:00:09. > :00:12.Hello and welcome to a new week on Look East with Susie and me. Coming
:00:12. > :00:17.up in the next thirty minutes: It's official: Travellers at Dale Farm
:00:17. > :00:21.have two weeks to quit the site - or face the bailiffs. We knew that
:00:21. > :00:30.it was going to come to this, that the council is really determined to
:00:30. > :00:34.do this brittle eviction. -- brutal. Jobs galore in Milton Keynes as
:00:34. > :00:39.Network Rail makes the town its new home.
:00:39. > :00:42.The recruitment process has started now. We do not know the exact
:00:42. > :00:45.numbers now but there will probably be hundreds of new jobs in Milton
:00:45. > :00:48.Keynes. Dog rescue homes across the region
:00:49. > :00:50.are full up as the number of unwanted pets soars to a record
:00:51. > :01:00.high. And Doctor Mary Archer tells me how
:01:01. > :01:11.
:01:11. > :01:14.she beat cancer thanks to the skill of surgeons. Hello. Travellers at
:01:15. > :01:18.the Dale Farm camp in Essex were told today the have a maximum of
:01:18. > :01:21.two weeks before bailiffs are sent in to take possession of the site.
:01:21. > :01:24.In a letter to people who live on the site, Basildon Council says it
:01:24. > :01:26.hopes they will leave in an orderly fashion before the clearance
:01:26. > :01:29.operation begins. And it says alternative accommodation is
:01:29. > :01:31.available for anybody who wants to move now. Our first report is from
:01:31. > :01:35.Alex Dunlop. At last, the travellers know when the bailiffs
:01:35. > :01:40.will move in. Both they and the local council would rather it had
:01:40. > :01:46.not been leaked to the press first. Shame upon Basildon Council for
:01:46. > :01:51.leaking yet. There is no easy way to do an eviction but that was
:01:51. > :02:01.totally morally wrong. The council letter, sent to more than 80
:02:01. > :02:01.
:02:01. > :02:10.families, advising them that work to clear that illegal site in two
:02:10. > :02:14.weeks. Electricity will be cut off but what are will not. I have rung
:02:14. > :02:19.Basildon council less than 48-hours ago and asked about my home was
:02:19. > :02:24.application form. I was told it had not been looked at yet. Will you
:02:24. > :02:29.take violent action? No. The families have to leave, they have
:02:29. > :02:32.to tell us where to go. Two watch towers were built on the
:02:32. > :02:37.eastern perimeter, perhaps in anticipation of the forthcoming
:02:37. > :02:47.eviction. More than 50 plots behind them do not have planning
:02:47. > :02:53.
:02:53. > :02:56.permission. Protesters have become Impromptus sentries for the site.
:02:56. > :03:01.The council says they have no choice but to send in the bailiffs.
:03:01. > :03:06.The travellers say, if you provide us with legal pitches, we will move
:03:06. > :03:10.out tomorrow. We want somewhere to live so, if they could offer us a
:03:10. > :03:20.different site to go to, we will go peacefully. That has always been
:03:20. > :03:21.
:03:21. > :03:26.the issue. Travellers here did not expect a fortnight's grace. The
:03:26. > :03:35.council and courts are adamant - the travellers have broken planning
:03:35. > :03:37.law, a law that the travellers say is stacked against them. So, with
:03:37. > :03:40.that eviction deadline looming, just where will the travellers go
:03:40. > :03:45.to? It's a question that's worrying councils across the region. Here is
:03:45. > :03:48.our political correspondent, Andrew Sinclair.
:03:48. > :03:51.Basildon Council says it's already received 56 applications from
:03:51. > :03:54.people at Dale Farm who want to be rehoused. The council has a
:03:54. > :03:57.statutory duty to look after the bomb rubble, the old and the very
:03:57. > :04:00.young, and it's already started booking up local B&Bs and hostels
:04:00. > :04:08.many other travellers will probably take to the road, but where will
:04:08. > :04:16.they go? It's thought that this region needs at least 1,300 more
:04:16. > :04:20.traveller pitches. The problem is that very few are being built. This
:04:20. > :04:24.is the old East of England regional assembly. These people told local
:04:25. > :04:30.councils how many pitches they had to build. And they had to build
:04:30. > :04:34.them, whether they liked it or not. But the new Government scrap the
:04:34. > :04:39.assembly. It said councils only needed to build more pitches if
:04:39. > :04:43.they wanted to, and most do not. A recent survey found that more than
:04:43. > :04:52.half of councils in the east believe that scrapping the regional
:04:52. > :04:57.targets and has made it harder for them to provide more sites. This
:04:57. > :05:00.cycle of discrimination against travellers on accommodation issues
:05:00. > :05:03.will continue unless something changes.
:05:03. > :05:07.The Government have offered financial incentives to councils
:05:07. > :05:11.that build more pitches. Even if they take it up, it will not solve
:05:11. > :05:15.the immediate problem. The eviction at Dale Farm will have implications
:05:15. > :05:19.across the county. We could see more unauthorised sites appearing
:05:19. > :05:23.once the eviction takes place. The local government Secretary said
:05:23. > :05:27.he hoped authorities would build more pitches. He also wants more
:05:27. > :05:31.travellers to obey the law. It is right and proper, of course, that
:05:31. > :05:38.we should respect the lifestyle choices of the travelling community,
:05:38. > :05:41.but that does not, I think, I'd give them a particular right over
:05:41. > :05:45.other citizens, particularly in the settled community.
:05:45. > :05:51.The eviction is definitely going ahead. The fall-out could be felt
:05:51. > :05:57.for some time to come. Let's talk now to Tony Ball, the leader of
:05:57. > :06:04.Basildon Council. Why this particular day and what will happen
:06:04. > :06:09.on that day? Will the bulldozers move in on 19th September?
:06:09. > :06:15.Following last week's decision, we made it clear that we would inform
:06:15. > :06:17.the traveller's very shortly of the date of the commencement of the
:06:17. > :06:22.operation and that we would give him as much time as we possibly
:06:22. > :06:30.could. That is what we have done. What will happen on that day? Will
:06:30. > :06:34.the bulldozers move in on that day? We are clear about this. The
:06:34. > :06:42.council will act in a safe and secure manner. The bailiffs will
:06:42. > :06:46.walk into the site, they will knock on doors, ask if they are ready to
:06:46. > :06:49.leave and if they want assistance. It will not be a question of
:06:49. > :06:54.bulldozers and knocking down structures. That is not what we're
:06:54. > :06:59.going to be doing. We will be saved and responsible. The travellers are
:06:59. > :07:03.still defiant about their fact that they will -- that they are not
:07:03. > :07:12.going to move. How hopeful argue that they will go of their own
:07:12. > :07:18.accord? I very much hope that the travellers will talk to the council
:07:18. > :07:22.and other service providers so that they can move away peacefully and
:07:22. > :07:28.take the offers of suitable accommodation that we have given.
:07:29. > :07:34.They say that you are not offering appropriate accommodation, which
:07:34. > :07:39.would beat travellers'' pitches. It is becoming harder and harder to
:07:39. > :07:42.find those. You say it is not racial discrimination but, in a way,
:07:42. > :07:49.it is discrimination against travellers. I reject that
:07:49. > :07:52.completely. Basildon has 113 authorised travel our pitches. It
:07:52. > :07:56.is the largest provider of authorised sites in the county and
:07:56. > :08:00.one of the largest in the country. There is a long tradition of living
:08:00. > :08:03.side-by-side with gypsies and travellers in the community.
:08:03. > :08:08.there are not any other sites at the moment for these travellers to
:08:08. > :08:12.go to. We have no suitable land available within Basildon. We have
:08:12. > :08:17.contacted all other local authorities up and down the country.
:08:17. > :08:25.There are some site sand plots that are available and we have made the
:08:25. > :08:28.trouble of Representatives aware of that. Thank you very much.
:08:28. > :08:31.In other news today, Network Rail went to Milton Keynes to find
:08:31. > :08:35.hundreds of extra staff. It's moving its national headquarters to
:08:35. > :08:40.the town, and by next summer 3,000 people will work there. This site
:08:40. > :08:47.was once the symbol of sporting success, but the diggers came under
:08:47. > :08:51.hockey stadium went. Next year, for 3,000 Network Rail staff, this will
:08:51. > :08:56.be their base. This has been a really fast moving project. One
:08:56. > :09:01.year ago this building did not even exist. In nine months' time, this
:09:01. > :09:05.will be the National Centre for Network Rail. With that move comes
:09:05. > :09:08.hundreds and hundreds of jobs for people in and around Milton Keynes.
:09:08. > :09:16.A huge swathe of personnel from York and Manchester will relocate
:09:16. > :09:20.here. Not everyone will come and those gaps need to be plucked. The
:09:20. > :09:24.company opened up its local recruitment drive today. We chose
:09:24. > :09:27.the area because it has a real history in engineering. Weir and
:09:27. > :09:33.engineering Company at heart. We are looking for people with that
:09:33. > :09:36.background. We are looking for people from disciplines such as
:09:36. > :09:42.finance and human resources. recruitment process has just
:09:42. > :09:46.started now. We're very excited about that. We do not know what the
:09:46. > :09:51.numbers are, it depends on who will be moving from other parts of the
:09:51. > :09:58.Milton Keynes has a history of attracting big names and big
:09:58. > :10:08.businesses. With the job market so tough, this is a welcome addition
:10:08. > :10:09.
:10:09. > :10:12.to the new city's landscape. Later in Look East: A message of
:10:13. > :10:15.hope for people with cancer. Lady Archer tells me about the surgeons
:10:15. > :10:22.at Addenbrooke's Hospital who saved her life.
:10:22. > :10:32.We have an inspiring story from Suffolk about the Dragon's Den.
:10:32. > :10:34.
:10:34. > :10:37.All the details of the weather A transport union says more than 20
:10:37. > :10:41.real the ticket offices in the East could be closed to save money. It
:10:41. > :10:51.claims there is a hit list drawn up by officials. Let's get the details
:10:51. > :10:53.
:10:53. > :10:56.now from Kevin Burch in Ipswich. The union says there are 675
:10:56. > :11:02.stations across the country where ticket offices will close, to be
:11:02. > :11:06.replaced by machines. 1,000 jobs will be lost in total. It says the
:11:06. > :11:12.details are tucked away in a report that is hundreds of pages long. The
:11:12. > :11:20.union believes that, in Norfolk, First Capital Connect stations
:11:20. > :11:28.would lose their booking offices, as with Thetford. Essex would lose
:11:28. > :11:38.the most. On the West Anglia line from Cambridge to London, it is
:11:38. > :11:46.
:11:46. > :11:52.easier to list at the offices which What has been the reaction to the
:11:52. > :12:00.union claims? The Government will probably
:12:01. > :12:04.respond tum -- sometime next month. An operating company said that,
:12:04. > :12:10.while they liked it up to passengers, they have had to save
:12:10. > :12:14.money to keep prices low. Sales via the Internet have trebled. The
:12:14. > :12:24.bigger worry is that, if you take away the staff, you leave the
:12:24. > :12:27.passengers more vulnerable. A man from South Africa who's been
:12:27. > :12:30.working in the Sizewell B power station is in a critical condition
:12:30. > :12:33.after he was attacked in Ipswich. The 22-year-old was stabbed in the
:12:33. > :12:36.stomach as he was walking back to a guesthouse. He was one of hundreds
:12:36. > :12:39.of workers drafted in to help refuel the power station. A man was
:12:39. > :12:42.remanded in custody today, accused of attacking him.
:12:42. > :12:45.A pilot killed in a crash which closed one of the region's main
:12:45. > :12:48.roads at the weekend has been named as Clive Greenaway. His plane hit a
:12:48. > :12:52.power line as it came down in Cambridgeshire. They A1 was shut
:12:52. > :12:54.for 24 hours because the damaged cable was in danger of falling onto
:12:55. > :12:58.the road. Mr Greenaway came from Stratford-upon-Avon.
:12:58. > :13:01.The renewed search for a teenager from Suffolk who has been missing
:13:01. > :13:03.for five years has thrown up no new leads. Yesterday teams were out
:13:04. > :13:06.near Foxhall Stadium in Ipswich following up a tip-off that Luke
:13:07. > :13:11.Durbin was seen there the day after he disappeared. But police say
:13:11. > :13:14.nothing significant was found. A record 277 stray and abandoned
:13:14. > :13:18.dogs in this region have been put down over the last 12 months
:13:19. > :13:24.because nobody could be found to give them a home. It's an increase
:13:24. > :13:34.of 37% on last year. The figures were compiled by the Dog's Trust
:13:34. > :13:41.from local authority dog wardens. They are healthy and happy but need
:13:41. > :13:49.a permanent home. These are the lucky ones, taking in by their Dogs
:13:49. > :13:53.Trust. Once man's best friend, they are now being abandoned. Attitudes
:13:53. > :13:57.are changing towards dog ownership. We are seeing a lot of people, due
:13:57. > :14:07.to the economic climate, who cannot afford the vet's bills and the
:14:07. > :14:07.
:14:07. > :14:12.feeding bills. Astray that this warden rescued
:14:12. > :14:20.last year works alongside him. The policy here is to reunite or two
:14:20. > :14:24.re-home. Putting dogs down is a last resort. If the dog has a
:14:24. > :14:34.serious underlying medical problem and it is in its best interests, we
:14:34. > :14:35.
:14:35. > :14:40.will consider euthanasia. This dog was given a microchipped
:14:40. > :14:44.when it arrived at the home. If the dog has a microchipped we can scan
:14:45. > :14:48.ate and it is that easy. We can get it back to its own are within an
:14:48. > :14:54.hour. Even orders of microchipped dogs
:14:54. > :15:04.are turning their backs. There is a waiting list here of all owners
:15:04. > :15:06.
:15:06. > :15:09.wanting to give up their pets. -- of owners.
:15:09. > :15:11.There was no Premier League or Championship football this weekend
:15:11. > :15:13.due to the international break. Colchester and Southend did play.
:15:13. > :15:16.Both drew. Tom's here with the details.
:15:16. > :15:19.He's scored his first League goal of the season, now Stephen
:15:19. > :15:22.Gillespie is hoping it will lead to a place in Colchester's starting
:15:22. > :15:27.eleven. Here's the pick of the weekend action. Watch out for some
:15:27. > :15:37.sensational goals at Southend. John Ward admitted his team were
:15:37. > :15:56.
:15:56. > :16:01.not at their best, so a point at off the post. The home side went in
:16:01. > :16:05.front fortuitously. The clearance went straight to Bobby Grant, who
:16:05. > :16:09.knew little about it as it crossed the line. Five minutes after
:16:09. > :16:19.scoring, Grant was dismissed for getting involved in a fight just
:16:19. > :16:20.
:16:20. > :16:30.before half-time. Stephen Gillespie, on for the final half an hour,
:16:30. > :16:55.
:16:55. > :17:01.bravely put it home. Again of quite We would do so look -- bitterly
:17:01. > :17:08.disappointed when the first goal went in. It was a healthy
:17:08. > :17:12.In cycling, Mark Cavendish has confirmed he will race in the Tour
:17:12. > :17:15.of Britain. Stage 7 comes to our region in two weeks' time, starting
:17:15. > :17:18.in Bury St Edmunds, winding up at Sandringham. Cavendish, who's won
:17:18. > :17:23.20 stages of the Tour de France, last rode in the race four years
:17:23. > :17:27.ago. A tense finish at Woburn, but Thai golfer Boonchu Ruangit held
:17:27. > :17:30.his nerve to claim the European Senior Masters. This, the 55-year-
:17:30. > :17:35.old's final pot on his way to a closing 71 to eventually win by
:17:35. > :17:45.four, as his challengers fell away. Ruangit also won the near 50,000
:17:45. > :17:48.
:17:48. > :17:50.first prize. That's it. Plenty more sport to tempt you with on the
:17:50. > :17:53.website, where there are extended highlights and reaction from all
:17:53. > :17:56.the weekend's football. And, just to announce the region's weekly
:17:56. > :17:59.football programme, Late Kick Off will return to your screens in the
:17:59. > :18:07.new year. More details to come. Don't forget, for coverage of your
:18:07. > :18:12.team, tune into your local BBC radio station.
:18:12. > :18:17.You're watching Look East from the BBC. Coming up: It's into the
:18:17. > :18:20.Dragons' Den for an inventor from Suffolk.
:18:20. > :18:23.Lady Archer, the wife of the novelist and Tory peer, Jeffrey
:18:23. > :18:25.Archer, has been telling Look East about the cancer treatment which
:18:25. > :18:28.saved her life. She was diagnosed with bladder cancer in November
:18:28. > :18:33.last year and was treated by surgeons at Addenbrooke's Hospital
:18:33. > :18:37.in Cambridge, where she is chairman of the Trust. She is full of praise
:18:37. > :18:40.for the doctors and nurses who looked after her so well. I went to
:18:40. > :18:47.see her this morning at her home in Cambridgeshire and started by
:18:47. > :18:51.asking about the moment she was told she had cancer.
:18:51. > :19:00.It's not the best moment of your life, but I knew, by the time I was
:19:00. > :19:03.told, that was what it was likely to be. Again, perhaps because I had
:19:03. > :19:08.been around at Addenbrooke's Hospital quite a bit, actually, I
:19:08. > :19:13.wasn't that frightened of cancer. Cancer is many diseases of many
:19:13. > :19:16.parts of the body. And many of them can be cured or contained now.
:19:16. > :19:21.Are you one of those people who says, this is a challenge, I am
:19:21. > :19:28.going to get through, or are you somebody who lies awake at night
:19:28. > :19:34.worrying? I guess you do a bit of both. I am a coper. I like
:19:34. > :19:42.challenges. I have a habit of looking forward and not looking
:19:42. > :19:49.back. I didn't spend too long lying awake at night, thinking, why me?
:19:49. > :19:57.Did you do some of that, though? did a bit of that. I am still a
:19:57. > :20:02.little puzzled as to why me. I do not have the obvious risk factors -
:20:02. > :20:07.I am not Mail, I have never smoked. My father was a heavy smoker so why
:20:07. > :20:10.did a bit of passive smoking. And I do not drink a lot of bulk of all.
:20:10. > :20:15.The only thing I can think that might have contributed was that I
:20:15. > :20:20.was a professional chemist and I handled a lot of chemicals. I do
:20:20. > :20:28.not want to necessarily blame that, these things just happen. What did
:20:28. > :20:33.they do exactly? They did a very clever operation to replace my
:20:33. > :20:38.bladder. They took it out. I have a handsome scar down the middle of my
:20:38. > :20:47.tummy. They took out the diseased bladder and the made me a nice new
:20:47. > :20:57.one, which they plumbed in exactly the same place. Be made it out of
:20:57. > :21:01.
:21:01. > :21:04.about half a metre of my small intestine. Looking for word --
:21:04. > :21:09.forward, do you expect to have a normal life with no more
:21:09. > :21:13.complications? Yes, I do expect that. From the pathology, the
:21:13. > :21:22.inspection of all the tissues they took out, they take out not just
:21:22. > :21:27.the bladder but also the month Lord -- the lymph nodes, and they were
:21:27. > :21:32.all negative, all clear. There was no sign of any cancer anywhere.
:21:32. > :21:35.your family were very supportive? Yes, very supportive. I think they
:21:35. > :21:41.were probably a lot more worried than I was, as one would possibly
:21:41. > :21:51.expect. My has been cancelled or writing trip, which, as you can
:21:51. > :21:51.
:21:51. > :21:56.imagine, is a unique event! Has all of this changed your perspective on
:21:56. > :22:01.your life and how you live and what you hope to get from it? Yes. There
:22:01. > :22:05.is a lot that is positive that comes out of experiences like this.
:22:05. > :22:12.It is true what cancer survivors say - you value each day when you
:22:12. > :22:19.feel fit and well more than you did before. And you feel, as it were,
:22:19. > :22:27.grateful for that. In my case, I took my previous good health for
:22:27. > :22:37.granted. And now you don't? I can rely on it. I know I had been very
:22:37. > :22:41.fortunate. Thank you. Thank you, Stuart.
:22:41. > :22:44.And, just to say, Lady Archer is taking part in the Chariots of Fire
:22:44. > :22:47.charity run in Cambridge on 18th September. And if you want to find
:22:47. > :22:49.out more about bladder cancer, you can go to the NHS website at
:22:49. > :22:55.www.nhs.uk/conditions. Now, if you run a business you'll
:22:55. > :22:58.know that finding money to help expand can be very tricky. One way
:22:59. > :23:02.of doing it is to try your luck on Dragons' Den. Many of the hopefuls
:23:02. > :23:04.get eaten alive by the Dragons, but on the show last night a
:23:05. > :23:14.businessman from Suffolk managed to persuade Peter Jones to part with
:23:15. > :23:21.
:23:21. > :23:28.�50,000. My name is Andy Bates. I am here to
:23:28. > :23:35.ask you for �50,000 for 10% of the equity in my company.
:23:36. > :23:43.This is the worldwide headquarters of AAB Performance Ltd. This
:23:43. > :23:49.morning there was a touch of stardust about the pace. -- about
:23:49. > :23:55.the place. Andy was a firefighter who raced in his spare time until
:23:55. > :24:00.the side Kharin which he was a passenger crashed at 160 mph.
:24:00. > :24:04.remember being in the year, looking at the bike, thinking, this is bad.
:24:04. > :24:10.I also realised the bike was going backwards at the same speed I was
:24:10. > :24:14.going forward. That is pretty much all I remember. Andy went on to set
:24:14. > :24:24.up his own business and last night he was in the Dragon's Den looking
:24:24. > :24:24.
:24:24. > :24:29.for �50,000. I'm out. I'm out. I want to make you an offer.
:24:29. > :24:34.It was not plain sailing but Andy accepted an offer from Peter Jones
:24:34. > :24:39.for all the money in return for 35% of his business.
:24:39. > :24:45.I sound like a dragon now but where do you see yourself in 12 months'
:24:45. > :24:48.time? The bottom line is - build on what we've got, move the car to the
:24:48. > :24:54.next level and try to expand in the marketplace.
:24:54. > :24:57.Last night's episode was filmed in May. Andy has been sorting out the
:24:58. > :25:07.paperwork since then. One of his suppliers baked in a celebration
:25:07. > :25:17.takeover might with a dragon and a stack of money. -- baked him as
:25:17. > :25:20.
:25:20. > :25:30.celebration cake overnight. It is the end of harvest here in
:25:30. > :25:36.
:25:36. > :25:39.the east. I have some photographs The weather is taking on something
:25:39. > :25:45.of an autumnal flavour. It is really going to be quite a
:25:45. > :25:55.changeable few days. We have very strong winds today's with gusts of
:25:55. > :25:56.
:25:56. > :26:01.35 mph and some places. -- in some places. Today we mainly had
:26:01. > :26:11.scattered showers. There may be some more later on tonight. There
:26:11. > :26:21.will be some evening sunshine. There will be light and patchy rain
:26:21. > :26:28.
:26:28. > :26:38.arriving in the early R's of the morning. -- the early hours. It
:26:38. > :26:45.
:26:45. > :26:55.will be breezy overnight. There will be strong winds tomorrow. The
:26:55. > :26:57.
:26:57. > :27:03.rain will gradually clear tomorrow. It will start to clear by lunchtime.
:27:03. > :27:09.Temperatures will be around 18 Celsius. The winds will be near
:27:09. > :27:13.gale-force around the Norfolk and Suffolk coastline. It stays mostly
:27:13. > :27:19.dry through the afternoon. A fair bit of cloud but one or two
:27:19. > :27:24.brighter spells. For the next five days, it stays windy and unsettled.