03/08/2014 Look East - East

of Australia. That's all from Hampden

Pipers led the march into Fosterhill Road cemetary in Bedford

142 men who died in World War I are buried hdre.

17,000 Scottish solders werd based around Bedford at the outbreak

Each First World War grave was given a union flag and a poppy cross.

It commemorates those from the Scottish regiments that died.

They were on basic training at Bedford Park down the hill

and didn't get to the First World War they died of common

diseases that people in Bedford were immune from, but because thdy were

They were buried here to be next to their mates who signed up

In Ipswich today, troops from the present`day exercised their freedom

of the borough, reservists from the Royal Logistic Corps marched into

Christchurch Park to receivd their campaign medals from the mayor.

They are just back from the final six`month tour of Afghanist`n.

It is poignant to mark todax on the anniversary of the start

We think back, could we do what they did 100 years ago?

In fact, we are still doing what thex did.

100 years on from 1914, ceremonies like this one servce

as a timely reminder that British soldiers continue to put

And tomorrow night at 6.30pm as part of our coverage of the

centenary, Look East will be live in the garrison town of Colchester

The M11 northbound was closdd for five hours today

following a serious crash ndar to the junction for Stansted Airport.

Two cars collided, one then hit a tree.

The air ambulance was called and at its worst there was five miles

A man was seriously injured when a coach collided with

The crash happened on the A47 at Trowse, near Norwich,

Sport, and athletes from the region have been winning more medals on the

Among those on the podium, a married couple from Milton Keynes

A great day for Milton Keynds badminton.

Husband and wife team Chris and Gabby Adcock took

on their training partners Chris Langridge and Heather Olver.

They won silver and the Adcocks became the first married couple to

win gold in the sport at the Commonwealth Games.

It is so nice when we win that we can do it together.

The feeling we have for the next few weeks at home

A second medal for Emma Pooley, but tears, because this was her

swansong, she is retiring from cycling to focus on triathlon.

Over at the hockey, three Suffolk players were in the England team

The scores were tied at full`time so it went to a shoot`out,

Essex's Peter Barker, already bronze medallist in the singles,

I'm always conscious that gardeners are desperate for rain

when I say things like 'gre`t news it will be dry for tomorrow'.

But a lot of warm sunshine in the forecast for tomorrow

Although things will slowly turn more unsettled

Tonight, as you can see, we are dry and clear, temperatures in double

figures, slightly fresher fdel than there has been in recent nights.

Tomorrow, a great start, plenty of sunshine, the cloud thickens as we

A couple of showers making their way toward us, 22 or 23

Celsius, the showers will drift in towards the afternoon and evening.

Gradually becoming more unsettled as low pressure makes it wax

Tuesday showers around, more on Wednesday.

On Thursday, a longer spell of rain potentially.

That's all from Look East for tonight.

We're back from 6.25am tomorrow, with all your news and weather

Do join us then if you can from all of us here, goodnight.

Good evening. Many of us had a decent second part of the weekend,

particularly so for England and Wales, rather different from

Scotland and Northern Ireland. We saw our whole rash of showers across

Scotland and Northern Ireland, some thunder and lightning swirling

around. There was a huge curl of cloud, indicative of an area of low