:00:00. > :00:09.hear views on immigration. That's all from us.
:00:10. > :00:14.Good evening. The Prime Minister visited ` job
:00:15. > :00:17.centre in Colchester today to launch a back to work scheme. The
:00:18. > :00:21.government wants the long tdrm unemployed to go to a job cdntre
:00:22. > :00:25.every day, work for free or get some training. If not, they could lose
:00:26. > :00:33.their benefit. Our political correspondent Andrew Sinclahr
:00:34. > :00:36.reports. There are 2,500 people unemployed in Colchester, 1000 fewer
:00:37. > :00:39.than last year, and every thme they find someone a job, they put sticky
:00:40. > :00:43.note in the window. That is where the Prime Minhster
:00:44. > :00:48.came to publicise his new tough love policy.
:00:49. > :00:52.It does have a tough side to it because there should not be easy
:00:53. > :00:55.options. The days of giving people benefits cheques and not asking for
:00:56. > :00:57.anything in return, those d`ys are gone.
:00:58. > :01:01.Under the new plans, those who try to look for work are expectdd to
:01:02. > :01:04.come here for daily meetings, or improve their job skills by doing
:01:05. > :01:08.community work or free work experience with local companies In
:01:09. > :01:12.return, they will keep getthng their jobseeker's allowance. The other
:01:13. > :01:15.main parties were also out campaigning today, questionhng how
:01:16. > :01:20.effective this policy would be, but all support getting tough whth the
:01:21. > :01:24.long`term unemployed. I would like the Prime Minister to
:01:25. > :01:28.adopt Labour's plan of a colpulsory jobs guaranty of anyone unddr the
:01:29. > :01:33.age of 25 who is unemployed for a year or more, which means that they
:01:34. > :01:36.actually have a job to go to. Let's drill down on the rel`tively
:01:37. > :01:39.small number of people who `re abusing the system. Let's not
:01:40. > :01:45.confuse them with the many people who are looking for jobs.
:01:46. > :01:48.Trade unions have attacked this scheme for stigmatising in the
:01:49. > :01:52.unemployed. Some charities have said they won't take part in it. But the
:01:53. > :01:55.Prime Minister believes that making the long`term unemployed trx harder
:01:56. > :02:04.to find work will be popular with voters.
:02:05. > :02:10.The long`awaited Elveden bypass on the A11 opened today, giving drivers
:02:11. > :02:13.a taste of the future. At the moment, there's only one lane in
:02:14. > :02:17.each direction and a speed limit of 40 miles an hour. But by thd autumn
:02:18. > :02:23.way to Norwich. way to Norwich.
:02:24. > :02:27.The Elveden bypass opened e`rly this morning. Drivers have waited years
:02:28. > :02:30.for this to happen. For the first time, rush`hour traffic didn't have
:02:31. > :02:32.to go through the bottleneck at Elveden village.
:02:33. > :02:36.Parish council chairman Ian Robinson has lived next to the old A01 for 33
:02:37. > :02:42.years. He has put up with constant noise and pollution. Today, things
:02:43. > :02:46.are very different. Peace and quiet at long last. The
:02:47. > :02:52.road this morning was quite at about 3am. At 5am, I could hear the dawn
:02:53. > :02:57.chorus for the first time in many, many years.
:02:58. > :03:00.This part of the A11 has bedn notorious for hold`ups over the
:03:01. > :03:03.years, but today, it has bedn quietened. The only traffic taking
:03:04. > :03:06.local diversions off the bypass Most people will not have to drive
:03:07. > :03:12.through the village of Elveden unless they want to.
:03:13. > :03:18.Haulier companies like this one are delighted. They run 105 trucks and
:03:19. > :03:23.most go south. If we have a vehicle that is doing
:03:24. > :03:26.eight miles a gallon and it is stuck in traffic, it is very expensive to
:03:27. > :03:31.run. It could reduce our costs, especially on fuel.
:03:32. > :03:36.Today's opening is probably the biggest milestone of the whole A11
:03:37. > :03:39.dualling project so far. Thd full nine mile section from Thetford to
:03:40. > :03:49.Barton Mills is still on tr`ck for completion in September.
:03:50. > :03:51.Chris Starkie is the Managing Director of the New Anglia Local
:03:52. > :03:55.Enterprise Partnership. This evening I asked him just how much ilpact the
:03:56. > :04:04.dualling would have on the local economy.
:04:05. > :04:08.We are talking hundreds of lillions of pounds over the next few years.
:04:09. > :04:15.It could come from extra business that the businesses within Norfolk
:04:16. > :04:21.and Suffolk can do with othdr parts of the country, extra visitors who
:04:22. > :04:24.come to see the area. The campaign that this went on for
:04:25. > :04:31.years before it was agreed. What damage was done to the county due to
:04:32. > :04:37.that delay? I think there is damage in terms of the perception of
:04:38. > :04:41.Norfolk being remote and Suffolk being behind the times, not being
:04:42. > :04:46.connected to the dual carri`ge network. There are jobs and
:04:47. > :04:51.businesses who would have come to Norfolk if they could have got here
:04:52. > :04:55.more quickly. How quickly will be impact be felt?
:04:56. > :05:01.Businesses will not suddenlx move here. The key thing is for ts to let
:05:02. > :05:09.the rest of the country and the rest of Europe know about this. H think
:05:10. > :05:13.over the next few years, yot will be able to see economic development,
:05:14. > :05:20.growth, housing, that would not have happened without the new ro`d.
:05:21. > :05:28.What else does East Anglia need to improve its prospects? Priorities
:05:29. > :05:36.include the railway line, the A 7 and broadband. All three ard needed
:05:37. > :05:44.to help increase jobs and prosperity and make this part of the world a
:05:45. > :05:48.great place to do business. The coroner has recorded a verdict
:05:49. > :05:51.of suicide at the inquest into the death 16`year`old Becky Watkins from
:05:52. > :05:54.Braintree. She was found de`d at the Evergreen children's home in Brandon
:05:55. > :05:57.in 2009. Tonight, Essex County Council said it "deeply regrets its
:05:58. > :06:03.failure to identify opportunities in the care of Rebecca which m`y have
:06:04. > :06:06.made a difference in her life." The case of James Attfield, who was
:06:07. > :06:09.murdered in Colchester, has been featured on BBC One's Crimewatch
:06:10. > :06:13.programme tonight. It's a month since the father of five was found
:06:14. > :06:16.in Castle Park with more th`n a hundred knife wounds. Policd want to
:06:17. > :06:19.trace three people seen on CCTV in the early hours who they thhnk might
:06:20. > :06:22.have vital information. Cambridge Airport has won a new
:06:23. > :06:26.contract with the Irish company Cityjet to fly daily servicds to
:06:27. > :06:29.Dublin and Amsterdam. It's hoping to build on the airport's international
:06:30. > :06:31.status. A month ago, Etihad stopped their international flights from
:06:32. > :06:34.Cambridge to destinations including Amsterdam. Planes on that route and
:06:35. > :06:52.elsewhere often had empty sdats The rest of tonight should be dry,
:06:53. > :06:59.quite misty with some fog. There should be very light winds, which
:07:00. > :07:04.means tomorrow the fog might linger. Once it has gone, we should have dry
:07:05. > :07:12.conditions. We are expecting summer showers, but not for everyone. Highs
:07:13. > :07:18.around 15 degrees, cooler on the coast, especially when therd was the
:07:19. > :07:24.fog. And into the evening, ` few showers, but largely dry. Soon, we
:07:25. > :07:30.will have the National forecast but here is the outlook. On Wednesday,
:07:31. > :07:32.it will be similar, with sole sharp showers, and on Thursday thdre will
:07:33. > :07:35.be longer Thursday and then it will turn much
:07:36. > :07:42.cooler as we go into the bank holiday weekend.
:07:43. > :07:47.Hello, I am going to throw some numbers at you first of all. 22
:07:48. > :07:52.Celsius was the temperature recorded at Aviemore making it the warmest
:07:53. > :07:57.day of the year so far. At the other end of the country, this cloud has
:07:58. > :08:03.produced a lot of heavy and thundery downpours. A lot of rain falling in
:08:04. > :08:11.one hour at Hurn airport. There are some showers around the Bristol
:08:12. > :08:20.Channel. There will be so increasing amounts of mist, fog and low cloud.
:08:21. > :08:29.Tomorrow starts grade, Misty and murky in most places. We will see
:08:30. > :08:36.the Sun breaking through in Cumbria and the North. You might get the odd
:08:37. > :08:39.shower in western Northern Ireland in the afternoon but with more
:08:40. > :08:40.sunshine across the country tomorrow, it should