:00:00. > :00:00.That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me
:00:00. > :00:10.Is this the toughest winter ever for the
:00:11. > :00:13.The Norfolk MP calling for a completely different approach
:00:14. > :00:19.to the politics and the finances of the NHS.
:00:20. > :00:26.We are very proud as a country and rightly so of our NHS. But we are in
:00:27. > :00:31.a situation now where we are killing people. -- failing people.
:00:32. > :00:35.We speak to the UEA and Cambridge about the challenges ahead.
:00:36. > :00:37.The Co-op store getting tough on drivers who wrongly
:00:38. > :00:45.And I will be 20 feet under the Northamptonshire countryside,
:00:46. > :00:47.where miners will be extracting rock soon to
:00:48. > :00:59.preserve some of the country's most historic buildings.
:01:00. > :01:02.First tonight, the Norfolk MP calling for a completely
:01:03. > :01:05.new approach to NHS funding as the health service faces
:01:06. > :01:16.specifically to pay for health and social care.
:01:17. > :01:18.And he wants the different political parties to work
:01:19. > :01:25.But first, the state of the NHS in this region.
:01:26. > :01:27.In a moment, what's happening in our hospitals, after this
:01:28. > :01:31.snapshot of life for a busy GP in Suffolk.
:01:32. > :01:39.Tim Morton is a GP at the health centre in Beccles, where a patient
:01:40. > :01:43.consultation can often start with a phone call.
:01:44. > :01:46.Calls are received here, and patients are either signposted
:01:47. > :01:49.elsewhere or added to a triage list for a call-back.
:01:50. > :01:51.It is a system designed to be more efficient.
:01:52. > :01:54.But with or 400 call-backs per day, the medical centre GPs
:01:55. > :02:01.are still working 12-hour days to meet demand.
:02:02. > :02:06.But many surgeries, like the one in Beccles,
:02:07. > :02:11.The young doctors see it as a very hard specialty.
:02:12. > :02:13.We have an increased female workforce, who quite rightly
:02:14. > :02:16.want to work part-time and bring up families.
:02:17. > :02:19.We have my end of the spectrum - getting burnt out
:02:20. > :02:29.We have a national crisis in GP recruitment.
:02:30. > :02:31.How do you get more GPs into the system?
:02:32. > :02:34.You put more money into the primary sector.
:02:35. > :02:37.The promises that the Government have been talking about the last two
:02:38. > :02:41.years have yet to really hit the front line.
:02:42. > :02:47.Cold weather can be seriously bad for your health...
:02:48. > :02:50.The NHS is always asking us to think carefully
:02:51. > :03:03.For patient Penny Wilson, who has children, she says
:03:04. > :03:06.I don't come for a general cough or cold.
:03:07. > :03:09.But if they have had a temperature for a few days or myself feeling
:03:10. > :03:12.poorly for a few weeks, then definitely, I wouldn't
:03:13. > :03:15.Is it something that you, yourself can sort out?
:03:16. > :03:17.Just by going to the chemist, for instance?
:03:18. > :03:24.I think we have lost the capability to look after ourselves.
:03:25. > :03:28.According to Tim Morton, all the recent publicity
:03:29. > :03:31.about the NHS has led to a slight drop in demand for services
:03:32. > :03:34.at the health centre in recent days, but he isn't expecting his job
:03:35. > :03:44.Hospitals have been finding it tough, too.
:03:45. > :03:47.We've all heard about winter pressures, but the Health Secretary
:03:48. > :03:52.Jeremy Hunt says that December 27th was the busiest day
:03:53. > :03:54.ever in the history of the National Health Service.
:03:55. > :03:58.Alex Dunlop now on the state of play at the ten hospitals across Suffolk,
:03:59. > :04:18.This is what it looks like on the front line of the NHS said to be
:04:19. > :04:24.given with its worst ever period. Inside a London hospital A E as
:04:25. > :04:35.doctors struggled to find emergency bouts. -- births. This is a familiar
:04:36. > :04:48.scene in our region. Incredible pressure. Our staff are working
:04:49. > :04:58.relentlessly to find spaces immerse pressure. In the region's major
:04:59. > :05:10.hospitals, they are on the second highest state, red alert on red
:05:11. > :05:19.alert on red alert on. OPL three. States to shows that pressure is
:05:20. > :05:28.starting to show. Only one hospital is on the lowest alert. Today,
:05:29. > :05:36.Norman Lamb asked to Reza made to sit down with concerned MPs. Was the
:05:37. > :05:41.Prime Minister meet with those? -- Theresa May. She accepted his
:05:42. > :05:54.invitation to sit down. I would be happy to. Since last year, recruited
:05:55. > :05:58.3000 extra nurses and 1600 more doctors. We still have several more
:05:59. > :06:02.weeks of winter to come. So to Norman Lamb and his bid to get
:06:03. > :06:05.the different political Of course, as a former health
:06:06. > :06:08.minister in the coalition Government, he knows there is very
:06:09. > :06:21.little cash for anything. That is why I think you need a
:06:22. > :06:25.mature discussion with the public. We have two level with them about
:06:26. > :06:33.the scale of the challenge. Why are the costs are so high and rising.
:06:34. > :06:40.The fact that we have these ageing population, which is a great triumph
:06:41. > :06:45.of man and woman's ingenuity. People are living with chronic conditions
:06:46. > :06:50.which used to kill us. That is wonderful in many respects but there
:06:51. > :06:56.is a caste attached. As far as the National Health Service, does it
:06:57. > :07:04.make sense that you have one part of money? It is essential. If we were
:07:05. > :07:09.designing a system now, would recreate to different social care
:07:10. > :07:17.and health system, which makes no sense. If you are an elderly person
:07:18. > :07:25.with a mix of chronic conditions, diabetes and depression perhaps,
:07:26. > :07:29.perhaps a heart condition, you want continuity of care, to be safe and
:07:30. > :07:38.secure at home. It is a broken system? It is pretty dysfunctional.
:07:39. > :07:42.It is not fit for purpose in a two-day's H. How much more would we
:07:43. > :07:45.pay individually to find the National Health Service as you would
:07:46. > :07:52.like to see it funded? I don't know the answer yet. We have said, as the
:07:53. > :07:59.Liberal Democrats, we would be prepared to make the case to the
:08:00. > :08:03.public to pay more tax. Just 1p on income tax would raise a substantial
:08:04. > :08:10.amount and had a big impact on the current health and care system. This
:08:11. > :08:15.is the discussion we have to have, how much will people pay to make
:08:16. > :08:21.sure their loved ones have access to care. The Government say there is
:08:22. > :08:26.more money than ever before going into the system. This is not an
:08:27. > :08:36.attack on the Government, but a statement on how things are? I have
:08:37. > :08:39.avoided that deliberately. My pleas, Les and the shouting match across
:08:40. > :08:42.the chamber. Let's work together for something this country needs, and
:08:43. > :08:46.efficient health and care system. The inquest into the suicide
:08:47. > :08:48.of a 25-year-old man at Chelmsford Prison has heard an accusation that
:08:49. > :08:51.a mental health assessment of him was "bent" to
:08:52. > :08:54.a pre-determined outcome. Dean Saunders, from Basildon,
:08:55. > :08:57.was jailed - not sectioned - after attacking members
:08:58. > :09:00.of his own family Our chief reporter Kim Riley has
:09:01. > :09:18.been at the inquest in Chelmsford. A lot of time was spent on the
:09:19. > :09:23.controversial assessment of the two discs -- to decide whether she
:09:24. > :09:29.should have been detained under the Mental Health Act. Prison no place
:09:30. > :09:30.for him? It has been said by professionals that they were in no
:09:31. > :09:33.position to make that assessment. Lynn Johnston, who organised
:09:34. > :09:35.the assessment for the local mental health trust,
:09:36. > :09:37.told the jury she honestly couldn't recall whether she had told
:09:38. > :09:40.the doctors that Dean had been clear in his determination
:09:41. > :09:41.to take his life. Sean Horstead, representing
:09:42. > :09:43.representing Dean's family, said she had an abundance
:09:44. > :09:45.of evidence as to his He'd made a serious
:09:46. > :09:48.assault on family members, It would have been a gross failure
:09:49. > :09:52.on her part if she hadn't In his view, the assessment
:09:53. > :09:57.at Basildon police station was, was, as he put it, bent
:09:58. > :09:59.to a predetermined outcome. Come what may, Mr Saunders was to go
:10:00. > :10:02.through a criminal justice system. This afternoon, Abdul Kallon,
:10:03. > :10:04.a mental health nurse at Chelmsford prison hospital,
:10:05. > :10:06.said when he met Dean, he found him suspicious, guarded,
:10:07. > :10:10.clearly paranoid with scratches He was saying, I just
:10:11. > :10:15.want to end it all. Dean's parents and other family
:10:16. > :10:23.members have written to the often Tomorrow, they and the jury
:10:24. > :10:34.will hear from the head of health care and a number of prison officers
:10:35. > :10:46.at the jail. We had strong criticism of Lynn
:10:47. > :10:52.Johnson. She said she followed procedure properly and hoped she had
:10:53. > :11:00.shared vital information. But it was alleged that she did not... The
:11:01. > :11:07.director of the trust said prison was the right place for a timely
:11:08. > :11:07.assessment by a forensics psychiatrist. The inquest continues
:11:08. > :11:10.tomorrow. Nearly ?10,000 has been raised
:11:11. > :11:12.for the family of a mother who was murdered in
:11:13. > :11:14.Norwich last weekend. The body of 32-year-old
:11:15. > :11:15.Kerri McAuley was found in a house
:11:16. > :11:17.on Sunday night. has appeared in court today
:11:18. > :11:21.charged with murder. Kerri McAuley was a mother
:11:22. > :11:26.of two young boys. Her body was found
:11:27. > :11:29.by police at 10:40 on Sunday night at a house
:11:30. > :11:32.in Southall's Way. Postmortem results
:11:33. > :11:35.released yesterday were But officers say there is evidence
:11:36. > :11:41.she had been severely Her ex-boyfriend, 26-year-old
:11:42. > :11:45.Joe Storey, who is also from Norwich, has been
:11:46. > :11:49.charged with her murder. Over the past few days,
:11:50. > :11:53.tributes have been paid to Kerry. Her friend has known
:11:54. > :11:56.her for ten years. She set up a Just Giving page online
:11:57. > :11:59.to raise money to help I was thinking, what
:12:00. > :12:04.on earth can I do? I'm sure she doesn't
:12:05. > :12:07.have life insurance. I was thinking all
:12:08. > :12:08.these crazy things. The father is now going to have
:12:09. > :12:13.to take on those two young All these things went
:12:14. > :12:22.through my head, and I was Right, I thought, I'll set
:12:23. > :12:26.up a donations page. We are nearly ?500
:12:27. > :12:46.away from 10,000 now. Joe Storey appeared here
:12:47. > :12:48.in Norwich Magistrates' Dressed in a dark blue
:12:49. > :12:51.jumper, he spoke only to confirm his name,
:12:52. > :12:52.age He is due to appear
:12:53. > :13:04.at Norwich Crown Court tomorrow. Still to come tonight Alex
:13:05. > :13:07.will mention the S word. at Newmarket as they unveil plans
:13:08. > :13:16.for an all weather track. And new slate
:13:17. > :13:18.from an old mine - There's been a 14% drop
:13:19. > :13:27.in the number of undergraduates applying to study at
:13:28. > :13:29.Cambridge University next year .. and many academics say it's
:13:30. > :13:32.another sign of the impact Today a leading professor
:13:33. > :13:38.in Cambridge appealed to MPs to make the free movement of staff
:13:39. > :13:40.and students a priority If it doesn't happen she said uur
:13:41. > :13:45.universities will suffer. Let's get more from our political
:13:46. > :13:57.correspondent Andrew Sinclair If anyone will be affected by
:13:58. > :14:05.Brexit, it is our universities such as Cambridge. There was a delegation
:14:06. > :14:10.to Brussels shortly after the vote. It is not a concern about the loss
:14:11. > :14:16.of funding, it is a concern about the loss of the staff and students.
:14:17. > :14:19.It would probably be the biggest disaster for the university sector
:14:20. > :14:24.in many years. A college in Oxford, the event, it is the first public
:14:25. > :14:31.hearing by a committee of MPs about how Brexit is affecting
:14:32. > :14:33.universities. We have seen a 14% reduction in the number of
:14:34. > :14:40.applications from the European Union. That was the first of several
:14:41. > :14:43.revelations. From what the University can tell, some EU
:14:44. > :14:49.students are thinking twice about coming to Cambridge. They are
:14:50. > :14:52.worried about the uncertainty of funding, anti-immigrant sentiment,
:14:53. > :14:59.and loss of possible collaboration with EU institutions going forward.
:15:00. > :15:04.But her more pressing concern was the impact Brexit will have on
:15:05. > :15:09.staff. Researchers make universities great, and if they want reasons to
:15:10. > :15:14.come here, they may go elsewhere. It is a concern held by many
:15:15. > :15:22.institutions. At the University of East Anglia, 350 staff are from the
:15:23. > :15:25.EU. Leading researchers are globally mobile. Uncertainty about
:15:26. > :15:31.fundamental things like immigration, Visa and work status, any
:15:32. > :15:38.uncertainty there is a problem. Those who supported the accents
:15:39. > :15:43.there is uncertainty. But say universities could do well. There
:15:44. > :15:48.could be more money, less red tape and easier to bring in staff from
:15:49. > :15:53.outside the EU. The MP for Essex University says it could be a
:15:54. > :15:58.exciting future. The opportunities to go global are considerable from
:15:59. > :16:05.Brexit. It is up to universities to talk about how full the class is.
:16:06. > :16:11.Not the empty bit with the uncertainty at the moment. It will
:16:12. > :16:15.depend on what she can negotiate. That will take time. The uncertainty
:16:16. > :16:23.for universities will continue. Professor Barnard from Cambridge
:16:24. > :16:29.says universities in Ireland and Germany are making overtures to
:16:30. > :16:35.British staff and researchers. MPs were told they excepted Brexit could
:16:36. > :16:36.bring advantages, but on the whole, they are pretty nervous about the
:16:37. > :16:40.future. Have you ever parked in a parking
:16:41. > :16:44.space set aside for drivers Who don't have a blue
:16:45. > :16:55.badge or small children Now a Co-op supermarket in Suffolk
:16:56. > :16:58.is taking drastic action. Around 50 parking fines
:16:59. > :17:01.being issued - every day. This isn't a knee jerk
:17:02. > :17:05.reaction by the East of England Co-op, quite
:17:06. > :17:06.the In 2014, it started
:17:07. > :17:10.putting up warning signs and had people
:17:11. > :17:12.the car park in its store at Combs Ford,
:17:13. > :17:17.Over the last month, it has been relying on an enforcement firm.
:17:18. > :17:22.The Co-op knew it had a problem here.
:17:23. > :17:25.That is why it brought in this private company in the first place.
:17:26. > :17:28.But even it has been surprised by the figures over a ten day period
:17:29. > :17:39.It demonstrates, says the company, apathy among drivers
:17:40. > :17:44.I need that room to get in and out of my car.
:17:45. > :17:48.You dare not say anything because, if you do, you get a load of abuse.
:17:49. > :17:51.There are 100 spaces in the car park, with eight set aside for
:17:52. > :17:55.drivers with disabilities, six for young families,
:17:56. > :18:02.and one for people making a quick stop to use the cash machine.
:18:03. > :18:04.The Co-op says, while there is always discretion with
:18:05. > :18:08.every case, it has a duty to keep the designated areas free for those
:18:09. > :18:11.I think we got to the point where we tried education, we
:18:12. > :18:14.tried to speak to people, we try that on a one-to-one basis.
:18:15. > :18:16.And in some cases, actually, we received
:18:17. > :18:20.The only way we could do that is to a
:18:21. > :18:24.People need to follow the rules, the rules are there to be followed.
:18:25. > :18:26.The punishment is ?60 if paid within two
:18:27. > :18:29.All the money goes to the enforcement
:18:30. > :18:39.Of the 500 or so fines issued, 125 have been paid, 33
:18:40. > :18:45.The position with the remainder is so far unclear.
:18:46. > :18:47.But some drivers are determined to dig in.
:18:48. > :18:49.But that's the ATM bay with my kids and partner.
:18:50. > :18:51.She used the ATM Bay, three minutes, three
:18:52. > :18:53.or four days later I got a
:18:54. > :18:57.The Co-op has around 120 food outlets in the
:18:58. > :19:01.As for whether more sites could follow suit, it says any
:19:02. > :19:06.decisions will be made on a case-by-case basis.
:19:07. > :19:09.For decades, racegoers at Newmarket have enjoyed horse racing across six
:19:10. > :19:11.months of the year - at two different courses.
:19:12. > :19:16.There's the July course and there's the Rowley Mile.
:19:17. > :19:20.But now there are big plans for a third -
:19:21. > :19:23.an all weather track to allow racing to continue through the winter.
:19:24. > :19:26.The new track would be one of only six winter
:19:27. > :19:29.The new track would be one of only six winter courses in this country,
:19:30. > :19:33.Newmarket, the world's biggest racing training Centre.
:19:34. > :19:36.The land behind us will see the introduction of an all weather
:19:37. > :19:41.Now, an all weather facility proposed on this site near
:19:42. > :19:45.the links golf course, allowing racing through the winter months.
:19:46. > :19:49.Newmarket trains 40% of UK flat horses.
:19:50. > :19:52.It makes sense to build an all weather racecourse here where we
:19:53. > :19:55.can stage racing across the three courses throughout the year.
:19:56. > :19:58.The plan is dependent on Kempton Park
:19:59. > :20:06.Part of the ?100 million raised would be spent on the new track.
:20:07. > :20:09.Significant that one third of all horses racing at Kempton are
:20:10. > :20:15.The value of Newmarket's horse racing industry to
:20:16. > :20:20.And an all-weather facility allowing racing all year round means
:20:21. > :20:26.For the past two decades, trainer Mark
:20:27. > :20:29.Tompkins has been campaigning for an all-weather track here.
:20:30. > :20:31.To cut down costs and travelling times for
:20:32. > :20:44.I think you have to look forward, you have
:20:45. > :20:50.And if you've got that, they've got plenty
:20:51. > :20:54.And if you've got that, they've got plenty of space here still to
:20:55. > :20:57.And especially for the younger trainers, they can
:20:58. > :21:00.But there are always winners and losers.
:21:01. > :21:02.Less than one hour away is another all-weather track,
:21:03. > :21:05.And there are fears Newmarket's plans would affect them,
:21:06. > :21:07.with top trainers opting to race closer to home.
:21:08. > :21:11.We don't see it as a threat to us or a problem.
:21:12. > :21:18.The transfer of the fixtures from Kempton will go to Newmarket.
:21:19. > :21:23.The main focus is that we now have planning permission for a
:21:24. > :21:24.grandstand and a casino, a turf track.
:21:25. > :21:26.Chelmsford clearly has its own ambitious plans.
:21:27. > :21:35.To have the best all-weather track in Europe.
:21:36. > :21:39.For 600 years Collyweston Slate has been used to roof some of the most
:21:40. > :21:46.From the Guildhall in London to King's College Cambridge.
:21:47. > :21:50.So now an old mine in the Northamptonshire
:21:51. > :21:57.of Collyweston has been re-opened to help meet demand.
:21:58. > :22:03.Deep beneath the Northamptonshire countryside, a new tunnel is being
:22:04. > :22:07.done. The much sought-after stone they are planning to extract will be
:22:08. > :22:14.used to restore some historic buildings. A new 80 metre long
:22:15. > :22:22.tunnel. The miners have just ten metres today before hitting the
:22:23. > :22:30.slate they want. It will be the first excavated for many years. The
:22:31. > :22:37.Guildhall in London have a slate roof from this stone. This building
:22:38. > :22:43.will have the first delivery to replace the old tiles. It will be a
:22:44. > :22:50.matter for our business. At the moment, using the reclaim supply of
:22:51. > :22:58.state. If we don't get it, the skills will be lost. Far are
:22:59. > :23:03.business to survive and the local historical buildings, we need the
:23:04. > :23:08.supply. To get to the rock face, experts have been brought in to help
:23:09. > :23:15.open up the new tunnel. We are in a new mine. It has been filled up with
:23:16. > :23:19.waste rock. We are driving this tunnel through the back of mine to
:23:20. > :23:25.reach the mineral that wasn't mind when they stopped mining 50 years
:23:26. > :23:31.ago. One update is the use of the industrial freezer. Planning to use
:23:32. > :23:36.it to crack the rock into benches. You need frost to get into the
:23:37. > :23:44.laminations of the stone and split it. We do not get the winters we
:23:45. > :23:48.used to get. In order to get area liable production, it needs to be
:23:49. > :23:52.mechanised with this big freezer unit. Within weeks, for the first
:23:53. > :23:59.time in a generation, this might well be producing precious stone. It
:24:00. > :24:15.is a rebirth for the local slate and a 600-year-old industry.
:24:16. > :24:27.It is cold. Here is a Dalmatian walking through the trees. Clear
:24:28. > :24:32.skies, a cold at night and last night. Cold air digging in. Into
:24:33. > :24:37.those single figures. The ten a touch of frost in sheltered spot
:24:38. > :24:42.through the night. A cold start to the day tomorrow. Tomorrow, governed
:24:43. > :24:49.by this weather system coming in from the west. That could mean
:24:50. > :24:53.wintry weather. A yellow warning for snow and ice. Essentially, this
:24:54. > :24:57.weather system is going to bring rain, but mild air heating cold air,
:24:58. > :25:02.and that could turn to sleet or snow. A dry start with increasing
:25:03. > :25:06.amounts of blood. Rain spreading to all areas by the afternoon. Made or
:25:07. > :25:10.late afternoon, particularly north of Western counties, some of this
:25:11. > :25:17.rain turning to sleet or snow. A cold day, so quite treacherous
:25:18. > :25:20.conditions around rush hour. For services is the height. The
:25:21. > :25:25.continuation of the wintry flavour to things. Through the evening.
:25:26. > :25:31.Certainly some ice around, it could be a problem. It could be slash, but
:25:32. > :25:34.accumulations are possible. Be aware of the risk going through the day
:25:35. > :25:42.tomorrow. Made too late afternoon. Then, Friday, this weather system
:25:43. > :25:47.coming down from the East Coast. Better northerly wind developing,
:25:48. > :25:51.gales on the coast, wintry showers. For many of us, dry and bright with
:25:52. > :25:57.some sunshine for Friday. A sharp frost following, and still be cold
:25:58. > :26:02.theme continues. The wind eases a little, come up for Saturday.
:26:03. > :26:03.Certainly the wintry weather for tomorrow with the risk of gales for
:26:04. > :26:12.Friday. Tomorrow looks delightful! We must
:26:13. > :26:36.have our heating on. No need for that. Good night.
:26:37. > :26:39.I think my political beliefs are really quite straightforward.
:26:40. > :26:42.I believe that our country needs to work for everyone.
:26:43. > :26:45.Not just for the rich, not just for the privileged,
:26:46. > :26:47.not just for those who know the right people or who've got
:26:48. > :26:51.the loudest voices, but a country that really works for everyone,
:26:52. > :26:56.has the opportunity to be who they want to be.
:26:57. > :26:59.In order to make sure that the country works for everyone,
:27:00. > :27:03.Standing up for the vulnerable, for the voiceless,
:27:04. > :27:09.against those who feel that they're strong and powerful.