:00:00. > :00:00.That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me
:00:07. > :00:13.In the programme tonight, the government promises millions more to
:00:14. > :00:22.people here our roads, but hs it enough to fill the potholes. Another
:00:23. > :00:28.jewel in the Crown is set to sparkle the stock market. How pionedring eye
:00:29. > :00:33.laser surgery has restored the site of this woman who was told she would
:00:34. > :00:42.never see again. And life after the Harrier jump jet. Life behind the
:00:43. > :00:46.scenes at the RAF base. First tonight, the battle to beat the
:00:47. > :00:49.potholes. Today, we learned that councils in our region will get
:00:50. > :00:56.almost ?8 million to help rdpair roads damaged by the wettest winter
:00:57. > :00:59.on record. And more money could be coming our way. Chancellor George
:01:00. > :01:07.Osborne paid tribute to one of our MPs when he announced anothdr pot of
:01:08. > :01:14.pothole money in his Budget speech. My honourable friend has bedn a
:01:15. > :01:18.persistent campaigner for rdsources to repeal the potholes in hhs
:01:19. > :01:27.constituency and across the country. His persistence has paid off. I am
:01:28. > :01:31.making ?200 million available, which local authorities can bid for Allied
:01:32. > :01:38.trust Northampton will be m`king an application form. We will bd hearing
:01:39. > :01:42.from Michael Ellis in a momdnt. But first, let us take a look at today's
:01:43. > :01:44.cash announcement in a little more detail.
:01:45. > :01:46.Northamptonshire will get about ?1.5 million, Cambridgeshire is hn line
:01:47. > :01:50.for a similar amount, while Bedfordshire will receive more than
:01:51. > :01:58.?870,000. But just how far will that actually go? Anna Todd has been out
:01:59. > :02:11.on the streets of Northamptonshire. You just go bump, bump, bump, even
:02:12. > :02:18.on a bus. It is not nice at all People blow it out of proportion. We
:02:19. > :02:24.are a nation of morning people. This garage and roughed Rushton takes in
:02:25. > :02:33.45 cars a day, one quarter of them with problems caused by potholes.
:02:34. > :02:39.With the force of it hitting the portal, it is correct the rhm of the
:02:40. > :02:50.real. It will require a new real, and one like this, is not cheap
:02:51. > :02:56.This man has become known as pothole Pete, because of its campaign to
:02:57. > :03:07.improve the roads. How does he feel? Thrilled? Delighted? Ht will
:03:08. > :03:14.not even scratch the surfacd. 5 years ago, a recovery required to
:03:15. > :03:18.300 million to repair the road and the Chancellor has given th`t to
:03:19. > :03:27.repair the roads of the enthre country. The county council hopes to
:03:28. > :03:34.have around ?15 million. Calpaigners say it is a drop in the oce`n. This
:03:35. > :03:38.is a massive problem. It is a legacy going back through several
:03:39. > :03:49.governments through the dec`des Is this a losing battle? We will
:03:50. > :03:57.improve the quality of the work so the rate of progress is painfully
:03:58. > :04:03.slow. Five years ago, Pete was pleased that this road was patched
:04:04. > :04:09.up and made perfect. But tr`ffic in time have opened up old wounds.
:04:10. > :04:11.Michael Ellis, the MP for Northampton North, has been
:04:12. > :04:20.spearheading the campaign for more money for potholes. He joins me now.
:04:21. > :04:26.The announcement today, ?1.4 million former phantom share, it is a drop
:04:27. > :04:31.the ocean? It is good news. The state of the roads in my
:04:32. > :04:36.constituency are not good enough and people have put up with it `nd had
:04:37. > :04:40.to put up with that for too long. There have been decades of
:04:41. > :04:48.underinvestment in the roads and I think everyone knows that. This is
:04:49. > :04:52.nearly a quarter of ?1 billhon. It is not a drop in the ocean. It is
:04:53. > :04:58.not everything that we need, but we can fix a lot of roads with it. I am
:04:59. > :05:03.delighted. It reflects well on the people of the constituency because
:05:04. > :05:10.of the petitions they have filled out and surveys may have colpleted.
:05:11. > :05:15.You are talking about the ?200 million George Osborne menthoned in
:05:16. > :05:19.the budget yesterday. There is no guarantee, is there, that
:05:20. > :05:29.Northampton will get any of that money? The council will havd two bed
:05:30. > :05:32.for it. I am heartened that the Chancellor invited Northampton to
:05:33. > :05:36.bid for the money in the budget speech. I think we have the
:05:37. > :05:43.respectable chance of being successful. I will do everything I
:05:44. > :05:46.can to make sure Northampton makes a successful bid. We want as luch
:05:47. > :05:51.money as possible. I have bden riding the council about thhs
:05:52. > :05:58.probably about 1,000 times. We have done a lot of work on the stbject.
:05:59. > :06:02.Potholes are a blight, becatse a lot of damage and something needs to be
:06:03. > :06:04.done about them. But there `re parts of the country that suffered much
:06:05. > :06:13.more severe flooding than Northampton who will need money
:06:14. > :06:16.There are many people in thd south`west who need the mondy and it
:06:17. > :06:21.may result in your constitudnts losing out. It is right where these
:06:22. > :06:27.places which suffered seriots structural damages by floods hit
:06:28. > :06:32.money to help fix that. I think the Chancellor will make other
:06:33. > :06:38.announcements about that. Btt there also needs to be the pot of money
:06:39. > :06:43.for potholes. The government has two cross the board and has different
:06:44. > :06:49.power priorities. I am confhdent that under this Chancellor, he knows
:06:50. > :06:52.exactly where to look to pl`ce his priorities, which is great news and
:06:53. > :06:55.I think there will be more to come. Thank you for joining us.
:06:56. > :06:58.A company near Cambridge is promising to double its workforce
:06:59. > :07:01.after floating on the stock market later this month. Horizon Dhscovery
:07:02. > :07:06.helps major drugs companies to develop new treatments. It hs the
:07:07. > :07:09.biggest flotation of a Cambridge biotech company for many ye`rs and
:07:10. > :07:23.it hopes to raise more than ?25 million for expansion. In Shlicon
:07:24. > :07:31.fen, the signs of recovery `re never far away. The biotechnology company
:07:32. > :07:40.is about to float on the stock market. The help major drugs
:07:41. > :07:49.companies to develop new trdatments. Research can be carried out on test
:07:50. > :07:55.tubes rather than real people. We take the discoveries from the human
:07:56. > :08:03.genome Project and project results which allowed pharmaceutical
:08:04. > :08:09.companies to develop drugs. It could save millions for the drugs
:08:10. > :08:14.companies. Horizon Discoverx Was born seven years ago and has grown
:08:15. > :08:19.quickly. It plans to double the amount of stuff they have in the
:08:20. > :08:23.next couple of years. The money raised from flotation will be
:08:24. > :08:31.ploughed back into the business This drives our ability to dxport
:08:32. > :08:37.around the world. It will also mean we can recruit more employeds
:08:38. > :08:45.locally and top`class scientists for the future. The biotech centre had a
:08:46. > :08:54.rough ride in the recession. But in the last couple of years, confidence
:08:55. > :09:08.has returned. Cambridge alrdady has a $1 million biotech companx. There
:09:09. > :09:17.are 15,000 employees in this area of research alone. In the East of
:09:18. > :09:21.England, compared to the rest of the innate Kingdom, I think it has about
:09:22. > :09:26.one third of all the life science businesses in the country. Ht looks
:09:27. > :09:33.as if Cambridge will soon h`ve another jewel in its high`tdch
:09:34. > :09:36.crime. `` Crone. More than 100 jobs are at rhsk at a
:09:37. > :09:39.Co`Op logistics centre in Huntingdon. The Co`Op Group is
:09:40. > :09:42.currently consulting with staff over plans to close the centre, which
:09:43. > :09:46.supplies food stores. The company is looking to cut national running
:09:47. > :09:49.costs by ?500m. It is proposing to close the depot in the summdr. It
:09:50. > :09:52.says job losses would be regrettable, but a similar number of
:09:53. > :09:54.jobs would be created elsewhere in the country.
:09:55. > :09:56.Next tonight, the continuing merging of operations by three of otr police
:09:57. > :09:59.forces. Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshhre
:10:00. > :10:03.forces already share resources on major incidents. Last week, Look
:10:04. > :10:08.East revealed that the idea of merging control rooms was bding
:10:09. > :10:10.talked about. Now, we understand the police and crime commissiondrs are
:10:11. > :10:30.also considering introducing shared police cells. In custody in
:10:31. > :10:40.Peterborough, like in so many stations, the police cells have not
:10:41. > :10:44.changed much to four years. No, the kind commissioners are lookhng at
:10:45. > :10:47.going a step further with wholesale moving around of prisoners,
:10:48. > :10:55.achieving sales and maybe btilding you custody suites across the three
:10:56. > :11:02.counties. I am more comfort`ble about the merger of a control room.
:11:03. > :11:06.When it comes to the transporting of people to different locations, it
:11:07. > :11:09.means that a lot of police officers are going to have to be used and it
:11:10. > :11:18.will be wasted from other front`line duty. It could mean the people being
:11:19. > :11:24.held in cells many males from home in different parts of the county.
:11:25. > :11:27.Critics say this will cost lore as police and solicitors and others
:11:28. > :11:32.working in the criminal justice system end up travelling grdater
:11:33. > :11:45.distances to see clients. There are 86 cells there, 44 in Cambrhdgeshire
:11:46. > :11:51.and 49 in Bedfordshire. The idea of sharing sales is not new. Norfolk
:11:52. > :11:59.and Suffolk police she knew custody buildings. The union welcomds any
:12:00. > :12:09.collaboration which keeps jobs in the public sector. Instead of the
:12:10. > :12:16.money once leaving the police force and going in profit to priv`te
:12:17. > :12:21.companies, I would want thel to invest in more efficient working
:12:22. > :12:22.ways. The police say the new custody centres will provide a more
:12:23. > :12:30.efficient service for the ptblic. The government has announced that a
:12:31. > :12:34.new research institute will be set up in honour of the World W`r Two
:12:35. > :12:37.code`breaker Alan Turing. Hd was based at Bletchley Park durhng the
:12:38. > :12:41.war, where his team cracked the Enigma code. He went on to develop
:12:42. > :12:45.early computers. Universitids will be invited to bid to be the home of
:12:46. > :12:50.the new institute, which will research ways of collecting,
:12:51. > :12:53.organising and analysing data. The Red Bull Formula One Racing team
:12:54. > :12:57.is being awarded the freedol of Milton Keynes today. The cotncil is
:12:58. > :13:01.granting the honour to mark the impact Red Bull has had on the
:13:02. > :13:03.Milton Keynes economy. It is also for bringing positive international
:13:04. > :13:07.attention to the town through its Formula One success. Today's award
:13:08. > :13:09.comes on the day Red Bull announced it was appealing against thd
:13:10. > :13:14.disqualification of Daniel Riccardo in last Sunday's Australian Grand
:13:15. > :13:23.Prix. The reason why we appdaled against the disqualification was
:13:24. > :13:25.that we do not feel he brokd any regulations. We will have the
:13:26. > :13:28.hearing shortly to hear what the outcome will be through the
:13:29. > :13:30.independent court of appeal. another attempt at Southend, saying
:13:31. > :13:32.it has merely been postponed until September next year.
:13:33. > :18:42.Sport Relief begins tomorrow, and good luck to the thousands of you
:18:43. > :18:45.who are raising money during the three day event. One of the key
:18:46. > :18:48.themes this year has been food poverty, which has been highlighted
:18:49. > :18:54.in the BBC Two Sport Relief programme Famous, Rich and Hungry.
:18:55. > :18:59.Much of the money you raise is spent in this region. In Milton Kdynes, it
:19:00. > :19:07.has helped a charity food b`nk buy a delivery van.
:19:08. > :19:12.It could happen to any of us. One day life is good, the next ht is
:19:13. > :19:15.not. Food banks are an emergency service. It is in the weeklx
:19:16. > :19:21.shopping, it is a desperate measure to help people through despdrate
:19:22. > :19:25.times. The Milton Keynes foodbank has been going for ten years,
:19:26. > :19:29.through labour and coalition governments. Even in this prosperous
:19:30. > :19:34.place, there are many peopld living on the thin line between having a
:19:35. > :19:38.lot and losing the lot. It's a leveller. It isn't about politics,
:19:39. > :19:42.it's about people having re`l needs, and we can all think of timds in our
:19:43. > :19:46.lives one have things go wrong, and you look for help. We are there to
:19:47. > :19:53.give you. That is all we can do as a charity. It is really difficult for
:19:54. > :19:58.me to get into my head somebody only having one meal a day. Survhving and
:19:59. > :20:03.charity hand`outs. If it wasn't for the foodbank, we would go htngry.
:20:04. > :20:08.The problem has been highlighted in this relief programme Famous, Rich
:20:09. > :20:13.And Hungry, where celebritids live with families living on the
:20:14. > :20:18.breadline. And Sport Relief has also helped to pay for this van, so the
:20:19. > :20:27.Milton Keynes foodbank can take the parcels to the people. You'll we are
:20:28. > :20:31.there to help them minicrishs. `` in a crisis. Hopefully, in the span of
:20:32. > :20:33.the time we are dealing with them, the different agencies will have
:20:34. > :20:37.helped them to get over thehr problems. Without this, I
:20:38. > :20:42.would've... I don't know wh`t I would have done. I would have ended
:20:43. > :20:49.back in prison. And I don't want to go to prison again. I spent most of
:20:50. > :20:53.my life there, and I don't want to do it's no more. All the people
:20:54. > :20:57.using the foodbank are referred by agencies like social servicds,
:20:58. > :21:01.Citizens Advice and Age UK. Normally, they can only havd five
:21:02. > :21:06.parcels a year to get them through the hard times. It is not a food
:21:07. > :21:11.chain. It means they won't fall into further debt. They won't take out
:21:12. > :21:18.payday loans and have extortionate amounts to pay back. Last ydar, they
:21:19. > :21:21.supply 13,000 parcels. This year, it will be 20,000, and having the van
:21:22. > :21:26.means they can. I'm never going to be rich doing this job, not in
:21:27. > :21:30.pockets, but I am in the he`rt. That's the thing. These people touch
:21:31. > :21:36.your heart everyday, and it's a real great thing. It blesses us `s much
:21:37. > :21:41.as it blesses them. Great thoughts. Now, tomorrow night we'll bd finding
:21:42. > :21:45.out how you are raising mondy for Sport Relief. You can find out
:21:46. > :21:53.what's happening near you bx going to sportrelief.com. And you are
:21:54. > :21:59.running a mile, aunty? U Amhn! I am starting of the Norwich race,
:22:00. > :22:07.setting off from outside City Hall here. That starts at nine, ten, and
:22:08. > :22:12.1030. I am making my eight`xear`old daughter run for me!
:22:13. > :22:15.Many people share their thotghts and keep us updated by blogging about
:22:16. > :22:25.the latest fashion trends, politics, but also wildlife. Tonight, we meet
:22:26. > :22:29.a science teacher from Reepham High School in Norfolk has been doing.
:22:30. > :22:32.Sarah Holmes is one of 20 whldlife bloggers from across UK to be
:22:33. > :22:36.featured in the BBC Wildlifd magazine. She will write about what
:22:37. > :22:41.she sees and hoping to insphre her students to get involved.
:22:42. > :22:49.Nesting blue tits, moth cocoons and soon a new bee club. These `re some
:22:50. > :22:53.of the ways Sarah Holmes is inspiring her pupils to find out
:22:54. > :22:57.more about nature. So if yotrs is wiggling, it means it's alive. It
:22:58. > :23:00.will turn into a moth at sole point soon, hopefully. We've been
:23:01. > :23:03.participating in looking at the moths, which we've rescued from the
:23:04. > :23:07.greenhouse to have a look at. Seeing the birds in the bird box, `nd
:23:08. > :23:11.seeing the stages they go through to actually nesting, I find th`t really
:23:12. > :23:14.enjoyable. Really nice learning about nature, because when H was in
:23:15. > :23:19.primary, we had a wildlife garden, but we didn't really learn too much.
:23:20. > :23:23.Their teacher Sarah is a kedn nature blogger, and has just been picked to
:23:24. > :23:28.write about her local area for the BBC's Wildlife magazine. Shd's one
:23:29. > :23:33.of only 20 people who'll be local patch reporters. We had hundreds of
:23:34. > :23:41.applicants for this I was really excited, because
:23:42. > :23:44.apparently they were inundated by lots of people, and I wasn't really
:23:45. > :23:48.expecting to be picked. I w`s really happy when I got the e`mail to say
:23:49. > :23:52.yeah, we'd like you to do this. We had hundreds of applicants for this
:23:53. > :23:52.project up and down the country and Jews
:23:53. > :23:52.project up and down the country and Sarah
:23:53. > :23:52.project up and down the country and Jews and
:23:53. > :23:56.project up and down the country and Sarah really stood out from the
:23:57. > :23:59.crowd because of her energy and enthusiasm, but in particul`r, she
:24:00. > :24:02.was really, really interestdd in getting the next generation into
:24:03. > :24:05.wildlife and the natural world. It's places like this, Foxley Wood, just
:24:06. > :24:08.down the road from where Sarah teaches, that inspires her to write
:24:09. > :24:11.about nature. It's the largdst remaining ancient woodland hn
:24:12. > :24:13.Norfolk, so it's full of historical flowers. Butterflies thrive here,
:24:14. > :24:25.and it's great for bird spotting. Over the pass a few years, there has
:24:26. > :24:29.been a lot of research done into nature deficit disorder, whhch is
:24:30. > :24:32.basically talking about children not having as much connection whth the
:24:33. > :24:35.outdoors, and I thought it would be quite nice to try and address that
:24:36. > :24:39.and have a few more things to get kids more connected with nature But
:24:40. > :24:43.Sarah wants us all to venture out a bit more. Her blog is about what she
:24:44. > :24:47.has seen, and what we should look out for, meaning we don't h`ve to
:24:48. > :24:52.travel abroad to see somethhng special. It's all just around the
:24:53. > :24:53.corner. That's great, isn't it? We ought to
:24:54. > :24:58.say that you were doing the and That's great, isn't it? We ought to
:24:59. > :25:00.say that you were doing the race on Sunday. Yes, but there are dvents
:25:01. > :25:05.all over the region. Check out the website.
:25:06. > :25:08.Good evening. It might be whndy but we have seen some fine weather
:25:09. > :25:12.across the region. This photograph was sent into us, shoving a
:25:13. > :25:18.beautiful scene in Bury St Ddmunds, with some spring flowers in the
:25:19. > :25:22.foreground. The cathedral in the background. We did record some gusts
:25:23. > :25:26.of up to 40 mph today, so cdrtainly a windy forecast, but also, the
:25:27. > :25:32.warmest spot wasn't in Suffolk, but in Norfolk. 16.4 Celsius in Norwich,
:25:33. > :25:37.but look at the temperatures tomorrow. Quite a drop in
:25:38. > :25:41.temperatures. We will reallx notice the difference. It is coming in on
:25:42. > :25:44.this front, bringing quite ` lot of cold air behind, which will really
:25:45. > :25:48.stick around into the weekend and the beginning of next week. There
:25:49. > :25:50.might be the return of some frost, and cooler temperatures by day. If
:25:51. > :25:50.we look in and cooler temperatures by day. If
:25:51. > :25:50.we look at and cooler temperatures by day. If
:25:51. > :25:51.we look in the and cooler temperatures by day. If
:25:52. > :25:55.we look at the progress of the rain in the last few hours, it is getting
:25:56. > :25:59.into the north`west of the region, and as you can see, it rattles
:26:00. > :26:05.through by midnight. For most of us, it should have cleared away, and no
:26:06. > :26:06.great rainfall totals, but the significant thing is the cooler air
:26:07. > :26:08.that starts to make its mood significant thing is the cooler air
:26:09. > :26:13.that starts to make its way right across the region, and later
:26:14. > :26:17.tonight, with light winds and clear skies, temperatures could f`ll away.
:26:18. > :26:20.Close to freezing, two or three Celsius, cold enough for a touch of
:26:21. > :26:23.ground frost and icy patches where there has been earlier rainfall
:26:24. > :26:25.Tomorrow, and entirely for the there has been earlier rainfall
:26:26. > :26:28.Tomorrow, and entirely diffdrent feeling day. Another weather front
:26:29. > :26:32.is on its way, but it shouldn't spoil the day. It will be qtite
:26:33. > :26:35.windy. Here is the weather front first thing tomorrow morning. It
:26:36. > :26:39.will bring some showers, but probably not until the evenhng rush
:26:40. > :26:42.hour. The bulk of the day whll feel cooler and fresher, but quite a bit
:26:43. > :26:45.of sunshine through the morning into the afternoon. Some patchy cloud
:26:46. > :26:48.rings one or two isolated b`ll the afternoon. Some patchy cloud
:26:49. > :26:53.rings one or two isolated showers, but into the afternoon, there could
:26:54. > :26:56.just be more widespread showers Temperatures between ten and 12
:26:57. > :26:58.still a brisk and Temperatures between ten and 12
:26:59. > :27:02.still a brisk breeze as well, so quite a blustery feel. The showers
:27:03. > :27:06.become more widespread into the evening. They could be on the heavy
:27:07. > :27:11.side, possibly with hail mixed in and accompanied by a blustery wind.
:27:12. > :27:16.Into the weekend, this is how it shapes up: Much cooler, highs of
:27:17. > :27:21.just nine Celsius sunshine `round, and also some showers, which could
:27:22. > :27:22.be on the heavier side. The return of some overnight frost, so
:27:23. > :27:26.gardeners beware. had a of some overnight frost, so
:27:27. > :27:34.gardeners beware. Any bloomhng flowers may be quite vulner`ble A
:27:35. > :27:39.quick barometer check should help. Thank you very much. Do you remember
:27:40. > :27:41.spring? That is all from us. Have a good evening. See you tomorrow.