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Her England's newest city! Welcome to the programme, we are live in | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
England's newest city, Chelmsford and we will be finding out exactly | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
what it means to this city. Also in tonight's programme: | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Service veterans involved in nuclear tests in the 1950s lose | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
their bid for damages. And a �13 million care centre is | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
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When the announcement came just before 10 o'clock this morning, it | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
is fair to say it was a bit of a surprise. No-one had Chelmsford | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
among the favourites to gain city status - the hot money was on | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
Reading. The title is purely honorific, but hotly pursued. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Almost 30 cities bid for the award marking the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
including Luton, Milton Keynes, Southend Colchester and Corby. But | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
in the end, Chelmsford won out, and as Richard Daniel reports, that was | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
the start of a huge celebration. Three times they have applied for | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
city status. Today, they could hardly believe they have won it. | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
got a telephone call around five past nine and within five minutes, | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
the whole world and Chelmsford knew that we had been awarded city | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
status. For once as a politician, I was nearly speechless. Not for long, | :01:46. | :01:54. | |
but for a short while. At 14-1, at the bookies had Chelmsford down as | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
a big outsider. But this morning at Westminster, the Deputy Prime | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
Minister confirmed the Queen's decision. I can confirm the | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
announcement today of the results of the silly, as competition in one | :02:07. | :02:17. | |
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of the Her Majesty the Queen's A wonderful accolade for the | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
Borough of Chelmsford, about to become a city. Over 800 years as it | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
had have become too -- come to an end. Chelmsford was given a royal | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
charter in 40 night denied. Now a new chapter begins. To get it this | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
year of all year, brilliant. It has finally absolutely calm, and it | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
does bring a lot of opportunities. Everybody has a buzz in their | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
stride today. They Chelmsford is a cathedral city, not a cathedral | :02:52. | :03:00. | |
town. -- now. When I came in 1997, I mentioned by opening sermon that | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
it was shortly to become a city, which became a bit of a stir and P | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
mayor asked if I knew something they didn't know. It is lovely to | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
be there now if I wasn't quite accurate. -- even if. It is a day | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
they will be savouring for quite some time. | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
I dance that how much you know about Chelmsford, it was actually | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
in the Domesday Book -- I don't know how much. It has been an idea | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
of city status for a long time. The local football club is called | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Chelmsford City. The Queen makes the decision on the advice of | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
ministers and they keep the reasons for their choice very close to | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
their chest. Alex Dunlop has been looked -- looking at what makes | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
Chelmsford stand out. One assumes this man's job title | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
will have to change, along with local road signs and council headed | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
notepaper. But this is the lady they may thank for it. Chelmsford | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
was chosen for the distribution of Royal Monday... 11 years in two her | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
reign, the Queen visits Chelmsford. 49 years on, city status is her | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
Diamond Jubilee present. For those people who may be thinking of | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
expanding their businesses or moving to Chelmsford because of its | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
proximity to London and the rail network, it is the icing on the | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
cake. Home to a cathedral, Essex's cricket ground at the county town | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
since 1215, Chelmsford has suffered a decline in its defence industry | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
in the 1980s, most notably the Marconi Company. Today's on it | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
gives no official powers or funding, so what will city status bring back | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
on our? The it will Bayor have on what is already there, the county | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
town, the cathedral -- it will build. The university and now the | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
city status. From the point of view of the chambers, we think it will | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
help retain business and attract new ones. As regards people moving | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
into the area, it will be more attractive to them as a city, but | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
from the house prices, I am not sure if it will immediately affect | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
the actual price. Clearly, at Chelmsford City Football Club was | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
well ahead of the game when it was formed in 1938. We won't have to | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
keep defending our name wherever we go, from the council's point of | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
view, where we Crenshaw -- ground- share and use facilities, I think | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
funding will be much more available as a city status. Local communities | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
and groups have already got their heads together on a simple concept. | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
How do you make Chelmsford a more successful plays? Being a city of | :05:40. | :05:48. | |
the last night hours is a good place to start -- successful place. | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Chelmsford was very much involved in the peasant rebellion in 1381 | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
and after it was quelled, King Richard came here and this was the | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
seat of government for nearly a week. Let's talk to the local seat | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
of government, Reuter Whitehead, leader of the Borough Council, or | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
you were until this morning, it is now a city council. As I understand | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
it, yes. Did you get a nod and a wink? Not a word. I had a call this | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
morning from the local press to say we were the winners and I was as a | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
standard as anybody, so it was a very secretive process. -- | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
astounded. He thought it would go in to be Reading! They were the | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
bookmakers favourite. You have any idea why you one? Clearly the | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
merits of Chelmsford should be speaking for themselves. We had a | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
splendid document which I have here which was put together by the | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
borough council staff and it was done from a very bright young | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
people who came up with weird ideas and there is a prescriptive form -- | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
brilliant ideas. It cannot be a video with glossy pictures and all | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
the sort of things that you White wanted to be. So you haven't spent | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
a lot of money? About �10,000, maybe not as much. And you will get | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
that back, you hope? We hope so. What does it mean to you? Apart | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
from the whole glossiness of the thing and everybody smiling in | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
Chelmsford, I have said before on TV and the radio, it is about | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
business and investment. You want to be in the Premier League, so | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
when businesses are looking for places to invest, and foreign | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
businesses, if you are at the top list of cities, you are more likely | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
to get people saying let's go there. And you have failed that it a | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
couple of times, that must have come as a surprise. I wasn't there | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
at the time, as they say. We have learned from previous efforts and | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
the presentation and style has improved. It is not at the | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
cathedral and so on, it is about business and expansion. -- about. | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
They give are coming on, congratulations, leader of the city | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
council -- thank you. We will be back here talking about jobs, but | :08:04. | :08:14. | |
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no more news from where you live. - - now. | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
Hello. In other news, hundreds of ex-servicemen exposed to radiation | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
in British nuclear weapons tests have lost their latest legal battle | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
against the Ministry of Defence. One Norfolk veteran, Colin King, | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
who was on Christmas Island in the South Pacific in 1958 described | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
today's judgement in the Supreme Court as "immoral". | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
Colin King watching live coverage via the internet of today's Supreme | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
Court proceedings. He wasn't hopeful, but when Lord Wilson | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
started to speak, Colin quickly knew the veterans had lost. Since | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
the veterans cannot even today prove that their illnesses have | :08:52. | :09:00. | |
probably been caused by whatever happened or did not happen to them. | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
It stinks. They rest on false hopes and should be brought to an end | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
their at the rather than later. believe it is morally wrong. There | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
is enough evidence and the world to prove that radiation has caused the | :09:16. | :09:25. | |
disease. It was 1958 and of Christmas Island, Britain was | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
carrying out nuclear tests. -- on. Colin King was doing his National | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Service in the RAF. He was then the balloon unit based in Bedford which | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
was responsible for dropping two nuclear devices -- he was in. | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
balloons are stacked at their trial highest with a Dublin vote takes | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
place. -- dummy. The men were told to turn their backs and put their | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
hands over their faces. At that instance, the light first of all | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
just came right through your hands. I was sitting with fire back to the | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
bomb with my hands over my eyes -- buy-back. My thumbs were in my ears | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
and the light was so intense, it was like daylight. The many of the | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
veterans suffered health problems in later years. Colin King has a | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
lung disease and skin problems and cannot fathom out why the MoD would | :10:22. | :10:30. | |
take responsibility. Yes, I feel angry, frustrated and above all, I | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
feel that our government has let our people them. In a statement, | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
the MoD said it recognises the debt of gratitude to the servicemen but | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
reiterated the Supreme Court's judgement that any case brought by | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
the veterans would be doomed to failure. But lawyers acting for the | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
veterans say they will look at ways to fight on. | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
Flowers have been laid today outside a school in Essex where a | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
girl died during a PE lesson. 12- year-old Leonie Nice collapsed | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
after being hit yesterday by a rugby ball at the Woodlands School | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
in Basildon. Throughout the morning, Flowers | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
were taken into Woodlands School for a 12-year-old called Leonie | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
Nice. She was in a PE lesson and she tried to catch a rugby ball. | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
The ball hit her chest. She appeared to have a fit. She was | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
given CPR here at the school. was then taken to Basildon Hospital, | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
less than one mile away. Staff were waiting and ready but they could | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
not save her. On arrival, the young girl was being cared for by members | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
of staff administering first aid went -- and when the paramedics | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
assessed fair, she was in cardiac arrest. They attempted to | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
resuscitate at the scene and to cut a Basildon Hospital, where sadly | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
she died. At the school, at more flowers arrive. Elsewhere, the | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
internet was flooded with Tributes, and example of how deeply the | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
tragedy has been felt. The head teacher at Woodlands School | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
described Leonie Nice as kind, promising and delightful. Pupils | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
were offered counselling. Meanwhile, this picture of all of the flowers | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
left for Leonie Nice was added to the internet Tributes. There is | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
disbelief that a 12-year-old girl can lose her life doing something | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
as routine as p e. One of three men being tried for | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
the murder of a man in Norwich has pleaded guilty to the charge. | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
Honorato Alberto Christovao died of head injuries after an assault in | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
Rose Lane car park in February last year. Spencer Yiadom, who's 22 and | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
from Newham in East London, changed his plea at Norwich Crown Court | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
after previously denying murder. He's been remanded in custody. Two | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
other men deny the charge and their trial continues. | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
An elderly man has been killed in a house fire at Leigh On Sea in Essex. | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
A neighbour in Ormonde Gardens raised the alarm just after eight | :12:56. | :13:05. | |
o'clock this morning. The fire is not being treated as suspicious. | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
A �13 million centre to help people living with dementia has been | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
opened in Norfolk. The number of people with the illness in this | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
region is expected to rise by 30,000 in the next ten years. It's | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
one of the major challenges facing the Health Service. | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
This centre in Norwich is described by the NHS as the most advanced in | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
the country, with 36 bedrooms caring for people with all types of | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
severe dementia, and it is state of the art. All of the rooms are | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
fitted out with sensors, so in the distance, you can see if anything | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
is going on. If the patient is leaving the bed at night, an alarm | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
will go off so that the nursing staff knows somebody is coming out | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
of the bed. Tapsell Sauternes of automatically if a patient wonders | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
await -- perhaps turn off. Grass on the roof provides insulation. Stars | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
like Terry Pratchett and felt like the Iron Lady have helped increase | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
awareness, and Mary Brittain runs a day centre where she looks after | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
her mother. She has Alzheimer's and neither are convinced a specialist | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
centre is the way forward. personally don't like it very much. | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
I think it is very clinical. I think we have taken a backward step | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
and I think that we need to try and keep people with dementia in their | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
homes for as long as possible and people need to have familiar things | :14:20. | :14:28. | |
around them, not a clinical set up. You can't treat a street full of | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
people as though they are all the same. They are all individuals and | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
need to be looked at in that light, otherwise you might as well go into | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
an asylum. This centre cost �30 million to build, some might argue | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
that money might have been better spent on care in their home -- 13. | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
We do both. The centre will be for people who are at this stage of | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
their illness where they can only be cared for in a specialised | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
environment, but there is an awful lot we do before that. There may be | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
differing opinions on the care for dementia but one thing everybody in | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
Shorabak is that dignity and respect must be central. | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
-- sure about. Killer shrimp, which top a list of | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
the worst foreign invaders of our waterways, have been found in a | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
broad in Norfolk. The shrimp, which kill native species including young | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
fish and insect larvae, have been discovered in Barton Broad. They've | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
previously been found at Grafham Water in Cambridgeshire and two | :15:21. | :15:28. | |
locations in South Wales. In football, a tough ask for | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
Colchester United last night as promotion-chasing Sheffield United | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
were in town. The Blades are the highest scorers in League One. | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
highest scorers in League One. The last month also has seen a | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
rejuvenated Colchester United their five games without defeat and bring | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
with it an outside chance of a play-off push. But with second- | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
placed Sheffield United the visitors, that record would | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
certainly be tested. Just after half-an-hour, the Blades spliced | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
through they Colchester defence and Will Hoskins finished past Ben | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
Williams. But Steven Gillespie has found his shooting boots of late | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
and he equalised after the break with pinpoint precision, taking his | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
tally to the season 2 11. Confident is not an issue with the use and | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
they streamed forward looking for another, but lightning would not | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
strike twice. But keepers finishing the game with sore hands, each of | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
them happy to concede only one goal each. Colchester stay night in | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
League One, seven. Outside the top six. -- 9th. | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
six. -- 9th. That's all from me. Now it's time | :16:39. | :16:49. | |
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to go back to Stewart in Chelmsford. Welcome back to Chelmsford. It is | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
the second smallest cathedral in England. What else makes it | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
interesting is if you look behind me, you can see this is the centre | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
of Chelmsford. While lot of cathedrals are surrounded by a very | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
big ground, this is almost in the High Street, which makes it an | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
interesting place to come. It is a lovely cathedral, very busy as well. | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
Chelmsford was one of six towns in our region who were competing for | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
city status. Southend, Colchester, Luton, Corby and Milton keynes have | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
also spent the last 18 months trying to fight their case and, not | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
surprisingly, they're very disappointed by today's news. Our | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
political correspondent Andrew Sinclair reports. | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
It is only a title but a lot of places wanted to be called a city, | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
not least Milton Keynes. For many years, people here have called it a | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
city even though it wasn't and it still isn't. We are called the new | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
city of Milton Keynes and will continue to be. We act like a city | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
and there is an old saying, if you look like a duck and you quack like | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
a duck, you are a duck. decision was made at the Cabinet | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
Office in Whitehall. Officials assessed the individual bed and | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
left it to the Deputy Prime Minister to make the decision. That | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
bid. The Cabinet Office will not say why Chelmsford one, it is a | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
secret process, but when it launched the search, we were told | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
the towns would be judged on their history, their sense of community | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
and their vitality. Luton had put a lot of effort into its bid, it | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
toured the party conference with these noisy and colourful displays. | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
It may also have Bude that city status would be a way of kick- | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
starting people's views of Luton. We are all aware of the Colchester | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
Chelmsford rivalry. The MP for Colchester, which also mounted a | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
strong bid, was incensed. Off camera, he waved his arms furiously. | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
God moves in mysterious ways and so does this place. I find it quite | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
astonishing, frankly, when I look at the lists of places that were | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
not granted city status. I would love to know what the criteria is. | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
Chelmsford was always considered the outsider. There is a lot of | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
wounded pride but those who lost say they will try next time. | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
Let's move on to jobs now. As you may have heard, latest figures show | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
unemployment in Britain is up again. But here in the east, it is down. | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
The latest total now is 208,000. That's down 10,000 on the previous | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
quarter. And we're still below the national figure in percentage terms. | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
6.8% here compared with 8.4% across the country. But strangely, | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
although unemployment has increased in recent years, so too has the | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
number of people actually in work. One reason for that is what is | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
happening in places like Chelmsford. This report from our business | :19:41. | :19:49. | |
correspondent Richard Bond. It is all to do with our growing | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
population. More and more people want to live in the east. Our | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
population has risen from 5.3 million in 2001 up to 5.8 million | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
today. Some of the new residents are migrant workers from overseas, | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
others are Britain's working from other parts of the country -- the | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
British. It all boosts employment numbers but the effect may not last. | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
We have had population growth in the eastern region reflecting the | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
growth of the economy over the last 15 years, but the economy as have - | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
- has been slowing down over the last few years and employment | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
growth has stalled and we are seeing weaknesses in the labour | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
market. We are seeing fewer people in full-time employment. We are | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
seeing fewer hours worked by those in full-time employment. And we are | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
seeing more people losing their jobs. A big influence on our | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
growing employment numbers is London. More people are commuting | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
into the capital from places like Chelmsford. They may work in London | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
but because they sleep here, they count in ice employment figures. | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
Peter Jones is Adam Parr -- a partner at an estate agents near | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
Chelmsford. In the last 10 years, I would say we have seen a great | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
change in the number of people coming into the area. Before, for | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
2% of the buyers were coming from outside the area and with the | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
number of commuters now, it is probably 60% -- 40%. So with a | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
growing population, it is possible to have employment and unemployment | :21:23. | :21:31. | |
going up at the same time. Strange but true. | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
While we are run jobs... A quick word about the Look East | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
debate, which will be broadcast on Monday evening. Senior business | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
figures and politicians will be discussing the state of the economy | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
in this region. It's being held at Arm Holdings in Cambridge and you | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
can see it on Monday at 11:05 on BBC One. | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
I want to talk to Malcolm Johnston from Anglia Ruskin University and | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
see what city status will mean. Will it mean changes economic | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
Leigh? Over time, it well. Research published last year proved that the | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
eight cities that were made in 2002, out of all of those cities, only | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
one did not outperform their equivalent JOHN PARROT: In the | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
region in terms of inward investment and employment -- | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
equivalents. Why is that? There is something | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
about perception. Cities can attract people. It can keep | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
graduates here as they graduate from university and other | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
universities in the area. And for foreign investment, being a city | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
does make a difference. This is a city that is doing reasonably well | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
as it stands, so cannot get better? Indeed it can. -- panic. What | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
Southend airport opening up, and with good links to the rest of | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
Europe and the world, it can do better and with American inward | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
investment. It makes a huge different, it is a city rather than | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
at town -- difference. When we look at how the council has managed to | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
do it, they are surprised. Are you surprised? I don't think we are | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
that surprised. If you look at the initiative, the borough council | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
have taken on a dynamic approach in the way they want to build | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
Chelmsford in the future to attract inward investment and this is just | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
the icing on the cake for them. Within the next five years, just | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
put a figure on it roughly what sort of growth can you think the | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
city status will bring? I couldn't say of the top of my head, but we | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
are talking about a few percentage points difference, which doesn't | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
sound a lot, but when you look at the inward investment already | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
coming in it is a significant amount of money and jobs. Good news | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
for everybody in Chelmsford and bad news for those who didn't get it. | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
Yes. Thank you for joining us, you must be very cold in just a suit! | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
Which leads us to the weather with Alex. | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
Good evening. It has been another Good evening. It has been another | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
day with high pressure right across us. It is just starting to slowly | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
migrate eastwards, but this was the image on a satellite picture | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
earlier this morning. A lot of cloud right across us once more. | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
But through the day, finally, that huge area of cloud started to thin | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
and break and we will see some places even got some brightness and | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
some sunshine in the West and the south of the region. Tonight, we | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
start with some clear skies further west and that is where we could get | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
some mist patches forming. It could get quite chilly with temperatures | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
expected to get them to three Celsius. -- Get down. Further east, | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
five or six Celsius with the wind alight South-a south-easterly. It | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
will be a cloudy and misty start, but we should see sunny spells | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
developing. It looks as though we will get dry out with us tomorrow, | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
particularly for the east, a lot of cloud to clear first thing. It | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
looks as though it will be in and break and through that as we get | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
sunshine, it could have quite an impact on the temperatures and they | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
are potentially could get up to 15 Celsius, so it should feel quite | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
comfortable in that sunshine with a light wind. Through the afternoon, | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
further spells of sunshine. Really make the most of it. Looking ahead, | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
Friday looks cloudy once more, but it is the weekend we are interested | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
in, because that actually looks as though it might bring us some rain. | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
This is the pressure chart for Saturday. We have this huge tailing | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
front which drags across us and it kind of move further backwards and | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
forms this area of low pressure, so the potential for rain, some of it | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
even on the heavy side later on Saturday. The next five days, it | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
certainly looks dry for the next two and Friday, as I say, a bit | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
more cloud around and that could bring temperatures down. Some | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
locations could be lower than 13. We will start the weekend dry but | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
cloudy and then the potential for some of that rain to move in from | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
the West. Some of it could turn heavy into the afternoon and | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
overnight period. By Sunday, it clears the way to showers, but you | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
will see their high for Sunday is just nine Celsius, so a bit cooler. | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
A dry start for the beginning of the week into Monday, a high of 11 | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
degrees. Looking at the overnight lows, they are starting to get | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
lower. Minus one Celsius by Sunday, which could bring us back a frost. | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
which could bring us back a frost. Back to you in Chelmsford. | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
It does feel very cold here this evening, actually. As you drive | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
into Chelmsford on a night like this, you look at things like road | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
signs, they say town centre. I passed maybe eight or 10, they will | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
have to be replaced. They will have to replace the letter heading for | :27:03. | :27:06. |