23/01/2017 Look East (West)

a key business report ranked it top in the UK

up over two per cent in the last year.

Milton Keynes disguised as Metropolis, its futuristic buildings

selected to double as Clark Kent's home city but 30 years on from

Superman's flying visit and Milton Keynes has become its own mini

metropolis even getting its own edition of monopoly. Over 70% of

businesses in Milton Keynes started up in the town and over 60% of them

employed no war than five people and by 2013 the latest estimates show

that over ?30,000 as the average salary. The rear of Milton Keynes in

the early days was good road and rail links by transport he was about

to get the first, the government has already thrown its weight behind the

new east-west rail link connecting Oxford to Milton Keynes and on to

Cambridge. The next step will be airing details about the work and

consulted on routes, we will do it in a sensitive away as possible and

we will also deliver the connectivity we need in the heart of

England here. This family run a haulage firm and had humble

beginnings, the company is growing by the day. Today they are taking

delivery of the first of 47 new trucks, expanding the footprint of

this business across country. We investing ?3 million on the site,

raising the roof, so be from 6000 ballot spaces to 15,000 pallets

pieces so watch this space, Milton Keynes is growing. Warehouses here

are super size, among them is this business, its Reach global. It is a

shop window to our customers, many people come from across the globe to

see us so it is important we are in a dynamic working environment. It is

a great backdrop to a operation. It is not just manufacturing jobs in

Milton Keynes attracts, it has become a successful technology hub

attracting digital and creative jobs, too. Jobs that have inspired

structural reality work. Here at the visualisation lab at the transport

Systems catapult designers are working on ways to help us navigate

our towns and cities in the future than one method is by using virtual

reality. They made fun of its roundabout -- of the roundabouts but

today it is one of the fastest-growing towns in the country

with the business pedigree to match but most here regarded a city. Will

it ever get the status to match its ideals and exhilarating growth?

Pam Gosal is head of Corporate Economic Development

and Inward Investment for Milton Keynes Council.

I asked her what the secret was of Milton Keynes business success?

You have that busy city centre jobs, you have the countryside feel as

well and second would-be location, the fact that we have the north and

south moving, East and West hopefully, the knowledge with the

connectivity and location we have, that there is a good skills pool. It

is important for businesses looking to Milton Keynes, the fact that you

know our business has a lawyer and accountant there, a printer, we have

so many diverse businesses that we have that in one place and last but

not least Milton Keynes has much wind, we have a lot of development

sites, commercial and residential, which work with our partners include

the PB work with partners and make sure that is an investment. With the

growing workforce echoes pressure on housing and infrastructure, how are

you coping with that? We have the MK futures commission report which is

looking at six key priorities, all the challenges we have moving

forward whether it is infrastructure or to do with housing or basically

IT related to higher education, or mobility with the ground. It is

important we are looking at it not just in 50 years but looking 50

years ahead. That all costs money at a time when the councils are

strapped for cash. You're right, all councils are strapped for cash but

this is where it is important that we are in the private sector, Milton

Keynes Council has many partnerships not just with public bodies but we

have good partnerships with the private sector and it is about

enabling the private sector to help deliver our priorities whether it is

apprenticeships are looking at tech hubs. Wave back the Prime Minister

has been outlining how the economy might work post Brexit, how do you

think Milton Keynes will fear? Milton Keynes is an extremely

successful place in the fact that after the vote we are still getting

a high level of enquiry from international and international

businesses are not to forget our businesses are growing a lot one as

well so I think to be honest at this moment I could say that it had

affected body Keynes. whose body was found in a septic

tank at her home in Royston has told a court her daughter had

complained of feeling in the weeks before

she went missing. also said she felt "uneasy"

about her daughter's He denies drugging her with sleeping

pills and murdering her. Bailey had suffered from memory

lapses and felt dizzy and spaced out in the weeks and months before her

disappearance in April. The jury heard from Helen's mother through

video link. She said on one occasion Helen was left traumatised after

realising she had left her beloved dog on the beach and had returned

home without him. We have just one week before she went missing that

Helen had called her mother sending anxious, after waking from a file or

sleep in the middle of the day. Eileen Bailey broke down in tears

were giving evidence, she also said she felt uneasy about Helen's

relationship with Ian Stewart due to her state of mind. A police

interview with the defendant was played in court and we have in one

of the officers involved. This officer said I often found him rude,

temperamental, uncooperative and dismissive of us. After the first

interview she said he asked and I still suspect? I must be, I must be

a suspect. Helen Bailey's body was found in a cesspit under her home

three months after she vanished in April last year. The prosecution

claimed Ian Stewart sedated his fiancee with sleeping pills before

killing her for her money. Ian Stewart denies murder, averting the

course of justice of fraud and preventing a lawful burial. The case

will continue on Wednesday. Police divers have been searching

a lake in Northamptonshire today trying to track down

the killer of a pensioner. David Brickwood was murdered

in his own home in Northampton So far no one has been

charged with his murder, and police are yet to

find the murder weapon. Searching the icy water, more than a

year after David Brookwood was murdered in his own home. Police

today looking for any clue to help track down his killer. We never

located the weapon that killed David, and we don't not exactly what

was stolen from his address so we are looking for anything that might

have been the weapon that has harmed her that anything that could have

come from his address. David was described as an honest and caring

man and was asleep in his own bed when he was stabbed five times in

what police described as a dreadful and violent attack. Despite appeals

including one on the BBC's Crimewatch programme, questions

remain about exactly what happened. Police say they will continue to do

all they can to try and bring his killers to justice.

That's how the region is looking tonight.

Coming up next the weather with Julie, but from me

We'll be back with the Breakfast bulletins from 06.25

We might have a little bit of light rain and drizzle to light but be

largely dry and under clear skies turning chilly. Temperatures down to

-1 or two but we might see some even more, perhaps -5 and we have a

yellow warning in place for fog. Some of that will be freezing fog

and leads to tricky driving conditions not just an iPod tomorrow

morning as well. Some of this fog could linger through the day of or

not everywhere, some other should hopefully brighten up with some

sunshine coming through. Where that happens highs of around 6 degrees,

whether fog lingers temperatures struggling to get above freezing. In

finish the day drive but under the clear skies of frost then fog

resuming in forming. On Wednesday at cell high-pressure migrating

eastwards, the wind picking up little so on Wednesday the frost in

the fog should clear more readily if all goes to plan. Then on Thursday

we start to drag in much cold air from the continent. After a frosty

start plenty of sunshine really feeling very chilly, especially in

the wind. Hopefully not quite as cold on Friday, largely dry with

brightness and sunshine. We have the

For the weekend we will have dry weather with sunny spells and it

will be a little bit milder. Good evening. We are continuing to

see huge righty in the weather. Getting the detail right is proving

to be a challenge. This was in Pembrokeshire and other parts of the

UK were gloomy throughout the day. The fog is thickening up right now.

Particularly pool on the M5 in south-west England. Very foggy

across parts of the West Country. This fog is tending to spread its

way further eastwards. Some fog as well across parts of Yorkshire.

Northern Ireland and Scotland are mild but damn. This is how we will

start the day. At eight o'clock in the morning, quite a lot of fog

around which could affect the major airports. What all of us have seen

fog. There will be Sunni areas to western fringes of England and

Wales. Across Northern Ireland and Scotland it is much milder. Some

patchy rain around coming in on the Bruce, particularly over the hills

in the West. Much of that will fade away. It will be relatively mild.

For England and Wales, much of the fog were clear. Some of it will not

sell it will be especially chilly. Quite a contrast in temperatures

again. -- so it will be especially chilly. Despite sunshine, it will be

on the chilly side. The fog will come back again. On Wednesday

morning, Central and eastern parts are particularly prone. Some

sunshine will emerge. Rather more cloud for Northern Ireland and

Scotland. Most of the rain will be held at bay. Still relatively mild.

A real edge to that further south and east. It would be a sign of

things to come. On Thursday we will tap into some particularly cold air

sitting over the continent for several days now. Europe is frozen

at the moment. Some of the freezing cold air will head towards us on a

stiffening south-easterly breeze. Some places will not get above

freezing, maybe the odd snow flurry. Wherever you are, it will feel cold.

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