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Abused by her teacher, failed by the council.

A Cambridgeshire woman gets over ?500,000 in compensation.

Inspectors rate Kettering General Hospital as inadequate,

but say front-line staff are doing their best.

I'm standing on top of a hardened concrete bunker where they used

to store nuclear bombs during the old Cold War.

And I have been to a major new exhibition by the

On show, some pieces of artwork that have never been seen

First tonight, she was groomed and abused by her teacher at the age

of 15, and those running the school failed to protect her.

Cambridgeshire County Council has agreed to pay a woman up to ?550,000

in compensation for the years of abuse she suffered.

Social services had previously written to warn

the council about the teacher, but he was allowed

This report from Noel Phillips contains some graphic language.

Abigail, which is not her real name, was just 15 when she says she was

groomed and raped by her teacher. A man who she claimed used his

profession as a cover to sexually exploit in the 90s. On several

occasions, you tied me to a radiator with a dog collar and told me not to

move, and made me sit there naked. This would happen the classroom? For

the first three years, it would happen in the classroom. After 45

months, he started getting me to go his house. He could get me in the

back of the car, sit behind the seat and be covered by a blanket, so when

we got to his house, no one would see me go in. He would drive into

the garage, and them I would have to get out. For legal reasons, we

cannot name the teacher, but documents show he was arrested in

the early 80s after being accused of sexually abusing girls in a school

in Cambridge. Afterwards, in the early 90s, a number of chances were

missed by the county council to monitor him before he went on to

abuse Abigail. There was sufficient evidence for him to be charged. The

most serious offences against children and he's in a position of

responsibility. He is then moved to the school where Abigail is, and if

that had been in place, this would have never happened. It is a gross

failing in this case. A social worker had previously written with

concerns about the teacher, but despite this, he was still allowed

to continue teaching. It is either a conspiracy or a clock up. Colin Shah

was a Labour county council at the time. He says there was... If you

look at all the evidence that was around at the time, I cannot see how

somebody would have missed it. I just don't know what on earth they

were thinking about. Nobody here from Cambridge county council would

talk to me on camera, but in a statement they have apologised and

have agreed an out-of-court sent torment of over ?500,000. They

say... The teacher has been banned from

teaching for life, but Abigail hopes her story will encourage other

victims to speak out. Noel Phillips, BBC Look East.

Kettering General Hospital has been rated inadequate

by inspectors, following a report by the Care Quality Commission.

Their inspection team visited the hospital in October last year

and raised concerns about safety and leadership at the Trust.

The hospital was, however, rated as good for providing care

for patients, as Mike Cartwright reports.

A hospital in special measures, its inspection

Rated inadequate for being safe and well led.

Services for children and young people needing urgent

improvement, staff, struggling after growing demands on emergency

Our A Department, we are seeing from the last CQC inspection in

2014 to now, an additional 1000 patients a month arriving in our

This is a department that was actually built for about

Staffing, as everybody knows, is a national

issue, so we've had to share staff across our escalation areas and

It is the latest in a line of reports

criticising services at the hospital in recent years.

In special measures, Kettering General will

receive external support, its ability to make its own decisions,

The main thing I want to reassure people about is that the

inspection took place some six months ago,

we took swift, corrective action around the inspection.

We put the immediate concerns right around that.

I do believe we are a safer organisation, and we have not

We had 21 cases of clostridium difficile last year.

The target given to us by the Department of

Health was 26, so we did well around that.

Services here, under pressure, providing care to a catchment

of 320,000 people, with 600 beds and around 3000 staff.

Despite the pressures they face, the majority of

staff here, inspectors said, are hard-working,

What do you think of the hospital, good and bad?

Yes, my husband is in there on the Lilford ward, on the

cancer ward, and it's been absolutely brilliant.

But apart from that, yeah, they are really good.

It's a friendly hospital, the staff are very good.

A report critical of the hospital for not learning lessons,

but Kettering General say a recovery plan is in place.

An ageing hospital serving a growing population,

looking to find its way out of special measures.

Mike Cartwright, BBC Look East, Kettering.

So, what was it that inspectors found so wrong

Earlier I spoke to Bernadette Hanney from the CQC, and began by asking

for some specific examples where safety had been compromised.

In the emergency department, we found that some of the staffing

And equally, some of the staff had not

had the necessary training to undertake some of their roles.

In the children's ward, we have some concerns over security

and the adequate observation of children who

might have some difficulties with their health and well-being.

Another thing that was rated inadequate was leadership,

so can you give me some examples of what has gone wrong

I think some of it, as we undertook our inspection,

we identified risks that the trust had not identified for themselves .

So actually what we were hoping was the trust would have a wider

view of all the risks that were happening in the organisation,

so they could put in actions to mitigate those risks.

that the inspection was last October, so the trust has had some

time between then and the report being published today to take

actions to now mitigate some of those risks.

We've heard, though, that the hospital is now

number of patients than it was originally designed for and is

stretched staff wise, like everywhere is.

We tried to be consistent in our ratings, and those

are some of the challenges that probably every

Some manage it better than others. The staff themselves were rated as

good, care was good, patients bought that out. Is there a risk that these

kind of reports and ratings are demoralising and you might put off

more people going into nursing? We did report of the staff were caring,

compassionate, professional, but everybody wants to come to work to

do the best job that they can, and there are more things the

organisation can do to improve patient care further. What happens

if it does not improve enough under special measures? We will go back in

the covering, coming months, and look at particular areas of concern,

and see if the improvements at the have materialised, and we will you

help with NHS improvement, that is a picture we will see going forward.

More than 8000 new school places have been

following the largest wave of free schools approvals this Parliament.

18 new free schools will be introduced,

including two in Cambridge, a specialist mathematics college,

and a mainstream secondary school, Cambridge City Free School.

Its backers say it will meet the demand

A major project to turn a disused Northampton ironworks

into a cultural quarter has been given planning permission.

The existing Vulcan Works building on Guildhall Road will be

transformed into a centre for creative leather

technology and house several creative businesses.

And it's hoped it'll boost the local economy,

generating an estimated ?80 million in ten years.

Think of Northampton, and culture might not

But its Cultural Quarter is already home to two

award-winning theatres, an art gallery and Charles

But this building could soon become the Quarter's centrepiece.

It was once the Vulcan Ironworks, making equipment

But it is about to be transformed into a centre

We expect to see architects, fashion designers, there are bound to be,

I would have thought, some IT and media-related businesses

as well, as these sort of things move forward.

Hopefully they will all act as catalysts for each other

and really make this a hub for new businesses and new

The oldest part of the building will host the University

of Northampton's shoe and leather centre.

But the development will also incorporate several other buildings

which will either be refurbished or demolished.

But across the Quarter, there are many other

At the heart of Northampton's Cultural Quarter is the town's

museum and art gallery, which is currently closed

as the building is undergoing a multi-million pound refurbishment

programme, which was controversially paid for through the sale

of the Egyptian statue, Sekhemka.

The Quarter's latest addition is a second screen

at the Errol Flynn Filmhouse, which is part of the Royal

It is really exciting, because people talk about it

Originally, it was an idea that the borough council had,

there was a risk of it being just a few signs.

And actually what it is, it is a movement, there

is a group of artists, professional arts managers coming

together to really animate the town centre and make it feel

like a really brilliant place to live and work.

And you see yourself as a key part of that Quarter, do you?

We dominate it in terms of the scale of our buildings,

but ultimately our job is to work in partnership with all of our

fellow arts folks to really bring the town to life.

Next door to the filmhouse, a new hotel is already open,

with a boutique hotel due to follow shortly.

Building work will now get under way this summer,

and should be finished by the end of 2018.

A bank in Milton Keynes has been targeted by ram raiders.

Four men wearing balaclavas used a dumper truck to smash

into the Metro Bank in Oakgrove just before 4:30 this morning.

They escaped with a cash machine, driving away in a dark

The bank was targeted in May last year, when money

was taken from a cash machine in an overnight raid.

It follows a number of ram raids across the region, including one

Police are appealing for anyone with mobile phone

Time to join up with Stewart and Susie for more news,

You're watching Look East, with Susie and me.

A rare glimpse inside a Cold War nuclear shelter.

Alex looks ahead to the Easter weekend weather.

And a new exhibition celebrating the artistic genius

the American Secretary of State has been in Moscow

for talks with the Russians about the tension in the Middle East.

It will bring back memories for lots of us

about the friction between the two super powers

American airbases here were very much focused

Today, we were given a rare opportunity to look

round an old nuclear bomb shelter at RAF Alconbury

A structure designed withstand atomic attack.

And there are 1094 to film the last aircraft leave for good. And like

the spy planes which operated here, the American base itself is shrouded

in secrecy. 23 years on we have been given an opportunity to unlock some

of the mysteries about exactly what went on there. It is almost deserted

now but during its Aidy this last 11,000 acre base was home to almost

2000 personnel. Where I am standing right now on top of this hardened

concrete bunker, they used to store nuclear missiles. As well as

component parts for nuclear bombs, it was home to the U2 or Dragon lady

from 1982. It was a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft whose

primary mission was to spy on the soviet Union. As Cold War tensions

escalated, so that investment in the base, ?70 million avionic building

the jewel in the Crown. The spy footage was placed in a truck, then

driven into here, as was the pilot. Essentially, the talks would drive

right up here and from their unknown straightaway. The pilots would go

into this room first, dropped their initial kit and take their helmets.

The series was so strategically important that even in the event of

a nuclear attack here, all pilots flying through, business had to go

on. The pilots would come in here, take a shower and fly again. If you

come down here, you can see some of the kit that kept the area safe and

they power going during the event of a nuclear bomb. Why was this base

not in the public eye as much as C, others? It was to do with the

connections and where the storage happened on the site, that meant it

was more discreet, less visible. New development is very much the focus

here but the structures of the past hold their own, unique importance as

well. The list of buildings and the stories that the kelp are crucial

part of that future, so whilst we have houses being built and

residents moving in and businesses, we are developing a plan to open up

some of this history and be able to tell the story of the Cold War as it

continued in this area. Joseph Hall, BBC Look East.

Just some news, we spoke about the secretary of state being in Russia,

the Russian Foreign Secretary has said that talks with his American

counterpart Rex Tillerson have been frank and fear and they have managed

to cover issues relevant to both sides. Now time for the sport.

The Ipswich Town manager Mick McCarthy

has told the BBC he won't walk away from his job.

The club is looking at its worst finish in the Championship

since he joined just over 4 years ago.

But he says he has no intention of standing down.

No, because I enjoy my job. All the suggestions that I am ruling the

cob, what a load of nonsense. I have had to the top ten finishes. The one

time I have a bad season, people have turned their backs on the

widget is a prize and is disappointing. I am not walking away

from it, I have my contract left to run and unless something else is

done, I am not walking away. I will be here and planning for next

season. I am looking forward to it. I am looking to get enough points to

stay in this league, go and have a break and come back with lots of

them and vigour. When he took over they were in

trouble. He has a point. Yes, they were bottom of the championship, he

has had the top ten finishes but the problem this season is that he has

not spent any money, computer Norwich City which has had a

parachute payments from the Premier League. They were still outside the

top six and they will finish there. That is where the real problem has

been and the fans are not happy. Do you get the sense it might not be

his decision. In most cases it is really the manager that walks. It is

all was the top brass that ends up firing someone. Those jeers that

have been coming in the background, he might put his fingers in his ears

but if the chairman is bustling, you do not know what might happen in the

summer. Thank you very much.

Next week, the squad for the Lions tour of New Zealand is announced.

A handful of Northampton Saints are expected to be included

but surprisingly, Dylan Hartley is not guaranteed a place.

There is one game left to make an impression.

Northampton play the defending champions Saracens at Stadium MK.

Dylan Hartley, the player used to the limelight whose career is often

caught on camera. Before the shoot today was in his club colours ahead

of the huge game for Rockhampton against Saracens at the Stadium MK.

Will he be doing something similar for the British and Irish Lions in

seven days' time? To be selected would be a great honour. I have

grievously been selected so it is a great honour but to tour, that would

be a great experience as well. I am not counting my chickens, I want to

build myself up. I am taking it as it comes. I am happy where I am at

the moment. There are three positions at hooker up for grabs and

format in contention and yet, this 66 Nations winning captain might not

make the trip. He has only lasted 50 minutes in Test matches for England

and Warren Gatland will look for a player capable of playing longer. In

2013, he was called up for the tour against Australia for the Lions. But

a colourful backchat Aire River beat put paid to that. His ill discipline

cost them a place in the World Cup. But there's the disappointment of

four years ago still linger? I missed out in 2013 with the Lions

and it does not motivate me to get up every morning but I know what

Warren Gatland once, I know what Eddie Jones warns of me and he makes

it pretty clear. For now, Hartley must help the scenes finds and

steel, they badly need a win against the premiership champions on Sunday.

The top teams at the moment are the teams with the momentum and leave

with the points. We have not been the best at doing that. This not

completely done for us, there is a character there for us. Three games

left for scenes to rescue their season, just one for Hartley. In one

week's time he will know that he has the north of the Lions or not. James

Burridge, BBC Look East, Northampton.

The former home and studios of the sculptor Henry Moore re-opens

with a special exhibition charting his rise as an artist.

His iconic work is showcased in seventy acres of

and will include works which have never been on display before.

It opens on Good Friday and Katherine Nash has been to see it.

Pieces of artwork rarely placed on display by one of Britain's

Born in 1898, Henry Moore's new exhibition at his studios

in Hertfordshire charts his coming-of-age as an artist

Sebastiano Barassi is the curator here.

He has been working on this exhibition for years,

sourcing artwork, not only from across the country,

Well, this is a small piece from circa 1922, 1924,

when Henry Moore was a student in London at the Royal

So this is a plasticine maquette which he made on the subject

I understand that this has never been seen by the public

The reason is because these pieces are quite experimental,

they are ideas in development rather than finished work, and therefore

they do not necessarily have that wide appeal and they do not

necessarily look like the work of Moore.

There are five studios here at the foundation

in Hertfordshire, this one is called the Maquette Studio,

which means model in French, and this is where Henry Moore

created models of the sculptures before working on the real thing.

This latest exhibition coincides with the opening of a new visitor

centre and the 40th anniversary of the Henry Moore Foundation.

Well aware of financial struggles, he set up the trust to give grants

This is a very special time for the foundation,

it is our 40th birthday and we have just invested in new facilities

We have built a fabulous new visitor centre, we have developed an amazing

archive to store all of Moore's papers, letters and photographs,

and what better than to go back to Henry Moore's early career

and look at the way that he became the great artist

Becoming Henry Moore opens to the public on Good Friday

An opportunity to catch a glimpse of artwork never seen before by such

Katherine Nash, BBC Look East, McAdam.

Some of it is stunning, isn't it? The temperatures at the weekend seem

longer we now! Yes, it will be cooler for the

Easter weekend. But there should be quite a lot of dry weather around,

that is the good news but did not expected to be as warm as last

weekend. Photographs from across the region today. There has not been a

lot of cloud but there has been sunshine and some of these

photographs more sunshine and cloud, such as in Suffolk. More sunshine in

Essex. This is the satellite picture, quite a ride cold front

introducing cooler area but also putting a lot of cloud across the

region. As it clears to the South East, it is starting to Brighton, so

you could see some sunshine before the end of the day. Some light and

patchy rain as well. The chance of a splash of rain for parts of the

region. During the night, increasing Keir Starmer is right across and

that will mean a colder night and last night. There is the risk of

some ground frost as temperatures in some areas could fall to as low as

two, three degrees. Those places could get colder than that. We start

the day tomorrow on a chilly note. The pressure Parton is showing

predominantly High pressure, still a cool, North-Westerly breeze. That

should ease through the day. Lots of sunshine for the morning. As they go

through the day, the card will tend to increase from the North West, it

will cloud over and there is the chance of a light shower somewhere.

Foremost, it was the guy throughout the day. Cooler under the cloud,

perhaps 11, 12 degrees, if there is any brightness through the morning,

it might lift the temperatures higher, but it looks dry for the

bulk of the day but patchy rain. That means a little bit of a damp

start to the weekend to Good Friday certainly. This is the Easter

weekend pressure Parton, you can see High pressure is the predominant

feature. Some weather features are floating around and that could bring

us some rain at times. The main message is that it will be largely

dry with some good spells of sunshine. Having said that, Friday

could be a little bit cloudy with some rain to clear first thing,

brightening up through the day, Saturday and Sunday look as though

they could be cooled diesel of sunshine but a cool breeze from the

North West. The chance of one or two showers but for most places it

should stay dry. Thank you for that, Alex.

Wrap up warm! That is it, see you tomorrow. Good night.

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