30/03/2017 Look East (West)

A Bedfordshire couple and three other members of their family feared

dead in a helicopter crash as bad weather hampers the recovery.

And a deal is struck to keep Corby Urgent Care Centre open -

And following the warmest day of the year so far,

what the next few days have in store.

I will be here with your local forecast.

A major recovery operation has begun after a helicopter crash

which killed five people - thought to be from Bedfordshire.

It's believed that Kevin and Ruth Burke from the village

of Hulcote near Milton Keynes were on board, along with three

The couple own a successful construction company in the area.

The aircraft came down in North Wales yesterday

in conditions described as atrocious.

Narrowing the search to South Snowdonia allowed

The military joining civilian volunteer teams.

It must have felt like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Mid-morning, they found the crash site and the five bodies.

The news was given at a police press conference.

Poor weather has been hampering the search,

with horrendous conditions were reducing visibility

I can sadly now confirm a crash site has been located and that five

people have lost their lives during this incident.

I'm sure you will appreciate this is an agonising time

for the families and friends of all involved.

Our thoughts have very much with them at the time.

This is as close as we can get to the crash site.

That is in the area behind me in the nest.

Stretching from the A470 to the coast at Harlech and Barmouth.

The terrain there, we are told, is extremely hazardous.

Carol Jarvis was camping in the area.

Conditions for the search teams were appalling.

The conditions around the lake have been absolutely shocking.

I have been camping for a couple of weeks, it's been quite nice

but it's just got quite bad the last couple of days,

You cannot see the top of any of the hills and the weather doesn't

look lake it is even going to calm down yet.

The helicopter is a twin Squirrel, manufactured by Airbus,

It took off from Luton area yesterday afternoon to make

a journey to Dublin and at some stage disappeared from the radar.

I did my helicopter flying training in Snowdonia.

It is awesome scenery but you don't go up there lightly.

If the cloud is low and you can't see, you don't go, the higher

you get, the more the cloud will be and you can't see forward

and there are big lumps of granite in the way and you don't

You have to take the weather very much into account in North Wales.

It does surprise me that a experienced pilot would be in that

position, in that weather at that time.

The helicopter was owned by Kevin and Ruth Burke

Mrs Burke is believed to come originally from Dublin,

Conditions on the ground improved marginally during the day.

The investigation into what happened will have already begun.

The wreckage and the bodies yet need to be recovered.

An agreement has been reached to keep the Corby Urgent Care Centre

open until at least the end of September.

The had been due to close tomorrow after a row about funding.

There has been very little information about why things have

But this is good news for the people of Corby,

Many of whom were very worried about the loss of this

service, which provides them with an alternative

to going to the hospital or their GP.

The problems arose when contractor Lakeside Plus said they were

and the Clinical Commissioning Groups which pay for the service

said if they didn't want to run it, they'd find someone that did.

It looked very likely the centre would close tomorrow,

but somehow the two sides have put aside their differences.

A short statement describes protracted negotiations

coming to the conclusion that the centre will stay open

Earlier, I spoke to Corby MP Tom Pursglove who says we should be

opening more centres like this, not closing them down.

This is a class leader. I want more facilities like this. Not just in

Northamptonshire are our region, but across the country. This is a class

leading example of how to provide urgent care facilities. Rather than

spending money on lawyers, people are run the table. -- Rounder.

The statement said neither party will comment further,

as complex legal negotiations are ongoing.

But the clinical commissioning groups said they'll be talking

to patients about how the service should look in the future.

A new institute is to open in Cambridge later this year

to gather more and better evidence about what works across

The Health Foundation is investing ?40 million into the project -

Mary is getting ready to leave hospital.

You have a stand up for me like you normally would.

Part of her treatment is to get her mobile again.

As soon as she's on her feet, the quicker she'll leave hospital

and that means involving several members of the medical team.

It is very important that we collaborate in regular

discussions with patients, and everyone gets a personalised

care plan that can make them more likely to be at home

But it's not always as simple as that, with many elderly

patients languishing in beds because of inefficiencies

within the NHS and that's why a new research institute has been

created here in Cambridge, yards away from Addenbrooke's,

with the aim of ironing out some of the issues plaguing health care.

For example, making sure that changes that have been made

to patients' medicines in hospitals are fed through to a patient

who is then looked after in a care home and that the GP is aware

It is exactly the kind of challenge that the institute would be looking

at helping to solve by designing systems, testing them and making

sure they work for the people who have to use them.

So how do you fix the very system that's meant to fix us?

The institute will back innovations like this wire safe -

it prevents guide wires, used in major operations,

being accidentally left inside the patient.

The box contains all the equipment needed to complete the operation,

but can only be opened with the guide wire inserted.

These so-called "never events" happen twice a month.

The institute's work could minimise them.

Having mechinisms for all healthcare staff, including doctors,

nurses and allied health professionals to look after patients

in a more innovative way which is less intrusive and has

better outcomes for the patients overall.

The NHS is facing unprecedented financial pressures,

which is why keeping staff morale high and patient care efficient

is the key goal of the institute when it opens in December.

Children excluded from school in Cambridgeshire now have

somewhere else to go, to continue their studies.

Unity in St Neots is a new school, with capacity for 65

11 to 16-year-olds who are disruptive,

Kate Bradbrook has been to find out more.

So we're going to find some seeds, so get your hands

Hands-on learning at Unity Academy here at St Neots.

This is a different way of learning - a less formal approach -

to engage youngsters with social, emotional and mental health needs.

Some have been out of school for up to a year before they came here.

For head boy and girl Lily and Jonathan, coming here has made

Kind of more relaxed and kind of know that I do need help

and that I'm not a bad kid, it's just that I don't understand

At my very old school, before I knew about this

school, I was just getting put down and felt I was useless until I came

to this school and suddenly the first week my mum and dad

So you've said you are going to be nice to your mum this afternoon,

Those with ADHD and autism, less able to cope with the formality

Now, money which would've been spent on personal tutors or one-on-one

teaching assistants is being used to provide a more holistic approach,

with a focus on confidence-building as well as learning.

For most of them - in fact, all of them -

they haven't managed to remain in large school settings.

Because they find it difficult, either because of noise

or social interaction, so being in a much smaller group,

it means that they can actually engage in what they are doing.

This school has a capacity of just 65 pupils,

The aim - that they can leave here, able to cope with whatever

A new low-cost airline started flying out of

Jet2.com has created 250 new jobs at the airport.

It will fly to 27 different destinations

across Europe, including daily flights to

Stansted is now the Leeds-based airline's most southerly base

as it looks to expand into the South of England, rivalling low-cost

That's all from the late team. Now, a look at the weather.

Overnight tonight, perhaps a few showers, but for most of us

it is going to be dry with some clear spells.

Following the warmest day of the year so far, highs of 22

highs of 22 Celsius in Cambridge today, 72 Fahrenheit.

Tonight, we shouldn't see anything lower than about 11 or 12 Celsius.

These are the kind of daytime highs and we should be seen

This weather front, a cold front pushing in from the west.

That means we are going to see cloud increasing, and eventually some

Temperature is not as high as today, but still up to 16 Celsius at best.

We finish the day with a few showers.

A lot of fine and dry weather as that front clears

In a moment, the National forecast with Darren.

Heavy, possibly thundery showers on Saturday.

time of year. The chance of a shower on Saturday. Sunday will be dry.

Hello, it will cool off over the next few days but that's not

unusual, given how warm it was today. This was London. We just had

the warmest March day since 2012, 20 two Celsius in the Sunnis skies in