13/02/2017 Look East

In the programme tonight. failings at one of Britain's

As more packages are found on the Norfolk coast,

we meet the dog walker who stumbled across cocaine worth ?50 million.

They looked like there was about ten sports bikes all roped together,

and they had ropes attached with plastic containers

Poultry farm is in knock down after the region's first case of bird flu

this winter is detected. The great grandmother

who was abandoned as a GI baby. And find out how I become

the Magic circle's close up More suspect packages wash up

on the regions coastline as investigations continue

into a ?50 million drugs haul. Police were called on Thursday

when a dog walker found a number of holdalls containing cocaine

on Hopton beach. Then on Friday two smaller finds

were made at Caister at Happisburgh in Norfolk

and Kessingland in Suffolk. This is not far from Happisburgh

on the North Norfolk coast. This is where Mary and Nigel Green

were walking their dog yesterday morning when Mary spotted

and unusual package on the sand. We picked it up, and you opened it

up, and inside you could see that it was wrapped in,

like, gaffer tape, whatever it was. On Thursday, sports bags containing

cocaine were found on the beach They were spotted by Val McGee,

who was out walking with her dog. We went down and saw,

they looked like there was about ten sports bags all roped together,

and they had ropes attached with plastic containers

that looked like floats. Ray lives close to where the drugs

were found at Hopton. And he saw the emergency

services swing into action. First, I just thought it was a body,

they had found maybe. People were back and forth,

back and forth, back and forth. And then they stopped everybody

going up that way, obviously. Here, a lifeboat has been helping

with the search for more packages. Paddy says that without a starting

point, it's impossible to work out where any remaining packages might

be washed up. For every search that we carry out,

we need to know our start point, from which point we can

conduct such pattern. And you're also looking

at wind and tide? Yeah, wind and tide, obviously plays

a dramatic part in the search. The authorities won't say exactly

how many finds there have been, The National Crime Agency will only

say investigations continue, with law enforcement partners

in the UK and overseas. Chris Hobbs is a former Border

Control Special Branch Officer. This afternoon, I asked him whether

drugs might have come from, and what could have happened.

It could have been that the traffickers were concerned

that they were going to be intercepted.

It could've been the sighting of a Border Force cutter,

for example, or a navy vessel that panic them, and they decided

It could've been a pick-up that went wrong.

It's been left somewhere, may be tethered to a buoy

or something like that to be picked up by another vessel

We don't even know whether these drugs were coming

Again, it's something that the National crime agency

will be looking at very, very carefully, to see

whether they can establish where it has actually come from.

So that will all form part of what will be quite

And they might be able to tell things like that

It could be how the drugs as it were have been formulated.

It could be in the packaging, it could be any one

They may pick up some clues from fingerprints, from DNA.

If these drugs have been coming here and are not here now,

how much of a dent does that put in the supply of drugs?

It will be a tremendous blow, I think, to the crime network

behind it, and to those to whom they were

Having said that, the UK is awash with drugs at the moment.

Really, the war on drugs, cynics within law enforcement

That is perhaps illustrated by the lack of offences

This might be happening around our coast all the time?

It's a little bit like people smuggling.

At the end of the day, what we have seen perhaps

We know our airports are poorly defended by border force

and we know that our coastline are terribly exposed.

Although this seizure is welcome, you have to say the odds are stacked

As far as the people behind this are concerned,

will there be some bad people waiting for a knock on the door,

Well, the cartel or crime network will be conducting its own,

I'm sure very thorough, investigation as to what

If it's a case of having to dump the drugs because of arrest

or something has gone wrong in terms of perhaps an accident,

If they think that someone has tried basically to have them over,

for want of a better term, then there could be repercussions.

They won't be very pleased with what has occurred.

An outbreak of bird flu has been found at a poultry farm

near Redgrave on the Suffolk Norfolk border.

There are around 23,000 birds on the farm.

It is the region's first case of bird flu this winter.

What more can you tell us? The news came in late this afternoon. They

have carried out tests on dead chickens, and they confirmed they

are carrying the H5N8 string. There is an initial six mile control zone

put around the premises to prevent the spread of the disease. A number

of birds have died. They are going to have do humanely killed 23,000

chickens, and investigations will be carried out to find out why they are

infected. Scientist overstrain, H5N8, but they don't know whether it

is high pathogen or no pathogen. All previous outbreaks have been highly

pathogenic. This is the news that the poultry industry in this region

has been dreading. It is a massive industry in our region, it is

devastating. One in four of the countries chickens, it is a sector

worth ?140 billion a year. Since the first outbreak at a turkey farm in

Lincolnshire in December, farmers have had to keep their poultry

undercover -- 140 million. That was due to be in place until February,

but that will have to be revised. There have been four outbreaks in

England, this is the first in our region. The risk to public health is

very low. The Food Standards Agency say that bird flu does not pose a

food safety risk to consumers. Thank you.

The family of missing airman Corrie McKeague will be taken

to the landfill site near Cambridge, where a major search

Suffolk Police are moving the focus of their operation

to the site at Milton, where waste from Bury St Edmunds

was taken around the time Corrie went missing last September.

The Milton landfill site covers 120 acres to the north of Cambridge.

It takes 96,000 tonnes of waste every year.

Some of that waste comes from Bury St Edmunds,

specifically the town centre, where Corrie was last seen.

Suffolk police will search a small area of this huge site.

Corrie's mother Nicola told Look East that she would be coming

here to the Milton landfill site for a private visit.

Ahead of the main police search, starting on the 22nd of February.

They will be excavating an area of nearly a quarter of an acre,

It could take between six and ten weeks.

Corrie was seen on CCTV going into a dead end road

in Bury St Edmunds known as the horseshoe.

It was lined with big commercial dustbins,

A waste lorry was seen making a collection from the area,

and although it was searched months ago, nothing was found.

Could this have been done in week four?

Hindsight's a wonderful thing, and let's not go there.

We are where we are, they're being the search now.

We still fully back Suffolk police and the decision that now

they are going to search the landfill site.

In another development, Nicola Urquhart has said that

?50,000 reward for information leading to Corrie being found

will be withdrawn because it hasn't been successful.

His father Martin's side of the family has stressed

that their five figure reward remains in place, and

A man who died when placed in Suffolk collapsed on him suffered

massive multiple injuries, an inquest has heard. The 58-year-old

engineer from in near Bury St Edmunds was walking his dog along

the beach last month. When he was buried by debris. Despite the

efforts of emergency services to dig him out, he was pronounced dead by a

doctor with the air ambulance. The assistant coroner expressed his

condolences to the family at a hearing in Ipswich.

Employers in this region say the increase in the minimum wage

or National Living Wage is putting the squeeze on workers

They say they can't afford to give everyone the same increase,

so more staff with more experience are losing out.

This playgroup in Cambridge is a happy place for its 30

But money worries mean its future is uncertain.

All the staff receive the minimum wage, currently ?7.20 per hour.

Even before the increase, staff are carrying out

We're only surviving because of staff goodwill.

They undertake extra duties at home that they're not paid for,

such as writing reports, attending staff meetings,

The fact that the minimum wage has been rising above inflation also

means that staff with extra responsibility are

The deputy manager, who has worked in the sector for 15 years, is paid

There's no way we can afford for me to be paid more

When the minimum wage was introduced 18 years ago,

only one in 50 employees was paid it.

By 2020, it's reckoned one in nine people will be on it.

The erosion of pay differentials is becoming a real issue

From childcare to retail, tourism to food.

This firm in West Norfolk processes vegetables

for the major supermarkets, employing 100 people.

The living wage has come in, which has been very good for those

on the bottom of our wage scales, but it's then squeezed everybody

else, because we have managers, supervisors, technical quality

And we can't match the percentages that have come in with

the living wage for everybody within the business.

Well, employers say it's becoming very challenging to fill supervisory

The sort of jobs crucial to keeping the economy moving.

Tom will be here with a round up of the weekend sport.

And a touch of magic from the the best street

During the Second World War, tens of thousands of American

servicemen were stationed here, and some had relationships

But the result wasn't always happy, with some children born out

She grew up in care and was eventually adopted.

For years, she believed she had been left on a door step.

But now, thanks to DNA testing, she is learning the true story.

This is a copy of paper, when it all started. Great grandmother Linda

grew up in an adopted family, never knowing who her real parents were.

The only clue to how past, and address of a building which he had

supposedly been abandoned outside. Last year, she discovered a news

article from 1945. I was brought up to believe I was just left on

doorstep, until that article was found and it turned out it didn't

happen that way. The paper's report made Linda questioned the story that

she always knew, so she turned to a DNA expert. The results were

incredible. The test identified Linda's father as being an American

GI who is based near Colchester. He was one of the nearly 3 million

American soldiers that were sent to Britain prior to the D-Day landings.

Now, Linda is starting to connect a family she never knew she had --

D-Day landings. Is this possible? All these years, I have thought

there was debris out there. It's like you dropped out from the sky,

really. -- I have thought there was no one out there. Juliet helps

people contact lost relatives. I have worked with people to solve

unknown child histories, so children of GIs, who may meet don't have a

name. I'm interested in families who don't have any data, no name, no

place, no sense of identity. Unable to give back to them by working as

DNA databases. Now that Linda has answers about ?1, she's trying to

piece together the whole story. The whole story is a mystery -- about

one parent. I would like to find my mother, issue still alive, or who

she was. To find that out, she needs much more information about her

mother. Thanks to DNA matching, a picture of her past has become

clearer. She may be watching, you never know.

Last week the government promised to build more affordable homes

and to make sure that people who are renting are better

The local government minister Sajid Javid launched a new strategy

to fix what he admitted was a 'broken' housing market.

But there are concerns that the plans still don't go

far enough to protect the most vulnerable.

Jean and her family moved into this housing

They had to leave their previous home because their living

We were in a place that was very damp, and it's not

And we got this house, and we've been here 60 years.

And we can afford the rent and its really been a very happy home.

It means she's had a lifetime of security and affordable rent.

But now, the average home in the east costs over ten

Which is why the government is pledging to build

Something that the flagship Housing Association says

80,000 homes need to be built in the East of England each year,

The average house price in Cambridge is 450,000,

and that makes it really difficult for most people to access

There is also concern the private sector is being used

Local authorities before, they would provide you with social

housing, they now can use the private sector.

So even though you're deemed to be vulnerable,

and even though you're deemed to be entitled to social housing,

you won't have that security of tenancy.

The government says it will improve safeguards in the private rented

sector by encouraging longer tenancies on new rental properties.

And as someone who has lived in her home for six

decades, Jean hopes more will have the security

And tonight, Inside Out finds out what happened when one council

used a private landlord to house homeless people.

That's Inside Out, tonight at 7.30 on BBC One.

And with reaction to some incredible goals, plus news

Mick McCarthy admits he's hardly surprised 39% of players

in the Football League last season weren't drugs-tested.

That's because, in his words, the testers spend so much

He admits UK Anti-Doping visit every other week,

even though official figures suggest some lower league clubs

I can't understand why anyone, any player, would with the riches

that are in the game, with the amount of money,

would cheat anyway with these performance enhancement.

But to risk a career, being banned for a couple of years.

There really ought not to be drugs tests, I think that should be

enough of a deterrent, but clearly it's not.

Now, it was a special weekend for fans of Norwich City,

Jonny Howson and Wes Hoolahan both scored "goal of the season"

Today, the Norwich boss admitted he felt Howson's goal just edged it.

Howson opened the scoring with this volley in Saturday's 5-1 win

Hoolahan scored with his own cracker from distance, spotting

Nine times out of ten when you're standing on the edge of the box,

you're always thinking, give me one that comes out

I possibly didn't think mine was as good as it actually was.

And obviously, when he scores, you're thinking typical

Not a weekend of memorable goals, but Emyr Huws' strike in Ipswich's

victory was no less important, ending Town's winless run.

This one from Colchester's Kurtis Guthrie was well struck.

Tainted perhaps by today's news that injury could keep

And Danny Hylton scored both of Luton's goals including

When Stevenage appointed Darren Sarll to replace

Teddy Sherringham a year ago they were going from

But Sarll knows Boro inside out previously

Three straight wins but can they keep it going to join

13 months into the job, and Darren is getting his message across.

His aim, to build Stevenage from the bottom up a strong base

that will allow the first team to flourish.

I always said to myself if I was ever fortunate enough

to be a football manager, that I would do it as if I was going

And I would want to try and help and improve the football club in any

In the hurly-burly of League 2, Stevenage are stringing

Such a's 3-0 win over Wycombe was Boro's third straight victory.

And they've unearthed a goal-scorer, Matt Godden, who stepped up

from non-league Ebbsfleet, goal number 15.

To drop back out and build my way back up, that was always my plan.

And to do that, and come back into the league and score the goals

And with their tails up, they aim to make it four in a row

against strugglers Cheltenham town tomorrow night.

Any manager will tell you that the next three points

in football are the only thing that matters.

But Stevenage's challenge now is to turn themselves from the top

ten team into a play-off side, and that requires one thing,

But at least Stevenage are looking up.

Athletics, three of the region's athletes came second best

Norfolk shot putter Sophie McKinna, Cambridgeshire high-jumper

Robbie Grabarz plus Suffolk racewalker Callum Wilkinson all

finished second at the qualifiers for next month's European

And finally, how about this for a way to celebrate a winner?

Corby Town defender Jason Lee clearly couldn't wait for full time,

grabbing a quick swig of a supporters' pint.

Rumour has it he was disappointed it was cider,

A magician who started life as a street performer in Cambridge

has been named as one of the best in Britain.

So the chances are if you go shopping the City centre,

you have been up close and personal with a rising star.

Matthew le Mottee has become the Magic Circle's Close up Magician

of the year after beating off tough competition from around the UK.

He says he owes much to his time sharing his magic

Make sure there's a bit of space to write your name on.

I think it's an attention seeking thing, and it was

You know, kids do football or something else.

And I can fall adults, which is quite nice as a kid!

It all started with a Paul Daniels Magic set at the age of seven.

But what set Matthew apart was the time he spent

Yeah, especially in the early days, I was spending eight hours a day

just practising one card move, or one sleight of hand or something.

It's more about practising the three-hour tricks,

the scripting, the presentation and that kind of stuff.

As a street magician, it is all about the interaction with people.

Helping him win the Magic Circle's award.

Close-up magic is getting more and more popular,

and Matthew believes that it's probably because we have

shorter attention spans than were used to have,

and for the long magic tricks we used to see years ago.

People know a lot nowadays, because you can, you know,

one question you're two clicks away from answering a question.

So if you come across something you can't explain, then that's

I think that's a nice little escape from reality.

I took your card, and I froze it in my freezer

And inside my pocket, right here is a block of ice.

That was so good, I've never experienced anything like that,

Now Matthew is travelling the globe, sharing his magic after honing his

In a world of certainty, there's always room for mystery.

How did he do that? How did he do any of those? Let us get the

weather. Perhaps he is responsible for the change in the weather. It

was lovely to see the sunrise after a miserable weekend. There was still

a little bit of sun left in Suffolk this afternoon, but most of it gone.

I should say snow! Plenty of sun in the sky, hence not so much snow on

the ground. Temperatures much higher today. Wogan got into double

figures, around 10 degrees. Yesterday, many of us struggle to

get above freezing. Tonight, a lot of clear sky. I think in sheltered

spots, we may see a touch of frost, but not for everyone. For some of

us, we will stay above freezing and there will be too much wind. Where

we get zero, we'll see some frost. Tomorrow, this pushing from the

south-west. Some rain associated with it, but for as it is looking a

dry day with spells of sunshine. More cloud tomorrow, and I think

this cloud will tend to increase from the south-west as the day goes

on. Temperatures tomorrow up to about eight or nine Celsius at best.

Lighter wind from a mainly south-easterly direction. We finish

largely fine and dry, maybe a bit of drizzle in the West to end the day.

On Wednesday, a lot of uncertainty as to where this weather front is

going to go, and when it is going to arrive. They'll be fine and a dry

weather at some point, but also the risk of rain. The graphics is

keeping the rain away to the west, but I think there is a chance it

will go over the top of us, but we'll keep you posted. On Thursday,

high pressure in charge, show it should be fine and dry. With spells

of sunshine and temperatures for many of us into double figures. On

Friday, it could be a fine and dry day, more cloud around perhaps and

that could produce some rain and drizzle in places. As far as XP

click and is concerned, it looks like high pressure stays in charge,

show it to be largely fine and dry. We hold onto mainly light winds, but

always a chance of a little bit of rain out of the thickness of that

cloud. See later. That's not bad at all! Definitely an improvement.

We'll see tomorrow night, goodbye.