19/12/2016 Look East (West)

Our headlines this Monday evening: A crisis in urgent care,

Sometimes you see a few but by that time another a few are booked in.

You never get to catch up. Depressed and overworked among

the reasons a junior doctor from Cambridgeshire

took her own life - The family home devastated

by fire and how a community I just cannot express in words how

grateful and thankful we are. Just fantastic.

One of the biggest thrills is provided by this water chute.

And find out why a water chute in this amusement park is now

First tonight, the crisis in our urgent care centres,

set up to alleviate pressure on hospital A departments, but now

One clinic is seeing almost double the number of patients

it was designed for - and this at the start

Mousumi Bakshi is outside the Corby urgent care centre.

It's not so much winter pressures but year-round pressures that have

pushed this year-round care centre into what the manager has described

as maximum overload. Too many people walking through the door with

conditions that could have been seen by a pharmacist or AGP.

Fuller waiting rooms and longer waiting times. If there is a sign of

it crisis in care, this is it. A service established to alleviate

pressure, succumbing to the same pressure. Patient demand is at an

all-time high and shows no sign of slowing down. The number of patients

we should be seeing is about 147 patients a day. But it has been

increasing. And that increase has been a steady rise over a long

period of time. With peaks and troughs in between. It is not

unusual for us to see 240 patient in a day. Opened in 2012, the centre

was championed as an alternative to A Where conditions like fractures

and infections can be treated. David has come in after suffering a

stroke. I didn't want to tie AGP up. I felt it was important I come and

get this checked out. Hopefully I will not take too much of their time

up. I have had a calf for a week and I have already seen someone. I am

just getting worse. I have been coughing all night. I thought I had

better have another checkup before Christmas. Everywhere will probably

be close. The centre opened at eight o'clock this morning and by half

past two, 128 people had been seen. During that time, in number of

patients had to be diverted to Kettering General such was the

backlog. That is putting pressure on staff. Sometimes it is impossible to

go for lunch. Sometimes you work until five. The reason you end up

going so late is because you are trying to get through. You don't

want nobody to complain. You try to get them through. But sometimes, by

the time you see a few, another few book in, so you never get a chance

to check up -- catch up. The pressure is unlikely to ease in

the run-up to Christmas. The hospitals, Howard Drake open?

Yes, it is not just centres like this that are feeling the pressure.

We have been in touch with hospitals to see how they are faring.

Northampton general said they were experiencing sustained, intense

pressure aren't A There is a rising number of people going to

A As a result, some nonurgent operations have had to be cancelled.

They have told us that at any given time, around about 100 people deemed

medically fit to leave, can't. That is what they are awaiting a care

package at home. Northampton general have told us that on average about

70 people who come to A to seek treatment, could have got that

treatment from a high-speed pharmacist. The is similar at

Addenbrooke's. 15% of A admissions could have been seen elsewhere. One

of the hospitals doing to cope with this demand? They bring out their

winter contingency plans. That means finding extra beds. In Bedford,

their priority is staffing levels and emergency care. Whatever the

case, the real stress test comes in the New Year. The message from all

of the region's hospitals, only come to AMD for treatment if you

absolutely need it. -- A A 78-year-old coach driver

who crashed into a stationary car on the M1 in Bedfordshire,

killing three people, Alan Peters was driving his double

decker coach on the hard shoulder of the motorway -

despite overhead signs telling motorists not to use it -

when he hit the Audi. Another prisoner has

died at high security An inquest will open tomorrow

into the cause of death last Sunday. Six prisoners have already

taken their lives at Two years ago, an inspectors report

described the number of incidents as "very high",

and said the prison response In March, another said it was an

unacceptable toll. The family of a junior

doctor from Cambridgeshire who took her own life earlier this

year, have called for action on the "crisis

of morale" in the NHS. 25-year-old Rose Polge from Melbourn

walked into the sea after talking of feeling pressure in her job

as a junior doctor at Rose Polge was 25 and a talented

doctor. But she was doubting her abilities before she was said to be

progressing well. Her family arrived at the coroner 's Court to hear of

the events that led to her death earlier this year. A statement by

Rose's boyfriend, Doctor Alistair Hawley, was read out at the inquest.

He said he was woken by her on February 12. She said she had been

walking the beat. He described her as distressed. She had been

concerned about 11 days of shifts. She was having self-doubts about her

profession and asked him if he would stay with her if she left the

profession. He said he would. Later that day, Rose to rove to Anstey 's

Cove to end her life. She had looked at suicide sites on the Internet and

left two notes. One, we understand, left a reference to Jeremy Hunt.

Neither was read out in court. Her body was found six weeks later. Rose

grew up in Cambridge. Her father is a GP in Royston. For many years, she

played hockey at the local club. In a statement, her family made their

concerns about the workload of junior doctors known.

As he returned a verdict of death by emerging and water, the coroner said

that he was satisfied that Rose had entered the water to take her life.

He said it was clear she was unhappy and that she had left two notes. He

said she was regarded as a caring doctor and she was a tremendous loss

to the profession. A family from Hertfordshire whose

400 year old cottage burnt to the ground just days

after they moved in, say they've been overwhelmed by the support

of the local community. Paul and Sophie Purdy,

who have two young children, are now homeless and staying

with family in Norfolk, but have received donations

from people they'd never even met. Nicola Haseler has

been to meet them. They called it there forever home.

But just three days after moving in, it looked like this. We took Oliver

to nursery. He'd been there just are few days. His new nursery. He was so

excited. We were about to pick him up after, on packing lots of boxes.

We lit the middle wood burner. I looked out the whirlwind though and

there was like a mist in the back garden. I ran outside. The bats by

the middle chimney had started to smoulder. You couldn't hear it,

smell it, or CF. That is the frightening thing about it. None of

the fire alarms or the smoke detectors had gone off. The first we

would have known is if the thatch fell into our bedrooms. On the day

of the fire, the community came together to help the family. There

were ten fire engines and more than 100 firefighters. Local farmers came

down with tanks of water. And neighbours that Paul and Sophie had

never met started to arrive with donations. Today, the family got the

chance to thank the fire service. On the day we had about 50% of

full-time firefighters and the other 50% were retained firefighters going

about their everyday business, guys and girls from Royston, Bishops

Stortford. The support was amazing. It is the first time I have met the

neighbours. Bringing nappies and toys for the kids. It was all

upstairs in rooms. I cannot express in words how grateful and thankful

we are. Strangers saying, stay with us, absolutely fantastic. The

support the family have received has made them more determined to make

this village there forever home. Workers at the Northamptonshire

based cereal company Weetabix The union, Usdaw, said staff

at the sites in Burton Latimer and Corby voted for action

after a row over shift patterns. The union said action

will affect both sites, and each strike will run for 24

hours, with no more than one The weather for the week ahead,

right up to Christmas Day. you might think of castles

and stately homes. All the fun of the fair

from Wicksteed. We hear a lot these day about robots

being used for surgery in hospital But it's actually quite an old idea,

the first operation using a robot Nowadays, the technology

is very advanced and used At Addenbrooke's Hospital,

they recently started using their robot to treat bladder

and kidney cancer. It means a shorter recovery time

for patients easing pressure Rita Willey from Saffron Walden

kindly let us watch her Mike Cartwright's report contains

footage of the surgery. The day after a major operation

and she is already going home. A quick recovery, after surgery

carried out by a robot. I am quite honoured,

actually, to have it done because it's much less invasive

and much more precise. It is important because I want

to get back to normal The day before, her

medical team get ready. Its arms are remotely

controlled by a consultant. He explained why Rita

needed that operation. This is our patient lying

on her back, as if we are looking These are the kidneys,

we can see here. This is the left kidney and that is

the kidney we are operating on today.

It is a lump, a tumour. We do not know yet

if it is cancerous, You can see the way

he can twist its fingers. All of the movements

of his wrists, to It gives all the same freedoms

that your wrist does. The three incisions

are tiny, compared to A previous incision could be

up to six inches long. Then, the recovery time

could be up to three months. This way, they can be fully

recovered within a month. Blood supply is down

there and we have isolated it. Now we're just making some marks

on the normal kidney, to check where exactly

we will make the incision. Rita will have to wait for her

results, but she left hospital Normally, after surgery

like she had, you would be expect to stay in hospital

for about a week. And things are seemingly

going from bad to worse Yes, humiliated in Europe

on Saturday night by Leinster. And for boss Jim Mallinder,

it's now a make or break week. Lose at Sale on Friday

night, and his ten year Let's cross live to Franklin's

Gardens and join James Burridge Good evening. December truly has

been a dreadful mad when you consider it all started with a

concussion story, we have not seen him yet. Dylan Hartley, six-week

suspension and then of course, the on the pitch battle which is being

sorted out. There is talk the team be fined because of the changes.

Let's talk about all of this with Ian Hunter who within Dublin. Ian,

so much pressure on the team and on Jim. What is going to become's mind?

An enormous amount of pressure. A perfect storm. A lot of people

asking me what is going on, what has happened and is a combination of so

many different factors. This week, it has been tremendously a huge

amount of cash on Jim. When you are thrashed by 60 odd points, how much

damage does that do to a team? Believe it or not, I was one of the

players who played in the 60 to nil drumming we had back in the early

90s and I can tell you as a young 19-year-old, it certainly scarred me

and I remember it now 25 years later. It is not good to do that.

The fans are growing restless, the board is sticking by Jim and his

coaching staff. Who has the greater power, if you like? At the end of

the day, you could say the power falls over on to the spectators.

They are the guys who love to come here week in and week out. There is

a lot of talk on social media, a lot of talk in the forums about what is

going on, everyone chucking in. I think what is coming up in the next

few games against sale, Gloucester and Bristol will be absolutely

crucial to the coaching staff and I hate to say it but I think if the

Saints find themselves on losses on there, then that decision might have

to go to the board and the board might have to make them very hard

decisions. Thank you. Plenty for anyone regarding this club right now

to ponder. It is going to be a very tough week. Thank you.

Moving on to football and Mick McCarthy was a relieved

Town earning a late victory, if you can pick out the winning goal

The manager admitted afterwards he probably deserved some

But their win moved them up to 15th just five

points behind Norwich, who lost, bringing at least some

I think the fans have got a little bit more

convincing yet, I think the tide of opinion

towards Mick I think understandably has may be turned in recent weeks.

The football has not been particularly entertaining

throughout the entire calendar year and it is going to take more than

one victory to win them back over, I would say.

It's not often you enjoy a perfect weekend but for our League Two sides

Four games, four wins, all four teams now climbing the table.

Stevenage ninth after four wins in six.

Colchester after a dire start have taken ten points from a possible 12.

But the division's big movers Cambridge United.

Now up to seventh after four successive victories.

It's always hard to pinpoint a major factor but if we were to

they found a striker in Uche Ikepeazu who is scoring

goals, something they didn't simply have at the start of the season.

Luke Berry arguably their star man has hit a rich vein of form

and they have been fortunate with injuries.

Finally in Birmingham last night, Andy Murray may

Being voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year

for a record third time but our very own Max Whitlock

The Basildon gymnast, who won double gold at the Rio Olympics,

wowed the thousands in audience and the millions watching

around the country, eventually coming 7th overall.

My Olympic dream came when I was about 17 years old,

when I sort of stepped up to the senior level,

I thought, you know, what is possible.

Ever since I was growing up to that age, I started when I was seven,

so for ten years, you know, I was just absolutely living a dream,

loving a sport and doing the best I can.

Their FA Cup replay with Notts County Chelsea

That should be good. Max told me he was going to do

something that he wouldn't tell me what it was.

50 years ago today an RAF Hercules transport plane flew

into Cambridge Airport, to be serviced by the engineering

It was the beginning of a long business relationship with the RAF

that's now worth more than a quarter of a billion pounds.

So today the great and the good gathered to watch four Hercules

aircraft fly over the airfield to mark this very

But this is December and visibility at midday less

This from our defence reporter Alex Dunlop.

Like bridesmaid running up the aisle before a wedding, an American spree

flies past the expectant crowd at Marshall Aerospace today. The VIPs

collect on a balcony to watch four Hercules descend 500 feet. Sadly,

the clouds descended even lower but at least we heard the roar of their

engines. But in the best addition, here is one that Marshall prepared

earlier, or 50 years ago. Similar foggy weather but this was the first

Hercules to be serviced here. The Cambridge -based company has had the

contract ever since. The latest one is worth ?269 million. The RAF has

24 of these planes, around half a dozen servers by the 1200 workers

had at any one time. They are fairly complex but the fundamentals of it

are quite basic. Which explains its longevity and service. Designed to

carry troops and equipment, DC 130 is the backbone of the RAF transport

fleet. This is an airframe that can and often does take hard knocks. In

the last 15 years or so, I have done more light on that Albert as she is

eventually known than I can recall. She might not be the most

comfortable plane but she certainly is one of the most reliable. -- Fat

Albert. An overhaul of the same frame takes up to nine months.

Hercules from across the world servers that Marshall but the aria

is a far its biggest customer. The last contract we signed with the

MoD, we took 20% out in terms of real value and are greeted by 30%.

Year-on-year, that is pretty significant. How did you manage

that? By doing things smarter. It helps to when other MoD contracts,

they work on the submarine and a buy the kit for Army mobile hospital

units. But this is the flagship bill, celebrated with a special

paint job on the tail of an iconic aircraft. Fat Albert of the few

decades of life and her yet. -- has a. How many listed buildings are

there in this country? If you said 400,000, you are about right.

historic places in England, places like battlefields,

Today a new addition - the country's oldest water slide.

It was invented by the engineer Charles Wicksteed and you'll find it

One of the biggest thrills in the summer this provided by this

water chute which never fails to attract the more

adventurous spirits who eagerly await better.

Built in the 1920s, it has been thrilling

One of only two surviving in the world today in one

It is on runners and it comes down at

great speed and it lands in the river here.

And today, it has been given special protected status

It's all about simple pleasures and family spending

time here, quality time together and this ride

sort of typifies that, it is the ride

the whole family can enjoy together, all coming down

sitting side-by-side, enjoy a little thrill,

The park was founded by Charles Wicksteed in 1921

who wanted to create a safe place

for families to play when many homes had no gardens.

He owned an engineering company and used

those skills and his imagination to create a ride

The architecture of fun was really taking off

people were making public parks places of entertainment as well as

relaxation and this is an amazing one-off

example by an engineer who

became very famous for his fairground rides, giving back to the

people of Kettering who had helped to make his fortune.

It might not be the most sophisticated of rides but

it is one of the most popular on the park with people having

the chance to hurtle towards the water and it

is that sense of simplicity will mean it will endure for generations

And for people today, it was all about those

I think it's fabulous, I remember going on it when I was a

child, I think my nan has got a photographs of my parents.

It's great, just having a really old-fashioned ride there that, you

It is now undergoing a winter overhaul, ready

for the summer and soon to revel in its new-found historic status.

Emma Baugh, BBC Look East, Kettering.

It is lovely. I love the fittest. We are going to find out about the

Christmas weather. Green footage. A lovely photograph. It's dull the

forecast that is actually full of uncertainty on the run-up to

Christmas. I will start to the night, largely dry with a lot of

cloud. That will have clear intervals at times. That could lead

to some patchy mist and possibly some frost. Some of thing between

three and five Celsius. Some spots costing down to freezing. We will

have light winds and perhaps a future with for some of us.

Tomorrow, high-pressure moving away onto the continent. This weather

front storming on the western side of the country. Not a bad day, I

think we will have some drizzle and possibly some showers first thing. A

lot of cloud and mist but then the cloud should break and we should see

some decent sunny spells developing. Temperatures near average, seven

Celsius. We hold onto mainly light winds and we finished the day fine

and dry. Now from Wednesday, it becomes messy and quite complicated.

Weather is dependent on how quickly fronts moving and away again. At the

moment, Wednesday, this thread is likely get stuck over the top of us,

develop a bit of a bit overweight. The thinking is we will start off

cloudy with outbreaks of patchy rain. That should clear into the

North Sea and become drier and brighter with some sunshine but also

some showers fishing in from the west. Quite a blustery day with

moderate to south-westerly and temperatures getting higher than

this, up to 10 Celsius. Thursday, depending on how quickly this front

pulls away, we are likely to start up with some rain but some of us but

it should quickly dry out and we should enjoy a largely dry day

decent spells of sunshine and the winds easing down for a time on

Thursday as well. Friday, we are expecting high pressure to build on.

This fact pushing in from the west, introducing thicker cloud but not

brain-dead until after dark. Friday, possibly some mist and frosts

berthing, that should clear as the winds pick back up. Hopefully some

brightness and sunshine before the cloud increases and the rain

expected to move forward on Friday night into Saturday. Saturday,

Christmas Eve. It looks like we did have that rain around their thing

and that should give way to sunshine and some blustery showers, possibly

gale force winds time on Christmas Eve and the same again on Sunday. A

dry start and some wet and windy weather pushing in from the west.

Thank you. The Christmas walk will have to be

before lunch. Wednesday is messy and complicated. It reminds me of some

friends of mine. Ben dropping

a frozen turkey on Mum's foot. Put me down!

No, we talked about this. Taser him! That is a video game,

isn't it? I'm going to need at least another

15 years to recover from children. This is all nonsense - it's highly

entertaining, nonetheless it's... I'm starting this new job, I'm

taking over a really tough school. Where is it?

You're not going down south...? Huddersfield? I know. That's like

the dark side of the moon. You do know that this house

is haunted?