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How a campaign to stop the sale of super—strength alcohol has cut | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
street drinking by up to 70%. I think what we have really been | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
surprised that is the significant drop in calls to police about | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
anti—social behaviour. Is it right that we have these products? We | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
don't think it is. A claim that shipping rubbish to | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
Holland could be cheaper than burning it in Norfolk. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
The high street travel giant pledging its future to this region. | :00:38. | :00:46. | |
And the firm with a mission to make banjos more of bargain. | :00:46. | :00:58. | |
First tonight, the campaign to stop the sale of super strength alcohol | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
which has cut street drinking and helped many of the worst problem | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
drinkers into treatment. In Ipswich today they are | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
celebrating the anniversary of their campaign to stop the sale of beers | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
and ciders which are stronger than 6.5%. The idea was to reduce | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
anti—social behaviour. 90 out of 138 off licences in Ipswich volunteered | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
to take it off the shelves. Since this time last year in one area | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
there was a fall of 71% in reported incidents. And a charity which | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
offers help to people who drink on the street has told Look East that | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
many more drinkers are now in rehab. The details from Richard Daniel. | :01:40. | :01:49. | |
Ipswich was one of the first towns in the UK to pull super—strength | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
beer and cider from the shelves. This was the first shop to do it. | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
Abuse, theft, criminal damage all down. Breaking windows, shouting, | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
screaming, tyres puncturing and everything. I said, OK, we can stop | :02:05. | :02:13. | |
this somehow. Two thirds of off—licences have signed up to the | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
campaign. I know that similar campaigns have been launched | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
elsewhere. Just yesterday I saw that Weymouth joined up. The number of | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
street drinkers in Ipswich has halved, but some have moved | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
elsewhere. As far as I'm concerned, it's not right because people walk | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
past, but they are going to do it whether a policeman comes up to us | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
or not. The past year success is not just down to restricting the sales | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
of drinks like this. Agencies in Ipswich are now working closer to | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
solve the problem of street drinking. Among them, the Ipswich | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
umbrella trust which says 40 people are now in rehab. 12 months ago | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
there were a list of 78 Registered St drinkers. That has now fallen to | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
38. I am firmly of the view that one of the reasons for that has been the | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
lack of availability of strong drink. Together with organisations | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
working coherently. The Co—op was the first big chain to ban | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
high—strength booze. In a year, verbal abuse of staff has risen by | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
66%. And increase it puts down to its refusal to serve underage | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
drinkers. I have a gentleman here today who was attacked by somebody | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
when he refused to give them alcohol. When someone is refused | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
alcohol, it could be swearing, shouting. We have come together with | :03:49. | :03:58. | |
the three police forces who work in the best interest of the majority of | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
our staff and therefore a real collaboration in making everybody | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
aware that anti—social behaviour will not be tolerated. That on the | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
streets, there are still some who continue to drink. Those involved in | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
the project say a simple idea has gone some way to solving a complex | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
problem. Earlier I spoke to Inspector Andrew | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
Mason from Suffolk Police and asked him, out of all they'd achieved from | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
the campaign so far, what he was most proud of. | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
I'm really proud of what the people of Ipswich are telling us. We have | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
done surveys with businesses and people visiting it is a much better | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
statistics are important, but the look and feel of Ipswich improving. | :04:47. | :05:00. | |
Some people have been really pleased with what we have doing and we have | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
rebuilt people 's lives. Other people have been more resistant to | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
what we are doing and that is understandable. They are addicted to | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
alcohol, at the end of the day, but I am certain we will get them all | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
around. Not all of the off—licence have signed up, so could do drinkers | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
just go to the ones that are still selling it on the problem just moves | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
with them? We have two thirds signed up, so 90 out of 138. There are | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
other premises at our trading responsibly and we have no issues, | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
but there are some premises attracting trouble and we are | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
working with them to work the process through. It is also about | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
health. This stuff is killing people more rapidly than heroin. Ipswich is | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
taking the lead, but it is being followed up from other towns and | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
cities. What have you heard? We have been inundated with requests for | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
information. That is something I am proud of. Birmingham, Nottingham and | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
big cities are starting to do it. It has grabbed the imagination of a lot | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
of agencies said it must be the right thing to do. Thank you very | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
much. An investigation into claims of | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
criminal conduct in the Fire Service in Essex will continue despite the | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
fact that one firefighter who was spoken to by the police has died. | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
This morning a coroner recorded an open verdict on Martin Sibley who | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
was found hanged at his home in Colchester in June. Gareth George | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
was at the hearing and he's in Chelmsford now. | :06:35. | :06:45. | |
Martin simply had over 20 years experience in Essex fire service. He | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
was found hanged on June 17 this year in Colchester. The coroner was | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
told that on the day he was found dead, he had been questioned by | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
Essex police and the police may have been looking into historic | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
allegations of abuse during Fire service initiation ceremonies. The | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
Essex coroner recorded an open verdict. It was said that it was | :07:10. | :07:18. | |
impossible to be sure whether or not he committed suicide because he had | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
not left a note. After the inquest, a joint statement was issued by | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
police and fire in Essex. It said the Kent and Essex serious crime | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
director is conducting a criminal investigation into historic | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
allegations within the fire service. Enquiries are ongoing. His family | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
were not at the inquest, but the coroner received a letter from his | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
mother. In it, his mother said she thought Martin may have panicked | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
over being questioned by the police. There was a plea to nine from the | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
friable trades union which is concern for other firefighters who | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
may be involved in the investigation. It is urgent. Kill | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
about the investigation to stop. To prevent, it says, further human | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
cost. The Police commissioner for Essex | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
says he wants to know why so many police are off sick. Officers in the | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
county average 12 sick days a year. The chief constable has complained | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
that some take time off because they have hangovers. He says they're | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
letting the force down and will be challenged. | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
If there is something we can do, I can help the Chief Constable do to | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
give them better support, to get them back on duty quickly, I want to | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
do that. So I am looking for that explanation. | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
Household waste from Norfolk could be sent to Amsterdam for burning. | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
The idea has been proposed by a cross party group of county | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
councillors. They claim it could be cheaper than building a | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
controversial incinerator in King's Lynn. | :08:53. | :09:03. | |
This is the AAB recycling plant in Amsterdam. It is the largest waste | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
recycler in the world. A process half a million bags of rubbish per | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
day, so Norfolk county council is thinking about sending our waste | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
there. We have a huge overcapacity in | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
Europe, not least in Amsterdam, where they are desperate to get | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
rubbish in. It helps keep the lights on in Amsterdam. Why saddle more | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
folk taxpayers for a contract that makes no sense at all? It will be | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
extremely bad value for money. Waste is a growing challenge for | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
Norfolk. The county produces 2.5 million tonnes per year, but what is | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
the best option? The council are suggesting the waste is sent to | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
Amsterdam and it will cost £80 per turn to get rid of. If an | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
incinerator were to be built in Kings Lynn, that would rise to £108 | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
per turn. That is arise that some people are not sure about. | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
Debra Sacks has devised many local authorities. She think sending waste | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
to Amsterdam would be like pouring money down the drain. I think it is | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
wrong to dump waste on other communities. Also it is a resource | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
that we can use, so it is foolish to ferret away. | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
Another incinerator is being built in Suffolk. While that is still | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
being completed, the one in Kings Lynn is up in the air. The | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
government is deciding whether it will get planning position —— | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
permission. It is a shambles, basically. It is a | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
mess because the council signed the contract for planning permission was | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
given, so all the risk was being borne by Norfolk county council. | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
A group of councillors think sending rubbish to Holland could be a | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
short—term solution. A former BBC Radio Norfolk presenter | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
who's on trial for sex offences against boys has blamed the police | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
for indecent images which were found on his computer. Michael Souter | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
denies 19 sex offences against seven boys plus nine counts of making and | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
possessing indecent images of children. Kim Riley was in court | :11:12. | :11:21. | |
Kim. This was his third day in the | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
witness box. Very lively anthem —— and clashing with the opposition. | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
This has been like trying to conduct my defence of my arms tied behind my | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
back, he said. He blamed them for indecent images on his computer. You | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
are accusing the police, as Mr Shaw? Yes, I am. Of getting the pictures | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
sent to you? I am accusing them of that, he said. He said he had no | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
idea which police officers, but all he said was they were new images and | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
e—mails from people he had no knowledge of. He told the court that | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
for the last 20 years, authorities have been trying to prove his guilt. | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
There were more tetchy exchanges with Mr Shaw pointing out, when in a | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
hole, stop digging. For the second time he asked him if you is for real | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
and he replied, I am for real and you don't like it when I point out | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
things that should be done. Esther Shaw said, fill your boots, I am | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
enjoying every word that comes out of your mouth. The cross—examination | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
continues. The police are looking for a cyclist | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
who came within inches of being killed when she jumped the lights at | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
a level crossing. She narrowly missed being hit by a train at | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
Waterbeach on the line between Cambridge and King's Lynn. The train | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
was travelling at 75 miles an hour. A coroner has ruled that the mother | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
of the health campaigner died of natural causes and not because of | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
negligence. Pamela Chapple collapse of the brain injury day after she | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
had been sent home from Basildon Hospital. | :13:01. | :13:11. | |
Still to come: The fire chief who retired and then came back to his | :13:11. | :13:19. | |
job a month later on his old salary. And the company with a mission to | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
make banjos which most of us can afford. | :13:22. | :13:30. | |
One of the biggest names on the high street and one of our biggest | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
employers has told looked least it will be staying in this region. | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
Thomas Cook employs 1200 people at its UK head office. It made huge | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
losses last year and many of its shops close. Now it says it is | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
through the worst. It is all change this week for | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
Britain's oldest tour group. A new logo, a sunny heart, to be rolled | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
out across the country. It has been a rocky road for Thomas Cook of | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
late. One that has taken it to the brink of oblivion. | :14:03. | :14:11. | |
The group Pioneer package holidays in the 50s, but time is changed. | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
Thomas Cook was ill—prepared for the recession. Costs were too high and | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
it failed to embrace the Internet. There was talk of —— closures and | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
job losses. The woman behind the cutbacks was Harriet Green, but her | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
ruthless approach seems to be working. The group has returned to | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
profit and the shares are ten times higher than one year ago. Thomas | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
Cook has a bright future across the world. We made some difficult | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
decisions in the last 12 months, but we are over that and we have | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
transformed the company and we are back and much better. | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
Parts of the operation have got bigger. This contact Centre does | :14:55. | :15:03. | |
work that used to be carried out in a variety of areas. As a result, we | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
have recruited more staff. Overall, staff numbers are down in | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
Peterborough. Over 2500 people in the country have lost their jobs. | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
Approximately 300 in Peterborough and that has been tough. For those | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
who remain, their terms and conditions have been reduced. The | :15:26. | :15:40. | |
company is now turning a corner. Relief for Peterborough that one of | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
its blue—chip companies is through the worst, but surviving staff have | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
had to accept have changes. It has emerged that the head of the | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
fire service in Cambridgeshire retired, took a month off and | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
returned to his old job yesterday on the same salary. Graham Stark was | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
away when firefighters went on strike and pensions. The union | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
described the timing of his return as insensitive. | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
When Graham Stagg officially retired four weeks ago, there was no notice. | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
He took one month off, and returned to his desk. During his absence | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
there was a strike and other senior managers were promoted for that | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
month to hold the fort. What happened bought a swift response | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
from the fire union. The timing is really insensitive considering the | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
pensions campaign we are fighting. It seems that the top management are | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
very much in bed together and they are working out the jobs for the | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
boys and pensions for the boys. The service said the authority agreed | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
that Mr Stagg could continue working after his retirement. The service | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
says the benefits are .doc. Mr Stagg was on a package deal worth | :16:56. | :17:15. | |
over £204,000 and he is not allowed to draw his pension under the rules | :17:15. | :17:25. | |
of re—employment. A 55% tax rate is avoided if civil servants take 28 | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
days off before returning to work. Yesterday you may have seen the | :17:26. | :17:38. | |
story about a woman who was given a warning by the police after she took | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
six sacks of shingle from the beach at Felixstowe. Apparently she was | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
taking it home to use in the garden. That got us talking. What can you | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
can't take from the beach? We sent Alex to Felixstowe to investigate. | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
At least she was not trying to sell it on the seashore. This is the | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
stuff, sought after shingle. Here it is free, which is one reason why | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
this woman kept coming back and collected two carloads of the steps | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
to take home. But, she done wrong. Here is a little less. 17 miles out | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
to see that way, off beaches like this, most of our beaches, to the | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
high watermark is owned by the Crown and state, the Queen. This bit is | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
owned by the landowner, Suffolk coastal district Council. So she was | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
stealing their shingle and breaking the law. The woman was only traced | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
after a resident took photographs and reported her. Police have warned | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
the woman not to do it again. The council owns that section of beach | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
and says that dealing shingle in bulk could effect coastal erosion. A | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
healthy beaches and asset. The sand and shingle is precious. We would | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
certainly not one man to hasten the demise of the beach. From the | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
Norfolk wash to the Thames Street, most of our coastline is public, but | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
it doesn't mean it is open to all comers. You can beach comb, but I | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
know from childhood that you can't take stones. You could argue that | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
shingle doesn't stay in one place anyway. Almost all in Norfolk and | :19:28. | :19:43. | |
Suffolk and half in Essex is owned by the Crown Estates, the Queen, so | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
what can and can't you take from a beach? I think it is a question of | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
intent. If you are going out there deliberately with empty bags to | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
place all of this debris and stones in, that is an intention to go out | :19:57. | :20:06. | |
and commit an illegal act. I guess it all boils down to intent. | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
A few minutes ago I was talking to a man who lives locally and he said he | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
sees guys with huge big drums and they fill them up with the water. | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
What they intend to do with them is anyone's guess. I remember going to | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
read a resort only a few years ago and they said leave only footprints | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
and take only memories. Earl Scruggs played one, the | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
American comedian Steve Martin still plays one and Winston Marshall from | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
Mumford and certain has made them kind of cool. But if you want to buy | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
a banjo made in this country, it will cost thousands of pounds. That | :20:46. | :20:56. | |
could be about to change. This is the Shackleton banjo made in | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
Norwich by the great British banjo company. It is a prototype. Working | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
from offices in the heart of the city, the company hoped to raise | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
£30,000 on the crowd funding website kick—start. If they reach the target | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
by October 12, the Shackleton will go into production. We have had | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
fantastic support in the last few days, including the best banjo | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
player in the world. We have had support from Mike Harding and many | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
other people who have been tweeting and posting news on their websites. | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
We have massive support. Crowd funding is a new way of | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
raising money. Individuals make pledges on websites support projects | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
they are interested in. In this country, the banjo had its heyday at | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
the time George Formby was around, although he played the ukelele and a | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
hybrid. Today the banjo is enjoying a comeback thanks in no part to | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
Mumford and Sons. As you can see, there are all kinds of banjos, | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
electric, American bluegrass, if you want a British made banjo you would | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
have had to pay up to £2000, but now there is the Shackleton. | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
It is called the Shackleton after Ernest Shackleton. When he got into | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
bother in the South pole, his weatherman gets buried so by playing | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
a banjo. What do you think? It is a lovely | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
sound. A lot better than the one I have. I can't wait to save up my | :22:46. | :22:57. | |
money and get one. The Shackleton will retail at around | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
£300. If the great writ —ish banjo company gets the money it needs. It | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
has ten days to reach is £30,000 target. | :23:08. | :23:16. | |
What a lovely sound. Let's get the weather now. | :23:16. | :23:24. | |
This is one weatherman that does not know how to play the banjo at the | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
moment, but I could improve on that. We have changeable weather. We had | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
showery rain this morning, but most of it teetered out as it tracked | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
further east. There have been a few breaks in the cloud this afternoon, | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
but a lot of cloud out there. We keep those conditions tonight. A few | :23:44. | :23:52. | |
misty patches forming. It is staying dry and mild temperatures holding up | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
at 12 or 13 degrees. The wind is easing down touching moderate at | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
times around the coast. All eyes to the south tomorrow. This rain coming | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
out from France. Potentially quite a bit of rain. For us, most of | :24:09. | :24:19. | |
daylight hours will be dry tomorrow. More cloud out west and then we will | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
see rain spread in from the south—west in the afternoon. | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
Reaching places like Northampton and Luton first. Temperatures tomorrow | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
are potentially quite warm. Maybe as high as 20 in the west of the | :24:35. | :24:44. | |
region. Humid and breezy. In the rain, it will extend across the | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
region through tomorrow evening with heavy burst in places. They be a few | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
rumbles of thunder in the evening before it clears away later on. A | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
few showers on Friday, but into the weekend, things start to improve. I | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
pressure from the south and the wind eases down. There will be quite a | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
lot of moisture trapped under this high, so cloudy conditions on the | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
weekend. A few showers on Friday, sunny spells and through the | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
weekend, a lot of cloud but also some bright spells. Essentially it | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
is a dry story. Light winds by the weekend means we could get chilly | :25:28. | :25:35. | |
night and mist and fog patches. That is it for tonight. We will see | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
you at the same time and the same place tomorrow. Goodbye. | :25:40. | :25:44. |