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Hello and welcome to Look East, with Susie and me.

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Coming up in the next 30 minutes: A major police investigation in

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Ipswich after three teenage girls say they were raped.

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The fake war hero jailed for three years for telling lies about his

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military service. Disbelief at the A14 diversion,

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which takes drivers on a 37-mile tour of the countryside.

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And it's not even nice weather for Lemurs. The full bank holiday

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Specially trained police officers have been spending the day

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comforting three teenage girls, who said they were raped at a flat in

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Ipswich. A friend of the girls, who are all

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aged 15, called the police early this morning. The allegation

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involves a group of men. One, who is 19 years old, has already been

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arrested. Let's get the details now from Alex Dunlop in Ipswich.

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The police are saying this is potentially a very, very serious

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offence. The girls are, who are local, are all friends and to know

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each other, but the police are not saying if they knew their alleged

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attackers off of -- how many men were involved in this group. We

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know there Nineteen-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of rape

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and being in possession of a controlled drug. Police say more

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arrests are likely to happen. All day, a frenzied search inside

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and outside of St Nicholas House. - - a forensic. Today, friends of the

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teenage girls called the police saying that of the three had been

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raped by a group of men in the block of flats in the centre of

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Ipswich. We are now undertaking a serious inquiry with a group of

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colleagues to try and establish what happened and he was involved.

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How much information have you been able to get, bearing good mind the

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age of the girls? It is still very early in the investigation and they

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have been through a very traumatic period. We are working very closely

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with them, but in these types of inquiry, they take considerable

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time, so the process will be on going for several days. Should the

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wider public be concerned or is it an isolated case? A as far as I am

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concerned, it is an isolated case. These types of offences are

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extremely unusual, both in Suffolk and Ipswich. Our local the 19-year-

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old man has been questioned by detectives. -- a local 19-year-old

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man. The girls are being comforted by experienced officers and

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councillors. Many of the people who live in the flats are youngsters. A

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local unit has been set up to reassure local residents.

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Detectives say it is a complex investigation and they are keen for

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witnesses to come forward. So do we know how the girls are

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this evening? But police say the girls are very

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traumatised by what they say has happened to them, so it could take

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several days to build up a picture of exactly what happened. I spoke

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to one resident in the block of flats and he said there had been a

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big party going on in the block of flats throughout most of the night,

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but there is no evidence that it is linked to the alleged attack. We

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have 25 officers now have assigned to this case, trawling through CCTV

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evidence and talking to local people. At complex investigation

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and the police have put out of the phone number below in the hope that

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anyone who has information will come forward.

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A fantasist who made up an illustrious career in the Army is

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tonight beginning a jail sentence of three years. Jack Livesey wore

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service medals on his chest and claimed he fought in the Falklands

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War. He's been jailed at Peterborough after lying about his

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fake military service in a previous court hearing.

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Jack Livesey built himself a "false life and a false persona". And

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that's the view of his his own defence team. This false life

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included a 20-year career with the Parachute Regiment and five tours

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of duty in Northern Ireland. And he also claimed to have fought in the

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Falklands and even took part in a Veterans' Day at the Duxford

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Imperial War Museum, where he also worked as a military historian.

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is very difficult, because you have Cox -- got a lot of happy memories

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but also sad memories and it is a day to come to terms with that

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particular war. That incident in my life. But in fact, Livesey had

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served just two years in the catering corps and left in 1974.

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Livesey's lies began to unravel 30 years later when he was convicted

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of benefit fraud. At the time, his military friends provided character

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references for him which directly referred to his military career -

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which, at this point, they had no reason to disbelieve. And at the

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time the judge said these references had spared him from a

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jail. But subsequent investigations revealed the truth and today

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Livesey was sentenced for perverting the course of justice.

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The judge said "much of your life has been ally and you have to seek

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the court's". -- A Life. He said it was a very serious offence and he

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had no option but to give a custodial sentence. This is a

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warning for those people living a lie and hopefully this can help

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prevent the scourge of this sort of thing. It is a disgrace to all of

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those soldiers who saved their friends' lives in conflict and

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returned injured, it is an insult to their efforts. He has belittled

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the memory of the 255 who sadly lost their lives 29 years ago, and

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hopefully we will have nobody attempt to do this next year on the

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30th anniversary at the National arboretum in Staffordshire. Tonight,

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Livesey is beginning his jail term with the knowledge he'd lived a

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complete lie. And his once-proud military reputation now lies in

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tatters. Later in Look East, it's Chelsea

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against Norwich in the Premier League. We hear from Chris Sutton,

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who played for both clubs. And with the summer almost over, we

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find out how business has been for the region's tourist trade.

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And after a bit of a stamp -- damp start to the weekend, it does get

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A former prisoner-of-war camp in the Fens, which houses hundreds of

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migrant workers, has been given a big loan to expand. The site is at

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Friday Bridge, near Wisbech. The owners wants to improve the

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accommodation and recruit more workers from Eastern Europe.

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These people have just arrived from Lithuania. They say they have come

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to work here for half the hours they work back home but for twice

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the money. But they need somewhere -- somewhere to live and this is

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where Friday Bridge camp comes in. We have workers arriving from most

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of the Eastern European countries and other rival, they have the

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option of whether they want to take accommodation here or they can

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arrange it in town. But at �32.27, it is a very good option and if

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they add more, they have more to send back to their families. But it

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hasn't always been foreign workers. Since the 1950s, people would bring

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their families here for working holidays. But with those gone,

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Polish workers take their place. is really, really good to live here.

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It is not like a normal home, but it is enough for us. These were

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Second World War prison blocks and up until 10 years ago, they were

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used to house migrant workers. Now it is hoped they could be

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demolished to provide accommodation for people who want to bring their

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husbands or wives here and give them extra privacy. Bergkamp has

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its own shop and bar, but here, they insist they are contributing

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to the economy -- the camp. Decent us worry about the number of

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jobs for English people? -- do you seem to worry? A again under send

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wide. But to the English person comes and Basque for a job, we can

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try and get them-that -- if any English person comes and asks for a

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job. By the end of the year, it could have doubled.

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Tornado bombers flew direct from RAF Marham in Norfolk to attack a

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bunker in Colonel Gadaffi's home town of Sirte. The MoD said they

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used Storm Shadow cruise missiles. Most of the missions by Marham

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Tornados over Libya have been mounted from an airfield in Italy.

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A woman who shot her ex-partner at a farm in Norfolk, because he'd met

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someone else, has been jailed for 24 years for his murder. Katherine

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Hodges shot John Loveday in June at Stratton Strawless. The police

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described her as a controlling character. She admitted going to

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the farm with a loaded rifle. Drivers who use the A14 in Suffolk

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will have to follow a diversion of 37 miles this autumn while

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roadworks are carried out. The plan, which will take the traffic through

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a number of small villages, has led to a wave of complaints.

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The village of Elmswell - rural and quiet, apart from the occasional

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lorry. And the Parish Council would like to keep it that way, but they

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say Elmswell is bound to be used as a shortcut. Are there any thick

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lorry drivers about? No. They have sat-nav, they have done it before

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and they will come through the Willett -- village. We blame the

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Highways Agency. It is crazy. When I presented it to buy councillors

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that the screen last meeting, they burst into laughter. -- Mike.

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this is the proposed route. Instead of going straight from Ipswich to

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Bury St Edmunds on the A14, traffic will have to go up the A140 to Diss

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and along the A143 to Bury St Edmunds - a diversion of about 37

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miles. The detour is planned for 12 nights between 7pm and 6am.

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Estate mad, the Highways Agency said the statement -- the diversion

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is designed to help people who don't know the most suitable roads

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and that the diversion will be well signposted and suggestions will be

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given to heavier vehicles coming from Felixstowe and Ipswich. But

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villagers in Elmswell aren't convinced it's a good idea. We get

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loads of lorries coming through, it is going to get worse. I come

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through at 6 o'clock in the morning and there are calls roaring through.

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It is very noisy and we will get a lot of truckers coming through.

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Night times are going to be worst. And there were con the A14 is due

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to begin in October. -- of the work A park and ride scheme costing �3.4

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million has been approved for the outskirts of Colchester. It will be

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built on a greenfield site near the Colchester United football ground

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at Cuckoo Farm. There will be parking for up to 1,000 vehicles,

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with buses into the town centre and to the railway station.

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Accidents in heavy rain closed a slip road off the M11 this morning.

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It happened at Junction 9 near Hinxton. A van rolled over at the

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turn-off for the A11. Then two cars collided behind an ambulance which

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had turned up to help. Two people from the cars were taken to

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hospital. Plans to scrap permit parking for

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residents in Great Yarmouth have sparked a wave of complaints from

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guest-house owners. The local council says it can't afford to

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meet the annual cost of �100,000 to run it.

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Jane Reynolds has owned the Merivon guesthouse for several years. She

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helped set up the permit scheme back in 2006. Now she's fighting

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hard to keep it. People that come on to the internet very often ring

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us first. "what is your accommodation like? Have you got a

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space?". The next question is always, what do we do about

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parking? You have got to think about residents as well as

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holidaymakers. Otherwise there's lot of resentment. I feel sorry for

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residents if they have to give it up. The area under threat involves

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65 streets close to the seafront. Residents currently pay �25 for a

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yearly ticket, while a business permit costs �100. Last year, that

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raised almost �78,000, but the Conservative-led borough council

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say it's still operating at a loss. The permit numbers, the

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applications, have been dropping. The amount of fines, interestingly

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enough, has dropped significantly, because people, but it was first

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brought in, were not aware of the situation and they were being

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hammered. They have now got wise to it and the fines have dropped.

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Businesses and residents say the scheme has always run at a small

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deficit but until now, it had been propped up from the sea front pay

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and display charges. They want to know why it cannot still continue

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or whether the scheme could still be run more efficiently? Questions

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campaigners say are still to be answered. The final decision lies

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with the County Council. If approved, the scheme will be

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You are watching Look East. Coming up, the Bank Holiday weather, and

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Sport now and a packed programme of football this weekend.

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For Norwich City, it's their biggest match so far in the Premier

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League. The Canaries are off to Stamford

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Bridge to play a Chelsea side brimming with international talent.

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Here's Tom. First, news of an an injury blow

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for Norwich. Defender Daniel Ayala has been ruled out for two months

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with a knee problem. He's only just signed from Liverpool but had to

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come off against MK Dons on Tuesday. Tomorrow, Norwich are at Chelsea.

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Two draws for City so far. Now, we can't bring you interviews with the

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Norwich manager or players but we can hear from Chris Sutton. He

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played up front for both teams during his career and alongside

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Paul Lambert at Celtic. Phil Daley went to meet him.

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From the age of 14, his coach is now he would be a star. He won the

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titles and broke transfer records and scored some fantastic bowls.

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This is Chris Sutton, and the John Lukic couldn't stop bed. But before

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the big-money moves, Chris Sutton played over 100 games for the

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Canaries and wowed the Premier League. I started off with Dave

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Stringer with manager and move on to Mike Walker and we had a good

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European run. On the day, we had a good team. It was more of a level

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playing field in those days. There was not the Gulf financially which

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Norwich find themselves in at the moment, trying to match up against

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the likes of Chelsea and Manchester City. It was far more level in

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those days. Anja played for Norwich in the Premier League. Your

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feelings towards Norwich been there? Is it where they belong?

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think so. The fans want to see a Norwich team who are competing,

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which I think they built to this season. Paul Lambert has done

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incredibly well. -- I think they will do. I expected them to get

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their to Division One, but back-to- back promotions show what a great

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job he has done four-star on Saturday after bedcover Stamford

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Bridge, a grand but Chris Sutton knows plenty about. -- on Saturday

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afternoon, it is Stamford Bridge, a grand Chris Sutton knows plenty

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about. Back when I played, you could go to Stamford Bridge and be

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confident about getting a result. Norwich have a chance, it is only a

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small chance, but what they have in their favour is they do have a

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resilience and they do have players who can cause problems. While his

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�10 million move to Chelsea never quite paid off, if he is now

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putting pen to paper about his career as a footballer. I am sure

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he will take 90 minutes off on Saturday to watch two of his former

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clubs collide. Some transfer news just in. We

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understand MK Dons striker Sam Baldock is on the verge of

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completing a big-money move to West Ham. The fee's believed to be

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around �2 million. Now to the rest of tomorrow's

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football. How will Ipswich and Peterborough fare after last week's

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incredible game? A moment of calm after a week of

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frantic activity. After four straight defeats, finally success

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on the transfer front. Three in, popular midfielder Jimmy Bullard,

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centre-back Ibrahima Sonko and striker Darren Murphy. They are all

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likely to be involved against Leeds. Jimmy hasn't played a lot of

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football, he has been away from Hull for about four weeks, so we'll

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we'll have to assess his fitness. There Murphy can play at wide left,

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quite right, kids as options. We have relied on Michael Chopra too

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much -- it gives us options. He scored within 21 seconds of his

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debut. The goal came against Middlesbrough 18 months ago. But

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it's in defence where Town have real worries. Conceding 12 times in

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two games - seven of them at Peterborough. It was disappointing,

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embarrassing, but it takes strong figures to come out on Saturday and

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play against a very good lead side and put it right. -- Leeds. With

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three goals in five games, Kayode Odejayi has reason to be happy. Not

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so. With Colchester winning just once so far, the striker says it's

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taken the gloss off his own goal- scoring form. The U's host Oldham

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in League Two. In the league below, after starting

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with two wins, Southend have suffered two defeats. It is a

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difficult run, September is going to be very difficult. So many teams

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that at the top end. We are a better team than we have showed and

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have the bounce back. The Blues will hope to do just that at Port

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The new president of the British Racing Drivers' Club, Derek Warwick,

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says his main aim is to help secure private funding to develop

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Silverstone further. The BRDC own the Northamptonshire circuit, which

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is now one of the world's best venues. Warwick, who takes over

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from Damon Hill, is also keen to develop young British talent.

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England's hockey players take on the host nation Germany in the

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semi-finals of the European Championships this evening.

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Norfolk's Richard Alexander was one of the stars in their 8-1

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demolishion of France. -- demolition. He scored twice.

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England vs Germany starts at eight o'clock. They are very disciplined

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and they penalise you, they wait for you to make mistakes. We have

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beaten them in a couple of tournaments and hopefully we will

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continue that, we are hopeful we can beat them.

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In tennis, Elena Baltacha was knocked out of the Texas Open in

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the quarter-finals. The Ipswich player lost in straight sets to

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France's Aravane Rezai. Next up for Baltacha is next week's US Open,

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where she'll play wildcard Jamie Hampton in round one.

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Plenty more sport on the website. There's coverage of your team on

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BBC local radio tomorrow, plus highlights of Norwich on Match Of

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The Day on BBC One, followed by the Football League Show straight after.

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We are down to what many regard as the last weekend of the summer

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holidays and the region's tourist industry will be taking stock. So

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far, it's looking pretty good. All the signs are that people have

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continued to spend more leisure time at home on what has become

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known as a "staycation". So what is the mood of the holiday industry?

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Our chief reporter Kim Riley is at Caister-on-Sea.

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Yes, how about this? Alcohol banned. No talking after 11pm. And a Sunday

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afternoon treat - a lecture on the Labour movement. That was how it

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was back in 1906, when Britain's very first holiday camp was opened

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right here. John Dodd's socialist holiday camp offered breaks to the

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families of working men from east London. Eventually, tents gave way

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to huts and chalets. In the 1930s, an adult had to pay 2 pounds 2

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shillings to stay here for a week. Well, as you can imagine, things

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are very different now, as we'll find out in a moment. First, let's

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review the holiday season so far. It all began in a blaze of glory.

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People took to the beaches as April and May raised hopes of a glorious

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summer. But of course, it didn't last. The rains came. At the summer

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festivals, at Latitude was a bloody affair. In Chelmsford, but I

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umbrellas were up. -- muddy. Be sure, tourism trade is said to have

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held up pretty well compared to last year. A hotelier's Association

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says the last five years has seen more visitors coming for shorter

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breaks off to-for days, leading to a greater turnover of guests. --

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two-four. The Blackburn family have visited his camper for years in a

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row. We call it a baby black Paul Hartley eased, but clean-air.

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we have come again for next year -- we call it the Blackpool of the

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East. It is clear the Investment that has been made in the

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accommodation and facilities over the last few years brings more

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customers here and brings them back. At Colchester Zoo, a line of Lima's

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shelter from the rain. Last year, visitors dropped by around 11%.

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This year, helped by online special offers, the downward trend has been

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reversed. On a good year, we attract around about 500,000 people

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to the zoo. This year, we are about 12% up, so we would like to think

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that by November, we are looking at Knierim of half-a-million visitors.

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For Milton Keynes Theatre has as one of the most successful outside

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London -- is. Milton Keynes itself is a serious visitors magnet.

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concert that took place at the start of July brought in 100 and

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that it 1,000 people over two days, which is huge. -- 130,000 people.

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With acres of open spaces and attractions, Milton Keynes is

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delivering the goods for a vital industry.

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Back here at the Caister Holiday Park, there is a volleyball match

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going on. 1,000 caravans and chalets Arnside and people are

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sheltering under the shade sticky bout of the rain, having a drink --

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and the shades, staying out of the rain. Well, the Caister Holiday

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Park is 105 years old. It's now operated by Haven Holidays. The

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general manager is Gary Cook. You can't just have knobbly knees

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competitions anymore. No, you can't. We have had significant investments

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over the years. We have recently had a refurbished indoor swimming

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pool, we have had this built and we are looking for sizable investment

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over the winter. If the weather is good, what do you offer? There is a

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multitude of activities. But there are two show bars, entertainment in

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the activities that capers -- caters for all ages, we have our

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own teams of competitions, archery, fencing, bicycle hair -- bicycle

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hire... Enough. And how our bookings going? They have held up

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well. We had a good start to the year which have levelled across the

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summer, we have been fully booked for the six-month summer holiday --

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six weeks. We have tried to keep the same price band as 2010 and

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they sure everybody gets good value for money forced up thank you very

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much, that is what everybody are looking for more and more. -- thank

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you very much. We have run around a lot of different tour operators and

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they do give a very bullish message, perhaps surprisingly, but the

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weather could be a lot better! Band you very much. We might think

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that the weather could be better but we are lucky we are not on the

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East Coast of America. That is right, we do have a

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Hurricane Irene the Atlantic at the Hurricane Irene the Atlantic at the

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moment. Hurricane Irene, it just made its way through the Caribbean

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and it is now pushing its way towards North Carolina. At about 2

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am our time tonight, we will see hurricane-force winds pushing near

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the course -- coast of North Carolina. And in the early hours of

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Sunday our time, it could bring strong winds to New York City, and

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it is very rare for a barricade to make it that far north, but it

:24:54.:25:04.
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could bring very gusty winds -- It is a category to. Expected to

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maintain that the strength, at least fast North Carolina at -- two.

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Back home, a lot of rain here today, that will continue to push away but

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it will continue to bring unsettled weather before the next day or so.

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All of that rain drifting from south to north across the region,

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and some of the showers at this afternoon did turn a bit of

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thundery across Essex. As we go through the rest of the evening, we

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will continue to see some showers flinging around, so they will fade

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a bit of tonight. You can see the graphic showing a bit of showery

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rain just about anywhere this evening, but it will become more

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patchy, particularly for eastern parts of the region. Overnight, you

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can see the showers hanging on back in the West and towards the end of

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the night, cloudy and damp. Temperatures no lower than 11 or 12

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degrees Celsius, with a light West- north-westerly breeze. For the bank

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holiday weekend, there will be showers around at first but it will

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become drier and brighter towards the end of the weekend. We get rid

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of the showers for a time on Saturday morning but they will

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redevelop through the course of the day and a few of those,

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particularly across northern part of the area, could see a heavy

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downpour. Maybe the odd rumble of thunder. 17 or 18 degrees. A

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moderate westerly winds, so breezier around those showers. The

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showers will generally fade away through Saturday evening which is a

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sign of slightly better weather to come. This area of high pressure

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will move its way into western Britain and will be a cross by the

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end of the Bank Holiday weekend, bringing some drier weather. --

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across. Isolated showers on Sunday but by Monday, trying out just

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about everywhere. 18 or 19 Celsius. By the middle part of the week, it

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will warm up a little bit. Overnight lows, eight or nine

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degrees Celsius, just a touch below average for the time of year. That

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