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life changing experience. The question is whether the Games will | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
deliver a and a plan to bring a ?130 million | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
of investment to the city. It comes with the promise of hundreds of jobs | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
and growth. Peterborough already has one of the fastest growing private | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
sectors in the country with almost 4,000 created in one year, thanks to | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
new business. Just today a new distribution park opened which could | :00:30. | :00:44. | |
lead to a further 8,000. Finished and ready for the first | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
company to move in, a parcel delivery business. On its conveyor | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
belt, `` when the conveyor belt is finished, more than 50 will work | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
here. We run a model telling us where growth is going to be. We have | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
double`digit growth as a company and Peterborough is a hotspot we have | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
recognised. So we have decided to invest and move here. | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
This is the first warehouse on a 240 acre distribution park. Peterborough | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
is home to one of the fastest`growing private sectors in | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
the country. A city soon to see more private investment. ?130 million | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
worth. Money held in an account overseas, opened by the council It | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
is a mix of investors, sovereign funds, I wealth individuals, and | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
pension funds. It is a different way of doing things. The reality is that | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
councils have historically relied on government funding to unlock | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
development and that is no longer there are so we have to work in a | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
different way. Money from the overseas fund would be used to buy | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
council property and on it would be built houses and businesses, which | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
the council say would generate wealth. But some are concerned about | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
who may invest in the city. It is about being able to see clearly | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
where the investment is coming from. As a local authority, we need to be | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
principled and we need to have ethics. We need to make sure we are | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
getting money from sources that are sound. They say the Peterborough is | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
open for business. The city is attracting big investment from home | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
and abroad. And with that, the promise of many, many more jobs | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
Meanwhile in Corby, 900 jobs are at risk at Solway Foods, with losses | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
now described as 'inevitable'. The company which makes salad products | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
is one of the town's biggest employers. A few weeks ago it said | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
it was considering closure. Now a multi`agency taskforce has been set | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
up, but it's not overly optimistic about jobs. I do not believe that | :02:46. | :02:58. | |
they can all be saved. Because the company are obviously losing money, | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
having a lot of difficulties. But I believe, and would love to see | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
Solway running, probably in different premises, far more | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
efficiently and making profits so that they are there for the long | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
term. Major roadworks are due to start on | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
the M1 near Luton airport, with holiday`makers advised to allow an | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
extra hour so they don't miss their flight. As part of a ?30 million | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
pound scheme, the roundabout at Junction ten is being replaced by a | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
3`lane carriageway, linking the motorway to the airport. The | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
junction will be closed overnight for several nights from March the | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
4th. But lane restrictions will be in place for 18 months. | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
Luton has been closed for business for a number of years. The traffic | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
queues have been so great that it has put people off investing in the | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
town and those that have come to invest here have often found that | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
they have had objections from the highways agency, saying that if you | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
do that, it will put more traffic through the junction. It is an | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
excellent location and this link will provide a link from one of the | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
major motorways in the country to the airport. We have worked with the | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
contractors to reduce the closure period so that the closures are from | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
8pm until 4am. New trains for the region's busiest | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
commuter routes have been unveiled to passengers. They promise less | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
crowding, faster journey times and more destinations. But we'll have to | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
wait a few years until they're in service. | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
Travelling by train can be a tight squeeze. There are more passengers | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
than ever before. But help could be at hand. In Cambridge, they recently | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
had a revamp to accommodate trains with 12 carriageways. `` carriages. | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
In three years, the majority of fast and semi`fast services to King's | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
Cross will be made up of a dozen carriages. And that is not all. More | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
than 100 of these new electric trains are being built with more | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
space, climate control, digital displays and baby changing areas. | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
There is more space at four level. They are coming in in 2017. A bit of | :05:18. | :05:27. | |
weight. Yes, but worth waiting for. What is the timetable? The new | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
trains will run on the Bedford to Brighton line in 2016. The following | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
year, they will be on the Peterborough to King's Cross route. | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
And in 2018, there will be direct services across London. Meaning you | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
could travel straight through with your luggage to Heathrow, and | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
perhaps even Gatwick. It will do an enormous amount to decrease | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
overcrowding. The programme is geared up to address the levels of | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
crowding on the route and that capacity is much needed. But if you | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
heading to King's Cross, the new trains will run alongside the | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
existing stock, so you are not guaranteed to catch one. | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
The new fleet of electric buses in Milton Keynes is having problems | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
coping with the weather. The buses run on batteries which are charged | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
wirelessly at points along the route. Five buses had to be | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
withdrawn because water got into the electrics. They've since been | :06:23. | :06:31. | |
adapted and returned to service Time for the weather with Julie | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
During the rest tonight, we will see a band rain moving eastwards. The | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
wind is also picking up at the moment, to a mainly moderates to | :06:43. | :06:52. | |
fresh south`westerly. Tonight will be frost free. Tomorrow morning the | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
last of the rain will clear quickly and then we're left with dry day, | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
give or take a few showers. And hopefully some brightness and | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
sunshine coming through. Temperatures in double figures at | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
best. And we finished the day largely fine and dry. I'll leave you | :07:11. | :07:21. | |
with the outlook will stop on Wednesday, there will be fewer | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
showers around, so a largely dry day, and then outbreaks of rain on | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
Thursday giving way to brighter skies and some showers. | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
rain moving eastwards during Thursday with brighter | :07:33. | :07:33. | |
rain moving eastwards during will be more rain overnight into | :07:34. | :07:33. | |
Thursday. Good evening. We have a spell of wet | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
and windy weather working across the British Isles. Today brought many of | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
us some decent spells of sunshine and it brought us some decent | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
temperatures. In fact, our warmest day of the year so far. | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
At the moment, though, things have changed. This is the gap in the | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
satellite picture. Now, this curl of cloud looks like a snail's shell, it | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
is an area of low pressure that is sweeping wind and rain across us. | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
It's pushed into the west already and is now making rapid progress | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
eastwards, moving into eastern England through the small hours | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
Strong, gusty winds around the Irish Sea coasts. The weather front will | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
weaken as it gets into eastern areas. Behind the weather front | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
things are a good deal clearer and that is the way we will start | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
tomorrow. Our wet and windy weather, the worst of it is out of the way as | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
we look at | :08:38. | :08:38. |