08/03/2017 Look East


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Hello and welcome to the late edition of Look East.

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In the programme tonight, the mother of the missing

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after Suffolk Police admit her son's body is almost

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What the budget could mean for smaLL businesses across Essex,

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All the details later in the programme.

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Good evening. I'm Vanessa Baffoe.

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First tonight, the crucial evidence missed by detectives

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after the disappearance of airman Corrie Mckeague.

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For nearly six months, they had all but ruled out

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a theory linking him to a landfiLL site near Cambridge.

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But now they have finally admitted that he will almost

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Today, Look East was given access to the search operation

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It is where bins from Bury St Edmunds were taken just

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Slowly and methodically, specially-trained officers

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mindful that, just feet below them could lie

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Nearby, a digger waits to collect it after each search.

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Scented air is dispensed here, to mask the smell.

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Further in, the police have set up a compound for the search teams,

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from which a specially-built access route leads to the search site -

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920 square metres and eight metres deep.

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Does it bother you that someone can put waste into a bin lorry,

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can unload it at a landfill site and nobody notices

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Yes, it bothers me. Of course it bothers me.

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That is somebody's son. It is Corrie.

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If that is what has happened, we need to understand how that

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has happened and to understand the circumstances of what happened

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These are the last images of the 23-year-old airman

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He went missimng from this area of Bury St Edmunds.

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A rubbish lorry made a pick-up here within an hour of

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The last movements of his mobile phone coincided with the route

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that the bin lorry would have taken to the landfill site.

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Police say the error over the weight of the bin was made

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by the waste company, who provided the data.

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They said there was no intention to mislead

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Had police known at the outset about the true weight of the bin, how

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different would this investigation have been?

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Why did it take more than five months for this fact to emerge and,

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if Corrie was in that bin, how could a body be taken

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to a landfill like this and for no-one to have noticed?

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Frustrated by the apparent slow progress of the investigation,

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Corrie's family had brought in their own intelligence

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expert, to sift through some of the evidence.

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We would like to think we had something to do

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with directing the police towards that site.

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From the very outset - and the family hold this opinion,

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too - there should have been more work done on the landfill site.

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In five months, police only made one arrest.

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Last week, they questioned a man reported to be from the bin firm,

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on suspicion of attempting to pervert the courtse of justice.

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on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

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Both men have been told they will not face any more action.

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All eyes are now focused on this landfill site

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The Mckeague family are praying for the best, but are now more

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This is still a missing person's enquiry, but there is every

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expectation that the remains of Corrie Mckeague will be found.

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Corrie's mother, Nicola Urquhart is a serving police officer.

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She has followed every twist and turn

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of the investigation with an expert eye.

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Today, Susie Fowler-Watt went to see her at her home

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in Dunfermline in Scotland. She said up to now,

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she had pinned her hopes on the belief that Corrie could not

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And those facts were the bin weighed 11 kilograms.

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They checked it. They double checked it.

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So, he couldn't have been in it. They checked the calibration.

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And so, knowing that, we've... We've had to go through all of this.

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And I know you've had an up-and-down relationship

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with Suffolk Police during that time, but how do you

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feel about the fact that this has come out now?

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I don't feel let down by Suffolk Police.

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I feel let down by decisions that have been made that

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that have made things harder than they had to be.

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I think there's lessons that can be learned.

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I don't think the next family that have a missing child,

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or a missing loved one, will go through some of the things

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And I'll probably be quite vocal about making sure some

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When we first talked, right at the start of the investigation,

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you talked about the agony of not knowing.

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Now you probably do know, is it still agony?

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I would actually say that's one of the things I've

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so completely incorrect. It's not the agony of not knowing.

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Because when you don't know, you can still believe

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that they are alive. The agony is when you do know...

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It seems like you're always so strong, but this news has almost,

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kind of, knocked a chunk in your resolve.

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when I was trying to organise searches or getting volunteers,

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I felt like I have been doing something constructive

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Now, just sitting and waiting for a phone call, to find out

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whether they've found him or not, I don't do that well.

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So, what is your overriding emotion at the moment,

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I cannot explain how this is making me feel right now.

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I'm so upset that I've brought over 120,000 people into this, with us,

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and I'm making other people upset, because I needed their support,

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when maybe this didn't have to happen.

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I'm angry that I've had to criticise a police force, when maybe this

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I can't even describe how it makes me feel for my boys.

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There was help in the Budget today for companies in the region who have

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They will get a share of more than ?400 million,

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with local councils able to give money to what they consider the most

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Our business correspondent Richard Bond is here.

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The Chancellor was under a lot of pressure to act on business

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rates and there was more money for social care, but a tax rise

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Yes they have been recalculated and there are some who have won and some

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who have lost. In the senior, businesses have not done too badly.

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In only four districts, is the arise. But there are some massive

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increases in individual cases. The majority of pubs will get a discount

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of around ?1000. Anything is a help.

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1,000 quid to some people is a lot of money.

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In the great scheme of things, I don't suppose it is too much,

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but anything is a great help. There was more money for social

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care, but Horizon National insurance for the self-employed? Yes, this is

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an area of high self employment. This has annoyed business groups.

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The Suffolk Chamber of Commerce says it has a body blow for

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entrepreneurs. The theatre is taking away the incentive for people to

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take the plunge into self-employment. With regard to

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social care, they will get a share of the two billion pounds nationally

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over the next few years. Many people feel that will not be enough to plug

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the funding gap. It has emerged that another inmate

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has died at Chelmsford Prison. Essex Police say last week's death

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is not being treated as suspicious. A man in his thirties was found

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unconscious at the jail and taken to hospital,

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where he later died. Procedures at the prison

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were criticised after who electrocuted himself

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in his ceLL last year. Alex is next with your weather.

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But from me, goodnight. He mild forecast over the next

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couple of days. We start tomorrow with this weather system quite

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close, but that is enough out of the way to suggest we will enjoy a fine

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day of weather. If freshening breeze coming down from the North West.

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Temperatures 12-15dC. outlook, staying mild and Nick has

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the bigger picture across the UK. Hello. Spring is in the air with

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temperatures reaching 14 or 15 in a few spots today as they will again

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over the next few days. Very pleasant in the sun. The daffodils

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were loving that in York. More places under blue sky tomorrow and

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dry. Tonight heavy showers moving across Scotland on strong to gale

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force winds, some may clip Northern Ireland. It's a mild night in

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southern England and South Wales but damp and drizzly, misty with coastal

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and hill fog elsewhere. Temperatures in between and dry: This damp

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weather hangs on from parts of the Channel Islands, to Cornwall.

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Elsewhere, it's getting brighter in South Wales and southern England. In

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England, Wales and Northern Ireland some sunny spells around from the

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