13/02/2017 Look East

Hello and welcome to the Look East late news.

Lock down at a poultry farm on the Norfolk Suffolk border

as bird flue is found in the region for the first time this winter.

More suspicious bags have washed up on the region's beaches as police

continue to investigate a massive cocaine haul.

After a wintry weekend, some milder weather in your forecast for the

week ahead. There's been an outbreak of bird flu

at a poultry farm near Redgrave There are around 23,000

birds on the farm. It's the region's first case

of bird flu this winter. Our reporter Alex

Dunlop is there now. Behind me you can see the farm, one

of the units in our floodlights. You probably can't quite see, there is a

disinfectant dip on the outside of the fence. Tests were carried out

under triggers run this unit and found to be carrying the H5N8

strain. They don't know whether it is low pathogen or high pathogen.

We're in a village near another village called Redgrave on the

Norfolk Suffolk border. Defra have put in a six mile restriction zone

to prevent spread. They'll be humanely culling 23,000 birds,

chickens, from this unit. I spoke to one of the region's, one of the

country's biggest chicken producers. They manage this farm, and they say

it doesn't produce meat, it is a breeder farm. They say they notified

Defra as soon as they noticed mortality in their flocks on Sunday.

Birds they say at other firms appear to be healthy, they say now fully

cooperating with Defra. Lots of poultry farms in that area. Farmers

must be very worried? There is a whole gathering of poultry farms

here. The last big outbreak in 2007, one farm just one mile down the

road, they had to call 22,000 birds. There are in mind, this is a sector

that produces 107 million eggs, one in four of the country's chickens

comes from the region. It is worth ?140 million a year, this is a very

big deal. Since the first outbreak at a turkey farm in Lincolnshire,

farmers and had to keep the poultry undercover and away from birds,

service will be a body blow. The to public health from this virus is

very low. Food agencies say that bird flu does not pose a safety risk

to consumers. Alex, thank you very much.

More suspicious packages have washed up on our beaches as investigations

continue into last week's 50 million pound drugs haul.

On Thursday bags containing cocaine were found on beaches at Hopton,

Since then, two more suspected finds at Happisburgh in Norfolk

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 an 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

Ray lives close to where the drugs were found at Hopton.

Here, a lifeboat has been helping with the search for more packages.

Paddy Lee says that without a starting point,

it's impossible to work out where any remaining packages

For every search that we carry out, we need to know our start point,

from which point we can conduct a search pattern.

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.

I asked him if the it could have been an exchange

There could well be some sort of handover, perhaps

in the middle of the sea, from one ship to

Or it could have been even somehow tethered there to a boy

?50 million worth of drugs sounds like a lot of money to me.

But in the great scheme of things, is that a lot in the UK,

Certainly the UK has a serious drugs problem at the moment.

The crime network obviously can't sustain that loss of ?50 million,

They're obviously a crime network with a lot of resources,

they won't be very pleased that it's been lost, but at the same time

doubtless they have been successful before and probably

So in the general scheme of things yes, it is significant.

But I don't think it'll have a huge impact on what's

And what does it say about the vulnerability

Well, police have been cut, border force have been cut.

We are terribly exposed along the east coast.

We're also exposed at our major airports, where Border Force

officers are taken away from customs duties to look at passports.

All in all, if you are a drug trafficker looking to move drugs

into the UK, you probably will be feeling quite satisfied with the way

Apart from this ?50 million worth of loss.

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

An inquest has opened into the death of a dog walker hho was killed

when the cliff at Thorpeness collapsed on top of him.

Brendan Lavery, who lived at Ingham near Bury St Edmunds,

was walking on the beach when it happened one day after

At the formal opening of the inquest in Ipswich today,

we heard how the face of the cliff just suddenly collapsed on Mr Lavery

The beach presumably at the time similar to now, quite narrow.

We heard how the emergency services were summoned,

and it was actually a doctor from the air ambulance

Subsequently, a postmortem showed that he died

from what were described as massive, multiple injuries.

The assistant coroner said that Mr Laveryhad presumably come

here for the pleasure of a walk on the beach.

It was a major tragedy that it cost him his life.

We're back in breakfast tomorrow from 6.30, but I'll

say goodnight and leave you with the weather with Julie.

It is a dry night ahead, with largely clear skies. Under the clear

skies, temperatures are ready falling. For some of us, they will

drop a little lower than these values, down to around freezing. Out

of the wind, we could see some frost. Not for everyone. Tomorrow, a

weather front from the south-west, but not a bad day for us. Spells of

sunshine, largely dry, with cloud increasing from the south-west

eventually, mainly during the afternoon. Temperatures at best

eight or 9 degrees. We will have lighter winds tomorrow from the

south-easterly direction. We finished the day largely fine and

dry, rain should stay to the rest of us. Wednesday weather dependent on

this weather front and where it ends up going. It looks like we'll have

fine and dry weather, perhaps on sunshine, and also some rain for a

while well. Most of its data the West, but there is a good chance

comes over the top of us for a time. Highs of around ten or 11. On

Thursday, high pressure in charge, so it will be largely fine and dry.

We should get a bit of rain in places, but after it clears we

should also get to see some sunshine in places. Temperatures will some of

us into double figures. That goes for Friday, too. Largely fine and

dry, give or take a few drops of rain. Temperatures into the low 50s

Fahrenheit. John has the National forecast in America, I give you the

outlook at the weekend it will be mild.

Largely dry, perhaps