:00:17. > :00:25.Tonight, fears are only remaining coastguard station is dangerously
:00:25. > :00:30.understaffed. It is a miracle that there has not been a major incident.
:00:30. > :00:35.Election defeat for UKIP, losing a seat to Labour in a key by-election.
:00:35. > :00:40.We have explained to people the difference between the Labour Party
:00:40. > :00:46.and UKIP and given people a strong reason to vote Labour.
:00:46. > :00:51.Who would be a football manager? The risks and rewards ahead of the new
:00:51. > :00:59.season. And the story of Marco Pierre White
:00:59. > :01:02.and the row over his pink paint. Hello. First tonight, concerns that
:01:02. > :01:06.are only remaining coastguard station has so few staff more than
:01:06. > :01:10.half of its watches fall below accepted safety levels. That makes
:01:10. > :01:13.the centre at Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex the worst in the UK.
:01:13. > :01:18.The Maritime and Coastguard Agency admits they are having problems
:01:18. > :01:21.recruiting staff for Walton-on-the-Naze. In the 16 months
:01:21. > :01:27.to May of this year, 62% of watches were staffed below the recommended
:01:27. > :01:31.levels. For a time last year they were short-staffed two out of every
:01:31. > :01:35.three shifts. The PCS union, which represents coastguard workers, says
:01:36. > :01:40.it is worried about public safety. Our only other coastguard station,
:01:40. > :01:50.at Great Yarmouth, closed in May. Our chief reporter Kim Riley is in
:01:50. > :01:50.
:01:50. > :01:54.Walton-on-the-Naze now. Yes, this is the Thames coastguard
:01:54. > :02:00.headquarters. If I walk this way you will see the view from their windows
:02:00. > :02:09.out over the beaches off Walton-on-the-Naze and beyond to the
:02:09. > :02:15.pier. Thousands have come to our beaches in the last few days, just
:02:15. > :02:18.yesterday 11 children went missing on the beaches of Southend,
:02:18. > :02:23.Walton-on-the-Naze, all were found safe and well but it puts pressure
:02:23. > :02:28.on organisations like the coastguard and the RNLI. Further up the coast
:02:28. > :02:31.we saw how quickly conditions can change.
:02:31. > :02:35.Warm sunshine over the beaches of Lowestoft this morning but as
:02:35. > :02:41.families looked forward to a day on the sand in the horizon there were
:02:41. > :02:51.clouds and thunder. We have a red flag due to the
:02:51. > :02:57.thunder. One senior lifeguard with the RNLI, which has been providing a
:02:57. > :03:02.service that eight hours a day. recommend that everybody get off the
:03:02. > :03:05.beach and out of the water. Most people do leave the beach but
:03:05. > :03:15.lifeguard Richard sets off to a family still playing by the water.
:03:15. > :03:16.
:03:16. > :03:22.Then the storm really hits home. Meanwhile the lifeboat spirit of
:03:22. > :03:25.Lowestoft is patrolling off the beaches. The RNLI and the coastguard
:03:25. > :03:31.are two separate organisations. Coastguards are browned the coast
:03:31. > :03:35.are closing. Walton-on-the-Naze is earmarked for closure just after
:03:35. > :03:45.April. That will leave Humber and over covering all of East Anglia 's
:03:45. > :03:52.coastline. The independent vote -- volunteer lifeboat service has been
:03:52. > :03:56.dealing with the Humber statement -- station since the last closures.
:03:56. > :04:00.Since the 1st of May we have had a couple of jobs with Humber
:04:00. > :04:05.coastguards. At the Walton-on-the-Naze station there is
:04:05. > :04:09.union concern over a shortage of staff. We have had one of the
:04:09. > :04:13.hottest summers on record, we have had people out on the coast and the
:04:13. > :04:21.sea in enjoying the sunshine, it is a miracle that there hasn't been a
:04:21. > :04:26.major incident. I am concerned that staff would not be able to cope.
:04:26. > :04:33.Maritime and Coastguard Agency says it accepts the coast -- the union's
:04:33. > :04:37.figures and is working to fill the vacancies. Two agencies format Great
:04:37. > :04:41.Yarmouth are currently work here and staff can get support from offices
:04:41. > :04:43.including Dover and a new recruitment campaign is shortly to
:04:43. > :04:47.get under way. Dennis O'Connor is from Coastguard
:04:47. > :04:52.SOS, which campaigns against cuts to the service. Earlier I asked him how
:04:52. > :04:58.dangerous he thought the current situation was.
:04:58. > :05:03.We are not in the business to scaremonger. The reality is, with
:05:03. > :05:10.such severe under staffing around the coast, it is a real possibility
:05:10. > :05:13.that something will go seriously wrong at some stage. When we talked
:05:13. > :05:18.to the Caister Lifeboat today they said they had been sceptical about
:05:18. > :05:25.how it would work but so far everything seems to be fine. That is
:05:25. > :05:30.good to know and we are hearing some reports from some areas and that is
:05:30. > :05:38.reassuring. Could it be that these are just teething problems in
:05:38. > :05:43.recruitment? People want longevity in careers, they don't want to have
:05:43. > :05:48.the axe hanging over them going into a new job, so it is going to be a
:05:48. > :05:54.continuing problem. One of the biggest problems that they have
:05:54. > :05:59.failed to address is the speed in which we are losing experienced
:05:59. > :06:03.officers in the coastguard and, even if the recruitment campaign was
:06:03. > :06:08.successful, it would still be a period of perhaps up to two years
:06:08. > :06:16.before perhaps a watch officer is trained to a degree of competence to
:06:16. > :06:19.be able to handle day-to-day rescue situations. Given that, and given it
:06:19. > :06:26.looks like these changes will be pushed ahead, what do you think the
:06:26. > :06:31.solution is? We are still trying to talk to the transport select
:06:31. > :06:37.committee and encourage them to to can -- to continue to monitor the
:06:37. > :06:41.situation closely. I am sure the coastguard officers themselves must
:06:41. > :06:48.breathe a sigh of relief at the end of their watch duty if they have got
:06:48. > :06:52.through it unscathed. That is not right and that is a concern to us as
:06:52. > :06:55.a campaign group that also should be a concern to the public and to MPs.
:06:55. > :06:59.Thank you very much. The Tesco distribution centre in
:06:59. > :07:03.Harlow has finally closed. Hundreds of jobs have been lost. Tesco says
:07:03. > :07:11.it needed to close the depot as part of restructuring. But today the
:07:11. > :07:15.local MP accused the company of deeply damaging the local community.
:07:15. > :07:20.Tesco have not wasted any time in stripping the site, axe its
:07:20. > :07:26.blocked, the warehouse emptied, distribution here nothing of the
:07:26. > :07:31.past. -- exits blocked. The local MP says that workers have been let
:07:31. > :07:36.down. It has had a huge impact on our
:07:36. > :07:39.town, the individuals themselves, their families and friends, the
:07:39. > :07:47.businesses around, the taxi companies. This has a massive impact
:07:47. > :07:52.on our town and Tesco have hugely damaged our community. The decision
:07:52. > :07:56.to close was announced in February, part of a major restructuring. Of
:07:56. > :08:01.the 800 people here around 500 were local from Harlow. Only about 100
:08:01. > :08:10.workers have been linked to the new depot in Dagenham. The unions say
:08:10. > :08:15.they will be working for poorer wages and conditions. It is a
:08:15. > :08:20.transfer of Labour, effectively a new job, and the Dagenham terms and
:08:20. > :08:26.conditions in pay alone is roughly one third less -- less than the
:08:26. > :08:33.Harlow pay. Many of the warehouse people will have a �9,000 drop in
:08:33. > :08:38.money. Tesco declined to speak to us but earlier this year a spokesman
:08:38. > :08:41.that -- a spokesperson said they were trying to help people find
:08:41. > :08:46.work. There is a job that everybody in
:08:46. > :08:50.Harlow within Tesco if they want it. Tesco thanked their colleagues for
:08:50. > :08:58.their continued hard work. Job losses in Harlow have added to the
:08:58. > :09:08.bleak prospects for employment in Sussex. Britvic announced it is
:09:08. > :09:08.
:09:08. > :09:11.shutting its centre in -- its centre.
:09:11. > :09:14.Labour has become the second largest party on Norfolk County Council,
:09:14. > :09:17.after winning the Thetford West by-election. It was a battle with
:09:17. > :09:20.the UK Independence Party, whose councillor resigned after it emerged
:09:20. > :09:29.he had been caught shoplifting. UKIP held the seat with a majority of
:09:29. > :09:33.just one, but Labour won it with a majority of 171.
:09:33. > :09:37.This was an important by-election, not only because it would determine
:09:37. > :09:43.who would be the largest party in the rainbow allowance -- Alliance
:09:43. > :09:48.running the council but also the first test of UKIP's popularity
:09:48. > :09:53.since its success in local elections. Labour, which lost by one
:09:53. > :09:56.vote in May, were clearly relieved to have one. We have really
:09:56. > :10:01.explained to people the difference between the Labour Party and UKIP
:10:01. > :10:07.and given people a strong reason to vote Labour. Listening to their
:10:07. > :10:10.concerns has really resonate -- resonated. The party put a lot of
:10:10. > :10:14.staff and effort into fighting this election. The decision of the
:10:14. > :10:20.Liberal Democrats not to field a candidate probably helped. UKIP
:10:20. > :10:27.admitted it could not compete against Labour's resources but it
:10:27. > :10:34.also said one of the reasons Labour did so well is because it mobilised
:10:34. > :10:40.the large migrant population to vote. The EU migrants came out to
:10:40. > :10:45.vote and I think Labour chased their votes to get the balance. Labour
:10:45. > :10:50.condemned UKIP's comments, saying it fought to wind support from
:10:50. > :11:00.everybody in Thetford. This will not change anything at County Hall, the
:11:00. > :11:01.
:11:01. > :11:05.authority is under no control, -- no control. UKIP actually polled more
:11:05. > :11:09.votes than in the May elections, a sign there is still considerable
:11:09. > :11:15.support for the party, it just needs to be more organised and visible on
:11:15. > :11:19.the ground. Rather worryingly for the Conservatives, it seems a lot of
:11:19. > :11:23.that increased UKIP support is coming from Tory voters. ?NEWLINE a
:11:23. > :11:26.post-mortem examination on the body of a woman found in a lake at the
:11:26. > :11:29.University of East Anglia in Norwich has proved inconclusive. The woman's
:11:29. > :11:33.body was found face down in the water by an angler yesterday
:11:33. > :11:37.morning. Police say she was in her late 30s to early 40s and that
:11:37. > :11:44.further tests are now needed to find out the cause of death.
:11:44. > :11:47.At this stage is -- it is an unusual case because generally we can
:11:47. > :11:51.identify people, and it is frustrating for us and the public
:11:51. > :11:57.but we are confident that we will identify her and it does not change
:11:57. > :12:00.the nature of the enquiry at this stage.
:12:00. > :12:03.A survey has found drivers in Suffolk believe mobile speed cameras
:12:03. > :12:12.are used to generate money, not to improve safety. The survey was
:12:12. > :12:15.carried out for the Police and Crime Commissioner for Suffolk.
:12:15. > :12:19.Still to come, the fastest way to speed along a beach without an
:12:19. > :12:25.engine. And the celebrity chef in a spot of
:12:25. > :12:28.bother over the wrong shade of pink. It feels like only yesterday the
:12:28. > :12:31.goal nets came down and the boots were hung up for the summer. But
:12:31. > :12:34.believe it or not tomorrow the Football League season gets under
:12:34. > :12:37.way. With huge financial rewards,
:12:37. > :12:40.managers are under more pressure than ever to succeed. Last season
:12:40. > :12:44.more than 100 managers and coaches were dismissed, the highest number
:12:44. > :12:54.in a decade. James Burridge has tonight's special report on the
:12:54. > :13:00.
:13:00. > :13:08.uncertain life faced by those at the They say you are only ever two games
:13:08. > :13:13.away from the sack. It is all about Saturday afternoon, that is the best
:13:13. > :13:19.part of it. You get this and men's pleasure through being a manager and
:13:19. > :13:27.I would not change this for anything. -- immense pleasure.
:13:27. > :13:34.Welcome to the brutal and lonely world of football management.
:13:34. > :13:39.have had my little wrong, I will get on with it. Is this a low point? I
:13:39. > :13:47.am thoroughly browned off. average job lasts just over a year
:13:47. > :13:52.and a half. The championship is the worst, with 21 sackings. If you
:13:52. > :13:57.finish in the top six you have a chance of the big bucks so is it any
:13:57. > :14:02.wonder there is pressure on the lads in this league? Here in the East,
:14:02. > :14:05.half the clubs start their campaign with a different manager.
:14:06. > :14:13.Peterborough United were the only club to be relegated but they have
:14:13. > :14:18.decided to stick by their man. This year we will go straight back up.
:14:18. > :14:22.What if you don't? Will you be calling for your manager's head?
:14:22. > :14:27.don't think that is crossing anybody's mind, we are that
:14:27. > :14:37.confident. Karl Robinson was one of the youngest ever managers when he
:14:37. > :14:39.
:14:39. > :14:45.was pointed -- appointed. My family will read something and I am
:14:45. > :14:49.somebody's Sun and people hate me that you have never met me. -- that
:14:49. > :14:57.have never met me. They have taken a sound bite and completely judged me
:14:57. > :15:03.on that. Is there a recipe for dealing with pressure? My phone has
:15:03. > :15:09.been on all summer, and every manager save -- will say that is the
:15:09. > :15:14.same. My best summer ever was probably when I was sacked. Patience
:15:14. > :15:18.is a rare commodity. After losing nine straight games last season,
:15:18. > :15:23.Colchester back to their young manager. Time is of the essence, as
:15:23. > :15:31.they say, and I think managers should be given a chance to build
:15:31. > :15:35.and develop a club. Ask any manager why they do it and they will tell
:15:35. > :15:45.you dash for the love of the game. For all, though, is a cruel
:15:45. > :15:46.
:15:46. > :15:52.mistress. -- football. Pete Winkelman is the Stadium of MK
:15:52. > :15:58.Dons. Your manager is in the top ten of the longest serving managers
:15:58. > :16:03.after only three years. What does that say about the sport? Some of
:16:03. > :16:07.the facts you have just read out are incredible. Even in football we
:16:07. > :16:11.sometimes don't see the magnitude of that. Being manager is the hardest
:16:12. > :16:18.job, you have so many stakeholders, players, supporters to please and I
:16:18. > :16:24.am really glad we have been able to hold onto our manager this season.
:16:24. > :16:28.You have had eight managers since 2004. At the beginning you were
:16:28. > :16:37.doing what all the other players seem to do, getting rid of managers
:16:37. > :16:41.pretty quickly. -- all of the other clubs. We had some knee jerk
:16:41. > :16:44.reactions in the early days. As I have been in football longer, we
:16:44. > :16:48.have to do share the responsibility. The manager is the
:16:49. > :16:54.pivot of the team and the club so it is a big responsibility but I think
:16:55. > :17:00.as chairman I need to support my manager and we need to think that --
:17:00. > :17:03.to learn from mistakes and hopefully do a better job together. As you sit
:17:03. > :17:07.in your comfortable seat on Saturday afternoon, when things are going
:17:07. > :17:14.wrong and the fans are making noise, does it make you want to go and have
:17:14. > :17:17.a word with the manager? I think there is no doubt, football is so
:17:18. > :17:22.emotive that you get absolutely carried away and many times you will
:17:22. > :17:26.speak to the manager on Saturday night and regret almost everything
:17:26. > :17:34.you had a conversation about by Sunday morning. That is what is
:17:34. > :17:38.fantastic about football, it is that emotional. I don't want to be asking
:17:38. > :17:45.questions about your manager but supposing you started with half a
:17:45. > :17:51.dozen defeats would that make you start to ask questions? Last season
:17:51. > :18:00.we had a real lip, we did not wind for 14 games, and we did very well
:18:00. > :18:06.the rest of the time. -- we did not wind. We have been learning that we
:18:06. > :18:11.need to take the long road, we need to make sure the philosophy is
:18:11. > :18:18.football -- of football is strong and we have to look more long-term,
:18:18. > :18:26.and certainly with MK Dons we are trying to do that and it is
:18:26. > :18:34.incredible that we have the eight longest serving manager. -- eight
:18:34. > :18:40.Now, here's a clash of colours. The celebrity chef Marco Pierre White
:18:40. > :18:44.has caused controversy in a Suffolk town by painting a hotel pink.
:18:44. > :18:51.It has made some local people see red, because they say it lowers the
:18:51. > :18:53.time. -- the tone. The one thing that makes this town
:18:53. > :19:03.special is the rich palette of colours. When you think of
:19:03. > :19:04.
:19:04. > :19:11.traditional Sussex pink what you think? Pink? Or is this pink? But
:19:11. > :19:15.this, see some locals, most definitely is not. They liken it to
:19:15. > :19:22.blancmange. Marco Pierre White took on this hotel two years ago. It is
:19:22. > :19:27.great to listed and dates from 1421. In this town with its rich medieval
:19:27. > :19:31.past it is easy to see why people are protective so when it came is to
:19:31. > :19:39.this paint job, for the man who is used to hearing, yes, the response
:19:39. > :19:43.was a resounding no. There is a generally accepted shade of Sussex
:19:43. > :19:49.pink and people here are proud of their heritage and I think we want
:19:49. > :19:56.to see things being done in keeping. What about people milling around the
:19:56. > :20:01.Market Square? It is all right. I don't feel strongly about it at all.
:20:01. > :20:10.It is better than purple or something. What is the colour around
:20:10. > :20:18.here? That pink is pretty similar. I have no problem with it. It is a
:20:18. > :20:21.soft pink, a baby pink. I think it is delightfully full -- delightful.
:20:21. > :20:29.When Marco Pierre White saw it for the first time he immediately gave
:20:29. > :20:32.it a thumbs down. The idea was to get it a bit darker. A few
:20:32. > :20:40.properties have the deeper Sussex pink so the colour is going to be
:20:40. > :20:43.changed more in line with that. of the building has already been
:20:43. > :20:53.repainted. In a statement the district council said, we are
:20:53. > :21:03.
:21:03. > :21:09.hopeful that an agreement has now that has been added and other
:21:09. > :21:15.internal alterations so this paint debate could just be the starters
:21:15. > :21:19.for Marco Pierre White. -- for starters.
:21:19. > :21:24.If you have ever wanted to speed along a beach at up to 60 miles an
:21:24. > :21:27.hour, perhaps you should try a kite buggy. It is a tricycle with a huge
:21:27. > :21:30.kite on the end of a rope. The current European champion is
:21:30. > :21:40.Craig Sparkes from Norfolk. He started ten years ago on his local
:21:40. > :21:41.
:21:41. > :21:50.beaches. Now he competes across the Meet Craig Sparkes, European kite
:21:50. > :21:55.buggy champion. He is showing off his skills in southern Spain.
:21:55. > :22:01.side of the sport is the freestyle, the jumping side, so we use a system
:22:01. > :22:09.that straps asked to the buddies and we average league jump eight to ten
:22:09. > :22:19.feet, but sometimes it is 15 feet. -- we on average jump eight to ten.
:22:19. > :22:21.
:22:21. > :22:28.We can jump up to the -- long distances but we are completely in
:22:28. > :22:36.control. Normally we would hope into a harness that connects us to the
:22:36. > :22:41.kite and allows us to steer it with these handles. You have full control
:22:41. > :22:50.even though you are connected to the body. Craig shows the power of the
:22:50. > :22:59.kite. This is why he needs open spaces. Normally it is around the 20
:22:59. > :23:09.mph, 30 mph level, but in more open areas we are able to hit up to 60
:23:09. > :23:20.
:23:20. > :23:24.mph, or even 80 mph for specialised bodies. -- buddies. It is a fine
:23:24. > :23:32.line between work and pleasure and I try to keep that as close as
:23:32. > :23:37.possible. Didn't you do that once?
:23:37. > :23:40.I looked just like that when I did Yesterday it was hot and
:23:40. > :23:43.temperatures reached 32 degrees, but today we paid the price, with some
:23:43. > :23:49.violent thunderstorms across the region. And with the storms, some
:23:49. > :23:53.amazing clouds. Lots of you stopped to take photos and lots of you send
:23:53. > :24:03.them to us, so thank you very much. But what was happening? The answers
:24:03. > :24:04.
:24:04. > :24:09.from Mike Liggins. A rumble of thunder at Hadlee in
:24:09. > :24:15.Suffolk. A lightning flash and some amazing clouds captured by BBC
:24:15. > :24:19.cameraman John fair Hall. He was not the only one at it. In Essex and
:24:19. > :24:29.Sussex viewers reached for their cameras and even allowing for some
:24:29. > :24:34.
:24:34. > :24:39.digital help the results were spectacular. These are the udder
:24:39. > :24:45.protuberances which are generally dry, just moist air coming out of
:24:45. > :24:53.the bottom of the cloud. For real fishy and are those of cloud
:24:53. > :25:03.formation there was something else. -- for real fans of cloud formation.
:25:03. > :25:03.
:25:03. > :25:09.I have only seen these two or three times before. Both types of cloud in
:25:09. > :25:16.one day, Emma -- amazing. There was some rain as well but it is the
:25:16. > :25:26.British summer after all. Goodness me, torrential. Let's get
:25:26. > :25:32.
:25:32. > :25:38.Today it was more like 25 and we saw some heavy and thundery showers. You
:25:38. > :25:42.can see that they have mainly moved out into the channel but there is an
:25:42. > :25:47.area moving up from southern England. On the satellite image you
:25:47. > :25:51.can see those shower clouds over the past few hours and for the next few
:25:51. > :26:01.hours they will affect the western half of the region. If you live in
:26:01. > :26:04.
:26:04. > :26:06.Cambridge, Western Norfolk, out in Northamptonshire you might see a
:26:06. > :26:09.downfall before the day is out. They should clear away overnight and it
:26:09. > :26:11.will be quite a bit cooler and fresher than it was last night. Lows
:26:11. > :26:16.of 15 or 16. Starting with a moderate south-westerly wind and
:26:16. > :26:21.that will ease before the end of the night. Into tomorrow, this is our
:26:21. > :26:25.pressure pattern, a bit of a squeeze on the ice bars showing that it will
:26:25. > :26:33.be breezy. A lot of dry and bright weather at first but it is expected
:26:33. > :26:38.to turn showery into the afternoon. The odd heavy downpour, sunshine in
:26:38. > :26:45.between. Certainly temperatures on the cooler side. Two bridges in the
:26:45. > :26:51.mid-20s, these are the typical highs. A moderate south-westerly
:26:51. > :26:55.wind so the showers should move through quite quickly. Into the
:26:55. > :27:01.afternoon and evening quite a lot of them should fade away. Looking
:27:01. > :27:10.ahead, this is our problem chart. We have low pressure moving in across
:27:10. > :27:16.the British Isles, which could mean a spell of wet weather. It's hard to
:27:16. > :27:20.know how far east the weather system will track. A good chance of staying
:27:20. > :27:27.dry for Sunday, maybe just the odd shower, quite breezy, but on Monday
:27:27. > :27:35.temperatures are down, cloudy with a chance of out rakes of rain. It is