20/03/2017 Look East

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It's been claimed tonight that a car rally in Southend at the weekend

will leave tax payers with a policing bill

It's been claimed tonight that a car rally in Southend at the weekend

will leave tax payers with a policing bill

Two years ago, after a similar event, the local council

took out an injunction to stop dangerous driving.

While this weekend's rally passed off peacefully,

the council wants organisers to make future events official.

One of over 2,000 high-performance modified cars on display

My brother has his daughter and son here.

This is the first major car cruise in Southend

since the council clamped down on unauthorised events in town.

Following filming of an event in 2015, the local authority

That banning order was aimed at car cruising events,

and allowed police to prosecute anyone driving dangerously

We are giving reassurance to everyone tonight...

On Saturday, extra police officers were on hand to carry out spot

We would rather organisers got in touch with us before the event

but it is what it is, and we would look forward to working

with participants to ensure safety of those involved and those

Critics of the cruise say that local residents have to foot the bill

The hidden reality is, at a time when we have

limited police resources, the police are being drawn

away from other jobs they should be doing.

The organiser argues that the cost is no more than policing a sporting

event and that this brings an economic benefit to the town.

The event went well, securing Southend as the capital

But this title does not sit well with the whole of the town.

MPs have been told that Norfolk has one of the highest rates

in the country of students who've been permanently

The number has almost doubled from 170 to 300

The Norfolk MP Norman Lamb raised the issue in parliament this

afternoon and received a promise that ministers will investigate

Given the awful result outcomes for children

who are permanently excluded, wht message does he send

to Norfolk to sort out this unacceptable situation?

Exclusion should always be a last resort and we need to make sure

there are no inappropriate exclusions, either in Norfolk

I am meeting the honourable gentleman on another matter

and perhaps that's something we can discuss.

Norfolk County Council has been fined ?60,000 for leaving sensitive

files about children in a filing cabinet, which was sent

It came to light three years ago when the person who bought

the cabinet found social work case files.

The council has apologised and says procedures have been tightened.

Lorry drivers are facing a ban on overtaking along stretches

Highways England is introducing the restrictions next week

to improve traffic flow, especially near Stansted Airport.

The announcement was criticised by some truckers.

Long stretches of the M11 are just two lanes, meaning when lorries

overtake each other, a big tailback can

So Highways England is going to restrict lorries overtaking

during the day on uphill stretches of motorway.

Signs are going to go up saying any vehicle over 7.5 tonnes cannot use

The lorry overtaking restrictions would be in place

between junction 8 near Stansted, and junction 9 for the A11.

Highways England believes it will ease congestion,

but some HGV drivers said not being able to overtake

If you are stuck behind trucks going at 40 mph, ours can do 56,

it makes quite an impact on what time you can get there.

You have vehicles with odd weights and loads,

and if it is a slight incline, it is surprising how much

Then you are stuck, probably behind 20 or 30 lorries,

The daytime overtaking ban for lorries is already in force

on this stretch of road, the A14 in Northamptonshire.

Highways England says lorry speeds haven't changed,

Lorry drivers caught overtaking where they shouldn't can be fined.

On the M11, the overtaking restriction is expected to start

One lorry driver said that the best way of tackling congestion

here would be widening this section of the M11 to three lanes.

The former fashion designer Wayne Hemmingway, famous

for the Red Or Dead label, has been addressing a meeting

He believes the town could do with a makeover and he's had success

in other seaside resorts around the country.

We'll hear from him in a moment, after this from Alex Dunlop.

"Come to Lowestoft," they told Wayne Hemingway, "on a good day,

Well, perhaps not today, but the design guru sees

At a seafront hotel, he came up with a master plan

to transform the town with a straight-talking

lecture to local business leaders and politicians.

His message - you need more radical ideas if you want

Everyone has got to rise to that challenge.

The fact is that people have a lot of choices

where they come on holiday, where they go to eat what they do

We've got to make your we've really got something special to show

to people to prove that Lowestoft is the place they can come

A decade ago, ?40 million was spent locally to regenerate lost.

More than 1 million people came here last year.

Wayne Hemingway has helped boost of fortunes of other coastal towns

with designs on seafront buildings and ambitious projects.

It's pushing people and he's going to make things happen.

He was coming at it from unusual angles.

He clearly brings with him a lifetime of experience.

But don't expect an overnight transformation - the momentum,

says Mr Hemingway, must come from those who have a lasting

I spoke to Wayne Hemmingway earlier this evening and asked him

what it is he thinks Lowestoft needs.

It just needs some TLC and some exciting things to happen.

Everything is here that you want, that the British people

It's got sand, a lovely sea, great buildings, the promenade,

all the ingredients are there, but it is lagging behind a little

We're not talking specifics at the moment.

We're here with my team, the Hemingway Design team,

tonight to start to meet the local community and the regional community

That doesn't come in the form of some designer striding

in on a white horse and saying, "This is my great design, this

Great design also costs money, doesn't it?

As you well know, the cash-strapped council doesn't have any.

I would say that's where you're wrong, because ideas don't cost

anything at all and as long as the idea is intelligent and fun

and makes people smile, other things start to happen,

it brings ideas out in other people and eventually,

So are you to the seaside resort what Mary Portas

We've had a lot of success doing things for Morecambe,

we're working in Hastings to Weston-Super-Mare so we become

experienced, but no, I don't want to be held in the same

All right, I won't do that, but change is coming to Lowestoft?

These things take time, but we're here to create positive change.

It is the most easterly part of Great Britain

and we want to bring that out to make it a place the East visits

and people come from wider, there's no point in rushing things,

Wayne Hemmingway talking to me earlier.

But from the rest of the late team, goodnight.

It's rather cool out there at the moment, a much fresher feel to

things compared to earlier today and we have one or two showers to

contained with tonight but a lot of dry weather, some clear spells and a

breeze carrying a shower through but most places are dry and a chilly

night, temperature is not far off freezing by tomorrow morning so

maybe a bit of frosty than there. A I started Tuesday, lots of sunshine

in the morning. 18 breeze will make you feel quite chilly but cloud

bills through the day, maybe one or two showers in the afternoon --

cloud builds. Feeling colder because of the southwesterly breeze. The

middle of the week, low pressure gives us a lot of uncertainty in the

forecast. For Wednesday, a dry start. The rain will dry to head

east but there is uncertainty about how quickly that happens if it ever

reaches the Far east. We will keep you updated about that but it will

feel chilly we get the cloud in the rain and on Thursday, if it reaches

the east, we get in northeasterly winds developing sort the rest of

rain is still there but not raining all the time, some dry and bright

weather in between as well. The same is true for Friday. Some rain in the

south and southeast and the further north and west you go, staying dry,

but still a chilly, northeasterly breeze. For the weekend, low

pressure is dominating but pulls away and high pressure topples and

so things settle down for the weekend. As they go into the

weekend, it is looking mainly dry with sunny spells. Pleasant by day

but still the chance of frost at night and if you're

outlook for Saturday and Sunday is for something dry and settled, sunny

spells but a bit on the cool side. This week we are starting off with a

taste of winter. This is Paul and maritime air, it has come from a

long way north and will push in lots of showers. The last of any mild air

gets swept away with the cloud. Tonight we have showers mostly

across the northern half of the UK, which will turn wintry and that

means more snow, particularly across Scotland and Northern Ireland,

perhaps northern England. With those temperatures it is not just snow

that is a concern, it is icy roads. Quite a few wintry showers still

packing in across the north and west of Northern Ireland, west of

Scotland by this stage. Eastern Scotland much more sheltered so it

should be drier and we may have early sunshine here as well. For

England and Wales, plenty of sunshine to begin