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let-up. Thank you. That is all from the BBC News at Six. Goodbye. Now | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello and welcome to Look East. In the programme tonight. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
His hospital is in special measures. It's being investigated by the | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
police. And its death rates are too high. Tonight, after months of | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
pressure, the chief executive at Colchester steps down. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
The Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls on the day he handed over the keys to | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
new council houses in Ipswich. A massive cut in the jobless | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
figures. This defence company has seen its workforce double in three | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
years. And in Lowestoft.. Let there be | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
Darkness. First tonight. They say he left "by | :00:31. | :00:46. | |
mutual consent". Dr Gordon Coutts, the chief executive of one of the | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
worst hospitals in the country, has finally carried the can after a | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
string of revelations about Colchester General. Dr Coutts has | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
been in the spotlight for months, since Colchester was named as one of | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
14 hospitals in the UK where death rates were too high. Then, last | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
month, hospital inspectors called in the police, after they found that | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
cancer waiting times had been fiddled. Since then, a steady stream | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
of revelations, resignations and inquiries. Tonight, the hospital is | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
still in special measures. Simon Newton is there now, Simon. This | :01:21. | :01:29. | |
evening, the man in charge of this hospital has gone and the problems | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
seem as deep as ever. We are expecting tomorrow as a brittle | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
interim report by NHS England on the goings`on here, one which will make | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
a pleasant reading for the 4000 staff. This report from our | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
colleague. This was a cheeky executive determined to ride out a | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
crisis `` chief. There were apologies but no personal ad | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
mission. This is an abhorrent behaviour. We will not behave this | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
behaviour. Is more revelations were exposed, he found himself drawn into | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
the allegations and the police began a criminal investigation under | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
increased pressure. Local MP says it takes us to the heart of the | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
organisation. The buck has to start somewhere. Does not buck stops with | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
you? I am responsible for everything that happens, and I take that | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
accountability very seriously. Over the last free market years we have | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
made changes. At the time of us must board meeting he knew his finance | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
director had resigned but chose not to reveal it. All changed last week, | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
when we carry this letter written by Dr Coutts two and a half years ago. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
If you would like to provide me with any names of evidence, I will | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
investigate this matter. It was approved that he personally had | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
failed to act. In Colchester town centre, people who use the hospital | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
have mixed views on his resignation. I think people lost confidence. I | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
think if they can instil some confidence with a new chief | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
executive that would be good. Everybody who uses that department | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
speaks very highly of him. You have to take the spot the deep so I am | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
not surprised he has. If he knew he was going on and he did not do | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
anything about it, then it might been better. There are still high | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
profile supporters as well. I don't think the Colchester Hospital is a | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
sinking ship. Therefore, it is wrong the captain of the chief executive | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
to leave in the manner he has. He should've stayed put. What will this | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
do to morale of the staff? Head of cooperation is temporarily in charge | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
while the trust six for a replacement. She is my manager to | :03:52. | :04:02. | |
some of those being investigated. Sue Barnett is expected to take temp | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
recharger this hospital and she will face questions, because she was in | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
charge of some of the managers who are now being investigated. Most | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
worrying is not managerial movements, it is the continual slide | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
of this performance and hospital. It remains in special measures. It | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
remains around ?1 million in debt. Of course, there are these free | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
enquiry is going on, including a police and criminal investigation. | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
Tim Roberts is the regional organiser for the Unison trade | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
union. It was his members who first alerted the authorities that waiting | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
times were being fiddled. Earlier this afternoon he told me Dr Coutts | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
should have gone weeks ago. What is clear from our perspective, within | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
Unison, is there is some extremely inappropriate things happen within | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
cancer services over the last couple of years. Mr Coutts, as chief | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
executive, was ultimately responsible for that. However, we | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
are also aware he made some individual personal mistakes. He | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
appointed an investigation team, which messed up the first | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
investigation last year, and we also know he was informed by worried | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
members of staff directly, earlier this year, and he failed to act | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
appropriately. NHS England is publishing its first report | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
tomorrow. What do you expect to be in that? We expect there to be | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
confirmation that a number of senior managers deliberately and | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
consciously conspired to falsify data, and the result of that was | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
that some patients did not receive the treatment, which they needed at | :05:29. | :05:41. | |
the time that they deserved it. How many senior managers do you think | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
will have to go at the end of this? We know already that some of the | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
senior managers that we are aware were involved have already left the | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
Trust. There are some managers, I would say less than five, that we | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
know were involved that are still employed, and we feel they have to | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
be held to account. Also, there are a number of senior managers at board | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
level, who knew what was going on and did not take appropriate action. | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
The hospital is under extreme pressure at the moment. How are | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
staff there feeling about the future? Morale is low in this | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
hospital at the moment, because the vast majority of staff know they do | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
a good job, and the patients know they do a good job, and many of them | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
are feeling they are being unfairly tarnished with the same brush as a | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
very small minority of senior managers within cancer services. Tim | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
Roberts, thank you a much. The Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
been in Ipswich this afternoon, unveiling the first new council | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
houses in the town in a generation. Labour says the Conservatives have | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
concentrated on boosting demand for housing, rather than supply. In | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
other words, they claim that not enough new homes are being built. | :06:57. | :07:08. | |
He lays the carpet in his new home. He and his wife were struggling to | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
pay ?550 a month privately and bringing up three children. There | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
are now paying a third less. We are happy with the house because | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
everything is new, and I never had any places like this before in the | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
flat. I have plenty of gardens which are nice. Social housing is a key | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
policy for Labour, which is why Ed Balls made a final visit from | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
London. Today, he handed over a key to lock men and his family. This | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
aspect a lot? Back in the 1980s Margaret Thatcher gave people the | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
right to buy council homes. Decade on, the tenants can still exercise | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
that right. These council houses are among seven which it is being built | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
locally. Ipswich Borough Council is at least an informal council homes | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
than is actually building. That is because their hands are tied by | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
government. The Goodman gives huge discount the people to buy council | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
houses, an odyssey that has attracted more people `` | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
government. We need to build as fast as we can. But it will be top to | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
build another, and we might not be able to building up once they have | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
been sold off. If which has 8000 council homes but plans were hundred | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
and ten more. Norwich has the highest council housing is in the | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
region, with 250 in the pipeline. Chelmsford has non`and not in the | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
way. It relies on social houses. What Ed Balls is doing in this | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
speech in our region is to draw attention to that, and to claim that | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
Labour will be able to do more than the current government has in | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
dealing with this issue. We'll never see a return to the 1950s when then | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
housing minister sought construction of 300,000 council homes every year. | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
Ed Balls knows that, but is convinced council housing is a | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
popular policy and will stand out come the next election. I spoke the | :09:11. | :09:25. | |
shallow councillor. That's rather a shadow. I am less bothered than | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
saying it was one way of doing it, more bothered than saying it is | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
affordable, so people can get on the housing ladder, for their rent, you | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
get the housing benefit bill down, because that is a real challenge the | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
government. It is changing policy brought in by the coalition which | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
has enabled Ipswich to go ahead and build the council houses, social and | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
labour have done something like the coalition have done? When we were in | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
power after 1997, we made a decision to try and deal with the really | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
dilapidated and outdated stock of our all housing. Summary people | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
living in homes about a bathroom, or decent hot water was I think we | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
moved too slowly to build the homes we need. We got a bit behind the | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
curve, and accelerated in the second half of the Labour government. That | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
is carried on in part, although the government has cut the expenditure. | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
There would not have been able to build those houses unless there was | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
a change of policy from the coalition? The coalition has cut the | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
government's support. They have allowed a council to keep the | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
Romani, why did you not do that? I wish we could go further than that. | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
Cutting the government 's, what you end up is is the lowest housing | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
building. That is not good enough. The last government was low. You | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
have lots of policies but not many houses. Now it is at its lowest | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
level since the 1920s. Let's put party politics aside, let's have a | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
consensus in our country, Labour and Conservative, that in the next 20 | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
years we will build more homes. We need to new towns. We need to use | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
that Brownfield site. It will require some government investment | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
make that happen. We can get a cross`party consensus on that, | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
fine. I've been speaking to businesses in our region when I knew | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
I was come to talk to you. What are the questions that came up was, Tony | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
Blair said, education, education. Visitors still can't get people with | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
the right qualifications for the right training. Education, | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
education, education did not work. It is a huge challenge. I understand | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
the frustration, because you need qualifications which actually | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
deliver the skills businesses need. We make big progress on improving | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
literacy and numerous leads, . We have 13 years of the Labour | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
government. We are no further forward. Businesses are saying they | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
can't get the right people. When they came to commit in 1997, and | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
there were over 1500 secondary schools, we did not have even a | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
third of young people getting GCSEs in massive English. We reduce that | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
number from 1500 down to about a and was more to do. You can't that is | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
not a change. Somebody in not accepting yesterday, how can we | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
trust you to control our economy when you can control yourself in the | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
house the other day when we had the Autumn Statement? Can control myself | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
in the house? Yes. Ice enough to make a response to George Osborne | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
and I had 350 Conservative MPs yelling at the top of their boys in | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
a desperate attempt to shut me down. You're no stranger to | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
Heckerling. I'm not complaining. When the other night that volume. | :13:02. | :13:10. | |
Thank you very much. The Prime Minister has praised | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
coastal communities in Suffolk and Norfolk for coming together in the | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
wake of the tidal surge two weeks ago. MPs will get their first chance | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
to talk about the impact of the storms this evening. Hundreds of | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
properties were affected. Almost two weeks on and in many places they are | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
still claim of. Here, a Greek restaurant is hoping to open by | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
Christmas. The landlords having to fit a new kitchen. Are you worried | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
about funding? There is also potential. There needs to be a few | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
more provisions in place. I think it is up to the residents and landlord | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
to get themselves together, and sort ourselves out. The rail line only | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
opened last night. Dozens of properties along the coast were | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
flooded in the storm surge. The tide levels the highest for 60 years. | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
Normally, time is found in Parliament to discuss major events, | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
but this major event has been ignored so far a Westminster, much | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
to the frustration of local MPs. Be sort of occurrences could happen a | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
lot more frequently. We need to look at what went well last Thursday, | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
what did not go so well and improve that, and a thing we also need to be | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
looking at our flood defences and sea defences as well. The surge got | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
a mention in Prime Minister's question today. He prays you minty | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
services and local communities. The Prime Minister agree that on this | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
occasion the region have been lucky. Because we put money into | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
flood defences, we did protect more homes than otherwise would have been | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
protected. Work need to continue. MPs were warned with winter just | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
coming, there are still fears of the safety of our coastline. Parliament | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
breaks for Christmas tomorrow. Tonight, there are lots of parties | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
taking place. This even's debate will not be well a tenant, but MPs | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
think it is still worth having `` attended. | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
The last prisoners are leaving Blundeston Prison in Suffolk, three | :15:12. | :15:13. | |
months after the government announced it was closing. Since | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
then, the category C prison near Lowestoft has been moving its 500 | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
prisoners to other jails, mainly in this region. The BBC understands | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
those that remain are serving life sentences. Blundeston was one of | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
four prisons announced for closure in September. The government said it | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
followed a thorough assessment of the needs of the prison system. | :15:32. | :15:44. | |
Still to come. The darkness are coming home to Lowestoft and playing | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
at the end of the pier. Another weapon in the fight to raise | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
school's standards. Police officers out on the streets of expert looking | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
for truants. There's been a big drop in | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
unemployment in the East. It underlines our status as the region | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
with the lowest unemployment rate in the country. The total stood at | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
176,000 in the three months to October, a fall of 35,000 on the | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
previous quarter. The East's unemployment rate is now 5.6%. That | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
compares with 10.1% in the worst region, the North East. Companies of | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
all sizes are said to be taking on staff. One large firm, which has | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
been recruiting strongly, is the defence contractor Lockheed Martin | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
in Bedfordshire. Warrior tanks have served the | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
British Army for 25 years, seeing action in the Gulf War, Bosnia and | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
Afghanistan. But they need upgrading. Lockheed Martin got the | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
job. On the Warrior programme, we are upgrading the turret, electronic | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
systems and the armour. There are over 700 warriors in service and the | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
current plan is to upgrade a minimum of 380. That will take the vehicle | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
to 2040. Lockheed Martin won the Warrior contract from rival British | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
Aerospace. BAE staff in the Midlands lost their jobs. Here at Ampthill, | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
hundreds of people were taken on. Not just for Warrior but other | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
contracts, too. The site is working on the new Scout tank and is looking | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
at how tanks can fire on the move. This motion platform imitates | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
movement over rough ground. At current capabilities, they have to | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
stop to allow them to shoot the target. The new capability on the | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
new Scout and Warrior programmes, it allows them to shoot whilst on the | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
move. Therefore, they are not a sitting target for the enemy. In | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
three years, the Ampthill workforce has doubled to 900, mostly | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
specialist engineers. Among many special projects, they provide the | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
technology inside Apache helicopters. They also find ways of | :17:49. | :17:57. | |
applying military know`how to civvy street. This visualisation product | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
can be used for command and control in a military environment but also | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
for civilian and commercial operations. For instance, wind. It | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
will allow you to know where to place your wind turbines, in the | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
right environment, so that you get the right wind density. And also, | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
where not to place it, should you get too much wind power. Elsewhere | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
in the region, defence cutbacks have caused job losses. 200 posts are | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
currently under threat at the Marshall group in Cambridge. By | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
winning business from competitors, Lockheed Martin has created hundreds | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
of jobs. By using its know`how to find solutions to long`standing | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
problems, it reckons more are on the way. | :18:39. | :18:47. | |
Richard is here. So earlier we heard unemployment was down by 35,000 in | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
one go. Why such a big drop? It must reflect an improving economy. We | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
have been through a very severe recession in recent years, and when | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
it started in 2008 unemployment started to shoot up as you would | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
expect. We are now back on unemployment times when we were in | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
2008. Whether people feel as close as did then is another matter, that | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
is we are. Which sectors of the economy are taking on staff? It is | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
the private sector will stop I was talking to a recruitment consultant | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
who said her firm was as busy as it has ever been, and the sectors she | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
mentioned were retail in a row to Christmas, food manufacturing, the | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
energy sector and also professional services. Small and medium`sized | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
firms are recruiting quite well at the moment, and in this region we | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
have an awful lot of them. Thank you very much. | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
The police and education officers took to the streets of Ipswich today | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
to search out children who were playing truant from school. Suffolk | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
has become well`known for the poor quality of its education, | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
particularly in primary schools. But what is perhaps less well`known is | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
that it has one of the worst truancy rates too. It stands 127th out of | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
the 152 councils in England. And of course the experts say, if you | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
improve attendance, you'll improve performance too. | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
Etcher and heading back to school after being caught shopping this | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
morning in Ipswich. Earlier, a team of officers were briefed, among them | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
this officer. It wasn't long before they found children bunking off | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
school. The excuse this boy's mother was that he needed a new school | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
shirt after staying in one with beetroot juice. She didn't want to | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
talk to us. Also out of school, this little girl, although her mother | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
said there was a good reason, tonsillitis. Mainly they don't | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
encourage children enough to wash their hands at school. It concerns | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
me, and a public doesn't help with her getting her tonsillitis as often | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
as she does. There is a huge range of excuses parents come web. Are you | :21:01. | :21:10. | |
ever amazed by the excuses? It is a travesty that people are thinking on | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
their feet. I think is a travesty that the children aren't in school | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
and actually those regions have come before anything else. Suffolk is | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
near the bottom of national league tables for attainment. It is also in | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
the bottom quarter for truancy. We know that a child less than 90% | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
attendance will only have a 74% of getting pied a disease. So a direct | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
link there between truancy and spot`on. They caught 43 truants in | :21:38. | :21:47. | |
Ipswich today, eight parents are issued with a fined ?60. The truancy | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
team says their focus is getting children back into school, to give | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
them the best chance of succeeding in life. We have still got banned to | :21:55. | :22:07. | |
come. `` The Darkness. First the weather. It is going to bring some | :22:08. | :22:18. | |
heavy rain and strong winds already in Beds. You can see from the radar, | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
the last few hours have shown this band of rain intensifying as it | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
moved eastwards. It is getting in the west half of the region and over | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
that the next few hours it will move quickly. Expect some freshening | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
winds and heavy rain for this evening. It should rustle through | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
quite quickly, so we should be done with it by the time we get to bed | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
night and it clears away into the North Sea. Despite the strong | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
winds, there will start to ease down the second half the night. There may | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
be some showers but clear spells developing. Temperatures of two to | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
three Celsius. Tomorrow is a different feel. It is windy. It | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
would be quite bright sunny spells in the morning, and temperatures | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
will be on the chilly side, or seven Celsius, and although it won't be | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
windy, it will feel a bit chilly. Into the afternoon, an increasing | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
amount of cloud with a chance of showers. As we progress to the | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
evening, these showers might turn a wintry. There may well end up going | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
into the English and not really affecting us, but there is the | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
potential of a little bittersweet `` Lincolnshire. It should clear | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
through commerce of the rest of person I'd looks largely dry. In the | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
next weather event, we have got several at Atlantic weather systems | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
lined up bringing us wet and windy weather. This one will cause | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
problems on Saturday. Once it gets the eastern half of the UK it will | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
come to a grinding halt, so we may well get some rain on Saturday. It | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
may well stick around. If properly will be here until the early hours | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
of Saturday morning. Before then, we have got a dry day for Friday. It is | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
going to be on the chilly side. There should be some sunny spells. | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
Don't forget the potential is there on Thursday the wintry showers. Into | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
Saturday, we started get increasing amount of cloud of lead, eventually | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
bring us some rain. This will likely be on the heavy side but it brings | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
in milder air, so temperatures may climb to 11 Celsius through the day | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
on Saturday. That rain sticks around the Saturday night then it is out of | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
the way. It will be dry and cool on Sunday, also overnight it could well | :24:46. | :24:54. | |
be cold enough for a touch of frost. Go back to the early 2000s and one | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
of the big bands from this part of the world were The Darkness. Heavy | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
metal, outrageous suits and never guilty of taking themselves too | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
seriously. They split up in 2006, re`formed in 2011 and released a | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
third album last year. Now they're on tour, and tonight they are coming | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
home to Lowestoft. Gareth George has been to meet them. The Darkness in | :25:12. | :25:24. | |
their pomp. I first interviewed The Darkness ten years ago, before they | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
are really hit the big time. Straight out of Lowestoft The | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
Darkness. Do you remember that Not at all. Della. | :25:39. | :25:54. | |
After ten years of rock stardom, they can't remember much. I think we | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
should thank our parents. Denied, they are playing at a new venue in | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
their hometown of Lowestoft. It is amazing this is your first gig in | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
Lowestoft? It is amazing. We were formed in Lowestoft, we rehearsed in | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
Lowestoft. Some of us still live in Lowestoft. Ten years ago it became | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
famous. There was not anywhere big enough for us, so it is great | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
somebody has invested the time and the money in a space that is now | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
going to be hopefully one of the venues on the circuit for touring | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
bands. As a teenager, you'd have to go over to Norwich to watch a. Often | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
you would be unable to get the last train back. You'd have to get a list | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
of someone, and this venue I think is 800 50 capacity. It is bigger | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
than the waterfront in Norwich. Hopefully this new venue will bring | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
bigger name bands to Lowestoft. With a bit of luck it will change | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
Lowestoft music scene. The Darkness have not lost their loved rock roll. | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
I think it has been our best tour so far, in terms of performance and | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
five, and also technically I think we're better than me ever been. It | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
is very cool to be playing rock 'n' roll. They play Lowestoft tonight | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
and tomorrow. Nothing quite as talkative as a rock 'n' roll band. | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
They will be fantastic. That is all. Goodbye. | :27:41. | :27:45. |