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A day of carnage on roads in this region - five people are killed in | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
just a few hours. Hello, welcome to Look East with | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
Susie and me. Also tonight: We're all going on a summer holiday - | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
eventually. Ryanair apologises after disabled passengers are left | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
grounded. And and nothing was explained to us | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
and this is why it was so appalling. The way that we were treated when | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
they knew already that we wear and getting on the aircraft. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
From the Baltic Sea to Bury St Edmunds, Kaspars is bringing home | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
the bacon. And on the last hot and humid day, | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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I'll have news of rain on the way. Hello. It's been a black start to | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
the holidays on the region's roads with five people killed in three | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
separate accidents. Two of the victims were from Lithuania. They | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
were driving back to the ferry after six weeks of seasonal work. | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
This is where those three separate accidents happened. The migrant | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
workers were both 18 and driving to Dover early yesterday afternoon | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
when their car left the road and hit a tree near the A12, just south | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
hit a tree near the A12, just south of Ipswich. Two other teenagers | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
were seriously hurt. Later, a couple in their 80s were killed on | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
the A120 near Little Bentley just before 6pm yesterday evening. And, | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
two hours later, a biker crashed into the central reservation of the | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
A11 at Barton Mills near Mildenhall. Let's go to Suffolk now, and Alex | :01:35. | :01:45. | |
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Stewart, the Lithuanian teenagers had only just begun their long | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
journey home when, inexplicably, their car left the A12 and hit that | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
tree. This was a particularly horrific crash, and particularly | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
poignant. The four friends were heading to the port of Dover and | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
then back on to Lithuania to see thier loved ones over the summer | :02:02. | :02:12. | |
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holiday. You can see where the car broke | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
hard on the southbound carriageway before ploughing head-on into this | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
tea. The driver and passenger were both killed. To back seat | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
passengers were seriously injured. Four young men, they're all 17 or | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
18, actually visiting this country. My understanding is they did five | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
or six weeks of work on local farms and so on. They were earning money | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
and improving the English. They were students from Lithuania. | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
They were heading home? Yes, heading to Dover to catch a ferry. | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
I spoke to the recruitment agency which hired the workers. They were | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
too upset to comment. Hundreds of young Eastern Europeans find some | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
more work locally. Among them, one looking to buy a car. Some of my | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
friends used cars to get from our country. It is more difficult to | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
drive here because you want to drive fast, and you should ask your | :03:12. | :03:20. | |
friend at to see if you can. There left-hand-drive? Yes. Before they | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
come here, they should be encouraged to take lessons on the | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
road, even two or three lessons with an instructor. To get to know | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
the roads and the rules and to get used to how people died here. | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
Essex yesterday evening, a couple in their late Eighties were killed | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
after a collision at this junction on their A120. Today, police named | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
a 21-year-old motorcyclist who died after hitting the central | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
reservation on the A11. How the Lithuanians died is still a mystery. | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
Police hope drivers may come forward as the piece together what | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
happened. Two families of those killed and | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
injured here at Capel St Mary have now flown in from Lithuania. The | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
others be here by Friday. Police say there was no common factor in | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
all these crashes, and that you do occasionally get sudden unrelated | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
spikes in fatalities. But it's a brutal fact - that five people have | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
died on our region's roads within just just nine hours. | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
Making the roads safer can cost a lot of money. This year, with money | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
scarce, some councils even thought about scrapping speed cameras. But | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
in Norfolk today, a new initiative aimed at cutting the number of | :04:34. | :04:43. | |
accidents. A county council investment of | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
�100,000 will provide around 20 flashing signs like this, warning | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
motorists to a draw travelling too fast. There are only activated when | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
you draw the speed limit, so they tell you what speed you should be | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
doing, but of course, there is a police officer down the road with | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
his little camera and if he catches you, you have no excuse. | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
Metropolitan Police tried a radar device in the 1950s to detect | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
speeding motorists. For those who overstep the mark, there is a | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
raised arm and a friendly warning. It was the 1990s before the first | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
official speed cameras arrived. Norfolk has around 10 cameras, | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
largely funded by the speed awareness courses offered as an | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
alternative to points on a licence. This camera on the outskirts of | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
Norwich catches -- catches around 150 motorists a month. The cameras | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
are one element of speed management. This works along with community | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
speed watch and flashing signs and rigorous police work, and they do | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
work. Speed cameras are not entirely reliable so drivers get a | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
certain leeway. The Chief of Police officers says the formula is 10% | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
plus two mph, so when a 30 mph limit, a speed of 36 would trigger | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
prosecution. Essex police have taken to you tuned to catch -- | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
announced a clampdown on motorcyclists will stop despite the | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
carnage yesterday, the number of casualties on the region's roads | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
continues on a downward trend. Police and most councils believe | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
speed detection cameras have played their part and if you to stay. | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
Ryanair is under fire again after it refused to board disabled | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
passengers on a flight for Spain. In total, five passengers were left | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
behind. It upped the staff at Luton airport told them the Captain | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
didn't want to miss his take-off slot. Tonight, they have been told | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
they will qualify for denied boarding compensation, but they say | :06:41. | :06:51. | |
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Ryanair has still not offered them a direct apology. Finally enjoying | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
at the short break plan to celebrate his mother more's 85th | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
birthday. The short break was made shorter and more expensive still | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
after they were refused to be allowed to board. We were there in | :07:02. | :07:10. | |
ample time and everything was proceeding as usual. The first we | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
knew was when I heard the boarding staff say the captain is refusing | :07:14. | :07:23. | |
to load. Even when we were escorted back landside, the plane was still | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
on the tarmac. Eddie stubbles on stairs, and the same is true, but | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
both are one to try instead of being left behind. There was no | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
communication with us whatsoever, it was absolutely appalling. That | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
is why I am so let raged, because they didn't apologise. They didn't | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
say we will do with our we can to get you in the next flight. They | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
did not say anything. It was appalling. It is not the first time | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
Ryanair has been in trouble. In 2004, the company lost a High Court | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
battle with a Bob Ross who was forced to pay to use a wheelchair | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
at Stansted. A year later, a party of blind and partially sighted | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
passengers were invalid on the plane because they had until dry | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
their winner but the flights. Error this year, a woman successfully | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
sued the company after her husband was forced to give a fireman's lift | :08:19. | :08:29. | |
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onto one of their planes. In a Apologised as saying... I still | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
can't believe it. We were just ignored basically, and that is a | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
problem. The industry code of practice says they shouldn't have | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
happened. Until they get this right, a dark cloud hangs over anyone who | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
needs help to travel. Lots more to come in Look East, | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
including the changing face of our workforce. Hear what the | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
immigration minister has to say about migrant workers. | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
If your children don't know where a sausage comes from - keep watching. | :08:58. | :09:07. | |
Plus Mike has gone "Glamping": This is the traditional view of camping. | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
You turn up, throw up the tent and put on a barbecue. If you've never | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
really fancy that, there is something different - a bit posher, | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
and they tell you more about it later. | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Cereal farmers in the region say the wheat harvest this year will be | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
down by up to 60% on some types of land. The summer rain arrived too | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
late for many but some farmers have done better than others. | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
It's one of the biggest combine harvesters in the world, bringing | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
home the wheat. For some farmers, this will be a bitter harvest, | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
thanks to the drought. These farmers farm a few miles from each | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
other, just outside Cambridge. While Charles's wheat yield is down | :09:58. | :10:07. | |
10%, some of Andrew's will be down 60%. Why? And a's land is light. It | :10:07. | :10:17. | |
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died out in the drought. The rains came to allow it to do much good. - | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
- too late. Will for some higher prices will allow us to do okay. | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
When Charles's land, it is a different story. Because it is clay | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
land, it is able to retain moisture better. At the end of May, when we | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
hadn't had brains are effectively three once, we were facing disaster. | :10:40. | :10:48. | |
Since then, we have had significant rain, up to 60 mm. That has enabled | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
the brains to fill and has averted what would have been a disaster. | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
The new wheat is starting to pour into this grain store near | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
Cambridge. I have been in farming for over 20 years and have never | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
seen anything quite like this, the difference between light land and | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
heavier land with their heavy land keeping the crop going until the | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
rains came, and the crops often dying on the light land. Overall, | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
we'd productivity will be down between 10 and 20%. Not good, but | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
better than some had feared. A number of roads in the centre of | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
Ipswich were cordoned off today while what was described as a | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
domestic incident was investigated by police. Officers were called at | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
6:30 this morning to Fonnereau Road. There was a standoff for a number | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
of hours before a 48-year-old man was arrested. He is being | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
questioned on suspicion of assault and criminal damage. | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
A BBC sports journalist rang Five Live radio early this morning to | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
describe a UFO he saw in the skies above Stansted airport. Mike Sewell | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
said it looked like a circular disc. He said it was circling above a | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
field and was surrounded by flashing lights. Stansted airport | :11:52. | :12:02. | |
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said it was unaware of anything out of the ordinary. | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
A former Norwich City footballer and an MP from Norfolk have started | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
a 1,300 mile bike ride for charity. Jeremy Goss and Norman Lamb are | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
hoping to raise thousands of pounds for four local charities. | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
Many villages have lost their pub. But people in Shottisham in Suffolk | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
are determined not to let it happen to them. They have launched an | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
ambitious plan to buy their pub. And after just six weeks' | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
fundraising, they're close to succeeding. | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
Shottisham, where the post office shut long ago. At the village's | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
heart, the historic Sorrel Horse. When the villagers found it was to | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
close, they decided to try to buy it. For a hundred �1,000 were | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
needed and people were offered a chance to buy shares in the | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
business. In just six weeks, they have raised �300,000. As someone | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
who used a pub regularly, I just wanted to be part of it. I always | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
said it would buy the pub a vote on the lottery. That hasn't happened, | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
so when do what I can just now. There is no piped music, no pool | :13:04. | :13:12. | |
table either. Bar billiards is a favourite pastime here. The Sorrel | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
Horse is a rarity - a pub that has not been spoiled. As in the levy is | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
on their pubs owned a committee. The minimum investment is �500 and | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
he has been amazed by the response so far. The intention is that the | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
business will be able to pay dividends to shareholders will get | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
some return. The truth is that for most people, it is partly about | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
been -- getting some return, but it is really about being part of the | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
organisation. The offer has been extended to people living further | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
afield. The hope is the final �150,000 can be saved this month to | :13:48. | :13:58. | |
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All this week on Look East we are looking at the subject of a migrant | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
workers'. The number of foreign workers in our region has climbed | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
to 77,000. Many employers choose to hire | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
foreign nationals because they believe they work hard and are more | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
reliable than local people. We will hear what the immigration | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
minister has to say, but first the story of one migrant worker making | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
a successful life in Suffolk. Clocking in for the start of | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
another eight hour shift. It is a familiar routines. This man has | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
worked at this bacon factory for the past two years. I like working | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
here. I am in a position which I have really enjoyed. I am satisfied | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
with what I am doing and I think the factory is satisfied with me. | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
So satisfied, they promoted him to management in under a year. Not bad | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
for someone who, when he arrived six years ago, could barely speak | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
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English. I do my best. I give 100%. I try it to do my best. That is | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
what it is. The factory employs around 500 workers and produces 750 | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
tonnes of bacon a week. For working on the factory floor, the company | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
pays just above the minimum wage. The majority of workers here are | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
from Eastern Europe and the Baltic states. Only a fraction are British. | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
This company for the last 12 years, they would not survive. It is their | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
willingness to work hard. They seem to want to learn and do well. They | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
are not here just for the money, they are here to further their | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
careers. With the new promotion have come at new perks. He has | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
moved in with his girlfriend to this newly refurbished flat. If | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
things continue to go well, he hopes they will be able to buy | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
their own home. Hardly the aspirations of someone passing | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
through for the money. I think after five-10 years I will still be | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
here. I really enjoy a where I am. What I'm going to do, what my | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
dreams are, I will keep to myself. If I am going to tell, the dreams | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
do not come true. Of course, the government wants to get people off | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
benefits and back to work. As we have seen, some employers prefer to | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
get workers from Eastern Europe. How can the Government persuade | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
British workers to take jobs they do not really want? They question | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
for a Damian Green. The first thing you can do it is saved if they are | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
not doing their jobs even the way they are capable of doing them, | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
they cannot claim jobseeker's allowance. Reform of the benefit | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
system is crucial to this. For those who are recalcitrant, if they | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
cannot live on benefits when they should be working, and they are not | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
allowed to, then they will have to change their attitude. It does, for | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
many people, go deeper than that. It involves them coming out of | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
school or college, not just with the necessary skills to take the | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
jobs on offer, but the necessary attitude as well. What message can | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
British workers take from migrant workers from Eastern Europe? If you | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
work hard, if you were skilled, and if your attitude is right, there | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
are jobs available in this country. There is the potential to get on | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
and live off this route of your own labour. That is a much more | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
satisfactory way of living your life than it looking to the benefit | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
system is. Do employers have to start paying above the minimum wage | :17:52. | :18:00. | |
to attract UK workers? Employers will pay the rate for the job. Many | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
good employers will not instinctively say, what is the | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
cheapest I can get away with. They recognise the benefits of having a | :18:08. | :18:15. | |
loyal, and well motivated workforce. A lot of them will actually say, I | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
do want the cheapest. If the cheapest I can get is from Eastern | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
Europe, I will go for it them. way markets work is that employers | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
who might pay a bit more if will end up getting the best workers. | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
There is not an inexhaustible supply of people who will work at | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
the lowest possible level. It is for employers to decide what they | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
will pay. What governments can do is their best to encourage | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
individuals and give British individuals the tools so they can | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
compete for those jobs and have the right attitude to want to do those | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
jobs. Well central government help those places like Peterborough | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
where we have seen schools under pressure from the number of migrant | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
workers bringing their children here. We have seen health centres | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
under pressure for. What we have seen over the past 10 years is | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
large, unplanned arrivals of people which schools and health centres | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
did not know about. That is what has put the extra pressure on, | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
particularly if they cannot speak English in schools. They were extra | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
pressures that school could not plan for a. And that will stop in | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
the future? We had taken action across the board to bring down net | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
migration so those providing public services will be able to plan | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
sensibly about the people they will see arriving in the years ahead. | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
Tomorrow night we go to Peterborough where the local police | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
have the power to repatriate immigrants who fail to get a job. | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
There has always been a good reasons to grow your own food. It | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
is cheaper, tastes better than what is on offer in the supermarkets, | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
but the trouble is not everyone has green fingers. | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
At St Ives in Cambridge or more people are learning to breed and | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
grow their own. It is in a Andrei Bondarenko. And it helps children | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
understand where are food comes from. -- Farm Club. | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
A dip in the water. As the pigs take it easy, for the club members | :20:25. | :20:35. | |
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From toddlers to teenagers, this place seems to fascinate them all. | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
Do you remember why we turn that the eggs? Yes. If you don't turn | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
them, one side will get hotter than the other and the cheque will not | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
hatch. Carole Bailey bought the land three years ago to get out of | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
the rat race and back to nature. She provided egg laying hens for | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
families to keep at home. About 18 months ago I set up plots of land | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
for those families and as we have been working together ever since | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
growing our own vegetables and rearing our own food. I brought my | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
friends because we would like to grow our own vegetables and we do | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
not know how to do it. Carole Bailey has a lot of information he | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
us. A lot of that advice comes from the on side horticulturalist. | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
Everybody is really friendly. The kids can run around and see where | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
all the vegetables are coming from. A club teaches that food does not | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
just appear in the supermarket, it takes dedication to grow it and | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
with animals, strength to send them to slaughter for all stopped you | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
have to have a clear divide between your pets and the animals you are | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
reeling. Everybody is keen to know where their food comes from. | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
Workshops, breakfast clubs and soon cooking courses for teenagers are | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
all part of the plan. There is always time for relaxing as well. | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
We have just been talking about our camping experiences. | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
You have done a lot of it. I spent nearly half a night in one | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
before a Calum knocked my tent Downs. | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
I do not think I have managed have an night in this country. | :22:25. | :22:33. | |
You do not have to put up with crunched tense any more. | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
This is glamping, glamourous calm things. We are at a holiday park | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
and this is the kind of thing you get when you go glamping. Have a | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
look. They put the tent up for you. Then you get a bed, which seems | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
like a step forward. You get a lovely little heater, a gas hob and | :22:56. | :23:06. | |
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a refrigerator, and yes, glamping is very much the way forward. | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
This family, glamping it up on the Suffolk coast. Mum couldn't face | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
camping, so they ended up glamping instead so. What were you afraid | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
of? Being uncomfortable on the floor. Perhaps not proper toilets | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
or showers. I wanted to go proper camping with good facilities. And I | :23:31. | :23:39. | |
like the idea of having a proper bed. Tim it runs the group that has | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
eight holiday parks around the region including this one. He has | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
just bought a new site for 650,000 pints and plans to spend around �2 | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
million on making this an up market campsite. It will take about 10 | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
years to develop. Next year will just be camping, and subject to | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
planning we will develop it out with a log cabins, hopefully a | :24:04. | :24:12. | |
swimming pool, shop and bar. You do not necessarily need to do this, | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
you can still camp. This is a family from Hertfordshire who are | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
very happy with their tent and their �22 a night pitch. What | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
happens if it rains? You stay in the tent more. Then you start usual | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
imagination are more. You do not go to the beach, but to find something | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
else to do. So, if you fancy a few nights under the stars, but cannot | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
quite get to grips with the lack of creature comforts, there is | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
glamping. Not always cheap, but arguably much more cheerful. | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
Whether you are camping or glamping, you definitely need the weather and | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
the skies are beginning to look a little dark. We need to find out | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
what those black clouds are going to do. | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
I was just enjoying some evening sunshine here but it has started to | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
cloud over. It is the end of a very hot and humid day. Temperatures | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
getting up to 29 Celsius, Cambridge 30 degrees. It is all going to | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
change over the next 24 hours. We will see cooler, fresher conditions | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
after quite a bit of heavy rainfall stop you can see where the area of | :25:28. | :25:38. | |
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Today has been hot and humid, it has been very unstable. It has | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
triggered some hefty thunderstorms and the radar chart shows where | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
those fell today. There are a few sharp showers still around, but the | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
trend is for them to fade at this evening. It is cloudy here, but a | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
find end to the day for many people. Overnight lows, still a warm, muggy | :26:00. | :26:08. | |
night. The winds are light south to south-westerly. Tomorrow, you can | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
see where the pressure is. It will bring some heavy rain. The timing | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
is fairly tricky. In the west of the region it will arrive late | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
morning. It will track north eastwards. The east of the region | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
getting the rainfall in the afternoons. It is likely to be | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
heavy and persistent. Temperatures will fall quite dramatically from | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
where they are today. The winds light, southeast relief. Through | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
the afternoon, that rain will start to clear. It might brighten up in | :26:42. | :26:50. | |
the West, staying cloudy towards the evening. Here is the next five | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
days. We are expecting a fine day for Friday with highs of 23 degrees. | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
Mostly dry for Saturday but it is Sunday we could get some heavy | :26:59. | :27:06. | |
showers. The beginning of next week looks like a grey and wet start | :27:06. | :27:15. | |
If you are going camping in the next few weeks, why not take a | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
couple of photographs and post them on the low key East Facebook page. | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
And if you are camping tomorrow, I am very sorry about the reins. | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
So tomorrow is going to be bad? I would not fancy a night under | :27:31. | :27:38. |