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It's being hailed as a big step forward in the fight

?50 million for a new research help in Cambridge. 4000 new homes in

Corby, but concerns about the scale of the development. And winter is

not finished with that yet. Try me later for a look at the weather

ahead. It's being hailed as a big step

forward in the fight The University of Cambridge has been

chosen as one of five hubs around Britain seeking new ways

to diagnose, treat Together, they'll form

a Dementia Research Institute thanks to ?250 million

of public money. That is another one of my mother

with my two cousins. Ian became his mother's carer,

Jean, who died aged 85, My mum, she sat in

the room, and said, And then, at the time,

you thought, crikey, You know, she hadn't

got a clue who I was. It's only going to be

on the increase. There's estimated 850,000 people in

this country who have It's only going to get worse over

the next ten, 15 years. These are the new labs,

let me show you. At the moment, they're in a state

of sort of basic refurb. Now at Cambridge

biomedical campus, The site chosen among five

in the country My lab works on understanding

the basic mechanisms of dementia and finding

new treatments. We are making very

good progress there. We bring in chemists and,

biophysicists, the very best of Cambridge, using state-of-the-art

techniques, we are really going to be able to use everything that

Cambridge has and its sort of spectrum of excellence

and just focus on dementia. And on top of that, we are going

to recruit scientists from around the world and we're looking

for absolute excellence, world leading scientists

to come and join us. On the left, another,

shrunk in size after the death The red areas, proteins that have

malfunctioned, Teams here working on treatments,

the new centre looking more into the causes, one day,

they hope to find a cure. The overall Institute's

mission is to understand the causes and particularly

at the earliest stages, when you are most likely to be able

to help people. We're getting about

13 million initially, but there is projected

more investment. It's to bring in great new

scientist, the world's leading and the best, to come

and tackle dementia. Ian has seen the devastating

effect of dementia. No family should go

through what has went through, Any advances in

research are welcomed. The charity Alzheimer's Research UK,

based in Cambridge, Its Chief Scientific Officer,

Dr David Reynolds, I asked him how significant

the new hubs were. It's really important because it

starts to move the pledge of the previous Government

and David Cameron for a global action plan

for dementia into reality. And therefore, we can actually start

to do that research, get that understanding and bring

those medicines to patients. What are you actually hoping will be

achieved with these the hubs? Are we talking about

better prevention, Most of the research that

will happen in the Dementia Research

Institute will be understanding the basic mechanisms

at the cellular level, so what causes brain cells

to die in these diseases. From that, you can

lead on to ways to prevent the disease and also treat

the disease with medicines. Are you concerned at

all about the impact that Brexit might have,

given that we don't know yet how movement

of people and work permits and that sort of thing

might pan out in future? It's really important that dementia

remains a priority for the Government after the

election, and Brexit may well be something

that could have an impact, and we are certainly very

concerned about that and are advocating that funding

for research, dementia, particularly for us, obviously,

is maintained through that. But we don't know what Brexit

will mean for research anywhere in the UK at

the moment, unfortunately. Of course, we do have a general

election coming up. What sort of messages

are you hoping to you from the main parties about

funding in the future? We are really hoping

that the main parties and, ultimately, whoever wins is

committed to biomedical research for dementia and more broadly,

because this country has a fantastic science base that helps

to understand diseases and bring medicines

to patients and it is important we don't lose

that And how much does this

sort of investment help establish Cambridge as a real

global scientific centre? Cambridge, as you know,

already has a world-leading university, and it is because of

those world-leading scientists that Cambridge has been selected

as one of the centres. And Cambridge will feed

into the rest of the work of the Dementia Research Institute

to tackle those big unknown questions that up till now we have

struggled to get good answers to, and hopefully the DRI

will help crack that. And it feels likea subject we're

talking about a lot more these days, Because people understand and are

aware of the impact of dementia, either on themselves

or their friends and family, it helps get

people engaged where they might participate in research,

for example, and it helps also to bring in funding

to solve the problems. Dr David Reynolds from Alzheimers

Research UK speaking earlier. An investigation is underway

in Luton after a suspected shooting. Police say there were called

at around 3:30pm this afternoon to Whipperley Ring,

where a man had been injured. An air ambulance took the man

to hospital for treatment. Witnesses are being asked

to contact police on 101. Plans have been submitted for a huge

extension The project on land

to the west of the town would involve more

than 4,000 new homes. If approved, it'll also include

a secondary and two primary schools, and two local centres with shops

and other facilities. There'll be employment opportunities

for more than 3,000 people. But residents in neighbouring

Rushden say the scheme's too big. If we are not careful,

a lot of the local towns Kettering is expanding in this

direction, with a warehouse development over there, Corby

is expanding in this direction, Desborough is expanding in this

direction, or they hope to, so where

does it all end? Now to the latest in our profiles

of the mayoral candidates He's promised to create a "modular

homes" factory in the Fens, building up to 20 homes

a day, if he wins. Businessman Peter Dawe is one

of seven hopefuls for the job of the county's first devolved

mayor, with increased powers over Mousumi Bakshi put Peter Dawe

in the mayoral hot-seat. Why should people vote

for Peter Dawe, what sets you apart I can see a very big picture,

I can see that there are solutions to a lot of the problems

in Cambridge, housing and transport, that actually don't need more

money than is available. Do you have a big idea,

one big vision that you would I believe that we can go

to micro cars, In our urban environment, we've got

to look at 21st-century solutions. Can you tell us how much money has

been put aside Tell us one thing that people

might not know about you. I was brought up in a council house,

son of a newsagent and I went out delivering newspapers

for the family at an early age. I'm coming in with several

visions about how to transform local government

in Cambridgeshire. I believe that councils

have completely lost the plot is bring 21st-century solutions into

it. And I can't see how the party

political system has got the ability Where is your favourite

place to go in Cambridge? I live just outside

Ely, I have the most And a sunset, where it's honeyed

in the morning, We'll be back with updates

during BBC Breakfast from 6:00am. Hello, turning much colder this

week. We have had this cold front pushing south, it had cleared now,

but behind it, colder but drier air coming down from the Arctic. So

clear skies tonight, cold wind blowing, but under this clear skies,

temperatures will drop further sharply. Some wintry skies but for

most it's right. Around freezing out in the countryside, Frost tonight,

damaging for some gardeners. Introduced it, some sunshine, bit of

a cold wind blowing, dry from most of the morning but some showers.

This could be heavy, somehow, sweet, thunder as well. Temperatures up to

nine or ten, but in the wind it will feel colder than that. On Wednesday,

more scattered showers, some heavy with some hail mixed in as well.

Thursday, warm front drifting down from the north, head of it, still

dry. It will bring some cite the warmer air for the end of the week.

A slightly frosty Bob Wright start to the morning. Friday, a lot of dry

weather, some sunshine around, but hit and miss. Temperatures by this

stage looking back-up. As with the ahead into the weekend, Saturday

looking dry but for Sunday and Monday some brain, especially on

Sunday, maybe every risk for bank audit Monday.

some rain. More with the national forecast now.

Good evening. It's been turning colder from the north so far today.

It's been cold enough for significant snow in northern

Scotland. This was mid afternoon. More recently it's been blowing

around over the tops of the mountains. Snow in April not

necessarily unusual but it's usually unwelcome. The colder air coming in

behind the front which clears towards the near continent, opening

the floodgates to this Coldstream of air all the way from the Arctic.

That cold air increasingly cold air will spread its way across all parts

tonight and will be with us tomorrow and Wednesday as well. A cold night

ahead of us. A widespread frost developing and further wintry

showers. Most in Scotland and the north-east of England too. Cold

winds as well. Maybe a few wintry showers in Northern Ireland and

Wales, maybe the odd few into the Midlands. Clear skies, windy and

cold. Major towns and cities not far from