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end of the week? No. Had Russia heading our way and wet and windy

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again. That is all Hello and welcome to Look East.

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In the programme tonight: when it comes to this relief effort, money

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is no checked. We will spend what is necessary to help communities get

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through this difficult time. The Government says the Prime

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Minister's promise will apply to victims of the tidal surge too.

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The former X`Factor judge Tulisa appears in court accused of beating

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up a blogger at the V Festival. More misery for Norwich as they fall

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victim to two late goals at West Ham.

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And the fans aren't happy. We're just at a loss and I think we will

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end up rock bottom in the league at the end of the season.

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And all change at the museum. Why Darwin's beetles are on the move.

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First tonight, the government announces that victims of the tidal

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surge on the east coast will be entitled to compensation just like

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householders on the Somerset Levels and the Thames Valley.

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This is exactly what David Cameron said yesterday, "money is no

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object." He also promised a grant of up to ?5,000 for the victims of

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flooding to help them rebuild their homes. And then today, after the

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flooding dominated Prime Minister's Questions, it emerged the promise of

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financial help will be backdated to include the whole winter. And

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crucially for us, that means that people who were flooded during the

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tidal surge in December should qualify. The details now from Andrew

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Sinclair at Westminster. The flood emergency in the south`west and the

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Thames Valley is dominating politics at Westminster. The assumption that

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was being made today was that this package of measures was just for

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that part of the country, but this afternoon at a Downing Street

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briefing, I asked the prime Minister's official spokesman, what

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is the criteria for this money? What about those affected along the east

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coast to have seen their homes flooded? The official spokesman said

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to me, this scheme has been backdated to the start of winter. In

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other words, those who were affected by the December storm surge will

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qualify. Two months on, they are still clearing up along the quayside

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at Wells on the north Norfolk coast. All the properties here were flooded

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during the storm surge and they should now all be able to claim

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money to make their homes and businesses safer. One of the most

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arresting images of that night was this, and from the owners today, I

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welcome. It is a first`class idea. If it works, great. Maybe be small

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print will spoil it, but an unqualified answer is yes, that is

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great. The Prime Minister came to visit back in December but since

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then he has had to look at a lot more flood damage. We must improve

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our resilience to such weather. Anyone whose property was flooded in

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the storm surge will be able to claim up to ?5,000 to install flood

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defences. You can do some quite important work to make your home or

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your premises more secure, whether that is fitting a flood God, putting

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protection over air vents or putting bends down toilets to prevent water

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coming up through the sewers. Firms may also be able to claim back on

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VAT and tax and there will be help for farmers as well. The government

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is working hard to help those who have experienced problems. It is not

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clear if homes which were destroyed in the storm will be eligible for

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any money and there are still concerns about whether the region

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will get any extra sea defences. A lot of questions remain tonight but

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it looks as if more money is coming our way.

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So, as you said, Andrew, a lot of questions tonight. Do we have any

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details yet? No, the details will be worked out in the weeks to come.

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What we know is the money is coming from an emergency contingency fund.

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They had to have it in operation within the next week or so said that

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people can start putting in claims. Downing Street making it very clear

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that the ?5,000 you get will not be for a new kitchen is over, it will

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be primarily and only for people to install some kind of flood defence

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measure like a gate or some kind of special cupboard to go over the taps

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or the toilet. They are also saying that people will have to put in a

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claim for up to ?5,000, not the whole ?5,000. Putting a claim and

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they will look at it. The other question is, how much is this going

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cost? Some people have said it could cost up to ?40 million.

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Meanwhile, it's been another dreadful day weather`wise. Rain and

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high winds have swept across the region with predictable results. Kim

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Riley is at Finchingfield in Essex. Kim. If I had been standing here a

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few days ago, I would have been up to my waist in water. The water is

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high but not as high as it was. There has been strong winds and a

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lot of rain today, bringing down trees around the saffron Walden area

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and a power line was down as well for some time. Queen Elizabeth

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Bridge has been closed, and Ipswich was gridlocked when the Orwell

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Bridge was deadlocked `` was closed. That opened have been to gain an

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hour ago. There are many power cuts and power shortages as well. In

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Ipswich, the parks were closed for some time this afternoon for public

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safety reasons. Back in her six, I went to a village this morning where

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they feel they have been forgotten in their battle against the flood

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water. In low`lying law worth near Braley, they are worried about what

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the next few days will bring. The problem is that they are surrounded

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by low`lying bricks and they all meet here on this bridge. This river

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meets the tide from the River Crouch and that follows with serious

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flooding. Peter showed me the brook behind his home. The water level low

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this morning but all too regularly it over spilled into gardens and

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homes. Sometimes we are getting flooded three or four times a year

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now. We have had for `` we have had for flood close calls already this

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year. We cannot get insurance, it devalues the property, we spend a

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lot of money having to repair it. We are not living like normal people

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and they are doing nothing about it. Neighbours say a heavy downpour and

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a spring tide all too easily turn Church Road into a river. We appeal

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to Essex county council and our district Council and nobody takes

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any notice. Nobody thinks it is as bad as it really is down here.

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Looking at it now, you would think, no problem. Yes, but the rain and

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wind are coming in. This will be a different place tomorrow. Local

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people say the Brooks and drainage channels need to be properly

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maintained and they fear new developments will make a bad

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situation worse. I talked to Essex county council about the situation

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he at role with and they said they have been aware for some time about

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the long`standing problems in the village and they are continuing to

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work with the environment agency and partners to try to tackle that and

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other flooding issues across the county. As I say, here in flinching

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field, things really are not too bad tonight. We are being warned by the

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environment agency though that things do not look too happy come

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Friday. So where did that rainfall come

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from? Jules is here to explain. This is the system responsible for this

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afternoon's wet weather and this is the radar picture showing the rain.

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The green highlights the heaviest downpours, around five to seven

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millimetres in places, so another quarter of an inch. And accompanied

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by strong to gale force winds. These are the strongest gusts up to about

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5pm. The Met office had issued a yellow

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warning for more heavy rain and more strong winds on Friday. I will be

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back later in the programme with all the details.

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Look East has discovered that nine whistle blowers have come forward to

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make complaints about Colchester Hospital. A hotline was set up at

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the hospital in April. A freedom of information request also revealed

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that since 2010, three people have been dismissed or resigned for

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bullying or harassment. Two more disciplinary hearings will take

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place soon. The East of England Ambulance Trust

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is joining forces with the UEA to try to recruit more staff. A

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Paramedic Science degree course, which takes three years, will start

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at the university in September. The ambulance service says it

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desperately needs to recruit more paramedics. But the degree still

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needs to be approved. The pop star and former X Factor

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judge, Tulisa, has appeared in court charged with assault. Chelmsford

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Magistrates heard that the alleged incident took place at the V

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Festival last summer. Gareth George was in court. An unusual amount of

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press interest and chance said Crown Court `` Chan said Crown Court this

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morning. Tulisa arrived in a blacked out car and as the cameras clicked,

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she walked into court along with a co`defendant. Tulisa sang with a pop

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group and has also been a judge on the X factor. She was in court this

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morning to face a charge of assault by beating. She is accused of

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assaulting a man at the B Festival in Chelmsford in August last year.

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That was the day Beyonce headlined. She pleaded not guilty. Her

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co`defendant is accused of harassing the same man and also pleaded not

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guilty. There is a third defendant, a 38`year`old woman from

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Manchester, but she failed to appear this morning and a warrant was

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issued for her arrest. Tulisa and Gareth Barry were released on

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unconditional bail. The photographers were waiting once

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again when she left court. She will be back here at Chelmsford

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magistrates Court in May to face trial.

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Still to come, the Canaries Gold grab `` goal drought goes on.

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First, the perils of moving house when there are 4 million different

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things to pack. Faulty overhead lines, a problem

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with the signals, points failure. If you use the trains, you have heard

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the excuses. And according to the railway industry, one answer is to

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train hundreds of apprentices. In one of the first initiatives of its

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kind, a rail maintenance firm in Colchester has teamed up with the

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local college to recruit unemployed young people to fill the roles. And

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on this occasion, at least ten apprenticeships have led on to ten

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jobs. As with any lift, you need to

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appoint somebody in charge of the left who will give you instructions

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add you are working as a team. Raking into the jobs market can be

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tough for young people, with the unemployment rate under 25 at three

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times the adult rate. But these youngsters are on track for a career

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looking after Hutton 's railways. They applied and enrolled for a

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course at Colchester Institute and all three `` all ten were offered a

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job by network rail when they completed it. I really enjoy it. I

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like to learn new things, putting the effort new skills. Theoretically

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I could work at any rail company now. I preferred being outside, so I

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like the Arab law type of life. I suppose for working environment for

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me, it suits me down to the ground, really. The college course was

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designed by the lads's employer and its plans to take on more. We need

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more people because of the growth. Network rail is continually

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upgrading the UK network to cope with demand from passengers and

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there are new lines as well. The apprentices will continue to attend

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Colchester Institute one day a week as part of this apprenticeship. For

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all of these people to be successful and be offered an apprenticeship

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position is unprecedented. Hopefully we have helped them with the course,

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because the employer is looking for a work ethic and that is what they

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have found. Track engineers can earn ?35,000 a year or more. Commuters

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fed up with line failures must only hope that the new Colchester

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apprentices improve standards of service in the decades to come.

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Football and it was another bad night for Norwich City, battling to

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stay clear of the relegation zone in the Premier League. For most of the

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game, it looked like a good point away from home at West Ham. 0`0 with

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just a few minutes to go, then it all went wrong. Two late goals and

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more pressure on Chris Hughton. They can match man city but not ``

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Norwich's Premier league survival could ultimately be decided by

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nights like these. They were level pegging in the table, each with

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their own issues, just two points from safety. Norwich's big problem

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is finishing. Last night highlighted how their lack of killer instinct is

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costing them dear. For 80 minutes, they pounded the penalty area but

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they also faced a goalkeeper having one of those nights. He was equal to

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anything and everything. What an opportunity! All to reflect chances

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squandered. Typically, as the clock ticked, the tables turned, brutally

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for Chris Halton and his team. As the game opened up, West Ham took

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the lead, James Collins invading his marker to take the lead. Norwich

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were looking for an equaliser but Lady luck had already lost their

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cause `` left their cause. Another game gone. We only have ourselves to

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blame. It is a game and anybody seeing the game would have seen the

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chances we had, particularly away from home, and we have to capitalise

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on them. Otherwise, you are heaping problems on yourself and with the

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way West Ham played, direct and physical, you have got to be able to

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match that. With just one win in their last 11 games, the pressure on

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Norwich's manager and his style is becoming `` is growing day on day.

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He is too defensive. You look the man and you think, he is to `` the

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motivation is not there. For me, off. At least Chris Eaton knows he

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is not the only manager in the mire. But the question is still there and

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no one knows when the call could be made.

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Meanwhile in League One, Colchester lost away at Port Vale. Doug Loft

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scored twice for the home side. The first after 15 minutes, the next in

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a frosty second half. It was the U's first match in 24 days because of

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various postponements. The defeat puts Colchester United 14th in the

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table. Now here's one of those jobs you

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probably wouldn't want. Pack up four million delicate objects, ranging in

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size from a tiny beetle to the skeleton of a whale. That's the

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challenge facing workers at Cambridge's Museum of Zoology. The

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museum is to close for more than two years to get ready for an ?18

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million revamp. Not that they've raised all the money yet. Louise

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Hubball has this report. Building can be stressful experience

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at the of times. `` moving can be. Even more so when your cargo is an

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extinct river dolphin. There are millions of exhibit a is, from a

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great talk to a Tasmanian tiger. Now all are being packed up as part of a

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transformation at Cambridge's University `` Museum of zoology. You

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could use the word mammoth task but some of the specimens are much

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bigger than mammoths. We have until September to move them all into

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storage and that is not something museums do every day. We do not pack

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up our whole collections but this new developments mean we will have

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eager stores and people can go on guided tour is around the store

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rooms and see many of the objects as they are being preserved,

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researched. That will mean access to treasure is not normally on display,

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many of them connected to Charles Darwin. He set sail for America

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aboard the Beagle in 1831. He collected many species including

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these finches that formed the basis of his ground`breaking theory of

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revolution. Now the museum itself is evolving. This is what it will look

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like in 2016. An impressive ?18 million interactive space telling

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the story behind the artefact. We still need an extra ?3 million to

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fully realise our ambition. This is a grand project. It is very

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ambitious but we have the collections to match our ambition.

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The revamps museum will aim not just to be about the past. It will be

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part of a wider campus and will draw on current research from world

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experts based here who in turn will use the collections to try to

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predict the future of life on Earth. But in the short term, even the

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building contract as RB witched by their latest project. I museum

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moving by `` moving with the times in an ever`changing world.

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Back now to our lead story ` the weather and the threat of flooding.

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Parts of our region are notoriously flat and low`lying, yet seem to have

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escaped without floods at all. It's thanks to a device in the village of

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Denver which dates back 400 years. The technology may be different but

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the effect is still the same. When it comes to harnessing the

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power of water and making sure that the Fens stays drained, this place

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is absolutely crucial. It's called Denver Sluice and it's out in the

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middle of nowhere. Complex engineering here keeps tens of

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thousands of acres dry. Ben Bland went to find out how it all works.

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The Denver Sluice, doing what King Canute famously failed to do,

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literally holding back the tide and protecting this region from

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flooding. Without it? We would be talking about a scenario of flooded

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friends and Cambridge and Ely would be inundated with water. This is one

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of the sluice gates and it works in two ways. If the river level is high

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because of rainfall, the gates will open, allowing water to fly out to

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sea. If the tide is high and coming in, the gates will close and that

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stops water flowing that way to Cambridge and Ely. Without this

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sluice, tens of thousands of homes in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk would

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be flooded, along with thousands of acres of farmland. But the

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conditions are so extreme at the moment one sluice alone isn't enough

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because even at low tide, the water on this side is high enough that the

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gates at estate shot to stop it overwhelming and already high river

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further inland. While it protects Cambridge and Ely from the tide, it

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means the river water cannot flow out to sea, and that is where the

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second sluice comes in. It diverts the water into a relief channel, a

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ten mile piece of water where it can be stored and then let out to sea in

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Kings Lynn. Is it nearing capacity? No, we have got another two more

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metres of water we could store in there. Once it goes over that, we

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have storage reservoirs that the water can go into and be stored

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there until the levels go back down. They are to protect down a market,

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Watlington and any other towns on the relief channel. There has been a

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sluice here since the mid`1600 and now it can train three Olympics

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looming pulls worth of water every minute. It is managed 24 hours a

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day. It can also be used in times of drought, something which is unlikely

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to be needed any time seen. Let's get the weather now.

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The radar shows and narrow band of rain that rattled through fairly

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quickly this afternoon. Five to seven millimetres in places with

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winds gusting between 50 and 70 mph. There are showers following in

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behind and they will rattle through as well because it will stay windy

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overnight. Some of those showers could be wintry with sleet and is ``

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sleet and hail mixed in. Hope really we should see the ins `` the winds

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eased down a touch as we head through the night, with temperatures

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potentially down as low as freezing in rural areas. We could just see

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patchy ice in isolated areas as well. Tomorrow, that weather front

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moves away but then this one starts pushing in from the south`west. This

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is set to bring us more wet and windy weather on Friday. Tomorrow,

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we are in between the two systems and it is not too bad. The isobars

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are quite close together so it will be blustery but not as bad as this

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afternoon. We will see a scattering of showers but not for everybody.

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They could be wintry in places. Some decent sunny spells with a decent

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five or six Celsius and we finished the day largely fine. Taking a look

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at the next few days, Friday could be a dry start but then more rain

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pushing in from the south`west. There is a yellow warning in place

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from the Met office for that rain to be on the heavy side, up to about

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ten millimetres for us, so another half an inch. Although we will start

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off with moderate to fresh winds, as the brain pulled away, that is when

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we will see the strongest winds, up to 50 or 60 mph or more on the

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coast. We could hold onto those strong winds into Saturday which

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looks very windy to start off with, with wintry showers. Sunday, a bit

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of uncertainty but largely financed right with lighter winds. `` largely

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fine and dry. Frost could be a problem Thursday night.

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Let's go back to our top story now and the heavy rain and winds which

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have lashed the region this afternoon. Winds have been gusting

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at 70 miles per hour, more rain is on the way and a schoolteacher has

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been telling us about how she had a lucky escape when her car plunged

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into a swollen river. Mike Liggins has the latest.

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Jenny was on the road close to long now fit in Suffolk and her car

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skidded and plunged down a 12 foot embankment into a ruck. A local man

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helped to rescue Jenny as her car filled with floodwater. The water

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came up to the windscreen, I heard the water coming into the fit well,

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I turned my light on on the inside of the car and I saw it and I

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started screaming. These storms have put sea defences on the Suffolk

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coast at risk. This sea wall is close to being breached. If it

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fails, more than 600 acres of farmland will be flooded. With more

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heavy rain this afternoon, the environment agency is keeping a

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close eye on river levels. As the rain comes through today, it will

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top the system is up again. The 72 hour forecast shows us perhaps

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having another 20 millimetres of rain, filling up the system even

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more. Trees have been blowing down across the region. This is a big

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eucalyptus on the ground and Norwich. These pictures were taken

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in Lowestoft. Driving conditions have in difficult. The Orwell Bridge

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and the QE2 bridge at Dartford were closed for several hours this

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afternoon. Both have since reopened. Back here, Jenny wants to see the

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speed limit reduced. She was lucky to escape to tell the tale.

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Kim mentioned some power cuts earlier in the programme. UK power

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has just called us to say the problems have been fixed at rain in

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Suffolk and there were also more than 1000 homes cut off near Bury

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Saint Edmunds. Most are now back on with 150 still cut off. Good night.

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