:00:11. > :00:27.. Grief has no end. I think about Amina constantly. I still cry every
:00:28. > :00:29.day. new research helping stroke
:00:30. > :00:32.victims on the road to recovery Gold winning gymnast Max Whhtlock `
:00:33. > :00:36.and his mum ` talk to us about And why was this butcher
:00:37. > :00:51.hounded out of Peterborough? The court heard Harris struck her
:00:52. > :01:04.in the stomach with the force It threw her six feet across the
:01:05. > :01:10.room and split her liver in two Paramedics said she was as lifeless
:01:11. > :01:14.as a ragdoll when they arrived. But Amina's mother had been warned
:01:15. > :01:26.that Harris had a violent p`st. Amina Agboola's father, at the back,
:01:27. > :01:32.arrived at court to see the man who murdered his daughter sentenced
:01:33. > :01:35.She died after she was kickdd so hard her liver split in two.
:01:36. > :01:40.The man responsible, her mother's boyfriend, Dean Harris
:01:41. > :01:44.Wearing a rosary, he remained emotionless throughout
:01:45. > :01:46.the sentencing. The judge told him he was
:01:47. > :01:52.a dangerous young man. by this horrific act.
:01:53. > :02:02.An expert witness said the force was similar to a road traffic accident.
:02:03. > :02:18.It happened here at her homd. Harris said she had repeatedly
:02:19. > :02:21.soiled herself and wet the sofa He Repeatedly lied that she had
:02:22. > :02:23.fallen off the toilet and hht the floor,
:02:24. > :02:25.until he confessed to anothdr prisoner at Peterborough Ro`d jail.
:02:26. > :02:27.He was sentenced to life in prison today,
:02:28. > :02:30.to serve a minimum of 17 ye`rs. A detective read a statement from
:02:31. > :02:32.Amina's father outside the court. I'm pleased with the sentence
:02:33. > :02:34.Dean Harris received today. However,
:02:35. > :02:38.the grief feels like it has no end. I think about Amina constantly.
:02:39. > :02:39.I still cry every single dax. I go through the motions of living,
:02:40. > :02:47.but thinking about my daughter.
:02:48. > :03:03.No one understands this pain except those people who are
:03:04. > :03:06.experiencing it. My heart reaches out to every parent
:03:07. > :03:08.only to suffering the loss of a child.
:03:09. > :03:10.Detectives say they are shocked by the callous violence
:03:11. > :03:13.against a defenceless two ydar old. Sentenced to 17 years.
:03:14. > :03:16.Her father is happy with the sentence but we have to bear
:03:17. > :03:20.in mind Amina would only be 19 when he will be eligible for parole.
:03:21. > :03:26.Amina's mother Sarah Racquelan was found not guilty
:03:27. > :03:29.of causing or allowing her death. She had been warned not to leave
:03:30. > :03:32.Amina alone with Harris by social workers because he had a history
:03:33. > :03:39.of domestic violence but shd said she believed in second chances.
:03:40. > :03:42.Amina's father must now livd with the daily pain
:03:43. > :03:49.of a daughter robbed of a ftture in the most horrific way.
:03:50. > :03:53.Cambridgeshire social services is conducting a serious casd
:03:54. > :03:56.review into what happened. But they did warn Amina's mother
:03:57. > :03:59.about Harris's violent past. She said she believed
:04:00. > :04:01.in second chances. It's something the NSPCC told
:04:02. > :04:14.me they hear all too often. Once you get into these deep`rooted
:04:15. > :04:17.violent relationships, it is difficult to get out of thel.
:04:18. > :04:23.Violence begins to accumulate over time. Women have to underst`nd
:04:24. > :04:40.priority of children in all circumstances. Let us look `t the
:04:41. > :04:46.balance of responsibility. Doesn't lie with the parent or authorities?
:04:47. > :04:51.I think there is a partnership. Firstly, parents shoot exercise
:04:52. > :04:59.reasonable caution when thex introduce other adults into the
:05:00. > :05:04.family. It is right and proper that the local authority, when you have
:05:05. > :05:10.concerns about adults, should warn other or father. What is not
:05:11. > :05:17.acceptable is when you recehve warnings, to take no action, which
:05:18. > :05:50.is what happened in this case. Would you have preferred that sochal
:05:51. > :05:53.injuries this two`year`old suffered where horrific, but there are signs
:05:54. > :05:59.it was not the first time she was heart. Presumably this is group are
:06:00. > :06:06.very vulnerable because thex cannot tell people what is going on?
:06:07. > :06:11.Absolutely. Small children suffer from small injuries which tdnd to
:06:12. > :06:16.increase. Then you get life threatening injuries. If people have
:06:17. > :06:23.the smallest of concerns, they must speak out. The public must take
:06:24. > :06:28.responsibility. We know that one child is killed by someone dlse
:06:29. > :06:34.every week across England and Wales, do you think this sentence will be a
:06:35. > :06:41.deterrent to people? He has been given the minimum 17 years. He may
:06:42. > :06:44.serve longer, he will not sdrve a shorter sentence. I would lhke to
:06:45. > :06:50.think that a clear message goes out that if you're planning to harm a
:06:51. > :06:56.child, if your temper is out of control, you need to think `gain.
:06:57. > :06:58.Because if you harm a child, you will be brought before the court and
:06:59. > :07:03.receive a significant sentence. me they hear all too often.
:07:04. > :07:06.Plans to review services at Bedford Hospital are being discussed this
:07:07. > :07:09.evening at a public meeting. It was called by the union, Unison, which
:07:10. > :07:11.says it's concerned that thd Accident and Emergency department
:07:12. > :07:14.could be downgraded. Last wdek the hospital was told it could be left
:07:15. > :07:17.without any maternity services or beds for in`patient care. The
:07:18. > :07:21.proposals are being put forward as a way to save money.
:07:22. > :07:25.One of the most distressing effects of a stroke for victims can be the
:07:26. > :07:28.loss of speech. Now victims from our region are helping with a rdsearch
:07:29. > :07:30.project to try and understand why some people recover more quhckly
:07:31. > :07:33.than others. They will undergo special scans and monitoring to find
:07:34. > :07:36.out more about the disease. In the East of England more than 10,00
:07:37. > :07:39.people a year have a stroke and almost 120,000 are thought to be
:07:40. > :07:56.This man is learning to livd with the effects of the stroke hd
:07:57. > :08:03.suffered this summer. He is one of the lucky ones. It did not `ffect
:08:04. > :08:08.his speech. He says the whole experience can be frightening. I
:08:09. > :08:20.could not stand. My legs went from under me. In three hours, I crawled
:08:21. > :08:24.to steer is. I have seen people and a worse state than I have bden in.
:08:25. > :08:32.It is very frightening. `` two steers. Little research has been
:08:33. > :08:38.done so far into why some rdcover language faster than others. For
:08:39. > :08:44.patients not able to understand why they are taking longer, it can
:08:45. > :08:52.affect their recovery. The difficulty is people are not able to
:08:53. > :08:56.communicate, therefore they lose their self`confidence and they lose
:08:57. > :09:02.their independence. They're not able to interact. That is a big problem
:09:03. > :09:05.with our patients. The rese`rch is taking place at University College
:09:06. > :09:10.London were patients will bd given a brain scan like this one. They will
:09:11. > :09:13.also begin language assessmdnts and information from that will go
:09:14. > :09:19.towards the overall research programme. It will help nurses to
:09:20. > :09:24.take `` to tell patients how long it will take further speech to return.
:09:25. > :09:33.Younger patients think about returning to work and it cotld help
:09:34. > :09:37.them with their speech problems Their work is their livelihoods and
:09:38. > :09:42.their day`to`day existence. It will have a knock`on effect on their
:09:43. > :09:47.finances. It is hoped more patients will come forward so research can
:09:48. > :09:50.predict how much language whll come back and just how long it whll take.
:09:51. > :09:54.Drivers on the M1 in Northamptonshire are well used to
:09:55. > :09:57.delays and queues. But work starts this week which could see the road
:09:58. > :10:03.become a "smart" motorway to ease congestion. It's between Junctions
:10:04. > :10:06.16 and 21 and is preparing for a scheme to open up the hard shoulders
:10:07. > :10:07.in busy periods. The Highwaxs Agency says a similar plan in Hertfordshire
:10:08. > :10:23.has worked well. When it opened in 1959, 13,000
:10:24. > :10:28.vehicles a day pass through Northamptonshire on the M1. Today it
:10:29. > :10:33.is more like 100,000. It is one of the biggest bottlenecks on the
:10:34. > :10:38.motorway. This stretch from Northampton to this interch`nge
:10:39. > :10:44.where the M1 meets the M6 and the A14. The highways agency saxs the
:10:45. > :10:51.solution is a smart motorwax. This means converting the hard shoulder
:10:52. > :10:55.into an extra lane of traffhc. Instead emergency Levi's ard built
:10:56. > :11:03.every mile or so. Traffic flow is monitored from a control room and
:11:04. > :11:08.lanes can be closed remotelx. It is cheaper and quicker than widening
:11:09. > :11:14.the motorway. Waters are all for reducing congestion but not all
:11:15. > :11:19.agree with using the hard shoulder. In times of congestion, it hs very
:11:20. > :11:27.good. I agree with it. Forlh and saw better. Tomorrow work begins on a
:11:28. > :11:35.new central reservation. `` four lanes are better. We cannot commit
:11:36. > :11:39.to a new timescale. We have to get government approval. We are looking
:11:40. > :11:46.to start the work in the early part of next year. In April and dight
:11:47. > :11:51.mile stretch of the M25 in Hertfordshire became the cotntry's
:11:52. > :11:55.first smart motorway. They have been using their hard shoulder for two
:11:56. > :12:01.years but only in busy periods. Waters in the M1 could be w`iting
:12:02. > :12:15.for several more years yet. `` mortar this.
:12:16. > :12:18.has worked well. mortar this. `` motorists.
:12:19. > :12:20.Rail travellers using the wdst coast mainline through Northamptonshire
:12:21. > :12:23.and Milton Keynes are facing disruption to services throtghout,
:12:24. > :12:26.August. Network Rail will bd closing the line into London Euston on three
:12:27. > :12:29.separate weekends to carry out major engineering, work ` around Watford
:12:30. > :12:32.Junction. It'll mean no service to Euston on the weekends of the 9th,
:12:33. > :12:34.16th, and 23rd, of August ` including the Bank Holiday Londay.
:12:35. > :12:37.London Midland, who run the stations on the line, advise people, to check
:12:38. > :12:55.the route before travelling. The Rail Users Group says
:12:56. > :12:57.pictures. And the film makers filming the history of horsds in the
:12:58. > :13:00.fans. The gymnast Max Whitlock,
:13:01. > :13:02.who trains in Essex, says success at the Commonwdalth
:13:03. > :13:05.Games is a great stepping stone to He won five medals in Glasgow,
:13:06. > :13:11.including three golds. I've been to meet Max and
:13:12. > :13:14.his mother at home in Hertfordshire and I asked if he'd exceeded even
:13:15. > :13:16.his own hopes and expectations. Before the competition I just
:13:17. > :13:19.like to do it normal. I like to look at it all thd same,
:13:20. > :13:22.whether it is world Olympics, I don't really set targets
:13:23. > :13:29.of how many medals I want to bring back, I just go there and do
:13:30. > :13:32.my job and what I'm trained for To come out with five,
:13:33. > :13:34.I'm over the moon. And out of all of those, do you have
:13:35. > :13:38.one which means the most to you They all mean a lot,
:13:39. > :13:42.but winning a gold in the fhnal For a gymnast to go and do six
:13:43. > :13:48.pieces on one day is an achhevement in itself, as I've been working
:13:49. > :13:54.so hard towards it and I'm happy. It is beautiful to watch yot,
:13:55. > :13:59.but also quite nerve wracking. I don't like to watch too mtch
:14:00. > :14:10.of the gymnasts If you see gymnasts falling off
:14:11. > :14:14.on the apparatus, It might be that it has gond well,
:14:15. > :14:23.which it did here. If I go there with confidence,
:14:24. > :14:28.that is all I need. One of the things I notice hs that
:14:29. > :14:32.you're competing against other gymnasts from England, Scotland but
:14:33. > :14:36.you're also generous to each other. Is that genuine that you
:14:37. > :14:41.care how the others do? We have been mates
:14:42. > :14:47.for over ten years. We train together all the thme,
:14:48. > :14:50.we compete together as a te`m, and for this one it was verx
:14:51. > :14:53.different competing against them, You have a lot of support there
:14:54. > :14:59.from your family. What is it
:15:00. > :15:02.like sitting there watching? If I am nervous,
:15:03. > :15:06.you must be something else. I do get nervous but at the end
:15:07. > :15:10.of the day you still want to watch It is nice to be so close to Max,
:15:11. > :15:16.to be able to see him there and to see his reactions
:15:17. > :15:22.as well when he does a piecd. Whether he is reallu pleased with
:15:23. > :15:25.it, or it could have been bdtter. Proud must be a bit
:15:26. > :15:34.of an understatement. We love the opportunity
:15:35. > :15:41.of going to watch Max as well, and then to see him up
:15:42. > :15:44.on the podium is just so spdcial. To have achieved this by thd age Max
:15:45. > :15:50.is, it involves You have been supporting hil
:15:51. > :15:56.for a long time, and what effect When he was younger I used to take
:15:57. > :16:08.him to the gym, but it didn't interfere with our family bdcause
:16:09. > :16:12.that is what we needed to do for Max What age was he when he beg`n to
:16:13. > :16:20.realise he was something spdcial? It has been a great journey watching
:16:21. > :16:26.him go from strength to strdngth. Probably since the year
:16:27. > :16:31.before the Olympics that he started to really want to do it
:16:32. > :16:36.for himself and really focus on it. So I think it is then that we
:16:37. > :16:39.thought he is doing it for himself and he wants to get
:16:40. > :16:42.the goals is that he wants. We have always thought
:16:43. > :17:01.he was special. Max said that he started focusing on
:17:02. > :17:05.Rio. It is incredible that focus he had. He is staying training all the
:17:06. > :17:08.way. There was a time
:17:09. > :17:10.when no farmer could survivd without them, but after mechanisation the
:17:11. > :17:12.heavy horses were no longer needed. Thankfully that's not quite
:17:13. > :17:15.the end of the story. On a farm in Suffolk, film lakers
:17:16. > :17:18.have been turning back the clock This is Weylands Farm in Stoke
:17:19. > :17:23.by Nayland. The actors are being made rdady
:17:24. > :17:26.so too the forge. Anything contemporary must go or
:17:27. > :17:33.shielded discreetly from vidw. The film is called
:17:34. > :17:35.The Horseman's Word. It's been made by the Field Theatre
:17:36. > :17:38.group based in Littleport. Funded by the Heritage Lottdry,
:17:39. > :17:41.it is researching the history of heavy horses in the Fens over
:17:42. > :17:47.200 years, on the so`called horse It was possible to produce something
:17:48. > :17:52.called drawing oils which would draw the horse to you,
:17:53. > :17:56.bond it to you, make sure it would Conversely, you could produce
:17:57. > :18:02.something called a jading ohl which would jade the horse, liter`lly stop
:18:03. > :18:06.it dead in its tracks. It would not move until you
:18:07. > :18:09.gave it a command to move. Roger Clarke has worked with heavy
:18:10. > :18:13.horses on this farm for 35 xears and it is only
:18:14. > :18:16.in hindsight that he realisds how he watched their demise as a tdenager
:18:17. > :18:21.at a wholesale in the 60s. There was an older man riding an old
:18:22. > :18:26.horse into the yard with a foal about, and what I didn't re`lise was
:18:27. > :18:29.that I was witnessing the end of an era, because the man had retired, no
:18:30. > :18:34.one else would use the horsd, the foal had come along, so that was it.
:18:35. > :18:40.We must tell the stories and try to pass them on, otherwise thex will be
:18:41. > :18:45.lost and gone forever, so Ddborah is doing great work and trying to
:18:46. > :18:51.record some of this history. Certainly amassed thousands and
:18:52. > :18:55.thousands of horses working with them, there are very few of them
:18:56. > :19:01.left now to remember those days 20 years ago we would have four
:19:02. > :19:04.pairs of horses working on this farm, because I had people
:19:05. > :19:07.who could use them. I'm getting older and I find it more
:19:08. > :19:14.difficult to walk behind thdm like I used to, so in a way I'm seding
:19:15. > :19:19.the end of an era here. The film should be finished
:19:20. > :19:22.next spring and will be An exhibition documenting mtch
:19:23. > :19:27.of the social history of thd time will be touring museums and there
:19:28. > :19:30.will also be an archive onlhne. This week we have been markhng
:19:31. > :19:44.the outbreak of the First World War Tonight, the story
:19:45. > :19:47.of a German born butcher who owned a shop in Peterborough, who fled
:19:48. > :19:50.the city in fear of his lifd. Frederick Frank opened his shop in
:19:51. > :19:54.the city in 1881, but in August 1914 On this street a century ago as
:19:55. > :20:08.war broke out, a city boiled over. Their target was a butcher,
:20:09. > :20:18.German born Frederick Frank. The shop was surrounded, its windows
:20:19. > :20:30.smashed, after rumours he h`d spoken The building is now long gone
:20:31. > :20:33.but the family remain. Jeff Frank among three
:20:34. > :20:35.generations of butchers. My aunt told me the army escorted
:20:36. > :20:39.him back to the residence. On the way there,
:20:40. > :20:42.they were jeered and spat on, and my grandfather had to flee the town
:20:43. > :20:45.because of certain sections of the He fled Peterborough to
:20:46. > :20:50.a relative's in Leicester. The story goes that the mayor then
:20:51. > :20:54.got on his bike and cycled down here One of the few times the act was
:20:55. > :20:59.read anywhere across the cotntry around that period of time, and it
:21:00. > :21:02.is believed the only time it was In the city's library, tuckdd away
:21:03. > :21:11.in the archives, the headlines Steven Perry is a Peterborotgh
:21:12. > :21:18.historian. Since 1881,
:21:19. > :21:21.he had served the people well and then on that night, on that Friday
:21:22. > :21:26.night, they turned against him. Frederick was later arrested
:21:27. > :21:28.and taken to After this, though,
:21:29. > :21:34.he didn't return until 1928. There was a lot
:21:35. > :21:37.of anti`German feeling and ht wasn't The Royal family changed
:21:38. > :21:45.their name to Windsor. In retrospect, yes, we ought to be
:21:46. > :21:48.ashamed, but I think it was just With the war in its fledgling
:21:49. > :21:53.stages, this city became a flash Tomorrow night, Shaun Peel hs
:21:54. > :22:04.looking at the plan to evactate Nearly 1.5 million people wdre
:22:05. > :22:09.preparing to leave the county via Church bells would signal
:22:10. > :22:34.the evacuation. The weather. Alex. We have ` mixed
:22:35. > :22:37.bag of weather. We will havd a lot of cloud coming in, and somd parts
:22:38. > :22:42.of the Western region have seen some showers. They will start to fade
:22:43. > :22:47.through this evening, so much of the evening looks dry was clear spells
:22:48. > :22:52.before this rain pushes through into the early hours of tomorrow. Not
:22:53. > :22:57.reaching many of us until 4pm, but some could be on the heavy side
:22:58. > :23:02.Some persistent rain expectdd tomorrow morning. This weather
:23:03. > :23:08.system brings warm and humid air, so temperatures for many others are not
:23:09. > :23:12.getting lower than 16 Celsits. So it looks a wet start tomorrow. This is
:23:13. > :23:16.a weather friend in question. It will take its time to clear
:23:17. > :23:21.eastwards, so the east side of the region could stay wet in thd
:23:22. > :23:26.morning. Expect a wet start where ever you are. A brighter forecast
:23:27. > :23:30.later on, particularly along the western part where we could sue the
:23:31. > :23:35.sunshine, and it will be warmer Look at this rain. As it he`ds
:23:36. > :23:42.eastwards, it gets heavier `nd lingers along the counties. Staying
:23:43. > :23:48.quite cloudy elsewhere. Somd sunshine as well, so it could be
:23:49. > :23:52.warm, of the 23 or 24 degreds. As the sunshine comes out, we light
:23:53. > :23:56.develop some showers and anx of these could be on the short side sub
:23:57. > :24:03.again, this is a computer prediction of where they might be. For most of
:24:04. > :24:09.us, it looks like we end thd day on a brighter note with some stnshine,
:24:10. > :24:12.because it is expected to bd bright in the afternoon. Tomorrow should be
:24:13. > :24:17.quite breezy with a moderatd southerly wind. This is the pressure
:24:18. > :24:21.pattern for the end of the week We have low pressure on Friday, a
:24:22. > :24:24.succession of weather fronts, bringing us some unsettled
:24:25. > :24:27.conditions for the end of the week and into the weekend, but bdfore
:24:28. > :24:33.then be held Thursday which looks promising. It will be cooler and
:24:34. > :24:40.fresher with a northerly direction of the wind, temperatures of the 22
:24:41. > :24:43.Celsius. There might just bd an isolated shower in the west but for
:24:44. > :24:48.many others it will be dry. Friday has the chance of some heavx rain, a
:24:49. > :24:52.bit uncertain, but it is luck in this weather will last until the
:24:53. > :24:57.Sunday weather could be somd rain around. Elizabeth cooler for the
:24:58. > :25:02.weekend `` a little bit. We're finishing with a look at what
:25:03. > :25:05.happened around the region last night as services were held
:25:06. > :25:08.and lights were turned off to mark the 100th anniversary of Brhtain
:25:09. > :25:10.entering the First World War. # Help of the helpless, O abide with
:25:11. > :26:11.me. In all around icy, icy, abide with
:26:12. > :27:03.me. # The lambs are going out all over
:27:04. > :27:09.Europe. We shall not see thdm again `` lamps.