:00:13. > :00:17.Good evening. What next for Stansted Airport? BAA
:00:17. > :00:23.is ordered to sell it. The world has changed and the remedy should
:00:23. > :00:29.also. Another casualty of the cuts,
:00:29. > :00:32.Waterbeach Barracks is do close. have been taken aback by this news.
:00:32. > :00:38.The barracks is an important part of the community which has been
:00:38. > :00:44.here since the Second World War. Bombs away! A huge wartime mine is
:00:44. > :00:48.blown up on the sea bed. And there is not just one of panel,
:00:48. > :00:58.there is 20,000 at the country's biggest solar farm, right here in
:00:58. > :01:04.
:01:04. > :01:09.First tonight, BAA, the owners of Stansted Airport, have been ordered
:01:09. > :01:15.to sell it. The Spanish owned company runs six
:01:15. > :01:18.UK airports. Over two years ago, the regulator ordered it to sell
:01:18. > :01:22.Stansted and two others to boost competition. Later that year, the
:01:22. > :01:27.company sold Gatwick, but the fate of Stansted was subject to legal
:01:27. > :01:37.challenges. It is Britain's third largest
:01:37. > :01:38.
:01:38. > :01:48.airport, handling over 18 million passengers per year. It contributes
:01:48. > :01:48.
:01:48. > :01:51.�400 million a year to the local Earlier, I spoke to Colin Matthews,
:01:51. > :01:55.the chief executive of BAA. I asked him for a reaction to this
:01:55. > :02:03.announcement. We are dismayed. We think it is an
:02:03. > :02:11.unreasonable and draconian measure, the company has invested �5 billion
:02:11. > :02:18.in UK jobs and growth and improving passenger service since new owners
:02:18. > :02:22.took over. But it is about your monopoly. Those issues were argued
:02:22. > :02:32.through and the final report, in 2009, when the Competition
:02:32. > :02:33.
:02:33. > :02:38.Commission required us to sell three airports. Heathrow and
:02:38. > :02:42.Stansted serve different markets, no airlines fly to both markets, as
:02:42. > :02:49.those who fly from Heathrow do not wish to fly from Stansted and Weiss
:02:49. > :02:54.versa. Your critics say that you should just accept this decision,
:02:54. > :02:58.the delay has gone on long enough, and it is just going to worsen
:02:58. > :03:03.relations with the community around Stansted if you delayed further.
:03:03. > :03:06.Look at it this way. Imagine buying a house in 2006. Since that time,
:03:06. > :03:11.you have spent a huge amount of money in rebuilding it and
:03:11. > :03:14.improving it. And then, a previous owner comes along and says it was a
:03:14. > :03:22.mistake to sell it to you, you should not be allowed to own it.
:03:22. > :03:27.You must sell it, now. In a difficult market. Are you just
:03:27. > :03:30.delaying in order to get a better price for it? We make clear in our
:03:30. > :03:33.submission to the Competition Commission that we do not think we
:03:33. > :03:38.should be required to sell. If we are, we should have a reasonable
:03:38. > :03:43.periods of time in which to do so. We should have had some flexibility
:03:43. > :03:49.in the order in which we sell the airport. The world has changed. BAA
:03:49. > :03:53.has changed, and the remedies should also have changed. Thank you.
:03:53. > :03:57.There has been sadness and disappointment today at the news
:03:57. > :04:02.that Waterbeach Barracks, near Cambridge, will close. It is home
:04:02. > :04:09.to 39 Engineer Regiment and about 1,000 troops. The news came as part
:04:09. > :04:15.of yesterday's defence cuts. For many, it command of the blue.
:04:16. > :04:18.-- came out of the blue. This village is in shock that a
:04:18. > :04:24.long-standing relationship between civilians and the military looks
:04:24. > :04:29.set to end. The army came here in the 1960s.
:04:29. > :04:35.The village has a population of little more than 5,000. It has had
:04:35. > :04:40.a significant impact. When these barracks go, the impact will be
:04:40. > :04:45.felt on both sides of the barriers. Of the 1,000 personnel stationed
:04:45. > :04:49.here, 39 Engineer Regiment of the majority. They currently have over
:04:49. > :04:59.40 saw tears in Afghanistan, working on clearing the ever-
:04:59. > :05:04.
:05:04. > :05:14.present threat of IED is. -- 40 salt tears. -- serving military
:05:14. > :05:16.
:05:16. > :05:22.personnel. We have not done as well. It is very disappointing.
:05:22. > :05:27.barracks are a good bunch of lads who bring prosperity to the area.
:05:27. > :05:31.After 70 years, the lack of the base will leave a vacuum. The
:05:31. > :05:34.prospect of it being filled by up to 10,000 new homes at still local
:05:34. > :05:39.anxieties. We have fought off the threat of
:05:39. > :05:44.houses before, several times, for the reason that we do not want
:05:44. > :05:48.10,000 houses being dropped on to the community. The A10 is already
:05:48. > :05:52.overcapacity and I do not see how the local infrastructure could cope.
:05:52. > :05:59.Elsewhere in the region, better news for Bassingbourn. Their future
:05:59. > :06:03.has been secured as has an expansion. The Ministry of defence
:06:03. > :06:08.say that the units from Waterbeach will be supported elsewhere after
:06:08. > :06:11.closure. This afternoon, the closure was
:06:11. > :06:17.raised at a council meeting in Cambridge chair. You had no idea
:06:17. > :06:24.this was coming? Absolutely not. As a reprieve article in yesterday's
:06:24. > :06:30.Guardian and dreaded online today. -- I saw an article. -- read it on
:06:30. > :06:34.line. Nobody tipped you off? until after it was announced. I was
:06:34. > :06:39.hustled out of a meeting to be told but that was the first indication I
:06:39. > :06:47.had it was definite. You will understand, I am sure, but as part
:06:47. > :06:50.of the cuts, summer has to close? Yes, that is the case. I suppose
:06:50. > :06:56.the Government think they can get a lot of money by selling Waterbeach
:06:56. > :06:59.of for housing. It is one of those things, you think this is done to
:06:59. > :07:05.sell the base and they say it is part of the defence cuts. Which do
:07:05. > :07:12.you think is true? They say clearly in the defence statement that the
:07:12. > :07:17.purpose is to raise money. It stays -- says in Hansard that by selling
:07:17. > :07:22.Waterbeach Barracks they will help to balance the books. Good you have
:07:22. > :07:27.done anything, had you been given the information six months ago?
:07:27. > :07:34.has been on the cards for a long time. There was an attempt to build
:07:34. > :07:36.an Eco town about five years ago. It has been on and off but is
:07:37. > :07:43.consistently rejected, mostly because the army did not want to
:07:43. > :07:47.sell. Now, we discover the army do want to sell. It will not close for
:07:47. > :07:51.another three or four years, there is plenty of time for us to
:07:51. > :07:54.campaign and hopefully change minds. We heard in the report that the
:07:54. > :07:59.infrastructure of the town could not support the housing. Do you
:07:59. > :08:07.agree with that? The A10 is a nightmare, as those who live North
:08:07. > :08:15.of Cambridge won a. Traffic was queuing between Waterbeach and the
:08:15. > :08:19.A14 this morning. -- Cambridge will know. I dread to think what the
:08:19. > :08:23.roads will be like. Unless they improve the A10, there is really no
:08:23. > :08:30.way we can tolerate the possibility of developing these serious amounts
:08:30. > :08:37.of housing. So the campaign starts here? Absolutely. Thank you.
:08:37. > :08:41.Still to come. Isobel, on her trek to find mid-.
:08:41. > :08:47.We Jenny to Ecuador after a rare butterfly.
:08:47. > :08:51.Over this fence, they harvested wheat. Here, they are harvesting
:08:51. > :09:01.light. This is the biggest solar farm in the country and it is right
:09:01. > :09:07.
:09:07. > :09:11.A second world war minor dredged up from the seabed has been safely
:09:11. > :09:21.detonated off the coast of Essex. - - mind. The explosion happened
:09:21. > :09:23.
:09:23. > :09:26.eight us out to sea. -- eight miles. This marina is where the bomb
:09:26. > :09:30.disposal team have been based. The weather has been beautiful today
:09:30. > :09:34.but conditions of the coast of the last few days have been hostile.
:09:34. > :09:37.That has meant the team have not been able to get that and that made
:09:37. > :09:41.the device. Today, they finally got down to business.
:09:41. > :09:45.This was the bomb disposal team making final preparations this
:09:45. > :09:50.afternoon. This was the ground mind which sparked the drama. It was
:09:50. > :10:00.dredged up on Friday. It became wedged in the dredging arm of the
:10:00. > :10:02.
:10:02. > :10:12.car. It is very large, an old German World War to mind. One of
:10:12. > :10:19.
:10:19. > :10:22.the largest you will come across. - - WWII mine. It was very difficult.
:10:22. > :10:30.The bomb disposal team managed to secure the mind and lowered back
:10:30. > :10:34.into the water. After a rough weekend's weather, today finally
:10:34. > :10:39.provided a break to get divers down. It is very difficult to understand
:10:39. > :10:43.how difficult it is to work in the marine environment. To do this
:10:43. > :10:49.under water, with no visibility at all. When the fat lady sings, it is
:10:49. > :10:54.all over. Up to that point, we try to conduct everything safety and --
:10:54. > :11:04.safely. Today, with an exclusion zone still
:11:04. > :11:09.in place, the minor finally went bang. This footage was shot by the
:11:09. > :11:13.disposal team eight miles out to sea. The explosion was 88 ft
:11:13. > :11:22.underwater, marking the demise of their wartime relic which tested
:11:22. > :11:27.their skills more than most. -- a wartime relic.
:11:27. > :11:37.When this thing came out of the water, it was in pristine condition.
:11:37. > :11:39.
:11:39. > :11:44.It is six feet across, containing four pounds of explosives. These
:11:44. > :11:51.men are now packing up a mountain of equipment, heading back to their
:11:51. > :11:54.base until the next phone call calls -- comes through.
:11:55. > :12:00.An Irish National has been jailed for 23 years for murdering a man
:12:00. > :12:04.from Essex in Spain. Daniel Smith, from Billericay, was shot by Eric
:12:04. > :12:08.Wilson outside a bar on the Costa del Sol. Mr Smith was wanted by the
:12:08. > :12:14.police in Essex in connection with the attempted murder of another man
:12:14. > :12:21.near Chelmsford in 2007. Plans to build a quarry in the village of
:12:21. > :12:26.Marlingford have been dropped. Many tons of gravel would have been
:12:26. > :12:36.extracted from the site. The campaign against the plan has been
:12:36. > :12:41.Alastair Cook has signed a new contract with Essex which will run
:12:41. > :12:45.until 2013. He has played six games this summer. He has said he is
:12:45. > :12:50.delighted. The final stage of the digital
:12:50. > :12:55.switch-over is to take place for Essex and parts of Suffolk. The
:12:55. > :13:00.Sudbury transmitter will transmit only digital signals from tomorrow.
:13:00. > :13:06.Our reporter is there. No matter how big you think this
:13:06. > :13:13.mast is, it is actually quite a lot bigger. There are eight bankers
:13:13. > :13:23.holding this up. After today, it will stop transmitting analogue
:13:23. > :13:25.
:13:25. > :13:32.signals. -- anchors. It is very much state-of- the-art electronic
:13:32. > :13:41.engineering going on in there now. This transmitter has been
:13:41. > :13:44.transmitting for more than 40 years. Bringing you the regional news and
:13:44. > :13:48.views from the BBC regional television studios here in
:13:48. > :13:54.Norwich... Just after tonight, analogue
:13:54. > :14:01.signals will be switched off for good here.
:14:01. > :14:10.You get a lot more or channels in the same signal space. And a lot of
:14:10. > :14:15.the blocking problems with analogue, they will disappear as well.
:14:15. > :14:19.Tonight will be the last ever transmission of BBC Look East in
:14:19. > :14:27.analogue for around one million of our viewers across Essex and parts
:14:27. > :14:37.of Suffolk. The end of one here, and the beginning of another. --
:14:37. > :14:37.
:14:37. > :14:40.one era. The Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart was recognised
:14:40. > :14:46.today for his contribution to cinema and theatre at the
:14:46. > :14:56.University of East Anglia. When most of us think of balls, we
:14:56. > :15:03.think of players of a certain age. -- bowls. This club is trying to
:15:03. > :15:05.change that. This quintessential British sport,
:15:05. > :15:11.enjoyed an up-and-down day country for centuries, but here that
:15:11. > :15:16.Clenchwarton, the players are getting younger.
:15:16. > :15:22.We are all getting older and it would be nice if we had some
:15:22. > :15:25.youngsters in the game. They are few and far between.
:15:25. > :15:30.There are nearly half-a-million a bowler's in the England, and it is
:15:31. > :15:36.so often seen as a pastime for older people. The seniors here are
:15:36. > :15:43.doing their best to encourage a younger generation. The club has
:15:43. > :15:47.received a grant to buy new equipment.
:15:47. > :15:55.Brilliant. It is good to see so many youngsters out here enjoying
:15:55. > :16:05.themselves. It is a start towards the future. What is it about balls
:16:05. > :16:11.that you enjoy? It is quite fun, because just meeting new people on
:16:11. > :16:14.a sport that you can play without being too competitive is good.
:16:14. > :16:18.There are a dead friend to this role models, most notably Sir
:16:18. > :16:24.Francis Drake who insisted on finishing his game before leaving
:16:24. > :16:34.to defeat the Spanish Armada. This club is hoping to ensure that the
:16:34. > :16:35.
:16:35. > :16:45.sport survives for centuries to You are watching Look East. Coming
:16:45. > :16:46.
:16:46. > :16:54.up, one woman's mission to Ecuador to find a butterfly named after her.
:16:54. > :16:59.Ecuador looks nice tonight. Wind farms have been part of the
:16:59. > :17:03.landscape for many years. Now there is something else. Solar farms.
:17:03. > :17:08.I knew site at Wilburton near Cambridge is one of the largest in
:17:08. > :17:14.the country able to power nearly 1,200 homes. It has just been
:17:14. > :17:22.connected to the National Grid. Amongst the elite, a purple haze.
:17:22. > :17:29.Not lilac, not lavender, but light is harvested here. A field of
:17:29. > :17:33.photovoltaic solar panels. The rest of Europe is into solar
:17:33. > :17:40.energy and it is something that the UK will need to look at to meet our
:17:40. > :17:50.targets. We want to be here long term, and there has been an
:17:50. > :17:50.
:17:50. > :17:56.incentive, for 25 years, index- linked and government-backed.
:17:56. > :18:00.25,000 panels, enough to produce energy for 1,200 homes. This is the
:18:01. > :18:04.most powerful solar farm in the country.
:18:05. > :18:13.The important part of these cells are these white lines, which is
:18:13. > :18:18.still come, which collects the light, and sent electricity to the
:18:18. > :18:22.National Grid. There are two big solar sites in
:18:22. > :18:27.their East. Are we better off with solar power or wind?
:18:27. > :18:35.The subsidy for Solar is about seven times that of the wind
:18:35. > :18:42.turbines. It is a dilemma. Do you want wind turbines or more costly
:18:42. > :18:48.renewable energy from solar? You can see these things are almost
:18:48. > :18:54.two metres high, not moving, not making noise. Nobody can really see
:18:54. > :18:59.it. Across Germany and other parts of the Continent, solar farms like
:18:59. > :19:06.this are common. It is likely that more will appear in East Anglia but
:19:06. > :19:15.are we prepared to pay for them? Here is something you might not
:19:15. > :19:19.know. Hidden underground is a secret world of. Thousands of
:19:19. > :19:23.bunkers. They were built when Britain feared a nuclear
:19:23. > :19:29.catastrophe. One man has decided to rediscover them.
:19:29. > :19:34.This house is part of Britain's secret past. This man has been
:19:34. > :19:39.fascinated by that past. I started photographing Cold War
:19:39. > :19:46.bunkers towards the end of the 1990s. I have worked my way around
:19:46. > :19:54.the country. I think I probably have visited around 95% of them.
:19:54. > :20:00.He reckons there are about four to 5,000 hidden bunkers and Britain.
:20:00. > :20:05.There are different kinds. Observers are posts, which are
:20:05. > :20:11.sometimes just small protective basement under a town hall, or
:20:11. > :20:16.massive seat of government. This is where government would have gone if
:20:16. > :20:26.Whitehall was taken out of action. Since the end of the Cold War the
:20:26. > :20:27.
:20:27. > :20:32.bar, many of these sides have been locked up. -- Cold War era.
:20:32. > :20:36.Many of these places have become derelict and what is called a
:20:36. > :20:41.health and safety nightmare. It is difficult to persuade local a
:20:41. > :20:51.authorities to let UN. We have had a number of doors on welded, so we
:20:51. > :20:58.know we are the first in there. -- unwelded. It is a sense of
:20:58. > :21:03.adventure. This dedication means there is now
:21:03. > :21:09.a record of our secret past. What is important is that they are
:21:09. > :21:13.recorded. I consider that as my job, to record them photographically and
:21:13. > :21:19.make that record available to the general public.
:21:19. > :21:26.His next project could be even more exciting. He is planning a book on
:21:26. > :21:33.the Communist Cold War bunkers. More than ten years ago on Look
:21:33. > :21:38.East, we featured a young girl called Isobel Talks.
:21:38. > :21:44.She has always dreamed of seeing a butterfly that we named after her.
:21:44. > :21:48.She travelled 6,000 miles to Ecuador to find it.
:21:49. > :21:54.Isobel Talks is mad about butterflies. Having won named after
:21:54. > :22:00.her is a trait she never dreamed of. 13 years ago, I won a competition
:22:00. > :22:06.to have a butterfly named after me. Now I finally have the chance to
:22:06. > :22:12.see it for myself. My butterfly is only seen in the cloud forest of
:22:12. > :22:18.Ecuador in South America. I have this picture, which shows my
:22:18. > :22:24.butterfly, the picture I was given when I won the competition. You can
:22:25. > :22:30.see the colours so well. How nice it would be to see it. I have seven
:22:30. > :22:34.days to find my butterfly. I know roughly where to look but they are
:22:34. > :22:42.incredibly rare. I have seen dozens of butterflies,
:22:42. > :22:48.going off into the canopy, out of reach, and being a butterfly hunter
:22:48. > :22:51.his heart. Four days later I still had not found my butterfly. I had
:22:51. > :22:56.walked for miles in their heat every day.
:22:56. > :23:02.I just saw what I thought might be my butterfly again. A similar
:23:02. > :23:08.pattern, but as we got closer, it flew off into the canopy. I am
:23:08. > :23:14.sitting here now wondering if it will come back. I do not know.
:23:14. > :23:24.was running out and my tattooed dream was fading fast.
:23:24. > :23:29.Day 6 of the butterfly hunt. -- childhood dream. I do not even know
:23:29. > :23:35.what the female looks like. Who knows, I might have seen the female
:23:36. > :23:43.hundreds of times! I thought my trip would be wasted, but on the
:23:43. > :23:48.last day, my butterfly appeared. After all this time. Day seven of
:23:48. > :23:55.my butterfly hunt, and here I am holding my butterfly. That is
:23:55. > :24:01.pretty amazing. I cannot believe it. I read somewhere that they like
:24:02. > :24:10.salt, so I have put some on my hand. He seems to be enjoying it. Really
:24:10. > :24:15.amazing. Isn't that fantastic? Great story. We heard about that
:24:15. > :24:25.because she wrote to us. If you have a story you want to tell us,
:24:25. > :24:30.
:24:30. > :24:34.A few weeks ago, we told you about a team in Thetford in Norfolk who
:24:34. > :24:38.were fitting satellite tags to cuckoos to see how far they travel.
:24:38. > :24:45.It was all part of a project to find out why the cuckoo population
:24:45. > :24:49.has dropped in this region over the past 25 years. Five birds were tags
:24:49. > :24:57.and two have made it to Africa a, which meant crossing the Sahara
:24:57. > :25:03.desert. One is in Senegal, one is in Niger and one has not gone very
:25:03. > :25:13.far, it is still in Norfolk. I am playing golf tomorrow. Will I
:25:13. > :25:21.
:25:21. > :25:26.We have had some sunshine. With low-pressure near by, just off the
:25:26. > :25:31.East coast of Scotland, there are some showery conditions. Quite a
:25:31. > :25:40.lot of cloud. There were gaps alia, and the North and west of the
:25:40. > :25:44.region got the worst showers. Those bright greens and blues show the
:25:44. > :25:50.heaviest showers. There are still some showers around this evening
:25:50. > :25:56.but they will gradually clear. Much of the evening should be dry.
:25:56. > :26:01.Overnight, clearer intervals developing, and temperatures in
:26:01. > :26:07.those areas down to ten degrees Celsius. The wind is light, mainly
:26:07. > :26:12.coming from a westerly direction. Into tomorrow, it will be a mainly
:26:12. > :26:20.dry day with sunny intervals. There is the chance of some isolated
:26:20. > :26:26.showers. They are not expected to be as heavy as the today. As the
:26:26. > :26:32.temperature rises, cloud bubbles up. Showers will affect mainly the West
:26:32. > :26:37.and south of the region. We have a bit of sunshine so temperatures
:26:37. > :26:47.could climb to 20 degrees Celsius. The wind will mainly be light and
:26:47. > :26:53.westerly. There is an onshore breeze and the North, so there
:26:53. > :26:58.could be cooler temperatures there. There is still the chance of
:26:58. > :27:03.further showers in the West. Some rain will present itself in the
:27:03. > :27:09.South of the region by the end of the day. Tomorrow, here is the
:27:09. > :27:14.pressure charge. We are between two areas of low pressure and heading
:27:15. > :27:22.towards the weekend, the nearby it low-pressure gives us some
:27:22. > :27:27.uncertainty as to what will happen. Here is the next five days. Heavy
:27:27. > :27:31.showers for Thursday, mainly dry for Friday with the chance of an