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In Look East tonight: After the snow, the floods. A million gallons

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of water. 40 homes hit. It came into the house, into the

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conservatory, flooded the garden. Everything was under water. Hello

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and welcome to the programme. Also tonight: What do empty shops on our

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High Streets say about the state of the economy in this region? I am in

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Dunstable, where the latest figures show more than 22% of stores are

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empty. But it is a very different story in Billericay, where fewer

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than 4% are currently vacant. Ipswich Hospital celebrates after

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winning �5 million for a new heart unit. And even though it is

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midwinter, Bill Bryson is looking First tonight, the snow might not

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have caused much damage or disruption today but the freeze

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certainly did. Our water companies say low temperatures below ground

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lead to a big increase in the number of burst water mains. By far

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the worst today, a 28 inch main at South Woodham Ferrers in Essex.

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Around a million gallons of near- freezing water poured out this

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morning and scores of homes were Behind me, under the floodlights,

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workmen are still struggling to repair the water main that burst.

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You can see from the size of the whole they have dug, how big it was.

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28 inches in diameter. The ground around it froze and shifted and

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cracked the water main. There was a cascade of water which were sent

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through neighbouring homes. This is when East Bridge road became a

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river. This footage was taken by disbelieving residents. A torrent

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of 2 million litres of freezing water. It got so high, so quickly.

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We could not stop Pep. It came through the has, through the

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conservatory, flooded the garden. - - at the house. You could surf down

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it. Within 15 minutes, the whole ground floor was flooding. The

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garden flooded. It was coming in through the conservatory and the

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back door. By 7 o'clock, we run under six inches of water. After

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the floods subsided, teams of yellow jacketed workers began

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clearing up. Inside, homeowners assessed the damage. Our floor is

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absolutely full of mad, silt. The carpet, everything downstairs is

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ruined. The furniture, tables, everything. It has all gone. In a

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neighbouring road, the main it cracked. It was 90 years old and

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broke because frozen ground had shifted. I'm very sorry for what

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happened. It is unusual and that does not help the residents. Will

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be trying to find alternative accommodation. As he tried to

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rescue his expensive Lamb and that floor, Alan Moore said he still

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could not quite believe what had happened. When we saw the water

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coming down the road, we thought the river bank had burst. A --

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sodden carpets were ripped out. Essex and Suffolk Water said it was

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liable for the damage. Work goes on and they're going to lift the

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broken water main out and drop a new one in. We are joined by Brian

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from Essex and Sussex will turf. There is a meeting going on. What

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is that about? We are going to work with them to do all we can to make

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their lives as comfortable as we possibly can while the clean-up

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operation is going on. Are you going to pay for the damages?

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we are. We're going to look up to the residents. Thank you for it

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joining us. The residents here know what a mini tidal wave it looks

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like. Courtesy of the main that is being repaired, they had won. --

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one. Meanwhile, forecasters are warning that tonight could see some

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of the lowest temperatures of the winter so far, which could mean

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tricky conditions for drivers. Mike Cartwright is on the A14 in

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Cambridgeshire. Drivers are being warned about icy conditions. They

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are being warned to watch out for black ice. The message is slowed

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down and take care, as temperatures plummet. In Essex they could reach

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around minus seven, perhaps minus 10. The cold air has come in.

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Freezing temperatures adding to the stress of the drive home. This was

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the A1 at rush-hour. It may be very RAC. Critters across our region

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have been on patrol for the last seven days. Tonight is no different.

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Earlier today shoppers in Cambridge had to find somewhere else to park.

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Staff at the Grafton Centre unable to clear the heavy snow left at the

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weekend. With the cold snap set to continue, what about tips to cope

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with the cold and your house? first top tip would be to turn the

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stopcock off and turn it back on in the morning. The second tip would

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be lifted the loft to enable heat to go into the roof. Met heating

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tick over. Turn the temperature down to at 16, 17, and that way you

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are less likely to have major problems. The newest operator which

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runs services from Norwich to London says the stuff are carrying

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out de-icing duties. We are working closely that Network Rail to

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provide the best service possible. They could have done with that at

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Stevenage Football Club. Tonight's match against Oldham is off. Having

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spoken at length with the groundsman, it will not thought out

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into among -- in time for tonight's game. With temperatures as low as

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minus seven and clear skies, a severe frost and ice will be the

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concern tomorrow. The RAC says it will put on extra patrols tomorrow.

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The biggest problem may have seen is how the cold affects car

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batteries. Their advice is, make sure everything else is switched

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off when you switch the Patrick on. These temperatures are expected to

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last until the weekend. This region could see some of the coldest

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temperatures in the country. Tune into a local BBC radio station.

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latest snapshot of our High Street shows that 12% of the shops in this

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region are standing empty. That compares with a national average of

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14%. But, as ever, the average hides a huge variation - from a

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high of 22% in Dunstable, with Letchworth and Harlow not far

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behind - to Billericay and Ely at about 4%. We will find out about

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Billericay in a moment. But first, Jo Black has been to the High

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Street in Dunstable. With figures claiming one and five shops on his

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highest it is empty, it is Dunstable now be dying town?

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level of traffic. It is a nightmare to get around. Everyone goes to

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Milton Keynes. There is nothing to do here. Sharon says Dunstable is

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bouncing back. Over the last three years since we have started the

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campaign, we have had 30 odd new shops open. We have had to in the

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last couple of weeks was that we are very disappointed with those

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figures. This is one of the businesses which has just opened in

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town. Four months down the line and business is good. There is always a

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risk. I would be lying if I said I was not nervous at will. It was a

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good opportunity for me to come into the town because there were so

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many empty shops. Their work incentives for people to take on

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the premises in the town. council says revamping Dunstable is

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the number one priority. The doom and gloom painted in the survey

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does not tell the whole story. �1.5 million will be invested in the

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Quadrant Centre in the town. will be able to do away with all

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less clutter, get rid of the traffic lights and a place that

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with the statute and put the roundabout back. It will make this

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and restore this to the nice market town it should be. These plans are

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all five years away. It is a step in the right direction. So that is

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the situation with Dunstable, where 22% of shops are empty. Now, Kim

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Riley from Billericay, where it is just 4%. On the surface, Billericay

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is a prosperous commuter town. Despite the recession and high

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street is long, full of variety and appears to be flourishing. There

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are so many different shops to come to. It is a shame to see the empty

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shops. There are a less here than in Basildon. It is very quaint,

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very traditional. It has most things you can need. Billericay

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baby boutique is one of the new as names in the High Street. Esther

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opened it in December. We did not have a baby boutique in Billericay.

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I felt we were crying out for that. The response I had, I think I have

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done OK Foster this is one of the older shops in the High Street.

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done OK. Shirley lodged a haberdashery business in 1974. The

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staff provide a good service but it has not been easy. It is hard.

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Trading does get tougher and tougher. We are doing OK, I can't

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complain. In nearby Basildon, there is no shortage of empty shops. The

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council is keen for others to learn lessons. We need to fill the High

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Street with evening and never uses. -- leisure uses. A variety of

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independent stores sit happily alongside the bigger names. On the

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High Street an empty shop remains around a site. Later in the

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programme, we've been inundated with your photos of the snow. We'll

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be showing some of the best later. And Alex will have the forecast.

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Yes, with temperatures expected to drop to minus eight or even lower

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tonight, a weather warning has been issued for ice. I'll be back with

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all the details after more news Campaigners have been celebrating

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over plans to build a new unit for heart patients at Ipswich Hospital.

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The Government is giving �5 million and the unit could be up and

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running within two years. It is a landmark day. Emergency patients

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still travel to one of three specialist heart centres outside

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the county for routine procedures, treatment will be much closer to

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hand. For people who need what is called angioplasty, a specialist

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cardiac procedure, they will now be able to get it locally at Ipswich

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Hospital instead of travelling 60 miles up the road to specialist

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hospitals. It is a great development for patient in the

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community and it is a greater demand for Ipswich Hospital.

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national director for heart disease recommended the hospital should

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have its own facilities. It followed months of intense lobbying

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by campaigners. It shows you can win the local battles and shows the

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Government is listening. Local campaigners can get results.

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was at the forefront of the campaign. Having a unit on the

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doorstep will cut travel times and the stress that goes with them.

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patient knows it is being done at Ipswich and the carer or family,

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their particular worries about going 70 miles away, perhaps they

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cannot drive and that sort of thing. You know, for us, it is a wonderful

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answer. Hopefully we can develop the surface -- service. At the

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moment, let's get this up and running. Regional health officials

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made to rubber-stamp the plan. Once that happens the hospital can start

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looking for someone to design, build and equip the unit. Funding

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cuts to a theatre in Felixstowe, which is threatened with closure,

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will be re-considered tonight. Last year, Suffolk Coastal Council

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announced it was ending its subsidy to the Spa Pavilion. Campaigners

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say not enough time has been given to find ways to keep it open. It

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has been announced the last World War One veteran has died at the age

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of 110. Plods Queen served as a waitress in the air force at bases

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including RAF Marham. -- Florence Green. Two Ipswich Town Football us

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what the training ground for the castle. -- Two Ipswich Town

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footballers swapped the training ground for the classroom today.

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Captain Ibrahima Sonko was teaching French and Jay Emmanuel Thomas was

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helping out at the Thomas Wolsey School in Ipswich - a school for

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children with special needs. are better than my sat nav. Ibrahim

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or some coke's first language is French. We are bonding a bit better.

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They learn the right words. The words we use every day. We just

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need to carry on and keep practising. It is not all serious -

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fun and games as well. They lend a hand at Thomas Wolsey once a month.

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It is start of Ipswich Town schools programme. They're working with 10

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schools, the players taking on an ambassadorial role. Are you hungry?

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Eat your pizza. Thank you. It is mine now. You're making a real

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contribution to school life. They are having a whale of a time.

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making school education fun and easy for kids to learn. Hopefully

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it will be good to them. We have had an ongoing link with the

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football club for about 10 years for stabbing it has been fantastic.

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Let's have a picture! One for the photo album, great memories to take

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home. They are already looking forward to next time. More than �1

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million is being spent at Cromer pier to make it stronger. The

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council says it's not dangerous but it wants to make sure it remains

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safe for the next 20 years. Work will start in June. The last time

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structural work was carried out was 19 years ago, when a barge crashed

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into it, and cut it in two. A basketball player from Essex has

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described how the sport has helped him turn his life around. Laurence

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Watsham is just 15. But he's already almost seven foot tall.

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Meets Lawrence, at six foot 10, he is taller than your average 15-

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year-old. Two years ago he joined the basketball team at this school

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in Langham for young people with emotional and behavioural

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difficulties. He said it has changed his life. I did not really

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feel happy anywhere. As soon as I started playing basketball, it was

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just like I had friends, sort of thing. I never used to go out. As

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soon as I started playing basketball, people wanted me there.

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Lawrence is by far the tallest in his school team and he has not

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finished growing. His predicted tide is over seven fruit. His coach

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has already had to make a few allowances. The basketball hoops

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should be 10 feet from the floor but we have had to raise it another

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food. He was dunking it all the time. He can dunk it now on 11 feet.

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We can do no more than that for delivery raise it more, every runs

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shops will be off. He has a much better chance of blocking shorter

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people's shops. He has become so good he is playing for the England

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Under 16 squad. When he leaves school he is hoping that basketball

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will be his career. I want to get as far as I can. Maybe go and play

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in Spain or America. Go as far as I possibly can. With skills like this

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it looks as though Lawrence has the First of all, we have to say, keep

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your eyes on the road. If you drive along the M1, between junctions 11

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and 12, you can't miss a huge grey warehouse. It's on the southbound

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side and it is the car parts distribution centre for Vauxhall.

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Stand by for some impressive facts. The warehouse covers more than a

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million square feet and it stocks more than 40,000 different spare

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parts. Vauxhall says it is vital to the company's future success. So

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big you need a bike to get around. Enough to house seven Concordes,

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every part but every Chevrolet and Vauxhall model still on the road.

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The parts that are around us are small. They are the same type and

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same size. Up until the last year it also those parts would have been

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in any part of that warehouse. We have condensed the lighter parts

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into a really small proportion of the warehouse. That is 55% of the

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day's business. �55 million worth. Dispatched in a matter of hours.

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This seat pad is one of 74,000 parts stopped in the warehouse.

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This has made a journey of two hours. Only about 10% of the parts

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stopped here are manufactured in the UK. The company wants to

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increase that. In the 90s automation are seen as the way

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forward. They favoured the hands on approach. Increased efficiency

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means fewer people. Managers say new business will fill the empty

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spaces. 160,000, 200,000 units a year. They will be brought back in

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here. They need the equipment to direct. They have Investment NPower

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2012. We will be seen that work back in here. -- for 2012. A few

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years ago the future of General Before this note my aconites were

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out in the garden. -- the snow. I have no aconites. Our garden is not

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one people would come to pay to say. We opened it once to the public

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many years ago and it was exhausting trying to get it ready.

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That was to raise money for the local church. Normally we do not. I

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think it is a great idea. The National Gardens Scheme has been

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going for 85 years. And today, in Norfolk, the annual guidebook for

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the county was launched by the author and countryside campaigner

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Bracknell Hall in Norfolk, the setting for author Bill Bryson to

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launch the county's National Gardens Scheme guide book.

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Everybody knows that people in Britain are mad gardeners. The idea

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of opening up your garden and having strangers walk around is

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something... If the British are not the only people to do it, they will

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supply do it better than anyone else. For the past 17 years, the

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gardens at this hall have been part of the scheme. The Open in April

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for the daffodils, in July for the Roses and the arboretum in

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September. My parents in law decided to set a dream and they set

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about the parameters, putting in the new hedges and the wind breaks.

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They garden 365 days ear for two years. The garden was set up in

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1997. It helped nurses. It charged people a shilling and raised over

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�8,000 in its first year. 2012 is the 85th anniversary. There is an

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element of the snoop factor. People love going to see how other people

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live, how they garden. The majority of gardens are private. Gardens of

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all sizes will be opened to the public from now until the autumn.

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It seems to be a thing which is How is your arboretum? It is

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looking great. I think the chickens are the problem. They wrecked

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Temperatures have fallen sharply this afternoon. Widely down to Mark

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minus three, minus four. The Met Office has issued a weather warning

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for ice. The reason for the cold temperatures is the position of the

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high pressure. It has brought cold and dry air across asked. We have

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seen some sunshine across the region. We are in for a pretty

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severe frost tonight. Just to mention the icy roads are a real

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risk for tonight. As we get more cloud coverage we could get

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isolated snow flurries. Mostly clear skies to start the night. In

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the bar West it will get cold just the start temperatures could get

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down as low as minus eight Celsius. As for the winter, it is breezier

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around the Norfolk and Suffolk coastline but generally the light

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north-easterly. There could be odd snow flurries. They will mainly

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affect parts of the north and east of the region. First thing tomorrow

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morning it will be very cold indeed. There will be more cloud around.

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Such a thing and break allowing brightness and sunshine. -- that

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should think and break. The suspected high will be one Celsius.

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The winds will freshen up a bit. If you factor in the wind chill, it

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could feel as cold as minus 6 in some locations tomorrow. During the

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afternoon it should be mostly dry with a fair covering of cloud of.

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Another cold night once more. The next five days, we have a fairly

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similar conditions. We are up in a settled pattern of weather where it

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will stay mostly drier. Varying amounts of cloud. There is

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uncertainty into the weekend with a bit more cloud developing which

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might bring some sleet and snow. Tonight will be exceptionally cold

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but there will be other nights where it will get down to minus 5,

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even minus 6. I feel cold looking at that. Thanks again for all the

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