:00:07. > :00:09.Hello and welcome to Look East. In the programme tonight:
:00:09. > :00:15.Tesco insists it didn't make its Harlow workers redundant in favour
:00:15. > :00:23.of cheaper foreign labour. The local MP says he's still unhappy
:00:23. > :00:28.with the company. I think the company had behaved quite
:00:28. > :00:35.ruthlessly. Their motto seems to be parboil the money high and sell the
:00:36. > :00:40.workers cheap. -- pile up the money high.
:00:40. > :00:43.A body is found in the search for a man who's been missing for a month.
:00:43. > :00:46.Millions of pounds for Norfolk to get people out of the cars and on
:00:46. > :00:48.their bikes. We are going to design the route so it is a wonderful
:00:48. > :00:52.place for people to ride their bikes.
:00:52. > :01:02.And after a hard Winter, a freezing Spring and a heatwave, what are the
:01:02. > :01:05.
:01:05. > :01:08.Hello. First tonight, the former Tesco workers caught in the centre
:01:08. > :01:12.of a political row between the Labour Party and the supermarket
:01:12. > :01:17.giant. It follows the closure of the Tesco distribution depot at
:01:17. > :01:20.Harlow in Essex which employed 800 people.
:01:20. > :01:23.When the centre closed, staff were offered jobs at a new centre in
:01:23. > :01:28.Dagenham, but most refused. Today the Shadow Immigration Minister
:01:28. > :01:33.Chris Bryant claimed that Tesco may have hired cheaper foreign workers.
:01:33. > :01:36.It's a claim the company strongly denies. Now the Harlow MP Robert
:01:36. > :01:39.Halfon is calling on Tesco t o release the figures. He wants to
:01:39. > :01:45.know how many workers were hired from agencies and how many come
:01:45. > :01:47.from eastern Europe. We'll hear from Mr Halfon in a moment, but
:01:47. > :01:50.first, our political editor Deborah McGurran.
:01:50. > :01:55.The row over the closure of Tesco's distribution plant in Harlow re-
:01:55. > :01:58.ignited by Labour's Shadow Immigration Minister Chris Bryant.
:01:58. > :02:08.Today he claimed Tesco may have hired staff who have come from from
:02:08. > :02:08.
:02:08. > :02:12.Eastern Europe, rather than using British workers. When a
:02:12. > :02:22.distribution centre was moved, existing staff say they would have
:02:22. > :02:23.
:02:23. > :02:26.lost out by moving. The result was that I knew people were employed
:02:26. > :02:29.from other countries. Two weeks ago the Tesco
:02:29. > :02:32.distribution centre in Harlow finally closed with the loss of
:02:32. > :02:35.hundreds of jobs. Tesco says it needed to close the depot as part
:02:35. > :02:39.of a restucturing plan. Of the 800 people who worked here, 500 were
:02:39. > :02:49.from Harlow. Only around a hundred have taken a job at the new
:02:49. > :02:58.
:02:58. > :03:00.distribution centre in Dagenham. But the Harlow MP says the
:03:00. > :03:03.government should tackle the problem of corporate juggernauts
:03:03. > :03:08.and he's calling for Tesco to reveal how many of the Dagenham
:03:08. > :03:10.workers have been hired from agencies. The gates may be shut but
:03:10. > :03:14.the story of Harlow's Tesco workers seems far from over.
:03:14. > :03:17.We did ask Tesco for an interview, but instead they sent the statement.
:03:17. > :03:26.Late this afternoon I spoke to Robert Halfon the MP for Harlow,
:03:26. > :03:31.who is very vocal in his criticism of Tesco. I think the company have
:03:31. > :03:36.behaved quite ruthlessly. Their motto seems to be piled the money
:03:36. > :03:46.high and sell the workers cheap. I was unhappy with the way they
:03:46. > :03:51.treated harder workers. They closed down a productive plant in my
:03:51. > :03:56.constituency. Some workers would have been worse off by up to
:03:56. > :04:06.�10,000 a year if they moved. This is clearly unsustainable for
:04:06. > :04:07.
:04:07. > :04:13.families who have mortgages to pay. Tesco's, I am sure, would say they
:04:13. > :04:18.are paying the going rate? should not be the party of
:04:18. > :04:24.corporate juggernauts and in my view are unethical in the way they
:04:24. > :04:30.treat long-standing workers. Many people in Harlow in lost their jobs
:04:30. > :04:34.and took redundancy had worked there more than 20 years. Tesco say
:04:34. > :04:40.they have one of the best pay and benefits package in the industry
:04:40. > :04:45.and pay the same rates if workers are British of from the European
:04:45. > :04:49.Union, and they had recruited people from Dagenham. If you talk
:04:50. > :04:57.to people in Harlow and the local trade union, they will tell you
:04:57. > :05:05.there were agency workers employed and Tesco's used eight technical
:05:05. > :05:10.European Union clause that allows them to employ workers on the cheap.
:05:10. > :05:14.Tesco has said they are acting legitimately. That might be so and
:05:14. > :05:24.that is why I was unhappy that the last government signed all these EU
:05:24. > :05:25.
:05:25. > :05:30.directives that allowed all this to happen. Does that mean that for
:05:30. > :05:34.once on the Europe you are in agreement with the Labour Party?
:05:34. > :05:39.The Labour Party have done too little too late. They allowed the
:05:39. > :05:42.and controlled immigration to happen in the first place. They
:05:42. > :05:48.signed the EU directives that are causing these problems and for them
:05:48. > :05:54.to supply say, hands up, we got it wrong is a bit too late. The
:05:54. > :05:57.problems are here now. Thank you. 600 jobs are under threat in
:05:57. > :05:59.Suffolk at the Two Sisters food group based at Haughley Park. The
:05:59. > :06:02.factory makes roast chicken for supermarkets, but the company says
:06:02. > :06:12.it's too old to be viable. There will now be a period of
:06:12. > :06:13.
:06:13. > :06:19.consultation with workers. The company employs 2,000 people.
:06:19. > :06:24.available options will be discussed. We know this site is unsustainable.
:06:24. > :06:28.It maybe other colleagues have ideas and innovations that we have
:06:28. > :06:31.not thought of that we can work through before we make a final
:06:31. > :06:33.decision. And there will be more on that
:06:33. > :06:36.story on our late bulletin at 10.25pm.
:06:36. > :06:39.Millions of pounds of Government money is coming to Norfolk to help
:06:40. > :06:43.get us out of our cars and onto our bikes. Norwich will receive �3.7
:06:43. > :06:46.million to create an eight-mile cycle route across the city. With
:06:46. > :06:54.local funding added on, total spending will be more than �5
:06:55. > :07:02.million. Norwich, like Cambridge, has built
:07:02. > :07:07.a reputation as a cycling city. St Andrew's is part of a national grid.
:07:07. > :07:17.�1.8 million of locally-based funding will be added to 3.7
:07:17. > :07:21.million from the government. The city council headed up a joint bid
:07:21. > :07:26.for an eight mile cross city cycling routes. It will be designed
:07:26. > :07:32.so it is a fantastic place for people to ride their bikes at all
:07:32. > :07:42.levels of ability. It will connect the Norwich Research Park to the
:07:42. > :07:43.
:07:43. > :07:48.hospital, through the city centre and beyond. At this cycle and
:07:48. > :07:57.repair shop set up six months ago, customers welcomed the new boost
:07:57. > :08:06.for city cycling. To have a designated route that is well
:08:06. > :08:09.maintained or -- well-maintained will be good. It will be great,
:08:09. > :08:16.especially if you have children. am not confident in road cycling,
:08:16. > :08:26.so having money put into it and been able to feel confident in
:08:26. > :08:36.
:08:36. > :08:44.There are huge economic benefits. There are benefits in terms of
:08:44. > :08:50.reducing be carbon footprints -- the Coburn footprint of the city.
:08:50. > :08:56.There are health benefits as well. The measure of success in Norwich
:08:56. > :09:00.will be the number of women, children and older people who will
:09:01. > :09:04.start making their journey on two wheels.
:09:04. > :09:07.Detectives searching for a man who was last seen more than a month ago
:09:07. > :09:10.have found a body. 47-year-old Michael Redmond was last seen near
:09:10. > :09:13.the Basildon Golf Club. It comes on the day his mother made an appeal
:09:13. > :09:16.for him to get in touch. The Metropolitan Police dogs have
:09:16. > :09:19.been searching the golf course this morning for any trace of Michael
:09:19. > :09:22.Redmond. His mother also returned to the last place he was seen. She
:09:22. > :09:28.had this message for him from her and his daughter Danielle. Michael,
:09:28. > :09:32.we just want you home. We want to save and sound with the rest of the
:09:32. > :09:38.family. Everyone loves you very much and it Danielle could be here
:09:38. > :09:43.today, she would have been, but I think you know why she can't be.
:09:43. > :09:46.She misses you very much. Mrs Redmond spent the day with her
:09:46. > :09:50.son before dropping him off here at the gym next door to the golf
:09:50. > :09:59.course. He left at quarter past seven on 5th July on what WAS a
:09:59. > :10:07.baking hot day. He was last seen here between the 13th hole and his
:10:07. > :10:11.flat, which is over there. He was running barefoot it through the
:10:11. > :10:14.woodland. Mr Redmond was wearing a pink polo top and sky blue shorts.
:10:14. > :10:17.It's thought his hair will have grown and he has a portrait of his
:10:17. > :10:21.daughter tattooed on his right arm. His wallet has since been handed in.
:10:21. > :10:24.Police are keen for the person who found it to contact them. We have
:10:24. > :10:27.had no indication as to where he is or who he is with. The
:10:27. > :10:33.investigation remains a missing person investigation. The last
:10:33. > :10:40.thing he said to me was, I will ring you later. One is he in good
:10:40. > :10:43.spirits? He wasn't. He was very distressed. Tonight, specialist
:10:43. > :10:45.police teams who have been searching for Mr Redmond say they
:10:45. > :10:48.found a body in wooded undergrowth near the golf club. Formal
:10:48. > :10:50.identification will now take place. Mr Redmond's family have been
:10:50. > :10:53.informed. Plans to change the way glass is
:10:53. > :10:55.recycled in Norfolk could be bad news for some charities and
:10:56. > :10:58.voluntary groups. At present, some of them get money raised from
:10:58. > :11:07.bottle banks, but from next year local councils will be starting
:11:07. > :11:14.kerbside collections. Where there is glass, there is
:11:14. > :11:19.brass and for councils across our region a new contract will save
:11:19. > :11:27.council taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds. You will soon
:11:27. > :11:34.be able to put glass in your recycling bin. They will be putting
:11:34. > :11:40.glass into their green bin. It will be easier for them, especially if
:11:40. > :11:46.they do not have Transport. Will it make you recycle more? Yes,
:11:46. > :11:50.certainly. It will be more convenient. The income will go to
:11:50. > :12:00.the district council. That is probably a bad thing, but the
:12:00. > :12:04.
:12:04. > :12:10.convenience will appeal to people. There will be losers. For charities,
:12:10. > :12:14.income from their bottle banks goes straight into their coffers, but
:12:14. > :12:18.kerbside collection means the money will now go to the district council.
:12:18. > :12:24.Collections will start in the autumn of next year. The District
:12:24. > :12:29.Council says 25 % more glass will be recycled, and it will save the
:12:29. > :12:33.council �50,000 a year. But this former town mayor accuses the
:12:33. > :12:40.District Council of theft. Bottle banks like this one generate �4,000
:12:40. > :12:44.a year. It is money we cannot afford to lose. Roger Vick goes on
:12:44. > :12:48.the upkeep of the TAM's war memorials and playgrounds. We have
:12:49. > :12:53.got to get the money from somewhere. We will probably have to get it
:12:54. > :12:59.from the residents. Aren't we just talking pennies? It might just be
:12:59. > :13:03.pennies, but if you consider all the other services they are cutting
:13:03. > :13:08.back on and making the town councils pay for, it's soon mount
:13:08. > :13:15.up. Bottle banks will not disappear and it is hoped that communities
:13:16. > :13:25.can branch out into recycling other items, but in the current climate,
:13:26. > :13:29.
:13:29. > :13:32.it is an income they cannot afford to lose.
:13:32. > :13:35.Police have confirmed that the woman who fell from a car park in
:13:35. > :13:38.Lowestoft on Friday is from the Kessingland area. She was 64-years-
:13:38. > :13:40.old and has not yet been named. Witnesses saw her plunge from the
:13:40. > :13:43.multi-storey in Battery Green just after two o'clock on Friday
:13:43. > :13:45.afternoon. It's the same car park where Fiona Anderson died in April
:13:45. > :13:48.after she'd killed her three children.
:13:48. > :13:50.Workers who scan baggage at Stansted Airport are to take strike
:13:50. > :13:53.action over the Bank Holiday weekend. Members of the GMB Union
:13:53. > :13:56.employed by Mitie will take the action over four days from Friday
:13:56. > :13:59.23rd August. They will strike between 3.30am and 6am in the
:13:59. > :14:02.mornings, and 3.30pm and 6pm in the afternoons. Over 90% of the unions'
:14:02. > :14:05.members voted in favour of the industrial action because of plans
:14:05. > :14:08.to cut rates for working nights or overtime. Still to come - a new
:14:08. > :14:16.changing rooms, pavilions and pitches. �2 million on the way for
:14:16. > :14:26.grass roots sports. And the mystery of taste and fragrances - the
:14:26. > :14:31.
:14:31. > :14:34.company selling them all over the world.
:14:34. > :14:37.In farming circles the east of England is often known as the bread
:14:37. > :14:40.basket of england because we grow more wheat and other cereal crops
:14:40. > :14:43.than any other part of the country. The harvest has now begun in
:14:43. > :14:46.earnest after a challenging year with a hard winter, freezing spring
:14:46. > :14:49.and lately a summer heatwave. But the early signs are good, as Ben
:14:49. > :14:51.Bland reports. It is a harvest that many feared would be a disaster.
:14:51. > :14:54.For most people be wet autumn and cold spring were annoyed and
:14:54. > :14:56.convenient, but for farmers across East Anglia it posed a serious
:14:56. > :14:59.threat. For half this they are now collecting his average, but that is
:14:59. > :15:03.better than they were expecting and it has come as a big relief. Last
:15:03. > :15:12.year was difficult. If this year have been a disaster, it would make
:15:12. > :15:17.life difficult for some, and that knocks on to other industries.
:15:17. > :15:22.There is a whole network of people involved in agriculture. These
:15:22. > :15:27.votes will make their way into your cereal bowl, but it is not just
:15:27. > :15:31.this crop that has done better than expected. Like the wheat and that
:15:31. > :15:34.is being harvested in Northamptonshire. It will be used
:15:34. > :15:38.to make bread. The amount and sometimes the quality is better
:15:38. > :15:43.than they thought it would be, but why were they expecting a bad
:15:43. > :15:53.harvest? The weather has been the main challenge from start to finish.
:15:53. > :15:56.
:15:56. > :16:04.Wet in the winter, cold in spring. The light in the end -- delight at
:16:04. > :16:09.their end of the tunnel was the heat wave. It is not just crops
:16:09. > :16:14.like wheat, barley and oats that have done well. It should be a good
:16:15. > :16:24.harvest for fruit farmers. Last year we picked 30 % of what we
:16:24. > :16:31.normally pick. This year it will probably be 75 %. Meanwhile, Andrew
:16:31. > :16:36.has managed these farms for 18 years. He says the crops exceeded
:16:36. > :16:45.expectations, but were average at best. How weather, there was one
:16:45. > :16:49.strong performer. The winter barley performed better than average, so
:16:49. > :16:54.we are quite pleased with that. good harvest weren't necessarily
:16:54. > :17:01.mean lower prices for bread and breakfast cereals. It is just one
:17:01. > :17:06.of many factors that affect costs, but the early signs are promising.
:17:06. > :17:10.Farmers are just hoping for a bit more sunshine in the coming weeks.
:17:10. > :17:13.Many of the fields we've just seen would have been a home for the
:17:13. > :17:15.harvest Mouse. It used to be common, but years of mechanisation and the
:17:15. > :17:19.loss of hedgerows have caused its numbers to decline.
:17:19. > :17:22.The thing is, we don't know enough about them. We know they are just
:17:22. > :17:25.5cm long, making them our smallest rodent, but we don't know much
:17:25. > :17:27.about how they live their lives, which is why researchers in
:17:27. > :17:36.Nothamptonshire have fitted tracker devices to 50 mice. Anita Ramdharry
:17:36. > :17:41.went to see them released. They are the smallest mammals in
:17:41. > :17:48.the UK and their numbers are in decline, but the elusive harvest
:17:48. > :17:58.mouse is hard to study and that is why a new approach to studying them
:17:58. > :18:01.
:18:01. > :18:07.of being adopted a -- is being adopted. Each of these mice had
:18:07. > :18:17.been injected with a small chip. have a brand new monitoring system
:18:17. > :18:18.
:18:18. > :18:27.to monitor small mammals. It is completely autonomous.
:18:27. > :18:37.populations are declining due to be changes in the environment. They
:18:37. > :18:38.
:18:38. > :18:44.all have microchips and we will be able to know when they are active.
:18:44. > :18:49.Another moment has arrived. 50 harvest mice are released. It is
:18:49. > :18:56.just a case of waiting to see if they survive and give up their
:18:56. > :18:59.secrets, which ultimately could save the species.
:18:59. > :19:04.Now to a company which exports to nearly 100 countries all over the
:19:04. > :19:07.world and has a turnover of �75 million a year. But the chances are
:19:07. > :19:11.it's a name you won't even know. Treatt produce flavours and
:19:11. > :19:14.fragrances and have their worldwide headquarters in Suffolk. For the
:19:14. > :19:24.first in a series about the region's export success stories
:19:24. > :19:31.
:19:31. > :19:37.Mike Liggins has been to their Treatt is a world leader in a world
:19:37. > :19:45.where science needs consumer products. If you stand in a shop,
:19:45. > :19:50.there is a good chance that a Treatt product is being used.
:19:50. > :19:55.However, the information is so sensitive, they will not say who
:19:55. > :20:05.their clients are? For industry reasons, we do not comment on our
:20:05. > :20:11.customers? Treatt used natural ingredients from all over the world.
:20:11. > :20:21.Some of the processing is done in America. The rest is done here in
:20:21. > :20:23.
:20:23. > :20:31.Bury St Edmunds. Make no mistake, this is big business. We sell to
:20:31. > :20:37.over 90 countries around the world. Last year we sold �75 million worth
:20:37. > :20:44.of products. Treatt are doing some cutting-edge science, tried to stay
:20:44. > :20:54.ahead of competitors. Although when it came to identify and fragrances
:20:54. > :20:55.
:20:55. > :21:03.-- fragrances, up I was next to useless. Is it peppermint? It is it.
:21:03. > :21:12.-- it is not. The answer was Rosemary. Their makers want to use
:21:12. > :21:15.new flavours. That was easy. That was honey. That was cucumber.
:21:15. > :21:21.are always trying to produce something new for the market.
:21:21. > :21:30.is where the final products are stored. Some of them have long
:21:30. > :21:40.scientific names, others are more recognisable. These canisters,
:21:40. > :21:40.
:21:40. > :21:43.which way a kilo, sell at anything from �10 to �10,000. So the next
:21:43. > :21:53.time you are in the supermarket, have a think about which bottle
:21:53. > :21:54.
:21:54. > :22:04.might just have a little bit of Bury St Edmunds in it.
:22:04. > :22:05.
:22:05. > :22:09.King of the taste buds! Thousands of small sports clubs
:22:09. > :22:15.operate on a shoestring, so any extra money can make a big
:22:15. > :22:23.difference. Here in the East nearly 40 clubs or projects receive their
:22:23. > :22:29.very own Olympic wind full. -- windfall.
:22:29. > :22:33.Everyone gets supported, from the fun seekers to those aiming big.
:22:33. > :22:39.These gymnasts have a well-equipped playground, but it was not always
:22:39. > :22:49.that way. Before we had the funding, it was a smaller building. We have
:22:49. > :22:51.
:22:51. > :23:01.now doubled in size. We have also been able to equip it. We now also
:23:01. > :23:05.
:23:05. > :23:10.have 1,000 members. The numbers have gone through the roof. We are
:23:10. > :23:15.not talking about putting money into clubs that are already well-
:23:15. > :23:22.funded, or we are talking about grassroots clubs so that everyone
:23:22. > :23:29.has the opportunity to go to a local club that has all the
:23:29. > :23:33.facilities. This club has spent its money to great effect and today
:23:33. > :23:38.another 321 clubs from around the country get to start spending their
:23:38. > :23:48.�50,000 each will wisely. It might be for new floodlights, changing
:23:48. > :23:48.
:23:48. > :23:55.rooms, or just to buy some new equipment. This community centre
:23:55. > :24:05.will be able to replace it outside area and this club will be able to
:24:05. > :24:13.
:24:13. > :24:16.completely refurbished. -- refurbish. There are lots of kids
:24:16. > :24:24.from different ages and we appreciate it. What would you like
:24:24. > :24:29.to say to the people handing out the money? Thank you!So one year
:24:29. > :24:39.on from London 2012, money is finding its way into grassroots
:24:39. > :24:49.
:24:49. > :24:59.clubs. I would love to be able to do that!
:24:59. > :25:00.
:25:00. > :25:10.Stain on the subject of athletics, hour sprinter missed out on a mad
:25:10. > :25:10.
:25:10. > :25:19.will -- out on a medal at the championships in Russia.
:25:19. > :25:26.And now the weather. Most of us will have a dry evening.
:25:26. > :25:33.The showers will eventually clear away and the club will disappear.
:25:33. > :25:43.Good news for those of you who want to catch the meteor shower tonight.
:25:43. > :25:52.
:25:52. > :25:56.Blustery winds bought he's down -- will he's down. A cold start
:25:56. > :26:02.tomorrow. We had this weather front coming in from the West. For most
:26:02. > :26:08.of us it will be dry with a good deal of sunshine. As the morning
:26:08. > :26:18.goes on, thicker clouds coming in from the West. There will be some
:26:18. > :26:21.
:26:21. > :26:28.light and patchy rain. Temperatures around 20 Celsius. Overall, lighter
:26:28. > :26:38.winds from a West or north-westerly direction. We finish the day with a
:26:38. > :26:40.
:26:40. > :26:45.lot of cloud and some patchy rain. Wednesday, a similar day. It will
:26:45. > :26:50.start fine and dry. The cloud will increase from the West. There will
:26:50. > :27:00.be outbreaks of light and patchy rain. The winds will turn south-
:27:00. > :27:02.
:27:02. > :27:10.westerly and drag in a more humid feel two things. Thursday is
:27:10. > :27:20.looking cloud Lee -- looking cloudy, but there will be some spells of
:27:20. > :27:28.