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Hello and welcome to Look East. In the programme tonight:

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Tesco insists it didn't make its Harlow workers redundant in favour

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of cheaper foreign labour. The local MP says he's still unhappy

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with the company. I think the company had behaved quite

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ruthlessly. Their motto seems to be parboil the money high and sell the

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workers cheap. -- pile up the money high.

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A body is found in the search for a man who's been missing for a month.

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Millions of pounds for Norfolk to get people out of the cars and on

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their bikes. We are going to design the route so it is a wonderful

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place for people to ride their bikes.

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And after a hard Winter, a freezing Spring and a heatwave, what are the

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Hello. First tonight, the former Tesco workers caught in the centre

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of a political row between the Labour Party and the supermarket

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giant. It follows the closure of the Tesco distribution depot at

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Harlow in Essex which employed 800 people.

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When the centre closed, staff were offered jobs at a new centre in

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Dagenham, but most refused. Today the Shadow Immigration Minister

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Chris Bryant claimed that Tesco may have hired cheaper foreign workers.

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It's a claim the company strongly denies. Now the Harlow MP Robert

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Halfon is calling on Tesco t o release the figures. He wants to

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know how many workers were hired from agencies and how many come

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from eastern Europe. We'll hear from Mr Halfon in a moment, but

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first, our political editor Deborah McGurran.

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The row over the closure of Tesco's distribution plant in Harlow re-

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ignited by Labour's Shadow Immigration Minister Chris Bryant.

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Today he claimed Tesco may have hired staff who have come from from

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Eastern Europe, rather than using British workers. When a

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distribution centre was moved, existing staff say they would have

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lost out by moving. The result was that I knew people were employed

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from other countries. Two weeks ago the Tesco

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distribution centre in Harlow finally closed with the loss of

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hundreds of jobs. Tesco says it needed to close the depot as part

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of a restucturing plan. Of the 800 people who worked here, 500 were

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from Harlow. Only around a hundred have taken a job at the new

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distribution centre in Dagenham. But the Harlow MP says the

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government should tackle the problem of corporate juggernauts

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and he's calling for Tesco to reveal how many of the Dagenham

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workers have been hired from agencies. The gates may be shut but

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the story of Harlow's Tesco workers seems far from over.

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We did ask Tesco for an interview, but instead they sent the statement.

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Late this afternoon I spoke to Robert Halfon the MP for Harlow,

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who is very vocal in his criticism of Tesco. I think the company have

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behaved quite ruthlessly. Their motto seems to be piled the money

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high and sell the workers cheap. I was unhappy with the way they

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treated harder workers. They closed down a productive plant in my

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constituency. Some workers would have been worse off by up to

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�10,000 a year if they moved. This is clearly unsustainable for

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families who have mortgages to pay. Tesco's, I am sure, would say they

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are paying the going rate? should not be the party of

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corporate juggernauts and in my view are unethical in the way they

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treat long-standing workers. Many people in Harlow in lost their jobs

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and took redundancy had worked there more than 20 years. Tesco say

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they have one of the best pay and benefits package in the industry

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and pay the same rates if workers are British of from the European

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Union, and they had recruited people from Dagenham. If you talk

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to people in Harlow and the local trade union, they will tell you

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there were agency workers employed and Tesco's used eight technical

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European Union clause that allows them to employ workers on the cheap.

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Tesco has said they are acting legitimately. That might be so and

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that is why I was unhappy that the last government signed all these EU

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directives that allowed all this to happen. Does that mean that for

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once on the Europe you are in agreement with the Labour Party?

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The Labour Party have done too little too late. They allowed the

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and controlled immigration to happen in the first place. They

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signed the EU directives that are causing these problems and for them

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to supply say, hands up, we got it wrong is a bit too late. The

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problems are here now. Thank you. 600 jobs are under threat in

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Suffolk at the Two Sisters food group based at Haughley Park. The

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factory makes roast chicken for supermarkets, but the company says

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it's too old to be viable. There will now be a period of

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consultation with workers. The company employs 2,000 people.

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available options will be discussed. We know this site is unsustainable.

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It maybe other colleagues have ideas and innovations that we have

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not thought of that we can work through before we make a final

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decision. And there will be more on that

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story on our late bulletin at 10.25pm.

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Millions of pounds of Government money is coming to Norfolk to help

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get us out of our cars and onto our bikes. Norwich will receive �3.7

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million to create an eight-mile cycle route across the city. With

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local funding added on, total spending will be more than �5

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million. Norwich, like Cambridge, has built

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a reputation as a cycling city. St Andrew's is part of a national grid.

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�1.8 million of locally-based funding will be added to 3.7

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million from the government. The city council headed up a joint bid

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for an eight mile cross city cycling routes. It will be designed

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so it is a fantastic place for people to ride their bikes at all

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levels of ability. It will connect the Norwich Research Park to the

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hospital, through the city centre and beyond. At this cycle and

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repair shop set up six months ago, customers welcomed the new boost

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for city cycling. To have a designated route that is well

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maintained or -- well-maintained will be good. It will be great,

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especially if you have children. am not confident in road cycling,

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so having money put into it and been able to feel confident in

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There are huge economic benefits. There are benefits in terms of

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reducing be carbon footprints -- the Coburn footprint of the city.

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There are health benefits as well. The measure of success in Norwich

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will be the number of women, children and older people who will

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start making their journey on two wheels.

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Detectives searching for a man who was last seen more than a month ago

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have found a body. 47-year-old Michael Redmond was last seen near

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the Basildon Golf Club. It comes on the day his mother made an appeal

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for him to get in touch. The Metropolitan Police dogs have

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been searching the golf course this morning for any trace of Michael

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Redmond. His mother also returned to the last place he was seen. She

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had this message for him from her and his daughter Danielle. Michael,

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we just want you home. We want to save and sound with the rest of the

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family. Everyone loves you very much and it Danielle could be here

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today, she would have been, but I think you know why she can't be.

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She misses you very much. Mrs Redmond spent the day with her

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son before dropping him off here at the gym next door to the golf

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course. He left at quarter past seven on 5th July on what WAS a

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baking hot day. He was last seen here between the 13th hole and his

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flat, which is over there. He was running barefoot it through the

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woodland. Mr Redmond was wearing a pink polo top and sky blue shorts.

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It's thought his hair will have grown and he has a portrait of his

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daughter tattooed on his right arm. His wallet has since been handed in.

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Police are keen for the person who found it to contact them. We have

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had no indication as to where he is or who he is with. The

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investigation remains a missing person investigation. The last

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thing he said to me was, I will ring you later. One is he in good

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spirits? He wasn't. He was very distressed. Tonight, specialist

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police teams who have been searching for Mr Redmond say they

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found a body in wooded undergrowth near the golf club. Formal

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identification will now take place. Mr Redmond's family have been

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informed. Plans to change the way glass is

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recycled in Norfolk could be bad news for some charities and

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voluntary groups. At present, some of them get money raised from

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bottle banks, but from next year local councils will be starting

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kerbside collections. Where there is glass, there is

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brass and for councils across our region a new contract will save

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council taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds. You will soon

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be able to put glass in your recycling bin. They will be putting

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glass into their green bin. It will be easier for them, especially if

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they do not have Transport. Will it make you recycle more? Yes,

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certainly. It will be more convenient. The income will go to

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the district council. That is probably a bad thing, but the

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convenience will appeal to people. There will be losers. For charities,

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income from their bottle banks goes straight into their coffers, but

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kerbside collection means the money will now go to the district council.

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Collections will start in the autumn of next year. The District

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Council says 25 % more glass will be recycled, and it will save the

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council �50,000 a year. But this former town mayor accuses the

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District Council of theft. Bottle banks like this one generate �4,000

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a year. It is money we cannot afford to lose. Roger Vick goes on

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the upkeep of the TAM's war memorials and playgrounds. We have

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got to get the money from somewhere. We will probably have to get it

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from the residents. Aren't we just talking pennies? It might just be

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pennies, but if you consider all the other services they are cutting

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back on and making the town councils pay for, it's soon mount

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up. Bottle banks will not disappear and it is hoped that communities

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can branch out into recycling other items, but in the current climate,

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it is an income they cannot afford to lose.

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Police have confirmed that the woman who fell from a car park in

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Lowestoft on Friday is from the Kessingland area. She was 64-years-

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old and has not yet been named. Witnesses saw her plunge from the

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multi-storey in Battery Green just after two o'clock on Friday

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afternoon. It's the same car park where Fiona Anderson died in April

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after she'd killed her three children.

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Workers who scan baggage at Stansted Airport are to take strike

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action over the Bank Holiday weekend. Members of the GMB Union

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employed by Mitie will take the action over four days from Friday

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23rd August. They will strike between 3.30am and 6am in the

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mornings, and 3.30pm and 6pm in the afternoons. Over 90% of the unions'

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members voted in favour of the industrial action because of plans

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to cut rates for working nights or overtime. Still to come - a new

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changing rooms, pavilions and pitches. �2 million on the way for

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grass roots sports. And the mystery of taste and fragrances - the

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company selling them all over the world.

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In farming circles the east of England is often known as the bread

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basket of england because we grow more wheat and other cereal crops

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than any other part of the country. The harvest has now begun in

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earnest after a challenging year with a hard winter, freezing spring

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and lately a summer heatwave. But the early signs are good, as Ben

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Bland reports. It is a harvest that many feared would be a disaster.

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For most people be wet autumn and cold spring were annoyed and

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convenient, but for farmers across East Anglia it posed a serious

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threat. For half this they are now collecting his average, but that is

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better than they were expecting and it has come as a big relief. Last

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year was difficult. If this year have been a disaster, it would make

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life difficult for some, and that knocks on to other industries.

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There is a whole network of people involved in agriculture. These

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votes will make their way into your cereal bowl, but it is not just

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this crop that has done better than expected. Like the wheat and that

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is being harvested in Northamptonshire. It will be used

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to make bread. The amount and sometimes the quality is better

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than they thought it would be, but why were they expecting a bad

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harvest? The weather has been the main challenge from start to finish.

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Wet in the winter, cold in spring. The light in the end -- delight at

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their end of the tunnel was the heat wave. It is not just crops

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like wheat, barley and oats that have done well. It should be a good

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harvest for fruit farmers. Last year we picked 30 % of what we

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normally pick. This year it will probably be 75 %. Meanwhile, Andrew

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has managed these farms for 18 years. He says the crops exceeded

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expectations, but were average at best. How weather, there was one

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strong performer. The winter barley performed better than average, so

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we are quite pleased with that. good harvest weren't necessarily

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mean lower prices for bread and breakfast cereals. It is just one

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of many factors that affect costs, but the early signs are promising.

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Farmers are just hoping for a bit more sunshine in the coming weeks.

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Many of the fields we've just seen would have been a home for the

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harvest Mouse. It used to be common, but years of mechanisation and the

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loss of hedgerows have caused its numbers to decline.

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The thing is, we don't know enough about them. We know they are just

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5cm long, making them our smallest rodent, but we don't know much

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about how they live their lives, which is why researchers in

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Nothamptonshire have fitted tracker devices to 50 mice. Anita Ramdharry

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went to see them released. They are the smallest mammals in

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the UK and their numbers are in decline, but the elusive harvest

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mouse is hard to study and that is why a new approach to studying them

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of being adopted a -- is being adopted. Each of these mice had

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been injected with a small chip. have a brand new monitoring system

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to monitor small mammals. It is completely autonomous.

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populations are declining due to be changes in the environment. They

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all have microchips and we will be able to know when they are active.

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Another moment has arrived. 50 harvest mice are released. It is

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just a case of waiting to see if they survive and give up their

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secrets, which ultimately could save the species.

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Now to a company which exports to nearly 100 countries all over the

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world and has a turnover of �75 million a year. But the chances are

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it's a name you won't even know. Treatt produce flavours and

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fragrances and have their worldwide headquarters in Suffolk. For the

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first in a series about the region's export success stories

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Mike Liggins has been to their Treatt is a world leader in a world

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where science needs consumer products. If you stand in a shop,

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there is a good chance that a Treatt product is being used.

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However, the information is so sensitive, they will not say who

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their clients are? For industry reasons, we do not comment on our

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customers? Treatt used natural ingredients from all over the world.

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Some of the processing is done in America. The rest is done here in

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Bury St Edmunds. Make no mistake, this is big business. We sell to

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over 90 countries around the world. Last year we sold �75 million worth

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of products. Treatt are doing some cutting-edge science, tried to stay

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ahead of competitors. Although when it came to identify and fragrances

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-- fragrances, up I was next to useless. Is it peppermint? It is it.

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-- it is not. The answer was Rosemary. Their makers want to use

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new flavours. That was easy. That was honey. That was cucumber.

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are always trying to produce something new for the market.

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is where the final products are stored. Some of them have long

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scientific names, others are more recognisable. These canisters,

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which way a kilo, sell at anything from �10 to �10,000. So the next

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time you are in the supermarket, have a think about which bottle

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might just have a little bit of Bury St Edmunds in it.

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King of the taste buds! Thousands of small sports clubs

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operate on a shoestring, so any extra money can make a big

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difference. Here in the East nearly 40 clubs or projects receive their

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very own Olympic wind full. -- windfall.

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Everyone gets supported, from the fun seekers to those aiming big.

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These gymnasts have a well-equipped playground, but it was not always

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that way. Before we had the funding, it was a smaller building. We have

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now doubled in size. We have also been able to equip it. We now also

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have 1,000 members. The numbers have gone through the roof. We are

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not talking about putting money into clubs that are already well-

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funded, or we are talking about grassroots clubs so that everyone

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has the opportunity to go to a local club that has all the

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facilities. This club has spent its money to great effect and today

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another 321 clubs from around the country get to start spending their

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�50,000 each will wisely. It might be for new floodlights, changing

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rooms, or just to buy some new equipment. This community centre

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will be able to replace it outside area and this club will be able to

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completely refurbished. -- refurbish. There are lots of kids

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from different ages and we appreciate it. What would you like

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to say to the people handing out the money? Thank you!So one year

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on from London 2012, money is finding its way into grassroots

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clubs. I would love to be able to do that!

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Stain on the subject of athletics, hour sprinter missed out on a mad

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will -- out on a medal at the championships in Russia.

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And now the weather. Most of us will have a dry evening.

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The showers will eventually clear away and the club will disappear.

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Good news for those of you who want to catch the meteor shower tonight.

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Blustery winds bought he's down -- will he's down. A cold start

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tomorrow. We had this weather front coming in from the West. For most

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of us it will be dry with a good deal of sunshine. As the morning

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goes on, thicker clouds coming in from the West. There will be some

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light and patchy rain. Temperatures around 20 Celsius. Overall, lighter

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winds from a West or north-westerly direction. We finish the day with a

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lot of cloud and some patchy rain. Wednesday, a similar day. It will

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start fine and dry. The cloud will increase from the West. There will

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be outbreaks of light and patchy rain. The winds will turn south-

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westerly and drag in a more humid feel two things. Thursday is

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looking cloud Lee -- looking cloudy, but there will be some spells of

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