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Hello and welcome to Look E`st. In the programme tonight: Anger as a

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man convicted of three murddrs gets compensation for lost photos and a

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damaged alarm clock. This prison officer says he was attacked by him

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in jail. It is quite shocking. It is quite hurtful. I haven't received an

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apology or any compensation. Food banks stretched to the limit as

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demand for help almost triples. Coming up later: What this lan

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looked like after he fell from a hotel balcony. And what he looks

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like now with a new skull m`de of titanium. And the day the

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suffragettes burnt this hotdl in Felixstowe down 100 years ago. Good

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evening. First tonight: A triple murderer from Stevenage has been

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awarded more than ?800 after some of his personal items were lost during

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a prison transfer. Kevan Th`krar was convicted of gunning down three

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people in Bishop's Stortford in 2007. His compensation pay out

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includes damage to an alarm clock and a pair of nose hair clippers.

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The Prison Officers Association say the award is an insult and

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ridiculous. Neil Bradford rdports. He is serving three life sentences.

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He has a history of violencd in prison. Kevan Thakrar has spent time

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in several jails. He has bedn transferred to Milton Keynes Dons.

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During this transfer, a number of his possessions were damaged or

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lost. He was awarded compensation totalling ?815. One of his victims

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says it is an insult. It is quite shocking. It is quite hurtftl. I

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haven't received an apology. I haven't received compensation. I

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have had to move back into with my parents to get support. The fact

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that my life is in tatters `nd he is sitting there with a smile on his

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face, getting this publicitx and he has ?800 of taxpayers money in his

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bank. Kevan Thakrar was initially offered the compensation whdn he

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moved to prison in Milton Kdynes. He refused and took the case to the

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Small Claims Court. After whnning his case, the Prison Servicd were

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ordered to pay him ?814. Kevan Thakrar was jailed for the

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murder of three people in Bhshopston offered in 2007. `` in Bishops Court

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for the. The reaction of most people in the town was one of amazdment. It

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is very wrong, isn't it? He shouldn't be given that

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compensation. He committed those murders. Much better things money

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could go on than compensating somebody like that. No, he shouldn't

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get the money. No way. Well, I don't think you should get all of it. He

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should get about ?20. Kevan Thakrar is still protesting his innocence.

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He claims he is the victim of a miscarriage of justice. For the

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prison officers who suffered at his hands, the only injustice is this

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ruling. Sally Chidzoy has been following the

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case and is in our Newsroom now Sadly, there is a lot of anger over

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this pay`out. What did the judge say?

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I have the judgement here. The district judge was sitting `t Milton

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Keynes Dons County Court and was scathing of the initial handling. He

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says, it is Kevan Thakrar's property, not his liberty, with

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which I have two deal. There is a lot of focus on this

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compensation case today. It is not unusual for prisoners to get

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compensation, is it? Certainly not and it is on the rise. It is

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reported ?30 million was pahd out in one year alone. It is mostlx for

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things that slips, sports injuries and property losses. The judge in

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this case says it is all about the law, and not who gains from it.

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Sadly, thank you. Demand for emergency food p`rcels

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has almost tripled in this region in the last year. The figures come from

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the Trussell Trust which now runs 40 food banks across the East. It says

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it's helped more than 90,000 adults and children in the last 12 months.

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The previous year, the figure was nearer 30,000. Let's go livd now to

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Louise Hubball, who is at the Bedford Food Bank tonight.

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From this Church hall, they fed 25 people today. We have seen them

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turning up and collecting an emergency supply of food. M`ny

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didn't want to be received `` didn't want to be filmed receiving help.

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The charity that runs this food bank says demand is rising.

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Is the first time Jim has rdsorted to a food bank. After he became

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ill, he has struggled to pax for everything after his governlent

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benefits. You have to be given a voucher to use a food bank. Jim was

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sent by his doctor. You strtggle paying your household bills aren't

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buying food. I would rather have electric and water in the house I

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spend most of my money on that. It leaves me nothing with which to buy

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food. Sometimes, I borrow money to get milk and bread. You said you

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have always worked. Did you expect to be in this position? Nevdr ever.

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I have been trying to get worse for nearly two years. It is verx hard.

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Very, very hard. Clients get an emergency supply of donated food to

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last three days. People comd here for many reasons. Redundancx or an

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unexpected bill. Demand has almost tripled in the region in thd last

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year. The various factors are fuelling demand, but increasingly,

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the welfare reforms the effdct of those, and particularly people not

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been sanctioned. That is whdn payments are stopped, if yot don't

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attend interviews or training. The government says there was no

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evidence of a link between welfare reforms and the use of food banks.

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This is the most expensive htem on our list, which was frozen

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vegetables, which I think is horrifying. Cheapest items `re

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crisps and chips. This family have spent ?1 a day each on this food to

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last five days. It is a budgeting challenge and has been tough. We

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love being hospitable. We love inviting people to have food with

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others or shirty with as. When you have so little, you stop dohng that.

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You have got to think about getting through the week. We didn't have

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that choice. It is a tempor`ry hardship for this family for a good

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cause. But donated food support thousands of people in need in our

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region. Just as one food bank supports 500 people every month

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helping them reach a cash shortage, that story is being repeated all the

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way across the East. Thank you.

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For years, Corby was the biggest town in Britain without a r`ilway

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station. But that all changdd five years ago today. Now the town has

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connections through to London and the North, passenger numbers have

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doubled and the station is now considered a key part of thd town's

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regeneration. Mike Cartwright reports.

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Milestone for the connection here. More than 100,000 passengers

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travelled from this station last year. The numbers are still rising.

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The main impact as it makes it easy for people coming to the town who

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would not have come here before The volume of people using the train

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station is increasing month on month. Passenger numbers ard rising

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every day. We changed the thcket office hours here. We are now open

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until 7:30pm. Tickets numbers have almost doubled since last ydar. All

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we's old station was closed in the 1960s. `` Corby's old station was

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closed in the 1960s. Lots of businesses here are part of European

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or even global groups. They say it makes a difference to them that

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people can travel hear directly from London. There is more work to do,

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though. There is still only one service one hour. There is only one

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service going up today. I w`nt to improve that. There are 16 direct

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trains from here to London dvery day. They say that by 2017, there

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will be two trains to the c`pital every hour to a station serving a

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town of 65,000. A developer is building more than 5000 new homes

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here. The new station is vital for growth, he says.

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The station was critical. It gives people confidence. We have had a

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hard time over the last fivd years. From here to London in just over an

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hour. Station helping this town forge a new future.

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Cambridge Airport's won a bhg new contract to fly daily services to

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Dublin and Amsterdam. It's part of a plan to build on its intern`tional

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status. But only last month, flights to other European cities were halted

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because of a lack of demand. That won't be an issue, says the new

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airline. It is a different schedule, different type of aircraft.

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Passengers can fly to many different destinations.

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Meanwhile, road connections in the East were given a boost this morning

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with the A11 Elvedon bypass in Suffolk finally opened. It's only

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one way in each direction and there is a speed limit of 40 miles an

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hour. It's a major milestond in the A11 dualling project. The ftll

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nine`mile section from Thetford to Barton Mills is still on tr`ck for

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completion in September. A statue worth millions of pounds is

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being sold by contract with the Irish company

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Cityjet to fly daily services to Dublin and Amsterdam It's part of

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council. The so`called Sekhdmka statue is from Ancient Egypt and was

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gifted to the council in thd 18 0s by Lord Northampton. It could be

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worth around ?7 million. into the relegation zone for the

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first time, but Northampton climb clear in League Two. And thd

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campaign to give women the vote House of a jet burned this hotel to

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the ground 100 years ago today. `` how suffragettes. For years now

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surgeons have been doing hip replacement operations using metal.

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But using metal in people's heads is a much more recent developmdnt. Lee

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Charie from Stansted Abbots near Harlow fell off a two`story balcony

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in Thailand in 2012. He lost a quarter of the bone in his head But

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using titanium, doctors at Addenbrooke's have managed to

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transform his appearance. Lee was told he could be paralysed

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for the rest of us live. He spent two weeks in intensive care in

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Thailand and this was the rdsult. On a diving holiday with friends he

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fell headfirst 25 beat off ` balcony. When it first happdned I

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was in a bad way. I lost wedks of knowing anything. My dad was in

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hospital. I went to the toilet and looked in the mirror and saw, and

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said what be done to my head. It has been a slow recovery fully, but few

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years on he is back running his own business again maintaining

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instrumentals. He says he owes it all to the hospital. After ` month

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recovering in Thailand he brought his school home in a box. Doctors in

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Cambridge rebuilt it and usdd a 3D printer to make a mould of his head.

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Then a titanium plate was fhtted to his skill using screws. The same

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material used to build spacd shuttles. It is a stronger

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material, being a metal. It is an inert metal. It is easily shaped. It

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stays in shape and the infection rate lower than with other

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materials. Lee went for a checkup and his skill is taking a bht of

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getting used to. He doesn't have to explain his story to everyone in the

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pub and no longer has two where a heavy to hide his head. I couldn't

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believe it. `` where a hoodhe. I'm still here and happy to be here Lee

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almost died on holiday. He hs most grateful he is still alive but also

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appreciates the titanium cr`nium which has given him back his

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appearance. Time for the football now. @nd there

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were plenty of crucial fixttres this weekend. Here's Tom. It's h`ppened.

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Norwich City have finally dropped into the Premier League's rdlegation

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zone. Ryan Giggs' Manchester United ran riot at Old Trafford. Rooney

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first from the spot. His second came from range and Man U were soon out

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of sight. ?37 million Juan Lata sealed the win with two mord goals.

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It ended 4`0. Not a pretty picture for City fans. This table charts the

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Canaries' league position over the last few months. As you can see they

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began flirting with the drop`zone in the Autumn. Wins over West Ham and

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Crystal Palace moved them up to 14th by the end of November. In January,

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they were as high as 12th. Victory over Spurs salvaged what'd been a

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poor February, leaving them 14th but since then, a steady declind. Five

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defeats in a row leaves thel in the bottom three with two games to go. A

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remarkable turnaround but Ipswich just fell short of the play`offs.

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Four points back, one to go. Defeat to Burnley ended their hopes. But

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after battling relegation in his first year in charge, the m`nager

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wasn't too downhearted with evidence of real progress.

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We came to Burnley last year having just survived the game before. We

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are coming this season, thrde points winner kept us in the play`offs The

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players deserve the credit for that because they're put a shift in. I'm

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still frustrated because I thought we could have got into the top six.

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Peterborough are hoping to join Ipswich in the Championship next

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season. They're guaranteed ` play`off spot after a win at

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Shrewsbury to sew up sixth place. Posh's play`off semifinal fhrst leg

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is on eighth May. MK Dons whll also finish in the top half. Meanwhile,

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Colchester's fans are happy. Why not? Victory means they're `ll but

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safe. Given the club contintes to invest vast resources in thdir

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academy whilst giving some ` crack in the first team. Reason to be

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proud. Even if it got a little nervy.

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Outsides and air of trepidation A point clear of the relegation zone,

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two games to play. Inside some tranquillity. We are quite confident

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as we are in those games. Wd feel we can get something from the game

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today. We know the budget is tight, but that means the younger players

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get a chance? That is important in what we are trying to do. Whth the

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size of our budget we try to improve what we have in home`grown talent,

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and that reflects in the te`m we are picked. Colchester invest ?0 million

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a year in youth team development. In Saturday, the under 18 's wdre

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presented with the winning ledals. Many of the people have dond it

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here. It is exceptional. At kick`off, it was focusing on the

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now. They raced into a lead, and although Brentford pulled one back,

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the only panic was a new wax end. They secured their League One state

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is due to a superior goal difference. It is an amazing

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performance. People don't rdalise what a young side we have. @s the

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years go on they will progrdss. You can see more from an exciting day at

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Colchester in Late Kick Off tonight on BBC One. In League Two, joy for

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both Southend and Northampton. A draw for the Blues. They know for

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certain they'll be involved in the end of season play`offs. Northampton

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meanwhile escaped the releg`tion zone for the first time since

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September. Ivan Toney scored twice in a 3`0 win over Dagenham. They

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were the 18`year` old's first goals for the club. Ian Morris also scored

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a cracker. A point for the Cobblers next week guarantees their place in

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the Football League for another year. That's it. For more sport

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check out the website. How much do you know about the

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campaign to give women the vote The campaign by the Suffragettes

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included everything from ch`ining themselves to railings, to

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disrupting public meetings. The most famous incident involved Emhly

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Davison, who threw herself tnder the King's horse at the Derby in 19 3.

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In 1914, the Suffragettes rdsorted to arson too. Among their t`rgets

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was a pier in Great Yarmouth and 100 years ago today, a hotel in

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Felixstowe. Gareth George h`s this report.

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The Bath Hotel, once Felixstowe s finest. It stood proud on the

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seafront until the suffragettes burned it down. Exactly 100 years

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ago today they started the fire probably around midnight or

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thereabouts. By the time thd Fire Brigade got there it was well

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alight. There is a grainy photograph of the culprits, Two differhng

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characters. Hilda was 37 and had a long history of suffragette

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campaign. She had been in prison twice for the cause. She was a very

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outgoing and common person, whereas Florence was only 22 when she came

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to Felixstowe, and didn't h`ve a long involvement with the

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suffragettes. The West Wing is all that remains of the hotel and today

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a plaque dedicated to the two women was unveiled. They chose Bath Hotel

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because it was a prominent hotel and well`known, but also becausd it was

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closed season and therefore they decided they would burn it down

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without a risk to life. As ` woman I think my vote is very precious and

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yet I'm glad they fought for people like me. I fully support wh`t they

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did here 100 years ago todax, because nobody was harmed and they

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knew the hotel was empty before they carried out the action. I would not

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look at is it terrorism. Thdy were pushed to the brink and had no

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choice. I think because thex were so ignored by government and bx men

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they got to the point where they were desperate. This was Hilda and

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Florence's handiwork. Earlidr the same month they burned down the pier

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at Great Yarmouth. This man runs a book shop and has just publhshed a

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book about the Bath Hotel. One has to applaud the idea and thex

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achieved a lot. It is a contradiction in terms to ptt a

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plaque up for the suffragettes because they burned down our hotel.

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It is an odd situation. Crowds gathered to jeer them at thdir trial

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at Felixstowe. But it has now honoured them.

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Let's get the weather. Some of us enjoyed some brightness but there

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was some cloud around too. There was heavy showers around, but they're

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clearing away to the west so it will be dry us tonight. Some misty cloud

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around, but it won't be a particularly cold night, lows of

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eight or nine degrees. And the winds are very light and from a e`sterly

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direction. Tomorrow we have this front pushing from the South west,

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and in between we have a light winds and any mist or fog may be slow to

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clear and may linger on the coast. Elsewhere, hopefully it'll be drier

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and brighter. We are likely to see some bit of rain pushing in from the

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east but I think the many others it will be dry. The best of anx

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brightness, temperatures up to 5 or 16 Celsius. We hold onto those lysed

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easterly winds as well. Through the afternoon we do see showers but for

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most of us it'll be a dry end to the day, and I think a similar day on

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Wednesday. Some mist and fog lingering with a day, but it should

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clear and some brightness whth the chance of a few showers. Thtrsday's

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weathered the dense on some weather fronts. As it stands it seels there

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will be some longer spells of rain but it is something we are keeping a

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close eye on. Friday should be largely dry, with the best chance of

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sunshine in the west. Winds are in a northerly direction and it hs

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becoming cold it during the weekend. Friday night will be four

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Celsius, or lower, so perhaps a return to frost. This month, the BBC

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is offering apprenticeships in its local radio stations. Successful

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candidates will start a 15 lonth apprenticeship in September. If you

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are over 18 by September, a non graduate and you want to find out

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more, go to the BBC website at bbc.co.uk/las. The deadline for

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applications is May 12th. That is all from us. Good nhght

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