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one of his daughter's friends. That's all from the BBC News at Six,

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so it's Hello and welcome to Look East. The

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headlines tonight from Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk: A boom in

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engineering jobs could be on the way to RAF Marham, thanks to Europe's

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new fighter plane. It is very important to the local

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economy. It is the biggest employer in the area.

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Drama on the women's international tour as Olympic champion Laura Trott

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is hurt in a crash. When she came in, I had never seen

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anyone in so much pain. Rolf Harris goes on trial accused of

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sexual abuse ` the jury is told seven charges relate to a girl who

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lived in Norfolk. And they could be the engineers of

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the future ` how one of our most famous inventors hopes to inspire a

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new generation. Hello.

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There's been drama on Day Three of the Women's International Tour which

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is snaking its way across the eastern region. Olympic cycling

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champion Laura Trott was among a group of riders who crashed at the

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mid`way point in Essex. Trott was taken to Clacton Hospital for

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treatment for concussion and a suspected chipped elbow. Later, she

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tweeted: That's her home town.

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Trott's team boss Rochelle Gilmour spoke to BBC reporter Nick Hope

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outside the hospital. It was a really nasty crash. When

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she called for a spare bike, she was shaking. She looked quite pale and

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it was scary. She had to take a moment to consider whether she

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should continue all poor out. She decided to get on the bike. Then she

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vomited. It was a bad sign that she had hit her head. She also had a lot

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of pain in her elbow. She wrote to the finish, but when she came in, I

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have never seen anyone in so much pain. It was difficult to see her in

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tears. It is amazing that she wants to start tomorrow, even though she

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has not really had time to consider her condition. What is the

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diagnosis? Is it a broken elbow? It is very swollen, she has had some

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painkillers. She is having x`rays right now. We're hoping that it is

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not checked and that the swelling is just from the four, but it is `` if

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it is chipped, we will need to decide if she will start tomorrow or

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not. But she wants to start tomorrow and pain is no stranger to her. Even

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if she wakes up with a sore elbow, she will want to be on the start

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line. We'll have more from the Tour later

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in our sports round`up. There's growing optimism tonight

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that the RAF station at Marham in Norfolk could generate a wave of new

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engineering jobs thanks to Europe's new fighter jet.

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The new plane is called the Lightning II F`35 jet. It's due to

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come into service at Marham within four years. Today, it emerged today

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that Britain is likely to host a pan`European engineering hub to look

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after the aircraft. The Defence Secretary has hinted that Marham

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would be the preferred location, a decision which could lead to a local

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boom in engineering jobs. Yes, four years ago, this station

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appeared to be on the brink of closure. A big campaign was launched

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amid fears that the tornado force would be moved to Scotland. That did

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not happen, Marham kept those contracts for maintenance and

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upgrade. And now a new aircraft on the horizon that could secure its

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long`term future. This is what all the excitement is

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about, the Lightning II F`35 jet, an all`weather aircraft. Supersonic, it

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can operate from carriers as well as airbases.

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The squadron prepare for a flight. Since the 1950s, Marham has been

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making news with its planes. In the Falklands War, a wee fuelled

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bombers. And Tornadoes `` they refuelled bombers. And it's

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Tornadoes crews have made headlines. I know that you will share with

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media excitement about having what will be the world's most advanced

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fighter aircraft based here and operating from here.

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Now there are negotiations with other countries to operate the

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Lightning II F`35 jet about where they will be surfaced. Marham looks

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to be a front runner. It is very exciting, it will be in

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service until 2040, which means that there are a lot of high stream is

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engineering jobs. But the idea that it could provide services to the

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fighter fleet across Europe is a fantastic opportunity.

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Our key skills here? Yes, and I have been encouraging more young people

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to study maths and physics and going to engineering. This shows why that

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is important. There are 5000 military and civilian

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employees here. 15,000 other jobs nearby are dependent on this base.

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When it arrives, the plane will open a new chapter, promising long`term

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security and more high school jobs. There had been fears that the

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production of the plane was falling behind schedule, but the Defence

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Secretary said that it would be on the runway at Marham as scheduled in

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2018. The jury in the trial of Rolf Harris

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has been told how he visited one of his alleged victims at her home in

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Norfolk after she revealed to her parents that the entertainer had

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abused her. Mr Harris is accused of 12 offences against four girls aged

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under 19 between 1968 and 1986. He denies all the charges.

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Well, this is a walk that Rolf Harris is expected to make into

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court for the next six weeks. Today the jury heard the alleged victim

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told a friend at school that she'd been abused by Mr Harris who she

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described as a "dirty old man" and that it started when she was 13.

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It's alleged that abuse went on for 16 years.

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In her late twenties, she wrote to the entertainer saying that she'd

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told her family. It prompted him to drive to her home in Norfolk to see

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her. While he was there, the woman told him he had "ruined her life"

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and made him walk around the village while she berated him.

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The prosecution say Mr Harris then wrote a letter to her father,

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confessing he'd had a sexual relationship with the woman, but

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denied it started when she was 13. In it, he described being in a state

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of "self loathing" and feeling "sickened" by himself for the misery

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he had caused her. Mr Harris denies all the charges

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against him. There's fresh evidence today that

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house prices in some parts of the region are back to the levels they

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were before the financial crash. Only houses in the East, the South

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East and London have regained their pre`slump values. Our business

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correspondent Richard Bond is here. It is clear for some time that the

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housing market is recovering, but we are now close to the previous peak?

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Yes, when the risk that hit comedy prices were very high, they took big

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knock and it fell by 30% in some places. The recovery has been felt

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for some time, but it has not been even. An average house in Essex now

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costs ?263,000, which is now what it was before the recession.

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Cambridgeshire excluding Peterborough is still 2% down. Luton

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is 5% below, as is Peterborough. Norfolk is 3% below.

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Getting back to the previous figures, other figures showed that

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the output of the economy is almost back to its prerecession peak. Yes,

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they are saying that it is within a whisker of of what it was in 2008.

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In East Anglia, we have probably gone past our previous peak.

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The region is a fantastic place to live and work. It's does not rely on

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other places. We can make a growth in the UK and overseas.

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Another indicator is unemployment, and that has fallen over the last

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few years. It is now back to where it was in 2008.

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One of the country's biggest arts festivals gets under way this

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evening. And it's promising something for everyone over the next

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two weeks. This afternoon, I spoke to William Galinsky, artistic

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director of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. I asked him why the

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festival continued to prove so popular.

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We have captured people's imaginations and is something for

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everyone. We are going to be creating a cardboard replica of the

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church tomorrow. Starting at 10am, anyone can come and help us build. A

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lot of the outdoor things that we do capture the imagination.

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Tickets go very quickly, but from what I have seen, there is not that

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much publicity. It is quite a low profile. Why? I am not sure if it is

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low profile. We change how we advertise with technology. We have

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60,000 brochures out there in the county, we have also got a lot of

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Facebook and e`mail mailing lists will stop.

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There are professionals from across the world, what are your

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highlights? There are so many highlights. The laboratory Theatre

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from Moscow is spectacular, about the life of a Russian composer. Andy

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Festival finale, which is a great new show called Safe House.

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These are professionals, is there anything for amateurs? We have added

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an extra day and we are working with a business improvements organisation

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to make a day called it is your Festival. We have teenage rock bands

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and others, outdoor venues all round the city. It will be a celebration

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of the talents in the area. Drivers are being advised both

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northbound tunnels of the Dartford Crossing will be closed for six

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hours tomorrow night due to a full scale emergency exercise. The

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scenario of a blaze in the tunnel will involve tunnel staff and around

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50 firefighters, including those from Essex Fire and Rescue Service.

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It means no traffic will be able to use the crossing northbound between

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ten o'clock Saturday night and four o'clock Sunday morning.

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Still to come, Southend aiming for promotion at the weekend.

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Plus the remarkable story for an old shed used for beer and bingo.

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The inventor Sir James Dyson has given Cambridge University ?8

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million for a new technology hub. It's the biggest donation the

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engineering faculty has ever received.

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When the centre opens next year, it'll give 2000 students access to

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some of the world's most advanced laboratories. Those behind the

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project hope it will inspire a new generation of engineers.

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The desire to design starts very early. What's it's like this? Or you

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need is imagination. Here is one Norfolk schoolboy who stuck the

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course. Best known for inventing a revolutionary vacuum cleaner, Sir

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James Dyson has the respect of prime ministers and now the gratitude of

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those who work here. His donation is the largest that Cambridge's

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engineering Department has ever received stop the Dyson engineering

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departments will help postgraduate students research about electric

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cars, among other things. It will have two slot into a confusing site.

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We have buildings from the 1970s and 1950s here. But the director of

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research says that it means that a lot more brainpower will be focused

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here as well. It will be our work on future cities to create the right

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environment for people to live in. It is about how people live. It is

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about providing them to the rights of products and services that they

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can live life to the full and do it in a way that does not damage the

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planet. Engineering is now very popular, one

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in ten students at Cambridge studying engineering. I chose

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structures in order to become a structural engineer. It is very

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relevant. There are everyday problems that are solved by

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engineering. The so`called Cambridge cluster is

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now a international design hub. They have developed microchips for

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smartphones, pregnancy tests and parts for Concorde. But now to the

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children, the teachers say that more money should be given to children

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like these, and often curiosity is stifled as they grow up.

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This is the most important research development centre in the country,

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and at many schools in the country, this is where children are creating

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new things. They are the inventors and designers of the future.

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We want to inspire the next generation of scientists and

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engineers. This man has put his money where his

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mouth is. When the Dyson Centre opens next year, people hope that

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there will be ground`breaking inventions and ideas from it.

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Let's catch up with the weekend sport now. And there's still plenty

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at stake as the season reaches its climax. Yes, it's all over bar the

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shouting for Norwich, but promotion is still on the cards for

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Peterborough and Southend. Yes, Norwich will bid farewell to

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the Premier League this weekend after enjoying three seasons in it.

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Five defeats in six leaves them three points behind West Brom.

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Norwich would need to beat Arsenal 17`0 tomorrow to stand a chance of

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survival. And attention has already turned to next season.

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He has been with the club for 20 years, his pride there for all to

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see. He has been in charge for a few weeks, and now he is having to

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explain a season of shattered dreams, with Norwich out of the

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Premier League. We are bitterly disappointed. It

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hurts a lot. For myself and the players, the supporters are hurting,

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everyone is. The Premier League is the best league in the world, we

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have fallen out of it. Keeping them up was too great a

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task. Bouncing back is not easy. Only four clubs in the past decade

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have managed it in the last `` first attempt.

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It is a big summer, because whatever the board decides to do, and the

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recruitment and the players going out, then used to be changes. We

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have lost too many games and that becomes a culture. That needs to

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change. As it hits the players financially?

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Yes, massively. When people say that they don't care, they still get

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paid, no. I think every player that I have spoken to, yes, wages,

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bonus, it is common practice for any Premier League club, especially from

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where we have, from. You can't go down with the money, the club got

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relegated and found itself in financial trouble. This time, it

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will be difficult `` different. It affects everyone.

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The big question is who takes charge now. Many are tipping the former

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defender Mackay, and there was discussion is after the settlement

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over his sacking. He did a great job at Cardiff, they

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tried for years to get up, and he did the job. He is young and hungry,

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I think he would be a perfect fit. There is the test over how would I

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cope, would I feel I am comfortable doing it? Would I feel suited to

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it? But in terms of have I enjoyed it and and I comfortable, yes.

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He refuses to admit there is nothing at stake, professional pride and

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money in front of a sell`out crowd. It's the play`offs this weekend.

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Peterborough and Southend are in semi`final action. Posh play the

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first leg of their tie against Leyton Orient at home tomorrow.

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They're looking for an instant return to the Championship after

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being relegated on the final day last season.

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It is different for the last time that we were in the play`offs, we

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were much more like the other three teams. This time, we have had to

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keep on winning until the last game in the season. That may help us.

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For Southend in League Two, Burton Albion on Sunday. The Blues lost at

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this stage two years ago, but head into the play`offs unbeaten in five.

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We will move on, we cannot bring you that clip.

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In cycling, as we've been hearing, it's been another dramatic day on

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the Women's Tour of Britain. Five days. All here in the East. Today's

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stage three began at 11 this morning from Felixstowe. They cycled through

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Ipswich to Manningtree, ending up this lunchtime at Clacton. Jonathan

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Park has followed them all the way. He is with the American team.

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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day if you are about to

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travel on a long journey. We are always hungry. On the bike, we are

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just drinking bottles of electrolytes.

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This is one of the two women in the America's tour, gearing up for

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another tough day in the saddle. We all crashed yesterday, but we are

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fighting again today. To stay in contention and strike if

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there is an opportunity. 's team director's Kevin message, there were

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several talented sprinters and a solo star.

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# We all want to go to the seaside #.

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A first taste of the seaside for many of them, it was bright and

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breezy. It is important for us to get through it. We had two riders

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crash yesterday. Unfortunately, it is part of the sport and it will

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happen. I had a little crash yesterday.

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So we are now minutes away from the start. The five girls are ready to

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go. How are you feeling? Yes, I am really excited. It will be a good

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day today. Thousands of schoolchildren provided

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the soundtrack. There was drama, but thankfully not for the American

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team. The race has already started, and we

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have not seen any of our girls here. It was awesome. Finishing sixth?

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That is a good day's work. Yes, my highest finish this week.

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Seaside to seaside, their best result so far. Chance for some

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traditional cuisine for Hertfordshire in stage four.

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In the rugby, Northampton play their final game of the regular season. A

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point for Saints against Wasps guarantees them a home semifinal.

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We wish Laura Trott a speedy recovery so that she can ride in her

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hometown. Two rare examples of army barrack

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huts from the First World War have been saved from demolition, after

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being found in an Ipswich car park. Over the years, they have been used

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as a meeting place for people to have a drink and play a game of

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bingo. The old wooden huts are beginning to

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look a bit down at heel and were due to be pulled down. They were

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discovered by a collector who's now planning to use them at a Great War

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visitor centre he's creating near Bury St Edmunds.

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They were built to last a war, but this some of these lasted a

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lifetime. This man searched the length of Britain to find some of

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these, then he found two on his own doorstep. It is a perfect example

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and has not been messed around with. They were used for beer and bingo

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and they would you to be demolished. I have walked past this

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place thousands of times, and then I read in the Ipswich Journal, that

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the club had a new planning permission to build the restaurants,

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and they were going to demolish an old hot. I wondered what that old

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building was. This is what it could have been

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like, this recruit shining his buttons for the battle again. They

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will be rebuilt at the different location. Thousands of First World

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War soldiers would have slept in this hot for they went to fight the

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battles. No replica will ever compensate for having something that

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is real. They started their life behind these

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troops exercising. After the war, some were destroyed and others

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became Scout huts and bingo halls. Many people did not know the value

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of these older sheds, they were almost firewood.

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We went all over the country trying to find these huts, but they were

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right under our noses. Almost chopped up as firewood, what

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a travesty. Here is the weather. It has been quite wet.

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Low pressure will continue to influence our weather. The current

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pressure pattern shows low`pressure moving to the north`east. This is

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the next frontal system heading to the north country. That will bring

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us some rain. Expect a weekend where we will have rain clearing tomorrow

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morning. There will be some showers following behind, but also sunshine.

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Let's have a look at some of the shell was that we have seen today.

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There was the odd heavy shower across the region, but also

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sunshine. These have cleared out into the North Sea, so it is looking

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quite right. Some clear spells and sunshine. Not a bad end to the day.

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The night looking dry, but this is the next band of rain. For most of

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us, it will not arrive until after midnight, but some of it is expected

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to be on the heavy side. A good covering of Cloud, temperatures not

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dropping too low. Eight or nine Celsius. That wind will pick up as

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the rain moves through. Quite a blustery day tomorrow. The rain will

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clear eastwards, Eastern counties likely to see the rain through the

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morning. Then we will see the showers developing. It should

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brighten up, so we should cease and sunshine. Those showers could be

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heavy and could be thundery. Where we have sunshine, the temperatures

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should get warmer. A blustery wind from the west or south west, could

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give us because of 30 or 40 miles an hour. Further showers through the

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evening, but they should fade away. Then the pressure pattern should be

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unsettled for the next couple of days, but the pressure is starting

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to push away in the south`east. This area of high pressure is starting to

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build up, and on Tuesday onwards we will see an improvement. On Sunday,

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it is looking like a day of showers and quite a bit cooler. Some

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sunshine around. There will be showers on Monday, but they should

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be lighter. The wind is not quite so blustery, and drier on Tuesday. One

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or two nights where it is quite cold, but not cold enough for frost.

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So not too wet apart from that giant swimming pool. Have a good weekend.

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Goodbye.

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