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The Dale Farm latest. Where are they? You normally don't get a

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straight answer. It is part of the game. Also tonight, tributes to a

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17 year-old girl killed in an accident. Three more instance where

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rocks are thrown at cars in Suffolk. What are the police doing to stop

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it? And we wish you a Sally Christmas. With Irene and her years

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of dinners for the Salvation Army. First tonight - It's time to pay up.

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The local council tells travellers evicted from Dale Farm: "you

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refused to move, you can foot the bill." Tonight Look East can reveal

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that all the families living on the illegal section of the site at

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Crays Hill will be sent invoices, together totalling millions of

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pounds. We also have updated figures for how much the operation

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cost. The council had allowed a budget of �8million. It now seems

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they only needed to spend just over half of that. The police, for their

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part, had allowed another �10m. That figure will probably come down

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substantially too. Basildon Council is looking at different ways of

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getting the money back and that could include pursuing several

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traveller families across the Irish Sea to what many see as their

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spiritual home, the town of Rathkeale in County Limerick. Our

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first report tonight is from our Home Affairs Correspondent Sally

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Chidzoy. They have the top of the range cars

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and money to splash. Motors with mostly UK plates. It is a parade of

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wealthy travellers, making their fortune across Europe and coming

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back to flaunt their success. they have got flash cars, big

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weddings. Clothes from Hollywood. They come back to have their

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functions, barbecues, and to get married. Whatever they like to do

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at Christmas time. Does this wealth trace back to dale Farm? They will

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not give interviews by many say they are angry about the eviction.

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Are any of them back for Christmas? Yes, they say. You mostly don't get

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a straight answer in this town, you get a run around. You ask where

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they could be and are told to go down the road, they might be down a

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house at the end, it might be empty. It is also normal for there to be

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no paper trail in some property transactions. People used aliases.

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Grand properties are being built across town, some without property

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building permission. This it at the state was built by a relative of a

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prominent resident, it has been empty like this for years. As you

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can see, some are just empty shells. But who owns these houses? The

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authorities just don't know because they are not registered. Discounts

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will is determined to regain money, we will be billing the travellers

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for the cost of the site clearance. If those invoices are not paid we

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will pursue it through every legal means possible. The we found no one

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in a raft Kiel who had been evicted from the Essex camp, but now it is

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Christmas and life goes on. The lavish wedding season is underway,

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this limo awaits the bride. They are fairly popular, but sometimes

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it is horses and carts. If they want the train carriage, they will

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get it. Weddings of �150,000 in cash are common. Dresses so heavy

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the bride can barely walk. This family will not be targeted by

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Basildon council, as they have no links with Essex. The travellers

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from Dale Farm denied their own houses, they say they will attempt

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to seize assets. So that's the situation in Ireland.

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But what's the latest down at Dale Farm itself. Add dale Farm, Patrick

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says it is the first Christmas he has not looked forward to. I have

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had many a tough Christmases, but this is definitely, without a doubt,

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the toughest. It is two mum since bailiffs dug up the illegal

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pictures, but the Gypsy Council say the 50 or so families who lived

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here have not gone far. Either parked up on the road leading to

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Dale Farm, all squeezed onto illegal pitches. Some have moved

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about 50 yards, some slightly further, 60 or 70 yards. A long way

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to go... After all of that money. Look at the state they have left it

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in. Some of these trenches are 20 ft deep. Raw sewage. What was the

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point of all that? Basildon council says the eviction upheld planning

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law. The travellers could have avoided it if they left peacefully.

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Both travellers and protesters are accused of causing trouble and are

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being dealt with by the courts. This man agrees with the travellers,

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that all the eviction has done his move them a few hundred yards off

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be illegal pitches and onto the road which leads to them. All we

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have got is a bomb site, if you look from it from the air, it looks

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like 49 craters. Frustrating for me and the rest of the village,

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thinking this would be dealt with and be brought back to a greenfield

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site. Back on the farm, Patrick says nobody is looking forward to

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The latest from a council is that the travellers in the lane will be

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allowed to stay over Christmas, but new proceedings will begin to

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remove them in the new year. A 17 year old girl who was killed

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in a crash on the A11 last night has been named. Lucinda Burnell

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lived in the village of Widdington. She was a passenger in a car

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heading south near Great Abington when the crash happened. It took

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police several hours to examine the wreckage and tried to reconstruct

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the collision. The car Lucinda was travelling in was a Vauxhall

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courser. Police believe it hit a trailer carrying a boat park at the

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side of the road. It spun around, facing the wrong way up the

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carriageway and hit another car. The accident happened on the

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southbound carriageway of the A11 at about 11:20pm. Traffic is now

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flying again but the road or shut for near 12 hours while police

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tried to work out what happened. Police think of the trailer with

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the boat on had lost a wheel and pulled up at the sight of the road

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with hazard warning lights on. They are unclear as to why the box will

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hit it. We are appealing for anybody who would have seen the

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vehicle broken down, or anybody who would have witnessed the collision

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of one vehicle going into the back of the trailer. The vehicle

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spinning around and then being hit by a further vehicle. If anybody

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was going in the opposite direction, it was a dual carriageway at that

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point. Tributes to Lucinda, known as Lucy, have been paid on the

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Facebook. Police say they are trying to ascertain whether Lucy

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and the dry dock of the car were wearing seat belts. The driver

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suffered minor injuries, as did the two people in the Alfa Romeo.

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Police say there were no reports of bad weather but they need people

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with information to come forward. Still to come tonight: getting in

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the Christmas mood with a choir based in Bedfordshire. And we will

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also be talking to last minute There are extra police patrols in

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Suffolk tonight after three more cars were hit by rocks as they

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travelled along main roads. The latest incidents took place last

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night but no one was injured. The first was on the A14 at Trimley

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St Mary. The second was close to the Orwell Bridge and the third was

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on the A12 at Belstead. Victoria Cook is at Trimley now, Victoria.

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It was this time last night that somebody came to this Bott, picked

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up a rock, climbed up the embankment behind me and threw it

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at the side of a passing car. As you can see, the area is quite

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secluded, quite hidden. With cars passing on the A14 having no chance

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of avoiding rocks from the side. It was only a week ago that the exact

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same thing happen, that night, four rocks like this were thrown at cars.

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This was one retrieved from the scene. Astonishingly nobody was

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injured in these incidents, but at the beginning of the month, a woman

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on the A12 was injured severely in an instant like this. That day a

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lump of concrete was dropped from a bridge into the car she was

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travelling in. She suffered severe facial injury, her face had to be

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surgically reconstructed and she suffered severe chest injuries.

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What are the police saying today? they have launched a major

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investigation into this and want to stop it from happening so

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frequently. The question is, how do they stop it? They are increasing

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patrols in the area and looking at licensing in areas like this. They

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are concerned as to how often this is happening. -- lighting. There

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appears to be a detachment between the people committing the offence

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and the victims. My plea would be for those people responsible to

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take two steps backwards, realise that they potentially are

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unlawfully killing some body. I can put it no more plainly than that.

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Of course, this evening police are asking anybody with information

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about these incidents to come forward. For thank you Victoria.

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Tim Yeo, the Suffolk MP and chairman of the Parliamentary

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Environment Committee says the cut in subsidies for solar panels is

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damaging confidence and jobs. Payments to householders who want

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to install solar panels have been halved. But MPs on two

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Parliamentary committees say the decision was "panicky and rushed".

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It has cut the growth in the solar industry to a dead halt overnight,

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and it has undermined the confidence in the Government's

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energy policy is widely, people feel they are liable to be changed

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at very short notice. Sainsbury's has apologised after it was forced

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to cancel food deliveries which customers had pre-booked for

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Christmas.About 100 people were hit including a family from Suffolk.

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The supermarket giant says it was all down to a computer glitch.

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every family counting down to Christmas, these are hectic days,

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but especially so here. My mum fell and broke her hip, so we are

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travelling. My father needs care, so I have got my dad home, here. I

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have arthritis and cannot travel very far, my son is here to drive

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us backwards and forwards. On top of that, my brother who would

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normally help me, he is poorly in London. At least the Christmas food

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was sorted, or so she thought until Sainsbury's phoned to say they were

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having problems. After a few days of saying they might or might not,

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they finally confirmed that the home delivery book three weeks ago

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was off. I gave them the benefit of the doubt, the caps cos it was

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Christmas, getting extra drivers and staff in. Apparently not.

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statement at Sainsbury's say in the majority of cases they were able to

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rebook deliveries but they say in a small number of cases they were

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unable to offer a suitable alternative and they have offered

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those customers a gesture of goodwill. We apologise unreservedly

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to people inconvenienced in any way. For Karen, no last minute shopping

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-- after all, instead a last-minute surprise. Sainsbury's confirming

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the order will be delivered A consultation over plans to move

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vascular surgery away from Ipswich Hospital ends tomorrow. The

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hospital has already lost specialist centres for surgery for

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pancreatic cancer and cancers of the head and neck.

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A cruise company based in Ipswich is to be sued in the High Court

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following outbreaks of a sickness bug on one of its ships. More than

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100 holidaymakers are involved in the joint action against Fred Olsen

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Cruise Lines. This cruise liner is the focus of

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claims by 130 passengers that there were nine outbreaks of norovirus on

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the ship in 2009 and 2010. This couple joined the ship in December

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2009 for a Christmas and New Year cruise to the Canary Isles and

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madiera. It became at the holiday from hell. My husband took ill and

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we were confined to the Cavern for 48 hours. Then I got the old as

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much worse. We were confined to the cabin for a further 48 hours. It

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was a nightmare. All we saw of the Canary Islands, apart from for one

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day, was a harbour wall through the port Hall. This solicitors handling

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the case accuse the cruise line company of putting profits before

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health and safety. Passengers had raised concerns over food and

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hygiene standards on board. Tonight, Fred Olsen Cruise Lines say the

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-- they reject. But this couple are certain of one thing. They will not

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You're watching Look East from the BBC.

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Coming up: Eileen and her 25 years of Christmas dinners for the

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Salvation Army. There are now just two more

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shopping days till Christmas. But two days plus a crucial late night

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of shopping this evening, of course. So, how's it going? Over the last

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few weeks, we've been to shops in Bury St Edmunds, Peterborough,

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Norwich and Ipswich. We've heard from shopkeepers and shoppers.

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Tonight we're at Centre MK in Milton Keynes.

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This centre is one of the biggest end our region. The final festive

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rush has started. A record number of shoppers are here. Up 19% on

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this time last year. That means 750,000 people will come to this

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centre before the end of this week. But our people spending at the

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tills? I have been fined ing out. The final flurry of panic-stricken

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shoppers are taking to the centre. Today, we have spoken to a market

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trader, a medium-sized chain and Britain's biggest department store.

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In three words, could the sum up the experience of this year's

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trade? Slope and depressing. Discounted, devalued, depressing.

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great finish! This man has sold a dual rate in the market for 20

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years. In the recession of the 1980s, it was not as bad as this.

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This one is worse. This man has 10 stores. He is also finding this

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year a struggle. Sales are much weaker than they were. We're taking

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less profit per item on these. Christmas was always the time that

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you relied on to pay the bills throughout the year. Eight perhaps

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unsurprising latecomer it is left to one of the big chains to buck

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the trend. Sales are up nearly 21% on last year. It has been a

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challenge. The autumn weather really has meant a slow start to

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Christmas. In recent weeks, it has picked up. With prices slashed,

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retailers seemed desperate to get us through their doors. The

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Consumers' I have spoken to have said they have had to change their

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shopping habits. This year, Christmas will be very different.

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We are making presence and not buying has much. We're just buying

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for the children, no grown-ups. am trying to get my shopping

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cheaper in the sales after Christmas. It is easier to do the

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shopping online and cheaper. does that big foot fault

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transferred to us spending more at the tills? I am joined by the

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direct tour of this shopping centre. It has been as spectacular week,

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certainly. Occasionally there will be issues. We work in partnership

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and we are looking to support our stores. Many of the stories here

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have great discounts and promotions. Some of the retailers are really

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struggling, despite the high foot fall you're talking about. How can

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you help them? It has been a difficult year. We expected a

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strong Christmas. There will be promotions and marketing support we

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give them. Essentially, our success is there so it says. What about

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after Christmas? Obviously it will be busy. Gift car sales are 20%

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higher than last year. We will have traditional stock on the January

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sales which start at 6am on Boxing Day. Free parking throughout the

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City on Boxing Day and the day after. It should be a great end to

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the year and all fully a good start in January. Thank you and Merry

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Christmas. I spoke to the British Retail Consortium today and ask

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them what it would be like after Christmas. They said retailers

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would have to be more deals on the table so that consumers felt they

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were getting bargains. If you have any money left after Christmas,

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that sounds like a good time to go shopping.

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This Sunday, millions of us will sit down at home for a Christmas

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lunch with families and friends. But many others don't have a home

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to go to. And that's where the Salvation Army comes in. At centres

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across the region, an army of volunteers will provide hot food, a

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warm welcome and friendship. People like Eileen Barnes who will be

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celebrating her own special anniversary.

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Eileen Barnes and her husband had made the way down the street to the

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Salvation ave a halt in Dereham on Christmas Day every year for the

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past 25 years. Today, they were there again to start preparations

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for the big day this year. Good morning. Happy Christmas! She is a

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retired school chef. She prepares Turkey and the trimmings. Her

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husband helps out with the washing up. We usually get up at 6am to

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start cooking. We start in our room house and then we come here to do

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the vegetables. Some people are lonely, some are bereaved

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throughout the year and they have no family around. Many people don't

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have families. The Salvation Army was founded in 1865. Its brass

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bands have long been a feature of Christmas. This family will cater

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for about 60 on Christmas Day. dinner time, I am usually in the

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sink cleaning the saucepans. Somebody has to. Yes. I tell you

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what, it keeps my hands soft. year, one lady had not been at a

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house for the whole year. She came here for lunch and enjoyed it.

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and relax. I am looking after you. After 25 years, I decided to give

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them a little treat and served coffee and mince pies. What could

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possibly go wrong? Oh, my God! Well, somehow I burned them. No one

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seemed to mind. Service with a smile. Thank you very much! The

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good news is that the good folk of Dereham will have this couple

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catering for them, and not me. They are very brave. That does not

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count as cooking, just heating up and burning.

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Isn't that great what they do? Fantastic. I am sure it will taste

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Fantastic. I am sure it will taste much better than those mince pies!

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Let's start with some photographs. These are stunning and evocative.

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You can see the blue sky. Another mild day. Many locations got up to

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10 or 11 degrees. Average is about sex. It will stay a mile tonight.

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We have done well for sunshine today. The cloud broke up, allowing

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a lot of sunshine across the region. Some clear spells to start the

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night. Then it will turn increasingly cloudy through the

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night. It won't get down any lower than about eight degrees. We start

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with a light south-westerly wind, but that will start to increase in

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strength. You can see this approaching weather from. That will

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increase the wind speed, bring a band of rain and also when to Jews

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as a much cooler era behind it. So a cloudy start for everyone

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tomorrow right across the region. Some spots of rain possible in the

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West are round about midday. That will be the warmest part of the day.

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Once the rain clears, it will feel much cooler. When they with a fresh

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wind -- there will be a fresh wind. There could be six mm of rain for

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many locations. After words, the temperatures drop. Friday night

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will be chilly. Mild to start the day, but then we get to the

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overnight period and values are down to one degrees. There is the

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potential for a touch of ground frost. A very cold start to

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Christmas Eve. Mild night once more. For Christmas Day, it looks like

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there will be a fair bit of cloud around. Bid should stay dry with

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the odd spot of rain, but we're back into double figures. Maybe we

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should see some brighter spells rather than sunshine? We keep mild

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conditions for the start of next week. Overnight rain on Monday

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which will introduce cooler air. Tuesday will be cooler. Tonight is

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barometer night. Here are the barometer night. Here are the

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results. We are all dreaming of a mild and

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cloudy Christmas! Thank you. That's it, but we'll leave you

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tonight with a Christmas carol performed by The Phoenix Chorus.

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They are based at Potton in Bedfordshire. They are singing Once

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in Royal David's City which we filmed in The Highwayman in St

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