07/06/2014 Look East - East

We're back with the late news at 10.10pm.

First tonight, the villagers who could actually welcome plans for a

Campaigners have spent years fighting plans for an incindrator

Now plans have gone on show for a ?200 million power station hnstead.

The disused clay pit at Stewartby near Bedford, until a few ydars ago

It's peaceful now, but therd's been a long`running battle over

These were the scenes three years ago, when

the company Covanta announcdd plans to build a big waste incinerator.

For the last three days, another firm has been presenting its plans.

Millbrook Energy wants to btild a gas fired power plant.

It seems to be attracting a guarded welcome.

The likes power stations. Btt we all want to switch the lights on when it

gets dark. I want to find out more det`ils

about the environmental imp`ct and the impact on health.

The company claims Marston Vale is ideally suited

and says work could start on the station within four xears.

This is the beginning of thd process. We will be coming back in

the autumn for a period of strategy consultation after we have completed

a range of environmental sttdies. We have been fighting the Covanta

issue and it has not gone away. There is the possibility th`t

something may happen. In my opinion, I think that what has been offered

today is an improvement on Covanta, and all that we want is an dnd to

the landfill. And,

although planning permission does remain open for an incinerator an

end to uncertainty over the future Members

of the far right wing English Defence League have staged ` march

through Stevenage this afternoon. There was a heavy police prdsence

as around 200 supporters of the group were led from the

Old Town to the high street. There was also

a counter demonstration, Police say the event passed without

any trouble, but some people in the town were

unhappy with the EDL's presdnce I think it is terrible. I don't

think there is any need for it. We all should live as one.

It is next to a children's Park It is disgusting.

We saw minor scuffle on the CCTV. It seems that the stewarding through

the EDL and the police, we have no reports of any crime in rel`ted to

this event. There's still no sign

of a pensioner who's gone mhssing Searches have continued through

the day for George Young. The 86`year`old was reported missing

yesterday evening He suffers from Alzheimer's

and police say there's growhng The appointments booking system

at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital is working

again after days of disrupthon The NHS?s entire Choose and Book

system crashed on Wednesday. The service was largely restored

by the following day, but connection to several hospitals, including

the Norfolk and Norwich, wasn't The government announced last month

that Choose We have had a lively weather through

the region. Tomorrow should be a nice day, more dry than tod`y and

warm. It is a dry night tonhght with good spells of sunshine tomorrow

morning. As we go through the day, there will be some cloud. Why the

afternoon, there will be sole showers. It looks like the showers

will be out to the west and the north, summer towards the Norfolk

coast. Many places staying dry. Highs of 2122 Celsius.

We will have an area of rain towards the north. The further you `re

towards the west, you are lhkely to avoid that. It does tend to clear as

we go through the morning into the afternoon. A risk of some showers as

we go through Monday afternoon. 21 or 22 degrees. Temperatures still

quite decent for the time of year. We are back tomorrow at 6:10pm. Good

night. Good evening. Most of us have seen

some rain so far today. It started off in the south. As it worked its

way north, we lost the thunder and the lightning. Many of us ended the

day on a decent note. After a decent day in the north of Scotland, that

band of rain marches northwards Be hiengd it, there is a -- behind it,

there is a lot of dry weather to be found. Most of us are dry by the end

of the night and relatively mild. Starting Sunday in Scotland, still

some showers around in the south and the west. I suspect the north and

the east are getting off to a decent start to the