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Hello and welcome to Look East. In the programme tonight. Death on a | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
cruise liner. The moment a pensioner was killed by a freak wave as he sat | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
down to lunch. I thought all the windows had smashed, but one of them | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
flew across the cabin, which hit the man who died. | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Expansion plans at the Port of Felixstowe to handle the biggest | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
ships in the world. The troops from the east getting | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
ready to move out of Afghanistan. And after the storm surge, the power | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
of nature to heal itself. Hello. First tonight, the moment a | :00:35. | :00:51. | |
pensioner from Essex was killed by a freak wave on board a cruise liner. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
James Swinstead, who lived in Colchester, was killed during lunch | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
on Valentine's Day. The British Ship, The Marco Polo, was coming to | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
the end of a 42 day cruise to the Azores, when a freak wave crashed | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
through a window. The ship has now been cleared to continue its | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
journey, after an inspection by the police and port officials. But Mr | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Swinstead's widow told Look East there needs to be an inquiry. | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
The sound of breaking crockery. Pictures taken by Marco Polo | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
passenger Haydn Callow show the vessel pitching in heavy seas in the | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
English channel before tragedy struck. Moss Taylor and his partner | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Robina Churchyard, from Sheringham in Norfolk, are relieved to be back | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
on dry land after a cruise they'd like to forget.They were were | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
sitting in the restaurant, just yards from 85`year`old James | :01:42. | :01:49. | |
Swinstead and his wife Helen. There were screams and shouts, as the | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
windows came in. I thought all the windows had smashed, but in fact one | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
of them flew across the cabin, which hit the man who died. It was really | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
frightening. I said to my husband we will have to put the lifeboats on. | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Those lifeboats will never stand up to those waves. We would be turned | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
over. The metal surround holding them was busy in adequate, and the | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
wind has come up. The other two shattered with the wait, the wait of | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
the water, and one of them struck the man who died. The other one flew | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
over the top of that table and blue over the heads of people in the next | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
row, and landed harmlessly on the floor in the dining room. Otherwise | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
there could have been far more serious injuries. Helen Swinstead | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
had been married to her 85`year`old husband for almost 60 years. She | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
says she saw signs that the ship was badly maintained. I don't think I | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
would want to rebook with them. Not even if it was free. It is common | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
sense. If you have rusty water coming through a window, which was | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
about that size in the dining room, you plug it. You don't have rusty | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
water coming. Cruise and Maritime Voyages says it denies allegatiuons | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
that the ship or its equipment is substandard or unseaworthy.The ship | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
had been passed fit to leave on its next cruise, following an inspection | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
by police and port authorities. Tonight, a woman in her 70s is still | :03:28. | :03:36. | |
being treated for serious injuries. The winds that caused the storms in | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
the English Channel were the same that battered East Anglia at the | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
weekend with gusts of up to 70 miles an hour. Hundreds of trees were | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
bought down, cutting power to thousands of homes and businesses. | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
Travel was disrupted and buildings were damaged. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
A car crushed by the force of a fallen fir tree in Belcham Ottam | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
near Sudbury. Two men were sitting in their cars when it blew down onto | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
them. Richard Webber had taken his wife for a Valentines drink. He | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
escaped with a broken wing mirror and dented roof. Everything went | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
black. I couldn't see a thing. You couldn't even see the headlights | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
because the whole tree was around the car. I shouted, all you all | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
right as his brother scrambled out his car. I can see Richard at all, | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
because he was on the other side of the tree. I called, and he said, I | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
am OK. By Saturday, 11,000 properties in the east had lost | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
electricity. UK Power working round the clock to reconnect residents. In | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
Harlow roofs were ripped open, fences needed fixing. While at the | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Duxford Air Museum, a 73 mile an hour gust caused part of the | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
airspace hanger to take flight. The extreme weather conditions have been | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
the worst in the century. We are dealing with weather conditions | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
which are very changeable. Therefore it is difficult to assess what will | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
happen in terms of the weather. There were also troubles for | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
travellers. Miles of queues caused by an overturned lorry on the A14. | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
And trains between Ely and Norwich were suspended. Another weekend of | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
wild weather. Forecasters say half term's looking a little less | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
dramatic. And Inside Out later tonight | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
investigates the aftermath of the flooding and storm damage. Alex | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
Dolan challenges the Association of British Insurers about delays in | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
paying`out and the costs of flood insurance. Plus, the lengths some | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
people go to, to try to keep their premiums down. That's here on BBC | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
One at seven thirty. The Port of Felixstowe has been | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
given permission to expand its operations with nearly 200 metres of | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
new quayside. It will allow the next generation of container ships to use | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
the port, and marks the latest stage in Felixstowe's rivalry with the new | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
London Gateway port in Essex. The facilities should open next year. | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
A huge container ship leaves Felixstowe. In this industry, bigger | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
is better. And the Port of Felixstowe announced today it's been | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
given permission to make one of its quays 190 metres longer. No one from | :06:10. | :06:21. | |
Felixstowe was available for comment, but someone described it as | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
a milestone. Felixstowe boss Clemence Cheng added, this is an | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
important investment as it will increase our ability to berth a | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
greater number of the very largest container vessels in the future. | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
Felixdstowe can alredy handle mega vessels like this one, the Cosco | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
Ningbo. 12 storeys higf, powered by the world's biggest diesel engine. | :06:42. | :06:52. | |
`` But soon container ships will get even bigger, and Felixstowe must be | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
able to berth them, because competition's getting tougher. A new | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
port called London Gatweway has opened on the Thames Estuary in | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
Essex. It'll try to lure ships away from Felixstowe. People are worried | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
about the impact it will have in East anger. It is inevitable that | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
London Gateway will take business away. `` East Anglia. It is not | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
happening at the moment. Until it does, I don't know whether people | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
realise what a fretted might be. The announcement today was a message to | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
the shipping industry. Their biggest vessels will be able to birth here. | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
The port says work to extend the key will begin as soon as possible. It | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
could be finished by next year. Norfolk county council has approved | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
a new budget by just two votes. There will be another freeze in | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
council tax, more money for social services and cuts of ?66 million. | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
There were worries the budget would not be passed, after the Greens came | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
up with a list of demands in return for their support. Andrew Sinclair | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
is with me now. This is all because no party has overall control in | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
Norfolk? No party has overall control. Norfolk is currently run by | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
Labour and the Lib Dems win support from UKIP and the Greens. This | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
budget has been with over the past five months. Suddenly, at the | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
weekend, the Greens, whose councils hold the balance of power, came up | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
with this list seven the band, which included undoing some of the cuts, | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
promised increased tax counsel, even a 20 speed limit. That infuriated | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
Labour, who Inc used the Greens are plain party games. When a council | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
met this morning, it was far from clear whether there would be enough | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
votes to get the budget through. Failure to do so will cause | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
problems, perhaps even government intervention. How do they get it | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
through? After hours behind the scenes, it was announced late that | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
afternoon that Labour would try to find another million pounds for | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
social services from somewhere, and that was enough to win over some of | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
the Greens. I'm quite proud of the fact that at the end of the day, for | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
parties and one independent came together. You were held to ransom? | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
No, we weren't. It is about compromise. Is is the right way to | :09:24. | :09:32. | |
behave? I don't know, but it is the only way we have. We will use to get | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
the best deal for the Green Party. The liberal democrats had to go back | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
in the afternoon, and the council were worried they would not have | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
enough votes. They got him back to work in times of the vote. This is | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
what coalition politics is all about. The Conservatives are being | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
sniffy about this budget. They say it has not been properly thought | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
through and is a recipe for disaster. | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
The police in Suffolk have closed down a big cannabis factory. It | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
follows a raid on a house in Henley Road in Ipswich on Friday. 1500 | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
plants were seized with a street value of about ?500,000. Two men | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
have been charged with drug offences. | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
Eleven members of the same family have been found guilty convicted of | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
kidnapping and assaulting a heavily pregnant woman and her partner. | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
Norwich Crown Court heard how the defendants targeted their victims | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
after becoming convinced one of them had caused the death of Gertrude | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
Frankham. She was the wife of the prominent traveller Eli Frankham, | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
who was known as 'the King of the Gypsies'. Those convicted today were | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
all related to Mrs Frankham. Look East can confirm the government | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
is reviewing its plan to move Papworth Hospital from its site near | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
Huntingdon to Cambridge. The move has been in the pipeline for years | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
with work due to start on a new multi`million pound site near | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
Addenbrooke's this summer. But it's now emerged the project hasn't been | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
signed off yet and the government is having a second look at the benefits | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
of the move and its affordability. I was disappointed to hear they had | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
now introduced a further obstacle, and they wanted an external clinical | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
review, as well as an around of financial checks. We are confident | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
we will pass both of those tests, but it has added another four to six | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
months delay on a project which has been delayed already. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
A doctor from Essex is refusing to take part in a plan for a national | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
patient database. Dr John Cormack will not hand over medical records, | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
unless he gets specific permission from the patient. He says the | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
government scheme is 'shambolic and botched'. The NHS is going to start | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
collecting information. It is a plan to join up the NHS, share our | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
medical records guarded by our GP with hospitals and researchers. From | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
April, that will include our dat of birth, gender and postcode. It could | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
include information from 26 million households. The government says it | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
will help them to track outbreaks of illnesses, measure the side effects | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
of drugs and help them target money where it is most needed. Sounds like | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
a positive idea. Not so say some. The information belongs to the | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
patient. I know the Secretary of State believes it belongs to him, | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
but I think that confidential medical information belongs to the | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
patient. From April, all patients will have their details shared | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
unless they opt out. But at John Cormack's practice in South Woodham | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
Ferrers, he is opting out patients unless they tell him otherwise. Are | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
you going to be opting out of the scheme yourself? I will opt out | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
because of the way it has been brought in. I just object to the | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
rather sneaky way it has been introduced. NHS England says there | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
won't be names on the system and it won't pass details to insurance | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
companies. But what do patients think? My name is Bill and I decided | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
to opt out because I'm concerned about the lack of conventionality | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
with the issues of my data. The only person who need to know about | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
yourself is the Dr. I realise it could be useful for predicting | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
diseases. And, as you move into the future, a lot of your details will | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
be online anyway, so I think it's useful. Some doctors who go against | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
the government are worried they could have their contracts | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
terminated. Dr Cormack says he will take the consequences. | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
Still to come tonight. Some of our top athletes fighting for a place at | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
the Commonwealth Games this summer. Plus, after the storm surge and the | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
flooding, nature's own repairs to hold back the sea once more. | :13:37. | :13:46. | |
About 1,000 military personnel from this region are nearing the end of | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
their last major deployment to Afghanistan. By the end of this | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
year, all British combat troops will pull out. Over the last 13 years, | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
more than 60 local soldiers and airmen have lost their lives. But | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
now the military presence is scaling down, and a huge removal operation | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
is under way. Have a listen. What sounds like corn | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
popping could be the sound of the end of a war. Ken Underwood from | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
Northamptonshire invented this contraption. In it, 46,000 bullets | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
an hour explode in a drum. No longer needed, they're made safe A few | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
miles away, Anglians go on patrol. When I think back, and looked to be | :14:28. | :14:36. | |
standing in a desert I would say, that is life. Their base at Lashka | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
Gar hasn't been attacked once in the five months they've been here. But | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
they take no chances. It is easy to get the risk of vehicle IDs. Coming | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
down a main route. While some of the 600 Anglians here hone their skills | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
on the range. For others this is the front line. Passing power and | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
security to local Afghans. The keyword. Transition not attrition. | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
Plenty of time then to prepare for home. And it's a mammoth operation. | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
Deep cleaning armoured vehicles engrained with seven years of desert | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
sand. Hundreds of containers packed and ready to ship out. The Anglians | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
will be the last to leave Lashka Gar. This was after 1200 people. | :15:21. | :15:30. | |
There are six in containers of equipment. Vehicles and office | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
space. Those have now gone. We updated those out. That has been our | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
focus for the past five months. It feels different now. It is almost | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
ready to hand back to the Afghans. It's been a long 13 years campaign | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
for the East's servicemen and women. Colchester based paratroopers were | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
among the first, openly welcomed into Kabul. A very different | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
reception five years on in Helmand. Local soldiers deployed to a hostile | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
region dominated by the Taliban. 65 men and women. That's more than one | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
in seven of British personnel killed are from this region. The commander | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
of the last brigade into Afghanistan is from Norfolk. His role is to help | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
draw down and pull British forces out of Afghanistan. Beyond here, we | :16:11. | :16:23. | |
are in a new operation which will go into our capitals and native | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
countries. That is alongside the Afghan government. The details of | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
that still finalised. Eight years ago, the Defence Secetary vainly | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
hoped not a single bullet in Helmand would be fired. Now at least in Lash | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
Ka Gar, millions are being destroyed. | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
During the tidal surge in December, the shingle bank at Cley in Norfolk | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
was breached. The sea poured through the gap, flooding the marshes and | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
villages along the coast like Salthouse and Cley`next`the Sea. But | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
now the shingle bank is starting to repair itself. Which is exactly what | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
the owners, the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, want to happen. This is known | :16:59. | :17:13. | |
as Marsh. We purchased this in December. | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
Kevin Hart is head of nature reserves for the Norfolk Wildlife | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
Trust. This morning he showed us onto Popes marsh at Cley. This whole | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
section of the north Norfolk coast took a fearful battering in | :17:23. | :17:33. | |
December. This was pretty disastrous in terms of the immediate | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
aftermath. There was a lot of damage. We took damaged | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
infrastructure for visitors. We have done a lot of work. We have got | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
boardwalks back in place. We had one that was completely destroyed. But | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
further on it's possible to see how the shingle bank is starting to | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
repair itself. Over the past month the sea has brought in a huge amount | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
of shingle and plug the gap, if you like. The bank has completely | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
changed. There are sections which are much lower and wider adoption | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
has moved on by 300 metres. The shape of the bank has changed to | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
become flatter and wider, but according to the Wildlife Trust that | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
might not be a problem. They want to see what is called the managed | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
retreat of the coastline. That is what it is doing. We have to give | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
the habitat time to adapt. We need to a loud species to adapt, from a | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
freshwater system to a more attainable one. We need to manage | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
this retreat and the reserve easily manage in such a way that species | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
can move and can adapt to the change. The Norfolk Wildlife Trust | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
has no intention of abandoning these marshes. Far from it. But the Trust | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
says they will have to change and any solutions to changing weather | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
patterns must be sustainable. If you are a top athlete, this is a | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
very special year. There's the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
July, but before that, it's the World Indoor Championships in Poland | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
in early March. The Bedford runner Nigel Levine is already on top form, | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
winning the 400 metre title at the British Indoor Championships at the | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
weekend. Olympic gold medallist Greg Rutherford was also competing, after | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
a long break with injury. Some athletes choose to miss the | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
indoor season, but if you're Nigel Levine, you thrive on it. He hit the | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
deck hard and fast in Birmingham, leading from the front to clock an | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
equal personal best.The perfect prep for Poland. Today he was back with | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
his coach Linford Christie, reflecting on a job well done. The | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
aim was not to panic, stay relaxed and calm and whatever happens, | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
happens. Getting prepared for the world Championships, to this race | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
was just a stepping stone. How much cricket do you think you think out | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
of the win this medal and also a Commonwealth Games medal? Very | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
quick. I will have to sacrifice and do something I've not done before. | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
It was also an important moment for the Milton Keynes long jumper Greg | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
Rutherford, back competing after a hamstring tear which ruined his | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
World Championships last summer. He's raised eyebrows by admitting he | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
wants to compete at a Winter Olympics in the skeleton. For now | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
though, he heads to the sunnier climbs of California, having jumped | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
eight metres and finish third. It is wonderful to come out here and get | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
germs back to back, and jump well as well. I am happy with my staff. This | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
is the best art I've had my career and the best art career I've had. I | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
want to win, but I have to be sensible. And it's been a successful | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
month for the Cambridgeshire high`jumper Robbie Grabarz. Having | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
already won the British Indoor title in Sheffield. He finished third on | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
Saturday, clearing a season's best two metres 27. | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
In the football, if Peterborough can beat Swindon tonight they will be | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
playing in a Wembley final next month It's the Southern Area final | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy. It's 2`2 after the first leg. The | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
winner will play either Fleetwood or Chesterfield on March 30th. | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
There's a good chance that lots of you will be eating potatoes for your | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
evening meal tonight. And it's likely that when they were grown | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
last year, they'll have been sprayed with chemicals to kill the fungus | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
that causes potato blight. Without spraying, most of our main crop | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
potatoes would wither and die. But now, in a three year trial, | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
scientists in Norwich have developed genetically modified potatoes that | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
are resistant to blight. These potatoes stems may look tiny, | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
but could herald a big change for farmers. At the moment, millions are | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
spent fighting a disease. Blight is a number`one threat to potatoes, | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
thriving in damp and humid conditions. Scientists at the | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
Sainsbury laboratory have found a gene which is resistant to it. It is | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
like downloading an apt to your smartphone. After you have | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
downloaded it, it is still a smartphone, but it has the added | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
function. Once you have downloaded the gene to hear, it is still a | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
potato but it has the added function are being Blight resistant. Farmers | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
have to spray of the 15 times a season to protect against the | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
disease. If you can control it with genetics and chemistry, you don't | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
have to do all that spraying. You don't have tractors coming up and | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
chemistry, you don't have to do all that spraying. You don't have | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
tractors, other bit longer, or do something else. It makes agriculture | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
more efficient and reduces its impact on the environment. 16 turned | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
potatoes are sold every year, so it is expensive if the crop is damage. | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
Blight cost farmers ?60 million a year, which is why scientists say | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
this is such a breakthrough. But will consumers buy potatoes with a | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
GM logo? Public confidence in GM food has been shaken by action from | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
environmentalists, who say it is untried and untested. The scientists | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
here are about to take their new potato to the States, where company | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
wants to develop it. But with EU regulations to pass, it is estimated | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
it will take at least eight years before we see the GM potatoes here. | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
If you're interested in what the BBC does in this region, then you might | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
be interested in joining the BBC's regional audience panel. We want to | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
hear from people of all ages and all backgrounds, from across the region. | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
The panel meets three times a year, and it's your chance to tell us what | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
you think about the BBC from this part of the country. You don't get | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
paid but you will get expenses. The closing date for applications is | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
Friday seven March 2014. Just go to bbc.co.uk/ace for an information | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
pack. If you don't have internet access call: 0800 092 6030. | :24:16. | :24:34. | |
Let's get the weather. Today may be in luck on Sunday's sunshine, but a | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
quieter day than late. This is a picture of a farmer harvesting sugar | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
beet in Suffolk, making the most of this welcome break in the weather. | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
For this afternoon, we have had rain pushing towards us from the South | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
West. We have had bits of pieces of rain too, producing heavy bursts. | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
That sets the scene for tonight. Cloudy skies with rain pushing | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
eastwards. Under half an inch of rain in places. It does mean that a | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
black cloud, it will be a frost free nights, with temperatures no lower | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
than six or seven Celsius. Light southerly winds as well. Tomorrow, | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
this is the weather front. It moves off towards the continent. It is not | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
a bad day. The last of the rain will clear pretty quickly, then we are | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
left with bodies start. Largely cloudy, `` body . The winds will be | :25:34. | :25:47. | |
fairly slowly and light south`westerly winds. Moderate at | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
times on the coast. Another mild day with double figures in the | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
temperature. For the rest of the afternoon, we will see further | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
slow`moving showers, possibly heavy and thundery. They will die away as | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
we head into tomorrow evening. Then on Tuesday, it does look like a lot | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
of cloud around. A bit of brightness with sunshine and showers. Wednesday | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
has filed first thing, but generally quieter with winds and cloud. Then | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
Thursday has low pressure with wet weather. At some point in looks like | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
we will have rain pushing west to east, and a blustery day too. | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
Blustery showers on Friday too. Those are your overnight lows. Rain, | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
rain, rain. Goodbye. | :26:51. | :26:55. |