27/06/2012 Look East - East

In the programme tonight, hundreds of people will lose their jobs at

the Coryton Oil Refinery. Hello and welcome to Look East. In

the programme tonight: Hundreds of redundancies confirmed

for oil refinery workers in Essex. Up to 500 will lose their jobs.

35 years in jail for the killer of two men shot on a travellers' site.

A judge said it was cold-blooded execution.

The multi-million pound road scheme that has missed its deadline ahead

of the Olympics. A killer who carried out execution-

style shotgun murders at a traveller site in Suffolk has been

jailed for a minimum of 35 years. The jury heard how Christopher Line

repeatedly reloaded his shotgun to shoot two men who planned an arson

attack at the Willow Park Caravan site at Beck Row near Mildenhall.

This report from our Home Affairs Correspondent.

The face of a killer. Christopher Line in a police picture released

tonight. He'd re-loaded his shotgun a number of times to kill two men

from Essex, Shane Hill and David Castell. They'd turned up at the

caravan site to carry out an arson attack. Christopher Line had

expected a visit as police had repeatedly warned him that his life

was in danger, along with that of a traveller friend. They rejected

police help. Instead Line chose to execute the men, one of them while

he was running away. Both were shot in the head. Sentencing Christopher

Line to life imprisonment, the judge told them they were brutal

and murder list -- merciless killings. He had little regard for

the lives of others. Christopher Line showed no emotion as the judge

sent him down. To this day police don't know what lies behind the

dispute that led to the killings linking men from Essex to the

traveller site in Suffolk. The families of the victims are still

seeking answers. We have a lot of questions to be answered. The whole

situation regarding the whole act. We have to justice for the person

who killed these men, but the other people have to be brought to

justice. It is one thing to protect as site, but it is another to

brutally murder to people like that. Line's response to every police

question at interview was "no comment". But police were clear

about his cold determination. killing has been described as close

range and fatal. It shows no doubt about his intention on that night.

When he went out with that firearm, he intended to kill both men for.

The families of the two murder victims returned to Southend

tonight. The traumatic case now behind them. But they say they

won't rest until the police have the full picture.

Their worst fears have come true. Up to 850 workers are set to lose

their jobs at the Coryton Oil Refinery in Essex after months of

uncertainty. Today, 180 workers were given the first redundancy

notices. Coryton produced 20% of petrol and diesel used in the south

east of England, but now it is being turned into a storage

terminal. In June 2007, the refinery was bought by Petroplus

from BP for nearly �900 million. In January this year, Petroplus filed

for bankruptcy and Coryton shut down sparking fears of fuel

shortages. In February, sales started again while options were

explored. The unions wanted government help to save the

refinery. But it was sold to new owners and now hundreds of jobs

will go. Our reporter is at the refinery near Basildon.

Umpire has come forward for Coryton, but it is not the buyer the workers

wanted. It is a consortium of energy companies, but the plan is

to close it down as a refinery and reopen it as a fuel storage depot.

That will effectively wipe out the jobs of the people who work here.

A Jobs Fair for Coryton workers. No wonder it was busy. A few hours

earlier, any flickering hopes for the refinery's future had been

extinguished. I have been sending off applications like most people

for the last few weeks. I can see how people get despondent quite

quickly. I have had three interviews and the winter villas.

It will get tougher as more and more people leave. There are a lot

of jobs that are skilled. Many competent people will struggle.

Ahmed have to move away. I have applied for jobs on the oil rigs in

the Middle East. Coryton's administrators confirmed last night

it's been bought by a consortium that plans to change it from a

refinery that turns crude oil into petrol, diesel and jet fuel into a

fuel storage depot. 850 jobs will be reduced to an estimated 50.

have been here for twenty-one years. It has been like working with

members of my family. It is heart- wrenching. To see virtually

everyone lose their job apart from a handful. Protests have been held

at fuel depots. Amid anger the Government didn't do more to keep

Coryton open. Scuffles broke out at this demo. Three arrests were made.

But despite Union threats fuel supplies would be disrupted it

seems the demos haven't saved Coryton.

There is real anger that a profitable oil refinery is

effectively being allowed to close. As one worker said to me, Coryton

is an oil refinery that is -- that is slowly going cold. You can

normally see the flares above the recovery -- above the refinery.

There are none tonight. What about the political fall-out?

Coryton will be debated in the House of Commons this evening, but

the Energy Minister has told Look East that the Government has done

all it can to keep the refinery open. Our Political Correspondent

is at Westminster now. A political row has erupted today.

Labour say that if the Government had given financial support to them,

it would have been easier to find a buyer. The Government says that

would have been against European law and it is not a national

necessity to keep it open. What ever on his agreed about is that

this is a very big blow for Essex. It's been a refinery for 60 years

processing 10 million tonnes of fuel every year. So did the the

Government do everything it could to keep Coryton open? We have

looked at all legal avenues. What about state aid? The basic rules

were not met. There was no shortage of supply as there is a massive

oversupply of petrol into the you came market. The Labour party and

the unions disagree. They point to Coryton's sister refinery here in

France that was saved after the Government there offered financial

assistance. The Government did not do their homework. That is the

dereliction of duty of which they are guilty. The consequences of

that will be felt mostly by the people lose their jobs but also for

the country as we will be reliant even more on the future on the

import of foreign fuels. A we already import 15% of our diesel

from abroad. With Coryton no longer a refinery that figure will rise to

25%. But the Government says we shouldn't be worried. We can bring

in the stock we need to maintain that. There are plenty of also ruck

-- plentiful supplies around the world. Coryton was primarily for

petrol. The demand is not there for petrol. The Government says it

wasn't just changing demands that brought about Coryton's closure.

Its owners were heavily in debt. Any buyer would have needed at

least �150 million before they could even reopen the refinery.

The big question now is can Coryton and the surrounding area ever

recover from this? The Government is saying the terminal is still

open and it will be an important terminal in an important part of

the country to draw in more business and create long-term jobs.

Labour says it will take a long time to make up 800 jobs.

Still to come on Look East: The apprentices learning their trade in

the curry business. And as the Olympic Torch Relay

heads towards the East, our reporter has the story of one of

the torchbearers. John Bowman's wife died in February

from cancer. He is carrying out the full -- carrying the Olympic flame

$NEWLINE Essex County Council has apologised to local people and the

Olympic authorities after contractors failed to finish a key

road on time. The Sadler's Farm Junction is being improved in

advance of the Mountain Biking competition near Hadleigh. But,

beset by wet weather, the work between the A13 and A130 is taking

months longer than planned. Essex's biggest traffic improvement

scheme in three decades. The �63 million project should have been

finished today. The question now is whether it will be ready for the

Olympic might -- mountain biking event three miles away? 40,000

people expected here on 11th and 12 August. The organisers are feeling

twitchy. The local authority have assured us the road improvement

scheme will be finished before the competition begins at Hadleigh form.

Local businesses say the roadworks have cost them dear. It should have

been finished by the start of the year. It is now the end of the

season and it has affected our business. People will not go round

that roundabout while there are thousands of cars. It is a queue of

over one hour. It has been catastrophic. We have lost 90 p a

pack of our football. People phone as up to say they want to get

something and then say they are giving up -- 90%. In a statement,

they said they're working with their partners to insure the works

are finished as soon as possible. In the meantime, traffic is flowing

freely and the don't expect any disruption to journey times through

this delay. Including the torch relay and travelling to and from

the Olympics site at Hadleigh farm. Improvements continue today. The

workers now have their own Olympic countdown which they cannot afford

to mess. -- miss. A man found electrocuted on a

railway line in Essex this morning is thought to have died while

trying to steal cable. His body was discovered on an embankment near

Hadleigh on the Southend to London line. A 25,000 volt cable had been

cut. The line was closed for most of the morning.

A warning notice imposed on the James Paget Hospital in Norfolk has

been lifted. During a recent unannounced visit, the Care Quality

Commission found patients are now receiving safe and appropriate care.

But it says the way patient records are managed still needs improvement.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering Luke Durbin

the teenager who went missing while on a night out in Ipswich in 2006.

Since then, his mother Nicki has fought tirelessly to find out what

happened to him. Six years of investigations today

lead detectives to this house in Spring Road in Ipswich. And the

arrest of a 40-year-man. Luke Durbin was last seen in Dog's Head

Street in Ipswich on 13th May 2006. Since then, a number sightings, and

searches but no breakthrough.until today. I think of him every day.

There are sinister thoughts of where he might be. Luke was 19 when

he went missing. That night he was caught on a CCTV camera.in this

taxi office. Further sightings followed. Last September, police

teams searched undergrowth near to the Foxhall Stadium in the hunt for

clues. 10 miles away, police targeted this area of Woodbridge.

After reports of Luke.in a blue Renault Megane with a black driver.

Both searches revealing no evidence of Luke's disappearance. Today's

arrest was made by detectives from the joint Norfolk and Suffolk Major

Investigation Team. This afternoon a second house, the suspect's

former home in Rendlesham, was also cordoned off and searched.

A medieval church on the Ickworth estate in Suffolk is to be restored

with a Lottery grant of more than �700,000. St Mary's has been the

burial place of the Hervey family since 1467. It fell into disrepair

after being sold to the 7th Marquess of Bristol in 1986. The

restoration is being led by Frederick Hervey, the present

Marquess of Bristol. We have worked hard to let people

back into the church and reveal its true glory. It was created by

various perils of Bristol and marquesses in the past.

Day one of the Royal Norfolk Show got off to a good start the rain

held-off and 50,000 people went through the gates. The Agriculture

Minister Jim Paice paid a visit but traffic problems meant long queues

to get in. Delays to get in this Showground

this morning meant a three-hour wait for some. 1,000 cars every

other trying to get in. Inside, this family were inside with their

cattle. The last remaining a dairy cow being shown a for the final

time. The family are selling up after 107 years in the business.

There was a recent 10% cut in its milk prices which had a steeply.

Four my wife, after three generations of dairy farming, this

has been hard. The cows still has what it takes to win over the

judges. No umbrella as required. At the Suffolk Show, marquees were

blown over and the second day was cancelled. But some companies have

benefited from the rain. At the start of the year, it was very dry.

The latest reign has been very good for barley crops. We need some good

weather to finish off the process. The outlook for forming in a region

is quite good. Most farmers are optimistic about the future. This

show is worth �40 million to the local economy. Four businesses, it

is a vital chance to bring in new Curry may have become Britain's

national dish but behind the scenes the restaurant industry is worried

because last year the Government restricted immigration for Asian

chefs. Only chefs earning more than $28,000 can come into Britain and

that's a big problem for takeaways and restaurants. But in Northampton

they have come up with a home-grown solution. Our reporter has been to

meet the curry apprentices. It takes a lot of knowledge and

skill to tackle a tikka massala the restaurant way. Scores of spices go

into the secret recipe sauce. And these teenagers are getting tips

from the best. Weston Favell Academy has joined forces with the

Saffron Restaurant. Offering young apprentices not only a taste of

what it takes to cook Asian cuisine but real training which the owner

hopes could breed him a chef of the future. We have a crisis in our

sector because of emigration being tightened for small businesses like

ourselves. Two start of, you have to pay 20,000 pound or wages to get

one chef over from the sub- continent. -- �28,000. But what

does the school get out of it? is great for our students. It let

them know if they want a career in the food industry. It was hard

because I am not used to chopping with gloves on. The latest figures

from the Home Office show that last year 148,000 visas were issued to

people who wanted to work in the UK. That's a drop of 8% on the year

before. And the number has been falling since 2005. But can kids

from Northampton really cook curry as well as the chefs from

Bangladesh? Today the restaurants regular customers gave the

apprentices a thumbs up. students did a tremendous job. It

is only the first or second time they have done this. You cannot

knock them. They have done opportunity here. Maybe it is

something they do not think of Until few weeks ago. They have

shown today that they can make a go for it. So support for the

apprentices, but for the restaurant to succeed their curiosity must

turn into a career. Three more athletes from this

region have been added to Team East for the Olympic Games today.

Jonathan Clarke from Southend, Glenn Kirkham from Chelmsford and

Harry Martin from Ipswich are all in the men's hockey team. The Team

East total stands at 29. The swimmer Adam Brown from

Bedfordshire is a real medal prospect and he's back in the UK

after training in America leaving his fiance behind so he can focus

on the Olympics. Our reporter has been to meet him.

Pulling 60 kgs in a swimming pool is not for the faint-hearted. But

if you're going for gold in 2012, you think of every last detail to

shave off every last split second. Adam Brown is Britain's best over

50 metres. I try not to think about too much. Four the average swimmer,

combining your stroke with breathing is a big challenge.

Forget about breathing over 50 metres. This race last 21 seconds.

Some people try to hold their breath. I do not breed. Without

breathing, you don't turn your head. How difficult is that to do? Fairly

difficult. It is more mental than physical. We do the work in the

pool which is to do with hypoxic training and holding your breath.

He is an outstanding athlete. Whether he will reach the pinnacle

will be down to him. He is less than half a second of a medal.

as Adam chases a sporting dream he's had to leave a romantic one

behind in America where he'd been training. So whilst he focuses on

the race fiancee Mary sorts the reception. She has stuck with me.

It has been hard. She came over in March for the trials. She is coming

over for the Olympics. It will be good to see her during the on in

the crowd. With the Games less than five weeks away and a wedding in

October Adam could have quite a year.

In five days, the Olympic Torch will come to the east as part of

its journey around the UK. It is here for eight days. Hundreds of

people will carry the torch. One of them is John Bowman who will be

running through Chelmsford. Originally his wife Kirstie was

nominated, but she died from cancer in February.

She recognised early on that it would be a battle. She would never

ask, why me? John Bowman met Kirste Snellgrove in 1993. They were both

in the police force. But John was married and they didn't get

together for another 11 years. was beautiful. She does very hip --

very fit and healthy. She was incredibly funny. In 2005, Kirste

was diagnosed with breast cancer. At that point she embarked on

running marathons to raise for the Breast Cancer Campaign. She would

constantly challenge herself. The first time we went out when she had

chemotherapy, she managed half a mile. The day before, she ran five

miles. Kisrte 22 marathons in all and raised something like �100,000.

In 2010 John and Kirste married. But little more than a year later

Kirste lost her battle with cancer. Cancer did not beat her. Cancer

died when she did. Kirste ran the torch relay before the Beijing

Games. She was nominated to do it again this year. But now John will

carry the flame instead. She will be there, making sure I do it

properly and don't let her down. I don't want to let her down. I guess

I am slowly beginning to recognise how lucky I was to have someone

like her in my life. We all have a soul mate somewhere and I was lucky

to meet mine. I had seven wonderful years with her. I have had

counselling and my family and friends have given the reasons to

go on. It is important I carry on her work and try to raise money for

her work and try to raise money for cancer research.

And John will be running a leg of the relay at Hylands Park in

Chelmsford next Friday night. Just a reminder that the torch

arrives in our region on Monday in Northamptonshire. It will spend

eight days here, heading up through Peterborough to Norwich. Then down

south to Chelmsford with Cambridge and Luton also included. Here is

the detail day by day. On Monday, Coventry to Leicester, including

Northampton and Corby. On Tuesday, it goes from Leicester to

Peterborough. Wednesday is Peterborough across to King's Lynn.

Then up the coast and down to Norwich. On Thursday, it is Norwich

to Great Yarmouth and then down the coast to Ipswich. Friday, Ipswich

through Colchester to Chelmsford. It remains in the east for Saturday,

Sunday and Monday. We will have more details for those days next

week. Look East will be following it every inch of the way, as will

it every inch of the way, as will your BBC local radio stations.

The warmth and humidity has continued to build today. Most

parts of our region are in the 20s. That will all change at this low

swings in from the Atlantic tomorrow. One more day of that

humidity to deal with. This is the satellite image. Most places are

dry this evening, but there is a line of sharp showers on the

Suffolk border with Norfolk. It will be muddy with the potential

for rain overnight. -- it will be muddy. Here comes the low tomorrow.

There will be some instability. There could be some thunderstorms.

The greatest risk is in North Northamptonshire, North

Cambridgeshire and West Norfolk. More isolated in the south of our

region. Another warm and humid day. Temperatures could climb to 45 --

to 25 Celsius. There will be some thunderstorms. The risk is greater

in the north. So, the next five days. Temperatures returned to

about normal for this time of year. Anything between 18 and 20 degrees.

Similar days. We will see some sunshine and it will be breezy.