06/03/2017 Look East


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Hello and welcome to the Look East late news.

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Officers begin a painstaking search of a landfill site

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near Cambridge for missing airman Corrie Mckeague.

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We go down a new mineshaft at Grimes Graves near Thetford

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to find out how Stone Age man lived 5,000 years ago.

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And I will be here with your weather for the week ahead,

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Police officers have started a crucial stage in their search

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for Corrie Mckeague, who went missing after a night out

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Today, they started sifting through tonnes of rubbish

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in the search for the missing airman.

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A bin lorry made a collection in the town

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shortly after Corrie was last seen on CCTV.

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The lorry went to the landfill site at Milton,

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This is such a big operation, it has taken the police more than two weeks

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to prepare the groundwork. If you yards behind the gate is the

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landfill, and they have two putting politics and sands repair access

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roads. It could last 6-8 weeks. Diggers will take out the rubbish,

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transfer it to a flat area, and then officers will go in and search for

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clues. Today, specialist police search

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teams are wearing Phyllis and jackets begin what could be

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a mammoth, painstaking Almost item by item,

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they will pick through 920 square They are booking for anything

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that could be linked to I think there is a very strong

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possibility that Corrie Mckeague if he is not, that leads us

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to other vehicles that The people that have been spoken

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to perhaps need spoken to again. These are the last now-familiar CCTV

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shots of Corrie Mckeague before he went missing after a night out

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in Bury St Edmunds town centre. The 23-year-old was seen going

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in but not coming out of this area, Shortly after, a waste lorry took

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away rubbish from one of these commercial bins

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where he disappeared. Corrie Mckeague's mobile phone

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was thought to be inside it. The lorry went to Barton Mills

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and then onto Milton, 30 miles away In the early days of

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the investigation, it was one We know that the refuge lorry did

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travel between the two locations. And the times would correlate

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loosely with the time at which the mobile telephone,

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which colleague was mentioning, was picked up in Bury St Edmunds,

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and then moving over there. A few days into their investigation,

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police told operators at the Milton site not to put any

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more rubbish in the area 19 weeks after Corrie Mckeague has

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disappeared, the best answer as to what happened to him

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could lie under here. Officers will delve to a depth of 26

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feet. One arrest of a 26 ruled in Saint Edmunds. Accusations of

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perverting the cause of justice, he has been bailed. The family will be

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expecting the worst but hoping for the best.

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Earlier, I spoke to Steve Gaskin, a former Scotland Yard detective

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who says searching landfill sites is hugely complex.

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I asked him what the decision to search meant they

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I mean, you wouldn't enter into this sort of search without having

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some idea that you're going to find something.

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Because, as we know, this is a huge operation

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in terms of manpower, in terms of cost, and there is a lot

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of work to be done to sift through effectively 8000

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And I suppose, as a cliche, as a police officer,

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I have never seen a surge on this scale.

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And these police officers will be searching with

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Yeah, the thing is, it will be very easy to overlook things.

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There is going to be all manner of detritus

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And it will have to be some form of digger to remove the staff

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you will have to go through that to determine what is useful

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And of course, what they would do is that's, it is a joint operation

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And they will need a specially trained officers to help with that.

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Together with, I suspect, a forensic team.

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And if it was me, I would want a pathologist on stand-by

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You would expect, after five months a fair degree of decomposition.

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What, therefore, might be left to provide a positive identification?

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Surprisingly, even after this time, and we are talking about six

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months ago, there will be the possibility of fingerprints.

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I know that sounds bizarre, but fingerprints are fairly

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In other words, you can still get marks even after that time.

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Your teeth do remain for a long, long time.

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So that will be the best way of identifying the person.

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Equally important is, you have got to deal

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Because you are dealing with a massive crime scene.

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Any evidence that is accried needs to be dealt with in the same way

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Offshore wind experts say they remain confident that a factory

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making turbine blades will be built in the East.

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The first factory was built in Hull by the German company Siemens.

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But business leaders say another local Manufacturing base

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

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But rather than being in Lowestoft or Great Yarmouth, this ?300 million

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Made from hundreds of layers of fibreglass.

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Many used to work in the local caravan industry,

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The blades we are producing at the moment are for

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Which is for our customer Dong Energy.

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We are also producing the wind turbines for the Dudgeon wind

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farm, which is just off the coast of Croma.

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Over the last 13 years, lots of wind farms have been

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

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Great efforts have gone into building up an onshore supply

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chain to maximise the number of jobs for the region.

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

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on getting a blade factory of our own.

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Around them, clusters of companies supplying the needs

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of what is a massive industry eventually locate themselves.

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Chris Starkey is one of those who has lobbied

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

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

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And that is far more than the Hull factory can produce on its own.

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And we think that Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft on the east coast

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is perfectly positioned to take advantage of a second

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A consignment of blades leaves Hull for Norfolk.

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

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5000 years ago, East Anglia was home to flint mining..Today a new mine

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shaft opened to the public at Grimes Graves near Thetford.

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It is an extraordinary, lunar-like landscape.

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At Grimes Graves, hundreds of prehistoric flint

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

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But you will need to have a head for heights.

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It is incredible to think this shaft was made about 2000 BC.

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

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It is very much an industrial site because they were clearly getting

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In some cases, they were working it into some basic shapes.

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We know, because they found a Cornish greenstone axe in here.

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It is incredible to think that this 40-foot shaft was dug by miners

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equipped with picks fashioned out of red deer antler.

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And this is what they are after - flint floor stone.

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Greenwells pit will soon be welcoming small, guided groups,

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the conservators here well aware of the need to protect this historic

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We're back in Breakfast tomorrow from 6.30, but I'll say goodnight

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and leave you in the hands of Julie with the weather.

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Of tonight, Shell was drifting through. For most of us, dry with

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clear spells. Underneath the Chris buys, temperatures could get lower

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than these values towards freezing. It will be a chilly start of the

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day. This weather front pushing towards us from the south-west.

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Apart from a few showers, fine and dry. Some spells of sunshine. That

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should help to produce up to 10 Celsius. We finish the day fine and

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dry. After. We will see the cloud thickening up. As the rain

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associated with the weather front pushing eastwards, some on the heavy

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side. It is associated with this weather front. Uncertainty as to how

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quickly it will clear to the east. When he gets off to a cloudy start

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with our great suffering. Hopefully the rain will eventually create and

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we will see things becoming drier and brighter. -- outbreaks of rain.

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Pressure pushing towards us but Thursday a dry day with some

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sunshine. Some rain moving through during Thursday night into Friday.

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Cloudy on Friday with some outbreaks of rain. The national forecast

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coming cool, it will be windy at times as

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well and still rather unsettled with some blustery showers around. That's

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the London forecast and now for the National forecast, over to Nick

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Miller. North-west France and Plymouth were

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miles apart weather-wise. This southern flank in north-west France

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there was a wind gusts of 120 mph which we just dodged. That area of

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low pressure continues to move quickly south-eastwards so that by

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tomorrow it is in Italy on its southern flank, stormy in Sardinia

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and around it strong winds blowing through south-east France. We've got

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a little bump in the ice bars with lighter winds, a brief ridge of high

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pressure, things briefly settled going into tomorrow, overnight there

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are some showers around moving through western Scotland and

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north-west England and the Midlands, clearing Wales, one or two in the

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east, the North Sea

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