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In Look East tonight: Freezing rain, snow and wind - | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
councils prepare for travel disruption tomorrow morning | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
They joked about hiding a body - the brother of a woman found dead | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
gives evidence at her partner's murder trial. | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
And the risk of ice tonight as temperatures drop below freezing. | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Wintry conditions have been sweeping across our region tonight, | :00:19. | :00:32. | |
Councils and highways authorities have spent the day trying to prepare | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
for an ever-changing weather picture, with freezing conditions | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
for tomorrow morning's rush hour the big worry. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Stuart Ratcliffe has been out with the gritters. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
This is the scene at highways depots across the region, | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
as teams prepare for the white stuff, forecast for both tonight | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
Each truck does approximately about 50 miles. | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
We have 36 dedicated gritters for the highway | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
and one that goes down our guided busway network. | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
We've also got some quad bikes that do the cycleways | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
Teams have already been out on one gritting run. | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
They will be out on the road again before dawn. | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
There are around 3,000 tonnes of gritting salt here in this depot, | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
and across Cambridgeshire and there is around 8,000 tonnes in store. | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
They say that is enough to continually grit the county's | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
Now, four years ago, when we had a prolonged cold snap, | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
salt supplies ran critically low, but I'm told this time | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
the county is prepared for pretty much anything. | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
We have learnt our lessons from that, which is why we do this | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
salt stock level management system now, | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
so 8,000 tonnes is what we have in Cambridgeshire, and we keep it | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
And it is not only highways teams who have been on stand-by - | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
at Luton and Stansted Airports, they have well-rehearsed snow plans. | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
We have all the equipment on site that we need in the event of snow. | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
Our firefighters help clear the runway. | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
Our operations team clear the taxiways, and the aprons, | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
and the passenger areas, to keep the operation | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
Back on the roads, and the concern now is ice. | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
If temperatures drop, wet roads will freeze, | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
and with the prospect of another band of snow overnight, | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
drivers on the road tomorrow morning are being warned | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
Meanwhile, Milton Keynes Council has promised emergency accommodation | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
to rough sleepers in the town to keep them out of | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
Around 100 people sleep rough on the streets of Milton Keynes. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
Council Leader Pete Marland joined me earlier to explain. | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
There are volunteers here that are helping coordinate some | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
People will be, if they're assessed as homeless, | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
taken to hotels or emergency accommodation that we | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
It is about making sure that people are put in contact | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
If they phone or if they come down to the council, | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
This is a legal obligation on councils, isn't it, | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
when the temperature gets to a certain level? | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
It is a legal obligation, absolutely, that we provide | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
that safe place and the roof over someone's head, | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
but it's not our obligation to publicise it as widely as we've | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
done, and I think we need to make sure that every homeless person out | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
there on the streets knows that this service is available to them. | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
We've got three hotels in Milton Keynes. | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
It's temporary accommodation but we will be making sure that | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
we've got enough beds for those people, and it all depends | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
on how many people come to the council or need our help. | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
It's especially cold for the next few days, | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
but Milton Keynes does have a growing problem with | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
What are you doing to tackle and longer term? | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
I don't think Milton Keynes is unique in our growing | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
homelessness and rough sleeping problem, but we are unique | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
We're investing ?200,000 of council money in | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
the Milton Keynes Homelessness Partnership. | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
We've just won around about ?600,000 with some | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
other local authorities, like Luton, for an outreach service, | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
and we've got brilliant charities that will go out and help | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
homeless people out on the streets of Milton Keynes. | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
Councillor Pete Marland speaking a short time ago. | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
Well, if you, or someone you know, needs help with accommodation | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
in Milton Keynes, the emergency number to call is on the screen now. | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
Next tonight, the brother of the murdered children's author | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
Helen Bailey has told a court how he heard Helen and her partner | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
Ian Stewart joke about an old well in their garage being a good place | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
He was giving evidence at the trial of Mr Stewart, | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Helen Bailey's brother John, seen here on the left, | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
told the court his sister was an intelligent, | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
He said that while looking around Helen's Royston home in August 2013, | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
He said both she and the accused, Ian Stewart, were present, | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
and that there was some banter, instigated by Helen, | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
that it would be a good place to hide a body. | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
Three years later, her own body was discovered there. | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
The prosecution claimed Helen Bailey was sedated with sleeping pills | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
before being killed by partner Ian Stewart for her money. | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
John Bailey said that, after Helen went missing, | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
Ian Stewart told him Helen had left a note, saying she'd gone | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
to her house in Broadstairs and not to contact her. | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
John Bailey said Ian Stewart later told him he thought the note had | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
We heard Helen was not in Broadstairs, and when Ian Stewart | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
went to look he sent text messages to both John Bailey and Helen's | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
friend to say, maybe, just maybe, some of her clothes were missing. | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
John Bailey said that during that time, Ian Stewart | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
The jury also heard that Helen's close friend, Tracey Stratton, | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
said they often exchanged e-mails, most recently about wedding plans. | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
She said Helen and Ian had decided to get married in September 2016. | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
Ian Stewart denies murder, preventing a lawful burial, | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
fraud and perverting the course of justice. | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
The case will continue tomorrow, when the jury will be taken | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
Kate Bradbrook, BBC Look East at St Albans Crown Court. | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
Hospital Accident Emergency departments in our region | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
performed worse in November, on average, than those | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
The latest NHS figures, published today, show one in six | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
patients waited longer than the Government | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
Here's our political reporter Tom Barton. | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
We've heard a lot about winter pressures on Accident Emergency | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
in the last few years, and heading into this winter, | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
the situation isn't looking any better. | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
The Government wants 95% of patients who show up at A to be treated, | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
admitted or discharged within four hours. | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
In November, nationally, only 88% of patients were | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
And in our region, it was worse still, at just 83%. | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
And the picture has changed over time - | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
this graph looks at the figures for November in each | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
and from 2010 to 2013, the target was more or less being met, | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
but in 2014 and 2015, there was a significant | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
And last November it got worse again, with one in six emergency | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
The first is an increasing number of people going to A, | :07:38. | :07:48. | |
and there are a number of reasons for this, | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
including that they don't always know how to access primary care | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
services, particularly out of hours, and there are things that could be | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
But the greater problem is probably the increasing number of | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
older people who are sick and need to be admitted to hospital, | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
and the hospitals are having real difficulty getting people from A | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
into beds because the beds are just full. | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
And that problem, bed-blocking, doesn't just affect older people. | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
Last August, Andrew Jameson from Northamptonshire | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
was diagnosed with throat cancer, and had an operation | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
But he ended up in hospital for longer than he needed, | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
in a bed that could have been used by someone else, | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
because the care wasn't in place for him to go home. | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
Andrew was in hospital for two and a half weeks extra | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
because he was waiting for funding, and then when they got | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
the funding they then were waiting to get carers to come in. | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
It was frustrating for Andrew, because he obviously | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
needed to get home to, you know, try to recover. | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
So, how do the different hospitals in our region compare? | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
Well, right at the top of the list is the Luton Dunstable, | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
where 99% of patients are dealt with in four hours. | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
A few of our hospitals are just below the Government target, | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
while Hinchingbrooke, Addenbrooke's and Kettering | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
The worst-performing hospital is Peterborough, | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
where one in four patients waited longer than four hours. | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
Across our part of the region, 12,000 patients waited for longer | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
As ever, the NHS is asking people to ensure they only go | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
to hospital if their condition is a genuine emergency. | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
That's the late news from the team here at Look East, | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
but there'll be weather and travel updates on your local | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
BBC radio station from 6am, and details of any school closures | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
You also update you on any flood warnings. Now the weather. | :09:40. | :09:50. | |
Sleet and snow showers have now cleared eastwards and we're left | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
with a largely dry night, but under clear skies, | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
temperatures dropping and the risk of ice right across the region | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
tonight, so it could make roads quite treacherous. | :09:59. | :09:59. | |
As we go into the early hours of tomorrow morning, | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
there could be a few snow showers moving down from the north, | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
so there is still the possibility that you might wake up to a covering | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
But temperatures, well, they're going to be a degree or two | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
below freezing as we start the day tomorrow. | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
We've got another area of low pressure moving down | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
from the north tomorrow, and this is going to bring some | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
snow showers first thing, but it's also going to bring | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
So, strong to near gale force with a possibility | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
of gusts of around 50 mph, particularly into the afternoon. | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
So we start the day with one or two sleet or snow showers, | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
and then it'll look largely dry across the region, | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
with some sunshine, but feeling bitterly cold in that wind. | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
Temperatures three or four Celsius at best - | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
factor in the wind chill, it will feel much colder. | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
And into the afternoon, it looks largely dry, | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
but certainly still very windy and cold. | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
The national weather's coming up, but here's the outlook. | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
And another cold day expected on Saturday, mainly dry, | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
A sharp frost follows before rain spreads in on Sunday. | :10:52. | :11:06. | |
Good evening. It was such a mild December, wasn't it, but winter has | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
arrived. Tomorrow morning, again, could be prising the wipers off the | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
frozen windscreen. Yes, it's going to be cold tonight, whether it is | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
liquid,/ or snow, it will freeze solid late at night with | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
temperatures close to | :11:26. | :11:26. |