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us, you can keep up to date throughout the night with the BBC | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello and welcome to the Look East late news. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The region's poultry flocks to stay in lock down as the threat | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
You can't park here - An Essex tradesman accuses | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
house-builders of snobbery after his van is banned | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
Temperatures are dropping overnight as we have a sharp frost. | :00:22. | :00:35. | |
The region's poultry farmers suffered another blow | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
tonight when they were told to keep their flocks indoors | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
To guard against the risk of bird flu, the restrictions imposed | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
by DEFRA were first brought in on December 6th. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
After outbreaks were recorded across Europe. | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
It meant all captive birds had to be kept undercover for 30 days. | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
Today, a poultry auction in Mildenhall | :00:58. | :00:58. | |
The government's now confirmed restrictions will be in place | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
This field in South Norfolk should beef full of free range chickens | :01:02. | :01:11. | |
They will be confined to quarters for the next eight weeks, | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
safely undercover until the threat of bird flu has passed. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
A worry for Mike Gordon who rears 1 million free range | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
We have farms across the whole of East Anglia and there is a huge | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
amount of migration coming into this part of the world. | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
5,000 turkeys at this farm near Louth died | :01:37. | :01:49. | |
or were culled and another case at a property in Wales. | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
Public Health England say there has been no recorded places | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
The commercial risk of that is another matter. | :01:58. | :02:07. | |
If bird flu is found in their flocks, the clean-up | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
operation could cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
The east was hit hard by bird flu ten years ago. | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
Thousands of turkeys and chickens had to be slaughtered. | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
This is a massive industry and produce 107 million eggs every year. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
No new outbreak in the east but the latest strain | :02:25. | :02:35. | |
There is also a ban on poultry shows and gatherings. | :02:36. | :02:47. | |
It is something you live with and expect. | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
I have survived foot and mouth mouth, bird flu, | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
bird flu again and we will carry on and endeavour to | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
The threat is from wild birds migrating over the eastern region | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
and only until that threat has passed will Mark release his | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
turkeys and chickens back into East Anglia's fields. | :03:08. | :03:16. | |
Earlier I spoke to poultry vet Stephen Lister and asked him | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
if he thought DEFRA had overreacted by extending the restrictions. | :03:20. | :03:45. | |
I assume DEFRA officials have looked at the regulations and conclusions | :03:46. | :03:54. | |
will become too. Will there be further outbreaks? There has only | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
been two commercial outbreaks but they have found the virus in wild | :04:01. | :04:09. | |
birds. It will go into February, hence the decision. It is a problem | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
that keeps resurfacing. Will we have to live with it? The way it comes | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
into the country is wild birds and they like to migrate from Eastern | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
Europe and other places to the UK. There was always a risk. There was a | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
greater risk this year because there is this strain which is very | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
prevalent in wild birds across the whole of Europe. Poultry farmers are | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
more equipped to cope with housing birds. What if somebody next door | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
has some chickens? I would expect people who have five or six chickens | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
will help them at night to keep them away from Fox's and keep them | :05:00. | :05:09. | |
comfortable. You have to keep them housed in comfortable accommodation | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
and it is important because although they may not see the risk is being | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
greater, the repercussions are just as much as if we have an outbreak in | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
a small flock of five chickens rather than one in 5000 chickens. | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
What should people be looking for? Any in -- ill-health in their birds. | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
Not everything will be influenza. They will know quickly if they have | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
chickens or turkeys because they will become very sick, very quickly. | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
Thank you. Commercial vehicles are being banned | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
from parking on a new housing The builder, Persimmon Homes, said | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
the rule was designed to protect The local MP said the ban | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
sounds like snobbery. The Oakwood Meadows estate has | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
already made headlines. He was set on his 300,000 | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
dream home until he realised he wouldn't be | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
able to park his work van outside his house | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
because of a restrictive covenant Not far from the estate, | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
builders were working on an extension and Matthew, | :06:16. | :06:28. | |
a plumbing and heating engineer, said he thought the van | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
ban was unfair. It is ridiculous and discriminating | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
against someone who goes to work and Just because they use | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
a van, it is outrageous. Colchester's MP is a former | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
property lawyer and he wants an end to restrictive | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
covenants that ban commercial There were lots of hard working | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
people that rely on vans, It is their only mode | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
of transport and say they can build a house but not able to live | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
in one because they can't park there People should be allowed to have | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
whatever vehicle they wish. If they purchased a house, | :07:04. | :07:22. | |
they should have whatever vehicle parked | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
on the driveway. The only white van we | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
spotted was leaving. One of the region's leading | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
Brexit campaigners, the MP John Whittingdale, | :07:36. | :07:36. | |
says Britain's last ambassador in Brussels clearly didn't | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
believe in the project. It follows the resignation | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
of Sir Ivan Rogers, who in a leaked letter to staff attacked | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
the government's It is a caution giving advice to | :07:46. | :07:59. | |
ministers but they should do so in private. It makes sense that as we | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
go to important negotiation, we should be having someone that | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
believes the outcome can be beneficial for the UK. | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
The intervention of senior figures like Mr Whittingdale indicates how | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
much local politics this year will be dominated by Brexit. | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
And earlier our political correspondent Andrew | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
The East was at the forefront of last year's referendum campaign so | :08:21. | :08:32. | |
it makes sense that our MPs should be at the forefront to make Brexit | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
start to happen. We are seeing key members of the campaign who are not | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
in government, starting to talk a lot to make sure Brexit happens. | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
There is a suspicion that there are elements that are trying to slow | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
Brexit down. Then Gummer is in charge of the office and is | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
responsible for making sure all government departments are ready for | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
forthcoming negotiations. Vicky Forth has been involved in | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
negotiations in Brussels and will play a key role. This won't go away. | :09:11. | :09:21. | |
The referendum result must be respected but you have the Lib Dems, | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
Norman Lamb, saying they want a second referendum and will | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
scrutinise any legislation in Parliament. There will be attempts | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
to slow down Brexit this year. MPs in this region will be conscious of | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
the fact that most people in this region voted to leave them that is | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
what they will want to see happen. Finally, it's been a long | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
but significant day at Lions, giraffes, ring-tailed | :09:46. | :09:46. | |
lemurs, even Madagascan hissing cockroaches have | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
all been taking part In fact every zoo has to count | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
all its animals by law OK, that's all from me this | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
evening, have a good night. I'll leave you with | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
the weather and Alex Dolan. A cold night tonight. Already many | :10:05. | :10:15. | |
of us are below freezing. There has been one or two fleeting showers | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
across Norfolk and Suffolk which are expected to fade. We have clear | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
spells and temperatures down to minus three Celsius. Out in the | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
countryside, it could get lower. A cold start the day but high pressure | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
is establishing itself across the British Isles and we have weather. | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
It will be a cold side after the frosty start. There are one or two | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
showers across parts of Norfolk. Most of us, it is looking dry with | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
long spells of sunshine. Temperatures will not get higher | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
than four Celsius. Feeling cold end the low temperatures. The National | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
weather is coming up. Here is the outlook and rain is expected | :11:01. | :11:01. | |
rain by Friday afternoon. Temperatures creeping up a notch or | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
two and turning milder into the | :11:05. | :11:05. |