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Kier Starmer as well. Join me now on BBC Two. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello and welcome to the Look East late news. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
In the programme tonight - a cliff collapses on the Suffolk | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
We assess the impact of a weekend of wild weather. | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
The GP crisis - in Essex, 10% of surgeries are refusing | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
to take on new patients, prompting many to pay to go private. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
And after the drama of last week, I'll have a fairly settled | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
The Environment Agency is warning home owners not to be complacent | :00:27. | :00:41. | |
after many communities escaped the worst of the | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Thousands of people who were advised to evacuate, chose to stay at home | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
In Suffolk a man died after a cliff collapsed on him | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
But while most defences held, some of the most serious damage | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
was on the north Norfolk coast. Alex Dunlop is in Cromer. | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
Take a look at the size of this rock and now imagine this and thousands | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
of others being picked up on this beach behind me by the wind and the | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
waves and thrown against the seafront. A pretty devastating night | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
on Friday but not as bad as four years ago and that is because at the | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
last moment, the crucial trio of the high spring tide, the surge down the | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
North Sea and also the north west wind didn't quite aligned as many | :01:40. | :01:40. | |
had feared. The cost of clear-up | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
in and around Cromer pier will run into the hundreds | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
of thousands pounds. The force of the waves over the pier | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
ripped up the decking. In a way, we are sort of relieved | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
we got off lightly but the first thing we want to do is make sure | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
things are safe for the public and then get the pier open | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
as soon as possible. Chris Taylor filmed the storm | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
hitting Cromer on Friday night. He is a photographer | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
and the helmsman of the local RNLI. You could hear as the water came | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
down, this clattering of big stones. Looking around us here, there | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
are rocks the size of your head. Serious amounts of power there. | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
The benches along the prom, big, heavy, metal benches being swept | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
along the prom in the water. At Thorpeness in Suffolk, | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
the storms may well have undermined this section of cliff. | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
On Saturday, it collapsed on top of a man in his 50s who was walking | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
on the beach with his wife. He was eventually dug out | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
but it was too late. We are all very sorry to hear | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
what happened and our hearts go out to the family and friends that | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
are involved in this accident. I think perhaps people who are not | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
from around here are less likely to be aware of how eroding | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
those cliffs are. And on a nice, sunny day, | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
it looks very benign. This tragic death has led to renewed | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
safety warnings about the dangers of the soft cliffs which line much | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
of the local coastline. At Jaywick in Essex | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
and at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, most of the thousands of homeowners | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
who were told to evacuate their properties have | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
decided to sit tight. The defences held | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
as the wind abated. At Salthouse on the Norfolk coast, | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
the road was closed by debris And at the nearby reserve | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
at Cley, seawater washed There is a lot of destruction | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
in the short term, in terms of reedbeds, invertebrates that | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
will have been killed and things like that, | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
so food for birds is going to be The danger for now has passed | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
but there are several more As you can see, the clear up is well | :03:36. | :03:51. | |
underway. A real concern in the emergency services that a lot of | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
people further down the coast who decided to stay in their homes... | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
This was a close call and next time they say it could be different. | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
Charles Beardall is from the Environment Agency. | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
A short time ago, I asked him how concerned he was the vast majority | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
of people at risk decided to stay in their homes despite all | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
We issued 17 severe flood warnings this time and we only issue those | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
when we think that people's lives are in danger, so it is very | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
worrying that people do hear what the police say and then choose | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
And our advice would be to anyone who hears from the police | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
about evacuating their house, that they take heed of that advice | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
But I mean, next time we have weather conditions | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
like this, there may be even greater complacency. | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
We got away with it this weekend, got away with it in 2013, | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
I think we have got work to do with the police | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
and the emergency services, the local authorities, | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
to make people more aware of the danger that they are under | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
if they do stay in their house. And if we can do that, | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
then hopefully more people will evacuate next time. | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
I know that you feel that the sea defences stood up | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
well over the weekend, but there are some communities | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
around the coast - smaller communities - | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
that always feel at times like these, that they are overlooked, | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
that the investment hasn't gone in there and that they are | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
We maintain and manage over 500 miles of sea defences around | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
East Anglia and we have invested multi millions of pounds in those | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
Even at the moment, we have just done a schema Great Yarmouth | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
which is ?28 million worth and another one in Ipswich is 32, | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
but there are smaller schemes all around East Anglia that | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
are protecting smaller communities up and down the coast. | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
But of course, they all cost money and you can't protect everywhere. | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
We can't afford to protect everywhere all the time | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
and there will undoubtedly be big surge tides coming down the coast | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
in the future which will overtop some of our defences. | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
And that is why it is so important that the warning and informing | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
is done in advance of these surge tides coming down. | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
I would just like to say that it does stress the importance of people | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
listening to the advice they are getting from the police | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
and evacuating areas that they are advised to so they can | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
be safe from these surge tides in the future. | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
Thank you very much. Thank you. | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
An inquest has been told that a mother begged staff | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
at Chelmsford Prison to keep her son on suicide watch. | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
Dean Saunders was found electrocuted in his cell a year ago. | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
A nurse who was giving evidence this afternoon said Mr Saunders had | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
told her he did not intend to harm himself. | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
Instead of suicide watch he was monitored every half hour. | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
In parts of the region, the number of patients forced | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
to wait at least a week to see their GP has been steadily | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
Surveys of GP practices suggest the crisis in the service | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
In Essex, 10% of GP surgeries are refusing to take | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
on new patients, prompting an increase in the number of people | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
He has regular check-ups with his private GP. | :07:18. | :07:26. | |
For Tim, paying to visit his doctor is worth every penny. | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
Do I think my health is more important than ?400 a year, | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
which is half a cost of a holiday or something like that? | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
And the answer is, my health is more important. | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Here in Essex, private GP practice is thriving. | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
We are seeing an increasing number of new patients | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
who are here because they cannot get an appointment with their NHS GP. | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
Across the county, practices are struggling | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
Here, a combination of an ageing population, doctors retiring | :07:53. | :08:03. | |
and problems recruiting, has led to a huge strain being put | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
Dr Peter Skew joined the Green Elms Medical Practice five years ago. | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
His aim? To turn around a failing practice. | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
Dr Skew concentrated his efforts on recruitment, offering | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
such as defined hours, to attract GPs to the practice. | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
Now, the surgery has five regular GPs and one long-term locum. | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
Because we know the patients are going to come back to us | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
if we don't get it right, we have a much stronger driver | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
Surveys of GPs suggest the workload issue is becoming more and more | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
of a crisis and that plays into your ability to | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
The government says it is responding and it is committed to spending more | :08:47. | :08:55. | |
and maintaining free access to GP practice. | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
It is not just the NHS, it is what society wants | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
And if they can only get it privately, we have failed. | :09:03. | :09:11. | |
And you can see a longer version of that report | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
by searching for Inside Out East on the BBC iPlayer. | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
Coming up now, the weather with Julie. | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
But from the rest of the late team - goodnight. | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
It will be difficult to predict how much cloud we will get over the next | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
few days. Underneath a clearer skies, temperatures already falling | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
closer to freezing and likely to drop lower. A fairly widespread | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
frost, come the morning and with light winds, perhaps some patchy fog | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
as well. Cold, frosty start tomorrow for many and it looks like it will | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
have quite a lot of sunshine if all goes to plan. Temperatures, even | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
with the sun, will struggle. Light winds. As we go into Tuesday night, | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
under the clear skies, temperatures could fall even lower. Tuesday night | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
looking very cold. Wednesday, high pressure in charge, this front | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
should stay to the north and for many of us, a cold and frosty start. | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
The further north you are, the more likely thicker cloud will appear. | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
Temperatures only two or three degrees above freezing again. A | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
weather front of Thursday pushing down from the north which could | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
introduce more cloud on Thursday with some drizzle perhaps. At the | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
moment, Friday looking at a repeat performance, generally cloudy skies | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
and a lot of dry weather with hopefully some brightness and | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
temperatures around six Celsius at best. Nick will have the national | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
forecast in a moment but herd comes the outlook for next weekend. | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
perhaps a little milder. If you like the mild weather, you'll have to | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
head elsewhere in the country. Find out more in the national weather | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
forecast. Our weather is going against normal expectations this | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
week. In Highland Scotland some snow to be seen on the hills. | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
Temperatures as high as 12 Celsius today. Over the next few days the | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
coldest air is in the far south-east of England where there is sunshine | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
to be had. Four or five Celsius in Kent. Differences remain over the | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
next few days and here is why. I pressure in control of the weather. | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
Some clear a | :11:40. | :11:40. |