30/03/2017 Look East (West)

Welcome to Look East. Thursday's headlines: A Bedfordshire

businessman and his wife are feared among the dead after a helicopter

crash in the North Wales mountains Our specialist officers from Thames

Valley Police are deployed to support the family at this time and

we are in close contact with them as we conduct the ongoing inquiries.

What works and why - ?40 million for Cambridge research into NHS patient

care. Back in the system, a new school,

helping pupils excluded from mainstream education and 80 years

on, remembering the refugees who fled wars in Spain and Germany and

found santurary here. First tonight - a Bedfordshire

businessman and his wife are feared to be among the five people killed

in a helicopter crash last night. The aircraft went down

in the mountainous Snowdonia region of North Wales,

in weather conditions It's thought the other

three people on board Stuart Ratcliffe is in

the village of Hulcote Yes, this village is between Milton

Keynes and Cranfeld. We understand two of the people on the helicopter

where Kevin Burke and his wife Ruth Burke. They lived in a house a few

hundred yards in that direction. We understand the other three people on

board the helicopter, were also members of the same family. Now

having spoken to people this this day, Mr Burke was a well-known

businessman. We understand the helicopter was owned by his own

construction company and today the wreckage of that helicopter and the

five bodies on board was found on a mountainside in Snowdonia.

Narrowing the search to South Snowdonia allowed a concentration of

effort. The military joining civilian volunteer. It must have

felt like looking for a needle in a haystack. Mid-morning they found the

crash site and the five bodies. The news was given at a police press

conference. Poor weather has been hampering the search, which in

horrendous conditions were reducing visibility to less than 10m at

times. I can sadly now confirm a crash site has been located and that

five people have lost their lives during this incident. I'm sure you

will appreciate this is an agonising time for the families and friends of

all involved. Our thoughts have very much with them at the time. Carol

Jarvis was catching in the area. Conditions for the search teams were

appalling. The conditions around the lake have been absolutely shocking.

I have been camping for a couple of weeks, it's been quite nice but it's

joust got quite bad the last couple of days, last night. You cannot see

the top of any of the hills and the weather doesn't look lake it is even

going to calm down yet. The helicopter is a twin Squirrel,

manufactured byre bus, it has a range of 500 miles. -- by airbus. It

took off from Luton area yesterday afternoon to make a journey to

Dublin and at some stage disappeared from the radar. I did my helicopter

training in snow dopia. It is awesome scenery but you don't go up

there lightly. If the cloud is low and you can't see, you don't go, the

higher you get, the more the cloud will be and you can't see forward

and there are big lumps of granite in the way and you don't really want

that. You have to take the weather very much into account in North

Wales. So it does surprise me that a experienced pilot would be in that

position, in that weather at that time. The helicopter was owned by

Kevin and brooushgt from near Milton Keynes. They are among those who

died. Mrs Burke is believed to come originally from Dublin, Mr Burke

from Manchester. Conditions on the ground improved marginally during

the day. The investigation into what happened will have already begun.

The wreckage and the bodies yet need to be recovered.

Now, as you saw from that report, teams have been working all day to

find those bodies and now to recover them but we've just heard from North

Wales Police that because of the worsening weather conditions up

there, they may have to suspend that recovery until tomorrow morning. And

formal identification of the bodies can only take place once the bodies

have been taken off the mountainside. So, perhaps more

details will be released at some point tomorrow. But we understand

police, family liaison officers are now with the Burke familiar lively

those officers are from Thames Valley Police. As regards the cause

of the crash, the crash site is obviously, as you have seen in a

very remote area. It'll take time to retrieve that wreckage. We

understand staff from the air accident branch are in Wales and

have started their investigation. Thank you, Stewart.

Next tonight - the multi-million pound research project

A new institute is to open in Cambridge later this year,

to gather more and better evidence about what works across

The Healthcare Foundation is putting ?40 million into this

and according to the charity, the institute will be the first

Mary is getting ready to leave hospital.

You have a stand up for me like you normally would.

Part of her treatment is to get her mobile again.

As soon as she's on her feet, the quicker she'll leave hospital

and that means involving several members of the medical team.

It is very important that we collaborate in regular

discussions with patients, families and also with multi-plenary

members of the team to promote a personalised care plan and that

that gets done in the maximum possible efficiency and everyone

gets a personalised care plan that can make them more likely to be

But it's not always as simple as that, with many elderly

patients languishing in beds because of inefficiencies in the NHS

and that's why a new research institute has been created

here in Cambridge, yards away from Addenbrooke's,

with the aim of ironing out some of the issues plaguing health care.

For example, making sure that changes that have been made

who is then looked after in a care home and that the GP is aware

For example, making sure that changes that have been made

to patient's medicines in hospitals are fed through to a patient

who is then looked after in a care home and that the GP is aware

It is exactly the kind of challenge that the institute

would be looking at, helping to solve by designing

systems, testing them and making sure they work for the people

So how do you fix the very system that's meant to fix us.

The institute will back innovations like this wire safe,

For the doctor that makes a mistake, it can be quite

They can be blamed for making the mistake and they can sometimes

be taken off their working practice whilst they are doing this.

These so-called "never events" happen twice a month.

The institute's work could minimise them.

Having member mechinisms for all healthcare staff,

including doctors, nurses and allied health professionals to look

after patients in a more innovative way which is less intrusive

and has special outcomes for the patients overall.

The NHS is facing unprecedented financial pressures,

which is why keeping staff morale high and patient care efficient

is the key goal of the institute when it opens in December.

Now, what happens to children excluded from mainstream school -

those who are disruptive, or with serious social,

Well, a new school has opened in Cambridgeshire

to make sure they they stay in the system and stay on track

Unity St Neots has a capacity to teach 65 youngsters

Kate Bradbrook has been to find out more.

So we're going to find some seeds, so get your hands in there and find

Hands-on learning at Unity Academy here at St Neots.

This is a different way of learning, a less

formal approach, to engage youngsters with social,

Some have been out of school for up to a year, before they

For head boy and girl, Lily, and Jonathan, coming here has

Kind of more relaxed and kind of know that I do need help and that

I'm not a bad kid, it's just that I don't understand what other people

see and that I kind of learn in my own way.

How much have you changed since you have been here?

I've changed because at my very old school, before I knew about this

school, I was just getting put down and felt I was useless until I came

to this school and suddenly the first week my mum

and dad saw me, I was much brighter and I was loving school more.

In the past, some of these students we've been considered

So you've said you are going to be nice to your mum this afternoon,

Those with ADHD and autism, less able to

cope with the formality of mainstream education.

Now, money which would've been spent on

personal tutors or one-on-one teaching assistants is being used to

provide a more holistic approach, with the focus on

confidence-building, as well as learning.

For most of them, in fact all of them,

For most of them, in fact all of them, they haven't managed to

Because they find it difficult, either because of noise or social

interaction, they are being in a much smaller group, it means that

they can actually engage in what they are doing and also cope with

developing relationships with their peers.

This school has a capacity of just 65 pupils, which is why it's so

For them, it's an opportunity to catch up on months of missed

The aim - that they can leave here, able to cope with

An agreement has been reached to keep the Corby Urgent Care Centre

open until at least the end of September.

The centre, which treats people who may

otherwise go to A, had been due to close tomorrow,

after a funding dispute between the company that runs it

A short statement today said an agreement has been reached but there

are no details about the deat the same time. Patients will now be

asked how they think it should look in the future. The Corby MP says

there needs to be continuing dialogue.

I hope that this agreement really turns the page

and ensures that there's a strong relationship between the two

as we move forward and as the local MP I'm always up for encouraging

people to get around the table, talk about their differences

More on that in our late news at 10.30. Moving on:

A new low-cost airline started flying out of

Jet2.com has created 250 new jobs at the airport.

It will fly to 27 different destinations across Europe including

daily flights to Alicante, Ibiza and Majorca.

Stansted is now the Leeds-based airline's most southerly base,

as it looks to expand into the South of England, rivalling low-cost

Let's join Stewart and Susie for the rest of Look East.

IM at this village in Great Yarmouth as we look ahead to the start of the

holiday season. Now we've started the process

of leaving the European Union, thoughts have turned

to what deals can be struck. Today, the International Trade

Secretary was in the region to assure farmers that getting

a good deal for agriculture Dr Liam Fox said he understands that

farmers are concerned, but he believes the

concern is misplaced. He was speaking on a

visit to Camgrain, after this from our political

correspondent Andrew Sinclair. He is known as one of the three

Brexiteer is, one of those responsible for making life after

the EU a success. Liam Fox was admiring the view from the top of a

grain store. He was here to campaign in the Mayall election but farmers

saw this as an opportunity to vent his ear. In an ideal world we want

tariff free trade that allows asked to export our products to Europe and

the globe. That will allow us to compete and allow us to grow. It is

Liam Fox's job to negotiate new train kills not just with the EU but

countries around the and he has a lot on his plate. Businesses from

every sector in the country, like the car industry, pharmaceuticals,

innovation are looking to him to help them find new markets and this

is a negotiation which means there has to be give and take and I have

heard some MPs expressed the concern that in that list of things to be

sorted out, agriculture and farming may lose out. MPs say the

agricultural lobby is powerful in other countries. Why should a

country outside the EU be given free market access? And food in this

country is produced to high welfare standards, a trade deal with a

country with lower standards would hit our farmers. Farmers are

producing to the highest standards so we have a good quality of

products. We must not allow others to undercut us. Farming has been

heavily dependent on the EU. The subsidies which farmers receive in

the future will be determined by the sort of trade deals they get, so

farming is looking to the doctor to deliver.

I spoke to Liam Fox during his visit and asked him about farmers wanting

Could he give them reassurance that this was likely to happen?

The idea of introducing impediments to trade or investment

in a post-Brexit European economy does not make any sense at all.

If you look at countries like France, their agricultural

exports to the United Kingdom are greater than our

It makes no sense whatsoever to penalise French producers

as a result of Britain leaving the European Union,

so I think in the end, the economic arguments will trump

some of the political concerns that exist with our European partners

But that agricultural lobby in other EU countries is particularly strong,

That could work to our advantage, because if that agricultural lobby

in other countries is so strong, and we've all seen pictures

of what happens when French farmers are not very pleased with government

policies, why would they react well to any proposals

to introduce tariffs, which will actually hurt them more

then it'll hurt UK producers, because they actually export more

But there is concern that governments abroad actually

back their farmers more than our government backs farmers.

How much of a priority is agriculture for you?

Priority needs to be given to the areas where we are dependent

as a country on the produce and clearly farming is a very big

part of that, not just here but also in an area I represent

So clearly that is a very economic and employment

element that the government will take into account.

I understand some of the concerns, but I think some of the concerns

We will want to maintain an open trading environment

Uncertainty is difficult for any industry, but particularly

in agriculture where they do have to plan ahead.

How soon do you think it will be before we know where farmers stand?

We have got a two-year period that started yesterday and a lot of that

will be how quickly our European partners come to us with a view

of the trade picture that we want to see.

We have made it very clear what we want to see and I just hope

we ensure that common sense and rationality are not

trumped by short-term political considerations,

because if we are rational about it, then we will end up

with a prosperous Europe and if we look towards tariffs

and barriers that don't exist today, that is not just bad for us,

it is bad for the global economy as well.

79 years ago, with the world on the brink of war,

a very special cargo arrived by ship in the port of Harwich.

200 children with no belongings brought here to escape the horrors

Over the coming months, thousands of children

would come as part of what was called the Kindertransport.

Some children went to London to stay with foster families,

Today, one of those who was rescued met school children in Cambridge

to talk about his life as a refugee during the war.

It's absolutely amazing to see that again.

Returning to the place that Gerald calls his wartime home.

Setup to give a place to stay for older children who sometimes

Today telling students what it was like to return.

It is really emotional, but it is 73 years since I first came here,

But it has brought back a surge of feeling.

You remember any particularly memorable discussions that you had?

Students from the Parkside Community College had been working with Gerald

to discover how he found refuge in the city in a world ravaged

My clothes and one German mark which translated into a few pennies,

so we were totally dependent on the refugee committee

and the kind people who looked after us.

A chance for the students to imagine what it was like

If I was Gerald, I would feel like it would be very hard to move,

because you are moving from Germany to England and you don't

All he had was the clothes on his back, so he's quite

impressive to see that he has actually become a professor.

Lots of his family did die in Germany and I think I would find

it quite hard to just move on as well as he did.

This film showing children doing chores in another hostel for Spanish

refugees is part of the project put together by Cambridge-based

charity Key Stage Arts, telling the story of those like this

man, who was just seven when he left Spain.

I was very young and obviously at that age, you take

things as they come, and I came from a small mining

village and suddenly to have this experience on a boat and arriving

in a strange country, being put in a vast tented camp,

Today, a chance for students to learn more from the past

and the history right on their doorstep.

Of course the Easter holidays are seen by many as the start

It's big business for this region, bringing in more

The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge is the most popular free attraction,

with Colchester Zoo topping the list for places that charge.

One of our most popular destinations is Great Yarmouth.

This is done model village created in the early 60s and very popular

still today. Just being careful. Tourism is worth around ?500 million

to the local economy, so what happens in places like Merivale this

summer really matters. The choo-choo train sets

off for another summer The town is a hive of activity

at this time of year. There are 5.6 million day trips

to Yarmouth every year, but these days the town has to work

a bit harder to attract people, with a marketing campaign

which includes this TV ad. We are always trying

to extend the season, get more people here and attracting

new people, so we are targeting Essex and the Home Counties this

year, so people who have never been before perhaps adding

to our loyal base of visitors. 90% of people have been here before,

they come year after year, but new visitors are always

important. The tourism industry is continually

investing for the future. At this model village,

they have just spent The big rocket and the mountain this

year has been one of the biggest things we have done in terms

of space and size and You have to keep adding every year,

otherwise everybody gets used to it and they won't come back

to see you again. Across the region,

tourism is big business. In Northamptonshire they have also

launched a new marketing campaign Back in Yarmouth, familiarity

is also important. Tony Kemp has been driving the road

train for nine years We've got a lot to offer,

Yarmouth and it's a really nice Even when it's raining it's

a really nice place to come. So just come and see us

and come and see the trains, the Pleasure Beach, come and see

all the fish and chip shops we have Come and see us, it's

a really nice place to come. Of course what really

matters is the weather. Now, whether the weather will be any

good this year is anyone's guess. In Yarmouth, and for all our tourist

venues, they are hoping the sun Lovely day today. 17 degrees and the

forecast for tomorrow and the weekend is good, but you don't need

me wittering on about the weather. Let's get a professional to the job

so back to the studio. Is he right? We thought it was hotter. It got

higher than that. We have had the warmest day so far in our region.

Plenty of blue skies. What did we get to? In Cambridge, 22 Celsius, 72

Fahrenheit and many other places not far behind. That does not beat the

record for the warmest day we have ever seen because that was back in

1968. I should say that was the date in March. But 22 is still very nice

indeed. The areas of thick cloud drifting fruit although this pushes

in from the West is likely to produce a few showers, but for many

it is a dry evening and night and a very mild one. Temperature is no

lower than ten or 11 Celsius. These are the kind of values we should see

by day. Tomorrow we have this cold front moving through. We will have

that cold front introducing thicker cloud and outbreaks of rain. That

rain not for everybody, but for most of us it will be on the light side

and still pretty warm. Not as warm as today but up to 17 Celsius in

some spots. Mainly moderate south-westerly winds. Is that cold

front pulls away, it will become the drive for most of us by the end of

the day with just a few showers around. Saturday a slightly fresher

feel to things. Some showers and they could be heavy but by Sunday

with high-pressure building in, any showers isolated indeed. By Monday

dry and becoming warmer as well. See you later.

A nine-year-old girl from Peterborough has become

an internet sensation, all because she likes to take

Lucy Harris, who has autism and Down's syndrome,

has taken one every night for more than a year now and her dad has

Her story has been watched by more than 500,000 people

We wanted to do this selfie video because it dawned on me that we have

loads of these pictures on my wife's phone, on my phone.

It was really cool watching it fly by.

The routines are something that she needs to make sense

You can see the whole family on The One Show tonight.

Keep watching, it follows our programme.

We will see you tomorrow night. Good night.