:00:00. > :00:09.Quality care - what makes care homes in Bedford and Peterborough among
:00:10. > :00:20.Staff and most important asset in a care home, they are the people that
:00:21. > :00:20.make a difference. Roaming freee - egg producers
:00:21. > :00:23.let their hens out after months The slow road to recovery
:00:24. > :00:26.for a sprinter injured And is this the new
:00:27. > :00:35.Ice Bucket Challenge? The Cambridge trombonist who's
:00:36. > :00:48.started a global craze. Our region has some of the best
:00:49. > :00:53.quality care homes in the country. Research by Independent Age,
:00:54. > :00:56.the older people's charity, reveals that 81% of our care homes
:00:57. > :01:01.are good or outstanding. Peterborough and Bedford
:01:02. > :01:04.lead the way, where over But in Luton and Central
:01:05. > :01:11.Bedfordshire, 21% of homes Emma Baugh has been to a home
:01:12. > :01:16.in Peterborough to see how they manage to provide a good
:01:17. > :01:22.service in tight financial times. Creating a home from home -
:01:23. > :01:24.letting people have pets to stroke The home has been ranked
:01:25. > :01:30.as the best in the city, by the relatives
:01:31. > :01:33.of those living here. She has been at Philia
:01:34. > :01:37.Lodge for 17 years. For her, it's the way
:01:38. > :01:41.she's looked after. I'm treated properly,
:01:42. > :01:48.with respect, and Many of our residents may have had
:01:49. > :02:02.to have left their personal We facilitated for them
:02:03. > :02:06.to be able to bring those personal possessions here,
:02:07. > :02:08.to make it that home from home experience,
:02:09. > :02:11.that they haven't had While the care system is facing
:02:12. > :02:16.financial pressures, this home is helped by the economy
:02:17. > :02:19.of scale of being part of a It pays above the living wage,
:02:20. > :02:25.with an emphasis on training and It is the staff, as I
:02:26. > :02:32.said, the commitment, Your staff are your
:02:33. > :02:38.most important asset within a care home,
:02:39. > :02:41.because they are the people that make the difference
:02:42. > :02:45.in delivering care. The home here has been
:02:46. > :02:47.rated as good for the quality of care it gives
:02:48. > :02:50.its residents, along with 90% But, with increasing pressure
:02:51. > :02:55.on funding and an ever ageing population, how sustainable
:02:56. > :03:01.is that for the future? Like many towns and cities
:03:02. > :03:03.across the UK, we are a growing city -
:03:04. > :03:05.we have high growth targets for Peterborough, so we have started
:03:06. > :03:09.to work now on the five-year view for Peterborough,
:03:10. > :03:12.what that might look like, and what So then we can start
:03:13. > :03:15.to commission new services and different services now,
:03:16. > :03:18.so that they are ready to go from the point at which the
:03:19. > :03:22.population needs them. Both here and in Bedfordshire
:03:23. > :03:25.they have the highest number of homes rated good or above,
:03:26. > :03:30.and overall this region fares better Emma Baugh, BBC Look
:03:31. > :03:36.East, Peterborough. Emma - some great work
:03:37. > :03:40.in our care homes there - but presumably most people
:03:41. > :03:42.would prefer to stay Yes, where possible -
:03:43. > :03:47.that's better for them and eases So Peterborough City Council has
:03:48. > :03:53.a scheme where they modify people's homes, so they can stay
:03:54. > :03:56.in them for longer. I've been to see one of them -
:03:57. > :04:02.Doris Neal who's 93 - they put in a lift and insulated her
:04:03. > :04:10.home, so that she could stay. So now I can get in and out
:04:11. > :04:16.with my rollator and it's wonderful, it's
:04:17. > :04:23.really smashing. The council says having the care
:04:24. > :04:31.packages in people's own homes plus having good quality care homes
:04:32. > :04:33.means they can leave hospital In fact, Peterborough has one
:04:34. > :04:37.of the lowest rates of delayed discharges from hospital
:04:38. > :04:39.in the country. Elsewhere in the region they're
:04:40. > :04:41.working to try and ease pressures, but some have some way to go
:04:42. > :04:45.to catch up. Next tonight, the Chinese community
:04:46. > :04:48.in Milton Keynes is demanding police do more to protect them,
:04:49. > :04:50.following the murder 64-year-old Hang Yin Leung died
:04:51. > :04:54.in hospital, after a gang of men forced their way
:04:55. > :04:58.into her home in January. But Thames Valley Police says
:04:59. > :05:01.there's no evidence the Chinese Kate Bradbrook has been to met
:05:02. > :05:08.Hang Yin Leung's son, Keith. I at least accept
:05:09. > :05:10.what has happened now. It is now two months
:05:11. > :05:12.since Keith Leung's mother, Hang Yin, died following a burglary
:05:13. > :05:17.here at her home in Milton Keynes. Dad has lost one of his
:05:18. > :05:23.closest friends, actually. And there is no one for dad
:05:24. > :05:30.to come home to any more. The six men forced their way in,
:05:31. > :05:33.knocking Mrs Leung, who was a retired Hong Kong police
:05:34. > :05:36.officer, to the ground. No one has yet been
:05:37. > :05:40.charged with her murder. The fact that these people
:05:41. > :05:44.are still at large, I really hope that nobody has to go
:05:45. > :05:47.through the trauma that we had to go through, or have their homes
:05:48. > :05:53.and houses ransacked. The family run a takeaway
:05:54. > :05:56.restaurant and there is concern within the Chinese community
:05:57. > :06:00.that criminals are targeting Now three Chinese
:06:01. > :06:04.churches in the area have written to the Chief Constable
:06:05. > :06:07.of Thames Valley Police, seeking A lot of them, if they are in
:06:08. > :06:12.the catering trade, the perception is that they are a cash
:06:13. > :06:17.community, they will have a lot of cash at home or in the business -
:06:18. > :06:22.they can take advantage of that. Do you feel that the police,
:06:23. > :06:25.the council are doing enough to Because we feel that we have been
:06:26. > :06:37.let down by the authority, and a lot of the time when incidents
:06:38. > :06:41.happen it seems we are only left This is the letter outlining
:06:42. > :06:46.the community's concerns, and this is a reply from Thames Valley
:06:47. > :06:49.Police. They say only 4% of burglaries
:06:50. > :06:53.in Milton Keynes affect the Both the council leader
:06:54. > :06:59.here and also police officers have now spoken with members
:07:00. > :07:01.of the church. The Force says it's doing all it can
:07:02. > :07:04.to bring the killers Kate Bradbrook, BBC
:07:05. > :07:11.Look East, in Milton Keynes. Free range poultry can finally roam
:07:12. > :07:14.outside once more today, with the lifting of bird flu
:07:15. > :07:17.restrictions. Producers were ordered to shut
:07:18. > :07:25.their birds inside in December, to protect them from the H5N8
:07:26. > :07:27.strain of avian flu. It was feared migrating
:07:28. > :07:29.birds arriving in the UK for the winter could infect hens
:07:30. > :07:32.with the deadly virus. After four months locked away,
:07:33. > :07:36.the first few steps But where one hen led,
:07:37. > :07:41.the others quickly followed. Brilliant, it's just
:07:42. > :07:43.a perfect time, with Easter. Spring is a lovely time
:07:44. > :07:45.for the hens anyway, with everything coming into leaf,
:07:46. > :07:49.and to be able to have the hens out here, enjoying the trees,
:07:50. > :07:51.doing what they are meant to be doing, is just a different class,
:07:52. > :07:54.it's brilliant, it's what we've been And this is what life
:07:55. > :08:02.was like after restrictions Measures designed to prevent
:08:03. > :08:05.an outbreak like this one Defra managed to make
:08:06. > :08:08.a very good decision. At the time it was quite
:08:09. > :08:14.a risky decision - no-one was sure they were doing
:08:15. > :08:16.the right thing. But I think it has proven
:08:17. > :08:19.that it was the right decision. We've only had a few cases of avian
:08:20. > :08:22.flu in this country now, compared to parts of
:08:23. > :08:24.Europe which have seen It has become a very
:08:25. > :08:33.serious threat to us. Although these hens are now enjoying
:08:34. > :08:36.the great outdoors a full protection zone and bio-security
:08:37. > :08:41.measures remain in place. But a real fear of farmers
:08:42. > :08:44.is that these avian flu restrictions become
:08:45. > :08:47.an annual event. But the lifting of last year's
:08:48. > :08:50.restrictions is not only good news for commercial farmers,
:08:51. > :08:53.it is welcome news for farms It's just the freedom
:08:54. > :08:57.now which is good. We haven't got to panic
:08:58. > :08:59.about bio-security quite as much as we have, we haven't
:09:00. > :09:02.got to panic on a daily basis as to whether we're
:09:03. > :09:04.going to be impacted. We are not news-watching
:09:05. > :09:08.all the time now, which is good. Back at Wood Farm today
:09:09. > :09:11.marks a welcome return to normality, a normality
:09:12. > :09:14.which everyone hopes won't be interrupted by more
:09:15. > :09:17.restrictions next winter. So will poultry farmers find
:09:18. > :09:23.themselves in the same I spoke to the Government's
:09:24. > :09:26.Chief Veterinary Officer, Professor Nigel Gibbens,
:09:27. > :09:29.and asked if bird flu Bird flu is a natural part
:09:30. > :09:38.of the ecology of birds. Bird flu viruses have been
:09:39. > :09:44.around for many, many years - hundreds,
:09:45. > :09:46.thousands of years - and they constantly cycle in birds
:09:47. > :09:49.in the far east, and that That means there is
:09:50. > :09:53.a threat through migrating birds, and that will
:09:54. > :09:56.vary year on year. And the flu viruses -
:09:57. > :10:00.as we know from human flu viruses, that constantly evolve,
:10:01. > :10:02.such that we have to have different vaccinations every
:10:03. > :10:06.year - so we have to be alert to that and tailor our response
:10:07. > :10:10.as carefully as we can. Do you think we'll ever see
:10:11. > :10:13.widespread immunisation projects for poultry, so that they
:10:14. > :10:28.resist these diseases? Vaccines do exist, not to this
:10:29. > :10:30.strain that we've just had, but they are injectable -
:10:31. > :10:33.they are very difficult to apply. If you imagine the thousands
:10:34. > :10:36.of birds in a commercial poultry flock, to inject them all is not
:10:37. > :10:38.a sensible proposition. But other methods of
:10:39. > :10:40.applying vaccine are being looked for - aerosols,
:10:41. > :10:42.that kind of thing. How far off do you
:10:43. > :10:44.think we might be? This is difficult, this
:10:45. > :10:46.is very difficult research. There is nothing in prospect
:10:47. > :10:49.in the immediate future. So we will, I'm afraid,
:10:50. > :10:52.have to do continue to work with the effective tools that we have -
:10:53. > :10:57.getting on top of it very quickly and stamping it out again
:10:58. > :11:02.where we have had success this year. Part of a new road that
:11:03. > :11:05.will ease congestion The road connects the
:11:06. > :11:07.Woodside Industrial Estate That junction and the A5-M1
:11:08. > :11:13.Dunstable bypass is due to fully For the moment it will just serve
:11:14. > :11:24.local traffic in Houghton Regis. That is all from me for now in our
:11:25. > :11:32.late news. Street. The work could affect other
:11:33. > :11:43.parts of the region, so the advice is to check before you travel.
:11:44. > :11:45.Alex will be looking ahead to the weather
:11:46. > :12:07.It's three months now since the Olympic sprinter
:12:08. > :12:10.Nigel Levine suffered a serious motorbike crash in Tenerife
:12:11. > :12:16.Speaking for this first about the accident,
:12:17. > :12:19.he accepts he will be out of contention for 18 months.
:12:20. > :12:23.But the man from Bedfordshire is determined he will be back,
:12:24. > :12:33.Nigel Levine, in crutches but among friends.
:12:34. > :12:36.Recovering and recuperating after a horrendous bike crash.
:12:37. > :12:40.An experience biker, he was sightseeing and Tenerife
:12:41. > :12:43.with his team-mate when a car swerved and hit them.
:12:44. > :12:47.When I realised I couldn't move, I was like, this
:12:48. > :12:53.And I asked James if he could move, and he said, no.
:12:54. > :13:04.First of all, when it happens, you don't believe it.
:13:05. > :13:06.Then you pinch yourself and you realise this
:13:07. > :13:13.Levine was on a team training camp when the accident happened.
:13:14. > :13:16.He had a biker's license and claimed that British Athletics didn't stop
:13:17. > :13:20.Levine broke his pelvis and was in hospital for a month.
:13:21. > :13:24.His team-mate James Ellington broke his pelvis and both his legs.
:13:25. > :13:28.I'm not angry any more because these things happen.
:13:29. > :13:37.There are certain things you can't avoid.
:13:38. > :13:40.I have just got to accept it and I have accepted what has
:13:41. > :13:43.happened, and I am grateful to be well and alive.
:13:44. > :13:46.Levine is a key member of Britain's relay team.
:13:47. > :13:49.He has featured in two Olympics and has won eight
:13:50. > :13:51.championship medals, the highlight being
:13:52. > :14:00.He is now out of competitive action for 18 months and is unsure
:14:01. > :14:04.I will be back on the international scene.
:14:05. > :14:07.I fully believe I will be back on the scene.
:14:08. > :14:11.It is going to be a tough one but it is not impossible.
:14:12. > :14:16.Levine is still deciding whether to prosecute the driver.
:14:17. > :14:24.For now, he is just grateful to be fighting back.
:14:25. > :14:27.When do you think Britain got its first female firefighter?
:14:28. > :14:33.Amazingly, the first firewoman working for a county fire brigade
:14:34. > :14:40.Her name is Jo Reynolds and she was based in Norfolk.
:14:41. > :14:42.Now, 35 years later, she's written a book
:14:43. > :14:47.We'll talk to her in a moment, but first Kevin Burch has been back
:14:48. > :14:57.to Thetford Fire Station, where it all began.
:14:58. > :14:58.When Joe started training is a junior
:14:59. > :15:00.firefighter in 1982 she was
:15:01. > :15:03.Thetford was her first base, Nigel Monument her first boss
:15:04. > :15:05.and today reunited again they reminisced about her first day.
:15:06. > :15:11.I thought they are just going to think who is this
:15:12. > :15:21.I had a good team, good group, and hopefully Joe would agree
:15:22. > :15:32.that she was welcomed with open arms.
:15:33. > :15:43.The image I love of Jo is her dashing here on her bicycle around
:15:44. > :15:57.the corner onto what was then a gravelled suffers. Jean was on their
:15:58. > :16:07.word for it. This was Joel on Mideast in 1987. As these cuttings
:16:08. > :16:13.show, it was big news, and await this next question is bit tells you
:16:14. > :16:16.much about attitudes at the time. What do you male colleagues make
:16:17. > :16:26.been endeavouring to the job i.e. Women driver? Given me a lot about
:16:27. > :16:29.it but they are not too bad really. We have got a female in charge at
:16:30. > :16:38.London Fire Brigade and at London please. It is a fantastic job. Every
:16:39. > :16:45.day is different and I think Jo will make the best of that. Jo remains
:16:46. > :16:52.modest about what proved a landmark Korea. She was asked by friends to
:16:53. > :16:55.write anger thought an eight bit. It truly as some story.
:16:56. > :17:09.Did they decide they want to open up to women? I think right timing was
:17:10. > :17:15.right in the 80s. It was a time of teams. And then onto me, they had
:17:16. > :17:20.advertised for junior firefighter was up I saw the advert and applied.
:17:21. > :17:28.My house had burnt down when I was a young thing. I just applied and...
:17:29. > :17:37.Yeah. I got in. I was the first woman day opened the door to. How
:17:38. > :17:40.many other women did you work with? Or lady cooks and things and
:17:41. > :17:46.people's ways but not to work with on-the-job. The others excepted you
:17:47. > :17:53.completely? You didn't make your life difficult in any way? Not.
:17:54. > :17:58.Training was difficult at times. It was the 80s and not very politically
:17:59. > :18:04.correct at times. Having said that, at the station Nidal and the guys,
:18:05. > :18:13.it was like a massive family. To be excepted you had to do all of the
:18:14. > :18:18.difficult things. Yes I joined as a firefighter not something in the
:18:19. > :18:24.middle. Proper firefighting, carrying the 12 stone dummy. You
:18:25. > :18:26.have to be able to do that anyway. Winning chemical protection suits
:18:27. > :18:31.and going down into sewers and onto ships. You did it for four years,
:18:32. > :18:40.but you didn't stop because he didn't enjoy it, you did love the
:18:41. > :18:48.work's I loved it. You can see how happy I was. By the time I was in my
:18:49. > :18:51.mid-30s I be able to is besetting this time a desk getting other
:18:52. > :18:58.people to run around. That was my plan. Then things changed as they do
:18:59. > :19:04.in life. As it stands today, less than 5% of firefighters and women. I
:19:05. > :19:10.was very surprised. No one is following you read. I hope other
:19:11. > :19:16.girls out there well. It is a wonderful place to work noted days
:19:17. > :19:26.at the same. It is fascinating, you learn so much. And people like
:19:27. > :19:29.firefighters. Glad to see and glad you enjoyed work back then. Thank
:19:30. > :19:31.you for having me. 100 years ago, thousands of young
:19:32. > :19:33.men from this region were taking part in the War
:19:34. > :19:35.on the Western front. More than a million had already
:19:36. > :19:38.been killed or injured The horrors of Passchendaele
:19:39. > :19:42.were just a few weeks away. To mark the anniversary,
:19:43. > :19:44.lots of schools have visited France and Belgium to teach children
:19:45. > :19:48.about the misery of trench warfare. But now there's an alternative
:19:49. > :19:50.closer to home. Practice trenches dug
:19:51. > :19:53.by soldiers at the time For many soldiers in
:19:54. > :20:01.the First World War, this was the reality of life
:20:02. > :20:03.on the front line. Many hours spent deep
:20:04. > :20:05.in the trenches. But before they were sent
:20:06. > :20:16.to the Western Front, they practiced digging those
:20:17. > :20:18.defences back at home. And here, in Norfolk,
:20:19. > :20:20.100 years on, some of those First of all, they would have taken
:20:21. > :20:23.a barbed-wire barrier Then they would dig a trench five
:20:24. > :20:28.yards long, stop for two yards, dig another one five yards long,
:20:29. > :20:34.stop for two yards and put soldiers in it, just to defend them
:20:35. > :20:37.if they were discovered. And then they'd dig the zig-zags
:20:38. > :20:39.and the supply trenches back. Those trenches were built
:20:40. > :20:41.by the Lovat Scouts, a Scottish regiment based
:20:42. > :20:44.in Hunstanton in 1915. By September of that year, they had
:20:45. > :20:48.been dispatched to Gallipoli. The rocky terrain there meant
:20:49. > :20:50.they were never able But now, the trenches that they dug
:20:51. > :20:57.here are being used to teach When they hold the things and see
:20:58. > :21:04.them and try them on, obviously, that gives a much better impression
:21:05. > :21:07.of what it would have been like than just seeing things
:21:08. > :21:11.in books or being told about it. Walking through the trenches,
:21:12. > :21:15.past boards displaying information and poems,
:21:16. > :21:18.gives the children a sense of what it was like to
:21:19. > :21:22.live on the front line. I feel bad for the soldiers that had
:21:23. > :21:25.to live in those mouldy They would be quite sad
:21:26. > :21:35.because they would be cold. I don't like the explosives
:21:36. > :21:40.and the scare of being round the corner and there was a whole
:21:41. > :21:42.army of Germans just At the entrance, we call them
:21:43. > :21:49.the Call Of Duty generation. All the little lads
:21:50. > :21:51.that jump up and down. You know, bang, bang,
:21:52. > :21:55.we're going into the trenches. By the time we got to board ten,
:21:56. > :21:59.you could shake a pin drop. Trenches payday key role
:22:00. > :22:00.on the battlefields Now the trenches left behind
:22:01. > :22:05.in his Norfolk fields are helping a new generation learn
:22:06. > :22:16.about the realities of war. Do you remember the
:22:17. > :22:18.Ice Bucket Challenge? Where people had cold
:22:19. > :22:20.water thrown over them The latest online craze involves
:22:21. > :22:27.a musician from Cambridge, a trombone and a famous
:22:28. > :22:33.bit of music. Jayne Murrill shares her love
:22:34. > :22:36.of the trombone with Stephen Sykes. When she discovered Stephen
:22:37. > :22:39.was seriously ill and needed an expensive drug to save his life,
:22:40. > :22:42.she turned to music. It's called The Acrobat, and thanks
:22:43. > :22:57.to Cambridge trombonist Jane, The Acrobat Challenge that struck
:22:58. > :23:20.a massive chord on the Thinking about the Ice Bucket
:23:21. > :23:25.Challenge, and The Acrobat is such a famous trombone solo,
:23:26. > :23:27.so it just popped I have been absolutely
:23:28. > :23:30.staggered by the response. I thought it might raise
:23:31. > :23:33.a couple of hundred pounds and I was dreading that
:23:34. > :23:37.I would be the only video up on the We have had pledges
:23:38. > :23:40.from all over the world It is to raise ?90,000
:23:41. > :23:44.for Stephen Sykes from Bristol, In fact, they have
:23:45. > :23:50.all been really good. Some of them have been so exciting
:23:51. > :23:54.that it is making my hair I met Stephen a couple of times many
:23:55. > :24:01.years ago when he was at the Welsh College, and a trombone
:24:02. > :24:05.quartet that I play in called Bones Apart had coached him,
:24:06. > :24:08.so I think I felt that as a fellow trombonist,
:24:09. > :24:12.that would be a great thing to do. Not just trombonists,
:24:13. > :24:15.it is all types of instrument - a global ensemble that has grown
:24:16. > :24:34.from just Jane and her trombone. We are going to have that music and
:24:35. > :24:52.head all day now. The weather. The Easter weekend is almost upon us
:24:53. > :24:54.and it is not looking as warm as last weekend. Perhaps not quite as
:24:55. > :24:59.good as it could be but some lovely weather around today's. Some
:25:00. > :25:05.beautiful blue skies around and Norfolk. Closing over a little bit.
:25:06. > :25:08.The satellite image shows we have started to get more cars coming in
:25:09. > :25:12.from the north-west as this weather feature is moving down across the
:25:13. > :25:17.country. Eventually, it will bring something later on tonight but it
:25:18. > :25:20.should stage I this evening. Generally, rather cloudy. The odd
:25:21. > :25:23.clear spell that should means damage is not dropping as low as last
:25:24. > :25:30.night. By the end of the night, a few spots of light drizzle coming
:25:31. > :25:36.and, perhaps quite a Dabbs sought to Good Friday. The pressure patent
:25:37. > :25:39.shows you that high pressure is dominating for our Easter weekend.
:25:40. > :25:43.North-western bees is going to be a feature which will make it feel a
:25:44. > :25:48.bit chilly. It will be a little bit chilly at times. This is our
:25:49. > :25:52.summary. There will be sunshine around, some rain and just a rather
:25:53. > :25:55.kill filter things, generally. Tomorrow, we have a south-westerly
:25:56. > :26:02.wind so things could get down to the teams. It should brighten up,
:26:03. > :26:07.perhaps even some sunshine. Depending prayer that is, we could
:26:08. > :26:13.record highs of 14 of 15 degrees. We see rain appearing in the afternoon,
:26:14. > :26:17.so Cecily later on in a day and into the evening, some rain moving and.
:26:18. > :26:26.That's where the frontal and to do cooler air. Some sunshine around and
:26:27. > :26:28.quite a fresh field designs on Saturday. It will feel a little bit
:26:29. > :26:33.chilly with the north-westerly breeze. A fine day on Monday.
:26:34. > :27:11.Perhaps isolated showers on Sunday but not too bad.
:27:12. > :27:15.the most that have ever voted for anything in this country,