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Hello and welcome to the late edition of Look East. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
In the programme tonight, the mother of the missing | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
after Suffolk Police admit her son's body is almost | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
What the budget could mean for smaLL businesses across Essex, | :00:14. | :00:24. | |
All the details later in the programme. | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
Good evening. I'm Vanessa Baffoe. | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
First tonight, the crucial evidence missed by detectives | :00:39. | :00:39. | |
after the disappearance of airman Corrie Mckeague. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
For nearly six months, they had all but ruled out | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
a theory linking him to a landfiLL site near Cambridge. | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
But now they have finally admitted that he will almost | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
Today, Look East was given access to the search operation | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
It is where bins from Bury St Edmunds were taken just | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
Slowly and methodically, specially-trained officers | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
mindful that, just feet below them could lie | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Nearby, a digger waits to collect it after each search. | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
Scented air is dispensed here, to mask the smell. | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Further in, the police have set up a compound for the search teams, | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
from which a specially-built access route leads to the search site - | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
920 square metres and eight metres deep. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
Does it bother you that someone can put waste into a bin lorry, | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
can unload it at a landfill site and nobody notices | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
Yes, it bothers me. Of course it bothers me. | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
That is somebody's son. It is Corrie. | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
If that is what has happened, we need to understand how that | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
has happened and to understand the circumstances of what happened | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
These are the last images of the 23-year-old airman | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
He went missimng from this area of Bury St Edmunds. | :02:10. | :02:20. | |
A rubbish lorry made a pick-up here within an hour of | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
The last movements of his mobile phone coincided with the route | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
that the bin lorry would have taken to the landfill site. | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
Police say the error over the weight of the bin was made | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
by the waste company, who provided the data. | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
They said there was no intention to mislead | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
Had police known at the outset about the true weight of the bin, how | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
different would this investigation have been? | :02:42. | :02:42. | |
Why did it take more than five months for this fact to emerge and, | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
if Corrie was in that bin, how could a body be taken | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
to a landfill like this and for no-one to have noticed? | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
Frustrated by the apparent slow progress of the investigation, | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
Corrie's family had brought in their own intelligence | :03:02. | :03:02. | |
expert, to sift through some of the evidence. | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
We would like to think we had something to do | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
with directing the police towards that site. | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
From the very outset - and the family hold this opinion, | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
too - there should have been more work done on the landfill site. | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
In five months, police only made one arrest. | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
Last week, they questioned a man reported to be from the bin firm, | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
on suspicion of attempting to pervert the courtse of justice. | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice. | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
Both men have been told they will not face any more action. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
All eyes are now focused on this landfill site | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
The Mckeague family are praying for the best, but are now more | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
This is still a missing person's enquiry, but there is every | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
expectation that the remains of Corrie Mckeague will be found. | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
Corrie's mother, Nicola Urquhart is a serving police officer. | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
She has followed every twist and turn | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
of the investigation with an expert eye. | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
Today, Susie Fowler-Watt went to see her at her home | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
in Dunfermline in Scotland. She said up to now, | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
she had pinned her hopes on the belief that Corrie could not | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
And those facts were the bin weighed 11 kilograms. | :04:15. | :04:24. | |
They checked it. They double checked it. | :04:25. | :04:25. | |
So, he couldn't have been in it. They checked the calibration. | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
And so, knowing that, we've... We've had to go through all of this. | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
And I know you've had an up-and-down relationship | :04:34. | :04:46. | |
with Suffolk Police during that time, but how do you | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
feel about the fact that this has come out now? | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
I don't feel let down by Suffolk Police. | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
I feel let down by decisions that have been made that | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
that have made things harder than they had to be. | :05:05. | :05:15. | |
I think there's lessons that can be learned. | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
I don't think the next family that have a missing child, | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
or a missing loved one, will go through some of the things | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
And I'll probably be quite vocal about making sure some | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
When we first talked, right at the start of the investigation, | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
you talked about the agony of not knowing. | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
Now you probably do know, is it still agony? | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
I would actually say that's one of the things I've | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
so completely incorrect. It's not the agony of not knowing. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
Because when you don't know, you can still believe | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
that they are alive. The agony is when you do know... | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
It seems like you're always so strong, but this news has almost, | :06:06. | :06:19. | |
kind of, knocked a chunk in your resolve. | :06:20. | :06:30. | |
when I was trying to organise searches or getting volunteers, | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
I felt like I have been doing something constructive | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
Now, just sitting and waiting for a phone call, to find out | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
whether they've found him or not, I don't do that well. | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
So, what is your overriding emotion at the moment, | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
I cannot explain how this is making me feel right now. | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
I'm so upset that I've brought over 120,000 people into this, with us, | :06:56. | :07:13. | |
and I'm making other people upset, because I needed their support, | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
when maybe this didn't have to happen. | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
I'm angry that I've had to criticise a police force, when maybe this | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
I can't even describe how it makes me feel for my boys. | :07:26. | :07:38. | |
There was help in the Budget today for companies in the region who have | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
They will get a share of more than ?400 million, | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
with local councils able to give money to what they consider the most | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
Our business correspondent Richard Bond is here. | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
The Chancellor was under a lot of pressure to act on business | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
rates and there was more money for social care, but a tax rise | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Yes they have been recalculated and there are some who have won and some | :08:03. | :08:17. | |
who have lost. In the senior, businesses have not done too badly. | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
In only four districts, is the arise. But there are some massive | :08:25. | :08:34. | |
increases in individual cases. The majority of pubs will get a discount | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
of around ?1000. Anything is a help. | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
1,000 quid to some people is a lot of money. | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
In the great scheme of things, I don't suppose it is too much, | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
but anything is a great help. There was more money for social | :08:44. | :09:03. | |
care, but Horizon National insurance for the self-employed? Yes, this is | :09:04. | :09:13. | |
an area of high self employment. This has annoyed business groups. | :09:14. | :09:22. | |
The Suffolk Chamber of Commerce says it has a body blow for | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
entrepreneurs. The theatre is taking away the incentive for people to | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
take the plunge into self-employment. With regard to | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
social care, they will get a share of the two billion pounds nationally | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
over the next few years. Many people feel that will not be enough to plug | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
the funding gap. It has emerged that another inmate | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
has died at Chelmsford Prison. Essex Police say last week's death | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
is not being treated as suspicious. A man in his thirties was found | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
unconscious at the jail and taken to hospital, | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
where he later died. Procedures at the prison | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
were criticised after who electrocuted himself | :09:59. | :09:59. | |
in his ceLL last year. Alex is next with your weather. | :10:00. | :10:09. | |
But from me, goodnight. He mild forecast over the next | :10:10. | :10:34. | |
couple of days. We start tomorrow with this weather system quite | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
close, but that is enough out of the way to suggest we will enjoy a fine | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
day of weather. If freshening breeze coming down from the North West. | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
Temperatures 12-15dC. outlook, staying mild and Nick has | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
the bigger picture across the UK. Hello. Spring is in the air with | :10:59. | :11:08. | |
temperatures reaching 14 or 15 in a few spots today as they will again | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
over the next few days. Very pleasant in the sun. The daffodils | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
were loving that in York. More places under blue sky tomorrow and | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
dry. Tonight heavy showers moving across Scotland on strong to gale | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
force winds, some may clip Northern Ireland. It's a mild night in | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
southern England and South Wales but damp and drizzly, misty with coastal | :11:34. | :11:44. | |
and hill fog elsewhere. Temperatures in between and dry: This damp | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
weather hangs on from parts of the Channel Islands, to Cornwall. | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
Elsewhere, it's getting brighter in South Wales and southern England. In | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
England, Wales and Northern Ireland some sunny spells around from the | :11:58. | :11:58. |