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First tonight, BBC Look East can reveal a huge variation | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
in the take-up of the Government's Help to Buy scheme for new homes, | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
which offers affordable loans to first-time buyers. | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Figures suggest, in Cambridge, just one in ten new homes | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
But in Bedford that jumped to seven out of every ten new homes. | :00:22. | :00:30. | |
It's a dream that so many struggle to realise, | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
But it's a dream that has come true for Tara Rogers. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
A ?48,000 loan from the Government's Help to Buy scheme | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
helped her to get a mortgage for this two-bedroom house in Bedford. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
I luckily had a deposit, but I was in a situation that, | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
if I took the Help to Buy scheme on top of that, | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
it really brought my mortgage down and I was able to purchase the house | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
that I actually wanted in the area that I wanted as well. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
The scheme that Tara's benefited from is helping | :00:59. | :01:09. | |
How important was that? I was almost crying, because mine daughter goes | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
to school here. The scheme that Tara's | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
benefited from is helping to energise the housing | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
market in some parts of our region, Under the Help to Buy scheme, | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
the Government will lend you up to 20% of the value | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
of a new home, boosting the size of your deposit and helping | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
you get a good mortgage. In some places, | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
it's proving really popular. 90% of the homes on this | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
development that have already been sold are being | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
bought using the scheme. Help to Buy is having a big impact | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
on the sort of homes Are you building homes | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
that are targeted at first-time buyers, because | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
Help to Buy is now available? I have a resounding | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
response for that - yes. targets, specifically, | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
first-time buyers. But not everyone thinks Help to Buy | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
is working well, with some experts concerned | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
the Government loans are There's no doubt that | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
the Government deserve a lot of It has delivered | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
exactly what they first intended, which was to get mortgage | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
lenders in particular back lending after the credit | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
crunch of 2007-2008. I suspect that actually now, | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
its time has passed. Without Help to Buy, | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
Tara wouldn't now own this house. One of thousands of | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
people in our region who have been given a leg up | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
onto the housing ladder. A sticking plaster on a prison | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
system that's overcrowded that's what campaigners say | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
about government plans to recruit hundreds | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
more senior prison officers. It follows the riot | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
at Bedford jail last year Today, the Justice Minister, | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
Liz Truss, made a visit to Whitemoor | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
prison in Cambridgeshire. They were behind bars but, | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
in November, inmates at Bedford jail showed just how easily | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
they could overcome prison staff. Officers from across the | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
country had to be brought in Another example of the waning | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
staff numbers Today, at Whitemoor prison, | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
the Justice Secretary reinforced her commitment | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
to create 2,000 new jobs. Recruiting those extra | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
officers will mean we are able to have one officer | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
for every six offenders, and that will help | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
keep those people safe. It'll also give the | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
encouragement to get into work, to get the training they need | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
to turn their lives around. A rise in drug abuse | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
and violence within our jails is leading to rising numbers | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
of attacks on prison staff, A lot of prisons are violent | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
and dangerous places, and they've got more | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
violent and dangerous. They get more violent | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
and dangerous every year. money for staff | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
development and training, is welcome, but it is | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
a sticking plaster solution unless we can | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
really get to the bottom of The Government admits it may be | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
years before jails are made more secure and, with inducements | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
like a ?3,000 pay rise for staff at Whitemoor, | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
they hope more people will be attracted to | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
and remain in the industry. Campaigners, however, | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
are less convinced. Scientists at | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
the University of Cambridge have grown the world's | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
first artificial embryo. The breakthrough was made | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
using cells from a mouse. could be used to create | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
artificial human life. This is the first time | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
embryo-like structures have been developed in laboratories, | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
using two types of stem cell. Cambridge researchers describe | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
how they've cultured a combination of genetically modified | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
embryonic mouse cells, It is unlikely to develop | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
into a healthy foetus without adding a third form of | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
stem cell to develop the yolk sac, It's illegal to experiment on human | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
embryos in the UK beyond 14 days. Now scientists here are seeing | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
if they can use this new stem cell technique to create | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
artificial human embryos. The study of human embryos | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
is extremely complex. We have very few of those embryos | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
donated by parents for research. Therefore if we have | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
an artificial system, which we hope | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
to generate one day, in which we can generate humanlike | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
embryo structures from stem cells, So would it be legal | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
to experiment on artificial embryos It's not taking an existing embryo | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
and researching on it, be within the current | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
regulatory framework, although we would need | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
to think carefully Artificial embryos may sound | :05:57. | :05:57. | |
like a plot in a sci-fi novel but, in the right hands, | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
they could provide the answer to why so many women | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
miscarry in early pregnancy. A school teacher from Corby has | :06:05. | :06:14. | |
been nominated for a global award 30-year-old Ray Chambers | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
has been shortlisted for the Global Teacher's Prize | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
for his mentoring and his online sharing | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
of his creative teaching skills. Over 20,000 teachers from | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
170 countries were nominated It will be awarded | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
in Dubai later this month. Now how's the weather | :06:28. | :06:36. | |
looking for the weekend? The weekend is here and although | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
there is going to be some rain, there is also going to be some dry | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
and bright weather as well. For tonight, we've got this | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
weather system moving in, so that is going to bring us | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
some rain, spreading across all parts | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
by the end of the night, and some of that could be | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
on the heavy side. So we will wake up to | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
a rather wet day tomorrow. It's going to stay | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
very mild overnight, with lows | :07:01. | :07:01. | |
of around seven Celsius. So we started the day | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
quite misty and cloudy But it's looking as though | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
it will swiftly clear eastwards, and then we will be into some much | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
brighter conditions. There might just be the odd shower | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
following on behind. With light winds and | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
fairly mild temperatures of around 10 or 11 degrees, | :07:15. | :07:15. | |
it should feel quite pleasant. The national weather is coming up, | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
but here's the outlook. For Sunday, it looks as though | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
it will be a dry start with rain quickly moving in, | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
hanging around for a lot of the day, Good evening, mixed fortunes this | :07:25. | :07:43. | |
weekend. Today we saw a fair share of rain. This is the view one of our | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
weather watchers in Doncaster. Not | :07:50. | :07:50. |