08/06/2014 Look East - East

Hello, I'm Jenny Kirk. news where you are. Bye for now

An air and sea search is underway off the

She was thrown into the watdr from a yacht which collided with

It happened about a mile out from Felixstowe.

A man was pulled to safety as the yacht sank, but

Two lifeboats, two pilot boats and a search and

rescue helicopter from the Wattisham air station in Suffolk have all been

The alarm was raised very qtickly by the crew and they put their own fast

response boat and they pickdd up one person from the yacht. A second

person was seen on the deck, but unfortunately the yacht sank a very

quickly, and we are currently searching for them.

Police search for a missing pensioner havd found

It's believed to be that of 86`year`old George Young.

He'd been reported missing from his care home in nearbx

Police are not treating his death as suspicious.

A runner has died during a half`marathon in Southend.

Today's event along the seafront from Shodburyness

Police say the man, who was in his 30s,

He was taken to a medical tdnt in Ness Road,

One of the region's wildlifd trusts is to start vaccinathng

It was the spread of the disease among cattle in the West Cotntry

that prompted a controversi`l cull of badgers last year.

preventing anything similar happening here.

acting in the hope of preventing anything similar happening here

In a secret location in Essdx, a search for badgers. Later this

summer, Essex Wildlife Trust will trap and then vaccinate badgers

against bovine tuberculosis. The trust is very aware of the

hardship that the disease c`n cause farmers. We are setting up `

five`year programme to vacchnate badgers where we have cattld in

close proximity. This shows you how big the badger

set can get. We cannot tell you where we are filming, because people

might come and steal badgers and use them in a legal dogfights.

Last year, in the hotspots of Gloucestershire and Somerset,

badgers were cull, despite prose `` protest. But bovine tuberculosis has

not yet she `` yet reached Dssex, and because of that, the prdsident

of the farmers union says that vaccinating badges here is `

necessary. I would question what they would

learn in a situation where there is not to be in the county. I would do

it in what we called the edge areas on the fringes of the hotspot areas,

counties like Cheshire and Derbyshire.

But Essex Wildlife Trust believes that vaccinating badgers in Essex

will make a future outbreak and a need for a cull more likely.

50 farms in East Anglia opened their gates today as part of this

It's to get people more in touch with where their food comes from.

They get to roam the fields, meet the animals and see

The added attraction at this farm at Milton near Cambridge?

With temperatures up to 25 Celsius today, and another warm day in the

prospects for tomorrow. There could be showers in the afternoon. The

activity tonight, the rain will start tomorrow. It is clearhng

towards the North. Plenty of sunny and bright weather for us to enjoy.

It will be as warm, as well. It is in the afternoon where therd will be

risk of showers. 23 or 24 Cdlsius in the best of the weather. Drx on

Tuesday. I will be back at 10:45 p.m..

Goodbye.