25/10/2016 Look East

In the programme tonight: and on BBC One we now join

One of the biggest ever studies into Type two diabetes

I am very concerned that we might reach a tipping point in five or ten

years' time where the system won't be able to cope clinically or

financially. An eight month wait

for a broadband connection. The multi-million pound plans for a

huge in nature reserve on a landscape scale.

And it is always rude to ask a woman her age so I am not going to, but

you can get and I can guarantee you won't get close. You're right!

Title. First tonight, a public

health disaster. That's how a leading specialist has

described the rise in type two Last night we told you about record

numbers of amputations linked Tonight we focus on one

of the biggest studies ever into Type two Diabetes,

and its happening here. Type two Diabetes is caused

mainly by lifestyle, things like bad diet

and lack of exercise. In Norfolk, the number

of sufferers is rocketing. 20 years ago, around 17,000 people

had the condition, And by 2030 it's predicted

to reach 70,000. In a moment we'll hear

from the Professor who's leading one of the biggest ever studies

into the condition at the Norfolk J Price has been living with type

two diabetes for 12 years. She is not the only member of her family

with the condition. I mentioned to the doctor that my grandmother had

it, my mother had, I got it, my sister has got it at my son has got

it. While family history may play a part in your chances of developing

the condition, experts say most cases are preventable. Something Joe

agrees with. White does have a lot to do with it. I was the case then

when I got mine. But the amount of people you see walking about that

are really overweight, and especially the children. I think

they need to get a checkup and they need to be very careful. Because

that does and it is a big contributor the factor to this. Joe

Price and her family are among the 40,000 people in Norfolk living with

type two diabetes. In Essex the 83,000 people. In Suffolk, 20 8000.

Nationally the figures paint a bleak picture. Compared to 2016 -- 20 --

prepared to 2006 2007 it was 4% of the population and now it is 6.6%.

While that does not appear to be a large increase it is a 50% increase

in the number of people with diabetes over the last ten years.

Medical experts say early diagnosis is is crucial. You have a thirst and

a few entire, you are perhaps having to pass you on more often. You have

an infection that is not clearing up. Your site is feeling worried.

All of these things can be a symptom of diabetes so if you have any of

that happening then make an appointment to see your GP or

practice nurse and have a test which is very simple to see if you have

it. Joe Price keep the condition under control with medication and

insists she refuses to let it all her back.

Professor Mike Sampson, is running a six year

diabetes prevention study, which has screened 13,000

people in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex who are at risk

and he told me there are lots of misconceptions.

People think you have to be very overweight to increase your risk of

diabetes but you only have to gain a little bit of weight that you get

older and exercise a little bit less as you get older and your risk

really increases enormously. I am 57, at my weight I have a one in

seven risk of getting diabetes in the next ten years. Is one of the

problems here that we are all guilty of underestimating our risk? People

underestimate the risk and I'm very concerned that by 2030 there will be

70,000 people with diabetes in Norfolk and Suffolk, and in some

areas like North Darfur and West Norfolk one in ten of the adult

population will have diabetes. Let's look at those areas. While a

hotspot? If you look at the map of the East of England in Norfolk and

Suffolk and Essex the prevalence of diabetes maps beautifully against

the prevalence of obesity. In the obesity is much more common in areas

with high social deprivation, so it is quite a toxic mix of social

deprivation and obesity and high risk of type two diabetes. You have

screened 13,000 people across Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex as part

of your research. I know you are in the middle of it, but what have you

found so far? What are you learning? We have been surprised that the

prevalence of these prediabetes categories, so that means as well as

there being 70,000 people with diabetes in Norfolk, there are the

same number of people or more in there will be the same number or

more with prediabetes, the very earliest stages, raised glucose,

before you get diabetes, so big numbers. So now you have identified

some pretty high risk people in our region, what are you going to be

able to do to prevent them from going on to actually get diabetes?

We're looking at different ways of diabetes prevention, one of which is

where we actually trained people who have diabetes themselves to give the

diet and lifestyle advice. You can always give advice, but whether or

not people take it on board, I mean that is the only thing that is going

to stop this, isn't it? People find it hard to change and one of the

real benefits of our programme, of the National programme, is that it

is quite intense so it is not a short-term you shouldn't do this

shouldn't do that, we contact people very frequently every 2-3 months for

3-4 years. If those numbers, if that projection you told me about, those

huge amount of numbers are not controlled, what do you think would

be the impact of the NHS? I'm very concerned that we might reach a

tipping point in five or ten years' time where the system would be able

to cope either clinically or financially. Thank you.

A family who have been waiting for a broadband connection for eight

months and they are struggling to work and study. In March, the

Burroughs moved into a brand-new house in Essex and since then the

phone calls to Openreach have been going almost nonstop.

Morgan Burroughs playing a piece by list, but it could always -- almost

be a lament for a long forgotten Internet connection. Morgan is

applying for music colleges but without broadband it is difficult.

It means I can't get the University prospectus up and it is making

e-mail is hard to access, I have had to go to the school to check my

e-mail on various occasions. It is not very easy. The family moved into

this new built house in Newport not far from Stansted back in March, and

are still settling in and still waiting for a telephone line and

broadband. Ducks for a new cable needs to be put in across the road

at the bottom of the drive but the Burroughs say it should have

happened by now. Every weekend we are hoping somebody comes out, we

have had numerous failed visits, I think we're probably about the 11th

now, so we are hoping H weekend that there will be someone at the end of

the drive digging up the road and putting the ducting in for us. Bus

sign of anyone yet. Not as yet. The struggle to be connected has

frustrated many in the region, we spoke to Nigel who was forced to

write a lay-by to get an Internet connection after BT Openreach took

months to get his barn in Norfolk online. Openreach say they are sorry

for the delay getting the Burroughs connected, they told Luke is that

providing new infrastructure is a complex and time-consuming job and

we are working with the highways authority to get the permissions we

need. It has clearly taken too long and we apologise for that. It is

definitely needed and to be without it for eight months now, it can be a

bit harder times for everyone in the household. Because the Burroughs

lived opposite to what appears to be a telephone exchange, Morgan hopes

he will soon be playing something more upbeat to celebrate getting

back online. We found out about that story

because the Burroughs If you've got a story we should

know about you can get in touch by phone or email,

or using Facebook and Twitter, Sir David Attenborough says

a campaign to create a giant nature reserve,

would "rescue a precious The Suffolk Wildlife Trust wants

to create a thousand acre reserve in the Broads National Park,

but it needs to raise a million This from our Environment

reporter, Richard Daniel. Wetland, grazing marsh,

a reserve that could now almost double in size.

This nature reserve is literally It is a great opportunity for people

just to access nature. This is all about scale,

at the moment this reserve They hope in future to incorporate

all the land behind me Nature conservation

on a landscape scale. 1000 acres, it would become

a national nature reserve, within the Broads National Park,

supporting hundreds It is scarily exciting,

the opportunity for the land purchase means that it creates

a dinner any opportunity for things like the fen raft spider to move out

from the existing reserve, right down to the tiniest

of things like a water By recreating these

good-quality tax systems. The plan has the backing

of Sir David Attenborough. The Trust needs to raise ?1 million

to secure around ?4 million This is by far the biggest

appeal that we have have, have gone far, the impact

that it is going to have There are so few places

in England that are left where we are going to be able

to transform an area on the edge of what is essentially the county's

second largest town. They have two years

to raise the money. If they succeed it will be

the biggest purchase in the Wildlife Trust's history,

creating a reserve to rival Still to come tonight: Advice

from firefighters about what to do And we meet Eileen, just a few days

off 105, and she's fit, It's an astonishing fact that one

in 17 people will develop a rare disease at some point

in their lives. Something that only a handful

of other people may have. The diseases mostly

take hold in childhood, Some of that research is carried out

across Europe with funding Today a summit is being

held in Cambridge, what happens now that Brexit

is only months away? Anna Todd has been

to meet four families who know what its like to live

with a rare disease. My name is Eleanor and I am nine

years old. How I feel is, happy and excited because I like to dance a

lot. Keller has sought 's syndrome, a rare genetic disorder

characterised by excessive Phyllis -- physical growth. Shikhar site

eight feet, so borrowing daddy 's shoes. She has big hands and is very

tall for a silly thing she could possibly, she will be a good 6-foot

when she is older. Every step is a battle, no one really gets it. When

we first took her to school and explained her condition nobody

understood what that was, when we got the extra diagnosis of ADHD

which is what, then, it was like everything clicked together. My name

is Erica and I am 11 years old. I am going to be doing a whole week of

skiing. I am looking forward to it. Not everything comes so easily.

There have always been difficult -- differences between Eric and other

children, he has been very fortunate that he had equal group of friends

at school who kept with him, but as he gets older the gap definitely

widens I think. Eric has a rare condition, it is a bit like autism

but does not have a name. He is the only one known to have it. Eric

being completely unique, we do not have any information to actually go

and look at to find out what lies ahead for him. My name is Lily and I

am seven. Lily has a progressive condition called mitochondrial

disease, her ability to walk unaided is long gone. I used these to help

the walk. -- to help me walk. It helped my legs because I have a

disease that is called a mitochondrial disease. Little Willow

also has this rare disease which is life limiting and has no cure but

awareness can make a world of difference. Just asking the

questions, and we are on holiday and she is calling about the beach you

will hear children often say, why she crawling? She looks too big to

be crawling. And the evidence shish them but I then go over to them and

speak to them and tell them. For remarkable children, precious and

rare. Kay Parkinson is the CEO of

the Cambridge Rare Disease Network. Late this afternoon she told why

she was worried about Brexit. My main concerns regarding Brexit

are losing money through grants, through a rise in projects that

provided money for rare diseases in ways that we have

not seen in the UK. And rare diseases need to work

pan-European wide to get patient Is there any reason why

that shouldn't continue, Of course scientists can still work

together and part of the recently had the meeting today was really

to and ensure that we all try What has happened is uncertainty,

and that is not good. We don't know, after the two years

will become out, what our position will be and therefore

it is actually halting progress, not only for the UK but for other

European countries who rely very The truth is that we have scientists

here and scientists are in Europe and all of same you are looking

to do the thing, so Brexit or no Brexit, I can see that you're

going to stop working together I have said I have just come back

from that meeting in Madrid, for a European Patient Organisation,

and we really couldn't afford because nobody knows

what our position was going to be We don't know if we can put

in a grant application now with an idea, and you see it

in the press it will be a "hard Brexit," that certain countries

are not going to make it easy for the UK, so really

we are being one step ahead here and really coordinating pur

voice so that we can ensure that the research funding and health

requirements don't stop with Brexit. So it is the not knowing that you're

worried about rather than the detail Uncertainty is halting the work

in progress that has been moving very rapidly in this sphere

and the thing up and rare disease patients, most

are life limiting, we don't The MK Dons Chairman Pete Winkleman

says it was a decision but sacking the clubs

long serving manager The Dons have suffered a hangover

from relegation last season with Robinson unable

to stop a slide down with around 200 applications already

received by the club. A day of interviews before the real

interview starts to find the next manager of MK Dons. Six long years

side by the, but 13 home games without a win and it was time for

Carl Robinson. In the chairman, I have to take these unbelievably big

decisions. This is one I did not want to have to take. There are a

lot of people who have been with me on this journey who are still here,

losing Karl, if Karel wasn't such a good manager, would be in another

place in the business but he gets the project. Just because you get it

does not mean it is always OK because that Gates shows you it's

not. Is critical MK Dons get the next managerial appointment correct.

The stadium here was designed for Premier League football, not the

bottom of League 1, and it is why so many people have already gone in

touch with the club to express an interest in the job. Currently

stands at 200 and that is within 48 hours. What kind of manager do you

go for next? There is an opportunity to do something different this time,

even with an experienced manager, which we rarely do, because it is in

the middle of the season and be absolutely have to turn it around.

However, I know what I might as well it depends if somebody catches my

eye, would I still take a risk? I'm confident that if I get that right

field from somebody that I will be a good appointment. What I am hoping

they can get that connection with somebody. Winkleman needs to find a

way to get his side back on course following this painful split.

There's lots to consider and it could take several weeks to find MK

Dons eight full-time manager. Halloween is just a few days away,

but the costumes have been And most are made

from the same material, Which means they can be very

dangerous, which is why firefighters in Bedfordshire

are going into schools To show children what to do

if their costumes catch fire. It may look like fun

but these three steps called stop drop and roll

could just save a life. Children here at this school

in Bedford are being shown the technique by local firefighters in

the hope it will keep them safe over The fancy dress outfit

and everything are quite plastic, so if they are

involved in a fire, not to remove them, because obviously that

could cause further injuries. But obviously to educate the parents

as well, to make sure

the children are not involve around flames

were any naked flames or anything

like that, or heat sources. This issue hit the headlines when TV

presenter Claudia Winkleman spoke about the burns

suffered by her daughter whose Just patting and patting

and patting her, but it kept, it was in front of her

eyes, it was like those horrific birthday candles that you blow

out and they come back. At the moment fancy dress outfits

are classified as toys and not subject to the same

safety standards as children's They are so flammable and obviously

children get excited and Today was to educate the children

that if they were with someone who was going to be involved

in fire and this was unfortunately going to happen, they

themselves knew what to do. I have been doing it in case

I catch, my clothes catch fire, I need to learn the techniques

so I would burn myself. Campaigners say safety

standards needs to be But for now, education

seems the most effective In the case of Eileen

Ash from Norwich. because Eileen is actually

older than most. In fact, in a few days'

time, she'll be 105. She's extremely fit,

funny and full of beans. Eileen Ash is very

much like the custard Very nippy, very distinctive,

and something special. Yoga is one thing which she says

health mind and body. She has been doing it for 30 years

and today with another big birthday moment looming,

they couldn't let that pass She is our Yoga Queen,

our star of small screen. It helps your brain because you have

to think, and it improves your muscles and, you know,

you just feel fit. Did you wake up

with aches and pains? We first met Eileen some years ago,

born in Highbury in 1911, In the 30s and 40s she captained

the England women's cricket team, she toured Australia, this treasure

that signed by Don Bradbury. And she still gets trespass

treatment at Lords, this snap with the recently retired cricketer

Charlotte Edwards was taken Everybody will ask

you this, what is it? What is the one thing

you think has helped I think sport, being outdoors

and active and even when I was younger I used to climb

a lot of trees. I have a little brandy occasionally,

but touchwood I am very, very lucky. Well it has been an absolute

privilege and joy to meet you. Joyous is the one word

I would use to sum up today. This is from day one,

that is why I have friends! In the company of someone they call

an inspiration and with another set of birthday candles due to be blown

out this weekend, easy to see why. I think we will see her again in ten

years! She is grey. Time for the weather.

It is a bit of a misty start to the day tomorrow. Today it was misty and

it is likely to be misty again tomorrow. Look at this photo taken

in Telstra, the autumn colours are lovely. Lots of sunshine across the

region. This stunning photograph from Milton Keynes, and another one

from Bury St Edmunds and Suffolk. The satellite shows the death of the

sunshine across the region once we got rid of the mist, we did pretty

well for fine weather with some beautiful autumn sunshine. It might

be cloudy tomorrow, we start the evening with clear sky and are

likely to see Mr Fogg developing once more and by the end of tonight

the fog patches could be Benson places. Temperatures are seven or 8

degrees, the lowest value through the night, with a lighted westerly

wind. The pressure pattern shows high pressure coming brand that Izzy

south-westerly wind, a much milder wind direction so it is likely to

stay miles through this week and closely quite settled. The mist and

fog lifting to low-level cloud. For some counties it could end up

staying cloudy and overcast day but hopefully it will break up and we

will see some brighter spells and some sunshine. Temperature wise we

will get up to 15 degrees. Looking ahead, high pressure still keeping

us pretty settled, still the wind direction west so it stays rather

mild and the outlook is pretty settled. Likely to be good dose of

sunshine on Thursday. As we get to the end of the week Friday and

Saturday are looking cloudier times, heritage is still in the mid teens

at temperatures overnight into single figures but not fall into

law. Back to you. I lean to copy over 30 years ago.

She was 75! She's incredible. Goodbye.