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The killer who works indiscriminately, destroying | :00:04. | :00:14. | |
thousands of lives every year. In Look East tonight: why deaths | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
from asbestos are continuing to rise years after it was banned. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
This man died last Christmas, aged just 48. He was about 13 stone, and | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
went down to eight stone in just a few months. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
Hello and welcome to the programme. Also tonight: | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
The most expensive company you've probably never heard of. Why | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Autonomy of Cambridge is worth billions. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
On the streets to "save our fields" - the residents protesting in | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Basildon. And if you're tired of lugging your | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
tent and camping gear to music festivals, how about one of these? | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
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Stay tuned, and I'll have all the First tonight, why hundreds of | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
people in our region are dying from a cancer caused by asbestos, and | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
why that death toll will continue to rise. In the frontline - | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
builders and carpenters who worked with the killer material until it | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
was finally banned in 1999. Also affected, many wives and partners, | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
because they inhaled the dust as they washed the clothes. And | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
figures compiled by Look East show how the number of people dying in | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
our region has grown in recent years. It will probably continue | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
rising. These numbers for 2010 show the hotspots. In Essex, 115 people | :01:36. | :01:45. | |
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died last year. In Norfolk, 53 died. Two years ago, Derek was given only | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
five years to live. He is a carpenter, and inhaled asbestos. | :01:57. | :02:07. | |
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am angry that I had been using it. A little bit of it was disbelief, | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
denial. There are different stages you go through when you are told | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
you have cancer. A asbestos has been used in building materials | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
since the 1950s, but it's dust can cause a landing along the long | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
called mesothelioma, and deaths from it are at an all-time high. | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
The figures have continued to increase over recent years, which | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
reflects occupational exposures that occurred many years ago, | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
because there is a long time lag between exposure in most cases and | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
the onset of the disease. Her last year in Essex, inquests were hurled | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
into the deaths of more than 100 people with industrial disease. | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
Virtually all of them had been exposed to asbestos. In an inquest | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
how he into the death of 77-year- old Patricia Colette, the coroner | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
heard how she had been exposed to asbestos while working as a | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
seamstress. She also watched her husband's clothes after he came | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
home from working on demolition sites. That is just one example of | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
how something that was supposed to be a wonder building material has | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
turned into a killer. The killer who works indiscriminately, | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
destroying thousands of lives every year. Another of his victims, Tom's | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
so well. He worked with asbestos as an apprentice. This photo was taken | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
last Christmas a couple of weeks before he died. Doctors told him he | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
was exceptionally young to be diagnosed with mesothelioma. His | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
family lost him at just 48. It he lost an incredible amount of weight. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
He was about 13 stone, and he went down to eight stone in just a few | :03:45. | :03:53. | |
months. It is shocking, really. And he had problems with breathing. And | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
also the mental torment of it was horrific for him as well, just | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
being Serie gang and knowing that you will not spend the rest of your | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
life with your family. How much do you miss him as a family? | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
Desperately miss him, because he was a big part of our lives. It has | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
been awful. The Health and Safety Executive expect deaths from | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
mesothelioma to rise for the next five years. They are continuing to | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
warn people about asbestos. It was used extensively all the way up | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
until 1999, when it was finally banned. So we have quite a stock of | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
buildings which have asbestos containing materials. Derek Reeve | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
hopes the continued warnings about asbestos are he did so that others | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
do not suffer. Some days, you get very depressed. You have not got | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
long, and it is like an egg timer running out. That there is every | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
indication that this killer will still be with us for some time to | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
come. Earlier, I spoke to Dr Mark Slade, | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
a consultant at Papworth Hospital near Cambridge. It is one of the | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
leading hospitals in the country for dealing with mesothelioma. I | :05:04. | :05:13. | |
started by asking him what effect asbestos had on the body. Asbestos | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
is harmful because it is a rock at Kerrin in very sharp fibres. So | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
when it is breathed in as these microscopic fibres, they can work | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
their way through the tissues in the lungs, so you get long-standing | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
inflammation, particularly in the lining of the ribcage. That can go | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
on for many years or decades, and lead to different diseases, | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
particularly in the lining of the rib cage. The worst of these is | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
manga mesothelioma, a cancer of the lung lining, which typically has an | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
on set period of 30 to 50 years after exposure. If people who have | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
been in contact with asbestos many years ago sought treatment earlier, | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
could things like mesothelioma be prevented? We do not think so, | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
because there is no known prevention, unfortunately. Once the | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
fibres are in there, they are distributed microscopically through | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
the lining of the ribcage and there would not be any way of getting | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
them out again. We do not know of any agent or drug that could | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
prevent that long-standing information from leading eventually | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
to mesothelioma. In a small proportion of patients. I know that | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
there is a special trial going on at Papworth Hospital is involved | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
with, and innovative surgical approach to mesothelioma. Can you | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
tell us about that? Yes, that is keyhole surgery on the chest cavity. | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
The trial is exploring whether doing an operation to remove as | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
much of the tumour as possible at the beginning of the patient's | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
treatment will improve the outcome. Sadly, there is no surgical cure | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
for mesothelioma. Do but we believe that if one removes as much as one | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
can, that will help people to have better symptoms and to live longer | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
than they would if you simply treated them with other treatments | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
like chemotherapy or radiotherapy alone. | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
And if you or your family have been affected by asbestos, we would be | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
keen to hear your story. You can call us or e-mail us in the usual | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
way. A high-tech company from Cambridge | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
is about to be sold for an amazing �7 billion. More details on the | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
deal in a moment. But first, a bit about the man behind Autonomy. They | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
call him Britain's Bill Gates, but everything about Mike Lynch is East | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
Anglian. He lives in rural Suffolk. He grew up in Chelmsford, where his | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
father was a fireman, his mother a nurse. He studied engineering at | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
Cambridge University, and founded Autonomy in 1996 with a �2,000 loan. | :08:00. | :08:10. | |
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But now Hewlett-Packard have agreed to pay an awful lot more. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
Grey window frames, a box on a business park. This is Britain's | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
Police software company. Its sale, the second-largest in software | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
history, a massive �7.1 billion. Mike Lynch founded it. When you | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
have the kind of people you can find in this part of the world, | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
incredibly creative and innovative people, give them the technology, | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
and they start creating more. You can create a world-class thing. | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
Last year, the Duke of York visited here. Then and now, a time of tough | :08:44. | :08:52. | |
all started. But Autonomy has seen huge profits. Computers here design | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
software so that computers can understand things like | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
conversations, television, read e- mails, read Facebook, even | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
understand tweets. Hewlett Packard is a world giant in computing and | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
hardware. In the takeover, Mike Lynch will make half a billion, | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
�500 million, becoming one of Britain's wealthiest men. Staff | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
will share profits of �30 million, but what does this mean for the | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
company and for Cambridge, home of hi-tech by a tech industry? HPA is | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
largely a hardware business. It is buying in software expertise to | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
create a whole new business. The management and R'n'B are staying | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
here. The influence in HP is coming out of here. So this is very good | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
news for Cambridge and the UK. name Autonomy will stay, along with | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
its boss. As our biggest software company is now a small part of | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
something much bigger. A teenager has appeared in court | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
accused of inciting a riot in Northampton. Aidan Curwen was | :09:56. | :10:06. | |
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remanded in custody. Today 18-year-old Aidan Curwen from | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
Northampton appeared here for his first crown court hearing. He is | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
charged with using an instant messaging service to incite a riot. | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
On 9th August, Aidan Curwen is accused of using the BlackBerry | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
messaging service on his phone to send messages to 147 people. The | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
Crown Prosecution Service say those messages had the ability to | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
encourage or assist a riot. Today Judge Farrer ordered Aidan Curwen | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
to return here on 21st October, when he will get the chance to | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
enter a plea. In the meantime, his defence team applied for bail, but | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
the application was refused. In Milton Keynes, another teenager, a | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
16-year-old boy who we are not allowed to named for legal reasons, | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
appeared before magistrates charged with public disorder. The boys | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
accused of violent disorder, shoplifting and criminal damage, | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
which is alleged to have taken place in Bletchley on 9th August. | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
He has also been remanded in custody at a young offenders' | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
centre. He will appear before the youth court in until the teams on | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
23rd August. Later in the programme, all the | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
details of this weekend's football matches. | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
And don't fancy camping at the V Festival this weekend? How about a | :11:19. | :11:29. | |
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An MP has called on Essex County Council to take direct control of a | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
care home following the death of a second resident. Robert Halfon says | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
it's vital that no more lives are put at risk at the Partridge Care | :11:41. | :11:51. | |
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Centre in Harlow. Our chief reporter is in Harlow now. | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
It began a fortnight ago, when three residents were admitted to | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
the Princess Alexandra hospital with diabetes related problems. And | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
89-year-old woman died just three days later. The post-mortem is | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
inconclusive. Last night, and 80- year-old woman died. That leaves an | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
elderly gentleman still in the hospital in a serious but stable | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
condition. Police investigations have focused on the way medicines | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
are given out to the relatives, but they say at the moment, the deaths | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
are being treated as unexplained. A 36-year-old woman arrested as part | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
of the police inquiry has been released on bail. | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
What can you tell us about the home itself? It is quite smart. It is | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
purpose-built and run by rushed if Care Ltd, which cares for elderly | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
people with conditions like dementia. In March, the Quality | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
Care Commission inspected it and found seven essential standards | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
were not being met. Today, the local MP has effectively put more | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
pressure on Essex County Council to take direct control of the home so | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
that no more lives are at risk, in his words. In a statement issued a | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
couple of hours ago, Essex County Council confirmed that it had | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
stopped placing people at this home and put intensive support into it, | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
working with staff on an action plan to raise the quality of care. | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
It says safeguarding our most vulnerable is our priority. It says | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
the majority of residents wish to stay on here, but those that wish | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
to move, it will support and encourage to get into alternative | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
accommodation. The UK's leading dementia charity | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
is giving Cambridge University three quarters of a million pounds | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
for research. It'll pay for four projects looking into new | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
treatments. There are more than 800,000 people with dementia in the | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
UK. There's no cure, and drugs can only alleviate the symptoms. An | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
animal sanctuary in Felixstowe which last year was threatened with | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
closure has submitted plans for a bigger new site. Thousands of | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
people signed a petition to save the Blue Cross centre after the | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
charity said it wanted to close it because it was outdated. | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
Residents from across Basildon staged a demonstration in the town | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
centre today. They were protesting at plans to sell off local playing | :14:03. | :14:13. | |
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fields to help pay for a new sports centre. | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
Save our fields! A noisy protest at the Kent new Recreation Ground. The | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
council wants to sell off this field to make way for a new housing | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
development. We feel totally outraged that this administration | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
have stooped so low that they have to develop and sell off children's | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
playing fields. We play football, rounders, have picnics, walked dogs | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
and play. If they take that away, where would we go? The council has | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
built this new �38 million sports centre across town, and needs money | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
to help pay for it. No one from the council was available for interview | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
today, but in a statement, the leader of the council says, in | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
these tough economic times, Basildon council has made the | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
decision to invest in facilities for the good of the whole borough. | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
There is a planned development at Gloucester Park as well, and | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
protesters also marched from there. The old swimming pool has come to | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
the use -- end of his life, so they need to pay for the new one. Yes, | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
but there are other ways to fund this. Why can't they save our part? | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
It is terrible. At the council offices, the protesters made their | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
views known loud and clear. But for now, the council appears unwilling | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
to change its plans. The owners of Old Buckenham Airfield in Norfolk | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
say its future has been secured. There's been an airshow at Old | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
Buckenham for more than ten years, but this year it was cancelled for | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
lack of sponsorship and advertising. The owners say they've now brought | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
more business in with the help of volunteers. Offices and a new | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
business park have been opened. James Stewart and Walter Matthau | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
were both based at Old Buckenham during the war. | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
Their song is one of the traditional sounds of spring, but | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
each year, fewer and fewer cuckoos are returning to Britain. To try to | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
find out why, researchers in Norfolk fitted five birds with | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
satellite tags. If they find out where they go, they hope they might | :16:18. | :16:26. | |
be able to help them come back. It all began with this stuffed | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
cuckoo. This team of researchers used the fake female as a lure to | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
attract and catch male cuckoos. The five birds they managed to catch | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
are now wearing these tiny satellite tracker backpacks. These | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
allow the team to follow the birds on their migration to Africa. The | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
aim is to find out why each year, fewer cuckoos return to Britain. | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
One of the cuckoos was tagged right here on this beautiful nature | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
reserve in Norfolk. But he spent just two months here before setting | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
off for Africa, which is where he and the other four birds will spend | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
the winter. The tags have revealed for the first time exactly where | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
they go on that long journey south. The cuckoo tag on that reserve, | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
named Clement, was the first to set off. After flying to France, he | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
took a westerly route around the Mediterranean to Spain and landed | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
in Africa in July. He has now safely crossed the Sahara and ended | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
in southern Burkina Faso. The other birds were not far behind. Because | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
spring in Britain and Europe as a whole is warming up, they need to | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
get back earlier. Without knowing where they are spending the winter, | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
autumn and spring, we cannot work out where the bottlenecks are which | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
might be limited when they can get back to last. The study could help | :17:50. | :18:00. | |
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conserve the bird that brings with it the defining sound of spring. | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
Sport now, and there's another busy weekend ahead for our football | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
weekend ahead for our football teams. Among the highlights, a | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
regional derby between Peterborough Here's Tom. | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
Starting with news from Ipswich, Paul Jewell says he hasn't given up | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
hope of re-signing this man, Jimmy Bullard. The midfielder enjoyed a | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
successful loan spell last season and spoke to the manager yesterday | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
about a possible return. Onto Saturday's teatime game against | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
Peterborough. Posh have demonstrated real resilience so far. | :18:29. | :18:36. | |
Encouraging signs on their Championship return. | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
All managers wish they were still playing the game, but it is the | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
dug-out for Peterborough's Darren Ferguson tomorrow. His squad is | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
much younger than Ipswich's, and their game plan is high energy, | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
high tempo. We are a fit bunch, so we have to use that to our | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
advantage. Ipswich have endured a rotten week, sinners against the | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
Saints. Questions remain about their defence. No new players | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
signed yet, but Paul Jewell is back in talks with Jimmy bollard. | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
knows the set up here. He knows how we work. All the players and fans | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
loved him. If we can afford to me, we would like to bring him here. | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
Town could do with a win against posh to get them back on track, but | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
history is not on their side. Tell me the last time Ipswich beat | :19:25. | :19:33. | |
Peterborough? I can't remember. am not that good on my history! | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
don't know. This man was in charge at the last time Ipswich beat Posh | :19:40. | :19:48. | |
in 1972. That was the year I was born. Perhaps this man might help. | :19:48. | :19:57. | |
Keith Andrews is bringing the goals for the team. We have had some | :19:57. | :20:06. | |
really good battles. But they are a club I have a lot of time for. I | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
have known their manager a long time. They play some good football. | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
Andrews goes to to toe with Pot's Lee Frecklington. He expects Pushed | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
to be on the front foot. We have a young, fit team. We play best at a | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
high tempo. If you look at the first three games so far, that is | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
where we have had success. That Clinton's goal was impressive. So | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
was Posh's resolve. Ipswich will have a fight on their hands at | :20:38. | :20:48. | |
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London Road tomorrow. To the League One games tomorrow. Colchester head | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
to Huddersfield. MK Dons, who are still unbeaten, host Chesterfield, | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
while Stevenage who've also had a good start, take on Hartlepool. All | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
3 o'clock kick-offs. In League Two, Northampton play Cheltenham. | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
Cobblers boss Gary Johnson says his team needs to make amends after a | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
poor performance in midweek. Southend, who also lost on Tuesday, | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
are at home to Burton. In the Premier League, Norwich play their | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
first home game on Sunday. Bad news for James Bigg, a lifelong Canary | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
living in Canada, back here to get married and to take in the Stoke | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
game, but as the match has been put back 24 hours, there's a clash. Now, | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
there's a dilemma! My fiancee is standing next to me. Changing the | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
date of the wedding would probably get me a sharp kick in the | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
unmentionables. So that will not happen. We will forge ahead. It | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
will still be a fantastic occasion and if Norwich can grab three | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
points before we tie the knot, that would be a complete day. | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
Kick off Sunday is at 1.30. There's coverage of all the games on your | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
local BBC radio station. Highlights Saturday night on the Football | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
League Show. Norwich will be on Match of the Day 2 on Sunday night. | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
I think he made the right decision for marital bliss! Just a word | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
about the Norwich City game this weekend. We're sorry we didn't have | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
any of the normal interviews with the manager or players at Norwich | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
City. The club won't let us interview them at the moment. | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
Thousands of people are heading to Hylands Park today in Chelmsford | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
today for one of the country's biggest music events. It's the V | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
festival, of course. Around 170,000 people will see bands like the | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
Arctic Monkeys, Duran Duran and The Kaiser Chiefs. Dawn Gerber is there | :22:23. | :22:32. | |
now. Yes, beautiful weather. The Sun has | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
stayed out, and fans have started to arrive. Most are heading to the | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
main campsite, but a few have opted for something a bit special like | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
this. I am in the luxury camping Arena, where you get a home from | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
home environment. It is hot and sunny, and there are | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
lots of back to carry, but there is an alternative to Basics campaign. | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
You can upgrade to this, pop-up hotel room. Hot showers, a flush of | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
the toilet, a fully air-conditioned room which locks. The luxury pays | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
for itself. The upgrade is worth the money. We have come here for my | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
40th. It was a present. If you were a dwarf, it would be OK. These are | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
the lowest ones. You need to be 4 ft 6 to go in and out. I will tell | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
you in a couple of days, when I probably have a bad back. But this | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
pop-up hotel room does not come cheap. The Costa two people is | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
�2,600, compared to �350 for a basic weekend camping pass for two | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
people. There are cheaper alternatives. There is the gypsy | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
caravan for �1,500 for two people, or the Hotel Bel tent, slightly | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
less at �1,350. Prices also include access to the arena, hospitality | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
and a special car park for the weekend. But are they worth it? | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
air is the demand for it. So we cater for that demand. That is what | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
some people want. And yes, they are quite nice. Wouldn't mind stay | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
there myself! Do you think they are value for money? They cost what | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
they cost. It is quite expensive. With so many new festivals of | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
popping up, how worried are established festivals like V | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
Festival? We do not have any issues finding a line-up? Batted the | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
problem with a number of festivals. There is not enough talent to go | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
round. But being one of the larger establishments, we have no problem | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
getting our bill together. This seems to be a growing trend. Other | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
festivals also offer boutique camping, but with the current | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
economic climate, many of us cannot afford these luxuries. So perhaps | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
it is best not to ditch your tent yet. | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
So not cheap, but very lavish. The music kicks off tomorrow. We had | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
the Arctic Monkeys and Plan B, plus a six in a Olly Murs playing to his | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
home crowd. Lots of people looking forward to that. Eminem and Rihanna | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
on Sunday, but the roads will be busy until Monday, so tune in to | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
BBC Radio Essex to get the latest on the travel. | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
You could go on a very nice holiday for the cost of that pop-up hotel! | :25:21. | :25:30. | |
Part of the fund is surely getting wet and being a be? Yes, it is a | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
good evening for setting up the tents. I think it will stay fine | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
and dry this evening. Nice day today, but it will not stay as nice | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
over the weekend. If you are going to V Festival, it looks as though | :25:46. | :25:56. | |
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both days could provide a shower. Temperatures will start to level | :25:59. | :26:09. | |
Just the hint of a spot of light rain. Temperatures tonight will not | :26:09. | :26:17. | |
for that low. To stay light south- westerly breeze. That does | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
unfortunately leave the front brighter over tomorrow. It will | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
bring us some patchy rain, but also the chance of one or two brighter | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
intervals. The rain could turn up in the south, the North or just | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
about anywhere tomorrow. But it will not last all day. It will be a | :26:33. | :26:43. | |
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cloudy day, with patchy rain, but also a few drier, brighter spells. | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
It looks as though the wind is still south-westerly. In the | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
evening, the last of that rain moves away to give us a bright-ish | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
start on Sunday. But if you look at this area of the chart, a new low | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
develops down there, which comes towards us on Monday night into | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
Tuesday. That will bring us some very wet weather at the beginning | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
of next week. Disappointing tomorrow, not much sunshine. There | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
will be a brighter look to the weather on Sunday. Warm as well. | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
Cloud rapidly increasing on Monday, and very wet on Tuesday. Wednesday | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
starts to improve again. The winds will remain light through most of | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
the weekend, good news if you are in those tense. Night-time | :27:30. | :27:32. |