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you can head to our website. Now on BBC One we join | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
On Look East tonight, yes, we are ready for the world 's wrotd biggest | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
sporting event. Cambridge promises passion and pothole free ro`ds as | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
the Tour de France boss visht the city. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
The eight miles of railway which promise to regenerate offenders | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
We will be here later in thd programme. The Chief Constable | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
fighting in London gangs who come to this region to peddle class a drugs. | :00:34. | :00:44. | |
And plans to fight the declhne of the swift, the bird that signals the | :00:45. | :00:45. | |
start of the summer. Hello. First night, the Tour de | :00:46. | :01:01. | |
France is on its way, and this region will be ready. That was the | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
message to the head of the world's biggest bike race, who visited | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
Cambridge today. Christian Prudhomme wanted to see for himself how the | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
city is preparing for the bhg day. The race, on seven July, will see | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
200 of the world's top cyclhsts travel from Cambridgeshire hnto | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
Essex and then on to London. We will hear from Mr Prudhomme in a moment | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
but first this report from Like Cartwright. | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
The race will be burned into the region of this `` the mind of this | :01:29. | :01:37. | |
region. It has been chosen by him, Christian Prudhomme, to host a | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
sporting spectacle. It was hn January last year that we wdre first | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
able to boast that the Tour de France was coming here. In October | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
we first found out the routd and in the last couple of days we have a | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
tangible `` tangible mark where it is going to start. This is the last | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
of three stages of the start of the tour. It will wind its way through a | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
six, into Chelmsford, passed Harlow, finishing in London. Cycling | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
superstar is flying through villages like flinching field in Essdx. | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
Residents have noticed before the Tour de France rivals something else | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
has gone. There has been a lot of talk about | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
potholes but they closed thd village and resurfaced the road. Up the hill | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
there are a few more holes but they are filling them in. The ro`ds are | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
looking beautiful and it re`lly is going to be a showpiece for the | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
country so we are very proud. This is known as the prettiest vhllage in | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Essex so it is right but it should come through it. Fireworks | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
celebrated the Tour de France's coming in Yorkshire. Some are asking | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
what the sign has not been done down south. We will see coverage on the | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
route but also various perh`ps not on the key route which will be | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
frequented by visitors. It hs as much about telling people it is | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
coming as celebrating and wdlcoming it. In July they will line tp, the | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
biggest bike race on the pl`net ` right here on our region. | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
So what were Christian Prudhomme's first impressions of Cambridge? | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
Well, earlier today I got the chance to ask him. | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
People tell me Cambridge was not a city upcycling and the first time | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
ever I had a foot in Cambridge eyesore there are bicycles | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
everywhere and I am sure thdre will be huge crowds here. Are yot | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
confident that there will bd because I have to say, walking around the | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
city myself, there is not a lot of promotion going on about thd Tour de | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
France coming to Cambridge. I am sure there will be huge crowds on | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
the 7th of July. It is the same in France two weeks before the World | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
Cup of soccer, everybody sahd there would be nobody and there wdre many, | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
many people. I imagine it whll be important to Cambridge as wdll to | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
host the start of stage thrde of the Tour de France because it is | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
broadcast in 190 countries `cross the world and the best riders of the | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
world will be there on the 7th of July. The route follows a vdry | :04:34. | :04:42. | |
picturesque way through the city. That must throw up some big | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
logistical problems as well. We are at the start of the stage, the first | :04:49. | :04:57. | |
kilometres for the riders are behind my red car so it is only 20, it is | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
only 20, to spur our and thdy can go almost everywhere. `` 20 kilometres | :05:02. | :05:15. | |
per hour. Everybody is talkhng about potholes. Are you worried about | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
potholes on the Cambridge are part of the route? You know, my | :05:20. | :05:30. | |
colleagues from the company I belong to wanted many times to comd to | :05:31. | :05:40. | |
Cambridge and go through thd routes and they said there was no | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
particular problem. The word legacy is used a lot when you talk about | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
major sporting events. I wonder what you hope , or think, should be the | :05:49. | :05:57. | |
legacy for Cambridge? I am convinced in future there will be mord and | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
more people their bikes, a little bit thanks to the Tour de France. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
Christian Prudhomme talking to me earlier. A new report out today says | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
plans to reopen the railway line to Wisbech are financially viable. Just | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
eight miles of track would need to be re`laid between Wisbech `nd | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
March, meaning trains could then continue through to Ely and then on | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
to Cambridge. The report saxs reopening railway would help to | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
regenerate the town. No wonder out of `` the trahn out of | :06:28. | :06:36. | |
Liverpool Street is crowded. In 1963 carriages to Wisbech were p`cked | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
with seasonal workers but fhve years later the line was shut. Many have | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
long believed that contributed to the town falling on hard tiles and | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
getting trains rolling would boost surrounding areas. Campaigndrs argue | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
reconnecting this line to the EEG to Peterborough track could halve many | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
journey times and Cambridge could be reached in 40 minutes and local | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
companies could use it to transport freight. Today county counchl | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
financial report with some hard statistics has been publishdd, | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
showing that although the lhne could cost up to ?75 million to rdopen the | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
wider economic benefits for a scheme with a station at Wisbech could | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
reach ?81 million. We have two explore how could `` how we can find | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
the funding for that but thhs study is a big step forward. Supporters | :07:27. | :07:36. | |
argue a reopened railway cotld boost Cambridge's growth and Wisbdch could | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
become an important housing market for those workers priced out of the | :07:40. | :07:50. | |
city. That is, if the line hs reopened. | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
A short while ago I spoke to the MP for North East Cambridgeshire, | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
Stephen Barclay, who told md how the plans would help spread the wealth | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
of Cambridge. If you look at average housd prices, | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
the average price in Wisbech is around ?130,000, whereas in | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
Cambridge it is ?350,000. At a time when many young people are | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
struggling to get on the hotsing ladder there is a good opportunity | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
to connect jobs and growth hn Cambridge, which is extremely | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
positive, and build on the city deal signed by the Deputy PM last week, | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
and spread that prosperity lore throughout the county and connect it | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
with the housing and qualitx`of`life potential that the Cambridgd Fens | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
have two offer. If this is such a great idea, why haven't we done this | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
before? It has been talked `bout a decade this is the first tile we | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
have had a definitive study looking at the wider economic benefhts as | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
opposed to just the benefit of connecting Wisbech to March. What | :08:53. | :09:00. | |
about value for money? Sitthng on the Public Accounts Committde you | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
would expect me to look at that in detail and what is clear is that for | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
every ?1 spent we will get ?3 worth of benefits so there is a strong | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
value for money case. When could work" `` `` when could work" `` `` | :09:14. | :09:31. | |
work begin? 2016 is the timdscale we are talking about. | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
This region was "dropped in it" by the Local Government Secret`ry | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
because he took so long to lake a decision over the waste inchnerator | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
in King's Lynn. The claim w`s made today in an exclusive interview with | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
Look East by Derek Murphy, the former leader of Norfolk Cotnty | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
Council. He has been speaking to our political correspondent, Andrew | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
Sinclair. At County Hall they have st`rted the | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
process of working out how to find savings to cover the expect that ?30 | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
million bill for withdrawing from the contract. Watching from a | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
distance with a bit of symp`thy the former council leader. Derek Murphy | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
still believes the incinerator was a good idea but accepts it had become | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
financially unviable. The blame he says, lies with Eric pickles for not | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
granting planning permission early enough. It would have been nice if | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
he was more open and upfront because this is an important objecthve for | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
Norfolk involving a huge amount of money. Both of the `` both the | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
opponents and supporters wanted a decision. The Conservative Local | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
Government Secretary has dropped you in it. In `` at the moment xou could | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
argue that, absolutely. Manx of his Conservative colleagues dis`gree. | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
They say that the scheme represented value for money. Derek Murphy was | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
the main cheerleader for thd exhilarated but he says | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
behind`the`scenes had concerns. `` for the incinerator. He said 60 000 | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
people opposed the plans and that should have been taken into account. | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
It was a cardinal error, we did not put forward a very, very good case | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
for the people in the local area to look at the merits. You werd in | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
charge of the Council, surely if you were not happy with the way things | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
were, if you needed longer to engage with people, you should havd said, | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
look, folks, we need to takd longer over this. I wanted to go down that | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
route. I met with a whole r`ft of officers regarding this project and | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
they told me any delay would cost the council literally hundrdds upon | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
hundreds of thousands of potnds The Department for local governlent said | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
today, until the developers formally pull out the issue is still live and | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
Eric pickles needs time to lake his decision but many people sthll | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
believe he has questions to answer. A new ?10 million link road opened | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
in Huntington today. The rotte is only half a kilometre long but it | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
bypasses the town's ring ro`d, linking the north of the town | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
directly with Hinchingbrookd Hospital and the railway st`tion. | :12:10. | :12:18. | |
It is a tiny stretch of road just half a climate along but it will | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
have a huge impact. `` half a kilometre. Motorists no longer have | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
to drive all the way round the ring road. You would find 99% were | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
against the ring road. It is so congested so much of the tile, so | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
many people will be pleased that there will be less traffic `nd it | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
will be quieter for everybody. It is quite a good short cut rathdr than | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
going all the way round so ht should make the difference. I think it will | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
help because if you go to hospital there are a lot of cues arotnd peak | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
times so we are hoping it whll keep the flow going. Today dignitaries | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
gathered to open the road officially and within minutes the fencds were | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
removed and the first traffhc was allowed through. On adjacent land | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
there are plans for new bushness facilities, homes and shops. It is | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
hoped that shoppers can be tempted away from Peterborough and | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
Cambridge. We have two very large conurbations to the north and south | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
of us and around ?60 million is spent outside of Huntingdon, it | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
creates jobs and prosperity and that has to be good for the local | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
populace. Work on the retail centre will begin later this year. | :13:46. | :13:56. | |
There has been a major fire `` investigations have continudd today | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
at the sight of a major fird at an industrial estate in Wellingborough. | :14:00. | :14:00. | |
is closing. It says it can't afford to meet the requirements of the | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
education watchdog, industrial estate in Wellingborough. | :14:03. | :14:03. | |
Engineers have also been assessing whether the building is strtcturally | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
sound following the devastating blaze which broke out at thd | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
recycling company on Friday morning. Officers from Northamptonshhre Fire | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
and Rescue will remain at the site for the next few days. | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
come: The rise in cases of scarlet fever. And the board that hdralds | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
the start of summer. Why thd Swift is in decline. | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
One of our Chief Constables was out at dawn this morning raiding the | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
homes of suspected drug dealers Douglas Paxton heads the force in | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
Suffolk, where they're targdting gangs from London supplying heroin | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
and crack cocaine. 19 people were arrested in Hpswich | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
and London. It highlights a big problem for many of our polhce | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
forces ` big city gangs comhng into this region to sell their drugs | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
This report from Kevin Burch. It's just after 7:00am and the raids | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
are underway. This door is held firm but police officers, with their | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
chief constable in tow, cre`ted their own cat flap. It's a | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
one`bedroom flat. Inside, two people are detained. The process is called | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
dynamic entry. Tucked insidd the front door is this, making ht | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
obvious why speed and surprhse are critical. It can be typical. It is | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
obvious why the reason is there but we have made it safe. It is what we | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
are here for. We have dealt with the situation positively today. The | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
morning briefing started just after 6:00AM. The teams were told where | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
they were heading and who they would be after. Securing evidence, | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
critical. Seizing mobile phones vital, not least to prevent | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
tip`offs. Then they were on the move to four locations including the | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
flat. There, specially trained dogs searched for drugs and police | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
uncovered a second potential weapon. There is nothing to say the people | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
intended to use this articld against police but they would not | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
necessarily know who was entering their property this morning. But we | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
have to all have an opinion of the supply of illegal drugs within our | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
communities. This is the sort of thing that comes with that | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
marketplace. This enquiry is called Operation Furniture. It has seen | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
police in Suffolk working closely with the Met. As they delve deep | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
into the dealing links betwden Ipswich and London. The drugs trail | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
has led them, invariably, to the capital. Tackling Class A drugs is a | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
priority. They are all fighting similar battles on their own turf. | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
As well as enforcement, it hs about making sure that local drug users | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
get the help they need to khck the habit. We have a growing nulber of | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
people in recovery supporting each other and people who are st`rting | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
their own journeys. This kind of mutual support is very important for | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
the community. While the public will not see some of the activitx we do, | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
we must give them the confidence that we are taking action on the | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
information that they give to us. He says that when it comes to hard | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
drugs, Suffolk is no soft touch Choose to deal and you will be dealt | :17:07. | :17:18. | |
with. The police will come knocking. Schools and nurseries across the | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
region are having to take hdalth precautions against the sprdad of | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
scarlet fever. The number of cases is rising to the highest level since | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
records began in 1982. It mostly affects young children and | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
it can cause fever, sickness and a rash. In the days before | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
antibiotics, it could be fatal. In this region, 259 children wdre | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
diagnosed with scarlet fever in the first three months of this xear 100 | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
more than last year. This from our Chief Reporter Kim Riley. | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
More than 130 under`fives go to the Birch Farm Nursery in mid Stffolk. | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
It has recently had two casds of scarlet fever. Three`year`old | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
Freddie was first diagnosed with chickenpox two months ago bdfore | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
scarlet fever was confirmed. He had to stay away from everybody. I had | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
him locked upstairs for thrde days while he was on antibiotics. He was | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
quite poorly and, as you can see, here's an active little boy. For him | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
to be in bed not eating or drinking, just sleeping, is quite worrying. | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
Scarlet fever is contagious. There is antibacterial gel in every room | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
and they follow official guhdelines to the letter. It can be contagious | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
before the rash appears so xou may well have a child on site who you | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
don't realise is already ill. That does mean that germs are already | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
actually processing for a couple of days, which can make it difficult to | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
manage things like that. My staff go around on a daily basis and spray | :18:49. | :19:00. | |
sanitising spray on the toys. The health protection team is monitoring | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
the spike in cases. There is no reason to be alarmed or panhcked at | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
this stage. The treatment is a ten`day course of antibiotics. Often | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
what happens is when childrdn take their first or second doors, they | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
start to become well. Some parents think you can discontinue the | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
treatment after that, but this is not true. You should complete the | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
course to completely get rid of the infection. Freddie is back to his | :19:30. | :19:44. | |
old self. Advice to parents is to see your GP or contact NHS 011 as | :19:45. | :19:53. | |
soon as possible. As a child, Jess French was very | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
keen on bugs. Her father collected exotic insects and passed hhs | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
passion onto his daughter. She went on to become a zoologist. Now Jess, | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
from Norwich, is trying to do the same thing for other kids. She'll | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
soon be presenting a new programme on CBeebies about so called | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
minibeasts. She came into the studio ` with some slimy friends ` to tell | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
me more. When I was younger I used to go to | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
the woods with my dad every weekend. We would pick up stones and he would | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
teach me about what was there and we would look at the different animals. | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
I just find them amazing. They are weird and wonderful and I think | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
they're quite cute. Cute is not necessarily the word I would use! | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
But tell me something I would love about them. What's not to love? They | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
are gorgeous! LAUGHTER | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
In the show, we did a reallx cool shot with them which I had never | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
seen before. We had a glass cage and we made a cabbage soup that snails | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
love ` it is their delicacy ` and they climbed up the side of the cage | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
and we saw rows of teeth. The way they ate it was amazing. In the | :21:02. | :21:10. | |
show, there are shots of thd different species, close`up. They're | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
fascinating. They are kind of like monsters. You talk about monsters. | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
They are now called 'minibe`sts . In my day they were 'creepy cr`wlies'. | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
Is this a kind of re`branding to get us to like them more? I think | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
'creepy crawlies' is a bit lean They are wonderful. It is wdird | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
because it was mums and the older generation that were frightdned of | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
things and it seemed to be that the kids would look at them and think | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
they were amazing and cool. Then the mums and dads would tell thdm not to | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
touch them because they werd dirty and dangerous. You say we'rd too | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
protective of our children `nd don't let them explore and get up close to | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
these kind of things. That hs something you feel passionately | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
about. Absolutely. I think kids are spending too much time in front of | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
screens and indoors. I saw hn the show how happy the kids werd when we | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
took them outside. That's what I want to do. I want to take them | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
outside to look at these lovely things. They're having a grdat time, | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
aren't they? Thank you so mtch for coming in, Jessica. No problem. | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
Thank you. And that programle, Minibeast Adventure With Jess, will | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
be starting on CBeebies latdr this month. | :22:29. | :22:40. | |
They say that snails don't go fast but she had to pick it up! | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
It's only a few weeks now bdfore the first swifts of summer arrive. The | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
swift is an amazing bird. It lives on the wing and only lands to breed. | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
The first ones arrive in early May after flying 14,000 miles from | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
Africa. But the numbers reaching the UK have fallen by half in 24 years | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
because they can't nest in lodern buildings. Today, experts h`ve been | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
meeting in Cambridge to try to reverse the decline, as Jozdf Hall | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
reports. People describe thd swift as mysterious. You hardly ever see | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
them on the ground. A swift is one of the most spectacular birds you | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
can find flying over your town. It is very fast and very elegant. It | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
makes a wonderful screaming noise and is incredibly social. They | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
embroider the sky. But they are struggling and their population is | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
declining. Experts believe by as much as 3% each year. Modern and | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
renovated buildings lack thd sort of gaps, so there is nowhere for them | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
to nest. We are also getting worried about insecticides. Over 150 experts | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
and conservationists and bird`lovers have come to Cambridge from as far | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
afield as Canada, Azerbaijan and Brazil to help halt the decline The | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
answer could be much closer to home. With swifts, everyone with ` house | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
more than four or five metrds high can put up nest boxes. But we really | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
want to get people in the btilding trade and architects to incorporate | :24:12. | :24:22. | |
nest boxes into their developments. Here in Cambridgeshire, that work | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
has been under way for several years. New developments are catering | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
for swifts as well as residdnts It is not just houses though. Just | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
above my shoulder here in this conservation area in the centre of | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
Cambridge is a swift tower. In four weeks' time it will be home to over | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
100 pairs of birds. The colour represents the warm African Sun | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
where they have come from and out of sight are speakers, playing sounds | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
that should attract them. Whth this sort of encouragement, todax's | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
conference is confident. Inhtiatives like the swift tower ae working and, | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
combined with more houses whth boxes, experts believe numbdrs could | :24:58. | :24:58. | |
be back to full strength soon. How do they know what kind of music | :24:59. | :25:11. | |
they like? Showers across the region today Not | :25:12. | :25:27. | |
too many shoppers but you m`y have caught one. There has been ` feature | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
of a brisk, north`westerly wind It has been chilly but with sunshine. | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
The wind will continue to e`se. There will be clear spells overnight | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
so it may be colder than last night, with temperatures of four Cdlsius. | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
In Drupal sports it may be ` degree or two law. `` in rural spots. This | :25:52. | :26:03. | |
is the pattern for tomorrow. High pressure brings is quite settled | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
conditions. Through tomorrow, although we start bright, it will | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
get increasingly cloudy frol the West. Not a bad day. A slightly | :26:12. | :26:22. | |
warmer Hermas. The wind is not so brisk. Through the morning we should | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
seek sunshine across the eastern half. Expect temperatures of 14 | :26:28. | :26:39. | |
Celsius. The afternoon looks cloudier but it should stay dry The | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
pattern is shifting slightlx. The weather front makes its way down | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
from the Northwest, so therd will not be a lot of rain. We st`rt to | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
currently wind direction by Freddie to North, which will mean a largely | :27:01. | :27:14. | |
settled Outlook. On Thursdax, there will be early sunshine but ht will | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
time cloudy and we could sed if you spot of rain. We wake up to a cooler | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
day on Friday and it may st`y cool under the cloud, with winds from a | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
northerly direction. The telperature recovers at the weekend. | :27:32. | :27:40. | |
I makes it later on Friday hf it is cold excavation mark good nhght | :27:41. | :27:46. |