18/01/2017 Look East

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Ipswich becomes the region's second opportunity area,

it will be get millions of pounds to raise

An inquest into the death of Dean Saunders at Chelmsford Prison

hears there was a "lack of leadership, supervision

and support" at the jail and it would be the region's biggest

We report on the transport challenges posed by

The switch has been named as one of the government's new opportunity

centres, the government 's target places where it is not young people

are failing to reach their potential. The towel in Sicily

intends to develop better ships, create links with universities and

colleges in building relationships with employers. Last year Norwich

became one of the first opportunity areas in the country.

Two months ago this high school was celebrating a leap then it Ofstead

rating from requires improvement to good. The government says not enough

schools are making progress. It is giving 6 million to schools in

Ipswich, to raise aspiration. Each opportunity area including this ends

in East Cambridgeshire will have a research school to share evidence on

boosting the performance of disadvantaged children. Justin

Greening was a Norwich after naming the city among the first batch of

opportunity areas. It is vital we leave no stone unturned to find out

what it will take to have them aim high and go along way in their

lives. Baroness separate former Education Secretary is welcome

opportunity areas. We definitely need them, certainly be social

mobility commission is delighted when the government announced it

would set it up. Because what we have done is identify areas where

children from poorer backgrounds were falling behind more rapidly

than their counterparts in affluent areas. We needed the extra

attention, the extra re-sources and the boost that these areas are going

to give us. The thousand word she will have to write them, that is

like a university level dissertation. The University of East

Anglia has an active programme to tackle the mobility problem, here a

Ph.D. Graduates judging the brightest ten and 11-year-olds.

Airlie is the key and the earlier you can do things the better it

isn't that is one of the problems with policy in this area this point,

the earlier you can talk to people about getting a good job and have a

negative even going to university and better it is fed them in June.

Teaching unions welcomed the government's concern over the impact

of deprivation on children's education but they fear the new

money will not be enough to offset damage done by spending cuts. The

principle of Chantrey Academy in Ipswich joined us and I asked them

for a reaction to the opportunity area programme. I think we are very

pleased with the announcement, it gives us the opportunity to work

with disadvantaged students to raise their aspirations and gives them an

opportunity to see what else is out there. There is a huge untapped

resource in this area which given the right chance you can get some

really talented people into those top positions. But the donor what to

expect or how to expected or how to get there. The government says

expert has a problem with social mobility. Why is that? Two reasons,

one is that a lot of the families in the area don't have the pioneers in

the family so they have no idea in terms of what going to university

can mean for them and their futures. Secondly, you have the aspirin

seeing it is not for me. We have to raise expectations and say it is for

you, it is just for students like you and there will be a job at the

end of it. After university you will go into a job and into a career.

Somewhere where you have a work ethic and go on and on improving and

improving and recognising the fact that your development doesn't just

stop at the end of the day. There is money that comes with being an

opportunity area, what would you like to see it spent on? We want to

see generational change, it is not about the next three or four years,

it is about getting the kids the results of the next three or four

years to deal with the shortfall but beyond that the knowledge and

expertise goes back into the community so the next generation

promotes the next generation promotes the next, until you

establish a learning culture in this area. Thank you.

Dean Saunders electrocuted himself in his cell in prison last January

despite warnings from his family that he was suicidal.

Day eight of the inquest and Dean Saunders's parents and his partner

Clare have had to sit through disturbing evidence. The 23-year-old

died in January last year after allegedly hitting himself with a

television caught in his prison cell. Within days of arriving he was

taken off suicide watch and put on half hourly observation. Health care

at the prison operated by care UK, the inquest that heard that none of

the team who made the decision to take Dean of constant watch was

medically qualified. Today the company's medical director said that

was unacceptable. Care UK she said that since tightened up its

procedures and the commission must now be part of the team.

A review into Dean Saunders's definitely no lack of leadership

supervision and support and in her opinion as a former prison GP Doctor

Bromley said she felt Dean should not have been in prison, he was

clearly unwell she said and it was not the right place to be. Earlier a

forensics psychiatrist who assessed Dean before he died still the

inquest he was in a place of safety but noted that without safety his

mental state with be likely to deteriorate further. Dean hadn't

on remand, the Governor of on remand, the Governor of

Chelmsford prison for eight after the death except that this was a

prison had a duty of care to ensure prison had a duty of care to ensure

the prisoners could speak to their families. The review into Dean

Saunders's that said it was both predictable and preventable, was

killed in prison and care UK city have made a number of changes but a

year on some of the recommendations have yet to be fully implement it.

We have been looking at plans to build a new power station on the

Suffolk coast. The new Sizewell C would be up

here, there would be a contractors compounds over

here and accommodation for 2,400 Our environment reporter

Richard Daniel reports now on the transport challenges

for the area around Sizewell. Middleton Moor on a winter's

morning, an idyllic scene It sits on the B1122,

the main route for Sizewell traffic. EDF estimates nearly 5000 vehicles

pass by here each day, the construction of Sizewell C

could had another 2000. Plans to improve the road's junction

at Yoxford and introduce new speed EDF are talking about putting 1500

trucks per day down this road, that is 100 an hour down

a little country road. Now to give you a sense of scale,

there are sections of motorway in this country that don't take that

number of HGVs. EDF points to the Hinkley C project

in Somerset where contract worth ?460 million have

already been placed. It says Sizewell C would bring

similar economic benefits. But that could also mean an extra

1300 vehicles per day passing This hazardous corner in Farnham may

have to be widened or Farnham and neighbouring Strafford St Andrew

could be bypassed. His caravan business

relies on passing trade. Massive implications,

I don't think we really know what those implications are until it

actually happens but it is a little bit late then,

we are as seasonal business, that relies on passing traffic,

we've been here since the 60s and we would like to see it

continue like that. EDF is proposing to park and ride

sites at Wickham Market and Darsham. And up to five freight train Friday,

possibly on a new track built That would mean upgrades

to the east Suffolk line EDF say Sizewell C would bring

significant benefits to the local economy but campaigners say not

at any price. The battle lines are

already being drawn. This region is bucking the trend

in the latest unemployment figures. The national figure

is down, but here it's up 4.6% of the workforce

here is unemployed compared One of the biggest hospitals

in the region has come out The Care Quality Commission says

significant improvements have been made at Addenbrooke's Hospital

in Cambridge thanks to In 18 months it has has moved

'from inadequate' to 'good". It follows a visit by

inspectors last September. Football, Norwich City's

third-round FA Cup replay And there's another third

round replay, Norwich City go to Southampton of the Premier

League. Coming up next the weather

with Chris But from me, goodnight. Dry weather with others across the

region tonight, we see clear spells as well but especially the further

south and east, arts of Essex could drop off 2-3 or 4 degrees and maybe

even a -5 for a low tonight. North and of the region near freezing

under more cloud and into Thursday cloudy conditions, Misty and murky

for West Norfolk but otherwise some bright spells breaking through the

cloud at times and highs on Thursday reaching around 4-6 . About average

but feeling chilly under cloudy conditions. Misty and murky I think,

or in the way of cloud on Friday and high-temperature reaching up to 6

degrees, maybe seven at the coast. The National forecast is up next,

this is the next few days, no great changes over

the next few days, more sunshine on the way.

Despite high-pressure sitting across the country so only slow changes in

the weather, we have had a variety of different weathers, for example

this beautiful sunset in Southampton which was shared by a Weather

Watcher, but grey and misty in Derby thanks to an awful lot of cloud

around and very little deviation by day or night from the rather grey

routine. That is because we have a weather

front, albeit very weak and very little wind to move the cloud and