:00:11. > :00:20.In a low-key East: A flash flooding, lightning strikes and power cuts -
:00:20. > :00:25.what happened when the storms hit here? It stank. Hello.
:00:25. > :00:31.Also tonight: The clampdown on homeless migrants - 30 have been
:00:31. > :00:34.deported from one city alone. A new power station for Essex will create
:00:34. > :00:44.hundreds of jobs and create gas for hundreds of homes.
:00:44. > :00:52.
:00:52. > :00:55.We are out on the water with it First, storms overnight brought
:00:55. > :00:59.power cuts and flash flooding to parts of the region.
:00:59. > :01:03.Thousands were blacked out in Norfolk and Suffolk well homes and
:01:03. > :01:08.roads were flooded in Peterborough. Locals have raised concerns that
:01:08. > :01:14.the trains could not cope but Anglia Water has blamed the
:01:15. > :01:19.problems on people pouring cooking fats into drains.
:01:19. > :01:25.I am in Chaucer Road and there has been a bit of a pong in the air
:01:25. > :01:30.today. It has been raining pretty steadily and it is raining now but
:01:30. > :01:34.not compared to yesterday. Yesterday, the intensity of the
:01:34. > :01:40.rain here was probably an matched across the region.
:01:40. > :01:44.Flash flood waters rising fast. These pictures were taken in the
:01:44. > :01:52.West would area of the city with parts of Cambridge experiencing 15
:01:52. > :01:57.mm of rain in 20 minutes. This picture was taken and the big
:01:57. > :02:04.clean-up this morning in Chaucer Road after a tide of sewage came up
:02:04. > :02:10.through the drains. It was inches deep and it stank. All the leaves
:02:10. > :02:16.came out and were in the back garden. All the plants and gnomes
:02:16. > :02:21.were floating and I have just done it up. It is indescribable really.
:02:21. > :02:26.Not as bad as in many parts of the world but bad enough. A lot of
:02:26. > :02:30.people were totally distressed. This as the store was back in
:02:30. > :02:36.action in River gate after yesterday's storm closed its doors
:02:36. > :02:41.early. There was flooding in our store which took down the power
:02:41. > :02:49.supplies and we lost our checkouts. For the safety of our customers and
:02:49. > :02:56.colleagues, we closed the store. Road chaos in Northamptonshire. A
:02:56. > :03:05.friendly match suddenly was plunged into darkness as their floodlights
:03:05. > :03:09.failed. This picture shows storm chasers in Suffolk. We don't get
:03:09. > :03:14.this sort of thing that often here but you may see widespread
:03:14. > :03:19.outbreaks and this is the second or third outbreak we have seen this
:03:19. > :03:23.summer. People are thinking about it more because we have had storm
:03:23. > :03:28.staffed the summer's. This afternoon was a miserable seen in
:03:28. > :03:34.Great Yarmouth where, days ago, holidaymakers were basking in
:03:34. > :03:38.sunshine. Back here in Chaucer Road, Anglian Water says it is continuing
:03:38. > :03:43.with a clean up and says it's sewers are fit for purpose and
:03:43. > :03:48.properly maintained. It has blamed some locals for illegally putting
:03:48. > :03:53.cooking fat into the drains and blocking them. I want to say thank
:03:53. > :03:57.you to Simon Garth for this picture. This is what it was like here 24
:03:57. > :04:03.hours ago. We like having your pictures and videos and you can e-
:04:03. > :04:06.mail them to us. You can see a gallery of pictures there. -- you
:04:06. > :04:11.can see a gallery of pictures on Facebook.
:04:11. > :04:15.So, what happened? Well, it is down to summer
:04:15. > :04:21.thunderstorms but they are localised. They developed over the
:04:21. > :04:25.west of the region and they became it intense, thundery affairs and
:04:25. > :04:28.moved north eastwards. Then a second area of thunderstorms
:04:28. > :04:32.developed in the middle of the region and they particularly
:04:32. > :04:37.affected Norfolk and East Suffolk and gave torrential rain for as
:04:37. > :04:46.well. You can get some extremely large totals of rain fall in a
:04:46. > :04:51.short time and that is the key to If you add in the key rain gauges
:04:51. > :05:01.that picked up intense rainfall, you can see it gets on for an inch
:05:01. > :05:04.of rain and maybe some places got Homeless migrants in Peterborough
:05:04. > :05:12.face deportation if they cannot prove they have a job or a place to
:05:12. > :05:16.live. Police making arrest on behalf of the UK Border Agency. It
:05:16. > :05:20.is two years since a shanty in the city was clear to but some are
:05:20. > :05:26.still living rough. The latest operation on migrant
:05:26. > :05:34.rough sleepers. It is easy to set up a new it encampment because so
:05:34. > :05:39.many people go to their old beds and sofa -- fly tip. The camps
:05:39. > :05:45.might not be beak but smaller ones are springing up. This one is on a
:05:45. > :05:50.city cycle path. Sometimes it takes longer to find. This one is tucked
:05:50. > :05:55.away. Unless you pay attention, you will not know people are sleeping
:05:55. > :06:05.here. You can see the mattresses are soaking wet and that is
:06:05. > :06:07.
:06:07. > :06:11.Then it is off to the newest camp at the back of a row of shops set
:06:12. > :06:19.up in the last month which two people are calling home. Officers
:06:19. > :06:25.say people here now are determined to stay. Two years ago, we were
:06:25. > :06:29.working with a relocation programme which was nationwide. People may
:06:29. > :06:35.not have been able to afford to go back to their country and see their
:06:35. > :06:43.families but today I think people who want to stay are not really
:06:43. > :06:49.living here by the rules. Officers speak to someone they think might
:06:49. > :06:53.be sleeping rough. They have a hit- list of people who the UK Border
:06:54. > :06:58.Agency might want to talk to for having no job or home. They are
:06:58. > :07:05.humans and even though it is not acceptable in our eyes, the way
:07:05. > :07:15.they live, we cannot just take the man say, off you go. People from
:07:15. > :07:20.
:07:20. > :07:28.Russia and Lithuania... And an The two guys here... And the female
:07:28. > :07:33.has been identified as wanted on criminal matters. The chap is
:07:33. > :07:40.wanted by immigration who want to have a chat with him. They get
:07:40. > :07:49.their warning and a few months to prove that they are looking for a
:07:49. > :07:55.job or a house. But if they don't Cup - might abide by the rules...
:07:55. > :08:00.That is one phase of emigration but as we have seen, there is another
:08:00. > :08:07.side. Many migrant workers set up their own businesses and are very
:08:07. > :08:16.successful. I am from Lithuania. I am from
:08:16. > :08:20.Lithuania. I am from Lithuania. I am from Lithuania. They all work
:08:20. > :08:25.for an Albanian who came to the UK for a better life and job prospects.
:08:26. > :08:32.He claims it is much easier to set up shop here. Everything that you
:08:32. > :08:37.need to find out for business is easy. If you need anything for the
:08:37. > :08:43.business, make a phone call and they explain to you how to do it
:08:43. > :08:48.and everything. He came to Norwich to make form -- money and started
:08:48. > :08:54.at his own business. He has been so successful that he is talking about
:08:54. > :08:59.employing 20 workers. The common assumption is that Eastern European
:08:59. > :09:06.-- eastern Europeans come and take jobs for little money but for him,
:09:06. > :09:11.the attraction was to make money. He pays his workers between �7.12
:09:11. > :09:16.pounds per hour. Business is booming with happy customers.
:09:16. > :09:21.complain at all. It takes half the time and half the price.
:09:21. > :09:24.accusation is British workers are not interested in manual or dirty
:09:24. > :09:34.work and we need overseas Labour to fill the gaps in our workforce.
:09:34. > :09:38.Where there is muck, there is money. Four years ago we visited a school
:09:38. > :09:44.in Peterborough trying to cope with a huge increase in the number of
:09:44. > :09:48.Polish children. For tomorrow's report, we have gone back to
:09:48. > :09:53.Fulbridge Primary to see how they have been getting on. We want your
:09:53. > :09:57.thoughts on this also. Still to come tonight: Shaun Peel
:09:57. > :10:04.with our latest Olympic bulletin. All the stories affecting us in the
:10:04. > :10:10.build up to London 2012. And Andrew Sinclair has been to the shops.
:10:10. > :10:15.The man packing the bags is Michael, who'd joined the staff of Morison's
:10:15. > :10:18.about five hours ago and he happens to be the local MP. Find out why he
:10:18. > :10:28.is here and why many of his colleagues are doing a similar
:10:28. > :10:34.
:10:34. > :10:44.A 14 year-old girl is seriously ill in hospital after the course she
:10:44. > :10:45.
:10:45. > :10:50.was riding on fell on her. Olivia was being assessed for the
:10:50. > :10:53.Pony Club Horse trials this weekend. She had just practised show jumping
:10:53. > :10:58.when the horse she borrowed collapsed and died. The air
:10:58. > :11:02.ambulance was with care within minutes. We found the horse had
:11:02. > :11:07.suffered a heart attack and died and as it fell, it pinned the young
:11:07. > :11:10.teenage girl underneath her. She was semi-conscious and her
:11:10. > :11:18.condition gave the group cause for concern that she might have
:11:18. > :11:24.suffered a severe head injury. owner of the farm says it hopes --
:11:24. > :11:29.hosts horse -- dressage and opportunities for jumpers.
:11:29. > :11:38.banged her head on the ground soap she suffered head injuries. Only 1
:11:38. > :11:43.ft was trapped under the horse but it was sadly a dead horse. The air
:11:43. > :11:49.ambulance and the emergency medical services perhaps have given the 14
:11:49. > :11:53.year-old girl a tomorrow that she might not have had otherwise.
:11:53. > :11:58.emergency medical charity believes the rapid response saved Olivia's
:11:58. > :12:05.life. They gave the best chance of minimising injury to her brain and
:12:05. > :12:09.having spoken to the family today, Bolivia is awake and sitting up in
:12:09. > :12:17.the intensive care unit and is doing very well. Their health and
:12:17. > :12:20.safety unit is investigating -- The Government has given the go
:12:20. > :12:23.ahead for a big new gas power station in Essex. It will be built
:12:23. > :12:26.at Coryton near Canvey Island and will produce enough power for
:12:26. > :12:33.nearly a million homes. The Government needs to get a move
:12:33. > :12:38.on, finding new sources of power. One-quarter of the UK's electricity
:12:38. > :12:48.generating capacity will shut down over the next decade. Today, their
:12:48. > :12:52.energy minister visited our region. The plans will generate enough
:12:52. > :12:57.electricity for one million homes. We have to make up for a lack of
:12:57. > :13:01.investment over the last decade. We have to invest twice as much in
:13:01. > :13:07.this decade. We have looked carefully at the applications and
:13:07. > :13:12.decided this is a good one and should be consenting. The region
:13:12. > :13:17.has six gas fired power stations. Many were built when gas was cheap
:13:17. > :13:24.and we were self-sufficient in it. The station at Great Yarmouth
:13:25. > :13:30.opened nine years ago. As a nation, we're not self-sufficient in gas
:13:30. > :13:37.anymore. We have to import much of it. It is an expensive commodity.
:13:37. > :13:41.As it makes sense to build more gas stations? The Government says gas
:13:41. > :13:47.is an efficient way of generating power and an important part of the
:13:47. > :13:50.energy mix, along with a call, nuclear and renewables. This
:13:50. > :13:54.station was certainly boost the local economy, creating 600 jobs
:13:54. > :13:56.during construction. A military historian who faked an
:13:56. > :13:59.illustrious army career was found guilty today of perverting the
:13:59. > :14:05.course of justice. John Livesey worked at the Imperial War Museum
:14:05. > :14:08.at Duxford. He was found guilty of benefit fraud seven years ago. But
:14:08. > :14:11.he escaped jail at the time by telling the judge he was a
:14:11. > :14:14.decorated Falklands veteran. He will be sentenced on the latest
:14:14. > :14:17.charge in three weeks. Police have named the elderly
:14:17. > :14:21.couple killed in a crash on the A120 in Essex. 83-year-old Arthur
:14:21. > :14:26.Sarbutt and his wife Vera, who was 81, came from Harwich. They had
:14:27. > :14:29.been travelling in a Hyundai car which crashed with a Vauxhall Astra.
:14:29. > :14:32.The insurance company Aviva, which employs 6,000 people in Norwich,
:14:32. > :14:38.has announced an operating profit of �1.3 billion for the first half
:14:39. > :14:42.of the year. That is an increase of 3% on last year. Since the start of
:14:42. > :14:51.last year, the number of motor customers has gone up by two thirds
:14:51. > :14:53.of a million. The football season starts this
:14:54. > :14:57.weekend. Tomorrow, we will be looking at the Championship.
:14:57. > :15:00.Tonight, it is Leagues One and Two. Off the field, Southend United say
:15:00. > :15:10.they hope to be in their new stadium in two years. And at
:15:10. > :15:10.
:15:10. > :15:17.Colchester United, they are looking to cut costs.
:15:17. > :15:26.The football season is back. New challenges, fresh hope, but how is
:15:26. > :15:31.it going to go? We are going to win. But to will be celebrating, come
:15:31. > :15:38.May? 10th last year, but now Colchester are cutting back. The
:15:38. > :15:45.chairman will reduce his investment in the playing budget from 1.5
:15:45. > :15:49.million to nothing in five years' time. Instead, he is focusing on
:15:49. > :15:54.training and youth facilities. game is changing. Many more players
:15:54. > :16:00.are available. The demands on wages are not what they have been. Our
:16:00. > :16:05.budget is still good. It means that I need some input from the fans and
:16:05. > :16:13.other people and we need to start filling this stadium for. We have
:16:13. > :16:16.worked hard to try to get the use through this team. He has not got
:16:17. > :16:23.money coming everywhere, but we will have a good go at trying to
:16:23. > :16:32.make carousels as good as we can. Another year for Southend as well.
:16:32. > :16:40.The stadium has seen better days. Three years on, are they any closer
:16:40. > :16:47.to moving out than their plans? years. Why are you so confident?
:16:47. > :16:52.There is a sea of momentum of activity it involved. Why has there
:16:52. > :16:56.been such a substantial delay? financial crisis hit as an banks
:16:57. > :17:03.were not so supportive. We have now found other options and are moving
:17:03. > :17:10.forward. Real optimism on the playing side. It is a decent squad.
:17:10. > :17:19.He has pitted together before the start of the season as well. I have
:17:19. > :17:23.put a bet on them to win the league, so hopefully they will. The teams
:17:23. > :17:33.start their campaigns on Saturday, as the Campaign for glory begins
:17:33. > :17:39.You are watching Look East from the BBC. Coming up: One of the toughest
:17:39. > :17:41.challenges on the water. It is not just schools which get
:17:41. > :17:45.long summer holidays. MPs are away from Westminster for seven weeks.
:17:45. > :17:48.But that is much shorter than it used to be. Still, they want us to
:17:48. > :17:51.know they won't be spending all that time on the beach. Many will
:17:51. > :18:01.be working in their constituencies and some are literally rolling up
:18:01. > :18:04.their sleeves. Our Political Correspondent reports.
:18:04. > :18:10.In the coffee shop at Morrisons in Northampton, the latest member of
:18:10. > :18:15.staff is hard at work. Michael Ellis is to local MP, but he has
:18:15. > :18:19.decided to spend one day a week working with the local employer
:18:19. > :18:24.over the summer. I feel part of the community and I want to show people
:18:25. > :18:30.how willing I am and keen eye and to get engaged at a grass roots
:18:30. > :18:35.level. No one has been nasty to you? Not at all. I think people are
:18:35. > :18:39.pleased to see me. He has been helping the customers with their
:18:39. > :18:46.trays of food and has cleared the tables. He has generally help us
:18:47. > :18:50.out. What you think of having your local MP doing this? Brilliant. He
:18:50. > :18:56.then not -- then knows what is happening on the shop floor.
:18:56. > :19:02.Yesterday, Norman Lamb prepared to take part in a charity bike ride to
:19:02. > :19:06.the Netherlands. I really hate the idea of MPs being cut off in an
:19:06. > :19:11.ivory tower in London. This is about active representation,
:19:11. > :19:16.getting stuck in and working with local people. Party leaders had
:19:16. > :19:25.been keen to see their MPs showing the more human side since the
:19:25. > :19:29.expenses scandal. Another MP has launched a charity of the month.
:19:29. > :19:34.Another is fund-raising for a school in Rwanda. Richard Bacon is
:19:34. > :19:39.doing charity work in Africa as well. At the James Paget Hospital,
:19:39. > :19:44.there is a new doctor this summer. It is good to look after patients
:19:44. > :19:50.and reconnect with the real world. I do not think we have enough
:19:50. > :19:55.people in politics who understand what it is like to work him from
:19:55. > :19:59.time-servers says. It is great to be involved in the NHS again.
:19:59. > :20:04.Michael Ellis, it is the supermarket this week and a fire
:20:04. > :20:07.service next week. After that, he is manning a stall in the
:20:07. > :20:10.marketplace. Now that the Olympic Games is less
:20:10. > :20:13.than a year away, we are counting down with a regular Thursday
:20:13. > :20:23.Olympic report. Last week, the former world badminton champion
:20:23. > :20:32.
:20:32. > :20:41.Gail Emms did the honours. Tonight, Welcome to my Olympic report. This
:20:42. > :20:48.venue behind me could be a training camp next year for visiting teams.
:20:48. > :20:54.At the last count, 14 teams will be best here -- will be based here.
:20:54. > :20:58.The British wheelchair rugby team will be based in King's Lynn. The
:20:58. > :21:08.two Olympic venues in our region have also come through their first
:21:08. > :21:13.major challenges. There was a Test event for the white water rafting.
:21:13. > :21:19.175 athletes will take part in the event. There was a dress rehearsal
:21:19. > :21:24.at the mountain-biking site in Essex as well. 5,000 local people
:21:24. > :21:33.were there to see 100 of the world's top riders trying out the
:21:33. > :21:37.course for the first and last time before the Games. The Cambridge
:21:37. > :21:43.Paralympic sprinter Jamie Peacock is getting better and better. At
:21:43. > :21:49.the weekend, he ran a personal best which would have seen him as the
:21:49. > :21:53.European event leader, but his time could not be ratified. If he can
:21:53. > :22:00.repeat that time this weekend, he will become the new European record
:22:00. > :22:08.holder. He is hitting form at just the right time. If you have
:22:08. > :22:12.Olympics stories, why not email me? You can also follow me on Twitter.
:22:12. > :22:17.Our BBC local radio stations will be following the Olympic dreams of
:22:17. > :22:25.2012 hopefuls were you love. Next week, we will be speaking to Goldie
:22:25. > :22:30.Sayers, an Olympic javelin thrower. Golf has the Open. Tennis has
:22:30. > :22:34.Wimbledon. Yachting has the Fastnet race. 600 miles from start to
:22:34. > :22:38.finish. It gets underway in ten days and three crews from this
:22:38. > :22:44.region will be taking part. Kevin Burch has been to Levington in
:22:44. > :22:51.Suffolk to watch their final preparations.
:22:51. > :23:01.It is the kind of event which -- adventure which sees all sorts come
:23:01. > :23:03.
:23:03. > :23:10.together. They are a month -- these two men are among 24 people who
:23:10. > :23:15.will face the Fastnet race. We're not going cruising, we're going
:23:15. > :23:21.racing. If you have to change your sale, it does not matter what the
:23:21. > :23:29.time is. You still have to do it, even during the night. It has quite
:23:29. > :23:36.a good name. I am really excited about it. The race started in 1925,
:23:36. > :23:46.but this is the you that most people remember. In 1979, there was
:23:46. > :23:49.
:23:49. > :23:55.as a fear sort -- severe storm. This time, 350 people will take
:23:55. > :23:59.part. They have had a fairly rough time during the qualifying races.
:23:59. > :24:09.There have been some extreme winds and challenging conditions. They
:24:09. > :24:18.
:24:18. > :24:23.The trouble help raise money for help for heroes. Every boat carries
:24:23. > :24:31.its logo and some of the crew are sponsored. It is a personal
:24:31. > :24:38.challenge for everybody. Some people have had no prior experience
:24:38. > :24:43.and have worked very hard. The next chapter begins tomorrow morning
:24:43. > :24:47.when the three boats will leave Leamington to finally head south.
:24:47. > :24:49.Here is an unusual request for help from the organisers of a festival
:24:49. > :24:55.in Cambridgeshire. They are appealing for anyone who has seen a
:24:55. > :25:01.giant, helium filled island to get in touch. It looks like this. It
:25:01. > :25:07.cost �12,000. But somebody cut it loose. If you see it, the Secret
:25:07. > :25:15.Garden Party would love to hear Garden Party would love to hear
:25:15. > :25:23.from you. The weather is quieter today. Just
:25:23. > :25:28.as wet, though. We have not had that thunderstorms so far. The
:25:28. > :25:32.showers this evening are just moving past Peterborough. The cloud
:25:32. > :25:36.band that gave us the rain today is starting to clear away. You can see
:25:36. > :25:40.the drier weather moving in across the region at the moment. They
:25:40. > :25:47.could still be the odd heavy shower in the north-west of the region
:25:47. > :25:53.later. The showers will not last long and they should soon clear
:25:53. > :26:02.away to give us dry weather for the bulk of the night. It will be
:26:02. > :26:10.humoured, so feeling close. Tomorrow, it is going to be a
:26:10. > :26:20.better day. It would be hard for it to be much worse. We will all
:26:20. > :26:26.enjoyed the return of sunshine at times during tomorrow. We will get
:26:26. > :26:36.some sunshine at times. It will be quite warm air at times.
:26:36. > :26:36.
:26:36. > :26:42.Temperatures could do well. The winds are generally much lighter as
:26:42. > :26:49.well. It all looks like a pleasant day. Tomorrow night, we might see
:26:49. > :26:55.some rain moving up past the coast of Essex and Sussex. For the
:26:55. > :27:04.outlook, we have a very unsettled looking chart. Low pressure is all
:27:04. > :27:08.around us. This suggests it could rain at any time. For the Eastern
:27:09. > :27:13.Counties, we may well stay dry for much of the time. There will be
:27:13. > :27:20.showery rain first thing on Saturday, but the rest of the time
:27:20. > :27:24.it should be mainly dry. Turning wet by the end of Sunday. Slowly,