:00:14. > :00:17.In Look East tonight. Queues, shortages or shut down altogether.
:00:17. > :00:20.The run on petrol continues. Where there are supplies, things are
:00:20. > :00:23.getting back to normal, but in many areas the wait continues. Lots of
:00:23. > :00:26.people we have never seen before, all wanting full tanks. But they're
:00:26. > :00:30.not getting it, they are only getting �20.
:00:30. > :00:33.Hello from David and me. Also tonight the bomb squad moves in on
:00:33. > :00:37.a V2 rocket, stuck in the mud since World War 2. When we realised it
:00:37. > :00:44.was a V2 rocket, crikey. A very unique weapon used during World War
:00:44. > :00:47.A boom in tourism. The industry is on course for a bumper season as
:00:47. > :00:57.more of us holiday at home. I'm in training for the race of a
:00:57. > :01:01.
:01:01. > :01:04.First. Another day of queuing at the region's petrol stations.
:01:04. > :01:09.It was not quite as hectic as yesterday, but retailers still
:01:09. > :01:12.reported surging demand. Some hauliers in the region have also
:01:12. > :01:14.voiced their worries about the security of their supplies. A
:01:14. > :01:18.growing number of forecourts have run dry. Our chief reporter Kim
:01:18. > :01:24.Riley is at an Esso station in North Norfolk.
:01:24. > :01:31.We have come to the only service station in at the seaside resort of
:01:31. > :01:36.Sheringham her. The honour they give, debt here at the moment is
:01:36. > :01:41.petrol or diesel, they have been dry here for 48 hours. They are
:01:41. > :01:45.desperately hoping that a tanker will come fairly soon.
:01:45. > :01:49.It is a very long supply line with much of the region's fuel coming by
:01:49. > :01:54.road from refineries in the Thames Estuary in Essex. A standard road
:01:54. > :02:03.tanker holds over 40,000 litres of fuel. Now, in normal times, a
:02:03. > :02:06.medium-sized petrol station might sell around 15,000 litres a day.
:02:06. > :02:16.Amidst all the panic this week, many have seen sales nearer 30 to
:02:16. > :02:17.
:02:17. > :02:20.35,000. There simply are not enough tankers to sustain that level of
:02:20. > :02:22.demand. So hardly surprising then that quite a number of stations
:02:22. > :02:25.have run dry. As Richard Daniel reports.
:02:25. > :02:29.To date, tankers were getting through. There is delivery this
:02:29. > :02:35.morning at a store in Norwich. But scores of filling stations were not
:02:35. > :02:45.so lucky. In Ipswich, ball these for chords were shot, having run
:02:45. > :02:46.
:02:46. > :02:53.dry after yesterday's panic buying. Once again, more queues. And
:02:54. > :03:03.frustrated drivers. Quite difficult. I have been 25 garages. I was at
:03:04. > :03:04.
:03:04. > :03:14.the end of my tank. For this haulage company, it has been a
:03:14. > :03:15.
:03:15. > :03:23.stressful week. It is a concern of all our customers at the moment. It
:03:23. > :03:33.has been dominating all my e-mails, people are worried about the lack
:03:33. > :03:34.
:03:34. > :03:40.of fuel. Petrol and diesel is the lifeblood of the country. Here,
:03:40. > :03:50.only regulars were being served. The we are a small garage, so we
:03:50. > :03:53.cannot afford larger loads. We make very little money on the fuel.
:03:53. > :03:59.Difficult times for motorists who may have hope that today would have
:03:59. > :04:02.seen their end of queues. This afternoon, one of the region's
:04:02. > :04:06.senior Conservative MPs said he thought the Government had handled
:04:06. > :04:15.the situation badly. There should not have been any move to encourage
:04:15. > :04:20.people to buy more than they normally buy without consulting the
:04:20. > :04:28.industry first. The extraordinary signs all over an Easter strike
:04:28. > :04:30.that never was. Andrew Lawrence is the regional
:04:30. > :04:35.chairman of RMI Petrol which represents independent stations. He
:04:35. > :04:42.also owns this one at Sheringham. His relief in sight? We hope so.
:04:42. > :04:46.The tanker we have been promised should be here about 8:30pm. We
:04:46. > :04:50.should be up and running certainly by tomorrow morning. It has been
:04:50. > :04:59.tougher areas like this would not many petrol stations around. That
:04:59. > :05:09.is the trouble. We are the all recite in Sheringham -- we are the
:05:09. > :05:10.
:05:10. > :05:14.only place in Sheringham. We used to have a lot of village garages,
:05:14. > :05:17.but now we are just down to the main centres and that is adding to
:05:17. > :05:24.the problems we are having the moment. The government has been
:05:24. > :05:31.accused of making a hash of handling the best. I am beginning
:05:31. > :05:39.to think that is the case. But it is getting, as more garages get
:05:39. > :05:45.fuel. Other Rt are they now by the end of the weekend, we will get
:05:45. > :05:49.back to some normality of. strike before Easter, they have to
:05:49. > :05:55.give it seven days it looked as, that is quite a long way off. But
:05:55. > :05:58.people will still get a nasty feeling 20 see the petrol warning
:05:58. > :06:02.light at the I do not know were the next station is. I think that is
:06:02. > :06:07.right. I think people have to stick to their normal routine. They know
:06:07. > :06:17.how far they can go in their car, stick to the normal pattern of
:06:17. > :06:20.
:06:20. > :06:30.fiddling and we should be OK. you very much. -- pattern of
:06:30. > :06:35.
:06:35. > :06:37.filling. As hard times bite, fewer of us are going abroad for holidays,
:06:37. > :06:41.so instead we're staying closer to home.
:06:41. > :06:43.Tourism is worth �6 billion a year in the East and is our biggest
:06:43. > :06:46.employer, providing 200,000 jobs. So far this year, attractions are
:06:46. > :06:51.already seeing growth of between 5 and 8 per cent. Here's our business
:06:51. > :06:57.correspondent Richard Bond. They say a week of sunshine brings
:06:57. > :07:01.him extract �80 million in revenue for the region's tourist industry.
:07:01. > :07:06.Voting forms have shared a Matt bound to. But there is an
:07:06. > :07:11.underlying trend as well. It is called the staycation, stay at home
:07:11. > :07:17.tourism. Attractions in the east are already seeing a strong growth
:07:17. > :07:23.this year. This park is on course for 5% more visitors this year.
:07:23. > :07:29.lot of them are pleased to stay in England. The price of the euro is a
:07:29. > :07:35.very big reason for that. And they are beginning to laugh Britain,
:07:35. > :07:45.particularly the east of England. Hoseasons has seen a great increase
:07:45. > :07:47.
:07:47. > :07:51.in Lake bookings. This couple Arran join a break. There are so many
:07:51. > :08:01.beautiful places in the country to go. People ought to explore it a
:08:01. > :08:01.
:08:01. > :08:06.little bit more. People take different holidays and a year. They
:08:06. > :08:15.have to look harder for their value. The UK offers great value for
:08:16. > :08:21.holidays. According to Hoseasons, overall demand for East Anglia
:08:21. > :08:30.holidays is up by one 5th on last year. While it UK attractions
:08:30. > :08:34.prospers, demand for foreign holidays is in decline. It seems
:08:34. > :08:39.that in these hard times, people are returning to places they know
:08:39. > :08:47.and trust, often resorts are they were familiar with as children. The
:08:47. > :08:51.omens for the summer season are good.
:08:51. > :08:53.Coming up later in the programme - the V2 rocket stuck in the mud for
:08:53. > :08:57.68 years. And Alex is preparing for a once in
:08:57. > :09:02.a lifetime chance to run in the new Olympic Stadium.
:09:02. > :09:06.Yes, I'm at Milton Keynes and dropping to some of their runners
:09:06. > :09:16.are taking part with me tomorrow. I will also have your full weather
:09:16. > :09:17.
:09:17. > :09:21.Over half a million pounds' worth of stolen metals have been seized
:09:21. > :09:23.in a special joint police operation at ports in the region. The six-
:09:23. > :09:33.week project is the latest initiative in the crackdown on
:09:33. > :09:34.
:09:34. > :09:40.A container load of scrap-metal, it is about to be inspected by the
:09:40. > :09:46.police and border force. Not just about cars as well. Half a million
:09:46. > :09:51.pounds a whether of vehicles, metals, caravans. They will be able
:09:51. > :09:55.to feed that into the National Intelligence picture and try to
:09:55. > :09:59.identify crime groups who are working nationally and
:09:59. > :10:05.internationally. The police say they have had some concerns about
:10:05. > :10:14.the containers they have open today. They are probably perfectly
:10:14. > :10:21.legitimate, but going through all the scrum battle -- scrap metal is
:10:21. > :10:30.a big task. Most of immense in cash bias-cut dealers have now been
:10:30. > :10:39.outlined. This is a device to tell when the tables are being cut saw
:10:39. > :10:42.the police can be on the site a minute. It will not put everybody
:10:42. > :10:47.off at stealing metal. But there is a clear message of that if you do
:10:47. > :10:54.plan this activity, we are watching out for that and we are equipped to
:10:54. > :11:01.detect and follow this through to prosecution. Police say they hope
:11:01. > :11:05.to run more inspections like this in the future.
:11:05. > :11:08.A council in Suffolk and one in Essex are to each get �100,000 of
:11:08. > :11:10.Government money to help bring empty shops back into use and new
:11:10. > :11:13.businesses set up. Ipswich Borough and Uttlesford District councils,
:11:13. > :11:17.which includes the towns of Saffron Walden and Dunmow, are among 100
:11:17. > :11:19.local authorities across England to share �10 million.
:11:19. > :11:24.A possible merger between Cambridgeshire and Suffolk fire
:11:24. > :11:26.services has moved a step closer today. At a meeting this afternoon,
:11:26. > :11:30.Cambridgeshire Fire Authority voted to go ahead with a feasibility
:11:30. > :11:33.study. That will be published in May. The county's deputy chief fire
:11:33. > :11:42.officer said it would only take place if it would save money and
:11:42. > :11:44.not put public safety at risk. Work has begun today to improve
:11:44. > :11:47.rail links between Ipswich and Lowestoft. A passing loop is being
:11:47. > :11:50.constructed enabling hourly services to run between the towns.
:11:50. > :11:55.The single track between Halesworth and Oulton Broad means trains
:11:55. > :11:58.cannot pass each other for more than 16 miles.
:11:58. > :12:02.It has taken nearly four years of intensive training for two people
:12:02. > :12:05.from Norfolk to turn their hobby into Olympic selection. They will
:12:05. > :12:08.not be taking part as athletes, but as judges in the badminton. And
:12:08. > :12:18.they only started training after it was announced London would host the
:12:18. > :12:25.
:12:25. > :12:29.A steady hand and a keen eye. That is what is needed. Their hobby of
:12:29. > :12:38.playing badminton has put them a place at the Olympic Games as line
:12:38. > :12:44.judges. Like the rest of England, I was watching the announcement and I
:12:44. > :12:54.thought I wanted to be involved in some way. The best players and the
:12:54. > :12:58.
:12:58. > :13:08.World War battle it out in London. Suzanne is a pig farm. She will go
:13:08. > :13:09.
:13:09. > :13:15.on it to make... David Laws that there is no room for error. We know
:13:15. > :13:20.some of the players and their games, we know what we are expecting in
:13:20. > :13:30.terms of ability. The difference with the Olympics will be the whole
:13:30. > :13:30.
:13:30. > :13:36.atmosphere. They will also be part of the opening ceremony in July.
:13:36. > :13:39.Now let's a look at the rest of the sport with Phil.
:13:39. > :13:41.This is what the Premiership table looked like the last time Norwich
:13:41. > :13:44.City travelled to Fulham. The Canaries just outside the drop zone,
:13:44. > :13:47.knowing 3 points would save them from relegation. Norwich are back
:13:47. > :13:55.at Craven Cottage tomorrow for the first time since that day. So let's
:13:55. > :13:59.take a little trip down memory lane. For Norwich City fans, the last day
:13:59. > :14:03.of the 2005 season will live long in the memory for the wrong reasons.
:14:03. > :14:10.We were confident that the Canaries could beat Fulham and avoid
:14:10. > :14:17.relegation from the Premiership. ever you needed a clean sheet, this
:14:17. > :14:22.is the game. Yes, we are coming into it at the right time. I would
:14:22. > :14:32.rather be in our camp than in any other. But it did not go to plan. A
:14:32. > :14:33.
:14:33. > :14:39.clear she could not go further away. Fulham it put six past their --
:14:39. > :14:49.past at Norwich. Devastating. Everyone was desperate to do it for
:14:49. > :14:49.
:14:49. > :14:59.the fans and the club. I thought we could scrape by, just so
:14:59. > :15:10.
:15:10. > :15:15.While Norwich continued to thrive back in the Premier League, the
:15:15. > :15:20.boss is not reflecting on years gone by. The lads have to keep
:15:20. > :15:29.doing what there doing and if we take a huge following, as we always
:15:29. > :15:35.do, I will not go back six years of my life to figure out what happened
:15:35. > :15:39.there. Leaving Craven Cottage are with the three boys on Saturday
:15:39. > :15:42.will help. In the Championship, Ipswich Town
:15:42. > :15:44.host Barnsley at Portman Road. The club are urging fans to get there
:15:44. > :15:47.early as they celebrate the 50th anniversary of their League
:15:47. > :15:50.Championship success in 1962. The club have also announced today that
:15:50. > :15:53.they are applying for category 2 status of the new academy structure.
:15:53. > :15:59.Category 2 requires an additional level of investment over and above
:15:59. > :16:04.what we're making at the moment. But category one in our view is
:16:04. > :16:07.beyond our financial means at this moment in time.
:16:07. > :16:12.In League One, Colchester will need to bounce back from their 3-1
:16:12. > :16:14.defeat at Walsall. The U's are on their travels again this weekend at
:16:14. > :16:24.relegation threatened Exeter. Manager John Ward said they must
:16:24. > :16:26.find their cutting edge. This is what the League Two table
:16:26. > :16:30.looks like going into the weekend's fixtures. Southend United are out
:16:30. > :16:32.of the automatic promotion spots for the time being. They go up
:16:32. > :16:40.against Cheltenham at Roots Hall tonight. A win would put them
:16:40. > :16:43.within a point of third. A bit of cricket news for you.
:16:43. > :16:46.Essex County Cricket Club has applied for the right to become a
:16:46. > :16:50.tenant of the Olympic Stadium after this summer's games. The club has
:16:50. > :16:59.confirmed it has put in a joint bid with the University of East London
:16:59. > :17:03.to use space in the after London 2012. They say they are excited,
:17:03. > :17:06.but they cannot tell us any more at this point.
:17:06. > :17:10.That's it for now but, of course, there's more sports news on the BBC
:17:10. > :17:20.website. Go to www.bbc.co.uk/sport. You'll find previews to the
:17:20. > :17:23.
:17:23. > :17:27.weekend's football matches as well as manager reaction after the games.
:17:27. > :17:35.You're watching Look East from the BBC. Still to come, the V2 rocket
:17:35. > :17:38.that no-one thought to mention to the bomb squad.
:17:38. > :17:41.The Olympic Games may be months away, but tomorrow, 5,000 people
:17:41. > :17:44.from across the country will be the first to run around the Olympic
:17:44. > :17:48.track. The Olympic Park 5-mile run is organised by the National
:17:48. > :17:51.Lottery. Dozens of people from our region applied and won the chance
:17:51. > :17:58.to take part. Running with them tomorrow will be our very own Alex
:17:58. > :18:04.Dolan. Yes, I am here in Milton Keynes of
:18:04. > :18:10.doing some gentle training before tomorrow's one. I can't believe I
:18:10. > :18:20.am going to cross their Olympic finish line. Lots of people across
:18:20. > :18:23.
:18:23. > :18:25.the region are taking part tomorrow. Tony Robinson from Norwich is a
:18:26. > :18:30.personal trainer. Which is quite handy because he's been giving me
:18:31. > :18:40.some tips. You want to make a hole in the ground with that back heel.
:18:41. > :18:46.
:18:46. > :18:56.Enjoy it. It is a once-in-a- It is so exciting be back on a
:18:56. > :19:00.
:19:00. > :19:05.running track. This is quite hard It is a once-in-a-lifetime
:19:05. > :19:12.opportunity. I want to see the sights, I want to see the velodrome.
:19:12. > :19:22.We will be the first athletes to cross a line before Usain Bolt
:19:22. > :19:26.
:19:26. > :19:30.I think we can safely say that he is going to be across the finishing
:19:30. > :19:38.line before me. Another person who will be across of finishing line
:19:38. > :19:44.tomorrow is Trevor. Didn't you break your ankle? What are you
:19:44. > :19:54.doing running? I did, 10 years ago I broke my ankle. What made you get
:19:54. > :19:58.
:19:58. > :20:05.into running a do that? -- after that? I was trying to build up my
:20:05. > :20:09.ankle again and I went in for a one and I loved it. How would it feel
:20:09. > :20:16.running in the Olympic Stadium? cannot believe it, it is going to
:20:16. > :20:24.be terrific, running around the Olympic Stadium! Another person
:20:24. > :20:28.joining us is Gale Ms. How are you feeling? I cannot wait. Knowing
:20:28. > :20:34.that I will be on the track before most of those athletes is wonderful.
:20:34. > :20:39.How much trick Daddy been putting him? I am not as fit as I used to
:20:39. > :20:45.be in my Badminton days. But I do lots of different exercise. I will
:20:45. > :20:50.not be breaking any world records. I am so excited about it. That is
:20:50. > :20:56.all from us here. I will be back later on in the programme with the
:20:56. > :21:01.weather forecast. This time tomorrow, we will be among the
:21:01. > :21:08.first to cross the Olympic finishing line.
:21:08. > :21:11.Fantastic. Next, the story of the German V2
:21:11. > :21:14.rocket which remains stuck in mudflats in Harwich. A bomb
:21:14. > :21:16.disposal team has been there all day trying to work out how
:21:16. > :21:20.dangerous it could be. The V2 came down in 1944.
:21:20. > :21:22.Locals say they have known about it for years. But what's less clear is
:21:22. > :21:29.whether the rocket's warhead, packed with explosive, is still
:21:29. > :21:34.attached. Why did the bomb disposal team
:21:34. > :21:41.commented time? It started with at an innocuous question at a meeting
:21:41. > :21:51.of harbour users this week about obstructions to navigation. The
:21:51. > :21:55.replied said there was a V2 rocket. We received a call and we were a
:21:55. > :22:03.little sceptical. But once we got on site, we confirmed it was a V2
:22:03. > :22:06.rocket. Germany began using them at in September 1944, they were loaded
:22:06. > :22:11.with a ton of explosives and Hitler thought they would be the decisive
:22:11. > :22:21.weapon in the war. This website records are virtually every one of
:22:21. > :22:21.
:22:22. > :22:31.the rockets that was fired. This records an entry for a V2 rocket
:22:32. > :22:36.
:22:36. > :22:39.that exploded above Harwich. This man is 82 now, but he was 15 when
:22:39. > :22:43.he remembers it exploding and crashing down on to the mud flats.
:22:43. > :22:46.He actually went out with a policeman to draw a sketch of what
:22:46. > :22:49.it looked like. I asked him if at the time he was worried about
:22:49. > :22:55.safety. Not really. We had a fatalistic attitude. We were quite
:22:55. > :23:05.used to doodlebugs and things like that. We thought it was a relaxed
:23:05. > :23:10.
:23:10. > :23:13.I was told that some people used to tie the boats up against it.
:23:13. > :23:19.would not do that as a matter of course in case you damaged the
:23:19. > :23:28.board. The next step will be to discover whether that power for
:23:28. > :23:31.warhead is attached to the rocket That's the last thing you want, a
:23:31. > :23:36.hose it down the website. I love the fact that the locals have known
:23:36. > :23:46.about it for years. Nobody is making a fuss.
:23:46. > :23:56.
:23:56. > :23:59.You were in your wet suit earlier? It is a lovely evening here ml
:23:59. > :24:03.tickings. Bet is just started to get a little bit chilly. If we
:24:04. > :24:09.start with the pressure chart for tonight's forecast, the high
:24:09. > :24:13.pressure that has dominated our whether has moved to West. It is
:24:13. > :24:18.over the Atlantic at the moment that it is moving further west over
:24:18. > :24:23.the next couple of days. It will allow a fund to move down from the
:24:23. > :24:29.North Sea bringing it then it cooler weather. Tonight, we have
:24:29. > :24:35.got clear skies across much of the region. Through the course of that
:24:35. > :24:42.night, it will tend to turn cloudy. By the end of that night, we are
:24:42. > :24:52.looking at fairly cloudy conditions. We should stay clear of our ground
:24:52. > :24:53.
:24:53. > :24:58.frost tonight however. A high pressure moves further west, and
:24:58. > :25:05.you will see that cold front. It is not especially active saw it will
:25:05. > :25:10.not produce any rain for us in the east. But it will introduce much
:25:10. > :25:14.cooler air behind it. You will not as quite a different tomorrow.
:25:14. > :25:22.Tomorrow will be much cloudier through the day, possibly some
:25:22. > :25:29.brighter spells in the north of the region. Quite a difference in
:25:29. > :25:33.temperature. I think it will feel quite called. But ideal conditions
:25:33. > :25:43.for running tomorrow. By the end of the day, it looks as if the cloud
:25:43. > :25:44.
:25:44. > :25:47.will thin and break and we might see some evening sunshine. There
:25:47. > :25:52.might be an odd spot of rain or drizzle, but it will not allowed
:25:52. > :26:02.too much. On a Sunday and Monday, we will see increasing amounts of
:26:02. > :26:06.
:26:06. > :26:12.sunshine. But there will be more cloud around. But there is some
:26:12. > :26:22.rate for Tuesday and Wednesday. Quite a bit cooler as well. Another
:26:22. > :26:23.
:26:23. > :26:28.cold front bringing us the chance of some showery weather. We could
:26:28. > :26:32.have some temperatures below freezing. Certainly assured him
:26:32. > :26:42.weather patterns. We have been spoiled for weather for March, but
:26:42. > :26:48.