10/02/2017 Look East

washes up in holdalls on two beaches in Norfolk.

Investigators say they're looking out for more.

The police say they will search this landfill site

for the missing Suffolk airman Corrie McKeague.

Hundreds turn out for a memorial service

for the former cabinet minister and Suffolk MP Jim Prior.

I'm here in Stevenage for the launch of a major new exhibition about the

pioneer of modern theatre who was born in return. -- in the tone.

with a street value of ?50 million has washed up

Investigators say it's a major blow for organised crime.

The drugs were found yesterday in holdalls by somebody walking

This morning, some more smaller packages were found

Both places are near the seaside resort of Great Yarmouth.

So far 360 kilos of cocaine have been found, and investigators say

The police started their search yesterday and quickly realised this

was cocaine so it was 360,000 wraps off the streets. Today police...

There were approximately 360 kilograms of the class a drug found

on the beach in holdalls kept afloat by these plastic bronze. If cut and

sold on the street could have a potential value of over ?50 million.

The National crime agency believe it will be a major blow to organised

crime. 360 kilograms is definitely a significant seizure and one that we

are quite pleased with. It will not make its way onto the streets.

Washed up on the beach is very unusual but still significant.

This man constructed the sea defences here and says it is not the

first time this happened. I understand you have fun stuff like

this before? Not as much was found this week. -- you have found stuff.

And what was it you found? Cocaine. We found out and ten kilograms. To

make the police say they believe all packages have been recovered and

will continue to work with the National crime agency.

It is believed Norfolk was the intended target and have extra

officers working to monitor the area and say anyone with information

should contact Crimestoppers. Police are to start a major search

of a landfill site in Cambridgeshire to try to find the missing

airman Corrie McKeague. It's the latest search to take place

since he disappeared 1000 square metres

of the Milton landfill It will take up to

ten weeks to complete. This landfill site not far from

Cambridge is the focus of the latest phase of the investigation into the

missing airman Corrie McKeague. Google search 1000 square metres up

to -- Google search 1000 square metres. They will search here after

he was caught on CCTV walking into an area of bins and later on a bin

lorry was caught making a collection -- caught on camera. The lorry was

forensic with tested and no evidence was found but the waste from the

lorry is still at the site after police told them not to put anything

on top. Since he went missing on the 24th of September there have already

been searches involving hundreds of police and volunteers. We have 40

members of the public, somewhere around 60 trained search

technicians, team leaders and search managers. We have 14 people is

ferrying the team is about. Police say this is the next logical step.

His mother told us this latest News leads the family with mixed emotions

and while she is pleased searches are taking place she is terrified

and desperate for the result that might bring.

The sister of a driver who was killed on Wednesday

when his lorry came off a bridge and crashed on to the A12 says

he was "the best brother you could ever ask for".

30-year-old Gurdip Johal was pronounced dead at the scene.

Gurdip Johal had only been married for a year.

The accident happened as he was driving his lorry along a

It came off and went down onto the southbound

carriageway before bursting into flames.

The vehicle appears to have failed to negotiate a steep bend to

go round onto that bridge and has crashed through the barrier and has

plunged down the embankment and come to rest partly on the embankment and

Today his sister, also from Essex, paid tribute to her

older brother saying he was also a father figure to her.

We will remember him as someone who was

always there for his family and wanted to protect us and be there

It is something I feel we will never get

We will never be the same ever again.

Gurdip Johal workedfor a local vehicle maintenance company based

just one mile from where the accident happened.

Today southbound traffic was still heavy near the scene.

The trailer he had been transporting contained a large industrial

battery - a complex recovery operation for fire crews.

A 40-foot container complete with batteries,

computer components, which short-circuited

and had a fire situation, so

electrical and fire and water - not a very good mix.

Two days on, police have spent most of the day on the

scene just a few hundred yards down the A12 behind me.

There were concerns there may have been a second

casualty, and detectives want to make sure no

one else was killed in the

Late this afternoon police confirmed Gurdip Johal was

As fire teams examine the remains of the lorry,

repairs to the A12 have been completed and the road has now fully

It is unclear what caused this horrific accident.

That will be for investigators and an

All this week we have been looking at how the NHS is coping in one of

its most difficult whimpers. Tonight we're focusing on a project looking

at solving the GP crisis. -- in one of its most difficult periods.

This man was with the Ambulance Service for 15 years but left to

join this surgery. That assesses patients to take strain of GPs.

Working in the Ambulance Service you would make an impact on someone's

life and never see them again and so it is nice to get the. You see

children growing up and you have had an input into their life. It causes

not on problems because the Ambulance Service is of paramedics.

The Royal College of GPs makes the point that might effectively taking

paramedics from the Ambulance Service it is not improving staff 's

shortages overall but it is helping to ease the pressure here. It is the

way of creating the right skill mix so doctors, nurses and other

professionals are doing the thing they are trained to do rather than

things based around a lot of workload which causes other problems

that we see with morale. The surgery is one of 15 trial schemes in

England with services under one roof. They can have an x-ray, see a

hospital consultant, the have an on-site pharmacy, and there are

various charitable organisations that can access for help. Robert

Felber on his steers and needs a chest x-ray. -- felt about his

stairs. It is all the same building as GP practice. Better than going to

the hospital and taking their time and resources and it is a five hour

wait, possibly in A and sort we do not have that problem here. It is

hoped bringing staff and services under one roof will make things more

convenient for patients and less hectic for staff.

The main union Bernard Matthews says there should not be compulsory

redundancies after the company said it wants to cut up to 150 jobs, it

wants to cut more than 90 shop floor jobs, what the rest coming from head

office. -- with the rest. A 31-year-old man has

been arrested in Norfolk Scotland Yard says the man

was detained yesterday morning on suspicion of fund-raising

for the purposes of terrorism and encouraging support

for a banned group. A service was held in Suffolk today

for the former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Prior,

who died in December. Jim Prior served under Ted Heath

and Margaret Thatcher. He was a Tory "wet" and didn't

exactly see "eye to eye" On a bitterly cold day in Southwold,

the bells rang out from Saint On a bitterly cold day

in Southwold, the bells rang out from Saint Edmunds charged to give

thanks for the life of Jim Prior. His farm was a few

short mile from here. Born in Norwich he went

to Charterhouse School and Cambridge University before

becoming an MP from Lowestoft. He served under Ted Heath and then

as employment Secretary You've got the toughest

job in the Cabinet. I hope to Christ you don't

take us back to the 30s. Margaret Thatcher often

opted for confrontation. They did not always get on, but even

so, they occasionally would share I don't think I trod

on her toes and she certainly I think she was quite a good dancer,

probably better than I was. While at the same time she was

treading on your toes politically? She was quite good at

treading on my toes. I trod on a few of

hers from time to time. 400 people attended today's service

which was also shown on screens in a nearby hall

and there were readings, hymns and a choir from

the local school sang Somewhere Over The Rainbow,

one of his favourites. He was a very emotional

person, actually. Politics was not his first love,

farming was his first love and his family and of course

he loved politics as well it was a big part of his life

but he had the hinterland, He was inspirational

because he was modest and kind and decent and he just lived

a sense of public service. I know many people have

been touched by that. Perhaps happiest on the farm,

he was at ease with people He will be missed by his family

but also by the many people he helped end a long

and successful political career. Still to come tonight: Julie is here

with your weekend weather forecast. We find out about the man

from Stevenage who had a huge Ask any rail passenger

what they want, and you can bet near the top of the list

will be new trains. When Abellio Greater Anglia won

a new nine-year franchise last year, it committed to replacing it's

entire fleet by 2020. Greater Anglia unveiled plans today

for a new ?70 million The company says it will play a key

part in transforming train services Travellers on the Great Eastern Line

out of Liverpool Street have for a decade looked out

on a post-industrial wasteland as the train passes over

the River Stour estuary to Brantham, It used to be a thriving industrial

centre employing thousands. ICI one of the companies that

used to operate here. Margaret Roberts, later

Margaret Thatcher, was employed as a research chemist at a plastics

company close by. Now, 22 acres is earmarked

for a state of the art This is an enormous decrepit

and decaying site which is crying out for regeneration which many

people thought would never happen. It is now going to be delivered,

and delivered on the back of investment from this private rail

company, and the thing that is so important for all of us

is this is the first step on the road to how this

new franchise will regenerate The new depot will have 15

tracks for stabling, cleaning and maintaining

a new fleet of trains. It will complement existing ones

in Norwich, Clacton and Ilford and include a new lathe,

especially useful in the autumn when falling leaves create

slippery conditions can Local planners have given permission

for 300 new homes nearby, and now This is the largest

inward investment since ?70 million coming in

to a very tricky site Design work is underway and work

proper should start in the summer. The aim is to have it up

and running by December 2018. Then it will receive a first

of a fleet of new trains to be Jamie Burles is Managing Director

of Greater Anglia. Late this afternoon I spoke to him

about the new depot, But pointed out that what most

passengers want is a reliable What we have got is we are working

closely with Network Rail and for example services this week

we have been ahead of target so we are seeing some green shoots

with regard to the millions of pounds we are spending

on making the trains themselves and the reliability

of the fleet better. We're continuing to put more

money into that as well. So we are seeing some green

shoots but you are right, that to get to the 93% we need,

we need a lot more progress, as is planned over the next

coming months and years. How many out of ten would you give

the service currently? Our customers give the service,

if you think about the National Rail passenger survey, independent

survey, our passengers give a score I am honest when I say

there are still too many incidents and that is where the billions

we are putting in will reduce those incidents and keep

on improving the service. How frustrating is it for you to get

blamed for a lot of the problems which should be blamed on Network

Rail? I think, as you know, we cause 30%

of our problems and Network Rail And other operators,

such as freight, is 10%. But we are the operator and take

the money from the customers of the customer absolutely

is relying on us to We are to battle for the customer

and to improve the service as much as possible,

so it is something we are used to and something we use as a good

pressure on ourselves When can we expect this to be

the perfect rail service Well, halfway through 2020

we will have the majority of the new trains in and they will

bring a much better reliability and customer experience,

so around 2020 is when the true transformation will have

worked through the system. Sport, and for some of the region's

athletes, a chance to blow off Sport, and for some of the region's

athletes, a chance to blow off With more on that plus rugby

and football, here's Tom. Yes, a full programme of football

action this weekend. Boss Mick McCarthy desperately

seeking some consistency - Norwich host Nottingham Forest,

with manager Alex Neil admitting his side will have to win

the majority of their remaining he's been in charge for just over

two months and Robbie Neilson down in 19th up to the relative

comfort of mid-table. Neilson was nominated but missed

out on today's manager When you come in you want to add

something to the club. There was already a really good

structure here and it is a case of coming in and trying to add

a little bit more, and hopefully We're picking up points and heading

in the right direction. There is still a long way to go

in this season for us. Now if you've ever tried

the shot-put, you'll be well aware, Luckily, Sophie McKinna

from Bradwell near Great Yarmouth She's also highly motivated

after failing to make Sophie's hoping to start

her season with a bang at the British Indoor Championships

in Sheffield. my strength has increased rapidly

since I joined and I can bench 135 and my best dead left is 205 which

was an unofficial world record. Quite a lot of weight. It is not

usual for 22-year-old girls to lift that sort of weight. The life of a

shot-putter involve weights, and heavy ones. Sophie McKinna catalyst

22 stone. So she can do this. -- Sophie McKinna can lift. Of these

students and Norwich were lucky to get a masterclass.

It is quite a unique sport and not something you see at a higher level

every day, it is not televised like other sports. They are quite

receptive. I do some shot-put outside of school but I have never

throw that far. I know Sophie because she trains at my gym but I

had never see her throat before. She has been competing for button for

several years but is still getting over the disappointment of not being

selected for Britain's Olympic team. As an athlete I expect to be

supported by my governing body but now the way I can get that attention

and get my revenge, if you like, is throw further and put the decision

out of their hands in the future. With the support of her gym she is

in great shape ahead of the British indoor Championships this weekend.

The legendary shot-putter is among the coaching team, whose

long-standing record might be in trouble. It is amazing having like

her, the most successful British shot-putter, on my team and she

really wants me to go on and be successful and break that record.

Her personal best is just over 17 metres so she needs to find another

two metres and she hopes to do it at the corner of games on the Gold

Coast in Australia. Rugby, and week two

of the Six Nations with Northampton's Dylan Hartley leading

out England against Wales He's joined by fellow Saints players

Courtney Lawes and Tom Wood Saints meanwhile play tonight

at Bath in the Premiership and must win to keep their hopes

of a play-off finish alive. Very difficult place to go, and

a lot on the line for both teams. Away rugby, our defence

is going to be massive, but in the context of our season

we need to go down there There's full previews to all this

weekend's sport on the website and coverage too on your local

BBC Radio Station. Now he was a revolutionary

influence on modern theatre. But most of us have never heard

of Edward Gordon Craig. He's also one of Stevenage's

most famous sons. If you live in Stevenage you

probably know the name of the theatre which is named after him but

now there is a chance to find out more about him with a lottery funded

exhibition. Using projection and staging,

this is an exhibition which captures Born in Stevenage in 1872,

Edward Gordon Craig revolutionised He took the Victorian

theatre he had grown up with that was elaborate,

maybe slow in terms of its production values,

and he turned it on its head and introduced light,

flooded the stage light, pared everything right back

and asked the audience Stevenage's theatre may be named

after him, but Craig, seen here in later years,

has a much lower profile Working mainly in Europe

in the 1900, he saw theatre as joining architecture,

movement and music and did Hamlet at the Moscow Art Theatre

to critical acclaim in 1912. He was tall, good-looking,

had a great stage presence when he was an actor,

and I think women just He had about 13 children, at least,

by eight different woman. On display include production

designs from the VNA and Eton College, some of which have

never been seen Also featured in the exhibition

are some incredible puppets that were central to the way he thought

about the theatre and he used as a production technique to plan

out actors' movements in scenes. Stevenage's new town status masks

a thriving arts scene, and it has received ?65,000

from the Heritage lottery Fund for And it is hoped more people

in the town will recognise the face of the man

who radically changed theatre. And 13 children with eight different

woman? I think that is what she said. And all that and the theatre

as well. Shall we talk about the weather?

What a cold and wintry day. Some snow showers and it was starting to

settle here in Suffolk. These flurries this morning on the east

Coast mainline. It has been rather called, at best three Celsius and

many getting just one above freezing. Overnight further showers,

either rain, sleet or snow and some snow is likely to settle. We could

see a frost and ice in places and it is already misty and murky for some.

Mainly light winds. Tomorrow, we keep this north-west of the flow and

we should have further wintry showers to start. As the day goes on

they become predominantly rain but pretty miserable, cloudy skies.

Temperature is widely struggling to about three Celsius and we have

mainly light to moderate north to north-easterly winds continuing to

feed in rain showers throughout the evening. Sunday does not look much

better. The winds turning more Easter break, cold easterly flow and

Sunday -- winds turning more easterly. Feeding in rain, sleet or

snow. Hopefully some dry weather, too. The cloud may break at planes

for some brightness but largely cloudy skies and a cold easterly

flow with the winds reaching moderate in strength. Similar

temperatures to Saturday but feeling much colder when you factor in the

wind. We keep that cold easterly on Monday but any showers on Monday are

few and far between and much better chance of at least seeing some

sunshine to help lift the spirits. On Tuesday, we lose the risk of

showers, largely fine and dry with decent sunny spells and by Tuesday

the winds to the south-east are bringing in more mild air and

temperatures perhaps closer to average. Sounding better next week.

Is spring coming, do you think? Have a good weekend.