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details throughout the evening. Thank you very much. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Hello and welcome to Look East with David and me. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
The headlines tonight: MPs go on the attack over plans to charge drivers | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
to use the A14. They claim it will choke the | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
region's economic recovery. In Ipswich, many of the hauliers are | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
based, we're being asked to pay for a congestion charge. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
A dock worker from Essex recovers in hospital after a team of flying | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
medics perform an operation on top of a crane. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
The region's jobless total sees a big fall. The East now has the | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
lowest unemployment figure in the UK. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
And it's official ` Fenland celery joins the ranks of Champagne and | :00:45. | :01:00. | |
Melton Mowbray pork pies. Hello. It was claimed today that | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
charging drivers to use the A14 will slow down East Anglia's economic | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
recovery. MPs chose a special debate at | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
Westminster to voice their opposition to the controversial | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
tolling plan. One called it arbitrary and unfair. Another | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
described it as a congestion charge for Cambridgeshire which would | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
penalise hauliers and drivers from Suffolk. The scheme was defended by | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
the Roads Minister, who said it was only fair that drivers make a | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
contribution to the ?1.5 billion cost. Our political correspondent | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
Andrew Sinclair reports. There is no shortage of people | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
opposed these plans. Business associations, hauliers, | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
environmentalists. Increasingly, protests are coming on those outside | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
of Kim richer. This businessmen in Suffolk has been a petition on the | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
Downing Street website. Why should we pay another tax | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
exclusive to Suffolk to use a road but has not been fit for purpose for | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
years? They really are taking advantage of the good nature of the | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
people of Suffolk. Singling out the A14 seems arbitrary | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
and unfair. Today, MPs from Suffolk College of | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
the device they are concerned, worried that many drivers will have | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
no option but to use the toll road, something which they said could cost | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
business dear. Wii units which were many of the | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
hauliers are based are being asked to pay, effectively, for a | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
congestion charge for Cambridge. That is wrong. | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
It runs the risk we are now going to be facing in Suffolk Road | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
apartheid, there is great to be discrimination against business | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
users and other travellers into Suffolk. | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
Fears were expressed that hauliers may be discouraged from using | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
Felixstowe, and instead moved to the new London Gateway port in Essex. No | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
local MPs were present to defend the scheme. It fell to the roads | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
minister to bang the drum. The economic benefits to the region | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
are very significant. The government will still bear the brunt of the | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
costs associated with the scheme, and we believe it is fair that road | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
users who will benefit most should make a contribution to its cost of | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
construction. And he said of hauliers didn't want | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
to pay to use at all, they can always travel at night, when it | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
would be free. Today was about standing up for Suffolk, but | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
politicians and Kim richer and not a teacher who also expressed concerns. | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
Ministers keep telling me they don't want to force an unpopular road | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
scheme if most people don't want it. But they also say there is no more | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
money available. Which begs the question, is the A14 any closer to | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
being improved? The view there from Westminster. | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
Today, another objection levelled against the new toll road. It's | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
claimed the project will increase air pollution. We have a special | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
report on that, plus the views of a local MP later in the programme. | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
This region has overtaken the South East as the place with the lowest | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
unemployment in Britain. Figures out today show a big fall in the total. | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
The jobless figure now stands at 185,000 in the East, a drop of | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
20,000 on the previous quarter. Unemployment here is now 5.9% of the | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
workforce, compared with 6% in the South East. Analysts say the fall is | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
further evidence of economic recovery. More people are finding | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
work after a short period on the dole. But others are still finding | :04:29. | :04:44. | |
the task takes longer. More than 350 jobs are at risk in Peterborough. | :04:45. | :04:53. | |
Jobs will be more than 800 jobs are under threat in Essex. The Lloyds | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
banking group is closing its telephone Viking Centre and from | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
unit in Southend. We've had our ups and downs in the | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
last three years. On climate has risen and fallen. But all the time | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
staying within spitting distance of 200,000. Of course, those who are | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
unemployed are the same people. Well, some of them are but most of | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
them aren't. That is because most unemployed people find new jobs | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
quite quickly, within six months. People like Liam. After leaving | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
school he works at Center Parcs for five years. In May he lost his job. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
After four months of searching he was taken on as an apprentice by a | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
furniture maker based in Thetford. I was looking everyday for jobs. I | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
went to the job centre, went to different places and apply for | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
numerous jobs. I managed to get the interview for this one and I'm now | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
employed. But Eleanor Baker from Peterborough | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
has been out of work for one year. The medical secretary and office | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
manager was made redundant three times in the UK, so she tried hard | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
luck abroad. After five years working in the Middle East, she | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
returned home. She is learning accounts and book`keeping to broaden | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
her skills. I see these challenges as an | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
opportunity, I see them as a way of retraining and getting new skills | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
and getting out into the workplace and showing that actually older | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
people are not people to be put on the scrapheap. We are actually very | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
good at what we do and we are actually very employable and keen to | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
be working. Today's figures show that employers | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
are recruiting again, throwing up opportunities for those in the | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
market. The Department of Education has | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
published a league table of truants. It shows the absentee rate is worse | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
here than the national average. The figures suggest more than one in 20 | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
children in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk have been persistently | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
skipping lessons. Alex Dunlop has the details. | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
Doing a wall from school is a problem, and in the east the figures | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
make uncomfortable reading. Southend comes off worse. Those persistently | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
absent, missing 15% of school time, his 5.7%. Slightly less for Suffolk | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
and then ruffled and Essex. The average for England is 4.9%. When it | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
comes to on authorised absence, four of the ten schools with the highest | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
rates in anger and are in Essex. Crays Hill primary at just over | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
20%, close behind our tendering enterprise and to Basildon | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
academies. But statistics need context. Tendering enterprise is a | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
brand`new school with only six D6 pupils, so when a handful placed | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
crooned, excuse the figures. Any statistic, any data, doesn't | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
tell you anything. It simply says there is a question to be asked | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
about why the figure is as it is. 11`year`old Tyler with his father in | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
Norwich today. He is out of school legitimately, but says many fellow | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
pupils do play truant. A boy didn't turn up the next day | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
after he got detention. What would make him want to come | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
back? In the teaching was better. And if | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
they weren't as harsh. Can teachers do more? This teacher | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
managed to cut truancy rate from 9% into terms. | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
The teaching and learning has to be what children need. Children | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
generally want to come to school. It is about working with parents and | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
guardians and carers to ensure that they understand the importance of | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
children being in school everyday. Even weather plays a part. Skills | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
that opened in last winter's snowstorms recorded high absence is | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
a students stayed away. Those that closed effectively kept a clean | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
sheet. But these are an important barometer of morale and standards in | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
our schools. A medical team at Addenbrooke's | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
Hospital in Cambridge have been speaking today about a remarkable | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
flying mission in which they saved the life of a dock worker from | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
Essex. The team flew to the port of Tilbury when the worker became | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
trapped on top of a crane. Preparing for the next rescue, but | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
few will be a thematic as the one Lees was involved in on Monday. She | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
was the paramedic on board the air ambulance which flew to Cambridge | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
surgeons to help a man who's like a stuck in machinery at the top of a | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
crane in Tilbury. Normally with the training the team | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
has on the helicopter we can manage almost every incident and be able to | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
join together our experiences. But this was a very complex and unusual | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
incident, so being able to call on a specialist team in this incident was | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
very helpful. And indeed, improve the outcome for the patient. | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
Emergency crews were called before 11am to reports of a man trapped 30 | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
metres above ground. At 11:30am the air and Jones arrived carrying the | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
surgeons. One hour later they asked for specialist equipment after | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
engineers failed to release the crane gears. At 2:50pm, a specialist | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
surgeon was brought in from Chelmsford, but it wasn't until 5pm | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
that evening at all manners released and flown to Addenbrooke's Hospital. | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
Surgeons Peter Hall and Andrew Carruthers were praised for saving | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
his life. It was very tight in space, it was | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
filthy, there was thick grease everywhere and the patient was | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
covered in grease. His leg was trapped behind him and he was | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
leaning forward onto the mechanism itself. | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
The incident happened here at Tilbury docks in Essex on one of the | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
main ports serving London. Containers taken ships come from all | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
over the world, goods destined for shops all across the country. The | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
engineer whose light was trapped didn't want to be identified. It is | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
though they are still being treated at Addenbrooke's Hospital. Lucky to | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
be alive bikes to the skill and courage of the rescue team. | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
Three people remain in police custody after early morning raids | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
yesterday targeting the suspected exploitation of migrant workers in | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
the Fens. Nine people were arrested in Wisbech and March in | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
Cambridgeshire and King's Lynn in Norfolk. The operation involved | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
police, the National Crime Agency and the Gangmasters Licensing | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
Authority. It comes two weeks after a BBC investigation into the plight | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
of foreign workers. England Under`21s thrashed Lithuania | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
in Ipswich last night to move top of their 2015 European Championship | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
qualifying group. They scored five goals in front of a crowd of 17,000 | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
at Portman Road. Scorers included James Ward`Prowse in the first half | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
while Saido Berahino bagged two in the second half. Gareth Southgate's | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
men now top the standings on goal difference and will meet Finland at | :11:58. | :12:12. | |
Stadium MK on 14 November. Still to come on Look East this | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
evening: What celery grown in the Fens has got in common with | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
Champagne. And as we approach the centenary of | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
the First World War, we want your help in building a picture of what | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
the East did. Let's return now to that controversy | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
over toll charges on the A14. Earlier, we heard MPs criticising | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
the plan suggesting it will hinder economic recovery. Well, today, more | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
opposition, this time over claims the new road will increase air | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
pollution. The Campaign for Better Transport | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
says the new road scheme will increase air pollution over a wide | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
area of Cambridgeshire. And the group also warns that levels in some | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
locations could exceed legal limits. Tonight's special report is from our | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
Environment Reporter, Richard Daniel. | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
It anywhere will feel the impact of the new A14 toll road, it is here. | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
The existing A14 passes to the north of this village. For Eileen Collier, | :13:14. | :13:22. | |
it is a big problem. Our biggest concern is for the health of our | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
children. All roads lead to Brampton. There rugby ten lanes of | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
traffic within metres of family homes. The risk is for children. | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
Studies have shown it is very harmful for children living within | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
500 metres on the highway. If this toll road is to ever go | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
ahead it will have to overcome many hurdles, not least if pollution | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
limits, because on the testing A14, in some places already certain | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
limits have been exceeded. Take particulate matter, the fine | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
suit reduced by diesel engines. It can cause lung disease and asthma. | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
The legal limit per year is 40 micrograms. It was recorded near | :14:09. | :14:19. | |
Kimmeridge at 54. The level of nitrogen dioxide is 40 micrograms | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
per to beat meter. Add bar Hill in 2011, it was 43. Overall, levels of | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
nitrogen dioxide have been falling. That might be because engines are | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
now cleaner, but campaigners warn that the new toll road could reverse | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
this trend. And even end up breaching EU laws. | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
We know historically that when you build new lanes of traffic, they | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
fill up. Given that it is already at or above the legal limits, we can | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
assume that the extra lanes of traffic can only add to that and | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
make it worse. Today the Department for transport | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
says that the government understands the impact the project that this can | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
have. That is why he full assessment will be completed before any work | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
happens. But that won't convince opponents. Battle lines over this | :15:07. | :15:15. | |
new road are already being drawn up. This afternoon I spoke to the MP for | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
Huntingdon, Jonathan Djanogly and put it to him that there was a lot | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
of opposition to the A14 plans for different reasons. But the main | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
objection still seemed to be that out of 25 national road schemes this | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
was the only one to be funded by a toll. | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
The point here is that the government has said they don't have | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
?1.5 million to spend on the road and they are offering all as an | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
alternative. My position is that it is better to have the new road, and | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
vital for the future of the region than if we were to just reject the | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
road on the basis of their not being the funding. | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
The MP for Ipswich calls it a Cambridge congestion charge because | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
he says motorists across the East are being forced to pay for a | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
Cambridge's success. The truth is, as you go along the | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
road and will be some people who benefit. But I do think that looking | :16:05. | :16:14. | |
at the forward business, cultural and whole way of life that we have | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
in the East of England, for us to move forward, we need to have better | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
infrastructure, and the A14 is a vital part of that. We need this | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
road to move forward. Yes, we have the enquiry process, we have the | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
consultation, people's views should be taken on board, but a look at it | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
as something that just affects Cambridge congestion is to my mind a | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
narrow focus. Isn't one of the main problem is | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
that there is now easily available alternative for those who don't want | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
to pay the toll? Would it not be better to keep open part of the old | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
road to other people can go on if necessary? | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
This is a common misconception. The old road is going to be kept open. | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
It won't be a through road, you will have to go down into Huntingdon and | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
then round Huntingdon on the new road. But it will still exist. | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
That's not an easily available alternative, it is a slower | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
alternative will stop we want to encourage through traffic to go onto | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
the new road, is that is what is going to improve the flow of traffic | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
and therefore alleviate the terrible problems that we have. | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
Over a 20 year period we will see traffic increase by 26 present. For | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
anyone who uses this road, it is already one big car park a lot of | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
the time. For those complaining about rat running, rat running is | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
currently happening through villages around the road when increasing | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
rate. To deal with it, we need a new road. | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
Given the strength of opposition from all sorts of organisations, | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
chambers of commerce, road haulage federations, the RAC, are you | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
feeling a bit like a voice in the wilderness? | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
Not at all. I certainly represent the majority in my constituency. If | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
there was to be a free, new road, I would be delighted. Sure everyone | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
would be delighted. The government were to their mind and put in place | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
a new road. I would not be complaining. That is not what is on | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
the table. What I'm saying is that if it is a question between a new | :18:26. | :18:36. | |
road or no road, we need a new road. On the face of it there isn't much | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
in common between Champagne, Cornish pasties and a certain type of celery | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
grown in the Fens. But from today, there is. | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
What's happened is that Fenland celery has become England's first | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
vegetable to earn protected status from the European Commission. So, if | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
it wasn't grown in the Fens, it isn't Fenland celery. And that's | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
good for business, as our chief reporter Kim Riley has been finding | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
out. Spread over 20 acres, as far as the | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
eye can see, 200,000 sick of Fenland celery growing in dark, rich soil. | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
Planted in June, they will be harvested over the next three | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
months. Traditional varieties like fenland, dwarf white, wanted in | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
white rose amid deep trenches. Today they were renting up the soil, | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
protecting from winter frost. The soil blanching the celery to give it | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
a paler colour. These soils are 70% organic matter. | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
Gareth McCambridge came to farm in the Fens. | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
This is how we harvest the fenland celery. It is labour`intensive, as | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
you can see. Soil is banged up around the celery which makes it | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
very brittle and you can see the blanching in the celery. The | :19:56. | :20:04. | |
traditional method was to have it cut into the point. And that is | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
pretty much how it would be sold today. | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
In Victorian times, fennel and celery was grown for the London | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
Christmas market. It is getting protected status at just the right | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
time. It was announced yesterday, so we're | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
only one week into the season, so we're hoping to push all the way | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
through Christmas will stop so if you can find it in your shops, you | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
encourage people to have a go after Mark this year it will be in | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
Waitrose and Marks Spencer 's and on a lot of respite menus, as well. | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
It does cost double the price of conventional celery, but | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
connoisseurs say it is a cheese board winner, its roots are holy | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
grail of taste. When it comes to crunch, fenland celery is back in | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
fashion. Though there is a selling point ` | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
the holy grail of taste. The BBC has announced plans to mark | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
the centenary of the First World War with the biggest and most ambitious | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
season of programmes the corporation has ever commissioned. Here in the | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
East we're looking for 100 stories from this region to mark 100 years | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
since the outbreak of war. The project is called World War One | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
at Home. Shaun Peel has more now from the Imperial War Museum at | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
Duxford. Yes, I'm in the land warfare | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
exhibition. This is a howitzer that was used in France in 1914 and 1917. | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
My friend here is a sentry from the camera to regiment, having a chat | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
with an officer from the French army. The memories are still there. | :21:46. | :21:54. | |
Maybe they are in an attic a shoe box. Stories about real people, | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
links to places in our region in this region. Stories like this. The | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
BBC Essex presenter never knew his grandfather until you recently. | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
Helped by the records office, the crackdown on his grandfather, an ace | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
pilot who was shot down over the sum during the war. This is the moment | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
Dave find out who his grandfather was. | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
Let's have a look at the first one. Here he is. | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
Your grandfather. He came over from Canada and then went to the flying | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
school. He was the plane he would have learned on. Looks quite scary | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
to me. You'd have to be pretty brave or | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
pretty mad to do that. Exciting, really, for a young man. | :22:51. | :23:02. | |
Yes, yes. The thought of playing your | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
grandfather flew in battle. And I guess he would have stood up | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
there with his gun. It would have been freezing out there. He was | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
flying this thing on 3rd of August 1916. What happened? | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
They were on a bombing mission. Although they were north of the | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
sum, they took part in doing things like bombing railway lines and so on | :23:28. | :23:36. | |
to stop supplies getting to the sum, they did do that. On their way | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
back, they were attacked by a German pilot. `` the Somme. | :23:43. | :23:53. | |
A letter from Geneva states, this officer is bereaved. Since we | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
started, I have felt different about myself. Before, there was a big | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
question mark that side of my family. Now I feel much more | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
complete as a person. These were real people with real lives, and one | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
of them was my grandfather. Dave's story ` what is yours? This | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
is a German howitzer, and here are the most striking images from the | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
Somme, the mud and misery of it. Maybe someone in that photo is a | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
member of your family. We would love to hear your stories. Do get in | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
touch, the details are on the screen. Tell us your stories about | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
real people went to places in our region. It could be a makeshift | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
hospital that was used for a street that was bombed. 100 stories, it is | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
a tall order, but the mini one of them could be yours. | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
Thank you very much. Now the weather: a weather front | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
today has brought rain to the region, and some has been heavy. | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
This weather front has also introduced milder air. This is the | :25:02. | :25:09. | |
rainfall radar over the last few hours. Much of it has now cleared | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
into the North Sea. Still cloud around for Norfolk and Suffolk but | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
elsewhere clear skies. A predominantly dry night with clear | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
skies to start with. We might see increasing amounts of cloud over the | :25:22. | :25:30. | |
south parts of the region. Part of Essex, Suffolk, Bedfordshire. | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
Elsewhere dry and much milder. Tonight more like 11 Celsius, 52 | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
Fahrenheit. It will stay windy. The wind from the south`west. A moderate | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
breeze, and breezy through tomorrow. A difference in pressure pattern | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
tomorrow. We will be under the influence of high pressure, so that | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
means a sunny day, and also it will feel warmer, so much better weather | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
prospects for tomorrow, particularly in the morning we will see sunshine. | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
In the afternoon, patchy cloud around, and this might blow in | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
showers. We'll have a brisk south`westerly wind through | :26:13. | :26:14. | |
tomorrow, particularly noticeable through the morning, though it is | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
expected to ease as the day goes on. Be aware that there could be one or | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
two isolated showers to the south and elsewhere. Temperatures will | :26:22. | :26:31. | |
climb to 16 Celsius, 61 Fahrenheit. We might get to 17 or 18 degrees. As | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
winds ease, it should feel comfortable. Looking ahead, | :26:36. | :26:43. | |
low`pressure returns. Another weather front on its way. In the | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
east we will fear quite well and will see dry weather through the | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
morning and into part of the afternoon on Friday. The western | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
half will see rain as we progress through the day. The low`pressure | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
sticks around, so unsettled weekend. Temperatures will stay on the mild | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
side. Nothing too chilly overnight. We start Friday dry with sunny | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
spells. Increasing cloud, bringing rain. It will turn heavier through | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
the day. Maybe some issues during rush hour. It will stay mild, a | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
little bit showery and breezy. But some sunshine around. | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
little bit showery and breezy. But That's all from us. If you have a | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
story about World War I he would like to share with us, you can | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
contact us by phone, e`mail or on social media. Have a good evening. | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
Goodbye. You ask us to get behind you | :27:43. | :28:14. | |
and why should we? You're punching above | :28:15. | :28:16. | |
your weight, aren't you? He wouldn't do that to me because | :28:17. | :28:18. | |
he wasn't that sort of a man. | :28:19. | :28:25. |