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Hello. Tonight, two rival plans for recycling plant in Norfolk go head | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
to head. We speak to the man behind the new vision. We are extremely | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
confident that we can deliver what we have contracted to do. And we | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
hear from some of the critics. You're saying it is unproven. It is | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
unproven technology as far as we know. Individual components have | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
been done, but nothing has been put together like this that I'm aware | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
of. Also: The mammoth task to clear up this awful mess left behind by | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
December's tidal surge gets underway. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
What Charlie got for his 18th birthday ` his very own pub to run. | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
And how do penguins climb? A mystery story from the Antarctic. | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
First tonight, the row over a plan to build a waste incinerator in | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
King's Lynn is getting even more complicated. Now a rival company | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
says it can build a better alternative for half the price. | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
We've still yet to hear whether this scheme from Cory Wheelabrator will | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
get the go`ahead. The government has delayed making a final decision. But | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
it remains highly controversial. Now a rival plan from a company called | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
Material Works. No planning application yet. No precise location | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
either. But plenty of backing from politicians who think it's a better | :01:36. | :01:45. | |
bet than the original. The aim, simple enough. To stop so | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
much of Norfolk's waste ending up in landfill. The local opposition to | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
the incinerator scheme was never in doubt. This the withdrawal of a ?169 | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
million government grant, County Council is opted to go ahead with | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
the project. Many argue they could not afford not to. But in the battle | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
against black bag waste, there is a new kid on the block. The company | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
behind this alternative recycling plant says it has secured ?100 | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
million of funding, and will apply for planning permission within two | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
to three months. Claims the plan will initially processed 30,000 | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
tonnes of black bag waste per year, along with 40,000 tonnes of food, | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
commercial and industrial waste. The waste will be converted into a range | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
of construction materials. The company says the development would | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
create up to 200 jobs, and claims it has funding for up to three further | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
plant in Norfolk. There is no other plant anywhere in the world using | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
this exact mix of technologies. No, but I have an extrusion plant | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
working using residues of plastics, fibres and minerals. I have | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
reference to anaerobic digesters, which are used all across Europe and | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
further afield, and we have our development facilities, which we | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
have been running in Chester for seven years. Say you are very | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
confident? There is a lot to do. I am excited. It is a hard hill to | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
climb, but we are very confident that we are going to deliver this | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
now. Are you sceptical about the whole idea? We welcome any genuine | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
recycling process but Norfolk, but I'm yet to see any evidence or | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
information about the proposal in any detail. You are saying it is | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
unproven? It is unproven as far as we know yes. Certain components have | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
been done, but nothing has been brought together like this. Norfolk | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
County Council believes is chosen project could save ?30 million over | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
the life of the contract. The coalition now running the council | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
says unlike its rival, the incinerator scheme is shovel ready. | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
It has urged Eric Pickles to make a speedy decision on planning grounds. | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
It says the issue should not be confused by alternative technologies | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
that may never reach fruition. Labour set the known, I spoke to the | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
local MP Henry Bellingham, and I put that point to him. Isn't there a | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
danger of being confused by alternative technologies which may | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
never reach fruition? I think that they are completely wrong on that. | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
There are two really important points to bear in mind. Firstly, the | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
incinerator cost per tonne is huge. Nearly ?110 per tonne. We know there | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
will be alternative technologies that will come through relatively | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
soon, maybe in two or three years. King's Lynn council has signed a | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
contract with a company called Material Works, will actually add | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
value to both residual waste stream and manufacture plastic products. | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
They will charge the council about ?65 per tonne. That will take all | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
the waste from the west of the County. Suffolk hasn't incinerator | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
with spare capacity. They would like to take some waste a lower price. | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
But this was an idea which started with a Tory County Council, so you | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
have Tory against Tory. yes, and that has always been the case. What | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
we're talking about is old technology. When the incinerator was | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
first mooted as an idea for dealing with Norfolk's waste, it may have | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
been the right technology at the time. I personally believe it was | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
never going to be in the right place, and I have has been sceptical | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
about incineration. Do you think people have reacted to this because | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
they don't want an incinerator, and if you go to Suffolk, that one | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
wasn't controversial at all? To be fair, the one in Suffolk is not | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
upwind of a conurbation. Suffolk County Council engaged with the | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
public properly, have proper meetings, where open with people, | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
and transparent. None of these things have happened in Norfolk. | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
Norfolk County Council managed to antagonise the entire western part | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
of the county. The council says it will save money. The council are | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
quite wrong, because we have now got overwhelming evidence that there are | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
other alternatives that are more cost`effective and they are coming | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
in at well under ?100 per tonne, the cost of Cory Wheelabrator's | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
incinerator. You will understand that looking in from the outside, | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
there's that like a complete mess. Of course it is a complete mess. If | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
only the County Council had listened to me and others, indeed, in King's | :06:19. | :06:27. | |
Lynn, there is not one single large company, NGO Charity, no | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
organisation that actually supports the incinerator. So why did not the | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
County Council listen to the people in the West, and also people who | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
voted in the referendum on a staggering 62% turnout, 92% of | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
people, who voted no. That is local democracy. Thank you very much. | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
The East Coast tidal surge was six weeks ago now, but the impact is | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
still being felt across the region. Among those still affected, many | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
golf courses. We'll have a report from Hunstanton in a moment. But | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
first, a massive clear`up operation began today on a seven mile stretch | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
around the coast between Hemsby and Gorleston. Our Environment Reporter | :07:02. | :07:11. | |
Richard Daniel was there. On this beach, huge trucks come and | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
go. Tonnes of rubbish dumped by the North Sea surge stretch as far as | :07:16. | :07:24. | |
the eye can see. An eyesore, but also rich pickings for beach code | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
is. We haven't seen anything like this along here for... Well, in my | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
lifetime, certainly. Just the sheer volume, and the power of the sea is | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
absolutely phenomenal. In places, it is four feet deep. On scrap the | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
beach alone, they reckon they have 75 lorry loads to clear. There is | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
quite literally everything and anything amongst this mess. We have | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
installation from buildings, polystyrene, would, word. The amount | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
of mess they have got to clean up here is quite staggering. Great | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
Yarmouth council doesn't yet know how long it will take to clear all | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
seven miles of its coastline. Nor does it know how much it will cost. | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
It hopes the government will pay. We've got everything here. There is | :08:18. | :08:29. | |
a spade. A light bulb. The lot. The trouble with this waste is, it is | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
vegetation and everything else in it. Yes, there are so much in it. | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
Broken glass, wood, also said things which could be a danger to the | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
public. We are treating it all as waste and removing it off the beach. | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
Poor access means the waste is being carted several miles down the beach. | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
From there, it will be loaded onto lorries and taken to a landfill | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
site. The hope is that any few weeks, the borough's beaches will be | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
spent on spam. `` spec and spam, ready for the Easter rush of | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
visitors. Anybody who plays golf will know | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
that some of the best courses in Britain are scattered around our | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
coastline. Some are built on the top of cliffs which are crumbling. Some | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
are built much nearer to the sea, and have found themselves being | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
forced to pump thousands of gallons of water off their land. This report | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
from Tom Williams in Hunstanton. Over a month has passed, and still | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
golfers on this scores are working around the problem and each other. | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
The tidal surge cut the course into. Pumping sea water weight is a daily | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
chore. This pattern was about a third of the wit originally, and | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
level from drastic grass, so when we came in the morning, it was about | :09:45. | :09:53. | |
five or six feet deep. Probably about 600 tonnes of sand have gone | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
back in. 600 tonnes. That is 70 trailer loads of sand, and countless | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
man hours cleaning up. Parts of the course were closed for a fortnight. | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
Repair bills run into thousands of pounds. We don't think we had too | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
much warning about it, and so we went expecting anything like what | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
happened. I came down at first light today, came up here, and saw what a | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
mess everything was. It was a fright. We didn't expect that. The | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
sea had sort of cut a swathe through the road between the eighth and | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
ninth holes, taking the sleepers, which were part of the road, up the | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
road. This whole here behind us was completely covered in water. There | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
were six holes affected by the tidal surge. Here on the 10th fairway, | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
they have pumped seven and a half million gallons of water from the | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
fairway. Here in the bunker, still evidence of the damage done. | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
Hunstanton think they got off lightly. A few miles down the coast, | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
Brancaster was hit even harder. Water damage to the course, | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
machinery huts and pro shop ripped apart. At Aldeburgh in Suffolk, the | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
river course almost unrecognisable. 25% of the playing area is out of | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
action. My first thought is, we might have to hire some rowing boats | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
and we might be a law to charge the public to go rolling on the golf | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
course! But seriously speaking, we knew that we would have a problem, | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
and we do have one, and subsequently we we need to solve it in months, | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
not years. They will take time to recover. The tidal surge has left | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
its mark, and golf clubs are left counting the cost. | :11:35. | :11:45. | |
Football and Norwich and Ipswich will try and join Southend in the | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
fourth round of the FA Cup tonight. Both face third round replays, with | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
Norwich travelling to Fulham and Ipswich heading to League One side | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
Preston. Still to come: Signs of growth at | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
Stansted Airport. Our correspondent Richard Bond on what that means for | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
the economy. And why climate change means | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
penguins are heading for higher ground to breed. But how on earth do | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
they get there? Such a good question! I can't wait | :12:14. | :12:24. | |
to find out. New figures out today show that spending on temporary | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
doctors to fill hospital vacancies in Accident and Emergency has risen | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
by more than 75% in three years. This is much higher than the | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
national average of 60%. The numbers come from the Labour Party after a | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
Freedom of Information Act request. They show that in this region, | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
hospitals are spending on so`called locums has gone up from ?7 million | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
pounds to more than 13 million. The details now from Jenny Kirk. | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
Thank you. Not all of our hospitals ` including The Lister, Basildon and | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
the James Paget actually replied to the FOI request, so that headline | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
figure of 75% could be higher or lower. However, of the 17 that did | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
respond, those with the greatest rises are in the west of our region. | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
Kettering General has seen by far the biggest increase. Its spending | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
on emergency locums has more than quadrupled. In a statement, the | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
hospital's medical director said that in that time the pressure on | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
A has increased by more than 10% and admits they're "struggling to | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
fill posts with staff", blaming the problem on "the national shortage of | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
A staff." The Luton and Dunstable has more than tripled its spending | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
on locums, as in the last three years, the number of people using | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
A has risen by a fifth. They say that they "have recently recruited | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
more doctors to permanent posts" which should make a difference to | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
next year's figures. And the third biggest rise in the region is at | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
Milton Keynes Hospital, which has more than doubled its spend. Now | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
these locums can earn more than staff doctors, up to ?1,500 a shift, | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
and the Shadow Health Secretary says we're paying more for less. I'm not | :13:49. | :14:00. | |
sure we get the best care when we have A departments staffed by | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
temporary doctors. They don't have the same commitment to those | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
hospitals. They are not their day in, day out, like full`time doctors. | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
We end up paying more for a worse service. The President of the | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
College of Emergency Medicine has called it a "workforce crisis", as | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
recruitment and retention are a big problem for A departments. | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
However, the government has announced plans to tackle the | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
shortage by creating extra training places. And two of our hospitals, | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
Peterborough and the Norfolk and Norwich, are bucking the trend. | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
They've actually decreased their spending on temporary emergency | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
doctors. The Norfolk and Norwich has cut its locum bill by a fifth. | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
Thank you very much. The government says this was a problem that started | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
when the Labour Party was in power. But I spoke to the Health Minister | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
and Suffolk MP Dr Dan Poulter earlier, and put it to him that the | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
situation had got a lot worse under the Coalition. It does take six | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
years to train and A consultant, and the challenge is for us now as a | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
government to address that. We're now seeing more junior doctors | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
beginning to fill training places and begin the process of becoming a | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
consultant, but the long`term workforce planning, I'm afraid, was | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
not there, and this was something that was the responsibility of the | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
previous government. It takes six years to train a consultant. That | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
long`term workforce planning was not in place, and the long`term thinking | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
was not there, and we are paying the price for that. But this is a | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
chronic problem, particularly in A Do we need to pay the permanent | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
staff more to work in a neat cos of the pressures they face? That would | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
still be cheaper than hiring locums. The first thing is to get more | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
junior doctors to choose acute training, something that has really | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
happened. We have seen a 100% fill rate of that training, and that | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
speciality training, this year. We also have to make sure that A is | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
more sustainable as a career, so looking at the consultant contract, | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
properly recognising the fact that A doctors have to work a lot of | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
nights, a lot of weekends, and have a very tough job. Properly | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
incentivising that in the contract, looking at the important issue of | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
the worklife balance or things we're looking at with our contract | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
negotiations with the DNA. I spoke to you last year about the number of | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
local nurses being hired by the NHS. We know how the NHS is reliant | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
on foreign doctors and nurses. More at being trained up, but maybe not | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
enough? We have actually seen a record number of doctors coming out | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
of training, and there are over 5000 more doctors now working in the NHS | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
under this government than they're worth before, so there are more | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
people historically going into training under the previous comment | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
on this one, and we have seen new medical schools opening in the last | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
decade. There is also a responsibility for local health care | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
trusts to get this right, because as you have indicated, the unacceptable | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
variation in the use of locum staff, and we need to see hospitals | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
tackling this issue more seriously, and playing and looking to employ | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
more permanent staff generally. That is something they need to take on | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
board. Temporary staff are not good for patient care, and it is | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
short`changing patients. Dr Dan Poulter speaking earlier this | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
afternoon. There was another sign today the | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
economy is getting stronger. Stansted Airport says last month was | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
its best December since 2009, with 1.3 million passengers. It's also | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
had a full year of growth for the first time since 2007. Our business | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
correspondent Richard Bond is here. What should we read into these | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
figures? For Stansted, I think the figures are encouraging, because the | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
airport has had a rotten time since the recession. Passenger numbers | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
have plummeted from 24 million in 2007 to 17 million in 2012, and they | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
have been bumping along through while. As you say, this is the first | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
year of full growth since 2007. They have a new owner. At that make any | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
difference? Possibly, yes. Manchester Airport's group is | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
determined to grow the airport and add new routes. They have signed | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
long`term agreements for growth with Ryanair and EasyJet, which is | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
probably a smart move. They are getting on with ?80 million worth of | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
improvements to the terminal. But last month, they were knocked back | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
when Stanton was left off the short list for a new runway by the | :18:16. | :18:17. | |
airports commission. Why does it matter to the region whether | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
Stansted is growing or not? Stansted is a great barometer of how our | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
economy is doing generally in the east. If Stansted is declining, it | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
is a fair bet our economy is struggling. If it is growing, the | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
opposite usually applies. Also bear in mind that Stansted is the largest | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
single site employer in the east, with 10,000 staff. We will look very | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
closely at what happens this year. Thank you very much. | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
A new landlord will take over at a village pub in Suffolk this weekend. | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
But he can't do it before then ` because he isn't old enough. He has | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
to wait until he's 18. That will make Charlie Watts the youngest | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
publican in the country. Kevin Burch is at The Cherry Tree in Yaxley now. | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
Kevin. Yes, they always say you know when | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
you're getting old because police officers lured young. Well, what | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
about pub landlord? In my day, they were normally older, quite imposing. | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
They did not need to ring the bell, they just used to glare at you. But | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
today, well, things have changed. The Cherry Tree at Yaxley has been a | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
vital part of this community for generations, and now the latest | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
chapter in its history is about to be written, courtesy of Charlie | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
Watts. He will take on the role of host at one minute past midnight on | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
Saturday. Going from not waking up early and going to bed as late as I | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
want to getting up early and going to bed when I shut the pub is hard, | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
and getting into that routine is going to be hard work, but I'm going | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
to have to buckle down and get used to it, I think. You enjoy your life | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
ends at the moment? Senator yes! Charlie originally had his heart set | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
on being a police officer, but when he weighed up his job options for | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
the future, this opportunity seemed too good to turn down. He has been | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
pulling pints anyway since he was 17, under the watchful eyes of his | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
landlord parents. But while pad takes a break from the trade, mum | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
will still be on hand. She runs the Post office side of the business. | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
What could this do to the mother son relationship? It can only make it | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
better! Absolutely can only make it better. We work well together, we | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
work as a team. When we Arabs dead in the flat, I'm his mum, down here, | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
we are a team. How does it feel to have that title in the country? That | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
is quite cool. It is very exciting. All my friends alike, that is cruel. | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
What is the best quality a good landlord needs to have? A sense of | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
humour. Have is if you're stepping into dance shoes? A lot of people | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
have told really big shoes to fill, but if I can do at 50% as good as he | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
did, I will be making a good job of it. In most pubs, age can be a | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
barrier, but now it could be the teenager serving, not supping, who | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
gets the quizzical glances. Back here in the pub, this is Andy, | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
whose boots he has two Phil. Hello, Andy. At the moment, everything | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
Charlie does has to be approved by mum and dad. Come the weekend, he | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
can go crazy. Well, not crazy, but he can do that. He won't need me to | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
tell him that running a pub is tough these days. Running a country pub is | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
incredibly difficult. He knows he has his work cut out. Let's be | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
honest, if you run a honest, if you run a pub, you have | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
to make it pay. Fingers crossed he has the energy and time to make it | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
work. But from here in the pub, back to the studio. Thank you much. | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
Good luck to him. They're not known for athleticism. | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
In fact, they struggle to walk at all. But now scientists in Cambridge | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
have discovered emperor penguins are somehow climbing 30 metres to reach | :22:03. | :22:19. | |
safe breeding ground. The population in Antarctica ` | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
precious, pompous, a little portly, but with a problem of epic | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
proportions. As their breeding ground belts, the Emperor Penguin | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
has set its sights higher `30 metres of those cliffs. That is like | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
climbing King 's College Chapel in Cambridge, for stacking up five | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
double`decker buses, or doing three Tom Daly high dives one after the | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
other. How do they get there? Nobody knows. You think they can go onto | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
ice shills because of their nature. They waddle, sometimes they slide on | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
their bellies, but they are not the most agile things. We are unsure how | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
they get up and down. They may climb or they may flop onto snowdrifts. It | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
is something we're going to have to find out. Satellite imagery | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
collected by the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge looked set for | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
colonies, all of whom have left their usual breeding ground for the | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
heady heights of the ice shelf. But the for food is exhausting, a 30 | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
kilometre or 18 mile waddle for every meal. Some of these ice | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
shelves are to 100 feet high, or higher. They often move several | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
miles inland onto the ice shelves to make sure they are not too close to | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
the edge, and they sometimes fall off. It must take an enormous effort | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
for them to go backwards and forwards each day to their foraging | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
grounds from their colony location. So is this migration a worrying | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
develop that? The Penguins are less reliant on the sea ice is self, and | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
that can only be a good thing, because it means they are less | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
susceptible to climate change. However, going onto the shelves will | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
have a cost to them. It is windy, further to their foraging grounds, | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
so we need to assess what the benefits or the costs are for this | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
new breeding behaviour. Later this year, scientists will be in | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
Antarctica solving the mystery of how these clumsy flightless bird | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
gets a very high. Handsome things. Staying with snow | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
and before the weather take a look at these pictures. This was Norfolk | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
exactly a year ago tomorrow. Don't we remember it? Schools were | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
closed, huge problems for commuters, 63 crashes on the roads. | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Lots of skidding. What a difference a year makes. Alex. | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
If thank you. Yes, it is hard to imagine, because it has been chilly | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
today, but on the whole, January has been wet, windy and mild. There is | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
more wet and mild coming our way tonight. This is the pressure | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
pattern. This is a warm front. Behind it is milder air, but ahead | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
of it, we are recording temperatures as low as two Celsius, so possibly a | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
touch of frost between now and midnight as temperatures get close | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
to freezing. But the rain band starts to push eastwards during the | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
evening and overnight. It will be mainly light and patchy, but there | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
could be some heavy downpours. Temperatures at around ten o'clock | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
will be two to five Celsius, and as that rain band head eastwards, they | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
will left. But the wind will freshen as well, and there could be some | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
heavy bursts of rain. By five o'clock, these are the sort of | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
temperatures we can expect `5 or six degrees. The winds are moderate | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
southerly. We start tomorrow feeling much milder, but there will be | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
patchy rain around, and much of tomorrow will be rather cloudy. | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
Particular through the morning, when they will be some outbreaks of | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
rain, dry interludes, and perhaps something brighter, but some showers | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
follow one behind for the after noon. Those temperatures, 10 | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
Celsius, 50 Fahrenheit, very much a mild cabbage for the time of year. | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
Six or seven degrees. Winds still quite breezy tomorrow. Moderate | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
south to south`westerly. Still the risk of further showers through the | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
afternoon. Then the next weather front starts to bring as overnight | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
rain tomorrow. We will continue to see a unsettled weather, because low | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
pressure will be very much the dominant feature of our weather. | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
This is Thursday and Friday's whether pressure pattern. Certainly | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
for Thursday, the chance of some fairly sharp showers around, and | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
then a spell of perhaps more heavy and persistent rain arriving on | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
Friday. So, into tomorrow, expect a milder day. Don't expect it to be | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
really bright, though. There will be cloud and patchy rain around, and | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
the risk of showers. It stays quite breezy through the week. Ringing of | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
the overnight Bridges, you can see they become milder for a few nights. | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
Some rain arrives on the next weather front for Wednesday night. | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
It will be around on Thursday, but it introduces slightly cooler and, | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
at Mass for Thursday, so although they will be patchy rain on | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
Thursday, it will become brighter with sunshine and showers around. On | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
Friday, it looks very unsettled. We may start to dry, but rain pushes | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
them, and it will become more persistent and heavy in places. At | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
the moment, it looks like Saturday into the weekend will be unsettled | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
with rain. Then, we start to bring back clearer conditions overnight on | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
Saturday, so that means we are back into the territory of frosts. Thank | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
you very much. That is all from us for this evening. Have a very good | :27:37. | :27:38. | |
evening. Goodbye. | :27:39. | :27:43. |