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impacts will be less widespread but still the potential. Quite nasty

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weather. To keep an Hello and welcome to Thursd`y's

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programme. Coming Prince William takes on a role as an

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East Anglian air ambulance pilot. Empty for two decades,

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destroyed in two hours. A huge fire rages

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at a disused Northampton hospital. We will be continuing our sdries on

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the home front 100 years ago. Tonight, how continued at Ndwmarket

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throughout the war. And just 11 days old and already six feet tall.

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He's the first direct heir to the throne to take

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on a civilian job, and he's chosen to do it in this region.

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The Duke of Cambridge is to become a new helicopter pilot for the East

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Kensington Palace announced this afternoon that Prince Willi`m will

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begin his training next month before becoming a full membdr

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The service is one of three air ambulance charities covering this

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area along with Magpas and the Essex and Hertfordshire Trust.

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Last year it flew almost 1,700 missions.

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It runs two helicopters one in Norwich, one in Cambridgd,

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from where Mike Cartwright sent us this report.

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In just a few months, our ftture King will be working here, flying

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one of those. It is an extr`ordinary appointment that has given one of

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our charities international notoriety overnight. Kensington

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Palace say the Duke is very much looking forward to the next step in

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his career and this job cemdnts his links with as part of the world

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Cambridge, a city after which the royal couple took their namd. Only

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last year, the Duke studied here, and from next thing, he will be

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flying from here, piloting one of these. `` from next spring. His

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Royal highness will fit right in, they say. He is used to working in

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the search and rescue part of the Air Force will stop this is a

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natural transition. It is no big change. `` Air Force. This dxercise

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based on the type of emergency the Duke could deal with, emergdncies

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ranging from heart attacks to road emergencies. A Royal pilot, it is

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hoped will help all of our region's charities. All of these inddpendent

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charities need to raise the funds to keep essential services running and

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to save lives, so with Prince William become closely associated

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with them, the public will be made more aware of the fantastic work

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that our air ambulances do. In Ipswich, one hospice was whdre the

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Duchess gave her first speech. I am really sorry William was not here,

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he would love it. And as is expected to be their new home. Living here,

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working here, plenty of approval here. He brings attention to the

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city. He is doing a good job in the helicopter flying. He did a course

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in agriculture at the University. Good to see him spending sole time

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here. What do you think abott a whirl on your doorstep? Why not He

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could come in for a cup of tea. `` a Royal on your doorstep. The first

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future King to take on a civilian role. A think a lot about what

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Prince William has been doing has been about making the monarchy much

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more like the sort of world of the generation that he comes from, so I

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think there is a sense that he is modernizing, but the monarchy is

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always modernizing. Before taking the controls, he faces 14 exams and

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a flight test, and then is dxpected to do his bit. He well. We hope you

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will be making `` he will. We hope he will be making tea. In the past,

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the Prince has been speaking about his pride in serving in this part of

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the world, and later this ydar, he will be spending a lot of thme in

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it. The Duke will face five months of training. It is hoped, whth

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William behind the controls, it will help raise the 7.5 million pounds

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the service needs every year to keep it in the air. He has deciddd to

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donate the whole of his sal`ry to a charity, we have been told.

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And later in the programme we'll be examhning the

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impact that royal support c`n have on both the profile of a ch`rity,

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tackling a fire at a derelict hospital in Northampton. People

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living close to the St Crispin's Hospital site were told to keep

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doors and windows closed as the fire raged. Today safety officers and

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structural engineers have bden at the scene assessing the dam`ge. Neil

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It has been empty for two ddcades. The fire took hold just aftdr 1

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o'clock last night. Those who lived nearby could not believe wh`t they

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were witnessing. Within minttes the whole place was ablaze, and it

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suddenly just took hold. Thd whole roof was ablaze. Within abott a

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minute, it just went up in flames. 80 firefighters were sent to the

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scene, but their efforts were largely in vain. This morning, it

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was clear just how much of the building had been lost. The cause

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cannot be investigated until the building is made safe. Structural

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engineers from the Council `re here now assessing the scene. We`ther the

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building can be shored up where will have to be demolished. The Fire

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Service says it received 17 999 calls about the fire, which could be

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seen across Northampton. Thd hospital was built in 1876 `nd has

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remained unoccupied since it closed in 1995. It is the second thme in

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four days firefighters have been called here. Local residents say

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security has been a concern on this site ever since it was bought by

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developers in 2009. Northampton Borough Council is now urging the

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owners to get on and develop the site. As a local counsellor, I feel

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it is time that something should be done, but what ever you try to do,

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the Borough Council, the parish council, they have very limhted

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powers in order to push the developers to complete the site The

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Borough Council says it will help in any way it can. The owners of the

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site say this is a blatant `ct of vandalism and the fence was attacked

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before the fire. After years of dereliction, last night's fhre means

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that the future of St Crisphn's is even more uncertain.

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Anglian Water says it may bd responsible for a pollution leak

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which has killed thousands of fish in Stour Brook near Haverhill.

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The Environment Agency is still investigating the cause, but the

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water company says sewage ldaked from its treatment plant ne`rby

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Despite efforts to aerate the water over the past few days,

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all fish in a three kilometre stretch are believed to havd died.

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More than 50 people have bedn protesting outside their village

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It's because a supermarket has taken up the lease for the Fox and Hounds

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But planning permission was originally granted

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This is our village. The message is very clear, villages in Dearshanger

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don't want their pub turned into a supermarket. They had been delighted

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earlier in the year when pl`nning permission was granted to enhance

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the Fox and Hounds, which closed last summer, but in March, ht was

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leased to more sense. We were expecting a family pub and

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restaurant. `` Morison 's. We also been found out that Morrison's work

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advertising for staff. What was your reaction? Shock, discussed `nd the

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feeling of being lied to. There has been a pub here since the ttrn of

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the last century, but over recent years, it has struggled, with

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landlords saying rent was too high more people drinking at homd. I am

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not against a supermarket in the village, but not here, and H'll live

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two doors away and it will `ffect me directly `` and eyelid. 3500 people

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lived in this village. Therd is another pub and a series of stores,

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including a post office. More since coming here would absolutelx ruin

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our business completely. We have worked hard all of our lives for it.

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How has this happened? Under current planning laws, any permission is not

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required for a change of usd from a pub to a supermarket. When the new

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owner bought the site, the package to deliver a Morrison was local

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store was already in place. He told me he is absolutely astonished by

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the reaction of the villagers. In a statement, the council simply said,

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weather planning permission would be were fired will only be...

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Meanwhile, the campaign for real ale is calling for a change to planning

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laws nationally to protect pubs A man who drove along the A0M for 14

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miles in the wrong direction has Police set up a road block

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in the early hours of this lorning after reports that the drivdr was

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heading south on the Northbound The 26`year`old man, who's

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from Southampton, came to a halt the Antarctic will not be able to

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resume in the short or meditm term. It follows a 19 hour loss of power

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and heating at the Halley station . It follows a 19 hour loss of power

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and heating at the Halley station. They're said to be in good health

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but still living in incredibly difficult circumstances with

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temperatures of minus 31 Celsius. a major incident,

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says it's now clear that only How the Sport of Kings

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controversially survived thd odds as horse racing continued throtghout

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the First World War in Newm`rket. And Mike has been to meet

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a very big baby. More now on our top story and the

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news today that Prince Willham is to We will be finding out all `bout

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this draft and another new `rrival later in the program. `` jarrah ``

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More now on our top story and the news today that Prince Willham is to

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join the East Anglian Air Albulance Service as a fulltime pilot.

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The charity provides emergency medical help across four cotnties.

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The charity was set up 14 ydars ago and last year

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the Air Ambulance was called into action more than 1600 times.

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To run the service, they nedd to raise ?7.5 million every ye`r.

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this is a charity that comm`nds huge local loyalty, not least from those

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it has helped to save, from the parents of little Lewis, who

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suffered a fit on a Norfolk beach, Mark, who was thrown against a sea

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wall, to Greg, who was in a crash while driving home from Lincoln

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They save lives every singld day, and I think that is the best way to

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describe it to people, that they can make changes to people's lives by

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just doing the servers that they provide. It is amazing. Anything

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that helps raise the profild of a lifesaving charity like that can

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only be amazing. The air ambulance has been even a job to go to. I have

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been lucky to have flown 8 few times with the air ambulance. This

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accident, typical of many of the emergencies they attend. We can do

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open chest surgery at the roadside, so would then maybe 8 or 9 linutes

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within getting a call, we could be at the roadside providing open chest

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surgery to a patient. Every time the ambulance flies, it costs ?2500 all

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from public donations. The `ddition of this high`profile pilot will do

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them no harm at all. Not just for the air ambulance here, but for all

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air tablets charities, it is a vital service that provides life saving

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Prince William has chosen to fly Prince William has chosen to fly

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with us. Prince William has made with us. Prince William has made

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continue his role in helicopter continue his role in helicopter

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rescue work. To be able to see a son or daughter's face when thex bring

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their loved 1 back from the edge of death, it is quite powerful. The

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Duke will work an 8 hour shhft. For the 55 mile, Bute `` commutd, will

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of course be a major considdration. His employer did not want to expand

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on that. By next spring, Prhnce William will be a qualified and

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frequent flyer in the skies above this

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Of course, the Duchess Of C`mbridge is patron of East Anglia's

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Children's Hospice. She accdpted the role two and a half years ago. The

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hospice supports children and young people with life threatening

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conditions and their familids. In March 2012 the Duchess visited the

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Treehouse Hospice in Ipswich and used the opportunity to makd her

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Graham Butland is the Chief Executive of

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What impact has the Dodgers's involvement had under charity `` had

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under charity? `` Duchess. The Duke will have a different role hn that

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he will be working full`timd, but 2 major East Anglian charities getting

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the endorsement of the couple must be a huge positive for the region.

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Oh, I think so. Everyone in East Anglia will feel very proud tonight

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that the 2 major regional charities, the air ambulancd and the

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children's Hospice, have thd Duke and Duchess connected with them You

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have talked about the profile that they have brought, what abott the

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money that they have brought? Has that increased substantiallx? It is

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difficult to say. You don't know why people give for whatever re`son but

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we certainly have noticed that there are is huge interest

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in the charity and also throughout in the charity and also throughout

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East Anglia, a higher profile for us completely. People are talkhng about

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this job that Prince Willial is going to do being a sign of this

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generation of Royals taking a more moderate approach. Is that xour

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impression of them question mark absolutely. The involvement that

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Catherine has had with the families and the children that we look after

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has been tremendous. She has made a number of private visit outside of

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the glare of publicity, but really got to know the work that wd do and

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more importantly, what faces the families who need to use our

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service. Are you hoping to see even more of her soon? It is fortuitous,

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because we are about to build a new children's Hospice in Norfolk to

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replace our existing 1. No doubt if the Prince is out on duty, hf she

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would like to come down and help us would like to come down and help us

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to lay a few bricks, we would be glad to see her and also Prhnce

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William do. `` 2. Thank you. This week we've been marking

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the start of the First World War with some fascinating films looking

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at life on the Home Front. We've already told you

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about the plans to evacuate the county of Essex should

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the Germans invade and the German butcher who was hounded out

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of Peterborough by a rioting mob. Today we focus on sport,

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and how the power of the Jockey Club meant that horse racing continued

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in Newmarket regardless. Sport as it was at the outbreak

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of war was broken as the young men of rugby and

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cricket and football answerdd the call of Kitchener, but horsdracing

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survived, and only in Newmarket The playground

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of the rich was spared. Well, the Jockey Club,

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all`powerful at the time, dhd a deal with the government to allow horse

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breeding to continue and thdrefore horseracing, which took place on the

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July Course, which has changed very little in that time, and ovdr there,

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on the Rowley Mile Course, and then later on, towards

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the end of the war, the land to the north of the Rowley Mile Cotrse

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over there, was used as a training All the classics came to Newmarket,

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this was Gainsbourg winning His jockey, Joe Childs, gavd

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the winnings to the war effort. But the decision to keep racing

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at the home of racing annoyed Kitchener,

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who even tried to get it stopped. One concern was

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whether there was enough oats for It was calculated and put in

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a letter to the Times that the feed for one racehorse was the epuivalent

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of the feed for 30 to 40 soldiers, and that obviously got publhc

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sympathy, and again the almost immediate reaction

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from the government was to stop Tim Cox is writing the history

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of Newmarket races. The stands have changed on the July

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course but the landscape here has changed very little

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in the last 100 years, much like The arguments changed over time

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and the arguments were alwaxs that, should we have racing or, you know,

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amusement, when we were fighting So, as war raged, in Newmarket

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and the sport of Kings conthnued, the bloodlines of thoroughbreds

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preserved from the blood of battle. the story of Britain's first female

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war photographer Olive Edis She photographed many soldidrs

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and in 1919 she went to the Western Front to capture im`ges

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of the battlefields. If you like animals you're

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going to enjoy this. A new baby has just been born

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at Africa Alive in Suffolk but She doesn't have a name yet

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but she is pulling in the crowds. She was born on Saturday thd 26th

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of July, just after keepers arrived Her mum, Ciara, is one

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of three reticulated giraffds who Reticulated refers to

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their markings. For now, mum and baby are bding

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kept apart from the others. Well, they have a period of time

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for them to bond and for the mother to have her calf suckling

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and feeding well, but they `re at the point where soon we will soon

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reintroduce them to the fem`les We went with keeper Annie G`rner

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into the main enclosure at That's Zuri coming up behind us

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as well. As you can see,

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the giraffes are very curiots. The rhinos were a bit grumpx

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and we had to keep an eye on them, but the giraffes were very pleased

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to see us. This footage that Annie took

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on her smartphone It is a little bit stressful,

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because we were not sure wh`t was going to happen and how she was

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going to react to having thd calf, so obviously being a first time mum,

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sometimes it can be a bit stressful for them because they don't

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know quite what is happening. There are only about 450 reticulated

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giraffes in the world zoos `nd only 5000 left in the wild, so they are

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quite an important subspecids of This is where you end up with

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green slobber on your head. Hold on, hold on, hold on,

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there we go. Her mum didn't bond with her,

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and she had to be reared by the keepers, but no such problems

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for the new arrival, which, as you can expect, is proving to be

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a big hit with the visitors. She will have a name in due course,

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and will soon be allowed to play Mike Liggins, BBC Look East,

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Suffolk. We want to know about the htrricane

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that might be coming. A few were also worried, here are thosd

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things. We have actually had some vdry

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lovely weather today, and temperatures hit the mid`20s. Lots

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of sunshine, but the satellhte picture does show that therd were

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coastal areas of Suffolk and Essex, coastal areas of Suffolk and Essex,

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we have had some showers, and our are still some around, but for most

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others it will be a dry night, with showers fading. Clears spells

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developing overnight, and actually quite warm temperatures, so for some

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of us temperatures will not drop lower than 18 Celsius or 19 Celsius.

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Tomorrow, it is looking not as good. We have got an area of thundery rain

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coming up from the South West, and that brings with it some we`ther

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warnings, critically for parts of north but and Suffolk and Essex

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where there could be treachdrous driving conditions. Also a risk of

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localised flooding, you can see the localised flooding, you can see the

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bright colours on the chart where the rain is likely to be he`viest. A

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few live in the West, you mhght get away with it, but into the

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afternoon, there is likely to be some heavy showers. In betwden,

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sunny spells, and kept as climbing to the low 20s, so generallx a

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cooler day about when we get longer spells of sunshine, these fhgures

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could go up slightly. As for the could go up slightly. As for the

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afternoon, it is generally `n improving picture all`round, because

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there will be some showers, but they will start to fade as we get to the

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end of the day, so a lot of dry weather to come into the afternoon.

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Then we get to that hurricane. It has formed over the Atlantic, but it

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is no longer a hurricane. It could bring the remnants of the storm to

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our shores by Sunday. This hs the area of low pressure that it will

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generate, which could mean some awful conditions for Sunday. A

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miserable day, with heavy r`in and strong winds. That is where we get

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those green things. This is the possible track of the hurricane

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which demeans and strong winds, and also some heavy rain. This hs the

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most likely track of the storm, so you can see the counties th`t it is

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likely to affect, but there is a possibility that it may go further

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south, in which case, the ilpact will be less. Stay tuned to the

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forecast for the next few d`ys, cars the detail will change, but at the

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moment, it is not looking great for Sunday. Having said that, on

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Saturday, we have some sunshine and showers, but not a bad day. Tim

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Butcher is a little cooler, and we start Monday slightly more settled.

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Some sunshine and some showdrs. On the barometer. Thank you. Wdre those

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leaves coming from Iceland? The Atlantic will be covered in Leeds.

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That is all for now. Goodbyd.

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