28/04/2014 Look East - East


28/04/2014

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hear views on immigration. That's all from us.

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Good evening. The Prime Minister visited ` job

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centre in Colchester today to launch a back to work scheme. The

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government wants the long tdrm unemployed to go to a job cdntre

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every day, work for free or get some training. If not, they could lose

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their benefit. Our political correspondent Andrew Sinclahr

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reports. There are 2,500 people unemployed in Colchester, 1000 fewer

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than last year, and every thme they find someone a job, they put sticky

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note in the window. That is where the Prime Minhster

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came to publicise his new tough love policy.

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It does have a tough side to it because there should not be easy

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options. The days of giving people benefits cheques and not asking for

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anything in return, those d`ys are gone.

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Under the new plans, those who try to look for work are expectdd to

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come here for daily meetings, or improve their job skills by doing

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community work or free work experience with local companies In

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return, they will keep getthng their jobseeker's allowance. The other

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main parties were also out campaigning today, questionhng how

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effective this policy would be, but all support getting tough whth the

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long`term unemployed. I would like the Prime Minister to

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adopt Labour's plan of a colpulsory jobs guaranty of anyone unddr the

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age of 25 who is unemployed for a year or more, which means that they

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actually have a job to go to. Let's drill down on the rel`tively

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small number of people who `re abusing the system. Let's not

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confuse them with the many people who are looking for jobs.

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Trade unions have attacked this scheme for stigmatising in the

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unemployed. Some charities have said they won't take part in it. But the

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Prime Minister believes that making the long`term unemployed trx harder

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to find work will be popular with voters.

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The long`awaited Elveden bypass on the A11 opened today, giving drivers

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a taste of the future. At the moment, there's only one lane in

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each direction and a speed limit of 40 miles an hour. But by thd autumn

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way to Norwich. way to Norwich.

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The Elveden bypass opened e`rly this morning. Drivers have waited years

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for this to happen. For the first time, rush`hour traffic didn't have

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to go through the bottleneck at Elveden village.

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Parish council chairman Ian Robinson has lived next to the old A01 for 33

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years. He has put up with constant noise and pollution. Today, things

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are very different. Peace and quiet at long last. The

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road this morning was quite at about 3am. At 5am, I could hear the dawn

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chorus for the first time in many, many years.

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This part of the A11 has bedn notorious for hold`ups over the

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years, but today, it has bedn quietened. The only traffic taking

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local diversions off the bypass Most people will not have to drive

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through the village of Elveden unless they want to.

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Haulier companies like this one are delighted. They run 105 trucks and

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most go south. If we have a vehicle that is doing

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eight miles a gallon and it is stuck in traffic, it is very expensive to

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run. It could reduce our costs, especially on fuel.

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Today's opening is probably the biggest milestone of the whole A11

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dualling project so far. Thd full nine mile section from Thetford to

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Barton Mills is still on tr`ck for completion in September.

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Chris Starkie is the Managing Director of the New Anglia Local

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Enterprise Partnership. This evening I asked him just how much ilpact the

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dualling would have on the local economy.

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We are talking hundreds of lillions of pounds over the next few years.

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It could come from extra business that the businesses within Norfolk

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and Suffolk can do with othdr parts of the country, extra visitors who

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come to see the area. The campaign that this went on for

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years before it was agreed. What damage was done to the county due to

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that delay? I think there is damage in terms of the perception of

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Norfolk being remote and Suffolk being behind the times, not being

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connected to the dual carri`ge network. There are jobs and

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businesses who would have come to Norfolk if they could have got here

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more quickly. How quickly will be impact be felt?

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Businesses will not suddenlx move here. The key thing is for ts to let

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the rest of the country and the rest of Europe know about this. H think

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over the next few years, yot will be able to see economic development,

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growth, housing, that would not have happened without the new ro`d.

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What else does East Anglia need to improve its prospects? Priorities

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include the railway line, the A 7 and broadband. All three ard needed

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to help increase jobs and prosperity and make this part of the world a

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great place to do business. The coroner has recorded a verdict

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of suicide at the inquest into the death 16`year`old Becky Watkins from

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Braintree. She was found de`d at the Evergreen children's home in Brandon

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in 2009. Tonight, Essex County Council said it "deeply regrets its

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failure to identify opportunities in the care of Rebecca which m`y have

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made a difference in her life." The case of James Attfield, who was

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murdered in Colchester, has been featured on BBC One's Crimewatch

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programme tonight. It's a month since the father of five was found

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in Castle Park with more th`n a hundred knife wounds. Policd want to

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trace three people seen on CCTV in the early hours who they thhnk might

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have vital information. Cambridge Airport has won a new

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contract with the Irish company Cityjet to fly daily servicds to

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Dublin and Amsterdam. It's hoping to build on the airport's international

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status. A month ago, Etihad stopped their international flights from

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Cambridge to destinations including Amsterdam. Planes on that route and

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elsewhere often had empty sdats The rest of tonight should be dry,

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quite misty with some fog. There should be very light winds, which

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means tomorrow the fog might linger. Once it has gone, we should have dry

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conditions. We are expecting summer showers, but not for everyone. Highs

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around 15 degrees, cooler on the coast, especially when therd was the

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fog. And into the evening, ` few showers, but largely dry. Soon, we

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will have the National forecast but here is the outlook. On Wednesday,

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it will be similar, with sole sharp showers, and on Thursday thdre will

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be longer Thursday and then it will turn much

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cooler as we go into the bank holiday weekend.

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Hello, I am going to throw some numbers at you first of all. 22

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Celsius was the temperature recorded at Aviemore making it the warmest

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day of the year so far. At the other end of the country, this cloud has

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produced a lot of heavy and thundery downpours. A lot of rain falling in

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one hour at Hurn airport. There are some showers around the Bristol

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Channel. There will be so increasing amounts of mist, fog and low cloud.

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Tomorrow starts grade, Misty and murky in most places. We will see

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the Sun breaking through in Cumbria and the North. You might get the odd

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shower in western Northern Ireland in the afternoon but with more

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sunshine across the country tomorrow, it should

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