08/03/2017 Look East (West)

Hello and welcome to tonight's late news.

The search for Corrie McKeague comes to Cambridge.

As this landfill site is searched as part of the investigation.

More money for science and a rates rebate

And fine weather on the way for tomorrow, all the details coming up

Specialist investigators are at a landfill site near Cambridge,

as the search for missing airman Corrie McKeague continues.

The 23-year-old went missing in September

after a night out in Bury St Edmunds.

Yesterday, police admitted that a waste-disposal truck,

spotted close to where he was last seen,

was carrying a heavier load than first thought.

It's now feared the truck may have picked up Mr McKeague's body.

Slowly and methodically, specially trained officers carefully rake

through waste, mindful that just below them

could lie the remains of Corrie McKeague.

Nearby, a digger waits to collect it after each search.

Scented air is fanned across the site to mask the smell.

To search this area, we are using the

digger to draw out the waste, to lay it out on the ground carefully.

Katie Elliot from Suffolk Police has led a five-month investigation.

She is confident her team will find Corrie here.

To the right, a site for household waste.

And further in, police have set up a compound for the search

teams, from which a specially built access route leads to the search

site, 920 square metres and eight metres deep.

This is the last image of the 22-year-old air man in the early

Corrie went missing from this area of Bury St Edmunds, a rubbish lorry

made a collection from here within an hour of his disappearance.

The last movements of his mobile phone

coincided with the route the lorry took to the landfall.

Nicola Urquhart, who has led the public search for her son, has

steeled herself for this moment, but it is still devastating.

Because when you don't know, you can still believe

Police say the error over the bin's weight was made by

the waste company, who provided the data.

They say there was no intention to mislead the

Has police known at the outset that the true weight of

the bin, how different would this investigation be?

It also begs two other questions - firstly, why did it

take more than five months for this fact to emerge?

And secondly, if Corrie was in that bin, how can

a body have been taken to a landfill like this

If that is what has happened, then we need to understand

how that happened and understand the circumstances of

In five months, police only made one arrest.

Last week they questioned a man reported to be from the bin firm

on suspicion of attempting to pervert because of justice.

Both men have been told they will face no

All eyes are now focused on this landfill site near

Corrie McKeague's family are praying for the best, but are now

Phillip Hammond has unveiled his first Budget as Chancellor.

And, as expected, there's more money for the NHS,

with an extra ?2 billion earmarked for social care.

Over the next three years, hospitals will also benefit,

with ?100 million, buying in more GPs to work in A E

Science and research and development is another winner,

with ?270 million funding new technologies.

And a further ?300 million helping to create up to 1,000 PhD places.

But it was business rates that were the key concern

He's used to counting the pennies as well as pulling the pints and

today, this publican had some good news to celebrate.

The Chancellor confirming that pubs across the

country would be given a ?1000 discount on their business rates.

Anything is a help and, yeah, ?1000, to some people is a lot of money.

In the great scheme of things, I don't

suppose it's too much, but anything is a great help.

Jethro currently pays ?20,000 a year as like many, he

Across this region, the majority of businesses

Only four areas will see a rise of up to 50%.

The Government had been lambasted for what was

They have today pledged to spread that

What the Chancellor also announced, he was going to set up a

review into what the digital based companies pay, because at the

moment, it is those who have physical shops or warehouses or

factory premises that paid the rates.

It good news for the technology and research and

With ?270 million earmarked for a robotics and

Some of that money is likely to come to this region.

Social care got by far the biggest windfall of the budget.

?2 billion of the next three years, keeping

people out of hospital and caring for the elderly.

A critical way this new money will be spent

will be trying to get people out of hospital

Places in care homes, or domiciliary care homes, like the

ones we provide, should be the first port of call for this money.

Money gets too little and too late according to Labour.

?1 billion, when ?5 billion has been taken out

of the last few years, is tiny, frankly.

Anything is welcome, but this is a sticking plaster for a

The detail of how many of today's announcements will play out is still

unknown, but for this publican at least more money

Our Political Correspondent Andrew Sinclair has been

What stands out for you in this Budget?

And those who were worried about the increase in business rates power

among the winners today. Social care has done pretty well. Tonight, our

money going into social care, money going into social care,

although they are pointing out that this is only a temporary solution.

It doesn't solve the long-term funding crisis. The Government has

a consultation into the future a consultation into the future

funding of social care. There is more money for hospitals to help

them cope with the growing pressures this winter in a empty. These are

all becoming very big problems in our region. Local MPs like them

mother-to-be template and he listened.

Were there any local spending announcements today?

No, we will get local detail in the weeks to come. The money into

research and development is very research and development is very

significant and I'm told to get a lot of that coming our way. The

Chancellor said today those are things like research and development

space we search, driverless cars, all things that we are very good at

here in the east. Thank you, Andrew. A pioneering sexual

assault referral centre has been officially opened

at Hinchingbrooke Hospital today. The Elms aims to put

the victim first by focusing on their

health and wellbeing, while at the same time gathering

evidence for prosecution. Louise Hubball has been

to take a look around. Opened today by Baroness Newlove,

the Government's Her husband, Gary,

was murdered ten years ago. For her, this new centre

for such a assault victims is a national model, merging

police and medical care under one So, I think it works very well,

because there is nothing worse It means having the strength to go

and visit another place to speak to another individual, where

this builds on the relationship. This is from the

victims' perspective. This whole centre is

focused on the victim. There are examination

rooms with those who have just been attacked,

and also homely counselling spaces. This young women was

raped and has been supported by a similar

referral centre. Her words, spoken by an actor,

to protect her identity. There was a nurse

and a support worker. They made me feel at

ease and examined me. The room we are in now,

it's beautifully furnished. There are flowers, how

much a difference does that kind of thing make when having

to go through something You need to feel in a place that is

warm and relaxing and bright. You don't want to be in a dreary

room, where there's nothing It'll just make you feel

more low and scared. What do you think about

the new centre here? The purpose here is to help

victims cope and recover. The presence of a video link system

means they can also give evidence By having a court link room

within the facility, it actually means that we can bring

them into an environment where they are still feeling comfortable

and calm and hopefully have some confidence around the support

system that's in place. So, the importance of that is

that they can give the There's also a specialised

section for children. Whatever the age of those

who have been abused, the goal to allow them

to rebuild their lives. Members of the public

in Bedfordshire are being offered free scans to test

for liver disease. The mobile unit has

been in Bedford today The scans aim to pick up any

signs of liver damage. These areas have the highest

premature death rate from liver Each year more than 200 people

are admitted to Bedford Hospital It can be caused

by obesity diabetes, Liver disease is know

as a silent killer. That's how the region

is looking tonight. But from me and the late

team, good night. We'll be back with the Breakfast

bulletins from 6:25am Going to keep some fairly mild

temperatures over the And for tonight, for

most of us, temperature is not expected to drop lower

than around 7 degrees. There will be some areas of cloud

coming and going, so under those clear skies, it is

possible it might just get a little But on the whole, it's looking

like fairly mild overnight lows. And this weather system that brought

us cloud and rain first thing this morning

is still to the south, but it is well at the way

for tomorrow and we are expecting some

fine weather across the region Maybe some patchy cloud around

at first, but some good So, temperatures climbing

into the mid-teens. South-westerly, initially

and then swinging around Quite a noticeable

breeze, but lots of fine The National weather is coming up,

but here's the outlook. Hello. Spring is in the air with

temperatures reaching 14 or 15 in a few spots today as they will again

over the next few days. Very pleasant in the sun. The daffodils

were loving that in York. More places under blue sky tomorrow and

dry. Tonight heavy showers moving across Scotland on strong to gale

force winds, some may clip Northern Ireland. It's a mild night in

southern England and South Wales but damp and drizzly, misty with coastal

and hill fog elsewhere. Temperatures in between and dry: This damp

weather hangs on from parts of the Channel Islands, to Cornwall.

Elsewhere, it's getting brighter in South Wales and southern England. In

England, Wales and Northern Ireland some sunny