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Hello and welcome to Look East. With Stewart and me. The headlines | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
tonight: Another blow for the beleaguered schools in Suffolk. The | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
official watchdog says one third of the primaries are not good enough. | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
Some headteachers disagree. Does this feel like a witchhunt? You have | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
hit the nail on the head. Police raids across the region today | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
to find the gangs who tagetted treasures in museums. —— targeted. | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
Appearing in court. The radio presenter accused of using his | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
celebrity to sexually abuse young boys. And a new exhibition called | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
masterpieces tells the story of Art in East Anglia. | :00:53. | :01:04. | |
They only went back a week ago but the troubled schools in Suffolk have | :01:04. | :01:12. | |
already run into their first set—back. | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
Ofsted, the official schools watchdog, chose this week to launch | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
a programme of intensive inspections of Suffolk's schools. New figures | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
from Ofsted show that 30 per cent of children in Suffolk go to a primary | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
school that is not good enough compared to 21 per cent nationally. | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
In Suffolk that translates to 76 schools and more than 15,000 pupils. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
In a moment we'll speak to Ofsted, but first this from our Suffolk | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
reporter Kevin Burch. Education officials in Suffolk say | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
they're already committed to driving up standards with their own plan. | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
Raising the Bar. But now Ofsted is breathing firmly down its neck with | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
this extensive check—up, involving all types of schools, but mainly | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
primaries. I have no problems about being audited. Ken Marrable's head | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
of Morland Primary in Ipswich. He's not expecting a visit, but says the | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
inspectors popped in anyway this May, at a day's notice. They felt | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
the school required improvement. Despite the fact that it's ranked in | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
the top 25% of primaries in the country for pupil progress. We all | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
try very hard, we are working collectively for the children. It is | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
a hackneyed expression that some people think they have discovered, | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
the school is for the children, but in Suffolk we all believe that. | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
Ofsted come in and make a judgement and go, they leave school and the | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
teachers to pick up the pieces. Ofsted's intervention in Suffolk | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
follows a similar move in July over secondary schools in Norfolk. And | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
the man at the top says it's clear both areas need urgent help. People | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
think that because it is a mace and leafy and pretty part of the world | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
that children are doing well, but they are not. In Suffolk, they are | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
already trying to widen the pool of expertise by forming links with | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
schools in London. We filmed at one of them in Hackney in May. | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
It is just one of a range of proposals, but is the package | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
working. —— is the package working and bearing fruit? That is what | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
Ofsted will be trying to assess. And it is warning that if there aren't | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
signs of a turnaround, it wil turn the spotlight onto education | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
officials to see if they're the real problem. We have had some really | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
significant increases in terms of the results that young people are | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
gaining in Suffolk, but they are not keeping up with national levels of | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
attainment and we must make sure we reach and surpass that. Does this | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
feel like a witchhunt? You have hit the nail on the head, absolutely. | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
Ofsted says it is looking to get a powerful snapshot of what's | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
happening. As well as face—to—face inspections, it'll be carrying out a | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
phone survey with other schools too. Sean Harford is the regional | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
director for Ofsted. And when I spoke to him earlier, I put it to | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
him that education officials in Suffolk already had an action plan | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
to improve the county's schools. Suffolk, in common with the rest of | :03:58. | :04:06. | |
the East of England is actually improving at the slower rate than | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
the rest of the country in this past year. By pooling these inspections | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
together we want to be able to get under the skin of what is going on | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
and hopefully be exempted —— hopefully be helpful in identifying | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
patterns were schools and local authorities could improve for young | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
people. Many schools with in fear of Ofsted inspections, we have heard | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
from a schoolteacher seeing that this feels like a witchhunt and the | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
Nu Tis says that this will hit morale badly. Make this backfire? It | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
is very important to understand that these inspections would have | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
happened anyway. All we have done is to pull them together into a | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
concentrated period of a couple of weeks, so for the teachers in the | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
school it will make no difference. Those inspections would have | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
happened anyway and they should see no difference and they should not | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
fear it. They should just go about their work and the inspectors will | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
observe and draw the conclusions. It is interesting that this is a region | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
that is not improving as well as other regions. How can something be | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
regionwide like that when every county is run in a different county | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
council? There is evidence to suggest from surveys and reports | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
that coastal towns are struggling, something it's difficult to attract | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
good teachers, and that could be a factor in all of this. The thing is, | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
the people in charge of education and the schools themselves need to | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
do all they can to attract teachers and get the best deal for children | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
in the school. We deserve as good an education as anyone in the country. | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
We are seeing a lot more from Ofsted these days, is there a real push to | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
get in there and be more controversial and stick your neck | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
out more about schools you do not think I doing well? We are | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
passionate about education and we are passionate about getting better | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
services for children. We think it is very important to stimulate | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
debate because we think that when people are interested and have the | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
facts behind them to do with the services we all use then they will | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
be more informed. That is what we are trying to do. Thank you very | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
much. 19 people have been arrested today | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
across the country in connection with a number of break—ins at | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
museums including the Castle Museum in Norwich and the Fitzwilliam in | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
Cambridge. Our reporter Mike Cartwright was with the police for a | :06:41. | :06:51. | |
dawn raid in Cambridgeshire. Strike was the code word that | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
triggered simultaneous raids across the country. Near Cambridge, | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
officers raided a travellers site. They are making phone calls, the art | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
on the phone. Inside this caravan are three men they want to question. | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
Officers moved in and make the arrest. More than 30 officers were | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
involved in the raids. Across the site, another arrest. Handcuffed, | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
the man is led from a caravan and driven from the site in question. | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
Officers were targeting five people in these rates, so far they have | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
made for rest. These officers are on guard waiting for specialist search | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
teams to come in. The operation was carried out after a series of high | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
value read in museums. It increase was due to pieces still museums —— | :07:43. | :07:52. | |
18 jade pieces were stolen from the fit William Museum, and months | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
before there was a failed attempt to steal this rhino horn. There was a | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
substantial reward offered for the recovery of these artefacts, clearly | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
of massive value. We are determined to carry out the work, deal with the | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
offenders and recover the goods. After the raids, 19 people are no in | :08:12. | :08:20. | |
custody. This involves Essex, the West Midlands and Northern Ireland. | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
A national crackdown on those thought to be conspiring to steal | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
some of the country's most valuable artefacts. | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
A former BBC radio presenter was accused today of having a "deviant" | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
sexual obsession with young boys. Mike Souter, who used to work for | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
Radio Norfolk, was said to have used his celebrity status to abuse seven | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
boys aged between 11 and sixteen. Our reporter Jenny Kirk was at | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
Norwich crown court for the start of the trial. | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
Mike Souter arrived at court today to hear the prosecution open its | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
case against him. The former Radio Norfolk DJ, who is | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
now 60, faces 19 charges of sexual assault spanning 20 years. The | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
Prosecution said Mr Souter deliberately created situations | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
where he'd be in contact with young boys, some of whom were "vulnerable | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
and pliable". The court was told this included setting up a Scout | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
Group in Norwich. And becoming a mentor for children in care. The | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
alleged victims are now aged 28 to 48. The prosecution claim Mr Souter | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
used many of the same grooming techniques on the boys before going | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
on to assault them. One alleged victim told police the abuse was, in | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
his words, "relentless". Another claims he even stole bromide from | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
his school to try and dampen Mr Souter's sexual appetite. When did | :09:35. | :09:45. | |
these allegations first surfaced? The court heard that complaints were | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
made to the police and social services about Michael Souter in | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
1993 and 2002.But he wasn't arrested until 2011 after three men had come | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
forward. In his police interview Mr Souter said he was "staggered" by | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
the allegations and claimed the men were conspiring against him. But | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
today the prosecutor poured scorn on that, saying it was highly unlikely | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
that seven men, born in three different decades, would all invent | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
similar stories. He said that would make Mr Souter "the unluckiest man | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
alive." And, he told the jury, "lightening doesn't strike seven | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
times." Michael Souter denies all the charges. The case is scheduled | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
to last for six weeks. A teenager could be facing a life | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
sentence after being convicted of murdering of a talented musician and | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
rapper. Thomas Brittain was 26 years old. He was stabbed during a | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
break—in. At a flat in Colchester. —— break—in at a flat in Colchester. | :10:39. | :10:49. | |
YouTube footage of Thomas Burton performing one of his songs. He | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
dreamt of a career ending the music industry. He was stabbed to death | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
during a watched burglary. The jury heard that two young men wearing | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
balaclavas burst into the flat shooting police. There was a scuffle | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
during which Thomas was stabbed in the chest. There are three children | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
under five in the flat at the time of the murder. They were killing in | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
a bedroom. The two men captured on CCTV fled and where —— and a manhunt | :11:19. | :11:28. | |
was launched. Jack Thompson denied murder but it took ages 83 and a | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
half hours to conflict him. He grievous bodily harm, possessing a | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
fake gun and aggravated burglary. 19—year—old Andre Villa was cleared | :11:36. | :11:45. | |
of murder but also convicted of Adam —— aggravated burglary and having a | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
fake gun. A policeman who led the investigation spoke of how Thomas's | :11:50. | :11:58. | |
murder affected their family. They have lost a much loved son and | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
brother. We have been so dignified during the trial and I am so | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
grateful for that. I hope that now that the verdict has been given the | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
active in time to grieve in peace. They will be sentenced at a later | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
hearing. Network Rail has been find £125,000 | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
following the death of one of its workers in Essex. Malcolm Slater, | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
who was 64, died in 2008 when the aerial platform he was working on | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
sheared off. Network Rail had admitted breaching health and safety | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
regulations. It has also been ordered to pay £85,000 in costs. | :12:30. | :12:48. | |
Still to come, you had your say about the A14. | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
And the treasures from the arts world under one roof for the first | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
time in this region. In Look East last night we had a | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
special report on a plan to recruit more reservists — or part time | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
soldiers — into the Army. The idea is to plug the gaps left behind by | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
cuts to the Regular service. The problem is that it relies on | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
employers releasing their staff to take part in training and | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
operations. Many smaller firms are reluctant, saying it would hit their | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
business. In the second of his special reports, our Defence | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
reporter Alex Dunlop asks if the army and employers have enough "In | :13:24. | :13:35. | |
reserve." What the difference from the day | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
job. What exercise in Croatia, Royal in the reservists in place of the | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
lot and sweat of the vicious work—out. Many like Alvin Rushmere | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
arts year with the blessing of their boss. My job is an office based job | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
and this gets me out onto the adventure takes in and it gives me a | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
little bit of a challenge in life. Back at Eccles in Suffolk, Gavin's | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
colleagues may not get the chance to join him. Only 18 people work here, | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
the firm would struggle with another reserve list on the payroll. The | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
company —— the MoD pays their salary will be our only and compensate | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
employers. Given's employer is quietly as back but think that the | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
government get a better deal than employers. We agree that we should | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
support our reserve forces but there is no effective serious | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
compensation. It would be a drop in the bucket in knowledge into what | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
the potential savings to the MoD are given the scale of defence | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
reductions going through at the moment. In the survey, 58% of small | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
businesses say that the mate employing reservist in the future, | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
36% would not consider it. Two in every five employers say that the | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
proposed changes to reservists council would have a negative impact | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
on them. A reserve list would have a senior role in that business, to | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
replace those skills it would be expensive. The organisation which | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
allow users between employers and the MoD says that future incentives | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
will be far more attractive. The small to medium enterprises, | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
wealthier employee is immobilised, they will get a flat payment of £500 | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
per month during that mobilisation period. The region's 2000 reserve is | :15:32. | :15:42. | |
may not be professional soldiers but they bring fresh civilian skills to | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
the battlefield. It is up to the government to convince their bosses | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
that the army could bring added value to them. | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
And tomorrow Alex will be looking at an accusation the army is being | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
'hollowed out' by reducing the number of full time soldiers. And | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
taking on more reservists. —— full—time soldiers and taking on | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
more reservists. Last night, I was on the A14 in | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
Cambridgeshire reporting on the Government plan. For a new toll | :16:08. | :16:17. | |
road. There was a huge response from you. Susie has been going through | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
your comments. Just a reminder that the existing | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
road heads north west from Cambridge towards Huntingdon. Work on the new | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
toll road is due to start in 2016. Many drivers had thought they would | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
still be able to use the old road as an alternative. But a key bridge at | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
Huntingdon is coming to the end of its life and is due to be | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
demolished. Alan Baish spoke for many when he e—mailed to say: "We | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
already pay taxes for the privilege of driving on the highway." And Dave | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
Smith from Rothwell was so angry with the idea of a toll, he wrote in | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
capitals just to make the point: "We have already paid for this A14. No | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
toll." Geoff Fry is a retired sales director from Cambridge. He uses the | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
A14 regularly and like many hates the idea that there may not be an | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
alternative to the new toll road. Like many thousands who moved in | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
this area I believe that having a toll road, I am against the fact | :17:10. | :17:18. | |
that we will not have a choice but to use it. We would have to use the | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
A14 or have nothing. There has been a lot of reaction from politicians | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
about the prospect of only 14 tour, Huntingdon —— the MP for Huntingdon | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
likes the idea. But first the Northampton MP. The taxpayers paid | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
for this road, they paid for the infrastructure and I do not think we | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
can take it away on what seems to be a ruse to get people onto the toll | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
road. It is good news for the whole region, by 2025 we are expecting 20 | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
or 25% more traffic on the A14 than currently exists in the situation | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
will become impossible. We must have a solution. We had a lot of reaction | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
on the East Facebook page, all comments bar one where critical of | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
the proposals. Terry Christie said, the new road will speed up the | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
journey, will be shorter and will most likely use less fuel. Those | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
short—sighted people who say they will find an alternative route | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
should have a rethink. The last word goes to Mick Barrett who said, | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
crazy, I will take the other routes as I do with the M6 toll, as HTV 's | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
do. I'm sure you saw those scenes of joy | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
in Tokyo last weekend after it was selected to host the Olympic Games | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
in 2020. But there was disappointment for our top squash | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
players because their sport won't be included in the games. Our sports | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
editor Jonathan Park is at a squash club in Cambridgeshire. Welcome to | :18:52. | :19:03. | |
the Hunts County club near Huntingdon. It is one of the best | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
squash clubs in the region. Many of these youngsters on court tonight, | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
they are simply brushing up their skills and will not be worrying too | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
much about the Olympic Games in 2020. But for one of the region's | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
top players, the sport not making at 22020 as a bit of a blow to him. I | :19:24. | :19:33. | |
would happily trade all of my seven titles for an Olympic Games gold | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
medal. Not even squash's biggest games could convince the Olympic top | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
table that it deserves an invitation to the games in 2020. Three times | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
the sport has tried, three times the door has been slammed shut. It was | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
four years of hard work from players, officials, everyone. You | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
feel like you have been banging your head against the back wall. Darryl | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
is one of Britain's's finest, you thought Olympic recognition would | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
take squash the new level. The IOC wanted a new sport but wrestling has | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
made it back in the state having been dropped earlier in the year. It | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
is unfortunate the way the procedure happened, we took wrestling out in | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
the first place and made an example of it together in the ticking off | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
for not filling in any form right or something. It is a shame for squash, | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
we were the scapegoats. Squash has done much in recent years to make it | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
more TV friendly, glass courts and video review technology has been | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
introduced. In May the five countries seem to agree that squash | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
is attractive. They will keep trying for an Olympic inclusion. It is a | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
bar of course, we have been trying for years to get into the Olympics | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
and this has not stopped squash from growing. There are more people | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
playing squash now than ever before. In terms of a hammer blow, yes, it | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
is able but we will grow as a sport. It will be 11 years before squash | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
get an Olympic opportunity, at the earliest. But Darryl will get the | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
chance to show Commonwealth audiences just what exciting sport | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
it is. Let's get some reaction from the head coach, James. | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
Disappointment? Very disappointed. A huge disappointment for squash. We | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
will keep trying. Squash will get in one day. As you can see, we have a | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
thriving junior squash environment and hopefully this will continue. | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
Taylor, one of the country's best young players. You must be | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
disappointed. I was very disappointed considering squash is | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
such a good sport for everyone. It is upsetting not to be in. Echoes a | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
gladiatorial contest, squash, so they will keep trying. | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
It's been described as the most ambitious art exhibition ever to be | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
staged in our region. Called 'Masterpieces', it's on for nearly | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
six months at the Sainsbury Centre on the UEA campus in Norwich. It | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
doesn't open to the public until the weekend, but we've been for an early | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
look. As Mike Liggins reports. It includes work by some very famous | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
names. It took two years to put together and the masterpieces | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
exhibition is East Anglia and heart's greatest hits. | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
But unlike those, —— unlike those music compilations where you get | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
some hits and some dodgy tracks no one really wants, with Masterpieces | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
the hits keep on coming. How did they decide on what to put in and | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
leave out? We had a lot of faith in a lot of debates and occasionally | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
things just could not travel. They were stuck down or too heavy or too | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
fragile. Virtually everything that we really needed and wanted from all | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
over the world is here. It came. And if it is big names you want here are | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
one or two for starters. A painter Sophie Missi only need one name, | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
timer. And John Constable. —— Turner. His parents garden painted | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
six years before his heyday. There are many great stories, including | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
this roster of the Emperor Claudius, stolen from the Romans in Colchester | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
by Boudicca's army and then discovered in the Suffolk River in | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
1907. Ian Collins is the cheerleader of Masterpieces, he has lived in | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
this exhibition for two years and is so enthusiastic he wanted us to | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
feature everything. We don't have time! But what about that Turner? | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
This shoe is spectacular and this combination is a spectacle in | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
itself. It is Turner painting a wonderful picture in 1831 and next | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
to it we have a great knowledge school painter painting possibly the | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
same storm over Yarmouth in 1831. That is a complete knockout. I want | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
everyone to come, I would say that but this is a show for everyone. | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
This is not the conventional art show, it is a show for people who | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
have not been to an exhibition. It is about everything that has | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
happened in East Anglia. There have been many surprises in the | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
exhibition, who would have thought this painting of Lowestoft harbour | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
would have been painted by LS Lowry? The exhibition also has an | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
interesting idea on what can be art, as the Gainsborough and acts, which | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
is 700,000 years old, set next to place was works of art. What about | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
this? They will just take 72, arguably the greatest racing car of | :24:55. | :25:02. | |
all time. —— Lotus 72. Masterpieces opens at the city centre on | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
Saturday. If you want to hear my opinion, I do | :25:05. | :25:16. | |
not think that was the best racing car. What do you think? This | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
exhibition is something else. This has painting after extraordinary | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
painting. I could not possibly tell you my favourite but I recommend you | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
get tender. Quite a shift in our weather this | :25:29. | :25:37. | |
weekend, and outdo last week, a changeable week is forecast and | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
today a case in point. We have a succession of Atlantic weather | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
fronts lining up so we will see some further unsettled weather but today | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
has not been great. It has been dominated by this large blow to our | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
least, it has brought wind and rain and cloud and it has not been very | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
pleasant. We are still recording wind speeds in excess of 30 mph. | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
Much of this rain is becoming more patchy, but we will see some further | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
outbreaks of rain particularly across the eastern half across the | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
region for the next few hours. The wins will gradually ease but | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
certainly quite a breeze for this evening at the first part of the | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
night. There will be some cloud around so it will not be quite as | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
chilly as last eight. Temperatures will reach around 11 degrees, the | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
expected low across the region, but certainly one or two spots might get | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
down to single figures. Here is the pressure pattern for tomorrow, the | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
low pressure moves away to the east with the gap in between, you can see | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
our next weather front lining up and heading in her direction. If you | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
live in Norfolk and Suffolk there could be some rain first thing but | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
then it will become drier and brighter and because of that we | :26:58. | :26:59. | |
could require slightly warmer temperatures tomorrow. It will not | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
feel quite as cold as today, as of around 16 degrees. Still a bit of a | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
breeze but not as windy as today, a model north—westerly wind. Here is | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
the next area of rain moving in, much of this quite drizzly and Patsy | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
and light but it will turn the sky is cloudy in the afternoon. Looking | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
ahead, this is still the unsettled picture, with further weather front | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
on the scene in the 50 and the rest of the week so far 30 itself looks | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
slightly warmer. —— so for thirsty itself. For Friday and Saturday the | :27:29. | :27:39. | |
temperatures will bounce back. That is all from us. Goodbye. | :27:39. | :27:39. |