:00:00. > :00:08.Hello and welcome to Look East. Wednesday's headlines here.
:00:09. > :00:09.?13 million lost, as Corby Council says it
:00:10. > :00:12.will not try to recover the overspend on its new building.
:00:13. > :00:15.They lost control of the project and allowed costs to spiral.
:00:16. > :00:18.We are no not going to be able to recover this ?13 million,
:00:19. > :00:21.which is an enormous loss for the people of Corby and the
:00:22. > :00:24.A booming young population in Peterborough,
:00:25. > :00:36.We speak to the designer of the iconic '70s children's bike.
:00:37. > :00:40.And how long as the beautiful weather going to last? Join me later
:00:41. > :00:45.to find out. won awards for its design and has
:00:46. > :00:49.become a Corby landmark. But building the Corby Cube cost
:00:50. > :00:52.the taxpayer ?13 million Now Corby Borough Council
:00:53. > :01:00.has publicly admitted that they are writing off that debt
:01:01. > :01:03.and will no longer actively Opposition politicians have dubbed
:01:04. > :01:08.the whole affair "appalling" and say the council "lost control
:01:09. > :01:28.of the project". The icon has come at a cost. After
:01:29. > :01:32.years of wrangling, the Council have decided they have no chance of
:01:33. > :01:40.getting back the ?13 million overspend. The Administration
:01:41. > :01:46.managed the project appallingly. The lost control of it and allowed costs
:01:47. > :01:51.to spiral. We will know not get the money back, which will be enormously
:01:52. > :01:56.damaging for Corby and the surrounding villages. Not
:01:57. > :01:59.surprisingly, the news is not condone well. Ridiculous. They could
:02:00. > :02:08.have used the money for extra housing. There should be a
:02:09. > :02:14.full-scale enquiry. They seem to think they can use people's money in
:02:15. > :02:18.any way the world. Nearly seven years after it opened, parts of the
:02:19. > :02:23.building have still not been finished. The top floor was going to
:02:24. > :02:27.be a restaurant. Then plans were revealed for it to be turned into
:02:28. > :02:35.offices, but no one has moved in yet. In a previous statement, they
:02:36. > :02:41.said the feelings or so we are with other parties connected with the
:02:42. > :02:45.Corby Cube. They see them is insufficient evidence to show that
:02:46. > :02:50.the conduct of the parties is the sole problem with the overspend.
:02:51. > :03:01.They say that lessons have been lay. They had this to say about
:03:02. > :03:04.large-scale programmes. We realise that these big scale projects on
:03:05. > :03:13.teams do not come in on time and on budget. We are realistic about that.
:03:14. > :03:22.It is not the first overspend. The Cambridge gated bus was over ?60
:03:23. > :03:32.million over budget. The gated bus for Luton was over ?6.5 million
:03:33. > :03:41.overspend. And the abbey was over ?1.4 million overspend. And over ?2
:03:42. > :03:49.million was spent on the solar farm project, which was then shelved. I
:03:50. > :03:53.can Corby, the Corby Cube is the centre of the regeneration, but it
:03:54. > :03:55.does ask a question of whether councils like Corby should again
:03:56. > :03:58.undertake such huge projects. So, why do councils
:03:59. > :03:59.overspend like this? I asked an expert in local
:04:00. > :04:02.government, from the London School of Economics, Professor Tony
:04:03. > :04:04.Travers. Of course, big projects do not
:04:05. > :04:06.come around very often, so whereas councils will
:04:07. > :04:08.be relaying roads or putting up streetlights or mending
:04:09. > :04:11.schools, in some cases, quite regularly, they will not be doing
:04:12. > :04:13.that with major theatres or big projects very often
:04:14. > :04:16.and there is just always the risk that that the skills needed to do
:04:17. > :04:19.those are less present Is it also that council offices
:04:20. > :04:36.and councillors are also not really qualified to deal
:04:37. > :04:39.with the financial arrangements necessary for these
:04:40. > :04:44.large-scale projects? I think, in fairness to councils,
:04:45. > :04:47.they often get it right. We have seen examples of tramways
:04:48. > :04:51.that run over budget or big But central government also gets
:04:52. > :04:55.them wrong at scale, as well, So there is a wider public
:04:56. > :05:02.sector problem here, but occasionally, councils do get it
:05:03. > :05:04.wrong and not only in places Is there enough good quality advice
:05:05. > :05:12.available to councils when they have taken
:05:13. > :05:14.on this kind of thing? The question of advice is a crucial
:05:15. > :05:17.one, because obviously councils do seek advice from various companies
:05:18. > :05:20.who are used to big The problem may be that
:05:21. > :05:30.all of the advisory industry, at some level, may have a vested
:05:31. > :05:33.interest in big projects So, getting really good advice
:05:34. > :05:38.and keeping the project motoring, when the taxpayer can
:05:39. > :05:42.always step in at the end, is a little different from me
:05:43. > :05:45.or you getting some work done on Should local councile
:05:46. > :05:56.with a lower council tax take lower their expectations and not
:05:57. > :05:59.take on these big projects? The problem is that
:06:00. > :06:01.councils, who have the are ensuring it is attractive to
:06:02. > :06:06.look at, has good facilities and has things that makes people want to go
:06:07. > :06:10.there, to invest in business and to live there, they do
:06:11. > :06:31.have to undertake these Nor have town centres left we did
:06:32. > :06:39.not do that in the past. The trouble is, getting the expertise. Getting
:06:40. > :06:41.all that expertise in one place is more difficult and may become more
:06:42. > :06:43.difficult in the years to come. A human rights committee has been
:06:44. > :06:46.grilling experts on how best to manage mental health problems
:06:47. > :06:48.in our prisons. A record number of people killed
:06:49. > :06:50.themselves in prisons Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes had
:06:51. > :06:54.the highest number of suicides, with seven prisoners taking
:06:55. > :06:56.their own lives in that period. Mousumi Bakshi was watching
:06:57. > :07:12.the hearing at the House of Commons It was a distinguished panel of
:07:13. > :07:21.speakers from both sides of the committee. The mother of Stephen
:07:22. > :07:24.Lawrence. Harriet Harman. It is about the ability of the prison
:07:25. > :07:35.service to deal with mental health issues. Around 70% of the prison
:07:36. > :07:45.population has some sort of personality disorder. At one point,
:07:46. > :07:53.two of the presence in the region were described as toxic. These
:07:54. > :08:02.included Woodhill Prison. Prisoners expensive and ineffective. It does
:08:03. > :08:07.not help quash conviction numbers. If we put people into
:08:08. > :08:11.community-based provision, put them into good community projects, we
:08:12. > :08:15.might have the more effective way of dealing with the problems which lead
:08:16. > :08:23.people into the prison system in the first place. A more radical
:08:24. > :08:29.solutions where proposed? Yes, you remember the Justice Secretary said
:08:30. > :08:36.?100 million would be put into the prison service to hire more
:08:37. > :08:42.officers, staff, nurses. But one key witness suggested that a specialist
:08:43. > :08:50.prison be built to house some of the more critically ill inmates. People
:08:51. > :08:54.who have to reoffend because of their mental health issues may have
:08:55. > :08:59.to be in a more secure environment. We might be better dedicating a
:09:00. > :09:03.pleasant to these people, these individuals and our people trained
:09:04. > :09:08.to deal specifically with them, rather than have the situation
:09:09. > :09:11.really are in the prison population amongst everyone else. More
:09:12. > :09:34.witnesses will be here over the next few days. Thank you very much. The
:09:35. > :09:36.former Northampton chairman has seen off a motion by the council to reap
:09:37. > :09:45.the money that the loan term. Are Now, we are always hearing
:09:46. > :09:47.about the challenges of an ageing population and how
:09:48. > :09:50.services will cope in future. But the city of Peterborough
:09:51. > :09:52.has another problem - how to support the rising number
:09:53. > :09:55.of young people who live there. One in three people in Peterborough
:09:56. > :09:58.is under the age of 25. It is one of the fastest-growing
:09:59. > :10:00.cities in the country, with an expected growth rate overall
:10:01. > :10:03.of 28% in the next decade. But the youth population
:10:04. > :10:05.will grow by more than 50%. So, how is the city coping?
:10:06. > :10:28.Emma Baugh reports. how do you get young people away
:10:29. > :10:38.from their mobile phones? The answer, it would appear food.
:10:39. > :10:43.Businesses identify the and the nightlife needs of teams. The focus
:10:44. > :10:51.tends to be on older people who are more affluent. Younger people tend
:10:52. > :10:58.to just fall off adults have gone. But it is not just sweet treats that
:10:59. > :11:03.are helping young people. It is about schemes to help them into the
:11:04. > :11:09.work place. They are getting some great experience and gaining
:11:10. > :11:15.professional qualifications, as well. Has it help? It has steadily
:11:16. > :11:20.been good experience. Probably a lot better than what they would of got
:11:21. > :11:27.that university. It is not the same for everybody, but it was very good
:11:28. > :11:32.for me. This year, a consumer group said the city was the best place in
:11:33. > :11:36.the country for young people and families to move to. As you can
:11:37. > :11:43.afford to buy a house, it is still one of the cheaper places in the
:11:44. > :11:46.country. And for young people, there seems to be a better support
:11:47. > :11:52.network. But not everyone is convinced. It needs to be something
:11:53. > :12:01.like the job opportunities for young people. My husband wanted to go to
:12:02. > :12:08.university. As a teenager, life is OK but rather boring. We want to do
:12:09. > :12:16.as much as they possibly can. It is always difficult. We are listening
:12:17. > :12:20.to what young people have to see. As the city continues to expand, the
:12:21. > :12:26.challenge is to make sure the city has something for everyone and
:12:27. > :12:31.retaining the young people by developing them as the city grows.
:12:32. > :12:34.A new foot and cycle path has opened, connecting villages in south
:12:35. > :12:38.The cycleway, running along the A10 from Meldreth, cost over ?500,000
:12:39. > :12:40.and is the first project from the Greater Cambridge City Deal.
:12:41. > :12:43.The aim is to provide safe, car-free routes between local rail
:12:44. > :12:46.stations and key work areas like the Melbourn Science Park.
:12:47. > :12:49.That is all from the team here on the west side of Look East.
:12:50. > :12:57.Stay with us for our special guest - the man who invented the
:12:58. > :13:02.Alex has got the weather and a new search begins in Essex
:13:03. > :13:12.It's Day Three of the Look East Referendum Road Trip.
:13:13. > :13:22.we are re-visiting the places we went to in June
:13:23. > :13:24.to find out what people think about Brexit.
:13:25. > :13:26.and last night went to Northamptonshire.
:13:27. > :13:28.Tonight, we take the road to Cambridgeshire
:13:29. > :13:30.where there are concerns around the availability of labour
:13:31. > :13:34.While in Silicon Fen, the focus is more on where to recruit
:13:35. > :13:39.Hannah Olsson is at the wheel for tonight's report.
:13:40. > :13:42.On the road in the Fens, it may seem a long way
:13:43. > :13:45.from Westminster but the effects of Brexit are far reaching.
:13:46. > :13:54.And even here the debate over the EU is still growing.
:13:55. > :13:56.7000 people in Cambridgeshire work in farming,
:13:57. > :14:01.growing the food that ends up in our supermarkets.
:14:02. > :14:03.8000 tonnes of leeks a year are grown by this
:14:04. > :14:06.farm and they rely on migrant workers to pick them.
:14:07. > :14:08.But after the Brexit vote, coming to the UK is
:14:09. > :14:20.no longer the first choice for many Eastern Europeans.
:14:21. > :14:22.Most of them, you know, they like to go more
:14:23. > :14:23.to Europe countries, like
:14:24. > :14:26.Sweden, Denmark, because Brexit and they are thinking of the future,
:14:27. > :14:30.That's why they are taking a different kind of choice and the
:14:31. > :14:33.After harvesting, the leeks arrive here
:14:34. > :14:36.But in the future, will there be enough workers to
:14:37. > :14:44.keep our supermarket trolleys full of produce?
:14:45. > :14:48.We're trying to make as much as we possibly can and apply
:14:49. > :14:51.technology where we can but if we can't find the jobs,
:14:52. > :14:54.the workers to fulfil our jobs, we will go and find
:14:55. > :14:56.the workers which means we will take our business abroad.
:14:57. > :14:58.It's not just workers that farmers are
:14:59. > :14:59.concerned about, there is also changes to subsidies.
:15:00. > :15:04.They have got to sort out trade, where that has got to be, where the
:15:05. > :15:10.Labour is going to come from so we can anticipate, from that subsidies
:15:11. > :15:13.to make us more productive, more technically efficient in the future.
:15:14. > :15:18.At the moment, the government has promised subsidies will be matched
:15:19. > :15:22.until 2020. But after that, there are no guarantees. From farming to
:15:23. > :15:28.pharmaceuticals, in Cambridge, developing drugs is big business.
:15:29. > :15:32.When pharmaceutical giant moved to this camp later this year, it will
:15:33. > :15:38.become one of the leading medical research centres in the wild, more
:15:39. > :15:43.than 17,000 people working here. It is what we do with Brexit itself.
:15:44. > :15:46.You see the building behind me represents real optimism about what
:15:47. > :15:52.Cambridge can become if it is a real player in the global environment
:15:53. > :15:56.which has been since its inception. There is a lot of optimism that can
:15:57. > :15:59.be greeted from it as well, it is certainly not doom and gloom and you
:16:00. > :16:06.don't feel that in Cambridge at all. That option -- opinion is not shared
:16:07. > :16:10.by many. There are still questions what the pharmaceutical industry
:16:11. > :16:13.will look like after Brexit. He at the outcomes research UK drug
:16:14. > :16:17.discovery Institute, they are developing the dementia drugs of the
:16:18. > :16:21.future. Like the farm, they have questions over funding and
:16:22. > :16:26.immigration. They also want to make sure there are no issues with drug
:16:27. > :16:29.regulations. The moment we do that wrap the whole of Europe with the
:16:30. > :16:33.European medicines agency, if we lose that agency, we will have to
:16:34. > :16:36.have our own process. I do not think we know at the moment what that
:16:37. > :16:41.would look like. The concern that people have is that we might find
:16:42. > :16:45.ourselves behind the rest of Europe in our ability to access the most
:16:46. > :16:48.exciting new medicines. Keeping cross-border trials running
:16:49. > :16:51.and collaborative with partners overseas is what the scientific
:16:52. > :16:58.committees that is needed now to keep it in the driving seat. --
:16:59. > :17:05.scientific communities. And tomorrow night, Andrew Sinclair
:17:06. > :17:07.will bring the mini to Norfolk to get the views of people
:17:08. > :17:10.in fishing and farming. And a new bicycle came on the market
:17:11. > :17:15.like nothing before it or since. which is the subject tonight
:17:16. > :17:19.of a BBC documentary. Released in 1970, it
:17:20. > :17:24.is arguably Raleigh's Motoring journalist
:17:25. > :17:30.Mark Hughes got one There was just no way once
:17:31. > :17:35.you've seen that as a ten-year-old kid, there was no way
:17:36. > :17:46.you couldn't have that. It was just lust, that is
:17:47. > :18:02.the only way you could Grown men still talk about that name
:18:03. > :18:07.back. Tom Curran is the man who designed the Chopper. He is in our
:18:08. > :18:16.Cambridge studio. Why do you think it became so iconic? I ought to
:18:17. > :18:23.explain that in my design of it, I wanted every project to be a huge
:18:24. > :18:30.success. I think the Chopper was a bit unusual in that it was a bit
:18:31. > :18:37.unlike any other bike and it really caught the imagination of children.
:18:38. > :18:45.I always meet people who either had one or desperately wanted one. It
:18:46. > :18:49.just became a great success. We had a lot of those in our newsroom today
:18:50. > :18:54.talking about it as well. What did you do to come up with the idea? How
:18:55. > :19:02.did you come up with the idea, especially of the saddle? The
:19:03. > :19:11.Raleigh, Raleigh needed to compete with something in America. They came
:19:12. > :19:17.to me and asked me to design something which would compete with
:19:18. > :19:24.this bike but had a different kind of flavour. I was very keen to make
:19:25. > :19:28.it like a dragster with a big wheel at the back and a small wheel at the
:19:29. > :19:35.front. I think that made it different from any other bike. It
:19:36. > :19:42.had a lovely gear shift which children liked a lot and the saddle
:19:43. > :19:51.was fun. It had make-believe springs on it, you may notice. It was all
:19:52. > :19:58.about the looks, it was not necessarily the best bicycle to ride
:19:59. > :20:08.but it was all about how it looked. It... I am not sure I am quite with
:20:09. > :20:11.you. I was just talking about the fact
:20:12. > :20:27.that the looks of it was so important rather than what it was
:20:28. > :20:34.like as a right. -- ride. I have got one in my home, I am not answering
:20:35. > :20:42.your question. I have got one in my home and it belonged to my
:20:43. > :20:47.first-born who said a long time ago, early 70s and it was restored by the
:20:48. > :20:59.Chopper club. I have got an 11-year-old grandson and he has got
:21:00. > :21:06.his eyes on it. He drove it down my garden and went down some steps as
:21:07. > :21:13.well. Get me back on track, if you will. You have invented so many
:21:14. > :21:18.things as well as the Chopper. Including the also iconic marble run
:21:19. > :21:23.which I think both your children and grandchildren have loved playing
:21:24. > :21:27.with. I am glad you mentioned the marble run. I am so proud of that
:21:28. > :21:37.because it has given pleasure to properly millions of children. --
:21:38. > :21:45.Raleigh too. I thought of it in 1970 and we made a prototype and it has
:21:46. > :21:50.been running ever since. I was one of the people who love that as well.
:21:51. > :22:01.Thank you so much for talking to us, Mr Karen. Thank you.
:22:02. > :22:06.It's cold and dark, the shops are bursting
:22:07. > :22:11.and the chances are the finalists will come from Essex,
:22:12. > :22:16.Today, the search for a new star got underway in Essex on Clacton Pier.
:22:17. > :22:19.# Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside
:22:20. > :22:23.# Oh, I do like to be beside the sea #.
:22:24. > :22:30.If you want to find fame and fortune on reality TV, this is
:22:31. > :22:33.where the X Factor journey starts - auditions in the spring.
:22:34. > :22:39.Olly Murs, Matt Cardle and Louisa Johnson are all
:22:40. > :22:44.In a room next door to the bowling alley, the
:22:45. > :22:48.Clacton hopefuls are trying their luck.
:22:49. > :22:58.I found out yesterday so I was like, why not?
:22:59. > :23:05.# I'm leaning on a lamp post on the corner
:23:06. > :23:09.Natalie Imbruglia could be good, I think.
:23:10. > :23:15.Go on, give us a little burst of that now.
:23:16. > :23:21.# I thought I saw a man brought to life
:23:22. > :23:23.# He was warm, he came around like he was dignified #.
:23:24. > :23:26.Waiting in the queue for more than two hours
:23:27. > :23:28.is 28-year-old Toni Parker, she works for Asda and has always
:23:29. > :23:41.For as long as she can remember, Toni has had a stutter
:23:42. > :23:43.and would break down in tears when asked
:23:44. > :23:50.No, it was always, I always used to sing a lot as a child and do
:23:51. > :23:52.karaokes and everything and it was always all OK, the singing.
:23:53. > :23:56.For the X Factor audition, Toni sings
:23:57. > :24:00.an Alanis Morissette song called Thank You.
:24:01. > :24:12.We can't film the audition itself but...
:24:13. > :24:28.I have to wait either for an e-mail before I know
:24:29. > :24:39.It is a long way between here and the X Factor final at Wembley
:24:40. > :24:42.just before Christmas but if today proves anything, it proves that this
:24:43. > :24:49.Mike Liggins, BBC Look East, Clacton.
:24:50. > :25:01.He was desperate going. You could've gone on. Let's get the weather.
:25:02. > :25:12.Blue sky today. 18 Celsius in Essex. Beautiful scene here in Suffolk
:25:13. > :25:15.coastline and lots more lovely photograph sent in today showing the
:25:16. > :25:19.fine weather. It is going to change a little bit through tomorrow, more
:25:20. > :25:24.cloud around that ending the day on a clear night. It is expected to ten
:25:25. > :25:29.quite misty as we go through the night, down to around six Celsius.
:25:30. > :25:32.We start the day tomorrow with some mist bad thing. This weather from
:25:33. > :25:39.coming in from the west will turn things cloudy. It should be a bright
:25:40. > :25:43.bat for many of us, once the mist, some good sunshine, particularly
:25:44. > :25:47.across eastern counties drain the morning. Across western counties,
:25:48. > :25:51.the cloud coming in from the west so it is going to cloud over and it
:25:52. > :25:56.will not be as warm as it was today. Up to 12, 13 Celsius. A notice or
:25:57. > :26:00.breeze as well from the south-west. The evening and overnight, some
:26:01. > :26:04.patchy rain but not expected to amount to very much. A splash of
:26:05. > :26:08.rain for many others. And we are getting towards the end of the week
:26:09. > :26:11.and into the weekend, looking unsettled. Some rain later in the
:26:12. > :26:16.day on Friday, much of the day does that drive but cloudy. This is how
:26:17. > :26:20.it shapes up for the next few days. We get a cold night for tomorrow
:26:21. > :26:25.night, worth noting once that weather front has me through. We are
:26:26. > :26:28.into cloudy forecast for much of the day on Friday with some rain
:26:29. > :26:33.arriving later. Looking mostly for here in the east in the weekend,
:26:34. > :26:37.temperatures lifting to mid teens. Not so much of the sunshine.
:26:38. > :26:45.Thank you. We've had an e-mail to from Karen to say she was the only
:26:46. > :27:06.girl who 'The UK has voted to leave
:27:07. > :27:11.the European Union 'Ukip leader Nigel Farage
:27:12. > :27:17.celebrated the result, 'declaring that dawn was breaking
:27:18. > :27:22.on an independent nation. 'Prime Minister David Cameron is
:27:23. > :27:25.expected to resign 'The pound fell sharply as the
:27:26. > :27:37.referendum result became apparent, 'and traders are bracing themselves
:27:38. > :27:41.for panic when the markets open. 'and England are confident
:27:42. > :27:46.of advancing to the next stage 'ahead of their upcoming European
:27:47. > :27:50.Championship game against Iceland.'