08/11/2017 Look East

Hello and welcome to Look East.

In the programme tonight.

As Priti Patel's

cabinet career hangs

in the balance, we get the views

from her constituents in Essex.

She is a very popular MP. She is the

best thing that has happened to this

town.

A third strike on the

railways in six weeks.

But tonight Greater Anglia says

it's had virtually no

impact on passengers.

Growing pressure for better mobile

phone coverage.

And the life-saving moment

these two football fans

will never forget.

First tonight, the latest

from the Essex constituency

of Priti Patel as her cabinet

career hangs by a thread.

As you've probably

heard, the Prime Minister ordered

Ms Patel back from a trip to Africa.

It follows the controversy

over her unauthorised meetings

with Israeli politicians.

But whatever happens tonight

she will remain the Member

of Parliament for Witham in Essex.

So what has been the reaction there.

Andrew Sinclair

is in Witham.

Andrew.

Let me warn you I am about to show

you pictures with lots of flashing

images because in the last few

minutes Priti Patel has arrived in

Downing Street for her meeting with

the Prime Minister. This is one of

those rows that matters duly a lot

of people in Westminster but often

leaves the rest of the public

confused. Why does this matter? This

is not just a dispute about

ministerial procedure. When Priti

Patel returned from that holiday in

Israel she was not completely open

about what she had been doing. That

and the fact she had been holding

some meetings has embarrassed the

Prime Minister and damaged an

already weakened Government. That is

why the MP from this town is in so

much trouble tonight. She may be

about to lose her job as a minister

but Priti Patel will still be the

MP. In this year's election she got

64% of the vote and despite all the

negative headlines any of her

constituents appear to be behind

her.

She is about the best thing

that has happened to this town.

She

is a very popular MP. She was put in

a position where she should have

known better that she is a very good

MP.

This does not diminish your

opinion of her?

No. She's chewed not

have done what she did. It was a bit

underhand.

Despite being seen as a

high-flyer Priti Patel has always

found time to be seen in the

constituency and championed local

causes. She has been at the

forefront of the campaign to improve

A120. She launched a campaign for

better real services in the East.

We

selected her to serve the people,

which she was elected to do, that is

what she has done.

Even though she

may have embarrassed the party that

doesn't bother you?

Clearly,

reputation is key to us, but I am

really only concerned about her job

as a member of Parliament for

Witham.

Priti Patel was intending to

fly back year in time for

Remembrance Sunday commemorations

and then continue with her African

visit. It is a sign, say her local

party, of her dedication to the

constituency. But critics say there

has been times when Witham has lost

out by having a globetrotting

minister as an MP.

Hopefully she

will be able to spend more time in

the constituency and pick up a

number of the issues, which if you

are a cabinet this, perhaps are very

difficult. Some reports I get from

constituencies, she has been

selective in picking up casework, so

it may be positive.

Few believe her

career is at an end.

She will probably bounce back but

for now it looks as if constituency

work will be her main job. Priti

Patel is then with the Prime

Minister now. This has been a very

damaging issue for Priti Patel and

at some stage she will have to come

back to this constituency, a

constituency where a lot of people

like her, but she will have to

explain what is going on.

A 48-hour strike involving guards

on Greater Anglia railway services

has gone ahead today -

but there's been virtually no

impact on passengers.

It's the third time in the last six

weeks that members of the RMT

Union have walked out

in a dispute over safety.

Alex Dunlop is at Norwich

station now, Alex.

You can see behind me the chain for

Great Yarmouth has just drawn in. It

is one of around 500 Greater Anglia

chains which has a contingency guard

on board. Greater Anglia said that

just a handful of locomotives have

been cancelled because of the

strike. I caught up with some

commuters to see how they have been

affected by the RMT walk-out.

Did you notice a difference in your

journey?

Yes. It is only a visual

service but the guard was not

offering, we had to find someone to

give us a ticket.

No chains have run

as normal. Just got back from

Cambridge five or ten minutes late.

No conductors, no ticket

inspections, but absolutely fine.

Very little.

I was lucky, I reckon.

Do you know there is a strike on?

Yes, because they did not check

tickets but that was the only thing

I know this. There was a slight

delay but that is usual anyway.

The

arguments over safety are well

rehearsed but in a nutshell greater

angry says it wants drivers to have

control of the doors when its new

fleet comes into service in 2019.

The RMT says that would compromise

passenger safety.

Another strike day, another RMT

union picket line, in Clacton,

and here in Ipswich.

But this time the walk-out

is for 48 hours, not 24.

Greater Anglia says it's running

a near full service with back office

staff stepping in as

contingent guards.

Unions say passengers

are being put at risk.

The train operator says

its temporary teams

are safety trained.

We have trained sufficient

people to cover and we

are going to train some more

people if we need to.

And we're just going

to carry this on.

We are going to look

after our customers as our

priority.

This is not just a local dispute.

As well as Greater Anglia guards

walking out, four other train

operators are are seeing strike

action over the same issue.

But Anglia says it

won't sack any guards

when the trains with driver-control

doors come on-stream in two years.

The RMT is unconvinced.

At the moment they're

coming out with nice

things, saying there will always

be someone on there.

Except in emergencies.

Go on the Southern region.

The South-eastern region.

All these other regions,

where it already operating, where

people are running riot,

where they are hiring

security guards to escort

the driver from one end to the other

because they have lost

control.

With the Government and the unions

today accusing each other of

playing power politics

over the railways,

this is so much more

than

just a local dispute.

A plan to create a definitive map

of mobile phone coverage in Norfolk

was agreed by the county

council today.

Councillors say

they want to encourage the phone

companies to spend more improving

the network.

There's concern that while broadband

speeds have improved -

mobile coverage has lagged behind.

At this vineyard, £1.2 million has

been invested. The owner and head

wind picker is proud of the wine

which has won international

recognition.

This is our 20 17th

vintage. We have just finished the

fermentation. It is now in the

process where we are waiting for the

East to settle down.

That can take

up to nine months. When it comes to

processing customer payments, the

card reader which relies on mobile

phone signals, he has to leave the

office and take a walk. Past some of

the 33 acres of vines, to a corner

of a field that faces West towards

Norwich, six miles away.

It can be

entertaining when you have customers

come out to buy their wine, they get

the vineyard tour while they are at

it, but it is frustrating in this

day and age not to be able to get a

mobile signal this close to a large

city.

On its website the consumer

organisation Which, features a map,

green represents strong mobile

signal, red represents a weak

signal. At County Hall a digital

innovation committee voted to

Commission its own new survey.

In simple terms, mobile forms that

are bought off the High Street, we

hope to have results by mid January.

We have a very good relationship

with the planning authorities around

the place. Site to get deployed, but

on occasion, planning permission

gets turned down. It is very

important that communities recognise

that mobile connectivity is vital to

businesses and to people nowadays

and that they support these planning

applications.

The County Council

says for a fee it could help

telecoms companies find suitable

locations for the infrastructure.

A couple from Norfolk have been

forced to live apart

because the council won't provide

the care she needs at home.

Sally Goleby was

moved to a care home

after her husband

Eric had a stroke.

Eric is now back home

and wants to look

after Sally again

but the council won't give her

the same care package

she had before.

For six months Eric has to make 40

mile round trip to visit his

wife.

Sally was placed in a care home

after she had a stroke.

Once a carer herself,

for two decades, her

husband became hers.

This is the wet room for Sally.

At home, Eric says he has

everything she needs and can

cope with care visits.

Sally has been getting

the maximum home care

local authorities provide.

Any more and the options

are to pay for a

live-in carer or go to a

council-funded care home.

Eric wants the home care

help they had before he

was in hospital.

They just said that there wasn't

the care companies out

there in the area to cover

Sally anymore on account

of the extreme work

they

have to do.

Which I think is

absolutely ridiculous.

If I can do it 21 hours

a day, they should be

able to do it two-and-a-half hours.

His MP, and the former Care

Minister, believes Norfolk County

Council should do more.

They say that none

of their authorised

providers has been able to come up

with a care package.

But if that's the case

then you've got an

obligation surely to look

at alternative ways, as a matter of

some urgency, to sort this out.

But to wait four

months for anything to

happen I think is intolerable.

The care Mrs Goleby would

have got in her own

home was expensive.

It would have cost a few

hundred pounds per week.

Nearly as much,

perhaps even more, than

putting her in this care home.

It shouldn't just be about cost.

It should be about

what is best for the

person.

But there isn't an indefinite amount

of money in the council to

pay for people to have care at home.

Norfolk County Council

say they try to keep

families together but they

must ensure the care they provide

keeps people like the Golebys safe.

Sally needs a lot of help

including being fed.

You want to go home, yes.

This, the care conundrum,

between what people

like the Golebys want, what they

need, and what they can get.

In an age with tighter

social care budgets and a

rapidly ageing population,

a conundrum could become a crisis.

The children of a woman

who was murdered by a stalker

are making a claim for

damages from the police

and a mental health trust

in the High Court.

Mary Griffiths,

who lived in Bury St Edmunds,

was killed in 2009.

She was shot in the chest

with a bolt gun used

for killing cattle

by John McFarlane.

An independent report

found failings in the way

Police

had handled the case.

The inspiring story behind one of

our Weather Watchers, coming up. And

the inspiring story about Luke

Davenport.

A great story now about

the friendship between a

25-year-old archaeologist

and a 94-year-old veteran of D-Day.

It all goes

back to when John Henry Phillips

met Patrick Thomas last

year in Normandy.

Patrick had a story to tell.

During the Normandy landings,

when Patrick was just 19 years old,

he was on board a landing craft.

There

was a terrible explosion

and most of the people

on board were killed.

This from Mike Liggins.

John Henry Phillips

is an archaeologist by profession

but his passion is conflict history.

Last year he met

Patrick Thomas on a trip

to Normandy, and

they became friends.

Patrick was in the Royal Navy

and was at D-Day in 1944, when

his landing craft

was sunk by a mine.

The explosion must have lifted

the stern up and drove the bows

under.

The only thing I could do

was get in the water.

I saw this bloody great deck.

We were under water.

So I got out in a hurry.

John decided he wanted

to tell Patrick's

story on film, and,

more to the point,

wanted to find

Patrick's landing craft,

now at the bottom of the sea.

You can't recognise anything?

Not really, no.

Things have changed so much.

John has started

making a documentary

film, but now needs more

money to

film, but now needs more

money to find the wreck

and finish the film.

Which is why he's created

a crowdfunding campaign.

I'm not a diver, I'm not

a maritime exploder.

It has become a bit of an obsession.

I am hoping to find it whilst

he is still with us.

We are on a road trip there.

If I can find the ship I can

change history and I

can change Patrick's life.

Patrick's story will

be there forever.

It has become an obsession

for John, and

with Patrick now 94 years young,

the quest to find his landing craft

has become a race against time.

And John Henry Phillips is here now.

Somebody says it is like looking for

a needle in a haystack. Where do you

start? Patrick was on one of the

beaches. You start there. You look

into the archives, where he was

rescued from. You go from there.

You

think you might have found the right

place? We have got a series of

targets that we are aiming to hit in

April, it is not until you get under

the waves that you know what is down

there.

Why is it important to get it

done so quickly?

It is important

because these guys, and Patrick,

sadly they will not be alone

forever. You could find the vessel

in ten years' time when they are

gone but then it is just a bit of

metal in the English Channel, with

Patrick here, it means so much more.

It is not just about finding the

ship, it is about honouring all

those that lost their lives on the

ship. Patrick himself actually goes

and visit the grave of his best

friend.

Yes, he lost his best friend

that be. He has always lacked that

place to commemorate where his

friends went down, because he does

not know where the ship was. It is

finding a place where Patrick came

over his friends ended up and know

that he can commemorate them there.

You ignore that there are things

don't end the place where you are

looking that you do not know that

the landing classes there.

When will

you know? When we get down there and

when I have a look. Hopefully in

April, when we get on with it.

You

also want to have a memorial. I know

you have met the local mayor.

Yes,

in Normandy, he was very

accommodating. He gave as the

blessing, not the official

permission, but he placed the search

and said you could put the Memorial

there and have Patrick and be loved.

And Patrick's reaction to all this?

He just cannot believe it. He texts

me most days to see he cannot

believe that this has happened at

such a late age. It is like a lap of

honour for a man that deserves it.

Good luck with raising the money.

Good luck with the filming. I hope

you find what you are looking for.

Five months ago the racing driver

Luke Davenport was seriously injured

in a ten-car pile up.

He was in a coma for two weeks.

Many thought it would end the career

of the 24-year-old

driver from Cambridge.

But

incredibly he's back

behind the wheel

and has been back on the track

at Snetterton in Norfolk.

This from BBC Cambridgeshire

presenter Chris Mann.

Preparing to get back on track.

Luke Davenport's long road

to recovery almost over.

The comeback many people

believed was almost

impossible.

The very badly damaged

car of Luke Davenport.

Back in June this ten car

accident almost cost

him his life.

It left him in a coma with a string

of serious injuries.

Fractures to the ankle and tibia

and fibula on the left leg,

and my cruciate ligament

on my right knee ruptured.

My pelvis was also

effectively shattered.

Then I broke four ribs,

punctured both lungs, and

my right clavicle.

Two weeks in a coma.

Do you really want to race again?

Do you want to get back

in that race car today?

Yes, I can't wait to get back.

It's ingrained.

I'm desperate to get back.

He is behind the wheel for the very

first time since the

crash.

Luke passed a medical last week.

Once again he has

his licence to race.

In a sport where hundredths

of a second are literally

the difference between

success and failure,

between winning and losing,

Luke has

to prove that not only

he has the desire,

but the ability also

and

that's what has been put to the test

here today at Snetterton.

That is what today is

all about, to give him

a chance to go into the winter,

to show he's still around

and still perfectly

functional in a race car.

And that he is ready to go forward.

When I watched him drive the pit

lane, I am not normally an

emotional person around race car,

but I got quite emotional, because

for me that was a sign that he had

got back to health, fought his way

through and was back, basically.

His lap times had

impressed the team.

Safely back in the pits,

how about those injuries?

How was that?

It was relieving that

there wasn't any pain

or anything like that

but above all just great

feeling to get back

in a

car after five months.

Worried that something

bad could happen

again?

It was a very freak accident

we were involved with.

Safety levels in cars

these days is such an

impressive level.

Yes, there are risks,

but we will push on.

We will be all right.

He passed the test

with flying colours.

So against all odds Luke

is on course to be racing

again next season.

The West Ham fan from Essex

whose life was saved

at a football match

by another supporter.

Ian Perry was at

Wembley for a cup game

against Tottenham last month

when he collpased.

The fellow supporter

was another Ian,

Ian Pearse,

who realised how serious

the situation was.

He started CPR before

the paramedics arrived.

Today Mr Perry got the chance

to thank him in person and said

they'd now be lifelong friends.

Gareth George reports

from Rayne near Braintree.

Ian Perry meets the man who saved

his life. Thank you.

Lesson. A

pleasure to meet you. You have got

more colour in your cheeks now.

You

saved my life.

I cannot thank you

enough.

I had to find him, to thank

him, because without him, I would

not be here to day.

This is an

amazing situation that has brought

Ian and myself together.

I am

pleased to meet him. Two weeks ago

they were here at the London Stadium

to watch West Ham United. Both love

going to games with their families.

But as he queued at the turnstiles,

Ian Perry collapsed. His heart had

stopped. He was lucky Ian Pearse was

nearby, his company supplies

defibrillators, because of that he

knows how to perform CPR.

I got him

onto his back. I started to shout as

best I could to anybody who was

around, to get a defibrillator,

knowing the important thing was to

get his heart restarted. I started a

vigorous chest massage. I didn't do

any ventilation. I just did it gets

on his chest and pump it as hard as

I could which I did for three or

four minutes.

He kept Ian Perry

allied and medics took over. An

appeal on social media led to the

meeting today. Both are lifelong

fans of West Ham.

He was not there,

he went to Manchester United.

Everybody laughed in the adverts. I

was going to hospital. I came to,

the first words I said was, what is

the score? Always try and meet up at

matches. I will never forget him.

For what he did for me. Really

important. If anybody can give any

advice, visit your local animal and

service, the do training sessions --

visit your local Ambulance Service,

they do training sessions.

And if you want training

on CPR skills

you can get details from

the Resuscitation Council

at resus.org.uk.

In a minute, the weather.

But first a word about one

of our Weather Watchers.

And a name you might

recognise: Carla's Garden.

Just a reminder that

if you want to post photos

of the weather where you live,

you can sign up to BBC

Weather Watchers.

You give yourself a name and can

post as often as you like.

Carla's

Garden has become one

of our regulars.

So tonight, her story,

in her own words.

My photos have been used on local

news, national weather, and country

file.

I am Carla's Garden. I am aged

57. I joined Weather Watchers after

having a kidney transplant, a major

operation. That is the hostel where

I had bite dialysis done. It helped

me with what I had to go through.

Getting out helped me recover and go

further and further each day. I can

remember being stuck in a ward. You

are helping other people who cannot

get out. Showing them what the sky

is like, what the weather is like

that is why it means so much to me.

It is very easy to use. Getting

online is their way to go. It gets

the area where I live norm. I feel

part of it. No two days are at the

same. Every force a graph you take

of the sky is unique. You look

through the pictures, it has got

that editor's pic stab, that feels

good. Definitely do it. Your hobby

will grow into a passion, like

good. Definitely do it. Your hobby

will grow into a passion, like my

house.

Lovely to meet her. Here is

the weather. If you want to become a

Weather Watchers, just go to their

website. But we cannot start their

weather tonight without a photograph

from Carla's Garden. There is also

another Weather Watchers year with a

lovely sunset, taken in Bedford.

Clear skies mean it is quite a

chilly night. As we go through the

night expect chilly temperatures,

cold enough for a touch of frost.

The cloud was across Eastern

counties earlier, but now it is

clear skies. Cold enough for a touch

of frost, temperatures close to

freezing. More clouded by the end of

the night, perhaps if you spots of

light rain. Temperatures are likely

to recover, they will be higher by

the end of the night. It is tied

into this weather front which will

be around for most of the morning. A

chilly start to the DA tomorrow.

Quite a damp start. Outbreaks of

light rain or drizzle. Brighter

skies as the day goes on. There

should be sunshine across many parts

of the region. Still on the chilly

side. There should be some pleasant

autumn sunshine around. Looking

ahead, it will turn cold into the

weekend. This weather system coming

in from the north-west will bring

rain overnight Friday into Saturday,

introducing Calder are behind it. By

the weekend temperatures are likely

to be law, chilly days, frosty

nights. Friday, it largely dry and

bright day. Increasingly cloudy.

Perhaps some sunshine to stack the.

Eventually that rain moving through.

Some of that could be on the heavy

side. By Saturday, brighter skies,

sunshine, but it will be cold. The

Guptill 's wind speeds. Moderate

north-westerly 's, Battle introduce

a wind chill factor. Chilly days and

frosty nights on

a wind chill factor. Chilly days and

frosty nights on the way.

That is all for now. We will be back

same time, same place, tomorrow

night. Goodbye.