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BBC News Channel, but now on BBC One, it's time for the news where | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
you are. Hello, I'm Simon Newton. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Two passengers remain missing tonight after they jumped from a | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
cross channel ferry off the east coast. The pair were aboard the | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
Stena Britannica heading for the Hook of Holland when they leapt into | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
the sea shortly after it left the Port of Harwich. It's believed they | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
are Eastern Europeans. The search for the two was called off a few | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
hours later, and tonight the ferry finally reached the Netherlands, | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
from where Anna Holligan sent us this report. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
The huge Britannica ferry docked at the Hook of Holland at around 6.30pm | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
this evening. 92 passengers made the crossing from Harwich. This woman, | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
who did not want to give her full name, told us what they saw. There | :00:45. | :00:54. | |
was a group of Albanians. I think the man said they had to get their | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
passports back. Otherwise they would hand it over to the police. They | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
were not pleased. The man came to talk to them about. I did not hear | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
the whole of the conversation. Then I went to the deck and so did they. | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
They stayed there. At the few minutes or so, certainly... We kept | :01:21. | :01:29. | |
turning. Someone said to guys had jumped over. This is the ferry that | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
the group were travelling on. We've have a statement from Stena. They | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
refused to confirm the passengers' identity. They did tell us us the | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
group was turned away from the UK. They had their passports confiscated | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
and were sent back to the country of departure. Stena have also told us | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
they do everything within their power to ensure these ferries aren't | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
used by people trying to gain access to Britain illegally. When we | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
arrived here at the Hook of Holland train station, there were a group of | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Dutch special police waiting to question the remainder of the group. | :02:00. | :02:09. | |
The pair who jumped believed to be Eastern European is, possibly | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
Albanians. The alarm was raised at 9:45am this morning. The crew | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
reported that two people had jumped overboard half a mile from shore. An | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
RAF search helicopter, as well as lifeboats join the search. The ferry | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
itself also lived the area looking for the passengers. Eventually, to | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
leather jackets found in the water, and at one o'clock the search was | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
stood down. At the Hook of Holland this evening, all is quiet as the | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
ferry prepares to make its return journey. | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
Bingo players and MPs from this region joined forces today to | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
protest on behalf of the bingo industry. They say it's unfair that | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
the game is taxed at 20%. That figure compares to 15% for | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
bookmakers and 12% for lottery tickets. | :03:04. | :03:13. | |
This is the bingo hall. It is one of the most popular in the country, | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
with 54,000 members. According to the latest figures there are 41 | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
million visits to bingo halls every year, compared with 23 million | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
visits to a football match, and 19 million visits to a National Trust | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
property. This is an industry in crisis. Membership has halved in the | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
last seven years. The smoking ban is partly to blame but so too is the | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
high rate of tax, says the industry. We face an unfair case | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
that tax is 20% of the bingo, so companies don't have the money to | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
invest. Other forms of gambling are taxed at 15%. All we are saying is | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
that there should be level playing field. That is why bingo players | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
join us from the region did demonstrate outside Parliament. A | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
petition containing 300,000 signatures was wheeled past number | :04:10. | :04:20. | |
ten. Cutting the tax would cost ?21 million. Campaigners say it is worth | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
it. Another ?31 million is coming to the | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
east to help speed up the installation of superfast broadband. | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
The government says the money will help ensure 95% of homes and | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
businesses have super fast broadband by 2017. Essex gets the biggest | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
share with just over ?10million. Norfolk and Suffolk will get more | :04:40. | :04:49. | |
than ?10 million between them. Seals orphaned after the tidal surge | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
in December have been released back into the wild. More than 100 pups | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
were taken to the wildlife hospital in Norfolk, in one of the biggest | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
rescue operations in its 25`year history. And today the first batch | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
returned to the sea. They had been driven 60 miles from | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
the hospital in East Winch. Eight now very healthy pups carried onto | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
Winterton beach by the RSPCA teams, about to be released from their | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
stretcher hammocks. After the surge, the centre had been overwhelmed. | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
Staff working around the clock to keep very sick orphan pubs alive. | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
This morning, fully recovered grey seals, Morn Flake and Marmite, were | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
confronted with the open sea. They have had months of tender loving | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
care in the East Winch centre. They are just about to be released from | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
the hammocks, and the big test now is will they head staright for the | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
water. A little hesitation, perhaps put off by the herd of photographers | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
watching their every move, but finally into the waves they went. | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
What does it mean to you? It is absolutely fantastic. It is a job | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
well done. For those who happened to come along ` a wonderful spectacle. | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
We didn't know the news and we were lucky to be here. We caught the | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
moment really. It is nice for Alfie here to see them go back to the | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
wildlife and natural habitat. Today's release was just down the | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
coast from the sand dunes where the orphaned pups were found washed | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
ashore after the violent storms. Over the next few weeks and months, | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
further batches will be released. Finally all this week on Look East | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
we're looking at how people here were affected by the First World | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
War. And tomorrow we're finding out about the priest who won The | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
Victoria Cross. You can see our stories online at: bbc.co.uk/ww1 and | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
your BBC local radio station has more stories at 8.15am every | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
morning. Well that's all from me for tonight. Let's get the weather with | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
Julie. We will have a band of rain later | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
tonight. Temperatures are down to five Celsius. They shouldn't fall | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
much lower. More cloud will mean temperatures don't get any lower and | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
a freshening breeze will come. It'll be quite a different start tomorrow. | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
Wet and windy first thing but that rain will clear away. Although the | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
sunshine will come out there will be some showers around. Temperatures in | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
the sunshine should get up to 10 Celsius. The showers could be on the | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
heavy side as they develop into the afternoon. In a moment, we will have | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
the national forecast, but I will leave you with our outlook. Pressure | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
moving in on Thursday could bring wet and windy weather on Friday. | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
moving in on Thursday could bring day on Friday, wet snow around and a | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
breeze blowing as well. Tricky into the weekend. And now we have the | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
national forecast. Good evening. We know it has been a | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
wet winter but it has also been mild and across England and Wales, | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
lacking in snow. The last day of the season which we measure on Friday, | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
might provide a bit of it. Friday's weather is coming from the small | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
area of low pressure. These tiny low-pressure systems are difficult | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
to track and a subtle change in position could have a big impact. | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
Tonight we have more straightforward, a weather front | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
spreading out rakes of rain across most areas. Turning windy as well. | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
The rain will be heavy but will move through quickly because of the | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
strength of the wind and it will be a mild night for most. The rain is | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
lingering across Scotland and eastern England for the morning. | :08:27. | :08:27. | |
lingering across Scotland and eastern England for the morning It | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
will continue to be pushed into the North Sea but it may take most of | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
the morning before it clears away. Following behind, brighter skies, | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
sunny spells but more showers than | :08:38. | :08:38. |