06/03/2017 Look East

Officers begin a painstaking search of a landfill site

near Cambridge in the search for missing airman Corrie Mckeague.

This is a mammoth task. It is an allergist, I would say, to looking

for a needle in a haystack. Layer by layer - how to make turbine

blades for wind farms. Could a factory be

built in this region? Norwich City's playoff

hopes disappear after a And the extraordinary Neolithic

flint mineshaft will be opened to the public for the first time.

First tonight, police officers start sifting through tonnes of rubbish

at a landfill site as the search for the missing airman

Corrie went missing after a night out in Bury St Edmunds in September.

The police know that a bin lorry made a collection in the town

shortly after Corrie was last seen on CCTV.

The lorry went to the landfill site at Milton

And today teams of police officers and support staff

The searching has been happening behind those trees. It has been a

difficult, dangerous and smelly task. Traumatic not only for the

officers but of course the family, too. They have been using machinery

to lift large chunks of the rubbish onto a flat surface so the officers

can sift through looking for signs of Corrie Mckeague. They happen

sitting down to a depth of eight metres.

This is a team of specially trained police officers wearing fluorescent

jackets, coming a small corner of this landfill site.

They are looking for anything that may be linked to

I think there is a very strong possibility that Corrie Mckeague

if he is not, that leads us to other vehicles that were in that area.

The people that have been spoken to will

These are the last now familiar CCTV shots

of Corrie Mckeague before he went missing

of Corrie Mckeague before he went missing after a night out

He was seen going in, but not coming out of

Shortly after, a waste lorry took away rubbish from one of these

His mobile phone was thought to be inside it.

30 miles away to the huge landfill site.

In the early days of the investigation, it was one of the

We know that the refuse lorry did travel between the

with the times at which the mobile which you were mentioning was picked

This shows how a lorry arrives at a landfill site.

It is weighed, empties its load, and then

soil is normally placed on top to stop smells and vermin.

But at the Milton site, police specifically

told them not to post anything on top of the Bury St Edmunds rubbish

just in case they needed to search it later in the investigation.

That is, of course, what is happening five months after he went

missing. It is expected to take 6-10 weeks to search. A 26 -- 36-year-old

man has been arrested and bailed on suspicion of perverting the course

of justice. If the police don't find their answers, at least they can

rule of the landfill out of the investigation.

Steve Gaskin is a former detective with the Met.

He knows at first hand what will be happening ..

Having carried out this kind of search when he was

There is a number of things that the police

And as I understand it, Norfolk and Suffolk officers are

It is not just specially trained officers that you will need for

You will also need a forensic team in case there is evidence found.

And there will be a pathologist there as well?

If I was investigating this, I would want

a pathologist on stand-by for two things.

Still, even after the passage of time, if bones are found,

a pathologist or a doctor has to pronounce life extinct.

I would also want a pathologist there just to

give me advice as a senior investigating officer.

So they will dig into the ground, take a pile

out, somebody will go through it using their hands?

Someone is going to physically have to do that.

Obviously with the right sort of safeguards for personal protective

But someone is going to have to do that.

Because it is not just Corrie Mckeague that they are

looking for, any other associating evidence.

Anything that may have come out of his pockets.

Not only all of this, they have also got to make sure that

any forensic evidence that is accrued is treated

and dealt with properly, with continuity, just in case

And if there is a body in there, it will be badly

I think, if we go back to this gentleman went missing

So there has been a lapse of six months.

And you can imagine what is on a rubbish dump.

So there is a good chance that, with the weather

and all the conditions, particularly if he is a number of metres down,

then there will be an element of decomposition.

And if they had done this just after he went missing, how

much easier a job would it have been?

I don't know what's in the mind of the senior investigating

officer, but let's say there is anybody there.

Then, clearly, the task, and not the decision to do it,

would have been a lot easier and a lot earlier

And if there is something there, they will find it?

But as I said at the beginning of this interview, this is a

And it is similar, I would say, too looking

Two men have been charged with the attempted rape and kidnap

are both 29 and from the Woodbridge area ...

This afternoon, magistrates sent their case to Ipswich Crown Court

say they are still confident that a factory making turbine blades ..

The first factory making blades for the German Company Siemens

But business leaders say increasing demand

means another factory will soon be needed.

It is a world-class factory, producing blades for wind farms on

But rather than being in Lowescroft or Great

Yarmouth, this ?300 million plot is on the Humber estuary.

Siemens looked at a number of different locations around the UK.

The primary reason for choosing Hull, in honesty, was its proximity

Obviously very close to the North Sea wind farm, so that

Made from hundreds of layers of fibreglass.

Many used to work in the local caravan industry,

The blades we are producing at the moment are

Which is for our customer Dong Energy.

We are also producing the wind turbines for the

Dudgeon farm, which is just off the coast of Croma.

Over the last 13 years lots of wind farms have

Some of the biggest are off Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex.

Great efforts have went into building up an onshore supply chain

to maximise the number of jobs for the region.

Which is why it is disappointing that, so far, we have

missed out on getting a blade factory of our own.

Around them, clusters of companies supplying the needs of

what is a massive industry eventually locate themselves.

Chris Starkey is one of those who has

Hull is a, clearly, a deprived location.

And the opportunity to make a big difference

Now that Siemens has opened in Hull, have we missed the boat?

We know that, if all or most of the wind farms that are

planned come on stream, we will need an awful lot of blades.

And that is far more than the Hull factory can

So we know that the companies developing the wind farms

are not particularly happy with only having one supplier.

And we think that Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft

on the east coast is perfectly positioned to take advantage of a

A consignment of blades leaves Hull for Norfolk.

Perhaps in future, they might be made nearer to home.

Southend Hospital has apologised to a patient who has had

a knee operation cancelled - four times.

On the last occasion, Lesley Joseph had already been prepared

for surgery when she was told it couldn't go ahead.

This from our chief reporter Kim Riley.

64-year-old Lesley Joseph has been waiting for seven months for a knee

Her right knee locks without warning.

But three dates for the surgery came and went in December,

Despite correspondence with her local MP and

Health Minister, last Wednesday, after she had been

the fourth appointment was cancelled without warning.

The nurse came in and said, you have to go home.

Because I was sitting there on my own, I felt like an orphan.

And my husband had gone home by then.

And the last one, it was lack of information.

She was sitting there for five hours, and nobody told her

A bit like the railways of old, or probably now as well.

You are sitting on the train, something

goes wrong, nobody tells you what's going on.

Southend University Hospital says it, like many others,

remains incredibly busy, with high numbers of extremely unwell people

arriving in need of emergency medical attention.

As a result, it has to urgently prioritise, and

cancel some patients already called in.

The hospital says it recognises the frustration and concern having

a procedure cancelled at short notice will have caused to

It says, we can pursue her that this is only

done when it is absolutely necessary.

Mrs Joseph notes its been absolutely necessary on four occasions already.

She has now been given a fifth date, March the 15th, for the operation.

But given her experience so far, she doubts it will actually happen.

Jules will be here with the weather for the week ahead.

And Mike is at an award-winning pub in Lowestoft.

This is the finalist in the Pub Of The Year. It is miles from the

seafront, hard to find, but incredibly successful. I will tell

you the secret of their success later.

Giving more young people the chance to get an apprenticeship

Is one of the priorities for the Conservatives in Government.

First in coalition and now on their own.

From next month big companies will be charged a new tax

But while the number of people taking up

Gregory has always dreamed of working with cars.

My dad has always been into engineering, which led me to

Unlike his dad, he has chosen the apprenticeship route.

Myself. I am more hands-on.

So they were pleased I got this apprenticeship.

He has managed to fight off the competition to get

this apprenticeship at Cosworth in Northampton.

It is hard to get this apprenticeship.

It is hoped that a lot more businesses will start offering

apprenticeships to teenagers like Gregory.

The Government's plans to expand the system will be funded by

All businesses with a pay bill of more than ?3 million

will have to invest in apprenticeships.

Big businesses will have to pay 0.5% of their total wage bill to

But will it actually create more apprenticeships?

The levy is certainly going to encourage

companies to use it for their existing workforce, rather than to

recruit new apprentices into the business.

With new apprentices, they have to find the money for salaries.

The levy only covers apprenticeship training.

John Tucker is from Making Good Business in

Employers could employ somebody for just one year, not give

them a permanent job at the end of it.

Or perhaps only offer them part-time deployment.

I know they are trying to build in safeguards,

Two years ago in our region, 46,000 students started and

Four years later, it was less than 72%.

So will young people see them as a good option to go for,

No, I think they are on a different level.

People who have left apprenticeships because they are not getting

Currently, I am doing music at university.

Is very useful if you want to go straight into the workplace.

But I think they are good, but just not

The Government says that, by 2020, they will have spent

And it is doing everything possible to

make sure apprentices gets the quality and

And tonight on Inside Out, they'll be examining concerns that

apprenticeships are too open to abuse, with teenagers

That's with David Whiteley on BBC One at 7.30.

Alex Neil says there are big questions about the desire

After they lost 5-1 at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday.

The Canaries boss was talking ahead of their match

They are now nine points off the play-offs with 11

An under-fire manager and a room of journalists,

meeting two days after Norwich's promotion hopes

effectively ended in humiliation at Sheffield Wednesday.

The fact is, we just haven't played well enough.

I don't really know what you want me to say.

The fact is, we went to Brighton, we got beaten.

We have now gone to Sheffield Wednesday, and

He has cleared the ball, but it is followed up by Ross

Sheffield Wednesday have taken the lead in a bizarre

REPORTER: Billed as a make or break game at Hillsborough,

From start to finish, they were outplayed and

Once again, City's frailties on the road were exposed

ruthlessly, this time by play-off rivals Sheffield Wednesday.

Norwich's Cameron Jerome scored the consolation.

After the game, caused a stir by saying

that the players lack respect for their team-mates

Today, his team-mate Jonny Howson try to respond.

I am not hiding behind the fact that we have

But I think we are all still hurting inside.

To me, when you have got that hurt and that disappointment

If you didn't care, you would come in and

maybe try and brush it under the carpet.

Norwich started the season as second favourites for a swift

At mid October, things were looking good.

But a winter of discontent shows an altogether different picture.

Down in eighth, now nine points adrift of

You mentioned the word there, hunger.

Real desire to be at the top of the table?

Sometimes, you don't need to be the best team.

I have come away from that thinking, sadly, if a few more of his

players showed the same passion and same sort of desire and hurt,

I am not sure Norwich would be in the

COMMENTATOR: Forestieri, it is curling.

Norwich City are showing today that they are nowhere near promotion

REPORTER: Ten away defeats this season tells a story.

Norwich have an immediate chance to show they are no pushovers

5000 years ago, East Anglia was home to one of the most important

industries in the world - flint mining.

It was used to make spear tips, axes and tools.

It was mined at Grimes Graves near Thetford,

is being opened to the public for the first time.

It is an extraordinary, the lunar like

At Grimes Graves, hundreds of prehistoric flint

Now, a second shaft here is being opened to visitors.

But you will need to have a head for heights.

It is incredible to think this shaft was made about

The sides I am looking at would have been exactly what the

Along one of the galleries that comes off the

main shaft, they radiate off the main shaft in lots of different

Worked between 3000 and 1900 BC, some panels stretch for 60 metres.

It is very much an industrial site because

they were clearly getting the raw product out.

In some cases, they were working it into some

We know that they found a Cornish greenstone axe in here.

It is incredible to think that this

40 foot shaft was dug by miners equipped with picks

Greenwell excavated this page in 1868 to 1870.

And there were later excavations by the British Museum in

Hopefully you can see there is an axe emerging.

William is one of the few people capable of working yet. For the

Neolithic, the great change was the farming, the clearing of land, the

felling of trees. You need to start thinking about getting an axe into a

handle for the first time so that you can do that. Like underground,

Greenwells will still be offering small, guided groups. The focus is

on preserving this historic relic for future generations. That is

extraordinary. It's estimated that 21

pubs in this country For landlords, it seems

to be getting harder But happily a pub in Lowestoft

is bucking the trend. The Stanford Arms has just been

voted one of the best in Britain Serving behind the bar know that! It

is busy, isn't it? Might be something to do with the fact that

the landlord bribe them with free beer.

CHEERING Just saying, 11 beers from right

across East Anglia, from Suffolk and Norfolk. This place is definitely

all about the beer. David Bird is the landlord

of the Stanford Arms. He took on the public

house five years ago. It was a big risk running

a public house these days. Unless you have a prime

location, you will struggle to make a living out

of them these days. It is not just about the beer.

It is also about good food. There is a pizza oven in the pub,

live music and friendly, David has to work hard

to overcome a Location The thing about the Stanford Arms

is that you have to make It is in the back streets.

Surrounded by terraced houses. There is more than

a hint of the When we do have a busy

time, we know all the They have made the

trouble to find us. But it is warm and tidy

and it is welcoming. Just don't expect

Sky Sports or a jukebox. Apparently, people have

to talk to each other in The get away from

jukeboxes and music. There is a lot of pubs you go to,

you sort of are overpowered with big screens, people watching

the football and rugby. Which is all very well,

but it is nice to be able to come out and have a pint

and chat to people. Congratulations to the

Stanford Arms in Lowestoft. It is quite an achievement

to reach the The help now is that

David and his staff might go all the way

to the title next year. Let's have a word with a couple of

regulars. Julie and special. They have had a few. Why do you like it?

We love having here because it is friendly, welcoming. There is a

great selection of real ales. You can will give way through the list

every time. An early start today, but we have all night. Julie, one of

the reasons I like this place is because it is old-fashioned. There

is a lovely atmosphere, holds as people, friendly. You get to have a

nice chap. Conversation is the thing. A last look at the

certificate. Going to be winners next year, we hope. Can you say

that, they have had a couple of any? They didn't seem to mind. Those of

us who worked behind a back know how to pull a pint. I will stick to

talking about the weather. Beautiful weather today. Blue sky

and sunshine this morning, here is Essex. Through the afternoon, more

in the way of clouds and sun showers. Some of them were heavy

with some hail mixed in. Over the next few hours, those showers

isolated. Just a few jetting through. A dry night with some clear

spells. Underneath the skies, the temperature dropping lower than

these values down to around freezing. We are likely to see frost

in some places. Pat Sheehan is not for everyone. Winds are Park light

to moderate between the north-west and the south-west. Tomorrow, chilly

start. This front pushing information out West, but it has

slowed down considerably since lunchtime. Tomorrow isn't too bad.

Showers but for many of us dry. More cloud around generally. The sunshine

a bit milky. Temperatures in the best of the sunshine up to nine or

10 Celsius. The winds tending to be on the light side. We finish fine

and dry. Tomorrow night and into Wednesday morning, cloud increasing.

Rain moving through. Some of this is likely to be on the heavy side. This

is the front responsible for the rain. The front. Taking a while to

clear on Wednesday. Getting off to a cloudy start with some rain. As the

front goes away, it should become drier and brighter. Temperatures as

high as 13 Celsius on Wednesday, taking us into the mid-50s

Fahrenheit. Uncertainly from Thursday. Another front from the

south-west. Thursday fine and I at the moment with further spells of

sunshine and temperatures into the mid-50s Fahrenheit. If I had

bringing rain into Friday. Cloudy with further outbreaks of rain.

Staying uncertain in terms of the weekend. Wet and windy on Saturday,

blustery on Sunday. I like the description, milky century. And a

weekly front.