:00:20. > :00:28.The Dale Farm latest. Where are they? You normally don't get a
:00:28. > :00:32.straight answer. It is part of the game. Also tonight, tributes to a
:00:32. > :00:36.17 year-old girl killed in an accident. Three more instance where
:00:36. > :00:44.rocks are thrown at cars in Suffolk. What are the police doing to stop
:00:44. > :00:54.it? And we wish you a Sally Christmas. With Irene and her years
:00:54. > :00:57.
:00:57. > :01:00.of dinners for the Salvation Army. First tonight - It's time to pay up.
:01:00. > :01:03.The local council tells travellers evicted from Dale Farm: "you
:01:03. > :01:06.refused to move, you can foot the bill." Tonight Look East can reveal
:01:06. > :01:09.that all the families living on the illegal section of the site at
:01:09. > :01:12.Crays Hill will be sent invoices, together totalling millions of
:01:12. > :01:17.pounds. We also have updated figures for how much the operation
:01:18. > :01:21.cost. The council had allowed a budget of �8million. It now seems
:01:21. > :01:25.they only needed to spend just over half of that. The police, for their
:01:25. > :01:29.part, had allowed another �10m. That figure will probably come down
:01:29. > :01:32.substantially too. Basildon Council is looking at different ways of
:01:32. > :01:35.getting the money back and that could include pursuing several
:01:35. > :01:41.traveller families across the Irish Sea to what many see as their
:01:41. > :01:44.spiritual home, the town of Rathkeale in County Limerick. Our
:01:44. > :01:54.first report tonight is from our Home Affairs Correspondent Sally
:01:54. > :02:01.Chidzoy. They have the top of the range cars
:02:01. > :02:04.and money to splash. Motors with mostly UK plates. It is a parade of
:02:04. > :02:10.wealthy travellers, making their fortune across Europe and coming
:02:10. > :02:16.back to flaunt their success. they have got flash cars, big
:02:16. > :02:22.weddings. Clothes from Hollywood. They come back to have their
:02:22. > :02:29.functions, barbecues, and to get married. Whatever they like to do
:02:29. > :02:33.at Christmas time. Does this wealth trace back to dale Farm? They will
:02:33. > :02:40.not give interviews by many say they are angry about the eviction.
:02:40. > :02:45.Are any of them back for Christmas? Yes, they say. You mostly don't get
:02:45. > :02:51.a straight answer in this town, you get a run around. You ask where
:02:51. > :02:57.they could be and are told to go down the road, they might be down a
:02:57. > :03:02.house at the end, it might be empty. It is also normal for there to be
:03:02. > :03:09.no paper trail in some property transactions. People used aliases.
:03:09. > :03:15.Grand properties are being built across town, some without property
:03:15. > :03:20.building permission. This it at the state was built by a relative of a
:03:20. > :03:25.prominent resident, it has been empty like this for years. As you
:03:25. > :03:31.can see, some are just empty shells. But who owns these houses? The
:03:31. > :03:36.authorities just don't know because they are not registered. Discounts
:03:36. > :03:41.will is determined to regain money, we will be billing the travellers
:03:41. > :03:46.for the cost of the site clearance. If those invoices are not paid we
:03:46. > :03:51.will pursue it through every legal means possible. The we found no one
:03:51. > :03:55.in a raft Kiel who had been evicted from the Essex camp, but now it is
:03:55. > :03:59.Christmas and life goes on. The lavish wedding season is underway,
:03:59. > :04:04.this limo awaits the bride. They are fairly popular, but sometimes
:04:04. > :04:14.it is horses and carts. If they want the train carriage, they will
:04:14. > :04:14.
:04:14. > :04:19.get it. Weddings of �150,000 in cash are common. Dresses so heavy
:04:19. > :04:24.the bride can barely walk. This family will not be targeted by
:04:24. > :04:28.Basildon council, as they have no links with Essex. The travellers
:04:28. > :04:34.from Dale Farm denied their own houses, they say they will attempt
:04:34. > :04:44.to seize assets. So that's the situation in Ireland.
:04:44. > :04:49.But what's the latest down at Dale Farm itself. Add dale Farm, Patrick
:04:49. > :04:54.says it is the first Christmas he has not looked forward to. I have
:04:54. > :04:59.had many a tough Christmases, but this is definitely, without a doubt,
:04:59. > :05:04.the toughest. It is two mum since bailiffs dug up the illegal
:05:04. > :05:08.pictures, but the Gypsy Council say the 50 or so families who lived
:05:08. > :05:14.here have not gone far. Either parked up on the road leading to
:05:14. > :05:22.Dale Farm, all squeezed onto illegal pitches. Some have moved
:05:22. > :05:27.about 50 yards, some slightly further, 60 or 70 yards. A long way
:05:27. > :05:36.to go... After all of that money. Look at the state they have left it
:05:36. > :05:40.in. Some of these trenches are 20 ft deep. Raw sewage. What was the
:05:40. > :05:45.point of all that? Basildon council says the eviction upheld planning
:05:45. > :05:49.law. The travellers could have avoided it if they left peacefully.
:05:49. > :05:56.Both travellers and protesters are accused of causing trouble and are
:05:56. > :06:00.being dealt with by the courts. This man agrees with the travellers,
:06:00. > :06:04.that all the eviction has done his move them a few hundred yards off
:06:04. > :06:10.be illegal pitches and onto the road which leads to them. All we
:06:10. > :06:15.have got is a bomb site, if you look from it from the air, it looks
:06:15. > :06:19.like 49 craters. Frustrating for me and the rest of the village,
:06:19. > :06:24.thinking this would be dealt with and be brought back to a greenfield
:06:24. > :06:34.site. Back on the farm, Patrick says nobody is looking forward to
:06:34. > :06:34.
:06:34. > :06:38.The latest from a council is that the travellers in the lane will be
:06:38. > :06:48.allowed to stay over Christmas, but new proceedings will begin to
:06:48. > :06:51.remove them in the new year. A 17 year old girl who was killed
:06:51. > :06:55.in a crash on the A11 last night has been named. Lucinda Burnell
:06:55. > :06:58.lived in the village of Widdington. She was a passenger in a car
:06:58. > :07:02.heading south near Great Abington when the crash happened. It took
:07:02. > :07:06.police several hours to examine the wreckage and tried to reconstruct
:07:06. > :07:11.the collision. The car Lucinda was travelling in was a Vauxhall
:07:11. > :07:16.courser. Police believe it hit a trailer carrying a boat park at the
:07:16. > :07:20.side of the road. It spun around, facing the wrong way up the
:07:20. > :07:25.carriageway and hit another car. The accident happened on the
:07:25. > :07:29.southbound carriageway of the A11 at about 11:20pm. Traffic is now
:07:29. > :07:33.flying again but the road or shut for near 12 hours while police
:07:33. > :07:37.tried to work out what happened. Police think of the trailer with
:07:37. > :07:42.the boat on had lost a wheel and pulled up at the sight of the road
:07:42. > :07:48.with hazard warning lights on. They are unclear as to why the box will
:07:48. > :07:52.hit it. We are appealing for anybody who would have seen the
:07:52. > :07:56.vehicle broken down, or anybody who would have witnessed the collision
:07:56. > :08:00.of one vehicle going into the back of the trailer. The vehicle
:08:00. > :08:05.spinning around and then being hit by a further vehicle. If anybody
:08:05. > :08:14.was going in the opposite direction, it was a dual carriageway at that
:08:14. > :08:22.point. Tributes to Lucinda, known as Lucy, have been paid on the
:08:22. > :08:26.Facebook. Police say they are trying to ascertain whether Lucy
:08:26. > :08:31.and the dry dock of the car were wearing seat belts. The driver
:08:31. > :08:35.suffered minor injuries, as did the two people in the Alfa Romeo.
:08:35. > :08:42.Police say there were no reports of bad weather but they need people
:08:43. > :08:45.with information to come forward. Still to come tonight: getting in
:08:46. > :08:55.the Christmas mood with a choir based in Bedfordshire. And we will
:08:56. > :08:57.
:08:57. > :09:00.also be talking to last minute There are extra police patrols in
:09:00. > :09:03.Suffolk tonight after three more cars were hit by rocks as they
:09:03. > :09:07.travelled along main roads. The latest incidents took place last
:09:07. > :09:12.night but no one was injured. The first was on the A14 at Trimley
:09:12. > :09:21.St Mary. The second was close to the Orwell Bridge and the third was
:09:21. > :09:26.on the A12 at Belstead. Victoria Cook is at Trimley now, Victoria.
:09:26. > :09:29.It was this time last night that somebody came to this Bott, picked
:09:29. > :09:33.up a rock, climbed up the embankment behind me and threw it
:09:33. > :09:38.at the side of a passing car. As you can see, the area is quite
:09:38. > :09:43.secluded, quite hidden. With cars passing on the A14 having no chance
:09:43. > :09:49.of avoiding rocks from the side. It was only a week ago that the exact
:09:49. > :09:53.same thing happen, that night, four rocks like this were thrown at cars.
:09:53. > :09:57.This was one retrieved from the scene. Astonishingly nobody was
:09:57. > :10:02.injured in these incidents, but at the beginning of the month, a woman
:10:02. > :10:05.on the A12 was injured severely in an instant like this. That day a
:10:05. > :10:11.lump of concrete was dropped from a bridge into the car she was
:10:11. > :10:14.travelling in. She suffered severe facial injury, her face had to be
:10:14. > :10:20.surgically reconstructed and she suffered severe chest injuries.
:10:20. > :10:23.What are the police saying today? they have launched a major
:10:24. > :10:29.investigation into this and want to stop it from happening so
:10:29. > :10:35.frequently. The question is, how do they stop it? They are increasing
:10:35. > :10:40.patrols in the area and looking at licensing in areas like this. They
:10:40. > :10:43.are concerned as to how often this is happening. -- lighting. There
:10:43. > :10:48.appears to be a detachment between the people committing the offence
:10:48. > :10:52.and the victims. My plea would be for those people responsible to
:10:52. > :10:58.take two steps backwards, realise that they potentially are
:10:58. > :11:02.unlawfully killing some body. I can put it no more plainly than that.
:11:02. > :11:12.Of course, this evening police are asking anybody with information
:11:12. > :11:22.
:11:22. > :11:25.about these incidents to come forward. For thank you Victoria.
:11:25. > :11:27.Tim Yeo, the Suffolk MP and chairman of the Parliamentary
:11:27. > :11:30.Environment Committee says the cut in subsidies for solar panels is
:11:30. > :11:32.damaging confidence and jobs. Payments to householders who want
:11:32. > :11:35.to install solar panels have been halved. But MPs on two
:11:35. > :11:38.Parliamentary committees say the decision was "panicky and rushed".
:11:38. > :11:39.It has cut the growth in the solar industry to a dead halt overnight,
:11:39. > :11:42.and it has undermined the confidence in the Government's
:11:42. > :11:46.energy policy is widely, people feel they are liable to be changed
:11:46. > :11:49.at very short notice. Sainsbury's has apologised after it was forced
:11:49. > :11:51.to cancel food deliveries which customers had pre-booked for
:11:51. > :11:58.Christmas.About 100 people were hit including a family from Suffolk.
:11:59. > :12:03.The supermarket giant says it was all down to a computer glitch.
:12:03. > :12:10.every family counting down to Christmas, these are hectic days,
:12:10. > :12:17.but especially so here. My mum fell and broke her hip, so we are
:12:17. > :12:22.travelling. My father needs care, so I have got my dad home, here. I
:12:22. > :12:25.have arthritis and cannot travel very far, my son is here to drive
:12:25. > :12:31.us backwards and forwards. On top of that, my brother who would
:12:31. > :12:34.normally help me, he is poorly in London. At least the Christmas food
:12:34. > :12:40.was sorted, or so she thought until Sainsbury's phoned to say they were
:12:40. > :12:44.having problems. After a few days of saying they might or might not,
:12:44. > :12:50.they finally confirmed that the home delivery book three weeks ago
:12:50. > :12:56.was off. I gave them the benefit of the doubt, the caps cos it was
:12:57. > :13:01.Christmas, getting extra drivers and staff in. Apparently not.
:13:01. > :13:04.statement at Sainsbury's say in the majority of cases they were able to
:13:04. > :13:08.rebook deliveries but they say in a small number of cases they were
:13:08. > :13:13.unable to offer a suitable alternative and they have offered
:13:13. > :13:18.those customers a gesture of goodwill. We apologise unreservedly
:13:18. > :13:23.to people inconvenienced in any way. For Karen, no last minute shopping
:13:23. > :13:33.-- after all, instead a last-minute surprise. Sainsbury's confirming
:13:33. > :13:39.
:13:39. > :13:41.the order will be delivered A consultation over plans to move
:13:41. > :13:43.vascular surgery away from Ipswich Hospital ends tomorrow. The
:13:43. > :13:48.hospital has already lost specialist centres for surgery for
:13:48. > :13:52.pancreatic cancer and cancers of the head and neck.
:13:52. > :13:55.A cruise company based in Ipswich is to be sued in the High Court
:13:55. > :13:58.following outbreaks of a sickness bug on one of its ships. More than
:13:58. > :14:03.100 holidaymakers are involved in the joint action against Fred Olsen
:14:03. > :14:07.Cruise Lines. This cruise liner is the focus of
:14:07. > :14:17.claims by 130 passengers that there were nine outbreaks of norovirus on
:14:17. > :14:17.
:14:17. > :14:21.the ship in 2009 and 2010. This couple joined the ship in December
:14:21. > :14:29.2009 for a Christmas and New Year cruise to the Canary Isles and
:14:29. > :14:34.madiera. It became at the holiday from hell. My husband took ill and
:14:35. > :14:40.we were confined to the Cavern for 48 hours. Then I got the old as
:14:40. > :14:46.much worse. We were confined to the cabin for a further 48 hours. It
:14:46. > :14:55.was a nightmare. All we saw of the Canary Islands, apart from for one
:14:55. > :15:00.day, was a harbour wall through the port Hall. This solicitors handling
:15:00. > :15:05.the case accuse the cruise line company of putting profits before
:15:05. > :15:11.health and safety. Passengers had raised concerns over food and
:15:11. > :15:21.hygiene standards on board. Tonight, Fred Olsen Cruise Lines say the
:15:21. > :15:27.
:15:27. > :15:36.-- they reject. But this couple are certain of one thing. They will not
:15:36. > :15:40.You're watching Look East from the BBC.
:15:40. > :15:50.Coming up: Eileen and her 25 years of Christmas dinners for the
:15:50. > :15:53.
:15:53. > :16:01.Salvation Army. There are now just two more
:16:01. > :16:04.shopping days till Christmas. But two days plus a crucial late night
:16:04. > :16:07.of shopping this evening, of course. So, how's it going? Over the last
:16:07. > :16:09.few weeks, we've been to shops in Bury St Edmunds, Peterborough,
:16:09. > :16:19.Norwich and Ipswich. We've heard from shopkeepers and shoppers.
:16:19. > :16:21.
:16:21. > :16:25.Tonight we're at Centre MK in Milton Keynes.
:16:25. > :16:33.This centre is one of the biggest end our region. The final festive
:16:33. > :16:38.rush has started. A record number of shoppers are here. Up 19% on
:16:38. > :16:43.this time last year. That means 750,000 people will come to this
:16:43. > :16:53.centre before the end of this week. But our people spending at the
:16:53. > :16:58.
:16:58. > :17:03.tills? I have been fined ing out. The final flurry of panic-stricken
:17:03. > :17:08.shoppers are taking to the centre. Today, we have spoken to a market
:17:08. > :17:12.trader, a medium-sized chain and Britain's biggest department store.
:17:12. > :17:19.In three words, could the sum up the experience of this year's
:17:19. > :17:27.trade? Slope and depressing. Discounted, devalued, depressing.
:17:27. > :17:34.great finish! This man has sold a dual rate in the market for 20
:17:34. > :17:40.years. In the recession of the 1980s, it was not as bad as this.
:17:40. > :17:47.This one is worse. This man has 10 stores. He is also finding this
:17:47. > :17:53.year a struggle. Sales are much weaker than they were. We're taking
:17:54. > :17:57.less profit per item on these. Christmas was always the time that
:17:57. > :18:01.you relied on to pay the bills throughout the year. Eight perhaps
:18:01. > :18:09.unsurprising latecomer it is left to one of the big chains to buck
:18:09. > :18:15.the trend. Sales are up nearly 21% on last year. It has been a
:18:15. > :18:21.challenge. The autumn weather really has meant a slow start to
:18:21. > :18:25.Christmas. In recent weeks, it has picked up. With prices slashed,
:18:25. > :18:28.retailers seemed desperate to get us through their doors. The
:18:28. > :18:34.Consumers' I have spoken to have said they have had to change their
:18:34. > :18:39.shopping habits. This year, Christmas will be very different.
:18:39. > :18:45.We are making presence and not buying has much. We're just buying
:18:45. > :18:49.for the children, no grown-ups. am trying to get my shopping
:18:49. > :18:55.cheaper in the sales after Christmas. It is easier to do the
:18:55. > :19:00.shopping online and cheaper. does that big foot fault
:19:00. > :19:05.transferred to us spending more at the tills? I am joined by the
:19:05. > :19:11.direct tour of this shopping centre. It has been as spectacular week,
:19:11. > :19:16.certainly. Occasionally there will be issues. We work in partnership
:19:16. > :19:24.and we are looking to support our stores. Many of the stories here
:19:24. > :19:27.have great discounts and promotions. Some of the retailers are really
:19:28. > :19:32.struggling, despite the high foot fall you're talking about. How can
:19:32. > :19:37.you help them? It has been a difficult year. We expected a
:19:37. > :19:43.strong Christmas. There will be promotions and marketing support we
:19:43. > :19:52.give them. Essentially, our success is there so it says. What about
:19:52. > :19:59.after Christmas? Obviously it will be busy. Gift car sales are 20%
:19:59. > :20:06.higher than last year. We will have traditional stock on the January
:20:06. > :20:09.sales which start at 6am on Boxing Day. Free parking throughout the
:20:09. > :20:14.City on Boxing Day and the day after. It should be a great end to
:20:14. > :20:17.the year and all fully a good start in January. Thank you and Merry
:20:18. > :20:22.Christmas. I spoke to the British Retail Consortium today and ask
:20:22. > :20:25.them what it would be like after Christmas. They said retailers
:20:25. > :20:29.would have to be more deals on the table so that consumers felt they
:20:29. > :20:36.were getting bargains. If you have any money left after Christmas,
:20:36. > :20:39.that sounds like a good time to go shopping.
:20:40. > :20:42.This Sunday, millions of us will sit down at home for a Christmas
:20:43. > :20:50.lunch with families and friends. But many others don't have a home
:20:50. > :20:53.to go to. And that's where the Salvation Army comes in. At centres
:20:53. > :20:55.across the region, an army of volunteers will provide hot food, a
:20:55. > :21:01.warm welcome and friendship. People like Eileen Barnes who will be
:21:01. > :21:06.celebrating her own special anniversary.
:21:06. > :21:10.Eileen Barnes and her husband had made the way down the street to the
:21:10. > :21:16.Salvation ave a halt in Dereham on Christmas Day every year for the
:21:16. > :21:24.past 25 years. Today, they were there again to start preparations
:21:24. > :21:28.for the big day this year. Good morning. Happy Christmas! She is a
:21:28. > :21:35.retired school chef. She prepares Turkey and the trimmings. Her
:21:35. > :21:42.husband helps out with the washing up. We usually get up at 6am to
:21:42. > :21:47.start cooking. We start in our room house and then we come here to do
:21:47. > :21:52.the vegetables. Some people are lonely, some are bereaved
:21:52. > :21:59.throughout the year and they have no family around. Many people don't
:21:59. > :22:06.have families. The Salvation Army was founded in 1865. Its brass
:22:06. > :22:13.bands have long been a feature of Christmas. This family will cater
:22:13. > :22:20.for about 60 on Christmas Day. dinner time, I am usually in the
:22:20. > :22:25.sink cleaning the saucepans. Somebody has to. Yes. I tell you
:22:25. > :22:30.what, it keeps my hands soft. year, one lady had not been at a
:22:30. > :22:38.house for the whole year. She came here for lunch and enjoyed it.
:22:39. > :22:42.and relax. I am looking after you. After 25 years, I decided to give
:22:42. > :22:52.them a little treat and served coffee and mince pies. What could
:22:52. > :22:54.
:22:54. > :23:04.possibly go wrong? Oh, my God! Well, somehow I burned them. No one
:23:04. > :23:11.seemed to mind. Service with a smile. Thank you very much! The
:23:11. > :23:20.good news is that the good folk of Dereham will have this couple
:23:20. > :23:23.catering for them, and not me. They are very brave. That does not
:23:23. > :23:31.count as cooking, just heating up and burning.
:23:31. > :23:37.Isn't that great what they do? Fantastic. I am sure it will taste
:23:37. > :23:42.Fantastic. I am sure it will taste much better than those mince pies!
:23:42. > :23:50.Let's start with some photographs. These are stunning and evocative.
:23:50. > :23:58.You can see the blue sky. Another mild day. Many locations got up to
:23:58. > :24:02.10 or 11 degrees. Average is about sex. It will stay a mile tonight.
:24:02. > :24:07.We have done well for sunshine today. The cloud broke up, allowing
:24:07. > :24:11.a lot of sunshine across the region. Some clear spells to start the
:24:11. > :24:17.night. Then it will turn increasingly cloudy through the
:24:17. > :24:22.night. It won't get down any lower than about eight degrees. We start
:24:22. > :24:29.with a light south-westerly wind, but that will start to increase in
:24:29. > :24:32.strength. You can see this approaching weather from. That will
:24:32. > :24:36.increase the wind speed, bring a band of rain and also when to Jews
:24:36. > :24:42.as a much cooler era behind it. So a cloudy start for everyone
:24:42. > :24:49.tomorrow right across the region. Some spots of rain possible in the
:24:49. > :24:57.West are round about midday. That will be the warmest part of the day.
:24:57. > :25:03.Once the rain clears, it will feel much cooler. When they with a fresh
:25:03. > :25:07.wind -- there will be a fresh wind. There could be six mm of rain for
:25:07. > :25:11.many locations. After words, the temperatures drop. Friday night
:25:11. > :25:15.will be chilly. Mild to start the day, but then we get to the
:25:15. > :25:19.overnight period and values are down to one degrees. There is the
:25:19. > :25:25.potential for a touch of ground frost. A very cold start to
:25:25. > :25:29.Christmas Eve. Mild night once more. For Christmas Day, it looks like
:25:29. > :25:34.there will be a fair bit of cloud around. Bid should stay dry with
:25:34. > :25:39.the odd spot of rain, but we're back into double figures. Maybe we
:25:39. > :25:44.should see some brighter spells rather than sunshine? We keep mild
:25:44. > :25:52.conditions for the start of next week. Overnight rain on Monday
:25:52. > :25:59.which will introduce cooler air. Tuesday will be cooler. Tonight is
:25:59. > :26:04.barometer night. Here are the barometer night. Here are the
:26:04. > :26:09.results. We are all dreaming of a mild and
:26:09. > :26:11.cloudy Christmas! Thank you. That's it, but we'll leave you
:26:11. > :26:18.tonight with a Christmas carol performed by The Phoenix Chorus.
:26:18. > :26:21.They are based at Potton in Bedfordshire. They are singing Once
:26:21. > :26:31.in Royal David's City which we filmed in The Highwayman in St
:26:31. > :26:35.