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In Look East tonight: More than 3,000 joined protest rallies and | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
more than 800 schools were closed. We'll bring you the impact of the | :00:11. | :00:19. | |
biggest co-ordinated public worker strike for years. They expect us to | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
work longer, pay more and receive less. I think that is an absolute | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
disgrace. Hello from David and me. Also tonight: As Andrea Hill's | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
future hangs in the balance, we'll have the very latest on the council | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
trying to decide her fate. Jailed - the former parish clerk | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
who stole more than �60,000 from local councils. | :00:38. | :00:48. | |
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And how Diva's daring dash came to a dramatic end. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Hello. First tonight, the impact of the biggest public workers' strike | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
for years. Unions say there has been positive support across the | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
region for today's strike. Courts, Jobcentres, passport offices and | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
driving test centres were all affected. More than 3000 people | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
joined rallies across the region, but schools bore the brunt of the | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
closures with more than 850 affected. In a moment, Ian Barmer | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
reports on the day through the eyes of a striker. Jozef Hall looks at | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
how our schools coped. But first, Andrew Sinclair with a round-up of | :01:27. | :01:36. | |
what happened today. The unions were hoping for a good | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
turnout, and they got it. This was Cambridge, were more than 1000 | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
people marched through the city. Many had their children with them | :01:42. | :01:49. | |
because so many schools were closed. I hope the government might well | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
see what is going on here and in other places around the country as | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
a clear expression of the resolve of teachers and other public sector | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
workers to defend their pensions. There were rallies and marches | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
across the region, each one attracting several hundred people, | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
striking workers joined by members of other unions also worried about | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
their pensions. The unions say public support for today's action | :02:09. | :02:17. | |
has been much higher than they expected. They have to look after | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
their future. Their future is in doubt, isn't it? They have worked | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
all these years to get nothing out of it. I trained as a teacher | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
originally. I have some sympathy. have some sympathy but I am not | :02:34. | :02:42. | |
sure it is the right thing to do. Because as a lot of disruption. -- | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
it causes a lot of disruption. biggest casualties were the schools | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
- hundreds of schools either partially or fully closed. But many | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
staff working for Customs and Revenue walked out, so, too, some | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
hospital staff. While at the Peterborough Passport Office, 90% | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
of union members were on strike. It meant the telephone inquiry bureau | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
was closed and very few postal applications were handled. At the | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
Department of Work and Pensions call centre in Norwich, the union | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
said just 20 out of 300 staff were on duty. But Jobcentres stayed open, | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
so, too, the courts and the coastguard. And even though some | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
immigration officers took action, there was little disruption for | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
passengers at Luton and Stansted because extra staff had been | :03:18. | :03:28. | |
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brought in. There are 28 unions representing workers across the | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
public sector. With just four on strike today, the region was never | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
going to grind to a halt. They hope that it turn out like this will | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
give an indication of how angry people are. Despite today's protest, | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
the Government insists its proposals are fair and necessary. | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
After this process is complete, public sector workers will still | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
have the best be pensioned -- the best pensions available in the UK. | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
We have to get to a point where they are sustainable. People are | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
living much longer than they used to. The unions feel today went well. | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
There's already talk of doing this again. | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
It was in the schools that the industrial action had its biggest | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
impact. As Jozef Hall now reports, hundreds were closed for the day, | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
while many others were just partially open. | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
Not quite business as usual at this Primary School in Northampton, | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
striking NUT staff responsible for the closure of its 14 classes, and | :04:29. | :04:39. | |
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a day off for a lucky few. Some of them are pleased to be in school. | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
We have tried to explain to them that these are professional people | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
making a judgement and doing what be think is right. My friend was | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
saying, you have to go on -- you have to go to school on Thursday. | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
We will get to go to the park. you be cleverer than them? Yes, | :04:57. | :05:07. | |
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half a day cleverer. Back in Northampton, and plenty of support | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
for the picket lines at the Duston Secondary, these teachers refuting | :05:12. | :05:22. | |
the Prime Minister's claims that their actions are responsible. | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
government might try to stop us having strikes today, but we need | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
to make a point. It is the responsible thing to do. We need to | :05:30. | :05:40. | |
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do this. This teacher in Lowestoft was well prepared and ready for the | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
strike. It is very important that we support people in trying to | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
stand up to the cuts that are being made across the board. The NUT said | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
today to expect more of the same. Teachers have told BBC Look East | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
today that they feel betrayed by the Government's plans to cut their | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
pensions and make them stay on in the classroom until they are 66. We | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
asked one teacher from Peterborough to tell us what it will mean for | :06:10. | :06:18. | |
her in pounds, shillings and pence. It is not done lightly but there | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
has been no genuine consultation. There was a big turnout and some | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
real anger in Peterborough at plans to reform public sector pensions. | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
In the crowd, Gill Phillips, who teaches at Brampton in | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
Cambridgeshire. She insists she is no union firebrand, just outraged | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
at proposals to make her work longer for a poorer pension. I've | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
been paying into a pension scheme. It appears to me that the contract | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
-- a contract has been taken out between me and the Government. The | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Government has changed the goalposts over night and that is | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
simply not fair. Gill Phillips started teaching in 1990 and | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
expected to draw her pension at 60, in six years' time. She's been | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
studying the National Union of Teachers pensions calculator very | :07:00. | :07:09. | |
closely, and she's not happy with what it shows. I will pay �83.31 | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
extra per month. The earliest I can get the full pension has gone up | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
from 60 to 66. Over a 25 year pension, should I live that long, I | :07:22. | :07:31. | |
will lose �66,223. There might be a lot of people watching who are run | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
far worse pension terms than teachers and think, actually, even | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
with the changes, you would be on a pretty good deal. What would you | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
say to them? I would say that I took on the job of being a teacher. | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
Together with that job goes a pension. I appreciate that pensions | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
in the private sector have been downgraded over the years. I | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
understand that, but this is not an issue of private pension versus | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
public pension. Gill Phillips believes she made a deal which the | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
Government is backing out of. And it will leave her paying more and | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
working longer for less. The future of council chief | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
executive Andrea Hill is still being debated tonight. She has been | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
on leave from Suffolk County Council for the past eight weeks so | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
that allegations against her could be investigated. Let's go live to | :08:29. | :08:39. | |
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Ipswich now and Kevin Burch. These allegations come from of | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
whistle blower in the council. They focus on how things were being run | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
by Andrea Hill. Expenses claims are also being studied. A special panel | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
sat down at around 2pm today to look at the evidence. We have no | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
news as yet. This is the latest chapter in a controversial and | :08:58. | :09:06. | |
turbulent time formed the up -- for the authority. From the start, | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
Andrea Hill was a high earner and high profile. On a salary of | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
�218,000 a year, more than the Prime Minister, hardly surprising. | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
We are �1 billion business. In order to command the best you have | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
to pay the best. It was too much, said critics. Too bad, said the | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
chief executive, insisting it had been an open contest and there were | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
others in similar roles on similar money. But repeatedly she'd be the | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
one under fire. Do you think people think you are hard and that nothing | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
will hurt you? People do not know me. They only know what they say it | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
-- what they see in the media. resisted calls to take a cut in pay, | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
while trying to win backing for a radical package of cuts in services, | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
what they called a new strategic direction, slimming down, | :09:48. | :09:57. | |
outsourcing to save �125 million in four years. Outsourcing Suffolk | :09:57. | :10:05. | |
jobs - is that there? No. Outside, campaigners started to rally. | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
Inside, it seemed, things started to unravel. And with a | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
whistleblower inquiry under way, a new man took over as council leader | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
and swiftly took the new strategic direction of the agenda. Chief | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
executives bring their own style. We feel it is important that the | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
council and the members are the story and not any individual | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
employee. But today, once again, Andrea Hill was the story as this | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
special panel of councillors sat at St Edmund House in Ipswich to | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
discuss the allegations. That debate took place in secret, after | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
the panel rejected an appeal from the media to keep the meeting open. | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
It said the need for confidentiality outweighed the | :10:42. | :10:51. | |
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public interest. Soap why is this all taking so | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
long? Inshore, because it is very complex. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
I spoke to the council a few moments ago. They said they thought | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
it was going to be a long night. These are serious allegations, | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
there are procedures to go through. They want to make sure that | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
everything is done in the correct way. Whatever comes out it that -- | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
comes out of the day, it is going to be pored over by the lawyers for | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
both sides. One thing to bear in mind is that this committee has | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
already sat once and broke up without a decision saying it needed | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
more time. I think it will want to get a decision today. Remember that | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
Andrea Hill has now been offered something like eight weeks. The | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
council has paid out something like �40,000 to have the Chief Executive | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
sitting at home doing nothing. They will not want that to continue. If | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
there is any later of -- for the newsletter and the programme we | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
will bring it to you. Coming up later and the programme: | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
The town aiming to become the first in the country to ban smoking on | :11:52. | :12:02. | |
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its streets. And the moment Diva Hundreds of travellers from illegal | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
pitches at Dale Farm in Essex could get their official notice to leave | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
any day. Basildon councillors are expected to agree tonight to help | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
pay the police costs for what could be a long eviction process. Gareth | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
George is outside Basildon council where the meeting's taking place. | :12:18. | :12:26. | |
Gareth. Well, the travellers are just | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
beginning to arrive here. There have been protests about Dale Farm | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
for ten years, but this really could be the last. It is desperate | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
for the travellers now. They are literally one meeting away from | :12:39. | :12:46. | |
eviction. Dale Farm sprawls across green belt near Basildon. Around | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
half of the 100 or so pictures were built without planning permission. | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
After a 10-year legal battle, the bulldozers could be just weeks a | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
wall. I will not go without a fight. They might as well bring the army | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
here to get us out. As far as Teddy is concerned, the eviction cannot | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
happen soon enough. He lives just up the road from Dale Farm. He says | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
that, because the form is so close, his house is worth a lot less. -- | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
because the farm. It is worth around �100,000 less than what I | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
would get for it if they go. Before the eviction can begin, councillors | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
need to take care of the details about who will pay for it. The | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
council needs to confirm in writing that it will contribute �1.2 | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
million towards the police costs. Essex Chief Constable says that is | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
the last piece of the jigsaw. The travellers'' spokesman made this | :13:50. | :14:00. | |
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plea on behalf of the families children are born in Basildon | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
Hospital. They are residents and I think it is brittle and in human to | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
even think about wanting to throw them out of the district. | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
decade-long battle to stay could soon be over. After tonight's | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
meeting the bailiffs could come calling. | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
I am joined by Mary-Ann McCarthy, a long-standing Dale Farm resident. | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
Why do you not just leave? It would save everyone a lot of money. | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
very easy to say leave. Leave to wear? We have no place to go. We | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
bought our land where we are. They say that we are breaking the law. | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
If the meeting does not go your way this evening, the bailiffs could be | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
round to more morning, couldn't they? Yes, they could. What can we | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
do? Are you going to fight to save your homes that it comes to an | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
eviction? Yes, there is definitely going to be a fight, and a big | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
fight at that. I am going to get my 22 grandchildren in my home. Idea | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
many of the bailiffs to put their hand on them. Thank you very much. | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
The council says that the travellers have broken the law and | :15:10. | :15:19. | |
they must be removed. A verdict of accidental death has | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
been recorded on the cricket commentator Trevor Bailey. The | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
former Test cricketer, who was 87, died in a fire at his home at | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
Westcliff-on-Sea earlier this year. The inquest in Southend heard that | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
the fire may have started in a toaster, but investigators couldn't | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
be sure. The furniture retailer Wallace King | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
is closing its Norwich store after more than 100 years in the city. | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
The group said current trading was tough and there was no one to carry | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
on the family-run store. The company also has shops in Diss and | :15:42. | :15:50. | |
Cambridge. A clerk who stole nearly �69,000 | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
from four parish councils in Norfolk has been jailed for 18 | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
months. Beverly Boughen spent some of the money on her daughter's | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
wedding. The judge said she committed "a dreadful breach of | :15:58. | :16:08. | |
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trust". There were then held as senior position of finance officer | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
on four parish councils. She admitted stealing money from all | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
four, including �20,000 from Burnham market, where she had | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
control of the parish finances for four years. The chair of the Parish | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
Council would not go on camera but issued a statement saying, she was | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
very good at making excuses about why we could not see the books. We | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
are angry that we put our trust in someone who chose to took us to the | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
cleaners. We will put in place procedures to make sure something | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
like this does not happen again. This breach of trust was described | :16:44. | :16:54. | |
as dreadful in court. She was able to write cheques to other accounts | :16:54. | :17:04. | |
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by forging the signature of parish council members. She used �4,000 to | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
pay for her daughter's wedding and a holiday to Spain. There are now | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
calls for more training for local councillors, hopefully leading to | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
better scrutiny and preventing similar frauds in the future. | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
would personally like to see it be mandatory for all councillors to be | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
trained Postle -- properly. That is not the case at the moment and our | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
association does its best to encourage all councillors to be | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
trained in the basics of council work and what their | :17:33. | :17:41. | |
responsibilities are. The convicted women will spend 18 | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
months in jail. Sales at Greene King have passed | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
the �1 billion mark for the first time. But the Suffolk-based pubs | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
and brewery group warned trading for the current year would be tough, | :17:53. | :18:03. | |
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with consumers under pressure. Companies are having a second go at | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
getting money out of the Government's Regional Growth Fund. | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
In the first round, 9 out of 10 bids from this region were turned | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
down. Thousands of jobs are at stake. Lotus's on the tail of a | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
Government grant - �10 million to build five new cars at Hethel in | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
Norfolk, creating 1,100 new jobs. Without the money from the Regional | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
Growth Fund, three of the cars would be built abroad. In order | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
support the UK economy, we thought it might be a good idea to invest | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
more money into a man of -- into another factory. We asked for the | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
money to build a new factory to allow us to manufacture all of her | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
five cars on the site. This is Lotus's second go at getting money. | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
In the first round of bidding earlier this year, 24 bits from the | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
East went in. Only two were accepted. Bids also go in today for | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
the Government's new enterprise zones, giving companies tax breaks | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
and help with getting faster broadband. Applications are being | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
made for Yarmouth and Lowestoft, Harlow and Alconbury in | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
Cambridgeshire. Development of the former airbase, close to the A1, | :19:07. | :19:16. | |
would create 8000 jobs, say its backers. We would like to attract | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
hi-tech manufacturing companies. There might be local companies that | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
need to grow. There might be companies in Cambridge. Cambridge | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
companies find it very difficult to move on into larger premises. They | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
would be more than welcome here. The worry is that project in the | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
east will once more be less favoured by the Government than | :19:36. | :19:46. | |
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those in other regions. You're watching BBC Look East. Coming up: | :19:48. | :19:56. | |
How Diva's daring dash came to a dramatic end. | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
Next, the town which could soon be asking people to stay about the | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
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facts completely. -- stub out their cigarettes. A councillor in Stony | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
Stratford wants a total outdoor smoking ban, like the one that been | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
brought in New York. It could be achieved by bringing in a bylaw, | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
but will this man and his lone crusade gathered the support he | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
needs? Smokers in Stony Stratford could be breathing their last | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
because of a suggestion that has come from this man. There are | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
cigarette butts of the place. One would not want to see people | :20:33. | :20:41. | |
spitting in front of them. They are covered in saliva. There is second- | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
hand smoke and your clothes smelling of smoke as you walk by. | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
There is a danger also two young children in pushchairs. It is | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
already up -- so idiotic and stupid. I have never heard anything so | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
ridiculous in my life. If they line up all the smokers and shoot them - | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
- if they want to line up all the smokers and shoot them, now might | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
be a good time. There is support in some quarters. | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
In some ways it is worse now because every time you come out it | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
is right on the doorstep. It would be better if they had designated | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
areas. If you want to smoke you can do it in your own home, can't you? | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
Run for smokers is being squeezed out. The original Ban Ki-Moon in | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
2007. It will soon be illegal to display cigarettes in shops. Stony | :21:29. | :21:39. | |
Stratford is the first place to consider a complete ban. We do all | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
sorts of things to attract people to the town. The last thing you | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
want to be doing is driving people away. We do not want to put signs | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
up saying do not come here, we do not want to. Madness or maverick, | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
the suggestion will go before the town council next month. We do it | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
with dog mess, we can do it with cigarette butts. Smokers, watch | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
out! If you have a comment about that | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
story or you think you know something else we should be | :22:11. | :22:21. | |
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investigating, please get in touch. Please leave your daytime telephone | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
number so we can get in touch. Imagine being woken up and being | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
told by the police to keep your children and pets indoors because a | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
seven-and-a-half foot-long bowler constrictor is on the loose. That | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
is what happened in Ipswich this morning. Luckily, this story does | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
have a happy ending. This is Diva. When she went missing | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
last night she caused a lot of concern. It was a bit scary, really. | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
It has not eaten for three weeks. I have three young children. I was | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
pretty scared because I didn't know if it would have killed me a lot. | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
Diva is in season. That is probably why she escaped. Not only our her | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
hormones raging, she is also mean and lean. Her last meal was three | :23:20. | :23:29. | |
weeks ago. They have backward curving teeth. They eat small | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
mammals and birds. They're quite opportunistic. When Beat a's owner | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
got home from work she was in for a surprise. Hello, sweetheart. Come | :23:41. | :23:51. | |
:23:51. | :23:52. | ||
on! She is strong, isn't she? would pull you along the floor. | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
There you go, sweetheart. Who's a good girl? We have been speaking to | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
neighbours who were worried. How do you feel now that you have got a? | :24:03. | :24:11. | |
Relieved. She is not the friendliest of snakes. She is not | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
life-threatening but if she bites you she will cause a nasty injury. | :24:14. | :24:24. | |
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I will put her back in the tank. why not just have a cat or dog? | :24:27. | :24:37. | |
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be the dead and the snake ate them! -- maybe they did. | :24:43. | :24:52. | |
At least she is back safe and sound. Are you a fan of States? -- of | :24:52. | :25:00. | |
I quite like them but I would not keep on! It has been a fine day | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
with high pressure slowly building to the south-west. There were clear | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
skies across much of southern England to start the day. As the | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
day progressed, the shower clouds started to gather. You can see how | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
much thicker they got through the afternoon. You can see where one or | :25:19. | :25:27. | |
two showers fell. There was the order rumble of thunder in Norfolk. | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
One or two showers will linger but most of them will fade in the | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
evening. One or two showers lingering in parts of Norfolk and | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
Suffolk, but during the course of the night the cloud will break up | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
to give us largely clear skies. Temperatures could drop down to | :25:45. | :25:52. | |
single figures in some places. The further east you are, temperatures | :25:52. | :26:00. | |
hold up at ten Celsius. Tomorrow, you can see that the high pressure | :26:00. | :26:08. | |
moves closer. That promises that the start of July will be fine with | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
clear skies. As the temperatures increase we will see the cloud | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
bubbling up through the morning and into the afternoon. It could bring | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
an isolated shower, but for most places it looks like a dry day with | :26:21. | :26:31. | |
:26:31. | :26:36. | ||
spawn let -- dry day with pleasant sunny spells. The winds are light | :26:36. | :26:45. | |
and north-westerly. Through the afternoon, we still keep the risk | :26:45. | :26:55. | |
:26:55. | :26:57. | ||
of one or two isolated showers. On the whole, at drier day. The next | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
five days are very settled indeed. It looks like a fine weekend with | :27:01. | :27:11. | |
:27:11. | :27:14. | ||
plenty of sunshine. The beginning of next week stays fine unsettled. | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
Very pleasant weather indeed. Temperatures dip down to single | :27:19. | :27:29. | |
:27:29. | :27:33. |