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why drugs giant Astrazenica says Cambridge can

I think the draw of Cambridge is very great. Scientists want to work

where the great scientists are and that's what we see here in the

Cambridge area. I do not see any reason why that would be the case

moving forward. Good news for job-seekers

in Peterborough, as a major car The teenage criminal

who brought down computer systems around the world -

jail for a Hertfordshire hacker. And I'll bring you details of the

Tour of Britain cycle race with the world's top riders tackling the

streets of Suffolk and Essex on two separate stages.

First tonight: it's one of the biggest investments

in our region's booming science industry to date,

AstraZeneca topped out its new headquarters

The flagship building will house 2000 staff,

working to discover a new generation of life-saving drugs.

Our business editor Richard Bond has been to find out more.

There is so much building going on in Cambridge,

it's starting to be called CraneBridge.

And at the biomedical campus today, it was easy to see why.

AstraZeneca topped out its new research centre

The concrete frame having been completed, the roof and glass

padding will now be installed on the ?500 million building.

Right now, we are over 2000 people in over eight

sites around Cambridge, so we are very well integrated

The plans are to start moving those 2000 people

into our fantastic new building, hopefully at the end of 2018.

The building will feature open laboratories and glass walls,

reflecting the company's collaborative approach.

It's already working with scientific neighbours to develop new drugs.

It works because we are the scientists, we are the academic

clinicians that developed the drugs in the clinic.

But we are not the ones making the drugs, and making drugs that

So these partnerships, like this one with AstraZeneca,

are essential for the progress of cancer medicine.

This region has the biggest cluster of drugs firms in Europe,

which is why Astra decided to close its old research base in

But the scientists inside the posh new building will be under

Three years ago, AstraZeneca fought off a takeover bid

To have an independent future, Astra needs to dream up

new blockbuster drugs in areas such as cancer and respiratory

The boss will be keeping a close eye on his scientists.

They are here to discover new medicines, that's

That's why we are so excited, being surrounded by the LMB,

the laboratory of medical biology, the Cancer Research Centre,

the University, the Eden Brooke Hospital:

The referendum result made no difference to Astra's determination

Whether it's successful will be a big test of whether the drugs

So how far will AstraZeneca's presence boost the local

I asked Dr Andy Williams, Vice President of the Cambridge

operation, why the investment here is significant.

Several factors, bringing a large pharmaceutical company into

Cambridge is the missing link in our life sciences sector. It has

dominated in the past by biotech companies. This allows us to take

drugs further and deliver them to patients, which is something the

community has not had before. An organisation lock ourselves, brings

that expertise where we can create a larger community, bringing talent

and skills into the area which can condiment and supplement the

existing scientists in the area. For a lot of that presumably you will be

looking to the EU, how does Brexit affect your recruitment and

retention of staff? WE have not seen much change. The draw of Cambridge

is great, scientists want to work where the great scientists are. I

don't see any reason why that would be the case moving forward. We would

like to see a higher skilled local population and we are working to do

that. We would like improved transport links from the wider

region into Cambridge, so everybody gets to benefit. We will develop

skills both in the local community, Europe and the world. How many local

jobs will be in a building behind you? It's hard to say because we

Bregret the best people, I would put the number directly employed by us

into the 100th. In the support services, catering, cleaning, all

those jobs which perhaps an seen as direct involvement in science, most

if not all of those will be taken by local people. We know banks and

multinationals can relocate at the drop of a hat in this international

world. We know you are committed to committed to the long-term future in

Cambridge? One, it is a huge building. You may think global

organisations do things like that but we have a huge investment here

in Cambridge. The draw of Cambridge are the people already here, the

University, the companies around here. The general culture. It is a

great place to be and a great place to relocate.

Meanwhile there's good news for job seekers in Peterborough

with a new recruitment drive launching today.

Addision Lee, Europe's largest car service,

is opening its new customer service centre in the city

And they want 250 people to join them.

Addison Lee operate chauffeured and private hire vehicles

They've been around for over 40 years and are now

moving their customer service centre - although not their vehicles -

Today sees the start of their recruitment drive

We are really excited to be coming to Peterborough. We chose

Peterborough because it's one of the U:K.'s fastest growing cities and

has a really strong digital presence.

Addison Lee is a very fast-growing business, and we are

digitally led in a lot of our sales channels,

so those are great parallels between the two.

Low business rates and cheaper officer space are pulling

But this month has seen its fair share of bad news.

Foreign exchange firm Travelex is reportedly moving 75

Western Union Business Solutions is looking to transfer 50

But retailer Dunelm is closing its distribution and call centre

with the loss of 176 jobs in Peterborough.

But the leader of the City Council remains upbeat.

Business moves on. Businesses that were here 20 years ago I no longer

in the modern era, so we need to keep progressing. We have made it

doesn't jobs in the last five years, that will help the City Council

opportunities in Peterborough. I think we have done that and we need

to modernise our workforce all the time.

Addison Lee says they've already had 300 applications.

From the end of May will train 30 people every two weeks

Parents in the Farley Hill area of Luton say they're scared

for their children - after a shooting outside

an infant school - just after pick up time.

Police were called yesterday afternoon to respond to a man

injured in a suspected drive-by shooting near to Whipperley Infants.

You can see the infant school just behind me,

and yesterday afternoon this road was full of parents picking up very

young children from nursery and reception classes.

Just a few minutes after those children had been collected,

two things happened - which police now say

At the other end of this estate, there was a collision

between a black Nissan Qashqai and a moped.

The rider and passenger both ran off.

A witness has told us how a car came from this direction along

And from the window of the car someone aimed a gun at two young men

who were standing here and shot one of them in the side.

The emergency services arrived and the injured man

A police cordon is still in place so that police can

But what everyone here is talking about is how,

if it had happened ten minutes earlier, there would have been many

small children around - (and that's very worrying

for the parents.) One mother told us she will no longer be

Very scared to be honest. Very worried for the children. I thought,

oh my God. What about my grandson? What if something happened to him

question it's a shock. It's kids everywhere here. It's all

schoolkids. Police are asking any

witnesses to the collision, and anyone who saw a dark coloured

Audi in the area shortly The young man who was injured is in

a stable condition in hospital. A man from Hertfordshire has been

sentenced to two years in a young offenders institution -

after pleading guilty to charges Adam Mudd, who's now 20,

created a tool that brought down major computer networks

around the world. He was caught by a special cyber

crime unit based here in the East, As millions of families

gathered to celebrate As millions of families gathered

to celebrate Christmas Day in 2014, one young man from Hertfordshire

bedroom was preparing One that would cripple computer

networks around the world. It led the FBI and police

in the East of England Then aged 16, Adam Mudd had

succeeded in helping to bring down household names including Microsoft,

Sony, and University of Cambridge. He was caught by the largest

police cyber crime unit outside the capital,

here in the East. This particular tool was up

and running for a year, 18 month period, and was responsible

for 1.7 million - and that is a conservative estimate -

DDoS attacks, netting Mr Mudd in the region of $350 to $400,000

for selling that service. Adam Mudd's tool employed

what is known as a distributed He did it by creating a tool that

would be used to turn computers around the world into slaves,

or bot nets. They would then flood high profile

victims with an enormous So what can be done

about these attacks? Here at Layer 8 near Bedford,

they support police Here they can monitor cyber

attacks in real-time. Often it is very difficult

to get to the attacker, So what the police forces and us are

working on is trying to prevent it. These hackers often send out

hundreds of thousands, millions of attacks,

across the surface. They are just looking for the one

or two vulnerable victims that have But were the warning signs

of a young teenager's journey What we saw in this particular case,

software written by one villain This means that the thing

is becoming de-skilled, there's less to brag about,

there is lots of money to be made, and more and more people are getting

into it simply as a means This change has come

about over the past ten years but the organisation of our police

forces simply has not That's something the police argue

is already changing. It's like a lot of other crime

types, it takes time to understand I do not necessarily think things

were missed, I do think We are trying to do a lot

of things now to improve that Police forces are changing

their attitudes to hackers, and outside of London it is the East

that is in front This is going to be seen as probably

the biggest growth in any It's taken years to bring

Mr Mudd to justice, but by bringing this action,

police forces in the East say they have shown a willingness

and the skills needed to crack down The University of Northampton says

it's new town centre campus Today a ceremony took place to mark

contractors reaching the highest The 330 million pound project

will see lectures and student accommodation move into the town

centre in September next year. The work is seen as a key part

of the regeneration of Northampton. I think for the town of Northampton,

this is again hugely important, because this is a Brownfield site

around us which we have developed. We have brought it back to life -

when the campus is complete we will have 13, 14,000 students

here, 2000 staff. Town centre just a mere five,

ten minute walk away from here. You're watching Look

East from the BBC. Plenty still to come -

we'll find out where cycling's Tour of Britain will pass

through our region... And after decades of

caring for patients, a retiring nurse tells us how much

the NHS has changed. In nine days' time voters

in Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire will choose

their county councillors - the people who'll decide

how our services from social care Many councils also fund bus

services, and in Cambridgeshire, that's become an election issue as

panels and reports. Sarah and her dad John live in

the South Cambridgeshire village of Getting the bus is important

for their independence. For me personally, I am visually

impaired so I do not drive a car. The bus is the only

way to get in and out I get the bus because I work

in Royston, in the shop. Thursday, the whole day,

and Fridays half days. Councils subsidise some bus routes

that aren't profitable enough to run commercially,

often in rural areas. But with increasingly tight budgets,

the Bassingbourn to Royston service is one of the routes that is under

threat. I think it's really

important for the village who aren't car drivers or who have

not got cars can actually get to Royston and therefore

to other places around. If there is no bus at all,

then it is going to... People are going

to get really stuck. This meeting may be about discussing

the impact of bus cuts, but it is at the ballot box on May

4th where their voice will count. In the last five years,

Cambridgeshire county council has cut the amount of money it spends

on bus subsidies by ?1 million. Saying with increasingly

tight budgets, difficult But with a council election

just round the corner, all the political parties have got

plenty to say on the issue. People who are isolated in rural

areas need to be connected. To essential social

services they require, their places of work,

places of education. Labour believes that there must

be sensible investment Does it make sense to be subsidising

a bus route where the actual cost per passenger journey can be as high

as ?30? Certainly well over ?10, that's an awful big cost

to the council taxpayer, so we have to look at the ways

of doing a smarter. so we have to look at the ways

of doing it smarter. We have proposed that we put

in an extra ?200,000 into the bus subsidies pot,

and then when commercial services falls away and people are left

stranded, the council will have some scope to come in and support some

kind of alternative transport mode. We're not talking about going back

to the days of huge buses running around with only one or two

people on it. What Ukip's vision is is a positive

network that is flexible and adaptable, and really does put

the needs of people Green party and independent

councillors are also But for Sarah, the bus

is her lifeline. If they say there is not enough

money in the boss cannot run, If they say there is not enough

money and the bus cannot run, And tomorrow we'll be looking

at the funding of social care Staying with politics now -

and the race to be the first The new role comes with new powers

over housing, transport and growth - The Green Party candidate

is a disability rights campaigner - Our political reporter

Mousumi Bakshi put Julie Howell I'm Julie Howell, I'm standing

for the Green party and we object to the creation of a new post

of Mayor, but as this has been forced upon us,

as a mayor, I will be Houses, yes, transport, yes,

but communities that really work. What's your one big policy area that

you will concentrate My first policy area is transport

because I really do want to break up I will not be spending money

on new roads, for example. I know that many people

are calling for new roads, Let's find out what

the real issue is here. Because I think that many people

will commute using the train once they realise that you can actually

work while you travel. What sets you apart

from the rest of the candidates? Apart from being female -

all the other candidates What sets me apart is

they tend to be at county That means I'm so much

closer to residents. Can you tell us something unusual,

something that people People may not know that

I have multiple sclerosis, You may be expecting us all to be

politicians with many decades I only entered politics as

a politician a year ago, actually. The rest of the time I have

been a disability rights Can you tell us how much money has

been set aside under the devolution deal for affordable

housing in Cambridge? A portion of the money that has been

set aside for the devolution deal The reason for that is

because we have got a very You may be the mayor

for Cambridgeshire, You know, I go around

Cambridgeshire, I go to Cambridge, but my heart is not in Cambridge,

my heart is in Peterborough. Lovely to visit these other places,

spent a day in Ely the other day and I love it, it's beautiful,

but my heart - my heart Turning to sport now -

and you'll be able to get a glimpse of professional cycling this summer,

when a stage of the men's Tour The race in September is expected

to attract thousands of spectators We are used to equine stars with

four legs being centre of attention here in Newmarket, but later this

year it will be sports stars on two wheels and a different type of

saddle that will be the centre of attention and grabbing the

headlines. Unbelievable conditions here, the cyclists will be praying

it's not hailing come September. The race starts right here at the Jockey

club. Thousands will be lining the streets, hopefully in the sunshine

to wave at the riders on the way. Come September

the 8th, Ipswich will go biking mad. But at the waterfront today, a

picture of calm, an undercurrent of excitement replicon below, with the

world's best riders preparing to speed through Suffolk streets.

That's brilliant news for the cycling and the county and tourism

in general. It's got to be a good thing, bringing people back to

Southwark. It's Britain's premier road race, last pic here two years

ago, attracting large crowds and all the big names. Stage six will take

entirely in Suffolk. We are expecting something like ?2 million

to be spent in the county in that day. Which otherwise would not be

spent, so that's excellent. It's a fantastic spectator sport. There

will be something like 220,000 people watching. When you consider

that Wembley Stadium only holds 90,000, that's an enormous number of

people. The stage starts in Newmarket, heading to bury, hundred

and 83, mutters and a miles, sweeping through the Suffolk

countryside, breezing past Ipswich and out to the coast to finish in

Aldeburgh. We want to hit all the key towns where spectators are, but

it's also about banning those picturesque areas, and there is not

many areas more picturesque than the Suffolk coast and Aldeburgh. What

challenges might the riders face? I don't think they will be facing too

many challenges with mountain stages. The flat stages will be

quick for them, I imagine. 24 hours earlier, Essex hosts stage five. The

individual time trial, the shorter stage, just nine miles, starting

ending in Clapton. It will be a fantastic time for people to see the

top cyclists, Olympic and world champions up close. The demand from

this, we hope it will leave a legacy in the area where it will encourage

people to get more active and take up cycling. This region has become

one of the tour 's favourite destinations. Junior stops, two more

chances to shine. -- two more stops. A nurse who was one of the first

to work at Hinchingbrooke Hospital when it first opened more than 30

years ago, has been saying a final Julie Maddocks trained in the 1970s,

and finally retired this week. Here she reflects

on her time in the NHS. You can look at people and you only

see them as they are... Julie Maddocks has

always had a listening It's been lovely just

working with patients, and I'd just like to treat them how

I would like to be treated or how I would like a member

of my family to be treated. There is still that feeling

that they are totally professional, although it's

far more relaxed than Julie has been here since the very

first night the hospital When the building

wasn't even finished. Since then, there have

been many changes from a private company being

involved in the running of the hospital, now to it merging

to a three hospital trust. While many things have changed,

Julie says others have I think I have been in the NHS,

sometimes they are just bringing in initiatives,

and you just think, we were doing that in 75,

when I started my training. It just seems to go

round in a circle but it's just renamed

as another initiative. One difference Julie has seen

is peoples outlook life. One difference Julie has seen

is peoples' outlook life. When I first started

my training somebody in the 70s would be sort of,

like, classed as elderly. Nowadays people in their 80s

and 90s that, so I Nowadays people in their 80s and 90s

are classed like that, so I think that has been

a real eye-opener. It's people's attitudes

on that that have changed. It's time to catch

up with colleagues. We've shared a lot of laughs

and smiles and support. I think she's been an absolute

treasure to the hospital and I think she will be very sadly

missed when she goes. It's a very special

relationship between the staff, helping each other every

day whenever we can. I think that's what's

special about the NHS as Just trying to treat everybody

as an individual, as well. Trying to remember

different things about the patients to make them feel special,

because they are special and we are As the NHS prepares for its

challenges ahead, it's time for one of its longest-serving

nurses to say goodbye. Weather time now - and its been very

chilly out there today - It's a bit of a wintry flavour to

weather this week, there was a frost last night so we got a wonderful

frosty photographs for you. There's been lovely sunshine around today,

but with that cold northerly wind felt quite bitterly cold at times.

There's also been some showers and some of them have been recorded as

hail, even some sleep. As we go through the evening and night we

will continue to see those showers speeding in from the North Sea. We

can expect a week of sunshine, some frosty nights and rain showers but

things should become slightly milder by the end of the week. The radar

image shows scattering showers, some of them heavy and wintry in places.

As we go through the evening and night, temperatures fall away, they

could have more of a wintry flavour. You could find you wake up to a

slight dusting on the ground first thing tomorrow. There could be some

snow even, as we get to the early hours of tomorrow morning. Expect

some wide spread frost. Close to freezing if not below. Some issues

with ice possibly as we start tomorrow. We still have this weather

feature close by, cold northerly wind. Arctic air above us. A repeat

performance of today be too much. Some sunshine and scattered showers.

As the day goes on, they will become more isolated, it's going to feel

cold through the day though, nine or 10 degrees for many of us. Factor in

that northerly wind and it will feel very cold indeed. As we go through

the afternoon to the evening, the showers will tend to fade away, and

it could be the coldest night of the cold snap tomorrow night. This

weather feature is coming down, across the region on Thursday.

Summer rain and slightly milder air. By Friday, things have settled.

Expect some rain for Thursday, temperatures recovering by Friday,

into the bank holiday weekend. Some uncertainty but it should start dry.

That's how the news and weather are looking

I'll have an update after the News at Ten -