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1,500 people directly employed and thousands more in the supply | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
We want to know what they're going deal mean for Luton? | :00:10. | :00:24. | |
We want to know what they're going to do, we are limbo. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Improving air quality using hybrid cabs, | :00:28. | :00:28. | |
but where can you install checkpoints | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Help for the homeless in a new hostel as the number of rough | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
And the extraordinarily realistic flint mineshaft being open to the | :00:37. | :00:46. | |
public the time. First tonight - | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
what the Vauxhall deal As you may have seen, | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
the French car manufacturer PSA, the company behind | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
Peugeot and Citroen, has agreed to buy Vauxhall and Opel | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
in a deal worth almost ?2 billion. It has national and | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
international ramifications, but more directly, it | :01:10. | :01:10. | |
will affect the 1,500 people who work | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
for Vauxhall in Luton and the thousands of employees | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
of local suppliers. For them, more certainty | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
that the deal will be done, but no guarantees over | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
the long-term future. Nicola Haseler is in | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Luton for us now. Workers here have enjoyed a | :01:28. | :01:39. | |
nerve-racking few weeks, not knowing what will happen to their jobs. And | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
Vauxhall is 1 of Luton's biggest employers. While this plant is | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
secure for the short-term, the new owners PSA will need to make cuts | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
somewhere in Europe. At shift changeover in Vauxhall this | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
lunchtime, many staff had still not been told that they were now | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
employees of the French car giant PSA. We don't know anything yet. I | :02:01. | :02:09. | |
have heard nothing. Not allowed to speak about it. The commitment to | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
continue production in Luton has been secured until 2024 but beyond | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
that the PSA chairman said today that its future depends on improving | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
performance. Their future is in their hands, based on their ability | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
to give themselves the level performance that will ensure the | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
sustainability of company. We know we've got a good workforce, | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
hopefully they will take that on board, that's all we can say. We'll | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
do our bit. Let's hope they do theirs. I looked over when her show | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
as well as they thought. We haven't as well as they thought. We haven't | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
been told if our jobs are safe, we have families and bills to pay so as | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
someone on the front line of the production, we want to know what is | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
going on. Today was reassuring in that they say they are going to keep | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
our contracts until at least 2025, if they stick to that, everyone will | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
be caught happy. The plant is 1 of the most productive in Europe. But | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
2000 jobs were lost in Luton when Vauxhall stopped making cars here 15 | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
years ago. I think we're quite unique, we used to have the Vauxhall | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
car plant, we know what happened in 2000, that's why we wouldn't want to | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
see the van plant going down the same road, we need to preserve the | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
jobs here and there is no reason we can't, we have an efficient, | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
flexible workforce, why wouldn't we continue here? There has to be | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
serious concern whether as a big announcement like this, we are | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
reassured that they are saying they want to invest in the brand and make | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
sure the iconic brand of Vauxhall continues, for our part, we were | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
watching with government and working with Vauxhall and trade unions to | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
make sure that Vauxhall is a long-term business pollutant. Just | :04:05. | :04:05. | |
how long-term is still in question. The plot's future will depend on the | :04:06. | :04:18. | |
kind of savings that the new owners PSA want to make and on the Brexit | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
deal that the government negotiates stop while there was cautious | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
optimism here, there are many businesses around Luton that penned | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
on Vauxhall, there are now facing a more uncertain future. | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
There's a lot of politics behind this story, | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
not just because Vauxhall is a major and long established employer | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
but because its future under Peugeot Citroen | :04:40. | :04:40. | |
will be very much determined by what happens in the | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
Brexit negotioations which are about to begin. | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
Our political correspondent Andrew Sinclair reports. | :04:45. | :04:54. | |
It's a sign of the level of concern felt about Vauxhall that the | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
Business Secretary was called to the Commons this afternoon to update MPs | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
on the deal. These have been worrying times for the workforce. He | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
acknowledged the uncertainty felt in places like Luton. But he said the | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
new owners had given welcome commitments, PSA's strategy | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
committee said, was 1 of expansion not plant closures and felt that the | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
UK in a good place. It is an area in which we are strong and have a high | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
reputation, there should be an opportunity to make what is good | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
even better. The Beds MP asked for reassurances for those who works in | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
the Luton supply chain, he said it may well expand under this deal. The | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
Corby MP asked if this could benefit steel, very possibly, came the | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
reply. Labour were cautiously welcoming but could see possible | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
problems. Our employment laws make it easier to sack workers in the UK | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
compared to those who work in France and Germany, which puts them at an | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
immediate disadvantage. The feeling at West by Mr is that at the moment | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
Luton are safe but there is 1 big uncertainty. Brexit. What sort of a | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
trading religion trip will we end up having with the EU? A free-trade | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
deal, so that parts and cars can freely move in and out of Europe | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
will keep this plot competitive, but what if tariffs are applied? The | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
uncertainty over our trading relationship will deter investment | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
unless the government can nail down a trading relationship as quickly as | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
possible and they have said the UK's leading the single market, leaving | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
the customs union, that means a lot of uncertainty in the car industry | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
to makes it difficult for the of Peugeot to commit to the UK. But 1 | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
of Luton's MPs isn't so concerned. The reality is that it is a big | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
market in Britain, they won't want to upset the market and having a | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
manufacturing footprint here is an manufacturing footprint here is an | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
important part of having a good relationship with their market. | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
Until Brexit negotiations are concluded, it's hard for anyone to | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
say what the long-term future will become Luton forced everyone is | :07:11. | :07:11. | |
hoping for the best. Earlier I spoke to Gavin Shuker, | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
the MP for Luton South. I asked him for his reaction | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
to the news of the deal. This is a good 1st step in the | :07:17. | :07:28. | |
future of the model here in Luton because we now know what the | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
ownership is going to be. But no 1 should be under any force conception | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
here, we need to work hard to secure the future jobs both here at the | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
plant, this is 1 of the most efficient and most productive parts | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
of General Motors and will be in the newly formed company, but with the | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
risks of Brexit and the possibility of a very hard Brexit, we know we | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
are going to work hard to make sure the government delivers on that | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
commitment as well as PSA. What commitments would unite the | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
government to deliver on? The government has studied it will push | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
for a hard Brexit, and currently pushed some addictions here in the | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
UK, without that, we note there will be tariffs, taxes on vans going into | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
the continent and parts coming back in, that would be disastrous for a | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
plant like this and Vauxhall's Val Smith port, they can take the risk | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
of that and say they will cover the costs of that, if they don't | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
negotiate with they need to all they can push for a softer Brexit, which | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
allows us to be 1 of the best places in Europe that manufacturers vans. | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
There are 8 years left on the current contract in Luton, what do | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
you think will happen after that? 8 years is a long way away, in | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
automotive terms, its relatively short. We need a decision on a new | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
van in 5 years' time, the good news is we will probably have an idea of | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
what the future sake of putting's Russian ship with Europe will be, | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
but in the short-term, GM lost money on its operations in Europe in the | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
last 16 years, continuously, under new ownership they would be crazy to | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
get rid of 1 of the parts of this business that is making money, ie | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
the van plant here in Luton. PSA the van plant here in Luton. PSA | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
have given reassurances today over the future of jobs, are you | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
satisfied with what they have said? I'm thankful for their interjections | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
that guarantee the future of this plant, it makes good business sense, | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
but probably the bigger part of this story is now putting's relationship | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
with the EU, which is why we need the government to do its bit. -- | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
Britain's relationship. So that's the local | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
politician's view. Let's hear now from our | :09:49. | :09:49. | |
Business Correspondent Richard Bond. How important is this van factory | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
to the region's economy? Symbolically, it is enormously | :09:53. | :10:01. | |
important commit 1 of our last big factories. The 1500 workers are | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
there, thousands more in the supply chain and what's there is the legacy | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
of the fantastic industrial heritage that Vauxhall has, going back to | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
that Vauxhall has, going back to 1905. | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
So how well do you think Luton has fared in light | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
Not bad, I think the omens are better for Luton than 4 thousand | :10:20. | :10:33. | |
airport, which security until 2021, which in the meantime, Putin has it | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
The worry must be that Luton is safe for the time being. | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
1 of its strengths is it is the last man factory in Britain, Ford has | :10:44. | :10:55. | |
closed in Southampton, LDV vans has closed in Birmingham and the UK is a | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
massive market for commercial vehicles. Would it really make sense | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
to close the last man factory in the country and then serve that vast UK | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
market simply by importing what are bulky things? -- the last van | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
factory. I struggled to see how that would be commercial sense. | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
You're watching Look East from the BBC. | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
Still to come, Julie will be taking a look at the week's weather. | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
And a new excavation at one of the region's oldest | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
One of the region's councils is bidding to become the first local | :11:28. | :11:36. | |
authority outside London to ban diesel taxis. | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
Air pollution levels in Cambridge have begun to drop. | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
But diesel emissions in the city centre continue to be a problem. | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
Now the council wants to phase out the most polluting cars. | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
As part of the BBC's So-I-Can-Breathe week, | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
Mousumi Bakshi has been to see one firm already | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
It's the 1st fare of the day for Apple and time the charges cap. It | :11:56. | :12:14. | |
is 1 of the electric caps that crisscross the congested streets of | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
Cambridge system running costs have dropped with fuel bills cut by | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
around 90%. You save a lot of money by driving an electric car, my fuel | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
costs are a lot lower now, and you do get better economy driving an | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
electric car. There are just a handful of charge points of the | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
county and while the current generation of electric cars can only | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
travel so far on 1 charge, the technology suits short taxi ride in | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
a city can to terms with green energy. Some of our market research | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
and experience is that people do ask for them and there are people very | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
aware of the need to be greener, so we can get requests for them, we are | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
looking to increase the Fleet so we can facilitate that properly. So yes | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
there is a demand. Cambridge is now on the cusp of a clean energy | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
revolution, the City Council is bidding for government funding for | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
up to 40 dedicated taxi charging points. But access in this medieval | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
city is proving to be a problem. Putting street furniture in the | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
historic city has issues with it, we have chosen locations that are | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
fairly uncontroversial for the 1st few locations in car park, stations, | :13:26. | :13:33. | |
where aesthetically it won't be an issue. While air quality in | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
Cambridge is broadly improving, nitrogen dioxide levels remain | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
higher than the national average, at certain points in the city centre, | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
and that has printed a rethink. This mother of 2 had too many school runs | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
in the most polluted part of Cambridge. It's not nice, you can | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
see it, smell it, I was driving a 4x4 and thought, what am I doing? I | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
thought, there is technology out there and thought, there is electric | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
cars, hybrid, why am I driving this? If the City Council gets its way, | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
all of us will be looking low emission caps in Cambridge within | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
the decade. The push now is to convince the rest of the population | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
to drive electric so we can all breathe in cleaner air. | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
Two people have been treated for injuries after a fire | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
ripped through an Asda supermarket in Luton. | :14:30. | :14:30. | |
The alarm was raised this lunchtime in Wigmore Lane and led to the store | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
At least 16 fire engines and three aerial platforms were used | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
Luton Airport sent its own fire engine to help. | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
People living in flats nearby were also told to leave their homes. | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
Rough sleeping has been on the increase in this region | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
In Luton for example, at the last count, there were 76 people | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
In Bedford the figure was 59, making them two of the worst | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
In Northampton the figure was just 14. | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
A month ago a new homeless shelter was opened there. | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
The former social club for railway workers can provide beds for | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
Our reporter Mike Cartwright joined them for breakfast this morning. | :15:10. | :15:20. | |
Running time at the shelter, now a month old, Brian, 1 of the 1st to | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
move in. From the street, this place, yet others, has put his life | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
straight. Even finding work now. I have managed to find a job now, they | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
have referred me, I have met so many new people, it's been wicked. I was | :15:41. | :15:51. | |
attacked, I lost everything when I was 50, everything went down the | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
pan, it's just a rocky road and fell away. And before you know where you | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
town. After 2 weeks here, now hoping are, you on the street. For | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
town. After 2 weeks here, now hoping for a place on his own. I am going | :16:08. | :16:17. | |
to bed and still working with these people, and try and get a proper | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
place to live with and I'm hoping to give a bit back and come down on | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
volunteer myself. 20 can spend the night, arriving at 9 in the evening | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
and leaving 9 in the morning. Anna helps run it. Tends to be anywhere | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
between 5 and 14 people a night, guests have the be working alongside | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
the other agencies in Northampton so it could be probation, the Hope | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
Centre, as long as they are engaging them they can stay with us. | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
Beforehand it was derelict, a former railway worker site, transformed in | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
its 1st 4 weeks, more than 30 have stayed here. The shelter is funded | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
for 2 years. It's safe, it keeps them warm, it encourages them to | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
communicate with the various organisations who are able to help | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
them and we can move them on. In Northampton like most towns across | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
the region, numbers of homeless have increased. The shelter, a place to | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
help people in their lives back on course. | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
Business and education leaders in our region | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
are criticising the government's plans to expand apprenticeships. | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
It wants 3 million by 2020 and is trying to do this | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
by forcing bigger businesses to pay a tax to fund them. | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
But while the number of people taking up | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
apprenticeships is rising, but the number completing | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
Gregory has always screamed of working with cars. Unlike his dad, | :17:38. | :17:53. | |
he has chosen the apprenticeship route. I'm not academic myself. I am | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
more hands-on, they were pleased I got this apprenticeship. He has | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
managed to fight off the competition to get this apprenticeship in | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
Northampton. And it is hoped a lot more businesses will start offering | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
apprenticeships to teenagers like Gregory. The government's plans to | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
expand the system will be funded by a new levy, or businesses with a pay | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
bill of more than ?3,000,000 will have to invest in apprenticeships. | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
Essentially, it's a tax, big businesses will have to pay Norburn | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
5% of their total wage bill to the government. But will it actually | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
create more apprenticeships? Phil Everly is going to use it for the | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
existing workforce rather than recruit new apprentices into the | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
businesses. With new princes they have to find the money for money,. | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
Employers could employ somebody for a year, not give them a permanent | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
job at the end of it or offer them only part-time employment. Last year | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
in our region 46,000 students started an apprenticeship and member | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
completing their apprenticeship is falling. In 2010, it was 76%. 4 | :19:07. | :19:15. | |
years later, it was less than 72%. So will again be perceived as a good | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
option to go for compared with university? -- young people? I think | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
they are in a different level, I know people who have left them | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
because they are not getting anywhere. My little brother is going | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
in for an apprenticeship. It's very useful if you want to go straight | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
into the workplace. The government says that by 2020 they will have | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
spent ?2.5 billion on apprenticeships and it's doing | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
everything possible to make sure Princess gets the quality and | :19:45. | :19:45. | |
apprenticeship they deserve. Also, why the war on drugs has | :19:46. | :20:02. | |
already been lost according to an undercover policeman. | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
The battle for promotion in League Two is intensifying, | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
with Luton in fourth and Stevenage in sixth .. | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
Now well set in the promotion places with thumping victories on Saturday. | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
This weekend though they face each other and have two | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
of the Football League's finest strikers going head to head. | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
Back in mid January, Stevenage and looked set for mid- table obscurity. | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
8 Games later even the manager says they are overachieving, winning 7 | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
and drawing 1. Leading the line is signing from Ebbsfleet, fast | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
becoming 1 of the most talked about strikers in the football league, | :20:45. | :20:53. | |
with 11 goals in 12 matches. This sets the stage for this weekend's | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
game at Kenilworth Road, Luton thumped Yeovil 4- 0 and have their | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
own on fire struck, Danny Hilton scoring his 21st and 22nd goals of | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
the season. This is hugely supported, Stevenage nicked it in | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
the return fixture they won in injury time, that will be hurting | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
Luton and the fans right that forget that so this is a huge game for the | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
Hatters fans. The same applies for the Boro supporters. It is perfectly | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
geared up for a perfect match. Cambridge considered late against | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
Colchester, costing them a crucial to put in their promotion chase. The | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
player ambitions of Peter Brewer suffered another setback with a | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
comedy of defensive errors -- Peter Boro. Robbie Neilson has Microsoft | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
with 1 win in 6. Northampton are chasing their tail and with a string | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
to Magri spring in their step after the 1st win over Charlton in 50 | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
years. Jonjo O'Toole on fine scoring streak. | :22:01. | :22:01. | |
Cycling, and Jody Cundy has won his 13th track world title at | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
the Paracycling World Championships in Los Angeles. | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
Cundy, who's from Cambridgeshire, rode to victory in the C4 | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
The 38-year-old is unbeaten in world kilometre events since 2006. | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
2017 didn't start brilliantly for high-jumper Robbie Grabarz - he | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
had his appendix removed but yesterday in Belgrade | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
he was back in the groove, jumping a season's best 2 metres 30 | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
and winning silver at the European Indoor Championships. | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
He missed out on gold by 2 centimetres. | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
And in Rugby's Championship, Bedford secured a vital | :22:31. | :22:32. | |
away win at Nottingham, winning 24-21 and climbing | :22:33. | :22:43. | |
5,000 years ago East Anglia was home to one | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
of the most important industries in the world - | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
It was mined at Grimes Graves near Thetford, | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
where a new mine shaft is being opened to the public | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
Hundreds of prehistoric flint mine shafts come to the surface. Now a | :22:57. | :23:08. | |
2nd shaft here is being opened to visitors. But you will need a head | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
for heights. It incredible to think this shaft was made about 2000 BC. | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
The signs I'm looking at would have been exactly what the Neolithic | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
miners would have seen all those years ago. They radiate off from the | :23:27. | :23:37. | |
shaft in different directions... Work between 3000 and 1900 BC, some | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
tunnels stretched for 60 metres. It's an industrial site because they | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
were clearly getting the raw product outcome in some cases working in | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
some basic shapes but it was travelling some distance. We found a | :23:51. | :23:59. | |
green stone axe in here. It's incredible to think this shaft was | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
dug by miners equipped with little more than pics fashioned out of | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
antlers, this is what they were after. Flint Broadstone. Prize | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
material. It is called after the cannon who expected the shaft. | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
Greenwell excavated this bit in a syndicate to 1870, and there were | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
later excavations by the British Museum in the night in 70s. But the | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
public have never seen it? Never seen it. Flint used to be a prized | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
commodity. Hopefully you can see and ex- emerging. For the Neolithic, the | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
great change was the farming, the clear up of land, which you need to | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
start thinking about is getting an axe into a handle for the 1st time, | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
so you can do that. But underground, the pit will soon welcome small | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
guided groups. They are concerned with the need to protect this | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
historic relic for future generations. Time for the weather. | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
Plenty of blue sky and sunshine to start the day for many of us, this | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
was certain in East Cambridgeshire, is that they went on, we saw more | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
cloud, and a few showers, most of those have stayed in more Eastern | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
counties, but 1 or 2 are proving quite heavy and producing a bit of | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
hail. But tonight, any showers will be isolated, some clear spells, | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
underneath is clearer skies, out of the wind, we could see temperatures | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
lower than these values. But I think it will be fairly patchy, actually | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
start tomorrow, this weather front will push towards us from the | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
south-west, but it has already slowed down considerably since | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
lunchtime. After that cold start to tomorrow, it should be largely fine | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
and dry, more cloud compared to today but some spells of sunshine, | :26:08. | :26:17. | |
it could be a bit milky at times. We will have mainly light winds from a | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
south-westerly direction. That is Tuesday, it finishes on a fine and | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
dry note but as we had into Tuesday night, into Wednesday, travel | :26:30. | :26:31. | |
increase and some outbreaks of rain moving through, some of it could be | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
on the heavy side. The front responsibility on our pressure | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
chart, it could drag its heels on Wednesday so on Wednesday, a lot of | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
cloud around to start the day with further outbreaks of rain. Some | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
uncertainty as to how quickly it will clear but hopefully the most of | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
us it will brighten up, temperatures could get as high as 13dC. And then | :26:54. | :27:02. | |
the uncertainty really sets in the end of the week, the moment high | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
pressure is building in, another front pushing in from the | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
south-west, Thursday will be fine and dry and again, we should see | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
some sunshine and brightness, with the rain arriving during Thursday | :27:16. | :27:24. | |
night into Friday. If all goes to plan, Friday is looking a cloudy day | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
with occasional rain, still on the mild side. As we head into the | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
weekend, it is looking pretty unsettled, some wet and windy | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
weather expected on Saturday, on Sunday, blustery showers but feeling | :27:39. | :27:39. | |
colder. | :27:40. | :27:42. |