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Are 44`tonne trucks going to end up driving through a town near you? I | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
take a drive in a truck through Cambridgeshire to see what could | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
happen if the A14 becomes a toll road. It will be absolute chaos. | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
They are not too bothered in Westminster with their chauffeur | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
driven cars. It will be a nightmare. Can you turn one of the worst | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
hospitals in the country into one of the best? We join doctors and nurses | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
inside Basildon Hospital as they try. We have had some bad | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
experiences in paediatrics and we recognise that and have learnt | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
lessons. It felt bad, it felt difficult and challenging. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
And a year after Ash Dieback struck our trees, Julie Ranger discovers | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
hope for our woodland. We expect a lot of these trees will die, but we | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
will monitor them over the next five years to see which of them show the | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
greatest tolerance to Ash Dieback. Revealing the stories that matter | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
closer to home, this is Inside Out East. | :01:08. | :01:23. | |
Tonight, Inside Out is in Felixstowe. The Port of Felixstowe | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
handles 3.5 million containers every year. Many of these end up on the | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
backs of lorries and then head off round the country along the A14. | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
Last month, the government proposed making drivers pay to use the road. | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
I have spent the day with a lorry driver who uses that route every day | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
to find out what that could mean. Early morning, and haulage workers | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
begin their shift. Their freight comes from here, Felixstowe in | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
Suffolk ` The biggest container port in Britain. And from here they | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
transport everything along the A14, from the beds we sleep in, to the | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
clothes we wear. I am here to meet Billy Angus who is starting his | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
first run, a job he has been doing for 20 years. | :02:13. | :02:25. | |
Hauliers like Billy use the A14 in Cambridgeshire every day. I want to | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
find out what tolling this road would really mean. What kinds of | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
things do you haul? Everything ` curling tongs, printers. If you are | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
lucky, even bits for racing cars, bits for Raleigh cars. Pretty much | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
everything that comes into the port of Felixstowe goes on the back of | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
your truck? Yes, everything that comes into the country that's | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
heading to America, Portugal, Africa ` all in the back of the truck. | :03:01. | :03:13. | |
Today it looks like we may have a good run. I shouldn't speak too soon | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
but what a clear road today. Should be ok as it is past rush hour. | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
No`one has any illusions that the A14 isn't problematic as it is | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
heavily congested. The Government says the only way to afford much | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
needed improvements is to make road users like Billy pay by making it a | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
toll road. It is OK until you get out of Cambridge. But putting in a | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
new road isn't going to solve it. Putting a toll road isn't going to | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
solve it. What they want to do is come up with another idea. It takes | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
us an hour and a half to the truck`stop at Alconbury, which is on | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
the A14 A1 intersection in Cambridgeshire. This is the depot. | :04:05. | :04:14. | |
All 20,000 acres or whatever it is. This is the drop of point for Debens | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
containers? Yes. Everything is dropped off here. It will either be | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
delivered by the day men or delivered by the night men. | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
Depending on when a customer wants it. Alconbury is the central hub for | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
haulage companies for the Midlands and beyond. Billy drops off his load | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
and collects another. He can make up to three journeys here in one day. | :04:39. | :04:53. | |
While Billy gets his other load, his boss tells me why he would consider | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
re`locating away from Felixstowe. He has over 250 lorries and if each | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
driver has to pay ?3 to use the toll, the costs will add up. What | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
would a toll actually do your business? It could change the where | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
we base ourselves even. We are looking at Felixstowe and Alconbury, | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
that is a crucial area for us because we do have depots in both of | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
those locations. We probably do between over 60 to 120 trunks a day | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
to Alconbury. It may only be a ?3 or ?4 but when you magnify that up on | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
the journey we do, it is a lot of money. The Government says the price | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
of tolling would be more than offset by business benefits and reduced | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
journey times. The plan also involves closing a section of the | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
A14 by demolishing this viaduct at Huntingdon. Traffic will be | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
redirected onto the new toll road. But there are concerns that the | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
opposite will happen and nearby villages will end up seeing more | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
lorries. Houghton village is near the one of the two alternative route | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
designated by the Highways Agency ? the A1123. Alastair Price who lives | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
on the main road at Houghton is worried. What kind of impact will | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
the toll road have on this place? Well, if the hauliers move onto this | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
road to avoid the toll we are going to have a hundred lorries an hour | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
going through at night and 200+ going through in the day. That means | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
this road is going to be completely congested. As a result, the houses | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
on here will be blighted. He believes that traffic won't just | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
stick to the A1123, but villages like Houghton will be end up being | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
rat runs. More and more they will start going through smaller villages | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
to avoid the traffic. Do you think this will happen they will divert | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
off the A14 and then go through villages and clag up all this area | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
round here? Yes. We had a major road incident on the A14 on Monday and | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
all the roads were clogged up. They were just not moving. Not just the | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
A1123. It was the B roads round the back all filling up with cars trying | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
to avoid the traffic. That will happen every day if the toll road | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
goes ahead. I joined Billy again and he has | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
agreed to try out this alternative road. It is a route he doesn't use | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
now and he is shocked at the suggestion it could be a viable | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
alternative. The Highways Agency say this road will be one of the | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
alternative roads that they've highlighted if the toll road | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
happens. Is this going to be a good route as an alternative?" No, it is | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
going to be a nightmare. We have come off the A14 and we have just | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
gone round three roundabouts. One goes to the town centre. One goes to | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
an industrial estate and one goes to Tesco. Imagine Tesco's, they are | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
going to be crowded out. It's just going to be absolute chaos. Hey`ho. | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
They are not too bothered at Westminster in their little | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
chauffeur driven cars. It is just going to be a complete and utter | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
nightmare. Do you think it is going to put pressure on the towns and | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
villages on the area? Without doubt. For these people who say it will | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
bring people into the town centre, it certainly will, at 44 tonnes a | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
time. We really don't want these going through town centres. These | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
should be kept out of town centres at all costs. Too dangerous? Without | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
doubt. Unfortunately us and cyclists don't mix. The Road Haulage | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
Association along with Deben Transport and others have objected | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
to the plans. In our consultation we actually concerned about the tolling | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
element. We don't want it tolled. However, we have supported road | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
improvements on the route including junctions. It is very, very | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
important that we see the road improved. It will be a disaster to | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
go along with the toll as it will move traffic off the A14. As for | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
Billy Angus he believes there are other ways to tackle congestion. | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
There will always be trucks whether they like it or not on the road. | :09:23. | :09:30. | |
They must start and listen to hauliers and spend some money. If | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
they have money to spend, where would it be best spent? It would be | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
better spent on adding an extra lane on little bits. There is no need to | :09:41. | :09:50. | |
build a new road. They can add a manage system that they do in | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
Birmingham or they do in London." The public consultation for the A14 | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
toll has just closed and the Department of Transport said it will | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
carefully consider all responses. We requested an interview but the | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
Department of Transport told us that as it is currently holding a | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
consultation into the next steps for the A14, it would be inappropriate | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
to comment at this time. You can let me know what you think. Send me a | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
tweet. Or send me an e`mail. Coming up a year after ash dieback, | :10:20. | :10:38. | |
we find out what is being done to save the trees. | :10:39. | :10:48. | |
Basildon Hospital has been rated as one of the worst in the country, | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
hardly a week goes by without a damning headline about the stakes, | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
or mistreatment. The hospital is hoping to turn things around so, | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
with what is happening at other than, could it help other | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
hospitals. Alex tells the story. Crisis in | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
A, someone has hit the panic alarm. A patient is abusive and | :11:11. | :11:20. | |
resisting treatment. The police are on their way. So too is Diane | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
Sarkar, director of nursing. Violent outburst of the last thing she | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
needs. How things? Has he settled down in? The police have arrived. | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
Yes, I have apologised to the other patients. There was a lady in Beit | :11:39. | :11:49. | |
went in nine he was upset. Calm restored, it is a distraction from a | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
bigger crisis, patient safety. For years, high death rates went | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
unchallenged with the deaths of patients like Pamela left patients | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
wanting answers. A report found unsafe practices, under staffing and | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
problems with out of date drugs. This summer, the hospital was put in | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
special measures. Today, they have allowed us in to see what has been | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
done to turn things around. Have we got any beds? None at all. It is | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
8:30am, it has been a hectic night in A but the matron is coping, no | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
longer battling under staffing and thanks to a reorganisation, she is | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
confident of clearing the back log. We are having a busy morning here. | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
We have all of the cubicles are currently fall. The hospital has had | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
extra funding that many improvements offer new management. We have an | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
adult alerts coming in querying a stroke which will come straight into | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
recess. We are expecting a two`year`old Peter trick with burns. | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
`` paediatrics. We will take you straight through. The baby is rushed | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
in. Cappuccino has been spilt on his face. It is only nine o'clock and | :13:17. | :13:26. | |
with new patients arriving every few minutes, there are very few vets. | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
The director of nursing has to find space. She is visiting a ward to see | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
which beds can be freed up. Have your patients been assessed? | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
E`screen technology replaces a haphazard system criticised by the | :13:44. | :13:55. | |
regulators. What are the blockages for discharge? At a touch, staff can | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
check on bed blockers clogging up the transfer of patients from A | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
Meanwhile, by 11 there are nine ambulances outside A Beds, how | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
are we doing? Literally one in, one out. Any other patients who are | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
worried about? It is still a very busy department. We have 45 patients | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
in the Department, we have all the patients have been seen by the | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
doctor within the hour. This is another change. Hanley patients this | :14:34. | :14:43. | |
morning? Three so far. Now, there's a GP on duty to greet arrivals. | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
Those with minor ailments of redirected back to their doctors | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
surgery. Diane has four miles of hospital corridors to patrol. Today, | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
1000 patients will be treated. The cramped paediatrics at the biggest | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
problems with a history of avoidable child deaths. It's another | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
department undergoing transformation. Good afternoon! How | :15:07. | :15:15. | |
things? We have had some bad experiences, we recognise that and | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
have learnt lessons. Of course it help bad and difficult and | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
challenging particularly for the patients and staff at that time. | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
Nurse Claire Marie Battersby is part of the solution. What is that? She | :15:32. | :15:41. | |
is the first of 200 extra permanent nurses to hold temporary fillings. | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
As spent ?3 million in two years on agency nurses to staffing gaps. It | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
will ensure we have good continuity of patient care. It will ensure that | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
the nursing staff have enough staff to do the job they are employed to | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
do. It makes them feel valued. It will improve the motivation of staff | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
and improve the organisation. It's mid`morning and in paediatrics today | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
there's one nurse for every three patients. That is a massive change. | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
In the past, some child deaths were blamed on poor staffing levels. | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
Despite its reputation, the hospital had no trouble filling vacancies. My | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
opinion was because of the heat on the hospital, standards are at the | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
highest and moving forward it will be a really good start with the | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
hospital. Patients are noticing the difference. I am Kyomie. I am 14 | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
years old and I am always in hospital. I have cystic fibrosis. | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
They look after me like I am their daughter. Even her friends warned | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
about Basildon's reputation. They said I should go to Great Ormond | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
Street but Basildon give me more service here. More people are more | :17:07. | :17:17. | |
chatty, the nurses are not stingy. What you say? It is a nice place to | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
be. And suitable surroundings cannot be fixed in a hurry. A new | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
paediatrics ward is planned that it will take time. So, clever hospitals | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
learn from Basildon? We have found across the East more than ?30 | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
million a year is being spent on agency nurses. Other hospitals are | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
coming under government pressure to cut the bill and employ permanent | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
staff. Hello, good afternoon. I am Diane Sarkar. Nice to meet you. How | :17:52. | :18:00. | |
are things? OK. The level of care has been very good. It is after | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
lunch and Diane is back on her rounds. Lorry driver Thomas Mann had | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
an asthma attack at the wheel. It could be another week. I am in the | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
right hands. Happy patients mean happy staff. There are 4000 working | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
at the trust. A row was hit hard by the legacy of needless death, legal | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
cases and critical inquests. Staff are feeling happier and engaged and | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
more communicated to. Happy staff means happy patients and the | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
feedback is becoming more positive. Before the days out, 65 ambulances | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
have arrived with over 350 patients treated in A However, this | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
hospital is still in trouble. It is under special measures from the | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
government and waiting for the result of its latest Care Quality | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
Commission inspection but there is growing confidence they will be | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
taken out of enforcement action. We have reached a certain point in the | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
turning point. I am most proud of the staff, staff have really listens | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
to what people said and they really want and have improved the care they | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
deliver. It has been a year since we | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
discovered our ash trees are being killed by a fungus but it's not the | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
first time the woodland has been threatened. In the 1960s, a beetle | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
nearly wiped out English elm trees. What we learned back then could help | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
to save the trees now. A few miles outside Braintree in | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
Essex stands one of the UK is most extraordinary trees. When it began | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
growing two centuries ago, Britain was at war with the United States | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
and Jane Austin's pride and prejudice was being published. But | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
what makes the tree so special isn't its age. It's because it is a | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
remarkable survivor. What 25 million just like it were killed by | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
disease, it, for some reason, escaped the catastrophe at this is | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
one of Britain's last remaining elm trees. Now, it is our ash trees that | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
are under attack from ash dieback disease which is threatening to wipe | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
them out though this time the damage is caused by a fungus rather than a | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
beetle. Have we learnt enough to prevent history repeating itself? It | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
was here in Ashwellthorpe Lower Wood South Norwich that ash dieback was | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
first discovered in native British woodland a century `` a year ago. | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
I'm here to see how quickly the disease is spreading. And Edwards | :20:48. | :20:56. | |
discovered the outbreak. Here we've got a healthy ash tree but if you | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
look over here, this tree has been infected with the ash dieback fungus | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
Chalara Fraxinea as you can see it has entered via the leaves and | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
killed them off. The fungus has entered the trunk and killed the | :21:13. | :21:21. | |
tree all the way down to here. But down the bottom, the trees still | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
alive and it is desperately trying to produce new leaves. It is | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
desperately trying to stay alive. It makes you feel quite sad. The fungus | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
is spread by airborne spores so the disease can spread rapidly. If we | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
look on the ground... Look! Yes, if we take this, this is one of the | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
Centre parts of the leaf and you can see it is growing the fungus, it is | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
producing the spores that will infect the sleeves. One structure | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
can reduce 1500 spores in our. We have ten, 15,000 spores and our over | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
several hours. You must be devastated. What do you think this | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
woodland is going to look like in 20 years? It will be a huge loss. I do | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
think about it, I worry about at all of the time. What the knock`on | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
effects will be under wonder why it was called Ashwellthorpe. Somebody | :22:30. | :22:40. | |
who has seen this before is an Essex nurseryman, Paul King who spotted | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
surviving elm trees like the one outside Braintree. He believes some | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
trees developed resistance to the disease. Therein may lie the reason | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
that these particular types of smooth elm trees have the resistance | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
to Dutch elm disease. We were able to get 2000 plugs, small trees, into | :23:01. | :23:12. | |
a little container. We grew the on and we have sold them over the last | :23:13. | :23:21. | |
few years. All over the UK. We have asked everyone to let us know and | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
keep an eye on the trees. Ash dieback is a different type of | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
disease to De Chelmsford. One lesson learned from elm trees is how | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
important it is to monitor the spread. It is a huge job. Steve | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
Scott is checking out a woodland near Dyrham. It is dominated by Ash. | :23:41. | :23:49. | |
These trees will be 80 years old. Any signs of disease? There is some | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
but I do not think this is Chalara Fraxinea. This looks quite clean to | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
me. Nationally, the disease is concentrated in Norfolk, Suffolk and | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
Kent spreading up the coast. We think it will spread gently across | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
the country this year that we don't know yet. We will be watching and | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
waiting to see what happens. The majority of the woodlands are fine | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
at the moment. The disease is coming and next to the word a secure | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
compound lies in wait. This is one of 14 site the forestry commission | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
has been given to test different varieties ash to see how they | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
perform in the wild. It was like the canary in the coal mine we are | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
looking to see how the trees perform. And you hope when you come | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
back there will be some that may have died but some will still be | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
standing. We expect many will dry `` died but we will monitor them to see | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
which of them show the greatest tolerance and then we can take | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
cuttings from the trees and in the trees and into force of time provide | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
trees the next generation. While the hope is planted trees may give us a | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
clue how to stop the spread, it is in the laboratory are best long`term | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
hope lies. This is the Genome Analysis Centre in Norwich and here | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
they are using genetic science to find ways to stop the spread of ash | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
dieback. Several organisations across the world are working on a | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
solution so could the experience with Dutch elm disease help? The | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
progression of the disease might be similar to that with Dutch elm | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
disease but it is a different situation, we have genetics and DNA | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
technology and also we have the advantage that ash is a greater | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
diversity in its Gmail `` Geno. Researchers are working on a project | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
to map the gene aim of the ashtray and to try to discover genetic | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
reasons why some trees have proved resistant `` tolerant to the | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
disease. DNA technology is helping enormously to understand what causes | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
the disease and how tolerance works. So you are trying to find the best | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
trees to cross breed to give the greatest resilience? Ultimately, | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
that is the idea, to identify the best combinations. Scientists are | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
using microbiology to examine spores of the fungus to find out where and | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
how it developed. The work is urgent. In fact, tackling ash | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
dieback is seen as important that one of the first times in history, | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
scientists from around the world of sharing their discoveries as they | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
make them. When you do a research project, you have an idea and you | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
want to do something and you are scared someone else will follow it | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
up. But we have decided because the problem is so imminent and said, we | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
will get better progress by sharing and working together. Even so, it | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
will be years before a solution is found. I think we will see a lot of | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
death of ash trees or severe disease on the ashtrays but I hope in the | :27:07. | :27:15. | |
longer term, 20 to 40 years, we will identify trees which have tolerance | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
and be able to breed from those trees and those will replace the | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
trees presently being infected. In Essex, that rare surviving elm tree | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
and the 2000 cuttings Paul King took give some hope. They may not be | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
immune to give me 50 years and I can tell you whether they are, they've | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
got resistance. The one thing we have on our site is DNA. In that | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
particular margin, there might be some valuable help. But really it is | :27:49. | :27:57. | |
a stab in the dark at the moment. It is a race against time to find trees | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
that are tolerant to ash dieback. Let's hope along the way, lessons | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
learnt about how to prevent other diseases taking hold in our native | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
would `` woodland. Ash dieback neighbour the latest threat to the | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
trees but it will be the last. `` may be the latest threat. That is | :28:17. | :28:24. | |
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