09/03/2017 Look East

We need a change in the law - so it's goodbye from me,

the Essex council which says it's too hard

after travellers move on to more land.

At Dale Farm yesterday, Hovefields today. What is tomorrow? I do not

have the resources to do this. are at risk at the Harry Potter

printers in Suffolk. The four-year-old who

has to spend 20 hours And I am with double Olympic gold

medallist Max Whitlock to who is taking time out of competition to

gear up for the World Championships later this year.

People living near an illegal travellers site in Essex say

they believe another Dale Farm could be created as the travellers

The site is at Hovefields in Wickford near Basildon,

More hardstanding has gone down over the past few days.

The council says it's trying to stop the site expanding,

but it needs more help from the Government.

Last weekend, residents of Hovefields Avenue noticed multiple

lorries filled with gravel travelling down the road. Soon

after, green belt land was covered in asphalt. Large mobile homes then

appeared. Jill has lived in the area for over 16 years. She was

horrified. I felt devastated and when we saw the amount that was

going down there, we knew it was going to be a major development. It

has been plotted off and looking at it, it will be a major development.

The danger is it will turn into Dale Farm but bigger. Dale Farm, less

than a mile down the road, with Europe's largest Traveller site. The

eviction of 80 families left 15 police officers injured and saw 45

arrests. The leader of Basildon Council says that due to the law is

not changing, Hovefields could end in a similar way. The residents

think this is going to become another Dale Farm. I share that

fear. What we need is a change to the law. Should the government not

have stepped in and change these laws? Absolutely. I can only work in

the legal parameters and the framework that is laid down. The law

needs changing. The government said? For Basildon Council things will

keep going round in circles. People have to exist and they have to have

a place to live. They can buy their own property, they could put in for

planning permission but sometimes that takes years to go through and

in the meantime, 99.9% of Gypsy travel applications get refused.

Nobody involved wants another Dale Farm but with no clear answers,

everyone fears history will repeat itself.

There's been a huge groundswell of support

for the mother of Corrie Mckeague after she apologised

to the thousands of people who've supported the search for her son.

This week, police started to search a huge landfill site more than five

Nicola Urquhart told BBC Look East last night she felt she had

made other people upset because she "needed their

support when maybe this didn't have to happen."

Dave four of the search of the landfill site. There is a growing

conviction that the remains of Coran may be found here. A bin which took

waste from the area when he vanished was far heavier than first thought.

Heavy enough to contain a body. His mother told Look East she feels

responsible for the hurt that will be felt by her online supporters. I

am so upset that I have bought over 120,000 people into this with us and

I am making other people upset because I needed their support.

Hundreds who watch that interview took to our Facebook page to

reassure Nicola. One wrote, no apology is needed.

Scores of volunteers searched the countryside after Corrie vanished.

The man who did then said he and they would do it again. I can say on

behalf of 120,000 people that she doesn't need to apologise to anybody

for anything, so she needs to concentrate on her own family. This

hotel is a base and a refuge for Nicola when she travels from

Scotland to Suffolk. Cheryl who runs it has got to know her well. Even

now she is worried about other people, but others have taken this

journey, they chose to take it and they are going to be heartbroken,

but they chose to take it. This is still a missing persons enquiry.

Support is now edged with the movement and frustration that the

search of this landfill has only now got underway. There is a growing

reconciliation that this 23-year-old gunner could soon be found but not

safe and well. Farmers across the East have been

left not knowing if they'll be paid after a major grain merchant

went into administration. Wellgrain, which is based

in Cambridgeshire, stopped trading The National Union of Farmers said

this could have a bigger impact The clear up operation after storm

Doris continues at this Cambridgeshire farm but another band

of bad news is now blowing in. Wellgrain used by farmers has

seemingly out of the blue gone into administration. The biggest problem

of all has been that there has been nothing being spoken about up until

last Friday, so we heard from the 22nd of February to Friday just gone

where nothing was said and it was rumours and hearsay. The company's

list of creditors currently stands at around 300, only two are secure

and should get their money back. Most are farmers who could lose

thousands of pounds. At Christmas his grain store was full of wheat,

it all went to Wellgrain, some of it has been paid for by the last two

loads that went on February 21 an unlikely to bring any return. It is

a silent matter really. You cannot physically see people losing money.

It is not like the flooding where there was a physical impact where

insurance could pay a lot of farmers to help and alleviate some of the

problems. Here there is no choice available. We have all got to bear

the brunt of this. Members who were expecting that income to aid their

cash flow and at a time when cash flows are tied and grain prices have

not been what they have been in the past, that money was important. No

one seems to know what went wrong, but today all was quiet at

Wellgrain's HQ. The administrators say they are exploring whether the

business has any future. The NFU has a helpline to offer

advice if you've been affected. About 120 jobs are at risk

at the book printing The company has been producing books

for generations and printed Temp Heung-Min has been in business

for nearly 200 years. It prints more than 140 million books a year. It is

part of the St Ives group with turnover at just under ?70 million

but with its share price falling, it has been forced to think hard about

the future shape of the business and it has now seen a major contract

lost to a rival. Managers say that as a direct result they have had to

announce these redundancy proposals and will now start talking to the

employees affected. Clays's managing director says he is understandably

disappointed with the news and will try to find the best possible

outcome. Unite says it will fight every step of the way to defend the

jobs of its members and seek to avoid compulsory redundancies. It

represents more than two thirds of the workforce. In a statement,

Unite's regional officer said: There has been huge investment at

Heung-Min in recent years to ensure it can cope not just with huge

demand but small-scale orders also. But managers admit these are tough

times and having enjoyed a long period of growth in their market

share, the loss of a contract worth millions is a real body blow.

Seven ticket offices on the Greater Anglia train

line could close and be replaced with machines.

The train operator is consulting over plans to close the offices

at stations including Walton-on-the-Naze, Great

The company says the stations have very low customer numbers

and staff will be on hand to help with enquires.

They hope to upgrade customer information and ticketing

A consultation on the plans runs until 20th March.

says work on the controversial northern distributor road

Work started 14 months ago and the whole project

Look East has been given special access to the vast building site.

This from our chief reporter Kim Riley.

The view from the air as work progresses on 13 miles of dual

carriageway stretching from the A47 to the Fakenham Road. It is

controversial but Norfolk County Council which is investing ?50

million believes it will bring huge economic benefits. Down on the

ground we were taken on a sometimes bumpy ride along the route. Some

sections are well advanced, others just a sea of sand and mud. Someone

.7 million cubic metres of soil have been excavated. Here we ploughed

through deep water. Of more than 150 people working here, 12% are women.

In the fields of engineering and construction that is above average.

I met 27-year-old Lizzie. She is a section engineer. She joined the

lead contractor as a trainee three and a half years ago. I was placed

by a recruitment engineering company and fell in love with the industry.

It was not something I thought would be an option but once I was there, I

fell in love with the charm of it. Along the route there are miles of

green fencing, hundreds of frogs, news and codes have been moved. I

deal with everything environmental so that can range from the animals

on site so we have newts, tree protection, looking at water

quality, air quality, looking for spills, cleaning up spills.

Everything you consider environment. Laying down 150,000 tonnes of

servicing is this year 's big challenge. Progress is good, we are

on track, we are hoping to complete by December, nearer Christmas.

Hindered slightly by wet weather but we are on programme. The county

council believes it will prove its worth in an area where thousands of

new homes are planned. Still to come tonight: Olympic

gymnast Max Whitlock on why he's training harder than ever,

even though he's decided not And the four-year-old

with a rare condition, who has to spend 20 hours a day

under UV lights. The Chancellor delivered his budget

yesterday and I think it's fair In fact, the head teacher

of his old secondary school in Essex Carole Herman says Philip Hammond

is neglecting the type of school She says schools face an 8% real

terms cut in their funding and she has made redundancies

already because of We talk to our students about having

aspirations, supporting those, you also can start here and become

Chancellor of the Exchequer, but sadly Philip Hammond has not

remembered that schools need funding in order to do the accident things

they do. There was extra money for education

announced in the budget, but much of it is earmarked

for new schools. Many of those are expected

to become grammars. Norwich is one of the places

being tipped for a grammar school. Dame Rachel de Souza is the head

of the Inspiration Trust chain You have been said to be reported to

be interested in setting up a grammar in Norwich. It is critical

we do not fall out looking at new ideas that could help our students

in Norwich, in this region do better, so we will explore it and

encourage everyone to explore it also. We were one of the first into

the free School movements and three, four years on, our sixth form

College is sending students to Cambridge, Oxford. Do you think

grammar schools are the answer to social mobility? The answer is a

great academic and well rounded education and every child should be

entitled to that, but there are different ways we can deliver that

and I think if grammar schools, if it is setup properly, it could be an

answer to speeding up improvements. We need to. Look at the results, we

are improving in this region but not quickly enough. What about the kids

that do not end up going to a grammar school? We're not going back

20 years. All the information we have are about the old system where

people either went to grammars or secondary moderns. That is not

coming back at all. If this legislation is passed, you are

talking about a small number of grammar schools and like any policy,

it means thinking about how could it benefit Norwich's Norfolk's

children. You already run a chain of academies. Shouldn't the money be

going to the schools that currently exist rather than building new ones?

There is a huge need for new school places. Is there enough money going

to the schools they run at the moment? If you look at the last 40

years, spending in education has doubled. Yes, it is getting tighter

now but that is what inspiration trusts, our 13 schools work together

to make efficiencies. We made ?600,000 efficiencies on the back of

their spending. We can work really hard to make sure all that money

goes to the front line and we do better. It is great education, great

teachers, while train teachers, fantastic subject knowledge that

will help our children achieve. How we do it is a different question. It

sounds like this is a debate will go on and we will talk to you again.

Thank you. the big story from the budget is

the increase in National Insurance who's been self-employed

for about 20 years. and says he's been let

down by the Chancellor. It is the cost. It will go. I will

have to pass that cost on to my customers and at this time, people

don't want to pay more if they do not need to. It is an added cost as

a business to me personally. What did you think when you heard about

the changes? Cheated, annoyed. Basically you vote for someone, you

get told something a year or so down the line, they change their mind,

they lie to you. We have all been cheated. Thousands, millions of

self-employed people. This will affect a lot of people. Millions of

people like myself, we go out, we work hard and we work hard for what

we have got so why are we being penalised? If I had Theresa May in

front of me now, I would ask, why me? Why is it us?

and today, one of our Conservative MPs described the proposed

to hard-working white van men and women.

He said he will try to get it stopped.

Our political correspondent Andrew Sinclair is outside a van

He is Steven McParland, the MP for the village and he has formed when

it comes to getting the government to change its mind over unpopular

budget decisions. He is one of a small number of Tory MPs to say they

cannot support what was announced yesterday. They need to drop this,

it will not have the support from people like myself. They aren't

panels are the backbone of this economy, they are opening those

small businesses, employing apprentices. We have to get behind

them. At the moment, he is in the minority. Most Conservative MPs are

saying this is a fairness issue. Self-employed people access the same

services as employees so why should they pay less tax? It is a tax rise

but the self-employed now see they must pay the same contributions and

that is reasonable. There's been an outcry

in the papers today, but how much opposition

is there really? The government says 60% of

self-employed people will not be affected by this and those who are

only pay an extra 60p a week and more. I took part in a phone in this

morning and we were contacted by several self-employed people who

said this is not a big deal, we do not mind paying extra so the

government will be hoping that is what happens but this row is not

just about self-employed people, there is the perception that the

government has broken a manifesto promise.

If you know any four-year-old boys, you will know it's very

hard to keep them still, so imagine if your four-year-old had

to stay in an area the size of a single bed for 20

That's what life's like for Ishmail Ali from Luton.

He's one of only 100 people across the world who has a liver

disease called lifetime jaundice and he needs to stay

under ultra-violet lights to manage his condition.

Four-year-old Ishmail has spent almost his entire life like this.

A rare liver condition called Crigler-Najjar means he eats,

phototherapy lights for a minimum of 20 hours a day.

Because he's missing an enzyme in his liver to

break down what we call jaundice, he hasn't got that at all, so

unfortunately because it builds up, it's like a toxin in the blood and

as a toxin, if it goes to the brain, first thing they've said is it

will go past the ears etc, he will become deaf,

he will get some sort of brain damage, maybe permanent.

He has to be cooped up in his medical phototherapy bed.

He absolutely hates it, especially

sister, so he just wants to run around like a normal four-year-old

boy and just run around the house and play around with her, but it is

The family have a carer that comes for six hours a

week, but they're hoping to raise money through a crowdfunding page

Our little sister, the seven-year-old, she's

not getting any quality of life either because she says, you know,

we're basically spending all the time with him, in and out of

hospital, so we don't ever get to play with her so if

someone can be with him, we can at least get a bit of a break,

a little bit of a rest and then be able to

concentrate on caring for him even more.

It is very likely that Ishmail will spend the rest of his life

Frustrating for an energetic and cheeky little boy, but his family

say they will do everything they can to make sure he has the best quality

The double Olympic gold medallist Max Whitlock is taking a six-month

break from competition to get ready for the World Gymnastics

The 24-year-old will continue to train full-time

at the South Essex Club in Basildon, but says he needs time away

from competing to practice new, more difficult routines.

He's been speaking exclusively to our sports reporter Tom Williams.

He is already on top of the world. At just 24, Britain's greatest ever

gymnast. Good. Really nice. But there is always room for

improvement. After winning double gold, Max Whitlock needs time away

to get better. My target is to go on for another eight years, definitely

four years, everything is striving towards Tokyo but eight years is my

dream to stay in the sport. I need to take care of my body now to do

that and I do want to go into competitions with the routines I had

last year. I want to be new and improved. To achieve that he says he

needs to work smarter. He will still train full-time but behind closed

doors, devising exciting new routines, here's hoping one daring

move will be named after him. Is there a lot more to come from you? I

hope so. With the new skills I am preparing. I cannot stand still and

sit there and be happy with those results. People underneath me will

start to try and chase me. Max became Britain's first ever Olympic

gymnastics champion at last summer's games and winning gold on Pall Mall

and the floor. He will miss the World Cup event in London plus the

British and European Championships. He has come from such a high in Rio

so number one, level out, make sure his head is back in the game. We

don't want to just go and participate and get back to the

grind. We want to try to raise the level. He has become one of British

sport most famous faces. Last month he was at Buckingham Palace. What is

it like being referred to as Max Whitlock and be? Very weird but very

nice as war. To go there and be awarded by the Queen, I was so

nervous but that was truly an amazing day. He has six months to

perfect his new routine before the pressure is back on performing in

front of the world. Such a good bloke. Some weather.

Spring was in the air today. Some beautiful sunshine across the

region. Temperatures hit 16 degrees. But we have clear skies across the

region at the moment, that will translate into quite a chilly

evening and temperatures will drop away further than they did last

night. Lows of around two or three Celsius. By the end of the night,

more cloud coming in from the West so temperatures should recover.

Still a fresh start tomorrow. The pressure pattern shows high pressure

still holding on. This weather system coming the west but for us in

the East, it should not spoil things too much. Some good spells of

sunshine for the morning. The sunshine will turn hazy and in

Western counties, it will cloud over for the afternoon. But not before

temperatures have got to around ten or 11 degrees. It is possible

temperatures could be higher. The wind coming from a southerly

direction and today we had that chilly north-westerly, so not a bad

day of work but as the cloud increases, perhaps the few spots of

light rain. And looking beyond for the weekend, it is looking a little

unsettled. At Len Tingle weather systems coming our way so we could

expect Saturday to be the better date in terms of dryness. Maybe

cloudy at times but some sunshine around. Sunday will be uncertain.

That weather system moving in and it will bring rain and make things feel

a little bit cooler. The outlook- cooling down to start next week and

some fairly settled weather on the way for the beginning of next week.

That is all from us. Have a very good evening. Good night.

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