13/02/2017 Look East (West)

Hello and welcome to the first Look East of the new week.

In cafes, in homes and on the streets -

mental health treatment moves into the community

What we're doing with that increase in demand is looking at providing

things in the community that are closer to people,

meets their needs, where they are, rather than coming into hospital.

claims mandatory wage rises are bad for business.

the DNA developments helping a daughter trace her family.

And find out how I have become the Magic Circle's close-up magician of

the year. Hello, first tonight,

anxiety, depression, personality disorders -

mental health problems The challenge is how to treat

a rising number of people arriving at the region's under pressure A

wanting psychiatric care. Last year, more than 2000 people

went to Luton and Dunstable's emergency department

with mental health issues. More than 1100 arrived

at Kettering's A But Northamptonshire

is finding new places to provide mental health care,

as Mike Cartwright reports. It usually gets a bit busier

during the later part of the week, Thursday,

Friday, Saturday. On patrol - Nathan, a psychiatric

nurse, and Ashley, a PC. An emergency triage vehicle

in Northampton running seven days, The aim, to treat people with mental

health problems where they are, We help people who are sadly

suicidal, people who have severe alcohol or drug problems,

who have come into contact with the police for a variety

of reasons, who the police really After suicidal thoughts,

Duncan sought help from his doctor. After treatment, living

at this crisis house, But beforehand, going to an A

elsewhere in the country, After a long wait, I got

to see a psychiatrist. He questioned me a lot,

but at the end of it, made me feel like I didn't really

need to be there. It was a busy accident and

emergency, a lot of people there. He almost sort of convinced me that

I shouldn't really be there. The crisis house, run

by Northamptonshire's NHS Trust. There is an increase in access

for services, but also, we've had more services,

we've thought of doing things in different ways,

which will increase access, which is a positive thing

for our local community. And what we are doing with that

increase in demand is looking at providing things in the community

that are closer to people, meets their needs, where they are,

rather than coming into hospital. And this service, new in

Northampton, a crisis cafe, where people worried

about their mental But funding for the cafe only

lasting until March. We are very much, I think,

at the prevention end of things, so, working with people before they get

too far into a full-blown crisis. It's often a much more

cost-effective alternative to come here than it would be to sit

at accident and emergency. Depression, anxiety,

personality disorders. Mental health problems

appear in many guises. The challenge for an NHS under

pressure is how and where to care The cafe we saw in Mike's report

is jointly run by Sophie Corlett from Mind joined me

a moment ago to explain why a range of treatment options

is a good thing. You know, it's really important,

when people are having a crisis or approaching crisis,

often they know they are approaching crisis, and being able to get

support immediately then, really early, before

actually their health really deteriorates,

is very important. You can often really nip

that crisis in the bud. So, something like the crisis

cafe really does that. Because otherwise, we know lots

of people are turning up to A Are there are circumstances

when they really should go to A? So, don't want to put

anyone off going to A, If you are really feeling desperate,

or if you know that you're with somebody and you are really

concerned for their health, absolutely, a is always one

of the places to go, or if you have a number already

for the mental health We heard from one man

who was referred by his GP to this Are all GPs as across

what is out there, Well, no actually, they are not.

There is such a lot now going on within mental health, and GPs have a

lot on their plate, it is difficult for them to keep track always

everything going on. So it is good if people locally know what is

available and then, they can prompt their GP to ask about it. Obviously

we are looking at Bathampton share this evening, is care for mental

health patients patchy across the region or are all areas learning

from each other? It is still very patchy across the country, but

within crisis care, where people are really needing urgent help, there

has been a big initiative over the last couple of years to try to

improve provision across the country. Areas are learning from

each other and as in Northamptonshire, areas are looking

for different solutions where they can support people when they are in

crisis but also earlier, residentially or drop-in centres, so

a range of things to support people at different points. And if you can

help somebody earlier, you know, most people have a better home and

you don't really want to go into hospital. -- have a bed at home. And

there is a crossover with homelessness. How do you get the

message out to them? What new help is available. Well, word does get

round, and it is helpful, of course, if local voluntary services like

Mind and other local services, people running advice services, if

all of them know what is available and know the numbers to ring, that

all helps. Because again, if people can get services earlier, then they

are on the road to recovery all the quicker.

We're looking at mental health issues all this week on Look East

and we would be interested to hear about your experiences.

You can contact us on e-mail, Twitter or Facebook.

Next tonight, the man on trial for murdering children's author

Helen Bailey has been accused of basing his descriptions

who were then brought before the court.

Ian Stewart claims his fiancee was taken by two thugs

He himself denies drugging and killing Helen before

hiding her body in a cesspit under their Royston home.

Let's hear more from Kate Bradbrook live now at St Albans Crown Court.

Yes, it was put to Ian Stewart today by the prosecution that he was a

liar and because he was lying so much, he was struggling to remember

everything that he had previously said. It was Ian Stewart's fourth

day in the witness box today and was also a surprise appearance in court

by two men he had known from his time living in batting Borren who

had the first names of the two men he says abducted Helen.

Ian Stewart claims Helen Bailey was kidnapped and killed by two

The court heard they were business associates of Helen's

And according to Ian Stewart, Joe had a foreign accent

Today, two men also called Nick and Joe were brought before the court.

The jury heard Nick Cook was Ian Stewart's former next-door

neighbour from Bassingbourn and that Joe Cippullo, who was Italian

Asked by prosecutor Stuart Trimmer...

Helen Bailey's body was found in a cesspit under her home

in Royston, along with her dog, Boris.

They were discovered three months after she went missing

Ian Stewart had claimed his fiancee left a note saying she needed time

and space and had gone to her cottage in Broadstairs.

The court heard there had been a sea change in Ian Stewart's account

of events in December last year, when he first mentioned

Mr Stewart told the court he had been protecting Helen and dog Boris.

He said he was also concerned about the safety of his sons,

Jamie and Oliver, who told the court the two men had

Prosecutor Stuart Trimmer told Ian Stewart, "This is all fantasy."

To which he replied, "I wish it was, in many ways."

Ian Stewart was asked why, when he was arrested, he did not tell the

police the truth. He replied that he was advised not to buy his

solicitor. He also said his mind was confused and at times he thought the

police were lying to him. He said he also wanted to protect Helen if she

was still alive and he was worried about the safety of his two sons.

But to him that this was all a figment of his is a generic -- his

imagination, he replied, you are wrong. He denies all the charges

against him and his case will continue tomorrow.

Employers in the region say rises in the Minimum Wage

or National Living Wage are putting the squeeze on workers

The rates currently range from ?3.87 for people under 18,

rising to ?7.20 for those 25 and over.

But employers say they can't afford to give everyone the same increase,

so more experienced staff are losing out.

Our business correspondent Richard Bond has more.

Playlanders playgroup in Cambridge is a happy place

But money worries mean its future is uncertain.

All the staff receive the Minimum Wage, currently ?7.20 an hour.

Even before the increase, staff are carrying out

We are only surviving because of staff goodwill.

They will take on extra duties that they are not paid for,

such as writing reports, attending staff meetings,

going on training, and we can't pay them for it.

They should be rewarded for what they do.

The fact that the Minimum Wage has been rising above inflation

also means that staff with extra responsibility

The deputy manager, who has worked in the sector for 15 years, is paid

There's no way can afford here for us to be able to pay me

I'm not in the job for the money, but it just would be nice to get

When the Minimum Wage was introduced 18 years ago,

only one in 50 employees was paid it.

By 2020, though, it is reckoned one in nine people will be on it.

The erosion of pay differentials is becoming a real issue

in lots of different industries, from childcare to retail,

This firm in West Norfolk processes vegetables

for the major supermarkets, employing 100 people.

The Living Wage has come in, which has been very good for those

on the bottom of our wage scale, but it has then squeezed everybody

else, because we have managers, supervisors, technical quality

people throughout the factory and we cannot match the percentages

that come in with the Living Wage for everybody within the business.

Well, employers say it is becoming very challenging to fill supervisory

and technical roles - the sort of jobs crucial

Richard Bond, BBC Look East, Norfolk.

The family of missing airman Corrie McKeague will be taken

where a major search begins next week.

Suffolk Police are moving the focus of their operation

to the site at Milton, where waste from Bury St Edmunds

was taken around the time Corrie went missing last September.

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

Tom will be here with a round up of the weekend sport.

And a touch of magic from the the best street

During the Second World War, tens of thousands of American

servicemen were stationed here, and some had relationships

But the result wasn't always happy, with some children born out

She grew up in care and was eventually adopted.

For years, she believed she had been left on a door step.

But now, thanks to DNA testing, she is learning the true story.

This is a copy of paper, when it all started. Great grandmother Linda

grew up in an adopted family, never knowing who her real parents were.

The only clue to how past, and address of a building which he had

supposedly been abandoned outside. Last year, she discovered a news

article from 1945. I was brought up to believe I was just left on

doorstep, until that article was found and it turned out it didn't

happen that way. The paper's report made Linda questioned the story that

she always knew, so she turned to a DNA expert. The results were

incredible. The test identified Linda's father as being an American

GI who is based near Colchester. He was one of the nearly 3 million

American soldiers that were sent to Britain prior to the D-Day landings.

Now, Linda is starting to connect a family she never knew she had --

D-Day landings. Is this possible? All these years, I have thought

there was debris out there. It's like you dropped out from the sky,

really. -- I have thought there was no one out there. Juliet helps

people contact lost relatives. I have worked with people to solve

unknown child histories, so children of GIs, who may meet don't have a

name. I'm interested in families who don't have any data, no name, no

place, no sense of identity. Unable to give back to them by working as

DNA databases. Now that Linda has answers about ?1, she's trying to

piece together the whole story. The whole story is a mystery -- about

one parent. I would like to find my mother, issue still alive, or who

she was. To find that out, she needs much more information about her

mother. Thanks to DNA matching, a picture of her past has become

clearer. She may be watching, you never know.

Last week the government promised to build more affordable homes

and to make sure that people who are renting are better

The local government minister Sajid Javid launched a new strategy

to fix what he admitted was a 'broken' housing market.

But there are concerns that the plans still don't go

far enough to protect the most vulnerable.

Jean and her family moved into this housing

They had to leave their previous home because their living

We were in a place that was very damp, and it's not

And we got this house, and we've been here 60 years.

And we can afford the rent and its really been a very happy home.

It means she's had a lifetime of security and affordable rent.

But now, the average home in the east costs over ten

Which is why the government is pledging to build

Something that the flagship Housing Association says

80,000 homes need to be built in the East of England each year,

The average house price in Cambridge is 450,000,

and that makes it really difficult for most people to access

There is also concern the private sector is being used

Local authorities before, they would provide you with social

housing, they now can use the private sector.

So even though you're deemed to be vulnerable,

and even though you're deemed to be entitled to social housing,

you won't have that security of tenancy.

The government says it will improve safeguards in the private rented

sector by encouraging longer tenancies on new rental properties.

And as someone who has lived in her home for six

decades, Jean hopes more will have the security

And tonight, Inside Out finds out what happened when one council

used a private landlord to house homeless people.

That's Inside Out, tonight at 7.30 on BBC One.

And with reaction to some incredible goals, plus news

Mick McCarthy admits he's hardly surprised 39% of players

in the Football League last season weren't drugs-tested.

That's because, in his words, the testers spend so much

He admits UK Anti-Doping visit every other week,

even though official figures suggest some lower league clubs

I can't understand why anyone, any player, would with the riches

that are in the game, with the amount of money,

would cheat anyway with these performance enhancement.

But to risk a career, being banned for a couple of years.

There really ought not to be drugs tests, I think that should be

enough of a deterrent, but clearly it's not.

Now, it was a special weekend for fans of Norwich City,

Jonny Howson and Wes Hoolahan both scored "goal of the season"

Today, the Norwich boss admitted he felt Howson's goal just edged it.

Howson opened the scoring with this volley in Saturday's 5-1 win

Hoolahan scored with his own cracker from distance, spotting

Nine times out of ten when you're standing on the edge of the box,

you're always thinking, give me one that comes out

I possibly didn't think mine was as good as it actually was.

And obviously, when he scores, you're thinking typical

Not a weekend of memorable goals, but Emyr Huws' strike in Ipswich's

victory was no less important, ending Town's winless run.

This one from Colchester's Kurtis Guthrie was well struck.

Tainted perhaps by today's news that injury could keep

And Danny Hylton scored both of Luton's goals including

When Stevenage appointed Darren Sarll to replace

Teddy Sherringham a year ago they were going from

But Sarll knows Boro inside out previously

Three straight wins but can they keep it going to join

13 months into the job, and Darren is getting his message across.

His aim, to build Stevenage from the bottom up a strong base

that will allow the first team to flourish.

I always said to myself if I was ever fortunate enough

to be a football manager, that I would do it as if I was going

And I would want to try and help and improve the football club in any

In the hurly-burly of League 2, Stevenage are stringing

Such a's 3-0 win over Wycombe was Boro's third straight victory.

And they've unearthed a goal-scorer, Matt Godden, who stepped up

from non-league Ebbsfleet, goal number 15.

To drop back out and build my way back up, that was always my plan.

And to do that, and come back into the league and score the goals

And with their tails up, they aim to make it four in a row

against strugglers Cheltenham town tomorrow night.

Any manager will tell you that the next three points

in football are the only thing that matters.

But Stevenage's challenge now is to turn themselves from the top

ten team into a play-off side, and that requires one thing,

But at least Stevenage are looking up.

Athletics, three of the region's athletes came second best

Norfolk shot putter Sophie McKinna, Cambridgeshire high-jumper

Robbie Grabarz plus Suffolk racewalker Callum Wilkinson all

finished second at the qualifiers for next month's European

And finally, how about this for a way to celebrate a winner?

Corby Town defender Jason Lee clearly couldn't wait for full time,

grabbing a quick swig of a supporters' pint.

Rumour has it he was disappointed it was cider,

A magician who started life as a street performer in Cambridge

has been named as one of the best in Britain.

So the chances are if you go shopping the City centre,

you have been up close and personal with a rising star.

Matthew le Mottee has become the Magic Circle's Close up Magician

of the year after beating off tough competition from around the UK.

He says he owes much to his time sharing his magic

Make sure there's a bit of space to write your name on.

I think it's an attention seeking thing, and it was

You know, kids do football or something else.

And I can fall adults, which is quite nice as a kid!

It all started with a Paul Daniels Magic set at the age of seven.

But what set Matthew apart was the time he spent

Yeah, especially in the early days, I was spending eight hours a day

just practising one card move, or one sleight of hand or something.

It's more about practising the three-hour tricks,

the scripting, the presentation and that kind of stuff.

As a street magician, it is all about the interaction with people.

Helping him win the Magic Circle's award.

Close-up magic is getting more and more popular,

and Matthew believes that it's probably because we have

shorter attention spans than were used to have,

and for the long magic tricks we used to see years ago.

People know a lot nowadays, because you can, you know,

one question you're two clicks away from answering a question.

So if you come across something you can't explain, then that's

I think that's a nice little escape from reality.

I took your card, and I froze it in my freezer

And inside my pocket, right here is a block of ice.

That was so good, I've never experienced anything like that,

Now Matthew is travelling the globe, sharing his magic after honing his

In a world of certainty, there's always room for mystery.

How did he do that? How did he do any of those? Let us get the

weather. Perhaps he is responsible for the change in the weather. It

was lovely to see the sunrise after a miserable weekend. There was still

a little bit of sun left in Suffolk this afternoon, but most of it gone.

I should say snow! Plenty of sun in the sky, hence not so much snow on

the ground. Temperatures much higher today. Wogan got into double

figures, around 10 degrees. Yesterday, many of us struggle to

get above freezing. Tonight, a lot of clear sky. I think in sheltered

spots, we may see a touch of frost, but not for everyone. For some of

us, we will stay above freezing and there will be too much wind. Where

we get zero, we'll see some frost. Tomorrow, this pushing from the

south-west. Some rain associated with it, but for as it is looking a

dry day with spells of sunshine. More cloud tomorrow, and I think

this cloud will tend to increase from the south-west as the day goes

on. Temperatures tomorrow up to about eight or nine Celsius at best.

Lighter wind from a mainly south-easterly direction. We finish

largely fine and dry, maybe a bit of drizzle in the West to end the day.

On Wednesday, a lot of uncertainty as to where this weather front is

going to go, and when it is going to arrive. They'll be fine and a dry

weather at some point, but also the risk of rain. The graphics is

keeping the rain away to the west, but I think there is a chance it

will go over the top of us, but we'll keep you posted. On Thursday,

high pressure in charge, show it should be fine and dry. With spells

of sunshine and temperatures for many of us into double figures. On

Friday, it could be a fine and dry day, more cloud around perhaps and

that could produce some rain and drizzle in places. As far as XP

click and is concerned, it looks like high pressure stays in charge,

show it to be largely fine and dry. We hold onto mainly light winds, but

always a chance of a little bit of rain out of the thickness of that

cloud. See later. That's not bad at all! Definitely an improvement.

We'll see tomorrow night, goodbye.