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let-up. Thank you. That is all from the BBC News at Six. Goodbye. Now

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

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His hospital is in special measures. It's being investigated by the

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police. And its death rates are too high. Tonight, after months of

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pressure, the chief executive at Colchester steps down.

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The Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls on the day he handed over the keys to

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new council houses in Ipswich. A massive cut in the jobless

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figures. This defence company has seen its workforce double in three

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years. And in Lowestoft.. Let there be

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Darkness. First tonight. They say he left "by

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mutual consent". Dr Gordon Coutts, the chief executive of one of the

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worst hospitals in the country, has finally carried the can after a

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string of revelations about Colchester General. Dr Coutts has

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been in the spotlight for months, since Colchester was named as one of

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14 hospitals in the UK where death rates were too high. Then, last

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month, hospital inspectors called in the police, after they found that

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cancer waiting times had been fiddled. Since then, a steady stream

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of revelations, resignations and inquiries. Tonight, the hospital is

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still in special measures. Simon Newton is there now, Simon. This

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evening, the man in charge of this hospital has gone and the problems

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seem as deep as ever. We are expecting tomorrow as a brittle

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interim report by NHS England on the goings`on here, one which will make

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a pleasant reading for the 4000 staff. This report from our

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colleague. This was a cheeky executive determined to ride out a

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crisis `` chief. There were apologies but no personal ad

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mission. This is an abhorrent behaviour. We will not behave this

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behaviour. Is more revelations were exposed, he found himself drawn into

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the allegations and the police began a criminal investigation under

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increased pressure. Local MP says it takes us to the heart of the

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organisation. The buck has to start somewhere. Does not buck stops with

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you? I am responsible for everything that happens, and I take that

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accountability very seriously. Over the last free market years we have

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made changes. At the time of us must board meeting he knew his finance

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director had resigned but chose not to reveal it. All changed last week,

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when we carry this letter written by Dr Coutts two and a half years ago.

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If you would like to provide me with any names of evidence, I will

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investigate this matter. It was approved that he personally had

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failed to act. In Colchester town centre, people who use the hospital

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have mixed views on his resignation. I think people lost confidence. I

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think if they can instil some confidence with a new chief

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executive that would be good. Everybody who uses that department

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speaks very highly of him. You have to take the spot the deep so I am

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not surprised he has. If he knew he was going on and he did not do

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anything about it, then it might been better. There are still high

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profile supporters as well. I don't think the Colchester Hospital is a

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sinking ship. Therefore, it is wrong the captain of the chief executive

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to leave in the manner he has. He should've stayed put. What will this

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do to morale of the staff? Head of cooperation is temporarily in charge

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while the trust six for a replacement. She is my manager to

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some of those being investigated. Sue Barnett is expected to take temp

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recharger this hospital and she will face questions, because she was in

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charge of some of the managers who are now being investigated. Most

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worrying is not managerial movements, it is the continual slide

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of this performance and hospital. It remains in special measures. It

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remains around ?1 million in debt. Of course, there are these free

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enquiry is going on, including a police and criminal investigation.

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Tim Roberts is the regional organiser for the Unison trade

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union. It was his members who first alerted the authorities that waiting

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times were being fiddled. Earlier this afternoon he told me Dr Coutts

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should have gone weeks ago. What is clear from our perspective, within

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Unison, is there is some extremely inappropriate things happen within

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cancer services over the last couple of years. Mr Coutts, as chief

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executive, was ultimately responsible for that. However, we

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are also aware he made some individual personal mistakes. He

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appointed an investigation team, which messed up the first

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investigation last year, and we also know he was informed by worried

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members of staff directly, earlier this year, and he failed to act

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appropriately. NHS England is publishing its first report

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tomorrow. What do you expect to be in that? We expect there to be

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confirmation that a number of senior managers deliberately and

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consciously conspired to falsify data, and the result of that was

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that some patients did not receive the treatment, which they needed at

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the time that they deserved it. How many senior managers do you think

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will have to go at the end of this? We know already that some of the

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senior managers that we are aware were involved have already left the

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Trust. There are some managers, I would say less than five, that we

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know were involved that are still employed, and we feel they have to

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be held to account. Also, there are a number of senior managers at board

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level, who knew what was going on and did not take appropriate action.

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The hospital is under extreme pressure at the moment. How are

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staff there feeling about the future? Morale is low in this

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hospital at the moment, because the vast majority of staff know they do

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a good job, and the patients know they do a good job, and many of them

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are feeling they are being unfairly tarnished with the same brush as a

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very small minority of senior managers within cancer services. Tim

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Roberts, thank you a much. The Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has

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been in Ipswich this afternoon, unveiling the first new council

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houses in the town in a generation. Labour says the Conservatives have

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concentrated on boosting demand for housing, rather than supply. In

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other words, they claim that not enough new homes are being built.

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He lays the carpet in his new home. He and his wife were struggling to

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pay ?550 a month privately and bringing up three children. There

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are now paying a third less. We are happy with the house because

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everything is new, and I never had any places like this before in the

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flat. I have plenty of gardens which are nice. Social housing is a key

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policy for Labour, which is why Ed Balls made a final visit from

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London. Today, he handed over a key to lock men and his family. This

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aspect a lot? Back in the 1980s Margaret Thatcher gave people the

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right to buy council homes. Decade on, the tenants can still exercise

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that right. These council houses are among seven which it is being built

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locally. Ipswich Borough Council is at least an informal council homes

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than is actually building. That is because their hands are tied by

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government. The Goodman gives huge discount the people to buy council

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houses, an odyssey that has attracted more people ``

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government. We need to build as fast as we can. But it will be top to

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build another, and we might not be able to building up once they have

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been sold off. If which has 8000 council homes but plans were hundred

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and ten more. Norwich has the highest council housing is in the

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region, with 250 in the pipeline. Chelmsford has non`and not in the

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way. It relies on social houses. What Ed Balls is doing in this

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speech in our region is to draw attention to that, and to claim that

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Labour will be able to do more than the current government has in

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dealing with this issue. We'll never see a return to the 1950s when then

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housing minister sought construction of 300,000 council homes every year.

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Ed Balls knows that, but is convinced council housing is a

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popular policy and will stand out come the next election. I spoke the

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shallow councillor. That's rather a shadow. I am less bothered than

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saying it was one way of doing it, more bothered than saying it is

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affordable, so people can get on the housing ladder, for their rent, you

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get the housing benefit bill down, because that is a real challenge the

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government. It is changing policy brought in by the coalition which

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has enabled Ipswich to go ahead and build the council houses, social and

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labour have done something like the coalition have done? When we were in

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power after 1997, we made a decision to try and deal with the really

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dilapidated and outdated stock of our all housing. Summary people

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living in homes about a bathroom, or decent hot water was I think we

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moved too slowly to build the homes we need. We got a bit behind the

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curve, and accelerated in the second half of the Labour government. That

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is carried on in part, although the government has cut the expenditure.

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There would not have been able to build those houses unless there was

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a change of policy from the coalition? The coalition has cut the

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government's support. They have allowed a council to keep the

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Romani, why did you not do that? I wish we could go further than that.

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Cutting the government 's, what you end up is is the lowest housing

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building. That is not good enough. The last government was low. You

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have lots of policies but not many houses. Now it is at its lowest

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level since the 1920s. Let's put party politics aside, let's have a

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consensus in our country, Labour and Conservative, that in the next 20

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years we will build more homes. We need to new towns. We need to use

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that Brownfield site. It will require some government investment

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make that happen. We can get a cross`party consensus on that,

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fine. I've been speaking to businesses in our region when I knew

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I was come to talk to you. What are the questions that came up was, Tony

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Blair said, education, education. Visitors still can't get people with

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the right qualifications for the right training. Education,

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education, education did not work. It is a huge challenge. I understand

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the frustration, because you need qualifications which actually

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deliver the skills businesses need. We make big progress on improving

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literacy and numerous leads, . We have 13 years of the Labour

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government. We are no further forward. Businesses are saying they

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can't get the right people. When they came to commit in 1997, and

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there were over 1500 secondary schools, we did not have even a

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third of young people getting GCSEs in massive English. We reduce that

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number from 1500 down to about a and was more to do. You can't that is

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not a change. Somebody in not accepting yesterday, how can we

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trust you to control our economy when you can control yourself in the

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house the other day when we had the Autumn Statement? Can control myself

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in the house? Yes. Ice enough to make a response to George Osborne

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and I had 350 Conservative MPs yelling at the top of their boys in

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a desperate attempt to shut me down. You're no stranger to

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Heckerling. I'm not complaining. When the other night that volume.

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Thank you very much. The Prime Minister has praised

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coastal communities in Suffolk and Norfolk for coming together in the

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wake of the tidal surge two weeks ago. MPs will get their first chance

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to talk about the impact of the storms this evening. Hundreds of

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properties were affected. Almost two weeks on and in many places they are

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still claim of. Here, a Greek restaurant is hoping to open by

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Christmas. The landlords having to fit a new kitchen. Are you worried

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about funding? There is also potential. There needs to be a few

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more provisions in place. I think it is up to the residents and landlord

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to get themselves together, and sort ourselves out. The rail line only

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opened last night. Dozens of properties along the coast were

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flooded in the storm surge. The tide levels the highest for 60 years.

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Normally, time is found in Parliament to discuss major events,

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but this major event has been ignored so far a Westminster, much

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to the frustration of local MPs. Be sort of occurrences could happen a

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lot more frequently. We need to look at what went well last Thursday,

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what did not go so well and improve that, and a thing we also need to be

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looking at our flood defences and sea defences as well. The surge got

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a mention in Prime Minister's question today. He prays you minty

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services and local communities. The Prime Minister agree that on this

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occasion the region have been lucky. Because we put money into

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flood defences, we did protect more homes than otherwise would have been

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protected. Work need to continue. MPs were warned with winter just

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coming, there are still fears of the safety of our coastline. Parliament

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breaks for Christmas tomorrow. Tonight, there are lots of parties

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taking place. This even's debate will not be well a tenant, but MPs

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think it is still worth having `` attended.

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The last prisoners are leaving Blundeston Prison in Suffolk, three

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months after the government announced it was closing. Since

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then, the category C prison near Lowestoft has been moving its 500

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prisoners to other jails, mainly in this region. The BBC understands

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those that remain are serving life sentences. Blundeston was one of

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four prisons announced for closure in September. The government said it

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followed a thorough assessment of the needs of the prison system.

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Still to come. The darkness are coming home to Lowestoft and playing

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at the end of the pier. Another weapon in the fight to raise

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school's standards. Police officers out on the streets of expert looking

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for truants. There's been a big drop in

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unemployment in the East. It underlines our status as the region

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with the lowest unemployment rate in the country. The total stood at

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176,000 in the three months to October, a fall of 35,000 on the

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previous quarter. The East's unemployment rate is now 5.6%. That

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compares with 10.1% in the worst region, the North East. Companies of

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all sizes are said to be taking on staff. One large firm, which has

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been recruiting strongly, is the defence contractor Lockheed Martin

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in Bedfordshire. Warrior tanks have served the

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British Army for 25 years, seeing action in the Gulf War, Bosnia and

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Afghanistan. But they need upgrading. Lockheed Martin got the

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job. On the Warrior programme, we are upgrading the turret, electronic

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systems and the armour. There are over 700 warriors in service and the

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current plan is to upgrade a minimum of 380. That will take the vehicle

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to 2040. Lockheed Martin won the Warrior contract from rival British

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Aerospace. BAE staff in the Midlands lost their jobs. Here at Ampthill,

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hundreds of people were taken on. Not just for Warrior but other

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contracts, too. The site is working on the new Scout tank and is looking

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at how tanks can fire on the move. This motion platform imitates

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movement over rough ground. At current capabilities, they have to

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stop to allow them to shoot the target. The new capability on the

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new Scout and Warrior programmes, it allows them to shoot whilst on the

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move. Therefore, they are not a sitting target for the enemy. In

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three years, the Ampthill workforce has doubled to 900, mostly

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specialist engineers. Among many special projects, they provide the

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technology inside Apache helicopters. They also find ways of

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applying military know`how to civvy street. This visualisation product

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can be used for command and control in a military environment but also

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for civilian and commercial operations. For instance, wind. It

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will allow you to know where to place your wind turbines, in the

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right environment, so that you get the right wind density. And also,

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where not to place it, should you get too much wind power. Elsewhere

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in the region, defence cutbacks have caused job losses. 200 posts are

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currently under threat at the Marshall group in Cambridge. By

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winning business from competitors, Lockheed Martin has created hundreds

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of jobs. By using its know`how to find solutions to long`standing

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problems, it reckons more are on the way.

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Richard is here. So earlier we heard unemployment was down by 35,000 in

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one go. Why such a big drop? It must reflect an improving economy. We

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have been through a very severe recession in recent years, and when

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it started in 2008 unemployment started to shoot up as you would

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expect. We are now back on unemployment times when we were in

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2008. Whether people feel as close as did then is another matter, that

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is we are. Which sectors of the economy are taking on staff? It is

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the private sector will stop I was talking to a recruitment consultant

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who said her firm was as busy as it has ever been, and the sectors she

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mentioned were retail in a row to Christmas, food manufacturing, the

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energy sector and also professional services. Small and medium`sized

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firms are recruiting quite well at the moment, and in this region we

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have an awful lot of them. Thank you very much.

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The police and education officers took to the streets of Ipswich today

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to search out children who were playing truant from school. Suffolk

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has become well`known for the poor quality of its education,

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particularly in primary schools. But what is perhaps less well`known is

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that it has one of the worst truancy rates too. It stands 127th out of

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the 152 councils in England. And of course the experts say, if you

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improve attendance, you'll improve performance too.

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Etcher and heading back to school after being caught shopping this

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morning in Ipswich. Earlier, a team of officers were briefed, among them

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this officer. It wasn't long before they found children bunking off

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school. The excuse this boy's mother was that he needed a new school

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shirt after staying in one with beetroot juice. She didn't want to

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talk to us. Also out of school, this little girl, although her mother

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said there was a good reason, tonsillitis. Mainly they don't

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encourage children enough to wash their hands at school. It concerns

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me, and a public doesn't help with her getting her tonsillitis as often

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as she does. There is a huge range of excuses parents come web. Are you

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ever amazed by the excuses? It is a travesty that people are thinking on

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their feet. I think is a travesty that the children aren't in school

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and actually those regions have come before anything else. Suffolk is

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near the bottom of national league tables for attainment. It is also in

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the bottom quarter for truancy. We know that a child less than 90%

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attendance will only have a 74% of getting pied a disease. So a direct

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link there between truancy and spot`on. They caught 43 truants in

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Ipswich today, eight parents are issued with a fined ?60. The truancy

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team says their focus is getting children back into school, to give

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them the best chance of succeeding in life. We have still got banned to

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come. `` The Darkness. First the weather. It is going to bring some

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heavy rain and strong winds already in Beds. You can see from the radar,

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the last few hours have shown this band of rain intensifying as it

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moved eastwards. It is getting in the west half of the region and over

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that the next few hours it will move quickly. Expect some freshening

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winds and heavy rain for this evening. It should rustle through

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quite quickly, so we should be done with it by the time we get to bed

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night and it clears away into the North Sea. Despite the strong

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winds, there will start to ease down the second half the night. There may

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be some showers but clear spells developing. Temperatures of two to

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three Celsius. Tomorrow is a different feel. It is windy. It

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would be quite bright sunny spells in the morning, and temperatures

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will be on the chilly side, or seven Celsius, and although it won't be

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windy, it will feel a bit chilly. Into the afternoon, an increasing

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amount of cloud with a chance of showers. As we progress to the

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evening, these showers might turn a wintry. There may well end up going

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into the English and not really affecting us, but there is the

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potential of a little bittersweet `` Lincolnshire. It should clear

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through commerce of the rest of person I'd looks largely dry. In the

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next weather event, we have got several at Atlantic weather systems

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lined up bringing us wet and windy weather. This one will cause

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problems on Saturday. Once it gets the eastern half of the UK it will

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come to a grinding halt, so we may well get some rain on Saturday. It

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may well stick around. If properly will be here until the early hours

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of Saturday morning. Before then, we have got a dry day for Friday. It is

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going to be on the chilly side. There should be some sunny spells.

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Don't forget the potential is there on Thursday the wintry showers. Into

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Saturday, we started get increasing amount of cloud of lead, eventually

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bring us some rain. This will likely be on the heavy side but it brings

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in milder air, so temperatures may climb to 11 Celsius through the day

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on Saturday. That rain sticks around the Saturday night then it is out of

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the way. It will be dry and cool on Sunday, also overnight it could well

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be cold enough for a touch of frost. Go back to the early 2000s and one

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of the big bands from this part of the world were The Darkness. Heavy

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metal, outrageous suits and never guilty of taking themselves too

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seriously. They split up in 2006, re`formed in 2011 and released a

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third album last year. Now they're on tour, and tonight they are coming

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home to Lowestoft. Gareth George has been to meet them. The Darkness in

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their pomp. I first interviewed The Darkness ten years ago, before they

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are really hit the big time. Straight out of Lowestoft The

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Darkness. Do you remember that Not at all. Della.

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After ten years of rock stardom, they can't remember much. I think we

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should thank our parents. Denied, they are playing at a new venue in

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their hometown of Lowestoft. It is amazing this is your first gig in

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Lowestoft? It is amazing. We were formed in Lowestoft, we rehearsed in

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Lowestoft. Some of us still live in Lowestoft. Ten years ago it became

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famous. There was not anywhere big enough for us, so it is great

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somebody has invested the time and the money in a space that is now

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going to be hopefully one of the venues on the circuit for touring

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bands. As a teenager, you'd have to go over to Norwich to watch a. Often

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you would be unable to get the last train back. You'd have to get a list

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of someone, and this venue I think is 800 50 capacity. It is bigger

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than the waterfront in Norwich. Hopefully this new venue will bring

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bigger name bands to Lowestoft. With a bit of luck it will change

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Lowestoft music scene. The Darkness have not lost their loved rock roll.

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I think it has been our best tour so far, in terms of performance and

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five, and also technically I think we're better than me ever been. It

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is very cool to be playing rock 'n' roll. They play Lowestoft tonight

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and tomorrow. Nothing quite as talkative as a rock 'n' roll band.

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They will be fantastic. That is all. Goodbye.

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