
Gresham's. Charlie Shepherd is in the lesson. Every year, the school | :22:45. | :22:54. | |
visits the World War I battlefield. His namesake, Charlie Shepherd was | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
killed in action at the age of 20. These boys were in the same | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
situation as we now. They went to war and never came back. If you | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
would like to look the photograph albums. Today they maintain a world | :23:13. | :23:22. | |
`` they maintain a World War I archive. He had a special service of | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
intercessions and at that service, the list of the forum was read. I | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
think to hear that week after week and to see that list getting | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
longer, it was that renewed sense of disaster and grief. George Howson | :23:42. | :23:49. | |
died weeks after the Armistice. After losing 103 of his brightest | :23:50. | :23:59. | |
and best, it has been said he died of a broken heart. In 1921 the names | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
of the fallen were carved into the chapel stalls here. Someone thought | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
it appropriate that the names of George Harrison and his protege, | :24:11. | :24:19. | |
Alec Heron, should sit side`by`side. Now for the weather. | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
After a miserable day, there was quite a pleasant weekend. It is | :24:26. | :24:46. | |
still raining across many of the southern counties. There was a | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
glimmer of sunshine this afternoon. It wasn't bad everywhere. For many | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
of us, it will rain on and off through this evening and overnight. | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
That front is lingering for Sussex and six. Elsewhere, it is largely | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
dry. If you go further west, there could be a few fog patches. | :25:09. | :25:17. | |
Temperatures close to freezing. Further east, hovering at five | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
Celsius. We start tomorrow quite chilly and the temperatures won't | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
really recover much through the day. It does look mainly dry across a lot | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
of the region. There's quite a bit of cloud around although a better | :25:31. | :25:32. | |
chance of something bright across the rest `` West. Temperatures are | :25:33. | :25:46. | |
around six Celsius. For the rest of the day, it does look as if it dries | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
out. The showers will clear out into the North Sea and we are left with a | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
dry afternoon. The prospect of more rain coming in on Saturday although | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
it should clear on Sunday. This is our pressure pattern as we get into | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
Sunday. Here is our next weather system which will bring us some | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
rain. The wind will freshen as it moves through. Expect a largely | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
cloudy day on Sunday and temperatures slightly higher. Rabies | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
moving through by the end of Sunday. `` rain is moving through. That is | :26:23. | :26:32. | |
it from us but before we go, let us return to Gresham School in Norfolk. | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
Today is the end of our week of special reports on Look East about | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
the first world war and how it affected this region. We end the | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
programme tonight with the choir from Gresham's singing For the | :26:46. | :26:47. |