:00:11. > :00:20.Shock tonight as this chicken processing factory says it's closing
:00:21. > :00:24.down with the loss of 600 jobs. It is disappointing that of the best of
:00:25. > :00:28.my knowledge the government made no approaches to the business to say,
:00:29. > :00:34.can we actually talk about a grant to perhaps redevelop the site and
:00:35. > :00:38.make it sustainable. Hello and welcome to Look East, with David and
:00:39. > :00:41.me. Stay with us for the news from Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk. Suffolk
:00:42. > :00:45.looks set for a new generation of nuclear power stations but we're
:00:46. > :00:47.relying on the French and the Chinese to deliver them. England
:00:48. > :00:55.Under 21 boss Gareth Southgate urges clubs like Ipswich to limit their
:00:56. > :00:56.reliance on foreign players. And I will be looking ahead to a fairly
:00:57. > :01:11.mixed week of weather. Hello. 600 poultry workers in
:01:12. > :01:19.Suffolk were told today that their factory is closing next month. The
:01:20. > :01:22.two Sisters Food Group said its production site beside the A14 was
:01:23. > :01:29.no longer viable. The factory at Haughley Park processes roast
:01:30. > :01:32.chicken products. The company employs 2,500 employees at its other
:01:33. > :01:34.sites throughout Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. Today's announcement has
:01:35. > :01:37.been greeted with deep disappointment by unions and the
:01:38. > :01:43.local MP. Let's get the details now from our Suffolk reporter, Kevin
:01:44. > :01:50.Burch. Often we do stories like this where we stand outside factory gates
:01:51. > :01:53.and this is about the people who go through the factory gates, and
:01:54. > :02:04.tonight we have several hundred people looking for work only months
:02:05. > :02:10.before Christmas. Now this human cost us to take a back seat. Many
:02:11. > :02:16.knew it was coming but nonetheless this news has been hard to take. I
:02:17. > :02:26.am 37 now and I have a young family so it is important, I need to get a
:02:27. > :02:31.job and I have a mortgage as well. This man has worked here for five
:02:32. > :02:36.years, originally from Portugal, he has a wife who also works at the
:02:37. > :02:42.factory and will lose her job, and they have two migrant children. For
:02:43. > :02:50.a long time now we have known there are special financial issues in this
:02:51. > :02:55.company and people on the shop floor never knew this happened.
:02:56. > :02:58.The company says it has looked for alternatives to shutting the site
:02:59. > :03:08.but the inescapable truth, it says, is that the company is unsustainable
:03:09. > :03:12.and not viable. It is loss`making and being a remote site is difficult
:03:13. > :03:22.to bring adequate power to make the site viable. It is disappointing
:03:23. > :03:26.that the Government made no approaches to the business, to the
:03:27. > :03:30.best of my knowledge, and we will end up with people claiming benefits
:03:31. > :03:34.from the Government which is not ideal, and it is hurtful to the
:03:35. > :03:40.members who are very hard`working. The company says it will do
:03:41. > :03:45.everything it can to redeploy as many staff to other sites as
:03:46. > :03:51.possible, but this factory will shut for the final time on the 15th of
:03:52. > :03:55.November. This is an employer which remains a
:03:56. > :04:04.key player in the economy, employing hundreds of people at these other
:04:05. > :04:08.sites, but here is the end. As one worker said, this is my family, but
:04:09. > :04:15.it is a family which is about to be split up. This afternoon I spoke to
:04:16. > :04:18.the local MP David Ruffley and started by asking for his reaction
:04:19. > :04:23.to the news. This is a deeply uncertain time for families who have
:04:24. > :04:27.relied on the site for work, to put bread on the table. The task is to
:04:28. > :04:33.make sure that as many as those workers get offered alternative
:04:34. > :04:39.work. That is not a total solution but that is what we have got to work
:04:40. > :04:44.towards as hard as we can. Were you expecting this news? The
:04:45. > :04:49.company said it is to do with the site not being viable. I heard that
:04:50. > :04:54.argument from management. I think the real focus has got to be that
:04:55. > :04:58.this is an international company, reducing from six sites to five
:04:59. > :05:04.which it has in the region, there are other jobs not far away which
:05:05. > :05:09.are also under threat and we need a strategy in our part of Suffolk to
:05:10. > :05:16.make sure these jobs are not taken to other counties. In this case, my
:05:17. > :05:22.constituents are being offered jobs in South Suffolk. Do using the
:05:23. > :05:28.workers will get jobs elsewhere, or do you think there will be a real
:05:29. > :05:33.impact locally? The management are talking about 200 job offers at the
:05:34. > :05:37.Essex and South Norfolk site as an alternative. I want to make sure
:05:38. > :05:42.that as many people as possible get the offer of work. It is not a
:05:43. > :06:02.fantastic alternative to losing work in this site but I want as much as
:06:03. > :06:09.possible for it to be avoided. It is only a fraction though, isn't it? It
:06:10. > :06:14.is, and it is of course the case that not all the workers necessarily
:06:15. > :06:18.want to continue in full`time work but as many people who want
:06:19. > :06:22.alternative employment in this group should be given that alternative and
:06:23. > :06:26.I will be working hard with the management, going to see them
:06:27. > :06:29.again, I called a meeting at the beginning of last month about this
:06:30. > :06:37.and sadly what they told me then with the unions was that it was
:06:38. > :06:44.horribly inevitable that the rather depressing announcement today became
:06:45. > :06:46.a reality. Thank you. There's growing speculation tonight that
:06:47. > :06:50.money from China could pave the way for a new nuclear power station in
:06:51. > :06:53.Suffolk. Plans for a station in Sizewell have been dead`locked for
:06:54. > :06:56.two years. But it's thought the French operator EDF may go into
:06:57. > :07:01.partnership with the Chinese. The deal could be signed as early as
:07:02. > :07:06.this week, to tie in with a UK trade delegation to China. Alex Dunlop has
:07:07. > :07:14.more. Two nuclear double reactors planned by EDF, but on the drawing
:07:15. > :07:20.board they stay for now. The French energy giant says it will start
:07:21. > :07:25.construction next to Sizewell only if the Government guarantees a price
:07:26. > :07:29.for the electricity they generate. Now after months of deadlock, there
:07:30. > :07:37.may be a breakthrough. We are extremely close to a deal with EDF.
:07:38. > :07:43.That is because China wants a slice of investment. The Chinese are very
:07:44. > :07:47.interested in the opportunity in Britain's nuclear sector. We could
:07:48. > :07:51.have a scenario where local British consumers would buy electricity from
:07:52. > :07:55.a French electricity group which would be in partnership with the
:07:56. > :08:01.Chinese nuclear power company. We are told consumers will benefit but
:08:02. > :08:04.what about suppliers? EDF is very close to agreeing a wholesale
:08:05. > :08:08.electricity price with the Government of around ?91 per
:08:09. > :08:18.megawatt hour, twice the current price of around ?46. There is no
:08:19. > :08:25.doubt local firms would profit from Sizewell, and EDF say it would
:08:26. > :08:29.generate ?140 million locally. The Chinese have been investing in
:08:30. > :08:34.Suffolk and the south`east of England for some time now and if it
:08:35. > :08:47.helps Sizewell get going, I am all for it. With China there as well, I
:08:48. > :08:51.think they are very important in the whole discussion but I don't think
:08:52. > :08:56.it is all over by the shouting, we have a long way to go because their
:08:57. > :09:00.new design has got to go through a rigorous process and it may be found
:09:01. > :09:04.wanting. With the Chancellor in Beijing this week, an announcement
:09:05. > :09:09.is expected imminently. If China take the nuclear option, it would
:09:10. > :09:18.create thousands of local jobs but also a good deal of local
:09:19. > :09:22.opposition. The impact of Chinese growth on our
:09:23. > :09:23.economy is the subject of tonight's special report, later in the
:09:24. > :09:27.programme. Campaigners against a second runway
:09:28. > :09:30.at Stansted Airport have begun a new High Court action. The Stop Stansted
:09:31. > :09:32.Expansion group says a former member of the Government's Airports
:09:33. > :09:36.Commission had been chief executive of the company which now owns
:09:37. > :09:43.Stansted. It claims this means any decision on future airport
:09:44. > :09:46.development could be biased. The Olympic javelin thrower Goldie
:09:47. > :09:49.Sayers from Cambridgeshire is one of a number of high`profile GB athletes
:09:50. > :09:52.to lose their lottery funding for next season. Sayers came fourth at
:09:53. > :10:02.the Beijing Games in 2008 but struggled with injury at London
:10:03. > :10:04.2012. Mike Souter, the former radio
:10:05. > :10:08.presenter, was described in court today as a serial child abuser and a
:10:09. > :10:11.wolf in sheep's clothing. The comments came from the prosecution
:10:12. > :10:14.as his trial at Norwich crown court entered its final stages. Mr
:10:15. > :10:17.Souter's defence barrister said allegations that he had abused young
:10:18. > :10:20.boys over a period of years were "absolute rubbish". Our chief
:10:21. > :10:26.reporter Kim Riley was in court. Prosecutor Andrew Shaw said Mike
:10:27. > :10:30.Souter's answer to allegations was that they had all lied. He had spent
:10:31. > :10:35.days in the witness box furiously rowing against the tide, when it
:10:36. > :10:42.came to proving his innocence he had fallen short by 1 million miles. His
:10:43. > :10:49.position, he said, preposterous. Mr Shaw said Mike Souter was a man who
:10:50. > :11:05.could open doors, but he was a wolf in sheep 's clothing. He likened him
:11:06. > :11:14.to characters from the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Andrew Hill
:11:15. > :11:17.defending said the prosecutor was a fantastic storyteller but much of it
:11:18. > :11:23.was fun to see. His cross`examination of Mike Souter had
:11:24. > :11:36.concentrated on his character, his sexuality. My client was publicly
:11:37. > :11:40.humiliated in this court, he said. Mr Hill claimed there had been
:11:41. > :11:44.collusion between a number of alleged victims, their delay in
:11:45. > :11:50.coming forward to the police by a number of years was significant, he
:11:51. > :11:54.said. Some of the allegations he labelled absolute rubbish. He asked
:11:55. > :11:59.the jury to decide with caution. Do not be carried along on a bandwagon
:12:00. > :12:00.of prejudice. The judge will begin summing up the case tomorrow
:12:01. > :12:20.morning. There is a lot more to come on Look
:12:21. > :12:27.East tonight. We will have all the action from the world conker
:12:28. > :12:30.Championships. As you may have seen, the Chancellor
:12:31. > :12:33.George Osborne is leading a delegation of political and trade
:12:34. > :12:36.figures to China. The visit is designed to encourage more trade
:12:37. > :12:42.between the UK and the world's second biggest economy. Here in the
:12:43. > :12:46.east, we're the main route for Chinese goods into the UK through
:12:47. > :12:48.the port of Felixstowe. But as our business correspondent Richard Bond
:12:49. > :12:54.reports, the challenge now is to sell British products back to China.
:12:55. > :12:58.We think of China as a source of cheap imports, it is and they flow
:12:59. > :13:06.into the UK through Felixstowe on their way to our shops, but China
:13:07. > :13:11.also buys from Britain. Ransomes Jacobson in Ipswich makes commercial
:13:12. > :13:16.mowers for golf courses. The growth of the sport in China has opened up
:13:17. > :13:20.a whole new market for this long established business. We already
:13:21. > :13:25.sell millions of pounds worth of machines into China. It is predicted
:13:26. > :13:30.to be a growth market with over 1000 courses in the next ten years,
:13:31. > :13:34.potentially. We think we are well positioned to capitalise on that so
:13:35. > :13:39.China could become one of our largest markets. Exports to China
:13:40. > :13:55.from the Eastern region are growing fast, up 9% in the last year.
:13:56. > :14:01.China's new rich want to buy cars like Jaguars and land Rovers, good
:14:02. > :14:05.news for staff in this factory who make suspension units. They have
:14:06. > :14:09.just introduced a night shift to keep up with demand. I think in the
:14:10. > :14:13.Western countries we have heard for a long time there was a growing
:14:14. > :14:17.middle class in China and that market would be opened up and the
:14:18. > :14:22.middle class would be able to afford some of the products we have enjoyed
:14:23. > :14:27.in the west for quite a while. I think that is driving sales growth
:14:28. > :14:33.now. It is not just suspension units that end up in Jaguars and land
:14:34. > :14:38.Rovers bought by prosperous consumers in China. This British
:14:39. > :14:42.factory in Linton is owned by the Chinese as well. Chinese investors
:14:43. > :14:48.owned quite a few of our regional assets. UK power networks which
:14:49. > :14:55.distribute electricity to our homes, the port of Felixstowe, Essex
:14:56. > :15:01.and Suffolk water. In trading terms, China holds the advantage
:15:02. > :15:09.over us, they sell a lot more to us than we sell to them. This mower is
:15:10. > :15:20.going to Felixstowe to be shipped to China.
:15:21. > :15:23.Just to let you know, Look East is planning its own broadcast from
:15:24. > :15:26.China to report on that growing trade link. If you are currently
:15:27. > :15:31.doing business with China and you'd like to tell us about it, do get in
:15:32. > :15:34.touch. You can phone, send an email or contact us through social media.
:15:35. > :15:37.We look forward to hearing from you. Churches in Essex are to help
:15:38. > :15:40.villagers get better access to the Internet by having transmitters put
:15:41. > :15:43.on their steeples. Up to 100 churches in the Diocese of
:15:44. > :15:46.Chelmsford could be used to boost broadband speeds. For hundreds of
:15:47. > :15:49.years, village churches have given solace and sanctuary. Now some are
:15:50. > :15:56.about to provide something thoroughly modern as well. This is a
:15:57. > :16:00.village near Colchester and the Internet connection here is
:16:01. > :16:09.painfully slow but the church could be about to bring the village
:16:10. > :16:17.superfast broadband. The Government aims to get superfast broadband to
:16:18. > :16:24.90% of us, but more raw rural areas might miss out. This company aims to
:16:25. > :16:30.put transmitters on the steeples of churches making it available to
:16:31. > :16:33.everyone. The equipment we use is about the size of a child's pencil
:16:34. > :16:40.case. It should not have any impact on the church and in some instances
:16:41. > :16:44.we even pop facades around the equipment so it will blend. I think
:16:45. > :16:50.this is a case of the church keeping in step with modern times. The
:16:51. > :16:55.church warden here says the village's broadband signal does need
:16:56. > :16:59.to be improved. I always call it narrowband and that is what we have
:17:00. > :17:04.got. A lot of people in the village are running businesses, very often
:17:05. > :17:12.small businesses from home. There is also the farmers and these people
:17:13. > :17:18.desperately need broadband. Up to 106 churches could eventually have a
:17:19. > :17:21.transmitter on the steeple. Next tonight: Food. And, more to the
:17:22. > :17:24.point, just how safe are the products we buy from the
:17:25. > :17:27.supermarkets? It's a subject being covered on tonight's Inside Out
:17:28. > :17:37.programme. Simon Newton's been looking at the findings.
:17:38. > :17:40.Thanks David. The recent horse meat scandal focused attention on where
:17:41. > :17:45.our food comes from. Tonight, Inside Out looks at the growth of so`called
:17:46. > :17:49.food fraud. The team look at how it's on the rise and the East
:17:50. > :17:53.Anglian scientists at the forefront of combating it. We talk to Tesco
:17:54. > :17:56.about the horse meat scandal and the chances of it ever happening again
:17:57. > :17:59.and we discover how even humble honey can be tampered with. There
:18:00. > :18:03.are three different ways you can fraudulently sell horny. One is
:18:04. > :18:07.using imported honey and selling it labelled as British when it is
:18:08. > :18:12.clearly not. You can also mix honey with corn syrup. There have been
:18:13. > :18:18.reports of honey detected with corn syrup and on each so it is actually
:18:19. > :18:23.a mixture. The third way is actually just feeding these sugar syrup,
:18:24. > :18:37.which creates a kind of honey like substance but it has no pollen in
:18:38. > :18:40.it. Well the programme also examines how Trading Standards officers like
:18:41. > :18:44.the one I met today are under increasing pressure to test the
:18:45. > :18:46.provenance of food at the same time as their budgets are being slashed.
:18:47. > :18:49.We have to be intelligence led to make sure we can do more with less
:18:50. > :18:51.resources and that means looking at the intelligence in the
:18:52. > :18:56.marketplace, the history and the trends that we have dealt with. We
:18:57. > :19:01.have liaised with the food standards agency to identify areas where food
:19:02. > :19:07.fraud is likely to be occurring. Commodities markets where there is a
:19:08. > :19:11.big incentive for food fraud to take place and we need to be more
:19:12. > :19:21.effective in making sure the samples are more likely to identify
:19:22. > :19:30.problems. So find out how confident you can be in your food in Inside
:19:31. > :19:33.Out at 7.30. Gareth Southgate, the manager of
:19:34. > :19:36.England's Under 21 side, has today urged clubs in the Championship to
:19:37. > :19:39.reduce their reliance on foreign players. In effect, he would like to
:19:40. > :19:42.see clubs like Ipswich Town introduce a cap on overseas stars.
:19:43. > :19:45.Gareth Southgate was speaking in Colchester where the young England
:19:46. > :19:52.side are training ahead of tomorrow night's international against
:19:53. > :19:55.Lithuania. The match is being played at Portman Road, the home of
:19:56. > :20:04.Ipswich. Our sports editor Jonathan Park reports. This is the future of
:20:05. > :20:08.English football, the under 21s being put through their paces.
:20:09. > :20:14.Tomorrow they face Lithuania in a European championship qualifier at
:20:15. > :20:20.Portman Road followed by the senior team's make or break clash with
:20:21. > :20:24.Poland at Wembley. The impact of qualifying or not qualifying is
:20:25. > :20:28.enormous to every aspect of our society really. I was discussing
:20:29. > :20:33.this with Roy last week. You get a feel of exactly what it means and
:20:34. > :20:37.feel of the pressure the team are under and maybe when I was playing I
:20:38. > :20:43.didn't quite realise that so much, which was a good thing! There is a
:20:44. > :20:59.lot of talk over the new chairman's commission, examining the state of
:21:00. > :21:01.the national game. He has been criticised for lacking punch.
:21:02. > :21:03.Southgate has called for a cap on foreign players in the championship
:21:04. > :21:06.where many are turning to cheap imports at the expense of young
:21:07. > :21:09.British talent being given a chance. We are reviewing how the Academy is
:21:10. > :21:14.wrong, we are reviewing grass roots football, but if at the end of that
:21:15. > :21:22.path there is no game at the weekend and no game under pressure, then
:21:23. > :21:26.that is an experience that 17`23 `year`olds are missing out on. Many
:21:27. > :21:30.of these players are in and out of their prospective club teams,
:21:31. > :21:40.including Redmond who started his career with a flourish. There is a
:21:41. > :21:45.lot of talk recently about how we don't have players from the future
:21:46. > :21:54.and if you look at the under 21 teams, as the list goes down to the
:21:55. > :22:02.under 16`year`olds, this shows he has faith in the players and it is
:22:03. > :22:04.therefore us if we work hard. Nathan Redmond has already been a
:22:05. > :22:09.matchwinner for Norwich this season, and with his England colours
:22:10. > :22:16.on, should get a warm reception tomorrow night at Portman Road. It
:22:17. > :22:25.is said to be an exciting night, starting in Ipswich, ending in
:22:26. > :22:39.Brazil, hopefully. Now as you know we have some world
:22:40. > :22:41.class sporting venues in our region. Silverstone for motor racing,
:22:42. > :22:45.Newmarket for horse racing, and Stadium MK, soon to host World Cup
:22:46. > :22:47.rugby of course. But what about the village of Southwick in
:22:48. > :22:50.Northamptonshire? For the first time yesterday the village played host to
:22:51. > :22:53.the world conker championships. Mike Liggins has been watching the
:22:54. > :23:01.action. Some people even came from Venezuela to take part. Each
:23:02. > :23:06.competitor gets three strikes, and after that it goes to sudden death.
:23:07. > :23:14.This year it was Southwark for the first time. We were at the beautiful
:23:15. > :23:21.village green of Ashton but it got a bit small and we were even turning
:23:22. > :23:25.people away from the car park. The way to another venue but it was too
:23:26. > :23:36.windy. Fancy dress plays a big part, here we had the pink Panther.
:23:37. > :23:56.It was decided on this mishit, or quarter snacks for the conquer
:23:57. > :24:01.initiate our `` conquer experts. As the new king of conkers Simon got a
:24:02. > :24:06.crown, he didn't seem all that pleased to be world champion. I am a
:24:07. > :24:11.bit overwhelmed really. I was having a quiet Sunday afternoon and this
:24:12. > :24:16.happens, a very strange feeling. It is quite tense, but as soon as it
:24:17. > :24:21.cracked I went for the kill. There was no practice involved, it was
:24:22. > :24:28.pure luck. Since it started in 1965, the World Conker Championships has
:24:29. > :24:44.raised ?400,000 for charity and much fun had by all. Congratulations to
:24:45. > :24:50.this all conquering Duro. `` duo. I love that, I was having a quiet
:24:51. > :24:58.weekend and this happened! I think next year they should all wear
:24:59. > :25:03.onesies! We have had everything today, a real
:25:04. > :25:09.mixture of cloud but some sunshine as well for some people.
:25:10. > :25:15.Around the centre of this low pressure we have had showers
:25:16. > :25:19.rotating around and they have been pushing into our part of the world.
:25:20. > :25:24.We have a fair few out there as we speak, they will tend to pull away
:25:25. > :25:28.to the east, some of them on the sharp side, and the rest of the
:25:29. > :25:34.night after midnight should be largely dry. If we get any breaks in
:25:35. > :25:39.the cloud, we are likely to see some patchy fog developing and quite a
:25:40. > :25:47.lot of mist and low cloud out there during the second part of the night.
:25:48. > :25:52.In moral sports we could be down to around five degrees, which is really
:25:53. > :26:00.chilly. Tomorrow, and misty, murky start of the day, some of the fog
:26:01. > :26:06.will be slow to clear. We cannot rule out a few showers but it is
:26:07. > :26:13.looking largely dry. Temperatures looking around 13 Celsius at best,
:26:14. > :26:16.and we are looking at mainly light west to north`westerly winds
:26:17. > :26:21.throughout the day. We finished the day with a few showers, but largely
:26:22. > :26:26.dry skies. As we head into the rest of the week, is what ahead?
:26:27. > :26:31.Wednesday will probably have a dry start but then we are expecting some
:26:32. > :26:38.rain to push in from the south`west. On Thursday, probably
:26:39. > :26:43.largely fine and dry, I think. We cannot rule out some showers but
:26:44. > :26:48.hopefully some brightness coming through as well. On Friday, as it
:26:49. > :26:53.stands, it is looking a similar day. A fair bit of fine, dry weather with
:26:54. > :26:58.some showers likely in the afternoon. It looks like most of the
:26:59. > :27:04.rain should stay to the west of us but that is subject to change. On
:27:05. > :27:10.Thursday and Friday, you will notice much milder days. We could see 17
:27:11. > :27:13.Celsius in the sunshine so very mild, and these are your overnight
:27:14. > :27:17.lows.