04/01/2017 Look East


04/01/2017

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us, you can keep up to date throughout the night with the BBC

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Hello and welcome to the Look East late news.

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The region's poultry flocks to stay in lock down as the threat

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You can't park here - An Essex tradesman accuses

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house-builders of snobbery after his van is banned

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Temperatures are dropping overnight as we have a sharp frost.

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The region's poultry farmers suffered another blow

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tonight when they were told to keep their flocks indoors

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To guard against the risk of bird flu, the restrictions imposed

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by DEFRA were first brought in on December 6th.

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After outbreaks were recorded across Europe.

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It meant all captive birds had to be kept undercover for 30 days.

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Today, a poultry auction in Mildenhall

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The government's now confirmed restrictions will be in place

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This field in South Norfolk should beef full of free range chickens

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They will be confined to quarters for the next eight weeks,

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safely undercover until the threat of bird flu has passed.

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A worry for Mike Gordon who rears 1 million free range

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We have farms across the whole of East Anglia and there is a huge

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amount of migration coming into this part of the world.

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5,000 turkeys at this farm near Louth died

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or were culled and another case at a property in Wales.

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Public Health England say there has been no recorded places

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The commercial risk of that is another matter.

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If bird flu is found in their flocks, the clean-up

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operation could cost hundreds of thousands of pounds.

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The east was hit hard by bird flu ten years ago.

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Thousands of turkeys and chickens had to be slaughtered.

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This is a massive industry and produce 107 million eggs every year.

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No new outbreak in the east but the latest strain

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There is also a ban on poultry shows and gatherings.

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It is something you live with and expect.

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I have survived foot and mouth mouth, bird flu,

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bird flu again and we will carry on and endeavour to

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The threat is from wild birds migrating over the eastern region

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and only until that threat has passed will Mark release his

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turkeys and chickens back into East Anglia's fields.

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Earlier I spoke to poultry vet Stephen Lister and asked him

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if he thought DEFRA had overreacted by extending the restrictions.

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I assume DEFRA officials have looked at the regulations and conclusions

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will become too. Will there be further outbreaks? There has only

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been two commercial outbreaks but they have found the virus in wild

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birds. It will go into February, hence the decision. It is a problem

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that keeps resurfacing. Will we have to live with it? The way it comes

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into the country is wild birds and they like to migrate from Eastern

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Europe and other places to the UK. There was always a risk. There was a

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greater risk this year because there is this strain which is very

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prevalent in wild birds across the whole of Europe. Poultry farmers are

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more equipped to cope with housing birds. What if somebody next door

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has some chickens? I would expect people who have five or six chickens

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will help them at night to keep them away from Fox's and keep them

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comfortable. You have to keep them housed in comfortable accommodation

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and it is important because although they may not see the risk is being

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greater, the repercussions are just as much as if we have an outbreak in

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a small flock of five chickens rather than one in 5000 chickens.

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What should people be looking for? Any in -- ill-health in their birds.

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Not everything will be influenza. They will know quickly if they have

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chickens or turkeys because they will become very sick, very quickly.

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Thank you. Commercial vehicles are being banned

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from parking on a new housing The builder, Persimmon Homes, said

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the rule was designed to protect The local MP said the ban

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sounds like snobbery. The Oakwood Meadows estate has

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already made headlines. He was set on his 300,000

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dream home until he realised he wouldn't be

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able to park his work van outside his house

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because of a restrictive covenant Not far from the estate,

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builders were working on an extension and Matthew,

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a plumbing and heating engineer, said he thought the van

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ban was unfair. It is ridiculous and discriminating

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against someone who goes to work and Just because they use

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a van, it is outrageous. Colchester's MP is a former

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property lawyer and he wants an end to restrictive

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covenants that ban commercial There were lots of hard working

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people that rely on vans, It is their only mode

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of transport and say they can build a house but not able to live

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in one because they can't park there People should be allowed to have

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whatever vehicle they wish. If they purchased a house,

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they should have whatever vehicle parked

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on the driveway. The only white van we

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spotted was leaving. One of the region's leading

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Brexit campaigners, the MP John Whittingdale,

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says Britain's last ambassador in Brussels clearly didn't

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believe in the project. It follows the resignation

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of Sir Ivan Rogers, who in a leaked letter to staff attacked

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the government's It is a caution giving advice to

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ministers but they should do so in private. It makes sense that as we

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go to important negotiation, we should be having someone that

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believes the outcome can be beneficial for the UK.

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The intervention of senior figures like Mr Whittingdale indicates how

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much local politics this year will be dominated by Brexit.

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And earlier our political correspondent Andrew

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The East was at the forefront of last year's referendum campaign so

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it makes sense that our MPs should be at the forefront to make Brexit

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start to happen. We are seeing key members of the campaign who are not

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in government, starting to talk a lot to make sure Brexit happens.

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There is a suspicion that there are elements that are trying to slow

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Brexit down. Then Gummer is in charge of the office and is

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responsible for making sure all government departments are ready for

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forthcoming negotiations. Vicky Forth has been involved in

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negotiations in Brussels and will play a key role. This won't go away.

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The referendum result must be respected but you have the Lib Dems,

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Norman Lamb, saying they want a second referendum and will

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scrutinise any legislation in Parliament. There will be attempts

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to slow down Brexit this year. MPs in this region will be conscious of

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the fact that most people in this region voted to leave them that is

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what they will want to see happen. Finally, it's been a long

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but significant day at Lions, giraffes, ring-tailed

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lemurs, even Madagascan hissing cockroaches have

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all been taking part In fact every zoo has to count

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all its animals by law OK, that's all from me this

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evening, have a good night. I'll leave you with

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the weather and Alex Dolan. A cold night tonight. Already many

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of us are below freezing. There has been one or two fleeting showers

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across Norfolk and Suffolk which are expected to fade. We have clear

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spells and temperatures down to minus three Celsius. Out in the

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countryside, it could get lower. A cold start the day but high pressure

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is establishing itself across the British Isles and we have weather.

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It will be a cold side after the frosty start. There are one or two

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showers across parts of Norfolk. Most of us, it is looking dry with

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long spells of sunshine. Temperatures will not get higher

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than four Celsius. Feeling cold end the low temperatures. The National

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weather is coming up. Here is the outlook and rain is expected

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rain by Friday afternoon. Temperatures creeping up a notch or

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two and turning milder into the

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