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Hello, and welcome to the start of a new week on Look East with Susie and | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
me. In the programme tonight: Sheikh Mohammed goes on camera for the | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
first time to speak of the cheating in Newmarket which rocked horse | :00:15. | :00:24. | |
racing. Shock. I have many trainers, one of | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
them does the wrong thing, they gave in 80 years and I gave him lifetime. | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
A BBC investigation has revealed that nearly 200 patients in Essex | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
were taken to hospital in a police car last year ` because the | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
ambulance didn't turn up. And who owns the land where you | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
live? We name the region's top land`owners. | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
And how evidence of early man has been found in the cliffs in this | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
caravan park in Norfolk. Hello. The most powerful man in | :00:54. | :01:06. | |
horse racing has appeared on camera for the first time to talk about the | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
cheating scandal which shook Newmarket last year. Sheikh Mohammed | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
said the trainer implicated in the doping scam would never work for him | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
again. He made the comments during an exclusive interview for the BBC | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
filmed in Dubai. As the ruler of Dubai, he made his feelings known on | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
a range of international issues. But it was during questions about horse | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
racing that he made it clear he is still very angry about the events of | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
last year. Let's go to the Godolphin yard in Newmarket and Tom Williams. | :01:35. | :01:45. | |
Yes, it has taken a while, but Sheikh Mohammed has finally spoken | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
out about a scandal that rocked the community here in Newmarket, the | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
sport in Britain, and his vast racing empire around the world. It | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
was back in April last year that drug testers visited this yard, and | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
subsequently banned a trainer for eight years. The sheik immediately | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
put the stables into a state of lockdown. He now says he was | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
shocked, but the truth will come out. A controversy that shook racing | :02:10. | :02:18. | |
to the very core. One of the world's biggest racehorse operations | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
in the first in the biggest doping scandal in the Sport's history. | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
Right under the nose of Godolphin's owner Sheikh Mohammed, without him | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
knowing. I was shocked, really. I have many trainers, and if one of | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
them does the wrong things, they gave him eight years, and I give him | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
a lifetime. Finished. The train at the centre of it all, one of two | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
Godolphin trainers in Newmarket, was suspended last April for doping 22 | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
racehorses. He sought to fight the length of the ban, then later | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
withdrew his appeal, admitting a catastrophic error. He can come and | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
see some other friends, but he will never come near horses. He doped | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
them not for racing, but for treatment long term, and they will | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
not come to see the races. We will find out the whole story, and we | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
will all know what happened. A former London police chief has been | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
called in by the sheik's junior wife to oversee an internal enquiry. It | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
came after an illegal shipment of unlicensed equine drugs, reportedly | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
from Dubai, were seized at Stansted Airport, shifting the focus to the | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
sheik's interest in injuring tracing. `` endurance racing. He is | :03:42. | :03:56. | |
getting a good job. But the truth will come out. The truth will come | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
out. The sheik's Godolphin operation as hundreds of racehorses and | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
stables in Newmarket, Dubai, and around the world. But has his | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
reputation been damaged? No, of course. If they think I know, but I | :04:11. | :04:19. | |
am clear, and I still love horses and racing. Nine months on, Sheikh | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
Mohammed's finally broken his silence and reinforced his | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
commitment to the sport. He has invested millions in his stables in | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
Newmarket. In British racing as a whole, his value remains | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
undiminished. So is this finally over for the | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
Sheikh? Can he move on? Well, not yet. Sloane Stephens' enquiry into | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
the whole of his equine operation is still underway. It started in | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
October after further revelations about the possible use of steroids | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
and other banned substances in his extensive string of endurance | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
horses. Sheikh Mohammed has not indicated whether Lord Stevens' | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
findings will be published, or in fact, when the investigation will be | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
finished, but he says it will be truthful, and only then will be | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
sport be able to move on. Thank you very much. | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
Figures obtained by the BBC show that nearly 200 patients in Essex | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
were taken to hospital in police cars because ambulances failed to | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
turn up. The worst month was March, when it happened 22 times because of | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
"excessive ambulance delays" or "no shows". The details now from our | :05:25. | :05:35. | |
Essex reporter Gareth George. An ambulance arrives at Colchester | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
Hospital Trust but some patients end up being taken to hospital in a | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
police car when ambulances failed to turn up. Figures obtained by the BBC | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
show that in 2013, Essex Police took 185 patients to hospital. That | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
figure worries the Police Federation, because they say police | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
officers are not well equipped to stand in for paramedics, and while | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
they're taking patients to hospital, they cannot be performing | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
their normal duties. Unions say the Ambulance Service is stretched to | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
the limit, and that is putting more pressure on police officers. You | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
might have a road traffic collision that is attended by the police. They | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
might have a very seriously ill patients, and they might have a very | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
tricky choice around following the rules, ie waiting for the | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
ambulance, or getting that patients to hospital and potentially saving a | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
life. Today public revelations come after a turbulent couple of years | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
that the Ambulance Service. In the summer of 22 R, plans to make | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
savings of ?50 million were made public. That November, MPs from | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
across the region met with the chairman of the trust, saying delays | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
in getting an ambulance to patients were unacceptable. In Easter last | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
year, the Ambulance Service was forced to Iraq and emergency tent | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
after 17 ambulances queued outside the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
And Doctor Anthony Marsh, 40 was appointed the new chief executive, | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
produced a damning report into the service. Two months later, the | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
trust's five nonexecutive directors resigned. Last month, the latest | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
figures show the service was still failing to meet its three main | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
targets for response times. We have a shortage of paramedics, which we | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
have openly stated previously, and our focus is to recruit numbers of | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
students paramedics and established paramedics. Our shortage is not in | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
vehicles themselves, it is the ability to staff them. Meanwhile, | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
the Police Federation fears offices in Essex will continue to take up | :07:37. | :07:37. | |
the slack. There has been another twist in the | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
continuing crisis at Norfolk County Council over the proposed waste | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
incinerator in King's Lynn. They have now been told a decision by the | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has been postponed. He had | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
promised to make a decision on whether to give planning permission | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
by this week. Thousands of people have objected to the scheme. The | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
County Council says a delay in making the decision leaves it facing | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
"real and immediate difficulties". Our political correspondent Andrew | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
Sinclair is here ` why the delay? Well, the official reason is that Mr | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
pickles is very carefully considering all the representations | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
he has received, but I wonder if the real reason has something to do with | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
the fact that this is deeply controversial. Mr pickles finds | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
himself between a rock and a hard place. If he lets the incinerator go | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
ahead, he will upset thousands of people in north`west Norfolk, and | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
quite a lot of his MPs, who say we should really be listening to the | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
views of local people. If he decides to scrap the scheme, he leaves | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
Norfolk County Council with a compensation bill of ?26 million, | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
which it will pass on to the council taxpayer, and blame him. This delay | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
comes at a bad time for the County Council, because it is trying to | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
draw up its budget for next year and it does not know what it is going to | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
be spending money on. We are in an impossible situation. It is the | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
worst of every possible world. Our council has to plant for both | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
building the incinerator and for cancelling it. Can't you make | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
provision for those? No, you can't, especially with the council's cuts. | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
Mr Nobs is saying that when the budget is pass on Friday, we will | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
know more. Sources at Westminster are saying the decision will be a | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
couple of months, and some are even saying it will be after the local | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
and European elections. There was one interesting development today. A | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
company called Material Works published plans for another waste | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
plant in King's Lynn, which would not be an incinerator, but would | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
turn waste into building materials and charge much less for processing | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
waste. They say today they have got all the funding in place and want to | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
put in a planning application in the next few months. If you MPs are | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
saying, this could be the way forward. It is cheaper, popular, | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
cleaner. Let's get Norfolk County Council to drop the original scheme | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
and go with this one instead. The council are not too keen on that. | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
Thank you very much. A former BBC Radio presenter from | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
Norfolk jailed for 22 years for sex attacks on boys is to appeal his | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
conviction and sentence. Michael Souter was convicted back in October | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
of 19 sexual assaults on seven boys aged between 11 and 16 over a | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
20`year Relatives of an elderly woman who | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
was murdered a year ago have chosen the anniversary of the killing to | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
renew their criticism of the police investigation. 86`year`old Una Crown | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
was found dead in her bungalow in Wisbech. She'd been stabbed and the | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
scene was set on fire. Today, detectives said they are still | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
determined to catch the killer. Shopping at her local supermarket, | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
the last pictures of Una Crown alive. In the hours after, the | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
86`year`old, frail, vulnerable and alone in her home, was robbed, | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
repeatedly stabbed and set on fire. She was found here by her niece Judy | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
and husband John. It is important to us that they catch somebody as soon | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
as. This is Judy, filmed by the police are appealing for information | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
in the days afterwards. Behind the scenes, however, the family formally | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
complained about the investigation. This week, Judy spoke to BBC Radio | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
two named sure. We were told the that auntie was found that it was an | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
accident. John really felt it was not an accident, and of course, we | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
were told the Sunday that we could then go in the bungalow, which we | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
did. Their brother came over, and we were in there on the Tuesday, the | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
three of us, when I got a call to say lock`up and come home, it is now | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
a murder enquiry. Detectives say a mistake was made because the | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
murderer covered their tracks. The officers that attended the leader to | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
be a non`suspicious death, and the reason for that is the calm manner | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
in which the offender dealt with this scene, which rather tragically | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
involved burning the Lady's body unlocking the door from outside in a | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
way to make it look like an accident. It took offices three days | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
to lodge a murder investigation. Sooner's story appeared on | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
Crimewatch. Arrests have been made, but a year on, still nobody has been | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
charged. The police believe the answer to this crime lies within | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
this community. A year on, they are asking people to think back. Did a | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
friend or loved one back smelling of smoke or covered in blood? With a | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
acting strangely? Did they come in too many? The editor of the local | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
paper here says people are losing patience with the police. There is | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
in the town a sense of inevitability that it will go down as another | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
unsolved crime, and I think that would shatter a lot of people's | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
illusions about the ability of the police to deal with yet another | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
murder in this town on top of the other major crimes we have had here | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
in the last five or six years. Cambridgeshire police say they will | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
not stop until they find the killer. 12 months after Una Crown's murder, | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
local pressure is growing. Still to come on the programme | :13:03. | :13:17. | |
tonight: The origins of man at a caravan park in Norfolk. Plus, | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
nursing with a smile ` the hospital recruits from Spain and Portugal | :13:21. | :13:21. | |
making a difference in Suffolk. Now, next time you walk down a town | :13:22. | :13:33. | |
centre street, ask yourself this question. Who owns the land? You | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
probably don't know some of it is actually in private hands. Tonight | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
in Inside Out, they ask who owns the East? You can probably guess a few ` | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
the wealthy aristocracy and the Queen own large swathes of the | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
region's six million acres. The Church and the Forestry Commission | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
are other major land`owners. But the research has also thrown up a few | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
surprises. Alex Dunlop reports. Think of our top landowners, and you | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
might think aristocracy, but you would only be partly right. This | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
farm shop as part of the 22,000 acre estate on the Norfolk /Suffolk | :14:12. | :14:21. | |
border. It's owner and his family are outside the top six original | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
landowners, as is the Queen at Sandringham. These estates do not | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
run themselves, of course. It is now a business and as the be run like | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
one. We had to make the estate pay for itself. It is actually quite | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
radical change, is state like this one being subject to over the past | :14:38. | :14:46. | |
decade. Organisation 's line`up as our five biggest landowners. At | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
five, the region's wildlife trusts. You think of the rapidly expanding | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
population and rapid expansion, agriculture, climate change, all of | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
that means nature is up against it. So it is hugely important that we | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
have these nature reserves. The Church of England owns some of the | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
most valuable land in the region. Just ahead at number three, the | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
Forestry Commission. County Council 's come in at number two. Between | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
them, they own more than 76,000 acres of farmland. There are many | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
public spaces which are, in fact, Private. The town centre in Corby | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
belongs to a property company which also owns bars of Newmarket and | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
Milton Keynes. Ultimately, they can exclude people from this very public | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
area. We have two insure a clean, safe and pleasant shopping | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
environment forever one. It is the same for any town centre throughout | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
the UK. When the public think they have a public right of access, it is | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
really a permission, what a lawyer would call a license to use the | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
land, rather than a rights to use the land. There is no such thing in | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
this country as a public right to use land. Back to the top five, and | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
the region's biggest landowner by far is... That sign should give you | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
a clue. At 82,000 acres, it is, of course, the Ministry of Defence. | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
Taking the Army training area in Norfolk, the RAF bases across the | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
region, and it is perhaps not that surprising. But as the MoD cuts | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
back, so does its real estate. The pressure for land is intense, which | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
is why he owns the East matters so much to so many of us. | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
You can see tonight's Inside Out here on BBC One at 7.30. | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
Before you become a fully qualified nurse, you will have spent years in | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
training and had to learn a lot of skills. But I think everyone agrees | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
the most important thing is to have compassion. At the West Suffolk | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
Hospital in Bury St Edmunds, they went to Portugal last year to boost | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
recruitment. They simply couldn't fill their vacancies with home`grown | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
staff. And the results have delighted NHS bosses, who say | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
compassion comes naturally to the new faces. Kim Riley has been to | :16:56. | :17:04. | |
meet them. On duty in AMD today, 29`year`old | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
Ana Luisa. Monitoring David Goodwin's heart rate and blood | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
pressure. He was knocked out in a fall while riding on Newmarket Heath | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
this morning. How do you like your cup of tea? One sugar. One sugar. | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
She is one of 62 trained nurses recruited in Portugal last year. | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
They had all completed a four`year degree course, backed up by nine | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
months working in an Acute Hospital. One year on, they have won praise in | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
their care and compassion. You'll have you been looked after? | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
Particularly well. It has been not too busy this morning, so I was | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
straight in and attended two straightaway. So, Gold standard, I | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
must say. In our degrees, we are prepared in the ways of being very | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
caring and respectful to all the people, and treating people with | :17:59. | :18:07. | |
sensitivity and all of that. But I don't think we are different from | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
any other nurses that I have met here. At the end of the day, do you | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
feel you have done some good today, you have done some thing | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
worthwhile? Yes, always. When the patient comes to us and thanks us, | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
you think, I have done nothing special, but for them, it is a big | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
thing. That is good. That is a good feeling. The hospital says there is | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
a surplus of registered nurses in Portugal, so it is not depriving the | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
country of medical expertise. I am thrilled to welcome the Portuguese | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
nurses into the wider nursing workforce. A lovely, and they | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
deliver very high quality care. Now with what they're worth a 1000 | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
strong nursing staff, they do not anticipate another recruiting | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
drive. Working alongside newly qualified local students, and and | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
her colleagues say in their chosen career, the future lies here. | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
It now seems very likely that the first human beings to settle in | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
Britain did so in Norfolk. Scientists now believe they walked | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
from the European mainland and settled on what is now a caravan | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
park in the village of Happisburgh. That was almost a million years ago | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
when the East Anglian coast was joined to the continent. The | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
evidence pointing towards early human activity will be the subject | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
of a new exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London. | :19:29. | :19:38. | |
A busy day on the Manor Park caravan site in Happisburgh. These men, all | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
fine examples of 21st`century man trying to change a wheel. Little do | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
they know that underneath their feet, the secrets of their early | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
ancestors could live. I have had amber out of the cliff here. In the | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
year 2000, Mike Chambers was working at the beach at Happisburgh when he | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
discovered a flint hand axe. It changed what we know about early | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
human history. I have got the honour, and it is an honour. 700,000 | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
500,000, I am not going to argue a couple of hundred thousand years, at | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
least half a million years ago, a guy lost this, and I am the one that | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
picked it up next. There is almost a connection. There feels like a | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
connection. Since that discovery, archaeologists have made further | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
finds here, and they now think that early man was here close to 1 | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
million years ago. For the new exhibition, the natural is the | :20:37. | :20:37. | |
museum has model makers to create life`size | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
dummies are of what early man might have looked like. Quite hairy, and | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
probably not very fragrant. Another strange thing, the North Sea there, | :20:49. | :20:59. | |
lots of it. Well, that was not there 1 million years ago. That was land. | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
Imagine that. This is a map of what historians think the UK look like a | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
million years ago. The Thames estuary was in Norfolk, and you | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
could have walked to Holland. Giant animals roamed the land, and early | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
man hunted them for food. The material we have at Happisburgh is | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
bits of flint where they were sharpening tools, cutting up bones, | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
butchering creatures, and so it is a nice insight into this very early | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
community. It is exciting. You have just got to keep your mind open. | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
Walk along the beach, enjoy their view, but keep your eyes open. Look | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
down. If it is there and unusual, pick it up. It might be rubbish. I | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
have loads of rubbish at home, my wife tells me! But occasionally, I | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
come up with something a bit different. Archaeologists are now | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
hoping to find some evidence of early man, a skeleton, perhaps. It | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
is fascinating to imagine what life must have been like Bal ancestors, | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
and what on earth would they have made of these men? | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
Next, we're talking rubbish. By the end of today, 2.25 million pieces of | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
litter will have been dropped in the UK. Almost half of the UK population | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
admit to dropping litter. The most common item to be thrown away is a | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
cigarette butt. Of course, most of us moan about litter, but a group of | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
friends in Suffolk decided to stop moaning and do something about it. | :22:24. | :22:34. | |
The details from Kevin Burch. There is nothing more annoying than | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
rubbish being dumped in the countryside. Whether it is rubbish | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
like this, all rubbish like this. But not everybody responds with | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
anger. Some people respond with action. They call themselves Rubbish | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
Friends, volunteer litter pickers who, once a week, target trouble | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
spots around Newmarket. What I really like about it is, when we | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
have finished a stretch of par`4 road, looking back and thinking, | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
that looks like it has been hoovered. The next time I drive past | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
it and it looks nice still the next day, that is so satisfying. We used | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
to go to the pub for lunch afterwards, and whoever picked the | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
worst bit at a cocktail as a prize. Keen to lend a hopeful hand, the | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
local MP, Matthew Hancock, kitted out and ready to started. Everybody | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
likes road to be neat and tidy, but that means making sure you keep your | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
rubbish in the car, and not relying on community minded souls like these | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
to come and pick it up will stop the group collect up to 15 bags of | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
rubbish per time. Their work is backed by the local council, which | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
sends out a truck to stake the letter away. It has also just | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
installed this bin to persuade people to tidy up behind them. I | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
suppose cynics might say this is getting the job done on the cheap. | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
They might, but I say this is community work in their own very, | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
keeping communities green. If others want to do this, please come forward | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
and let get on with it. It is incredibly satisfying. Very quick. | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
We barely spend 40 minutes a week doing it, but we each pick up around | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
two. In that time. So we must be making a bit of a difference. They | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
say it is better than going to the gym. Fun, fresh air, and the feeling | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
that they are making a real difference to the environment. | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
Good for them! It is incredible how much we drop. I am not surprised it | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
is better than going to the gym, because most things are! Oh, come | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
on. You love the gym. Let's get the weather. | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
We have a changeable week of whether coming up. I will start by showing | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
you the pressure chart right now. This is from midday today. This | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
occluded front here is bringing the showers across the region. This is | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
the radar image really are. You can see those showers moving into | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
western part of the region. They will make their way across all parts | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
of the region in the next couple of hours. When you see the brighter | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
colours there, there are heavier downpours, even a little hail mixed | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
in with the showers that they make their way from west to east across | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
the region. For this evening and night, cloudy, showers clearing | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
eastwards, and the showers moved west to east, like I say. Heavier | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
downpours associated. Most places start to dry out a time. Though the | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
showers then move back up from the south, particularly in Essex and | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
Suffolk. Temperature wise, this could be a bit tricky. Beneath the | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
cloud and rain, 46 Celsius, pretty mild, and no frost. But in the West, | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
and dignity across Northamptonshire, some clear spells it later in the | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
night, and that could be enough to form some icy patches on the roads | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
tomorrow morning. There is a warning for ice in the far west of the | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
region. As we go through the day tomorrow, the France that brought | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
the rain overnight will edge away, and then we will have our next | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
weather system waiting in the wings tomorrow night. A bit of rain around | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
on Tuesday morning, particularly again in Essex, but you can see the | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
rest of the region trying out quite nicely through the day. | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
High`temperature tomorrow, I love the cloud around, and the breeze | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
turns more west to north`westerly, so five to six Celsius as a high. | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
That is below average for the time of year. She Toro afternoon. Most of | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
the region dry into the evening. Clear spells at first, but you can | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
see the next round of rain, and this warm front pushes that rain from | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
west to east across the area on Tuesday night into Wednesday | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
morning, and then that rain will be patchy on and off throughout a lot | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
of the day on Wednesday. Here is how it looks in the Outlook. Cloudy | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
skies through Wednesday, spots of rain on and off, particularly in the | :27:00. | :27:07. | |
region, so you can see the best of the weather probably Thursday and | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
Friday. Some sunshine, generally quite moderate, temperatures chilly | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
at first but milder overnight by the middle of the week. | :27:16. | :27:17. | |
at first but milder overnight by the middle of the Thank you very much. | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
From all of us, thank you for your company. See you tomorrow. Goodbye. | :27:22. | :27:26. |