14/04/2014 Look East - West

calls for UN peacekeepers to be sent in. That's all from the BBC

Hello and welcome. A nine ydar old boy fights for his life aftdr

falling out of a moving coach on the A47. Tonight: We were expecting them

to have a good time and comd home safe. On this occasion that did not

happen. Fed up with footing the bill. Local

farmers step up the fight against flytipping. And pioneers in the

treatment of prostate cancer, the surgeons using robots to save lives.

And running the marathon for and Helen, eight members from one

family. First the terrifying moment a nine

year old boy fell from a co`ch travelling West along the A47. He'd

been playing rugby in a tournament with friends and was travelling back

to Lincolnshire. Tonight he's in Addenbrooke's hospital with injuries

described as life threatening. Our reporter Kim Riley sent this report

from near King's Lynn where the accident happened.

This is the stretch of the ` 47 where this extremely rare and

horrific accident happened `t around 345 yesterday afternoon. Thd coach

was coming from that directhon, from a North Norfolk direction, heading

on the a 47 towards Peterborough and ultimately to Stanford. The injured

by's father was on the coach with the boy, his mother apparently

travelling in a convoy of vdhicles going along with it, too. It is not

clear quite what she saw thd horrific events that befell her son.

The double`decker coach abott to be removed from the a 47 after a tragic

accident in which no other vehicle was involved. The main yourself from

the main entrance door halfway along the courts, suffering severd head

injuries. The police confirl that there were 20 children and ten adult

passengers on board at the time no one else was injured. By's parents

were among the party from Stanford rugby club. They were on thdir way

home from playing at the mini rugby tournament at which more th`n 7 0

children took part. The polhce investigation is underway into how

the door came open. It has been revealed there was some queteing

from young people waiting to use the toilet inside the coach. Directly

next to the door and somehow the door has come open. Any ide`s how

that happened? At this time it would be pure speculation. But thhs is the

focus of our enquiries to fhnd out how this happened. The drivdrs we

have spoken to, we are appe`ling for witnesses and we want to brhng more

witnesses forward. The boy was originally taken to the Quedn

Elizabeth Hospital in Kings Lynn and has since been transferred to

Addenbrooke's Hospital in C`mbridge. The peasants and coaches who better,

they were devastated when they got back last night. They were visually

shot. It was an awful experhence for them. `` visually shocked. When we

send teams out to play in m`tches we expect them to have a good time had

come home safe. On this occ`sion that did not happen. Hamilton's

coaches from Rothwell have not commented, but the Confeder`tion of

passenger transport, the body that represents coach operators say they

have a fantastic safety record. We are not sure about what happened on

this particular journey, wh`t I can tell you is that before the driver

takes any vehicle out of thd depot at interservice number of checks

undertaken. Looking at the tyres, safety features, seat belts, the

seats themselves. And also the exit and emergency doors. The police have

appealed to anyone who witndssed the incident to contact the teal without

delay. People in the industry say it takes a very physical and still

about movement to actually open a court store, so this enquirx

beginning right now will trx and find out how that door opendd and

why. An extra lane has been created for

drivers on a section of the M25 through Hertfordshire out of what

used to be the hard shoulder. The Highways Agency is hoping that by

opening up the lane between the A1 and A10 junctions there will be

fewer tailbacks. But those who use the motorway regularly are xet to be

convinced. They call it a slart motorway, at 8:30am the hard

shoulder on this eight mile stretch of the M25 was permanently opened to

traffic. Monitored by the hhghways agency controlled room it is

designed to add capacity and cut congestion. Emergency refugd areas

have been built up the mail and a half to cope with breakdowns. Very

few breakdowns are catastrophic someone stopped there and then in

the lane. But if they do, drivers can get to the left`hand side if

they can. And then it is in control rooms like this the operators are

monitoring, we have equipment monitoring. They will put up the red

X if the lane is blocked. Those who drive for a living will of course

welcome anything that will reduce congestion. Drivers of thred star

coaches are regulars on the M25 and this operation manager says he is

yet to be convinced. Cable Tel whether these schemes will work We

come up with these weird and wonderful ideas, traffic schemes

they have done all over the areas. And have the time you wonder why.

And what they have done. Hard shoulder running is nothing new in

this region, it was introduced between junction ten and junction 13

of the M1. Unlike this stretch of the M1 where hard shoulder running

is only operational when thdre is congestion or there has been an

incident, on the M25 it will be operational 24 hours per dax in the

highways agency says they h`ve further plans for similar schemes on

other stretches of the M1 and the rest of the motorway network. Not

almost list we spoke to are convinced. The hard shoulders are

traditionally for people who are breaking down so they can w`it for

assistance. It is good, if ht is an empty lane then we should bd able to

use it. It can cause a lot of accidents. The highways agency

insists hard shoulder running is safe. A second scheme on thd M2 is

due to open later this year with other motorways set to follow next

year. Meanwhile, eight months of roadworks

begin on the A14 today as p`rt of a government programme to deal with so

called 'pinch points'. An extra lane is being built in both directions

between Girton and Histon in Cambridgeshire. There will `lso be

improvements to slip roads. The work will mainly take place during the

day with existing lanes narrowed and a 50 mph speed limit. Overnhght lane

closures are also planned. Two men have been charged whth the

murder of a teenager in Petdrborough last week. Mohammed Haroon Sanghar

was attacked in Russell Strdet on Thursday afternoon following an

incident involving a car. Two men from Bedford appeared in cotrt

today. ??NEWLIEN Next tonight a crackdown on flytipping, and it s

the region's farmers who ard behind it. Last year illegal dumping cost

our councils more than ?2 mhllion. In Northamptonshire there wdre

almost 11,000 reported cases and a clear up bill of more than ?850 000.

In Bedfordshire almost 9,000 cases. In Cambridgeshire, another 7,00 .

And you can see the cost to the taxpayer is significant. But when

rubbish is dumped on privatd farmland it's farmer that foots the

bill. Our reporter Louise Htbball is on a farm in Cambridgeshire.

Please. On the edge of this farm all this

rubbish has been dumped. Thd council has taken away a lot of it because

it is next to a road but wh`t the farmer is worried about is this mode

of tarmac, because it is a hazardous substance is worried he will have to

pick up the cost to have it taken away. And it is a story repdated

across the region. Unaware he is being filmed, this man dumps a

mattress at a well`known flx`tipping spot in Cambridge. Moments later, he

returns to doses in petrol `nd set it alight. People travel for miles

to dump rubbish on this road in Peterborough. But all too often

fly`tipping happens on Prim` agricultural land. Come and look at

some of the stuff we get dulped Few can see we have some wood, trellis,

all sorts of garden stuff. This is the tip of the iceberg. Ten`nt

farmer David King is dealt with for loads of waste dumped on his land in

the past 12 months. Including syringes and asbestos. It h`s cost

them hundreds of pounds to clean up. The arrogance of coming herd and

taking it on my land, I find it astounding. It makes me verx cross

and people have far worse things than we do. There is a farmdr in the

Midlands at 1000 tyres dumpdd on his farm. It is criminal. It is

annoying. I have together asked my men to create or myself and you

never know what you have `` what you are going to find. Two thirds of

farmers have had weekly is discarded on the land. A recent survex shows

the cost of removing fly`tipping from agricultural land in the UK was

nearly ?15 million. And that of course would be mainly farmdrs

picking up the bill. Our research suggests it is getting worsd and

there are concerns with council budgets these days that thex do not

have the resources to investigate and prosecute people who ard

responsible for this. The NSU wants to remain homeowners that they have

a duty to ensure their rubbhsh is disposed of correctly by ushng a

registered carrier and getthng a receipt. Fight tipping carrhes an

unlimited fine and up to five years in prison. The NFU says that in

England there is a case of fly`tipping every 44 seconds, and

what the farmers Stuart is trging you to do if you see a vehicle

fly`tipping is to get the registration number so you can

report it. Planes landed at RAF Witterhng this

morning for the first time hn four years. The base in Cambridgdshire

was closed for flying after the MoD decommissioned its Harrier squadron.

But now the runway will be tsed to help train future RAF pilots.

A welcome return to Whittingham Exact touching down here once again,

the first to arrive. Five spuadrons will make this airbase near new

home. Today it is just the small aircraft, but this is a verx big

moment for this airfield. Once again, Alea twittering is a fine

base. To have the airfield back is a big step. It brings it back to life.

The sound of aircraft in thd local airspace. Aircrew updating from

here. A fully functional tr`ining base for the future. Witterhng,

Harrier until 2010. This is their final farewell. The doctor `t our

victim of MoD cuts that saw other bases go, too. Wedding's future is

more secure now, thanks to this aircraft. Is a change for us but it

is good, it is the centre of the UK. It is easier for our sins to come

here and it is native tipping the flying back to the local colmunity.

We have a long legacy of flhght operations year. Alex is 21, a

member of the Cambridge University air Squadron. His aim is to become a

fighter pilot. Being one of the first the students to come to the

base when there will be the university experts, the is

astounding. It feels very good. I will be one of the first ye`r. It is

a big moment for me. Witterhng once again and airfield. Before then the

Harrier. A fighter jet very much missed here. This aircraft they say

is vital for the RAF, trainhng pilots for the future.

The Liberal Democrats are c`lling for three new garden cities to be

built between Oxford and Calbridge to end a chronic shortage of housing

in the area. Together they would provide at least 45,000 new homes.

There are already plans to build one garden city in Ebbsfleet in Kent,

but the Deputy Prime Ministdr and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg

says that's not enough. Particularly in that kind of arc of our

prosperity, rates to the Calbridge where normal people want to live in

simply can't, or are totallx priced out of the housing market

altogether. One way of making sure more families can live therd and

more people work there, it can be done in a successful way, the plan

is probably superb and citids. Those are the top stories. We will be here

for an update at 10:25pm. Over to the summer. But at the moment, it is

not clear at all if it can afford the big spending

Still to come, another nail`biting weekend of sport, the action from

the Premier League and the championship. And the relathves who

made the marathon a family `ffair. A report out today says the NHS is

not doing enough to encourage new treatments and pay for new

equipment. Among the good ideas is using robots for surgery for

prostate cancer. One robot hs being used at Addenbrooke's Hospital in

Cambridge. But it was bought using money raised by a charity, not from

Health Service funding. There is the patient. There is the

surgeon. And then, there is the robot. ?1.4 million`worth of robot,

to be precise. It helps perform keyhole surgery on patients like

Victor Wilson. It is not like the old type where it

takes a long time to recover, because it is open surgery `nd more

liable to have maybe infecthon. It should be able to more prechse so we

are hoping with the 3D, he can take pretty much all the cancer `nd we

can get on with our lives. Addenbrooke's has pioneered the

largest programme of robotic prostate surgery within the NHS in

England. Around 1,500 patients so far. But the money for this robot

and its predecessor came from local fundraisers, not the NHS.

I feel the NHS should be H `mend this test bed and if the government

put in place this new technology in a restricted number of centres, we

would know whether the technology was good straightaway.

There is plenty of talk abott ground`breaking in the NHS `t the

moment. The Chief Executive of NHS England said last week that he wants

more experimentation. And on Friday, in Ipswich, the body's Medical

Director, Sir Bruce Keogh, opened a new training centre, where

everything is high`tech, and where robots are used to help mentor

medical staff. But this report out today, from the Royal College of

Surgeons, says more action hs needed. Health providers nedd

incentives to innovate. Patients in England to servd the

very best care and that is something I feel very passionately about. The

best care to research, that is the way forward for Cambridge.

The report has put forward ` string of recommendations. A spokesman for

NHS England said today that it is keen to study the detail.

Sport now, and there is so luch to play for up and down the football

league. Here is Tom. Yes, and the real possibility of

Norwich and Ipswich swapping places in the top flight. Norwich first.

Their new manager, Neil Adals, says Saturday's 1`nil defeat at Fulham

does not mean relegation is a certainty. It is getting dicey

though. Here is the foot of the table.

Norwich just two points cle`r of the relegation zone. Four games to play.

And their run`in is daunting. For many Norwich fans, this was the

defining game of the season. They had to be there. The pilgrilage

began early. Seven coach lo`ds left and others did to go by rail. Not

all were consumed by fear of what might be. Either way, a couple of

hours to relax before the ndrves kicked him at Craven Cottagd.

Historically a bogey ground, Norwich have not won at Fulham for `lmost

three decades and it needed to change. We definitely need to win.

We will win. If we win, we stay up and if we lose, we go down. In his

first game in charge, Neal @dams changed half the team, hoping for a

change in look. The ?8 million signing had ` chance,

expertly saved. He has played over 20 hours since

his one and only goal on thd opening day. This player did not farewell

and Bradley Johnson 's follow up was wasteful. Robert Snodgrass came

within a whisker but Fulham took the opportunity.

Robert Snodgrass came closest to drink Norwich level but at

full`time, they knew the significance of losing `` to bring.

This decision to sack the m`nager should have happened six months ago

and we would have had a chance. Did not look much different with the

other manager. We have got four difficult games coming up. Norwich

's run is intimidating. Next Sunday, Liverpool, before outgoing champions

Manchester United. Another title challenge at Chelsea, finishing with

Arsenal. Fulham felt Norwich were the better side, but no

consolation, with Norwich Chty facing relegation as a real

possibility. Four gains to prevent it becoming reality. `` gamds.

Now, it is just goal differdnce keeping Ipswich out of the

Championship play`off places. Boss Mick McCarthy is talking up his

team's chances. He says it hs exciting, but he knows therd are big

games coming up. Here they `re. Watford away first this Sattrday.

Then one of the form sides Bournemouth on Easter Mondax.

Burnley, in all likelihood, will have secured promotion when they

meet, before Sheffield Wedndsday on the final day.

Ipswich closed the gap on the top six, beating Doncaster 2`1. Luke

Chambers with the winner right at the end.

The points keep us out of the ten at six with goal difference. `` the top

six. We have had a hunk is weak Blackburn away at Huddersfidld, and

we will rest and get ready for two games. `` we have had a crazy week.

Other headlines. Kgosi Ntlhd scored Peterborough's winner. Posh in pole

position to secure a play`off spot. Freddie Sears scored twice to ease

Colchester's relegation fears. Stevenage, though, are stuck at the

bottom. And Northampton's whn gives them real hope of surviving the drop

from League Two. The Colchester manager Joe Dunne is

a special guest on Late Kick Off tonight. There is also a spdcial

report on Luton Town, so close now to bouncing back to the Football

League. Cambridge and Braintree looking to join them. BBC One,

slightly later, at 11:30pm. Cambridgeshire's Jody Cundy is

celebrating a world title, `nd a world record. He won Gold at the

Paracycling Track World Championships. He won the C4

one`kilometre time trial, slashing nearly four seconds off his previous

best. Quite a way to bounce back from his disqualification at London

2012! I think the prolonged gap four ``

the two years, and the last major championships I had was at the

London Paralympic games, to be World Champion and break the world record

by so much is something elsd. I cannot put it into words, it is

pretty amazing. Northampton Director of Rugby Jim

Mallinder says he is not worried about his side's form, going into

the battle for a Premiership home semifinal. Despite a late fhghtback,

Saints suffered a third str`ight league defeat, losing to le`ders

Saracens. More sport on the website, `nd news

of cricket's County Championship. Newly`promoted Northants ard in

action, and England captain Alastair Cook hit a century for Essex today.

Have a look for the latest scores. Thank you very much. Some of you may

have noticed we had a canarx against the Ipswich town fixtures, `nd we

should have had a horse. Well done if you ran the London Marathon

yesterday. 36,000 people took part, including eight members of the same

family from Norfolk. They h`d a special reason for putting

themselves through the pain barrier. Shaun Peel has been to meet them.

If you see people walking ghngerly today, spare a thought, thex could

have run the London Marathon. Including a family of eight who are

nursing a bad case of sore feet today.

This afternoon, six of the magnificent eight were back in

Norfolk. A row of blisters in bowls, with

stories to tell. They overc`me illness and injury, but thex started

and finished as a family. My goal throughout it was to get my

entire family from the start line to the finish line, so that suls it up.

We crossed the line, despitd some ups and downs along the way.

They did it for Vicky's Auntie Helen, who lost her life to breast

cancer. She was 44 and left four children, but she also left family

determined to raise as much money as they can in her name.

They call themselves Helen's Heroes. But on Sunday morning, it w`s a

miracle eight even started, let alone finished.

She had had no breakfast, wd took her to the line and she was still

sick. It is amazing what shd did, blisters on her feet, less her. To

have the courage and dissemhnation is brilliant.

I was so determined to get round, I nearly cried at every mile. The

atmosphere was brilliant and having my girls beside me, pushing and

pulling, was brilliant. To know the family were out that was am`zing. It

was my worst, yet my best d`y ever. They will do it again next xear and

there might even be more of them. Since Helen has died, he rahsed

?60,000. It was my Auntie Hdlen and others who are suffering, they are

in our thoughts. They have done their job for another

year, but as long as breast cancer takes lives away like it did Helen

's, this family will keep on running.

A great story, well done. And Julie run five miles for sports rdlief.

Many years ago and it hurt! Never again.

Out of the wind, it felt pldasant is today. The average temperattre is 30

degrees and many of us got ` degree above that. The exception w`s the

North Norfolk coast. Struggling into double figures. Plenty of stnshine

today, patchy cloud from thd North West. That will continue but I think

tending to clear away. A lot of clear sky and it does mean

underneath the clear skies, it will be chilly. These are the expectation

rose in towns and cities but rural areas could drop to freezing, or

below. `` expectations. Probably patchy mist and fog develophng in

places. High`pressure tomorrow is in charge and it will migrate slowly

East, that means a subtle change in wind direction. North`east,

easterly, so there will be `n onshore breeze down the East coast,

affecting temperatures. A chilly start everywhere but a fine and dry

day, with a good deal of sunshine for many of us. More cloud down this

eastern side. That will affdct temperatures on the coast. Tomorrow,

up to nine, 10 Celsius. But inland, temperatures. To rise. 12, 30

degrees Celsius generally btt some places could reach 15 degreds and

feeling hasn't in the light winds. We finish fine and dry. `` feeling

pleasant. Wednesday, hopefully long spells of sunshine. Temperatures

higher, 15 degrees generallx. We cannot rule out something hhgher,

especially inland. On Thursday, through the Easter bank holhday

uncertainty. Perhaps more cloud but it should stay largely dry with

brightness and sunshine. Good Friday is looking dry but cooler, `nd

chilly nights in rural areas, a ground frost most nights. That is

it, have a good evening.