13/01/2017 Look East (West)

The prison with the highest suicide rate in England has only a fifth

of the mental health professionals it needs - those in

A huge boost for Luton as a massive development at an old car factory

And at Aston Martin in Newport Pagnell,

they are going to start making these again.

And fun for some - a light dusting delivers pretty pictures,

First tonight, inspectors have branded medical staffing levels

at one of the region's high security jails as "insufficient".

The report into Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes comes amid concerns

over the high number of deaths amongst inmates.

The Care Quality Commission said the needs of prisoners

who are mentally ill aren't being met.

Today's findings will do little to allay the concerns of embattled

Already facing a judicial review over its safety procedures,

Woodhill's high suicide rate has now prompted calls for better staffing.

The report underlines the prison's ongoing problems with recruitment.

Inspectors found the mental health team was insufficiently staffed,

with just three registered nurses and one lead clinician.

Half the roles within the main healthcare team remain

unfilled, the conclusion - that there was a potential

There are glimmers of hope in this report.

There are plans, for instance, to open a specialist 12-bed mental

health care unit and all prisoners entering Woodhill at the weekend

are assessed for signs of mental illness, an improvement,

inspectors say, on the previous regime.

Improvements that came too late for Kevin Scarlett.

Found hanging in his prison cell in 2013, an inquest

found the 30-year-old, who had a history of mental illness,

Nobody actually believes that he wanted to kill himself,

The prison guards should have found him, should have

treated him medically, and then should have dealt

Last year it emerged Woodhill Prison had recorded the highest suicide

rate amongst inmates over the past three years.

The authors of today's report seemed to suggest those numbers could drop

Mousumi Bakshi, BBC Look East, Milton Keynes.

Well, earlier I spoke to Dr Shamir Patel who runs

the Central and North West London NHS Trust that provides mental

I asked him if he thought that a team of three nurses

No, we do not feel that is adequate and the report, we accept,

highlights that improved staffing numbers are essential in order

to maintain safety and clinical effectiveness within the prison.

Well, the report does highlight that this inadequate level

of staffing has gone on for a significant amount of time.

Did it take that report to make you get your act together?

The clearance process that is required once someone

accepts a position within the prison can take between six to 12 months,

so what we have found is that a significant number of staff have

accepted jobs at HMP Woodhill, but because of the delays

in the security process in order for them to be cleared

to work within the prison, they have often looked elsewhere

But you would accept that six to 12 months is rather a long time?

It is long, but that is what it is at the current time.

We have a number of mental health staff that are actually

accepted into employment and they are awaiting

clearance through the vetting process to start work.

So how big will the team be when it is at its full stretch?

At full stretch we are hoping to have 20 staff.

One of the other things that the report highlights is that

at present, what you are mainly operating with the mental

health team, is a crisis management service.

I think we can always do more and if we have more staff,

we can always offer more interventions to start.

But what we do is try and maintain safety within the prison

by assessing risk and providing screening for people that may

require mental health interventions and it is interesting

that the report concluded that the staff were compassionate

A huge housing, leisure and retail complex has been granted planning

permission on the site of Luton's old Vauxhall car plant.

As well as nearly 700 homes, the site will also include

This is a vision for Napier Gateway, a mix of nearly 700 one-bedroom

and two-bedroom apartments, a hotel, medical centre

and gym, all capitalising, the developer says,

Luton is a great hot spot right now and many people

The area is expanding, the job creation that is

going on within Luton, especially at the airport

and Vauxhall and other key businesses within Luton,

is really expanding the area and making it a real hotspot

Boom time may be projected for the area now, but back in 2002,

a very different story when the vast Vauxhall car factory

Only now is planning permission being granted

Supporters have said this project is all about making

Luton a destination, a viable place to work.

And with nearly a tenth of the homes to be built here for social housing,

a viable place to live, despite the recent surge

And people I spoke to in the centre were excited.

Yeah, I think it will be good for Luton, yes.

It will be a good lease of life, I think.

We need a change around here, it would be nice.

Luton Borough Council have said granting the planning application

heralds a fantastic start to the year.

But with a large block of flats planned across from existing homes,

I guess they don't want to look out of their living room and bedroom

windows and see a 21-storey block of flats, even though it is going

I can understand that, I am not sure I would really

want to be looking at that all of the time.

Most, though, focused on the employment, housing

and investment opportunities this transformation could offer.

Louise Hubball, BBC Look East, Luton.

A decade ago production of Aston Martin cars

But now production is starting again of a very special car - the DB4.

Lucky Mike Cartwright is in the showroom.

Have a look at the cars behind me, that is the modern-day Aston Martin.

About half ?1 million worth of car. The company boat around one and a

half thousand vehicles last year but that was not year, that was in

Warwickshire. This is the Vanquish. The type of car they last

constructed year but for the last decade, they have not built cars

here, they have refurbished them and service them. That is all about to

change. Rolling, shaping, slipping and crimping. All crafted by hand.

How cars were always built here. Skills in recent years used to

refurbish old Aston Martin is, now, once more, they are going to make

new ones here. This is what they are going to build, the Aston Martin

DB4, one of the first-ever car is built here. Dibell bowled 25 of

them, each one costing ?1.5 million. This, one of the originals, the DB4

Gigi, racing at the man in 1959. Only 75 were made. This is a DB4

Syriza one. Built in 1959. 60 years on, building more, the brainchild of

Paul spires, all 25 have already been sold. To bring vehicle

production back here ten years after the last Vanquish left production is

quite an achievement. I know when they close down production ten years

ago, nobody thought we would build complete car is here again and to

start with the DB4 Gigi which was one of the first car is ever

manufactured here, it resets the clock. Charlie has worked years

since the 1980s. Yes, I have been a long time and icy production

comebacks to Newport Pagnell, fantastic. It is a great opportunity

to work on this car, brilliant. We have amalgamated craftsmanship and

old world skills with modern digital techniques. That, combined with the

450 technical drawings we have for the car enables us to recreate the

DB4 Gigi Black Cats Newport Pagnell some 60 years after the first car

was manufactured. First to roll off the production line will appear in

October. Baloo Aston Martin began. Mark Cartwright, BBC Look East. --

back where Aston Martin began. The demolition of a former football

stadium in Northamptonshire Nenn Park in Irthlingborough

was the home of Rushden and Diamonds The owners say the stadium

is in a "dangerous condition" But nearby residents

are worried they will lose ?Nene Park in happier times, Rushden

Diamonds celebrating promotion, Andy, when you look at this place

now, it is a sorry state Yes, it is really rundown

since I was last here, My heart is telling me

what a fantastic time I had here and all my family and friends

and the people we met, and to see it like this

is really, really sad. The demolition of ?Nene Park

is the final chapter The question locally however

is what happens next? When I spoke to owner Keith Cousins,

the man who used to run this club, he did not wish to comment,

but the cruel irony is that a club which was designed

for the local community, for the county,

is set to be taken away and replaced Dorothy Maxwell has been campaigning

to keep a sporting facility on the site but feels powerless

against the ambitions It hasn't really hit home exactly

what is going to happen now. It is in yesterday's paper,

but what can be done? Do they really have any say today

in what happens in their area? At the moment, this is totally

taken out of our hands I would urge the developer

to pause for thought, engage fully with the local

community, identify what the needs are and see if they can come up

with a mixed-use scheme that would protect at least some,

or all of the ?Nene Park Stadium. Also deliver on some of the wider

objectives that they have for the site and make it a real home

for the community. How important is it that some sort

of leisure facility remains here? Yes, I think it is important to keep

some leisure centre in the area. We used to have the kids playing

over there on the back pictures, and the scholars did

all of their school work over there, it was a massive concern

for the environment, really, for the county, we want that

to continue, definitely. The demolition could begin

by the end of January A separate planning application

is then expected, bringing to an end James Burridge, BBC

Look East, ?Nene Park. On the east coast the weather has

turned communities upside down... On this side of the region

the weather forecasters predicted heavy snowfalls last night

and this morning. Children were excited,

adults perhaps less so. Anna Todd has a round-up of the snow

in this side of the region. They said there would be still and

there was. This was a scene this morning in Northampton. All clear by

lunchtime. The photos, like the flicks, have come in thick and fast.

Dunstable Downs were pretty as a pitcher. Northampton Cricket club

showed this photo of its grounds. Golfers at Stockwood Park in Luton

today, far too chilly. Passengers in Lyddon had to walk after he guided

bus broke down. The good Lord Elliott who lives near Cambridge was

a little bit disappointed by the offering of winter but in Royston,

Siberian Husky Ghost was in his element -- element. He has gone

over! In the east of our region, the drummer has been real with the

evacuation of thousands of people living on the coast ahead of the

predicted tidal surge. Both Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire

Fire And Rescue Services have deployed their boat teams to help.

They are expecting to have to evacuate over 6000 people in the

Great Yarmouth area in preparation for the cause of flooding and if we

need to then deploy board cruise, they could assist in flood rescues

and assist people to get the area. Those who have not evacuated prior

to the coastal flooding. Here, the star was a little bit disappointing,

but this tiny small man stood tall despite the odds. -- snowman.

Finally, meet Moptimus Prime - a new robotic cleaner at

Hinchingbrooke Hospital.Custom-made in the shape of an ambulance,

Moptimus uses a GPS system and built-in sensors to guide itself

The name of the scrubber-dryer - announced today -

and it's also given the go ahead for a new motorway

Our political correspondent Andrew Sinclair is here.

Let's start with the new junction where will it be?

It is going to be a few miles north of Harlow and will be called

Junction seven hey. There has been a long campaign for a junction out of

Harlow, the existing one is often congested and with 15,000 new homes

and business growth falling in it is going to be needed. The county

council has already agreed to part fund the scheme, now the government

suggests construction work and starred in the next two years little

to late campaigners are delighted. It is an incredibly important moment

in the town history and it will unlock business and he is life for

thousands of motorists travelling to and from Harlow and will make it

easier for businesses to come to our town and increase jobs and

prosperity for everyone. It will make Harlow a centre of business and

science Centre of excellence. What about the other schemes? Three big

projects, the widening of the A12 in Essex and upgrading various stages

of the a 47. The government promised more than ?1 billion to fund the

scheme is back in 2014 but since then everything has gone quiet so

that was starting to worry campaigners but now things have

suddenly moved forward. I raise England saying it is launching

consultations to all those plans and saying that the work will start by

2020. There was more good news, local councillors are getting 11.5

million this year to tackle pot holes. Also money being made

available for safety improvements on smaller roads and that is probably

it for now afford big board announcements for the region. The

budget is now allocated until well past 2020.

And Sunday politics is back this week. Yes, taking a close look at

the crisis over social care and also Stewart has an exclusive interview

with Jeremy Corbyn. The region's business leaders

were told today they could win contracts worth hundreds

of millions of pounds if the Sizewell C nuclear

power station goes ahead. Energy giant EDF, which is behind

the project in Suffolk, is urging businesses to sign

up now as suppliers. Concrete, you need an awful lot of

it for a new nuclear power station. It since this company down to the

ground. It is already selling its retaining walls to the Hinkley point

station in Somerset. That is currently under construction. Being

just on the road from Sizewell puts it in prime position to supply

Hinkley's sister station. The product can be usefully multitude of

applications, from the ground works in the initial stages to potential

materials for the construction and right through to security and many

other applications so we see this as a very long-term opportunity for our

products. Today in Ipswich EDF the company wants to build size will

seek urge to local companies to become suppliers. More than 1000

have already signed up. If you take the example from Somerset where

there's a war for under the ?60 million worth of contracts already

placed, so the stage -- so the opportunities are large especially

for this region. There have been lots of delays in getting Sizewell C

of the ground, the planning application has yet to be submitted

but with Hinkley point under way the prospect of Sizewell draws neither.

It would provide 7% of the UK's electricity was 25,000 employment

opportunities through the lifetime of the project. Most of the major

components would have to be imported but local companies like this now

they can trade quite happily from other contracts for years to come,

safeguarding jobs in the Suffolk countryside.

Well, despite the bad weather, we are expecting a full programme

Snow does not affect groundsmen, it offers insulation to the pitch to

stop at freezing so no news of any postponement.

I understand Northampton have a new manager. A familiar name, Justin

Edinburgh has agreed it to have your contract. He managed the diamonds

before they went into the illustration. He replaces Rob Pater

was sacked on Monday. Edinburgh was dismissed by Gillian and ten days

ago but given the managerial merry-go-round in football, the

team's board think he's the man to time around the fortunes.

Ipswich and Norwich have games they will be looking to win.

Absolutely, they both play teams in the championship bottom three. For

now it is rotten -- Rotherham. Talks appear to be progressing with

Swansea, Robbie Brady has been linked with a move to Burnley. No

transfer news at Ipswich, it seems to be hard work for manager of both

clubs. Teams are throwing money around that is ridiculous. Some of

the words I have been hearing about, does not compare to what we're doing

so we have been having a tough but we are doing it certainly can -- and

will continue to do it. We need to move people out before we bring

people in, I don't think that is a surprise. But we're certainly

looking to do business. What is this about MK Dons giving away free

tickets to every home fan? Ironic, in a week when Norwich gave a -- if

an apology for charging too much, MK Dons are laying on free travel for

the replay, -- at the other end of the scale MK Dons are giving away

one free ticket to every fan living in the area. The chairman is hoping

to fill the stadium. There are still a lot of people who maybe have not

been to Stadium MK, they have excuses, too busy, too expensive,

but I don't want any excuses. I want to take this chance to give everyone

the opportunity to come to the stadium. And we will have coverage

of all those Broadway local station. Thank you.

More now on the predicted storm surge, which could

bring flooding to parts of the region's coast tonight.

Let's get the latest from Stewart in Great Yarmouth.

Thank you. Mike Johnson is with me from the Environment Agency. What is

the latest as far as you know? Looking around the coast, we have

many severe flood warnings here in Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, locations

on the Suffolk coast and also in Essex, places like J Wick. There are

a number of locations where we are working closely with emergency

services, where we are really concerned about people safety and

water coming over the defences. This would be as a result of the tidal

surge in strong wind. We have a couple of hours before the high tide

comes but it is a strong wind that will make the difference. They are

the uncertainty that will add that extra dimension to the tidal surge

and hence why we are, why we have agreed with the Norfolk flood

control to issue these warnings. These winds from the north which

makes it difficult. The currently more westerly but the coming

north-west and that drives the see further down the North Sea. We have

had these warnings in the past, coupled years ago we had warnings

and people say they left their homes but actually it did not turn out too

badly. And people are very complacent about. What is your

message for them? Remain vigilant, take the advice and heed the advice

of the emergency services so if they do ask you to temporarily leave your

premises I would recommend that you do so. It is about people safety and

it is a risk to life if the water does come over. We were telling

people last night and we should see again, if you are not supposed to be

here then don't be here, .com and have a look. Absolutely, and exposed

locations where there will be strong waves crashing against defences and

promenades, it is a very dangerous place to be so please stay away.

Stay indoors. Thank you and I hope you have a

quiet night. It is one of those times, people think that my people

seem to be pulling together, people getting the sand and sandbags ready

to block the front doors and make sure what doesn't get in but from

Great Yarmouth, back to you in the studio.

Well, it's not just the flooding we've got to worry about

many parts of the region had the first taste of winter

And that prompted many of you to share your pictures on social media.

Thanks to Neil Hall for this picture of a lone figure in the snow

And the snow didn't stop this postman in Winfathing,

Here's this little fella in Essex braving the weather.

But here's this little one in Northamptonshire, who's thinking,

And this really captures the mood on social media -

the snow didn't stick around for long in some places

across the region but people made the most of it,

But let's go to other parts of the county,

to Luton now where some places saw the snow settling.

And here's how parts of Suffolk looked earlier.

Back to Norfolk and this is the scene over Norwich market.

And this final picture really captures the weather today: on one

hand we have the snow and on the other high

tide bringing with it, the risk of flooding

Thanks to all of you who have been sending in your pictures to us

via Facebook, Twitter and also to our weather watchers.

We saw some snow across the region early on this morning, this is how

the radar alert when that was taking place. Apache ski and snowboarding

southwards. It did turn to more sweet and then back to rain but

since then it has to do so and once that cleared the wind picked up and

through the course of 1's time into the afternoon we have seen winds of

45 miles an hour. It is still costing 50 miles an hour across the

north coast right now. It is the wind causing the issues with the

risk of coastal flooding, you can see this northerly wind with tight

isobars piling in. That brings the risk this evening of fossil flooding

in some parts of the region. The next high tide is coming up this

evening across the North Norfolk coast, and gradually through the

evening the title work its way down the east coast so we're looking at

roundabout nine o'clock for Great Yarmouth, ten for Lowestoft. Half

past midnight for Felix J Wick to the quarter to one where the water

will be at its highest. If you are at all concerned about the risk of

coastal flooding then do all the flood plain number. Of course BBC

local radio will keep you updated to the evening as well. Weather-wise we

have someone three showers come in across parts of the North and into

north-east suffered as well. Dry and clear weather but very cold, 12I

sweated snow flurries getting into Northamptonshire literature make

with temperatures why the below freezing, -1 -2 but it could get

locally under -3 -4 and given the fact we have had some snow which is

-- which is partially melted, that brings the risk of ice and the Met

office has issued a -- a warning for that. He cold and icy starting

Saturday, any isolated showers tending to fade away and for many a

lot of dry weather so good the sunshine and you can see what

continuous sleet and snow showers so there could be a couple of

centimetres here but for many it is dry and cold. 3-5 but add in the

wind, not as strong as the day but it will fill quite cold a few

exposed to the wind. We continue to see sleet and snow showers but into

Sunday the weather front comes in off the Atlantic, slightly milder

air trying to come in that it could take all day before that gets to the

eastern side of the region. Cloudy with a of rain, sleet, it will be a

cold feeling they and rather misty and murky. Temperatures for our five

in the east and maybe getting up at a dizzying heights of six or seven

in the West. While there does not hang around for a long so for money

into the dehydration is building in but a lot of dry weather with

sunshine by day and the chilly feel and overnight we continue to see the

risk of pretty widespread frost. Thank you. And if you live on

because they want to stay in touch with those flood warnings then radio

Norfolk and Suffolk are both staying on the air until the danger has

passed. That's all from us. We have more tonight. Goodbye. Do they say.