07/09/2014 Look East - East

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The Government has stepped into the row over a proposed bypass

Despite the fact that county councillors are

due to vote on the controversial relief road for Ely tomorrow, the

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has taken it out of their h`nds

Traffic heading through Ely on the A142 faces a bottleneck.

Lorries can't pass under the railway, they will have to use

a level crossing which can be closed for up to 30 minutes every hour

But the proposed bypass would ruin the famous view of Ely Cathddral,

It's one of the groups whose lobbying has

I fully respect English Heritage's view

on this, but I think they've got it wrong.

And I hope, really, genuinely, it does not cause a huge delay because

every time the implementation of the scheme gets delayed, evdry year

that goes by, that is anothdr ? million to the cost of the scheme.

There have already been years of planning and consultation

on the ?30 million road, and it has provoked strong feelings

It is fair that Eric Pickles has a look at ht.

I think the ramifications if he translate that, and he insists on a

full`scale public inquiry, because then we will only hear exactly the

same arguments that we've bden log jammed with for the last few years.

It was Mr Pickles' ordering of a public inquirx

into a waste incinerator in King's Lynn and his lack of a final

decision that effectively khlled off that scheme, but in July he called

on plans for a housing estate in Newmarket, even though dhstrict

Councillors will still vote on the Ely bypass tomorrow, but

A third man's been charged by Essex Police investigating

the death of an Afghan refugee in a shipping container in Tilbury.

The other 34 people inside the container all survived.

The 47`year`old suspect has been charged with people smuggling

Police investigating the case of a Cambridgeshire woman who vanished

17 years ago are still searching the garden of a house in Elx.

They've spent the weekend digging up the ground

They're treating the disappearance of pub landlady

A 70`year`old man arrested last week has been released on b`il.

Meanwhile, police searching for a man who went missing from hhs home

It was discovered on land in Laindon yesterday afternoon.

The death's not being treatdd as suspicious, but police have informed

the family of Brien Chambers who disappeared on Thursday.

Seven of the region's largest mail centres

It's part of a trial run of Sunday opening,

Delivery offices were open this afternoon in Stevenage,

Peterborough, Luton, Basildon, Northampton, Norwich,

and in Cambridge, where the service seems to have gone down well.

I do not have to rush from work in all the traffic, so it is brilliant.

It is a really good move. I work every day so it is hard to pick it

up. Everyone buys anything online now, so being able to collect it on

a Sunday is attractive. continues to go well. With news of

that and a round`up of the rest of Marcus Maddison led the way with a

touch of class. Did was job done at London Road. Colchester, under new

management, had a fearful stop Colchester have halted a run of four

defeats, but they remain second from bottom. Northampton are up to

seventh in League 2, but it was settled in the first, afterlarket

Richards `` after Marc Rich`rds scored twice. In this match, Oxford

saved the day slightly with a point from a penalty. Stevenage boss was

livid with the referee after his ten men fell to your 3`2. Stevenage had

clawed back thanks to goals. York were given a penalty which won them

the match. One of the players told him that the referees `` ond of the

players told local radio th`t the referee's view was blocked.

Plymouth scored, winning thd match 1`0, with ten minutes left.

It turned into a dry day, and that is what we are looking for this

week. There are some cool nhghts to come, including tonight, whdre

temperatures just about hold on in double figures, but as low `s six or

seven in the countryside. A beautiful start to the workhng week.

Staying dry through the aftdrnoon, but the cloud will not spoil things,

with the top temperature of 20. Staying dry through this wedk but we

will have some cloud. I'll be back with an update

at 10:30pm. Some cloud towards the south

and east as we go through the day, it will stay dry with varying

amounts of sunshine and 22 degrees Through this week we are looking dry

and settled, some cloud around at That's it I'll be back just

after 10:30pm, Good evening. Most of us had a

lovely end to the weekend but the exception was the north-east of

Scotland. It was cold, wet and windy but the low responsible is now

moving away and we have high pressure moving its way in from the

West. The pressure is rising all the while over the next few days which

will settle things down nicely and it will be dry pretty much all week.

But the forecasting headache will be the amount of cloud. The next few

hours will still be pretty wet and windy in the north-east of Scotland

but through the small hours the ring becomes quite liked and patchy.

Elsewhere it is a dry night, a few patches of low cloud here and there

but for many it is a night of clear spells, and major towns and cities

will be a degree either side of double figures but in rural areas

temperatures could reach as low as one degree. Northern Scotland will

be cloudy and breezy, not much Rangers peak of but they will be

some. The central lowlands will see a decent start the day and so will

Northern Ireland, and the rest of England and Wales there will be a

few patches of cloud but