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combat for the first time. That's all from the BBC News.

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Hello. In the programme tonight, it is all

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over bar the shouting. With relegation looking certain to

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Norwich City, what is the situation for the city and its residents?

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There are a lot of people behind the scenes whose futures may be in

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doubt. They thought she was murdered but it

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was revealed today her death was a tragic accident. Tributes are paid

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to Colin Pillinger, who has died. And behind`the`scenes of the women's

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cycle race. First tonight, the fall`out from

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Norwich City's near certain relegation from the Premier League.

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What does it mean for the club, the fans and the local economy?

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It happened last night without Norwich City even kicking a ball.

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Victory for closest rivals Sunderland effectively ended the

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Canaries' slender hopes of survival. The club have remained tight`lipped

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today, insisting the season isn't over but the cost of this near

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certain relegation will be felt throughout the region. In a moment,

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our Business Correspondent, Richard Bond, looks at the impact on the

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local economy. But first, Tom Williams on where it all went wrong

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for the club. That is backed. The one point perhaps does not do it for

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Norwich. In the end, as most had predicted, it wasn't enough. After

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three seasons enjoying the Premier league high life, Norwich now affect

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Tiffany relegated with one game to go. Looking at the managerial

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situation, did they hold onto Chris Halton for too long? The players

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have to take on some was once ability. And did the board not

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notice the malaise that anyone watching them regularly from the

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beginning of the year at 13? Their record signing cost ?8 million and

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only scored once. Alternately, this defeat against West Bromwich proved

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decisive, who are three points above Norwich with a superior goal

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difference. Norwich now need to approve `` point Apple 's `` point

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eight permanent manager. Norwich are debt free but this is about bouncing

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back as quickly as possible. Financially the club is in a great

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state, but there are big decisions to be made about players and

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managers and fans want them made as soon as possible. Norwich were

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guaranteed ?70 million this year in television rights but they will only

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get ?64 million over the next four years in parachute payments. We kept

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saying if we win that, we get the chance, but we haven't won the games

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so we don't deserve it. The warning signs were there but they just

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ignored them. The manager should have gone before Christmas. The

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board is culpable. A derby is to come but secured `` supporters are

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bracing themselves for a relegation place.

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So what effect will Norwich City's relegation have on the wider area?

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For three years, Norwich has been in the global spotlight as a member of

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soccer's elite league. But how far has that money reached? Our business

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correspondent, Richard Bond, has been finding out.

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The scenes of celebration three years ago when Norwich City gained

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promotion. The city decked out in green and yellow. But has Premier

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League status made it a richer place? Much is always made of the

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multi`million pound boost which local economies receive when their

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football teams are in the Premier League. But is there a benefit to

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the real economy ` or does all the money just end up in the pockets of

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the players and their agents? Well, much of it does but at the Trafford

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Arms in Norwich, they reckon Premier League membership boosts trade by at

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least 15%. It's a popular venue for soccer fans. The landlord's been a

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Norwich season ticket holder for 30 years. A lot of supporters in the

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Premier league will actually spend the weekend in the city, so you get

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a larger proportion of supporters spending more time and money into

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the local economy. In the championship and local divisions ``

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lower divisions, people make their way to the game and then go home

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afterwards. Tourism clearly benefits when a Premier League club's on the

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doorstep. Cities also become better known globally. The University of

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East Anglia says the Canaries have raised its profile internationally.

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Chris Starkie has the job of promoting the Norwich economy. Can

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he point to an example of new investment coming to the city

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through Premier League status? Companies don't really invest

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because we have a good football team. What it has done to investors

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in China and Malaysia, the brand of Norwich is that bit better known

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than it was before. Norwich lived without the Premier League ` it must

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now learn to do so again. Earlier, I spoke to Professor Tom

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Cannon, a football finance specialist from the University of

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Liverpool. He says the impact of relegation on the local economy will

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be significant. When you are in the premiership, in the top flight of

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English football, you have a global reach which means everyone from

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local businesses to the club it self can reach out internationally on the

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back of the Premier league. You can see literally millions coming into

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the local economy. Obviously some of it comes via the club, but others

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comes through companies who built the image and reputation

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internationally, and three visitors. The whole element built up the local

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economy. What are we talking about losing as a result of relegation?

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The most conservative figure would be about ?2 million and match day.

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If you are talking about 18 match days, that would be about ?40

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million. How much is it down to the feel`good or feel bad factor of the

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fans not spending as much money after big aims all before them?

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There is lots of evidence now which shows that if the club are

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succeeding in the premiership, people spend more in the local

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economy. There is even some evidence that productivity in local

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businesses is greater because people going to work on Monday feeling

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better. I have to say, in the case of a club like Norwich which has

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been struggling in the second half the season, most of the feel bad

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factor has probably already been accommodated within the economy. A

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reasonable run next season will probably be more beneficial than

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actually grinding through disappointing result after

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disappointing result in the premiership as Norwich `based this

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year. This means the region will not have any premiership clubs. Does

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that have a wider impact than just on the club area? You have put your

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point `` your finger on a very important point for the East Anglian

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region. As a point of the country which needs the stimulus that

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premiership football delivers, you have got a double whammy of factors.

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If both teams were in the Premier league, you would have the benefit

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of derby matches and the excitement that occurs in the local economy and

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in the media. That is a double whammy that the region faces.

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An inquest into the death of a former movie star of the 1940s and

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50s has found she may have had a heart attack before falling. At the

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time of Jean Kent's death at the West Suffolk hospital five months

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ago, it was thought she could have been murdered.

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For more than 20 years, Jean Kent lived in the village of Westhorpe.

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After the death of her husband, she was supported by a network of

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friends and neighbours. Last November, her housekeeper discovered

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her lying seriously injured in her bedroom. Two days later she died in

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hospital. The inquest heard she'd been found with a television and tv

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stand on top of her. She'd suffered severe chest injuries and rib

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fractures. Police are ruling out foul play. Her GP describe the

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92`year`old as very independent but with the ability problems and the

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risk of falling. The precise verdict from the coroner was that she died

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from accidental injury from a fall with cardiac disease which may have

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facilitated it. In her heyday, Jean Kent was a huge box`office star,

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going on to make 45 films, still receiving offers of work into her

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90s. Although her life has ended sadly, next Thursday, the British

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film Institute is paying tribute to her at the National film Theatre in

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London when they are screening her most famous film which made her a

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major star. It is nice to think that although she is gone, had talent and

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star quality will live on for future generations to enjoy. After her

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funeral at St Margaret's parish church, Jean Kent was buried in the

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churchyard alongside her late husband.

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The coroner today passed on his condolences to all who had been

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close to her. The Norfolk and Norwich festival

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kicked off today with a special celebration. 24 candles on a cake

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were blown out by a crowd of people using musical instruments to mark 24

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years that the region's railways have been supporting the event. This

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year's programme, which runs from the ninth to 25th of May, has

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performances from international artists as well as local talent.

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In two weeks' time, it will be polling day and as well as the

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European elections, there will also be voting taking place on some our

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local councils. These are the seats up for grabs. Red is Labour

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controlled, blue Conservative and grey is no overall control. One of

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the most interesting battles in Essex is Basildon. It's currently

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run by the Conservatives but, as our political reporter, Tom Barton,

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reports, another party is threatening to stir things up. For

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40 years, control of Basildon Council has been a straight fight

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between Labour and the Conservatives. Each party has won

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nine elections. But that could soon change. Because UKIP are now a

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serious electoral force here in Essex. We may be asking some

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difficult questions... The party won nine seat on the county council last

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year, putting them on the same level as: `` as Labour and Lib Dem 's in

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the opposition. We made gains and they know that with the support of

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the European elections echoing the UKIP message, we could have a UKIP

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led administration. That might be overoptimistic but the Conservatives

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are worried about the UKIP effect. They admit the Tories could lose the

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majority they have held for the last decade. Realistically on the 23rd of

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May we will wake up to a council that has no overall control, went

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we? No, I don't think so. It is a possibility but I would not say it

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is definite. Labour will lose votes to UKIP and so will we. They may

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come second. As I said, everything is to play for. You hear a lot about

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the effect of UKIP on the Conservatives but they are likely to

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take votes away from you as well, aren't they? They may do. People are

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angry and upset at the way they have been treated. Sometimes it is easy

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for people to get beguiled by a supposedly new group coming along

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and saying, well we are not really politicians and we have got all the

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answers and we blame immigration and Europe for everything. Husband and

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wife team Mr and Mrs Williams make up for the entire Liberal Democrat

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representation on the council. We have been part of the administration

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in the past and we are used to Upson Downs, as Liberal Democrat 's. He

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slings and arrows of outrageous political fortune. As politics in

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Basildon fragments, it will be more difficult than ever for one party to

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clean up on election day. Still to come. Taking the play out

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of the theatre. Performers in Peterborough prepare for opening

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night in an empty theatre. And we are behind`the`scenes as the

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women's tour comes to Bedford. More now on the space scientist

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Professor Colin Pillinger who has died in hospital after suffering a

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brain haemorrhage at his home near Cambridge.

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Tributes have been paid to the pioneering professor, who was just

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70 years old. He was discussing new projects right up until his death.

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He was the scientist who got us all interested in space. Friends say his

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distinctive side burns and West Country accent masked a true genius.

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It was Beagle two that endeared him to the public ` even after it

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spectacularly failed. He designed and built the probe looking for life

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on Mars but it vanished without trace. Professor Pillinger remained

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undeterred and later on Look East said the search would continue. We

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went to Mars to look for life and this is the question that everybody

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is asking all the time. Are we alone in the universe was to mark when

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will space exploration answer that question? Dave Moore, from Stevenage

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based firm Astrium, worked alongside Professor Pillenger on the Beagle

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two project. He says it was a success in so many ways. Colin again

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with his charisma and drive that space on the map for the British

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public. He got the generations of youngsters to get more involved and

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be passionate and interested. Professor Pillinger began his career

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analysing moon rocks for NASA. He became Professor of Interplanetory

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Science at the Open University and earned a host of awards. In 2005, he

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was diagnosed with MS. Yesterday, aged 70, he suffered a fatal brain

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haemorrhage at his home near Cambridge. Colleagues at the Open

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University say they will always be inspired by his passion and drive.

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He was often argumentative but always, always inspirational and

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able to bring people round to his way of thinking. Professor Pillinger

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was a pioneer and always said he had unfinished business with Mars. He

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may not have realised all his dreams but his vision remains an

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inspiration for scientists in the future.

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David Braben works in the science and technology industry in

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Cambridge. He featured in a book alongside Colin Pillinger and met

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him through that. Earlier, I asked him how he would best describe Colin

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Pillinger's life's work. I think he was a wonderful charismatic guy. He

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had a sort of magnetism and enthusiasm for science which was

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infectious. It was great. He appeared loads of times on

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television. I was lucky enough to meet him a couple of times. It was

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infectious, the enthusiasm he had. He managed to do something that

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other people hadn't done before him. Of course many people know him for

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that attempt to land a spacecraft on Mars in 2003. Sadly it didn't happen

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and he did wish to continue making it happen. Do you think he would

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have gone back and made it happen if he hadn't been ill? The problem is

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because it failed, which was a real shame, people were wary to do it

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again because it was expensive. It was one out of one that failed and

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that was blocked to him getting funding. It would have been

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wonderful if he had have done. What I was hoping for, and I think he was

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hoping for at the time prior to his 2003 mission as well, was that this

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would be the first of many very, very cheap mission is to explore our

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solar system, to put machines, Rovers or whatever on distant

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worlds. Such an enthusiastic person. Do you think that is why other

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scientist 's were drawn to him, to get on`board on projects? He is an

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explorer is another way of looking at it. He brought things forward. He

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started exploring the solar system as an individual, not as Nasser, but

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as Colin Perch `` Colin Pillinger working to achieve things. We need

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people like him to inspire the next generation or they will go into

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different things. It would be great, the more people who are kids

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today, who are doing science in the next ten years, it will be better

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for all of us. Thank you very much. Thank you.

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Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire played host to the women's tour

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today and the rain did not put people off. Preparing for an event

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of this scale takes a real preparation, as we have been finding

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out. How is that? Same setup, different

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location. For five days, the women's cycle tour is put up, rolled out and

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spruced up. Here we are on the embankment in Bedford. The

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organisers were here at 5am, getting everything setup. All we need now

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are the crowds, the riders and a bit of action. Basically, my job is to

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get the crowds ready and tell them what is going on, because they

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cannot see the race as it is happening. Hopefully get them that

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excited and then we bring in the race weekend. Alas, it would be a

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soggy race. The best place to be, inside where the timing team

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operates. This system is obviously very reliable. It has to be. It can

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take 10,000 pictures per second, so we can have ten thousandths of a

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second. We don't need that much for cycling but it is really accurate.

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The women's tour has started from Hinckley but these riders are the

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support race from Bedford, Milton Keynes, Luton and they are getting a

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taste of what is to come in the main event. We tend to take it all for

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granted but we move 180 vehicles, 180 tonnes of equipment, hotels for

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400 or 500 people every night but that is what we do and we get on

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with it. The crowds were deep, despite the weather. We were racing

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on the circuit around here this morning. It was a great experience.

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For the organisers, stage two is nearly done and dusted and for the

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rice `` for the riders, 72 miles done. It was Italian that one in

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Bedford. As for the organisers, time to get the show on the road. `` it

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was an Italian. Tomorrow, the tour moves to Suffolk

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and Essex, starting in Felixstowe and finishing in Clacton.

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Some say theatre needs to be edgy. Well, in little over 30 minutes in

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Peterborough, it is opening night for a new play which its creators

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admit is the one of scariest things they've ever done. What's made it

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scary is that they didn't even have a venue until the very last minute.

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That venue is an empty retail unit in a shopping centre. Kevin Burch

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has more. You could say this is a tale of the heart in the heart of

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retail. In unit 23 of the serpentine Green shopping Centre in Hampton, it

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is almost time for the audience to arrive. It is called River Lane and

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professionally produced, but beyond that, it is entirely the work of the

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community. Around 70 local volunteers, aged 11 to 76, recruited

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to handle every aspect of the show from the performance and props to

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stage management and sound. It's set in the Swinging Sixties and written

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by local playright, Tony Ramsay, using his memories of life as a

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teenage boy in the River Lane area of the city. We have only had

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evenings and weekends, meaning the number of hours to get rings down

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are cut down. To know that it is tonight is really exciting. It feels

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like we have made it. Don't do that estimation mark you made me jump. It

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is my first time in a shopping centre but I worked on a touring

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Macbeth that worked in all sorts of buildings, so this kind of work is

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the sort that excites me. I have lived in Peterborough pretty much my

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whole life and yet I didn't know all about the story from the 60s. I have

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learnt a lot about fishing as well for top if I kept walking this way,

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I'd end up in London. And you'd be in... Manchester as Commissioner

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Mark tell me about your singing. Oh, it's great. No, we get through it.

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It's taken a year to produce. It's a story rich in local characters,

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legends and landmarks. It opens tonight and runs for ten days.

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Desmond back! It is pretty damp out there, isn't

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it? It is. More wet weather this afternoon and

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this evening, with heavy rain around and we cannot rule out thunder. It

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should ease away into the early hours, but we do expect showers to

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feeding from the west later on. Temperatures down to ten or 11

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Celsius, perhaps cooler under clear skies. The winds are mainly moderate

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westerly. A fresh westerly wind tomorrow though and this system

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moves towards us bringing wet weather for Saturday. More on that

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in a moment but for tomorrow, showers around from the word go.

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Some could be heavy and thundery, but a much better chance of seeing

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some sunshine and a fair amount of dry weather, although showers will

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be around. Temperatures, near average. Perhaps a degree or so

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higher than appears in the sunshine, but a blustery day as well. That

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will blow the showers through quickly. On Saturday, I think it

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will be a wet and windy start to the day, but by the afternoon, we should

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see brighter conditions. Still pretty windy with heavy showers. It

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all depends on how quickly that morning rain clears. Sunday and

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Monday, to showery days. Some of those showers could be on the happy

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side. They will be on the call side. The difference between the two

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days, hopefully on Monday, slightly lighter winds. Overnight lows, as we

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head into the new working week, we will see some chilly nights but we

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should stay frost free. At the moment, pressure is falling, so not

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a great night that is all from us. Have a good

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evening. No-one would have believed, in the

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first years of the 21st century, that Britain's affairs were being

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watched and scrutinised With the help

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of our three political parties, who lie to the British public

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about their intentions, minds immeasurably

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more bureaucratic than ours slowly and surely drew

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their plans against us. smashing our democracy

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and destroying our laws... ..plotting to annihilate

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our currency

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