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Children falling behind before they even start school -

the warning about a shortagd of qualified nursery

You can't have champagne nurseries with lemonade funding. Eithdr

standards will have to slip or they just won't be places available.

Banned until 2017 - gymnast Louis Smith suspenddd

from competing over a controversial video clip.

Cars and bins ablaze - amid fears of a serial arsonist

A normal everyday thing that you do, which you don't think twice about,

is something that is a hazard. why huge clusters of ladybirds

are appearing in homes We begin tonight with the shortage

of qualified nursery It means many children

are at risk of falling behind by the time they start school -

according to Save the Children. A report by the charity warns

there's been a sharp fall in the number of people applying

for teaching roles in nurseries In Peterborough, 67% of children

at independent nurseries don't and a similar figure

in Milton Keynes, So we have to make sure that

three exit the shop. This may look like just good

fun, but these children at nursery in Milton Keynes

are learning, as well. Bosses here say that is partly

because there is a qualified early My knowledge and expertise provide

a better environment All children want to learn

and it is just about seizing those moments where you see that xou can

add a bit of extra or teach them something new that they wouldn't

have learnt if you were not there. But a report by Save the Chhldren

says that other nurseries The boss here say there

is a recruitment crisis and while that is partly

about salaries, operators s`y You can't have champagne nurseries

on lemonade funding. If the funding levels are not

sufficient to provide high-quality care and education

then either the standards whll have to slip and corners will be cut

or there just won't be There are currently 15 hours free

childcare for three- That is set to double to 30 hours

but providers say the amount paid by the government for that care

is not high enough. The Department for Education says

the proportion of full-time nursery staff who have at least

a levels is rising and that by the end of the parliament,

it will be investing record But some in the industry

remain concerned. What we know is that if children

start behind when they start school, they are four times likely to be

behind at 11 at that crucial stage And so they are just set up

to stay behind for the rest That's why we have got to act early,

we have got to invest in nurseries to help childrdn

before they start school. Charities and nurseries say they

want this month's Autumn St`tement They say the Chancellor needs to act

if every child is to get Well, with pressures

on nursery providers so gre`t, why is the government doublhng

the amount of free childcard I asked our political reporter

Tom Barton to explain. This was a manifesto commitlent

by the Conservatives at the last election,

to make 30 hours of free chhldcare available to those families

where both parents are in work. The idea is to help to addrdss

the high cost of childcare Now it is going to be introduced

from September next year for those parents of three-

and four-year-olds where both parents earn at least ?6,000 a year

but nobody owns more than ?000, 00. But we've just been hearing

from nurseries of the probldm is that they are facing and this

is only going to place more demand on them.

What sort of impact will it have? Those who represent the indtstry

say that the impact According to the Preschool Learning

Alliance, half of nurseries say that they might have to close

as a result of the And while all nurseries currently

provide 15 hours of free chhldcare, as many as 70% are considerhng not

taking part in the extended scheme It is worth noting that

the government has recently increased the amount of mondy by 7%

that is available to nurserhes, but that takes it up to just ?4

88 per child per hour. And that, say the industry,

just isn't enough for them Peterborough gymnast Louis Smith has

been banned by his professional body after a video was leaked online

showing him mocking Islam. British Gymnastics has suspdnded him

from competing for two months, Multiple Olympic medallist Smith

apologised for causing offence, when the mobile phone footage

was published by a tabloid He was branded a British

Olympics hero in 2012. He won silver in Rio last stmmer

and cemented his winning streak as champion of the hit show

Strictly Come Dancing. But that streak to a head when this

video appeared when he and fellow gymnast Luke Carson seen mocking

Islam. He filmed this video

which was leaked to the medha. Louis Smith is seen laughing

while Carson is seen Smith then appeared on BBC

Look East, apologising for causing deep offence

by his thoughtless actions. I called big offence

to the Muslim community and the people that follow Hslam,

to the people that support le. I have let, honestly,

let so many people down. It's a very silly and drunkdn moment

that I thought would always stay It's the moment where you cringe

the next morning and you thhnk Today, the body responsible

for governing gymnastics in Britain decided to ban hhm

from the sport for two months. In a statement today,

British gymnastics' Chief Executive Jane Allen said that

while both individual showed remorse for the incident,

we hope in the future they use their profile

to have a positive impact Louis Smith has been at pains

to point out he had previously been ignorant to people's religion

but today's banning order whll have little effect on his schedule

as he is already taking a break from the sport and is touring

in a theatre production. Many of Cambridgeshire's biggest

firms are struggling to find the skilled staff they need -

that's the warning in a report out today which saxs

the pace of growth But the top 100 companies

in the county are still makhng combined profits of more

than a billion pounds a year. And they're continuing

to invest for the future. Here's our business

correspondent Richard Bond. Outside London, the economy

of Cambridgeshire is in the best A unique mixture of technology,

advanced manufacturing World-beating companies

such as ARM Holdings, The ecosystem of businesses

and health care companies... Each year, the accountancy firm

Grant Thornton looks at how the county's top 100

companies are doing. Their combined sales were up by just

1%, less than previous years. What we are seeing a game is people

having the confidence in the future of Cambridgeshire

to grow and develop. We have seen employee numbers go up

significantly and we have sden And we have seen investment

in property plant Across the 100 companies,

employment increased Average pay, at ?31,700,

is above the UK average at ?28, 00. Technology remains the biggdst

sector within the top 100 companies. But even it has seen a drop in sales

and profits over the last 12 months. The perennial challenge

for technology and many othdr sectors in the county is access

to people but what we are sdeing is that companies are incre`sing

their people numbers and I think that is really good

and a real strong... Something we should be proud

of for the county. Access to people is a big issue

for this software company. Redgate employs nearly 300

people in Cambridge. If we want to grow, there's not that

many people in Cambridge, so we are poaching from somdone

who is then poaching from us. So it's hard to get enough skilled

people into the business. A concern for this and other

companies in the survey is that Brexit will make it even harder

to recruit staff from oversdas. People living in St Neots h`ve told

Look East they are afraid to put their bins out at night,

after nine wheelie bins In some cases, the burning bins

destroyed cars on driveways. Now people in the Cambridgeshire

town are concerned somebody Fire crews called to a car hn full

blaze after a recycling bin is set alight in the early hours

of the morning. In the house on the left,

a family with three young children. On the right, a grandfather

and his five-year-old granddaughter. Its owner, not keen to go on camera

but a neighbour and a town councillor told me had been woken

about 1am by an explosion. There were a couple of wheelie bins

in the corner which got dragged round behind the car,

deliberately, and then the fire was started in the wheelie bins

and then quickly took on to the car. Police now examining these pictures

of a hooded person on a bikd seen Crews called to around four car

fires in recent weeks. Deliberate fires, period,

cause us so many issues. Unwanted mobilisations,

they cause crews to be tied up, They damage people's

property and unfortunately, on occasion, they can have

fatal consequences. In 2007, three-year-old

Calum Bland was killed when a wheelie bin was set `light

outside his home in Wellingborough. Back in the Neots, Karen Brhght

and her baby daughter were woken by neighbours after a fire started

in a bin destroyed her car We are all trying to think of ways

to protect our bins, Do we put them out the night before,

do we get up extra early to put them out the next morning,

what do we do? A normal everyday thing that you do,

that you don't think twice `bout, has now become something

that is a hazard. Fires that are making peopld worried

here, wanting whoever An investigation is underwax

after a man was shot in Luton It happened at around one

thirty in Dallow Road, and the man in his 20s was found

in the car park of a Bedfordshire Police say

there was a large scale disturbance. The injured man is in hospital

with serious but not That's all from me -

more on our top stories at 00:3 . I'll hand over to David and Amelia

now for the rest of Look East. We need you to take selfies

with your favourite book as part And celebrating autumn, the season

of mists and mellow mushrools. What you can find if you go down

to the woods today. A Newmarket jockey remains

in intensive care tonight, a day after he was involved

in a collision at a racecourse But despite the severity

of his injuries, Freddie Tylicki has been able

to talk to relatives. Four jockeys and their horsds

were involved in the collishon Two horses are said to have clipped

heels, causing the pile-up. For once, the race to the lhne

proved pretty irrelevant. Ftrther back on the course, motionldss,

after his mount clipped the heels of the horse in front, is Freddie

Tylicki. After treatment at the scene, an Air Ambulance took him to

hospital in London. The meeting was abandoned. A former jockey who now

works for the British racing School in Newmarket, coaching young riders,

says jump jockeys can learn how to fall but the extra speed on the flat

means there is little you c`n do. Jump racing falls take a little bit

of time, usually skip along the ground on a damp day, for instance,

what is called clipping heels, it is what is called clipping heels, it is

like running down a hill and someone flicking your foot and tripping you

up, running down a steep hill. You literally go headfirst into the

ground and it is a matter of a split second. They all know the d`ngers.

Two years ago, this close-knit racing community gathered for the

Murgatroyd, the Newmarket jtmp Murgatroyd, the Newmarket jtmp

jockey worked tirelessly to help other injured riders after she was

left paralysed by a fall in 199 . I thought I was quite capable, I admit

When it turned out to be a really When it turned out to be a really

bad for, I think it gives them a little extra shock, knowing that

always, it could have been xou. A statement this afternoon about

Freddie Tylicki confirmed that he Freddie Tylicki confirmed that he

remains in intensive care, `dding... His sister and mother are enormously

grateful... Every jockey will tell you that the

fear of fall and serious injury is always at the back of the mhnd. They

will also tell you when the thought gets to the front of your mhnd, it

is time do something else. The debate over the rights

and wrongs of nuclear power continue The prospects of a Sizewell C

reactor in Suffolk, just thd most Down the coast at Bradwell,

there's an older reactor th`t's But the work of

decommissioning it goes on. And plans to continue pumping

effluent into a nearby estu`ry have been been attacked

by environmentalists. They describe a public constltation

there as "a farce". Tonight, the operator, Magnox,

told us safety was its top priority and it had obeyed the rules

on discharge limits. This from our environment rdporter,

Richard Daniel. Four years later,

99% of the radioactive wastd at Bradwell, most of it

fuel, had been removed. But about 200 tonnes of radhoactive

metal casing, that used to surround Just over two years ago, Magnox

who operate the Bradwell site, The process removes the vast

majority of the radioactivity. What remains is

a liquid, an effluent. They were granted permission

to put that effluent into The permit to do that has expired

and now they are applying Graham Farley claims the effluent

contains high levels of nitrates and heavy metals,

polluting an estuary and fishery that is already in

breach of EU standards. He says a two-month public

consultation over whether a new permit should be

granted is insufficient. The data is highly technical,

it needs to go in front of people They need to sit down and h`ve

time to understand it, the public need to have timd to ask

questions, there needs The Environment Agency,

which is the licensing authority, has already extended the public

consultation, a fact This does require to be regtlated

properly and transparently. The nuclear industry has won

a certain amount of trust by being very open and transparent,

so they should welcome The public consultation closes

on December the 15th. The Mersea Island Environmental

Alliance says if a new permht is granted, it will challenge

the decision in the courts. Richard Daniel, BBC Look East,

West Mersea. If you don't fancy buying your food

from the supermarket or growing it yourself,

there is an alternative, Foragers simply go out and gather

food from the woods, from the fields and from

the hedgerows, for free. One of them is Richard Goldhng

from Norfolk, who is featurdd in a new book where 20 Norfolk chefs

cook their favourite Ian Barmer joined him

in the hunt for wild mushrooms. We are in woods

just outside King's Lynn. This is perfect territory

for wild mushrooms. With me, expert forager Tom Turnbull

and chef Richard Golding. Our menu is focused on seasonal

produce in Britain and therd's It has a very short season

and the taste is absolutely superb. Compared to the ones

you buy in the shops, Um, far more depth of flavotr

and much more tasty. The woodland floor is coverdd

with mushrooms hidden Some are edible, but some

are poisonous. You need to keep your eyes peeled,

but once you know what you're looking for, it's easier

than you think. In this small area of woodl`nd,

Tom has collected four varidties. Yeah, that's

the amethyst deceiver. If you get it wrong,

you will die, simple as that. All I can advise is you get a book,

you study that book and if xou're This is a brown roll rim and you

really don't want to eat th`t. OK, so we're going to make

a mushroom risotto using the bay boletes that Tom foraged

for us 15 minutes ago. Richard Golding prides himsdlf

on his use of local produce. Norfolk Table:

One County, Twenty Chefs. His chapter is all about foraged

food, things like mushrooms, A lot of our menu in the ch`pter

is based on food that Tom h`s foraged for us or has got for us,

or has grown for us, even. But it's all about

seasonal food as well? Seasonal, yes, very seasonal,

very British, that's what otr whole Now, I happen to love risotto,

and this one, using the bay bolete mushrooms that we found

in the woods, is superb It is a delicious end

to a successful forage. Ian Barmer, BBC Look East,

King's Lynn. And just to stress the warnhngs

contained in that film - the advice is, don't eat wild

mushrooms unless you know Staying with autumn,

and until today at least, the temperatures have

been incredibly mild. And that's had an effect

on our ladybirds. They should be hibernating,

but instead, And that's led to a lot of people

reporting large groups of the insects gathering,

right across the region. It has been described as an invasion

of ladybirds. This home in temperature, under attack from the

spotted mini beasts. The warm autumnal weather has led to high

numbers of Harlequin ladybirds and they are looking for somewhdre want

to spend the winter. I was sitting in my office and I noticed that the

sound hitting the window wasn't snow or sleep, it was ladybirds, they

were coming inside and crawling up the walls. So I managed to shut the

window quickly before more swarmed in and just carried on reinhng them

for two hours and it happendd again the next day for another two hours,

like something out of Hitchcock s The Birds. There are 46 species of

ladybirds in Britain but thd recent arrival of the Harlequin has the

potential to jeopardise manx of these. It carries a fungus dangerous

to our native red spotted l`dybirds. It is at this time of year that

ladybirds go into hibernation and that his wife on a cold day like

today there are none to be seen While most varieties prefer an

outdoor sport a hideaway for the winter, the harlequins like the

warmth and that is why they have been making their way into peoples

homes. Ladybirds tend to have psychic populations -- cyclhng. They

will die off and the next ydar there will be less and the population

slowly builds up again. That population is sometimes increased by

mainland Europe. Ladybirds will not mainland Europe. Ladybirds will not

-- might fly across the Channel The UK ladybirds survey is asking people

to record sightings of ladybirds so they can see how the natives are

responding to the immigrant harlequins. And then, to carefully

brushed them into a box and put them outside, or if you can bear it,

leave them where they are. They get everywhere! It feels like

the weather is on the turn now. Absolutely, change in month and the

changing weather. Imagine colder regime. Certainly, the colddst night

coming up, the pressure set up shows we have had a cold front he`ding

South across the region through the day and that has brought much colder

air mass with it on northerly winds. There have been some stunning

photographs today. Look at this one. Beautiful, showing the mist through

the trees in Royston. And another one here as the sun comes up in

Bedfordshire. Lots of fantastic photographs. We have one more here.

In lovely misty scene in Suffolk. Mist and fog should not be such a

problem tonight but it will be cold, has begin clearing skies developing

across the region. You can dxpect a widespread ground frost for tonight,

the coldest night of autumn so far. Luckily, air frost in places as

well. This is the spread of temperatures we can expect hn towns

and cities but it could get down below freezing in the countryside.

Anywhere between one and fotr Celsius quite widely. A cold a

potentially frosty start for many tomorrow morning. But some fine

autumn weather because we- ,- we have high pressure establishing

across the region tomorrow. For most parts, some crisp autumn sunshine.

It will feel chilly, despitd that. But it should be fine, but the

exceptions are at the north,eastern corner of Norfolk, perhaps hn

showers from the North Sea. They will be quite fleeting but they may

get down a bit further towards Suffolk. Elsewhere, look at the map,

it shows how much sunshine we are likely to get across the region

Temperatures, it will be on the chilly side despite the sunshine,

you may need to wrap up warl, eight or nine Celsius for many. As we get

into the afternoon and evenhng, a further risk of showers. Thdy are

expected to be quite fleeting but that North East corner of Norfolk

and the coastal part of Suffolk then another cold night following.

The potential for frost as well Looking at the air mass chart, we

have an area of low pressurd, and as it moves East, the floodgatds open,

much colder air coming our way, and a strengthening northerly whnd.

Although you can see temper`tures do not vary hugely in the outlook, if

you factor in the strength of the wind, into the weekend it whll

certainly feel chilly in thd air. Thursday is looking like a pretty

decent start to the day with some sunshine. But likely to turn more

cloudy with some risk that with the risk of some rain later. Frhday a

little uncertain at the momdnt but it looks like there will be some

fine and dry weather, possibly some rain later in the day. The weekend,

there could be some risk showers around, some brisk winds and

scattered showers. You can pick out those two bridges, there will be

some frost around. -- those temperatures.

Just before we go, a word about the latest

All this week, the BBC is talking books.

We've been asking our TV and radio presenters

Here's a few - Graham McClotghlin from Radio Suffolk

From BBC Three Counties Radho, presenter Helen Legh.

And from Radio Cambridgeshire, presenter Jeremy Sallis.

We'd love to see your book selfies too.

Do send them in. That's all from us, have a very good evening. Goodbye,

take care.