24/01/2017 Look East (West)

First tonight: We could see bigger class sizes

in our schools if a shortage of teachers is not sorted out.

That's the warning from some headteachers

as they start a recruitment drive to try and fill increasing

There are over 300 teacher vacancies in our region,

84 of which are in Northamptonshire where a predicted rise in the number

First tonight: We could see bigger class sizes

in our schools if a shortage of teachers is not sorted out.

That's the warning from some headteachers

as they start a recruitment drive to try and fill increasing

There are over 300 teacher vacancies in our region,

84 of which are in Northamptonshire where a predicted rise in the number

I'm going to give you a fraction sum on the board, and I want you to

Emma Aldridge is a trainee, teaching others but learning herself.

But not enough other people want to do what

I think it is probably one of the most rewarding and

challenging professions that there is.

If you're willing to commit and give a lot

love, then it definitely is something you should consider.

But head teachers say they are struggling to recruit.

That is causing some to worry about the future.

You may not have a teacher for a class of

students, and you might have to think very carefully

It might mean having to have larger class sizes, or the

head teachers teaching for part of that.

To try and stop it happening, today, Northamptonshire County Council have

released a new promotional video and website to attract more people

There are currently 84 teacher vacancies in

Northamptonshire, for classrooms like this.

The county council says, because of the growing population,

through the next five years, several new schools will be needed,

We're working very hard to promote the

very best of what we have got here in Northamptonshire.

We have got good quality housing, at relatively low

We've got a fantastic culture on offer.

They have been working really hard to

At this school in Wellingborough, they had

previously advertised one teaching job and nobody applied.

If I am being very honest, I think that the

I see my young teachers, particularly, working long hours.

But there isn't an appreciation amongst a lot of the public of how

You do have to be prepared to work late nights and on

Sundays, you have to be prepared to do lots of different

things for the school, and if you have got that

and especially if you have the passion for the subject, then you

More people will now have to love teaching if the

growing number of classrooms are going to be filled.

Well, the National Union of Teachers campaigns for better working

The Union spokesman for this region, Des Hart, joined me to explain how

those issues impact on teacher recruitment and retention.

Primarily, for those who are in the classroom,

in the workplace, we've got to increase pay, we've got to

reduce the amount of bureaucracy, we've got to get rid of this very

oppressive testing regime which means that schools aren't pleasant

for teachers and not pleasant for students.

There has always been testing exams in school, and

teaching from the outside looks like quite a good gig.

There is a career and salary progression, good holidays.

It may have been a job for life in the

past, but figures have been published that state that those

who went into the profession in 2010,

If a third of your teaching force leave in the

first five years of service, you can see that it is no longer a job

What we get from our members, primarily, it is pressures in the

classroom, 55 hours or so in secondary school, most of which is

It is to do with pressure and bureaucracy and

If you were coming out of college now, would you be a teacher?

You think it is an attractive career path?

I thoroughly enjoyed my 20 years in teaching, I'd probably

be less keen to go in now, having seen the effect

that it is having on our members, the ones that ideal

with in my role, on a day-to-day basis.

It is one of the most stressful occupations in the

workforce, and quite clearly people point at the six-week summer

holiday, for example, but we find most of our members spend the first

two weeks of the summer holiday clearing up and finishing off after

the last academic year, and then about ten days prior to the

September !st start, preparing for the next academic year.

The holidays that people get is not much better

Next tonight,the surge in Cybercrime.

It's costing the UK economy billions of pounds

and catching more and more of us out.

Police forces in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire have reported

So, a conference is taking place in Cambridge tonight to work out

On the comedy contest is going on behind me. It has been organised by

the police and crime commission and it came three key safety

partnership. It is about the growing threat of cybercrime which is

criminal activity using the internet computers. It affects everyone. This

is how to protect yourself because criminals are making millions every

day. The internet has helped this small

company go from strength to strength, but it has also had

a more sinister impact. Cybercriminals sent

an e-mail purporting to be from the MD, asking an employee

to make a bank transfer. And she said to me, I have

done the transaction you have asked me to do, but they

asked for a long reference number and I couldn't fit it

all in, so I condensed the reference number

and it was that point, I said,

what are you talking about? At that point, obviously,

she went white and I did the same, we called

the bank straightaway. In Bedfordshire in 2015,

almost 1200 were reported. They were 370 reports

the following year. If this king is the World Wide Web,

he came to power in 1995, and very quickly his followers, the

businesses, the consumers, started to realise his importance and began

to put their money and trust But where there is money,

the criminals are sure to follow. The experts predicted

it would happen, and the problem is getting

worse all the time. They target both randomly

and specifically. One method is ransomware,

where victims believe they have to pay a fine,

perhaps to a seemingly legitimate It is possible that big

organisations are now treating this type of ransomware as the cost

of doing business, and if you consider that the average

amount they are paying out is around ?13,000,

for big organisations it could be ?25,000, this is

clearly a big problem. Police nationwide say this

is a modern-day crime. We have recently held

a conference with a crime unit who have got departments

specifically dedicated to But some of their stats

are really worrying. They said they had seen over

2000 hacks on Eastern region companies this month, and

that is probably not all of them, because a lot of them

will not have been reported. This Cambridgeshire

company was lucky. But they say that the criminals

continue to try their luck With me now is it in when Coles who

is a senior lecturer in cyber security. Hello Adrian. Presumably

criminals are turning to this because it is easy to get away with?

The internet offers anonymity and that icon a massive scale of attack

and cybercriminals can be located anywhere in the world. It is an

issue of scale and anonymity. How successful are the police are

catching these people? They are always behind, but what we need is

more people to report the crimes, things like action fraud, the more

crimes are reported the more they can be correlated and the more

resources can be allocated to investigators. We will see more

prosecutions that way. We encourage victims are proud to come forward

and report and not be afraid. There is no embarrassment about this.

Anyone can suffer it. How do we protect ourselves? Cyber hygiene,

make sure your antivirus, your antispam tools are up-to-date, your

operating system is up-to-date. It is all about being a doubting

Thomas. If you receive an unknown e-mail, don't click on the

attachment. Don't respond to it. Think about who said it, if you

don't know the person, if you are in doubt, ask someone else. Evidence

from your bank for example, phone the bank go into the bag. In

messages to be suspicious will stop. An HGV driver from will

Peterborough has been convicted of using his mobile

Magistrates heard how he was spotted driving erratically.

The conviction comes during a campaign to get motorists

This professional HGV driver from Peterborough arriving at court.

Magistrates heard how he was pulled over on the A14 near Bury St

Edmunds in June last year after a police officer

spotted his lorry swerving across the lanes.

Sergeant Barry Abbott said he had seen a

driver with a mobile phone in his hand and the phone screen was on,

The defendant addressed of the court through a

Polish interpreter, and told the magistrate he was innocent.

He said the reason that he was between lanes

was not because he was using a mobile phone, but because there

where ruts worn into the road that he was having to follow.

He said it would have been impossible for the

Sergeant to have seen it in the cab of his lorry from a police car,

that he hadn't been using his phone at the time.

But the magistrate accepted the Sergeant's evidence,

and found the defendant guilty of driving while using his phone.

They fined him ?350, ordered him to pay

?620 costs and a victim's surcharge of ?35.

He was also given three penalty points.

After the hearing. the police issued another

They should be aware of the risks of driving, and no doubt

this gentleman would have seen other people

using their mobile phones and would have understood

the consequences of this during his professional career,

What would you say to drivers, what message would you give to them?

This latest conviction coincides with a

national police phone safety campaign.

Later this year, the minimum penalties double

The A6 in Northamptonshire will remain closed between Rothwell

and Desborough until the end of February.

The road was shut last week following the discovery

That's all from me for now, let's join Stewart and Susie

following the suicide of a man who was mentally ill.

An inquest jury found that Dean Saunders had been 'let down'

The Prison Ombudsman says staff "did too little to protect" him.

You're watching Look East with Stewart and me.

Coming up next, the Duchess of Cambridge on a fund-raising drive

The regional weather is staying very cold -

And, the starring role played by pupils at a school in Suffolk

The Duchess of Cambridge was in Norfolk today.

Supporting a charity which provides hospice care for chidlren with life

The East Anglia Children's Hospice looks after 750 young

And is spear-heading a fund-raising appeal to build

Today, she met children and their families at the charity's

Four year old Nell Cork presents the Duchess of Cambridge with a posy

Her family one of the many who have received care

This was Nell's five year old brother Finnbar in November 2015.

Four months later he'd been diagnosed with a brain tumour.

He was a lovely five-year-old boy. He loved riding his bike, Star Wars,

friends and going to school. It was only really this time last year when

he was in hospital that we knew he wasn't well. It progressed very

quickly. It was difficult to get out of bed some mornings. You have too,

especially when we have other children to look after.

The Duchess of Cambridge was at Quidenham as a

But for the families she was also here as a mother.

Listening to their stories. But she also shared the fun side of life. My

daughter asked her what it was like to be a princess. She said she got

looked after very well by her husband. She said her children like

to run off in different directions, so it must be very hard work to have

four. You can see she genuinely cared. Two years ago, an appeal was

launched. This site is limited in size and accessibility and they

cannot expand to cope with increased demand. There is no hydro pool here,

which is something which has benefited her. But travelling to

Cambridge is too long journey. With the new hospice, that is something

they will have. The quality of care here is first-class. But that is in

spite of the building, not because of that. We will be able to provide

much more planning new hospice is built. The fundraising is now

halfway. In the meantime, the care and support and giggles will go on.

The Chelsea Flower Show is used to staging all sorts of weird

Well, this year, they are planning an eye-catching attraction.

To draw attention to the plight of neglected horses.

So how do you tell the story of the work of a charity?

The Norfolk based World Horse Welfare organisation?

It started with Clippy who was left abandoned outside

His suffering unnoticed until he was rescued.

Clippy's story has been transferred to the drawing board and will soon

take pride of place at the world's most prestigious flower show.

The idea for this is to show how animals can be rescued and re-homed.

This is the area that shows where animals are forgotten about. Then we

move into an area which is open to the sky and the sun.

It's all thanks to a donation from a supporter of Snetterton based

The charity, which is celebrating its 90th birthday,

Hopefully this will attract more people to come and find out about

the work of the charity. Increasingly, charities are teaming

up with sponsors and garden designers to promote their cause at

the Chelsea flower show. It is an international stage.

With a host of gold medals from Chelsea behind them,

Jonathan and Adam have a special affection for their latest garden,

almost all of its 800 plants sourced from a nursery in Norfolk.

This is about getting people to reflect on the importance of

charities. And helping animals. If they can get more supporters to

enable them to do so, that has got to be a good thing.

While Clippy is nursed back to health,

the hope is this garden should ensure that will horses like him,

This week, the town of Milton Keynes is celebrating its 50th birthday.

What started off as a group of villages in rural Buckinghamshire

is now one of our fastest growing towns.

It also takes its art very seriously.

And it's hoping to become a European Capital of Culture.

Louise Hubball has been on a cultural tour of Milton Keynes.

Around the many corners of Milton Keynes

you will find public statues fluid sculptures.

like this horse standing outside a bank with the same logo.

This shopping centre installation celebrates this accessible art that

has always been at the heart of the town.

the idea is for you to go out and find the originals yourself.

I think art is always about thinking about what will come next. How can

you construct a space which will work 50 years from now or 100 years?

It makes sense to integrate art into the urban fabric. Over the years,

there has been far more going on in the art scene than just these

brutalist beasts. In 1988 roads were closed

when Michael Jackson performed here. MK Bowl bathing in the heyday

of stadium tours. Sir John Dankworth and

Dame Cleo Laine founded A melting pot for

all types of music. But they had no idea Milton Keynes

was about to be developed My father really grew to love Milton

Keynes. It has been very supportive of the stables. Now it is touring

venue. Stadium MK is also developing

as a concert venue, theatre is thriving,

and MK Gallery is undergoing They have decided to bid for

European capital of culture in 2023. No-one would have expected that of

Milton Keynes years ago. But I think it demonstrates the energy and

activities that you see today. So the concrete cows may be living

out their retirement But the success and vitality

of the arts scene here A glance at the download

charts this afternoon will tell you that Ed Sheeran

is number one and two And his video of the song Castle

on the Hill is the number one is described as Ed's love letter

to his home county of Suffolk. and features children

from a local school. # When I was six years

old, I broke my leg. # Now I'm running from my

brother and his friends. # You can taste the sweet

perfume of the mountain. The video has been viewed more

than 7 million times Meet the stars of

Castle on the Hill. All of them sixth formers

at Ed Sheeran's old school. We were told to act natural,

act like young people. Are looking normal and

doing what normally do. It was just what he did when he was

younger with his friends. Hugo is descended from the Hollywood

legend Douglas Fairbanks Junior. And there is a big resemblance

to a certain Ed Sheeran. I think my dad had a bit of fun

a couple of years after I was born Because we do look

quite similar, really. Castle on the Hill

is all about Suffolk. The directors needed actors

who would just jell naturally. Because we are all such

a close group of friends, there were no points

where it was awkward or anything. We went to the banger

racing and I hadn't been And a house party seems really

good and the bonfire. # 15 years old and smoking

hand-rolled cigarettes. It takes a while to work out that

7 million people will be watching Walking around school

and people recognised us But it is quite a cool

thing to think about. Gives us something

awesome to look back on. Castle on the Hill will put

Framlingham on the map It's a love song for Suffolk,

going out to an audience worldwide. A lot of proud parents watching

this. Also seeing, I didn't know you smoked! Just on film, I hope!

Here are some photographs. Another taken in Grantchester in Cambridge.

Lots of bright blue sky today once the fog lifted. We start to get more

widespread fog again this evening. Likely to cause some travel

disruption. Freezing fog patches will become more widespread as we go

through the night. A risk of ice on untreated surfaces. We start the

evening on a dry zero. The fog will become a problem as we go through

the evening. Quite extensive by the end of the night. Temperatures below

freezing. Down to around -2 in many places. This is likely to lift into

low-level cloud tomorrow. High-pressure keeping are relatively

settled. Tomorrow is likely to be more cloudy than today. Fog patches

are a problem through the morning rush-hour. Some brighter spells

possible, but a fairly cloudy picture for many of us. Similar

temperatures to today. Looking ahead, a bit of a shift with

high-pressure. Starting to move eastwards. We start to develop this

south-easterly wind. That brings a lot of cold air from the continent

towards us. It will feel even colder on Thursday. If it feels cold

tomorrow, wait till Thursday. That wind strengthening will make it feel

raw. A lot of cloud around. Feeling very cold indeed. We get to the end

of the week and slightly less cold. Looking largely dry if cloudy, but

temperatures recovering slightly. By Saturday and into Sunday, we're back

up to around 8 degrees by day. You might get the impression

that history is just a record