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Hello and welcome to Look E`st. The top stories tonight frol Essex, | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Suffolk and Norfolk... Believe it or not, this is the route | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
for the Tour de France. With just four weeks to go, will it bd ready? | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
Like the route, it is quite early on coming into Saffron Walden. But they | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
will also be hitting a good 65 kilometres an hour. The potholes are | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
big enough that you have to slow right down or there will be an | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
accident. Marine investigators edge closer to | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
finding what happened in thd boating tragedy off Felixstowe this weekend. | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
On the day this union demands an extra ?1 an hour for public sector | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
workers, we ask if the workdrs in this region are being short`changed. | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
And a new collection of exotic creatures cutting a dash in the | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
Norfolk countryside. Hello. It's just three weeks and six | :00:50. | :01:05. | |
days until the biggest sporting event in the world comes to this | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
region. Riders in the Tour de France will be travelling through Cambridge | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
and Essex at speeds of betwden 0 and 40 miles per hour. But Look East | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
can reveal that some parts of the route are still rutted with | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
potholes. But the people in charge insist the roads will be re`dy for | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
the big day. Is this a road fit for the world's | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
best cyclists? Callum Riley lives in Saffron Walden and rides | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
competitively. We asked his expert opinion on how these potholds on | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
Windmill Hill could affect the Tour de France. They will be comhng in | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
quick, whatever way you look at it. It may be the beginning of the tour. | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
Like the route, it is quite early on coming into Saffron Walden. But they | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
will also be hitting a good 65 kilometres an hour. So that is round | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
about 40 miles an hour. The potholes are big enough that you havd to slow | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
right down or there will be an accident. So it will cause | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
disruption. And you don't w`nt to be remembered for that race th`t had | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
the big accident, do you? Essex County Council, responsible for this | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
road, says that it will be repaired before the race. We've had the | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
organisers of the Tour de France already came twice and ridddn the | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
route. They came in April and May and highlighted to us issues of | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
concern. And they will be b`ck again in June. We have a regime that means | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
that we will make sure potholes in the roads are filled. Meanwhile | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
Cambridgeshire County Counchl says the race organisers are sathsfied | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
its stretch of the route is safe and up to standard. Of course, Cambridge | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
is known as a cycling city. But aside from the route of the Tour de | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
France, just how well designed are the roads and junctions herd for | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
ordinary, day to day cycling? Good examples include the whde cycle | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
lanes on the Hills Road Bridge. And the green cycle filtered light at | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
this junction, giving cyclists a head start before other traffic | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
Common in the Netherlands, but the first of its kind in the UK. | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
However... The other islands of the junction feel very unsafe. Xou | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
can't, for example, get to the front where there is a sort of red box | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
where people can wait in good view of drivers. In general, it feels a | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
very cramped junction with lots of movements all over the placd. It | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
really doesn't have, it's not somewhere you would choose to cycle | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
unless you really had to. Other common problems include obstacles | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
like these and lamp posts in the middle of cycle routes. `` like | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
trees. There are plans to m`ke improvements in Cambridge, with a | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
new type of bus stop that mdans buses won't block cyclists. They | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
already exist in London and Brighton. Ultimately, though, all | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
road design is a compromise between those on two wheels, those on four | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
and those on foot. Ben is in Cambridge now. We heard | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
what Essex County Council h`d to say there. Do you know what the repair | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
schedule is? I have spoken to them again in light of this report, and | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
the footage you have seen, `nd they have tonight reaffirmed that they | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
are aware of defects and insist they will be repaired before the end of | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
this month, and in fairness, Essex County Council has already repaired | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
some parts of the route, thd roads through the village of finishing | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
field have been relayed, and up in Yorkshire, where the tour starts, | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
repair work on roads there hs costing the council is ?4 mhllion, | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
and back here, Essex County Council has pointed out it is not spending | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
extra money, the only thing changing is the schedule, these that already | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
planned repairs, changing the scheduled to make sure the root of | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
the Tour de France are readx in time, after all, this is thd | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
world's most watched annual sporting event and they want people to have | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
the lasting memory of the dreadful roads. What about the rest of the | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
organisation? Is everything else on schedule? They want to make people | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
aware of disruption, on the travel macro 14, signs of gone up, A14 and | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
it is the biggest closure of roads the county has seen in Essex, and in | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
the final few weeks, they w`nt people to plan how to get to work, | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
or how to watch the race. Thank you. On the programme tomorrow nhght we | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
will be finding out what thd tourism industry in this region is hoping to | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
gain from hosting the Tour de France. | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
Police say a couple whose y`cht collided with a dredger before | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
sinking off Felixstowe at the weekend were local. The man was | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
rescued, but the woman died. Her body was found in the wreckdd | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
yesterday. Today, at the Port of Felixstowe, | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
investigations on board the 900 tonne dredger, the Shoreway, | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
continued. Nearby, parked on the quayside, two police cars. Ht was | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
Sunday lunchtime in sunny wdather when the dredger collided whth the | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
yacht Orca approximately five miles offshore. The yacht sank in minutes | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
stop late yesterday, in strong currents and zero visibilitx, a | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
specialist diving team from Norfolk recovered the body of a wom`n from | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
the wreck. The victim was found inside the vessel. And we'vd got | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
restricted access into the `ctual bottom of the boat. And obvhously, | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
the diver was very mindful of his own safety. Putting himself into | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
such a confined space. Therd was a lot of debris in there. So ht did | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
take a bit of effort to get the victim out. A man on board the Orca | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
was pulled to safety by the crew of the dredger. One of two dogs on | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
board was also saved. The shipping lanes in and ott of the | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Port of Felixstowe are amongst the busiest in Europe. This are` is also | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
extremely popular with recrdational sailors. But what is puzzling the | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
sailing community is how thd crew of the Orca, in good weather whth the | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
sun shining, failed to spot the dredger bearing down on thel. | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
The vessel sunk a mile East of the number of two buoy. That puts it | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
somewhere near that position in the inbound lane. `` outbound. | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
This expert in marine safetx says the rules over who has right of way | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
in shipping lanes are clear. There is a rule called the narrow | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
channels rule. It says that a vessel of less than 20 metres shall not | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
impede the passage of a vessel which can only safely navigate within a | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
narrow channel. So that's the rules that apply here. And if we do cross | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
the channel, we have to keep out the way of commercial vessels. @nd we | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
should cross as near 90 degrees to the heading of the vessels `s | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
possible. So that we are in the channel for the shortest tile. It is | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
understood Orca was a local yacht. The woman who died has yet to be | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
formally identified. A postlortem is due to be held tomorrow. Me`nwhile, | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
investigators will be examining radar plots and interviewing | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
witnesses. It could be weeks, or even months, before their initial | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
findings into what happened are published. | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
The police are looking for five men after a hit`and`run on the L11 in | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
which a police motorcyclist was seriously hurt. He was hit by a | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
black BMW just north of junction ten near Cambridge yesterday afternoon. | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
The stolen car was later fotnd in nearby Harston. The men werd filmed | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
by CCTV cameras at a petrol station in the village soon after. | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
The Government has agreed to hold talks on the future of a walk`in | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
health centre in Norwich. The lease for the Timber Hill Health Centre | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
has run out and the site cotld be turned into restaurants. Thdre have | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
been petitions to save the centre and today the matter was rahsed in | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
the House of Commons. The Norwich walk`in centre should stay hn its | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
city centre location to continue to move people away from A when they | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
don't need to go there, Mr Speaker. Would the Secretary of Statd meet me | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
to discuss both urgent and primary care provision in Norwich? H would | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
be delighted to meet her. And she is absolutely right to say that the | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
long`term solution to presstres in A is to find alternatives in | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
out`of`hospital care that are easy for people to find. And that means | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
improving GP access and any other alternatives. And I'm sure we can | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
find a good solution in Norwich A double`decker bus has got stuck in | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
a hole in a road in Suffolk. It happened after a water main burst | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
and the road collapsed at Holbrook near Ipswich this morning. Homes | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
nearby lost their supply and the village school was forced to close. | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
The road was closed while the bus was recovered. | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
Police forces across the region are getting ready for what could be an | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
upsurge in cases of domestic abuse during the World Cup. Research shows | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
that violence in the home increases during England football matches | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
Gareth George has been findhng out what the police in Essex ard | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
planning to do. The England team arriving in Brazil, | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
but back home, alcohol fuelled reaction to results could ptt more | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
pressure on police. According to research, police forces could see a | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
26% increase in domestic abtse on an evening when England are pl`ying. If | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
England lose, they increase could be as high as 38%. In Essex, that means | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
22 more cases if England win or draw, and 33 if they lose. But Essex | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
Police are trying to do somdthing. Using all the information it has | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
about domestic abuse and football violence, they say they havd | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
identified 117 people most likely to be involved in World Cup related | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
domestic abuse, 110 men, seven women, and it says it will target | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
them through the tournament. Today, the Chief Constable spoke to Look | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
East, explaining what form that targeting would take. Ella bought | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
saying to them, if they misbehave, ``... Sing to them, if they | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
misbehave or mistreat their other halves, then it can be a safe period | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
for others. Some of them cotld be arrested before the World Ctp, for | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
outstanding offences, others spoken to. Meanwhile, a woman expl`ined by | :10:50. | :11:01. | |
food boil `` explained why food boil `` football may trigger this | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
violence the . Sign but thex cannot control what is going on on the | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
television, so it could be these triggers that they do not rdalise is | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
a problem it is what makes them react in a violent manner. | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
This week, Essex Police and Essex County Council began a joint | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
campaign called standing together. In part two of Look East tonight, we | :11:28. | :11:43. | |
are looking at pay packets hn the region. | :11:44. | :11:52. | |
And semi`retirement for pelhcans. Just over six months ago, the Port | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
of Felixstowe in Suffolk appeared to be facing a serious threat from a | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
newcomer just down the road in Essex. The London Gateway is huge | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
and promised to shake up thd industry. But so far, Felixstowe has | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
managed to hold on to its ctstomers. This report from our business | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
correspondent Richard Bond. London Gateway boasts the l`rgest | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
quay cranes in the UK. Todax, they were busy unloading marble `nd | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
granite from a ship newly arrived from Antwerp. One of six vessels due | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
in this week. Britain's newdst port is already attracting services from | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
all over the world. We are growing as planned. We started in November | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
last year with one service. We are now up to six services. And the | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
shipping lines are very keen and interested in the product ddlivered | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
here at London Gateway. London Gateway opened late last ye`r, | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
offering shippers direct access to the south`east. It poses a threat to | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
nearby Felixstowe. It has the potential to be a world`class port. | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
But so far, no main customers have been tempted to leave Felixstowe. In | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
particular, the key Asian shipping lines. Lombard Shipping is ` | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
logistics company based in Hpswich. It's experienced teething problems | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
receiving goods through London Gateway. The shipping lines cannot, | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
particularly those with the very largest vessels, cannot afford the | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
risk of signing up to go up to London Gateway. And changing their | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
schedules and so on to accolmodate that. If London Gateway cannot | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
actually do the business, as it were. So it's a big risk for any big | :13:26. | :13:33. | |
shipping line to commit to London Gateway. One or two things have | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
happened to help Felixstowe's cause. The dropping of plans to ch`rge | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
tolls on the A14. And improvements to the local rail network. But | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
shipping experts say London Gateway's in a long game. It's still | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
early days, really. The port has only been open for six months. You | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
know, they were almost inevhtably going to start with smaller | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
customers. So it is a case of building up slowly and getthng ready | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
to handle the big Asian customer. As any business in the containdr | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
industry, we are keen to get more ships. But at the moment, wd are | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
very happy with a sixfold increase in services in May. And the terminal | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
is running very well. And also, we had a significant uplift in the Park | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
interest. None of the big Asian shipping services using Felhxstowe | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
wanted to be interviewed about London Gateway. But I understand all | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
are being courted by the new port. Until one of them signs up, London | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
Gateway will not be seen as serious competition to its southern rival. | :14:34. | :14:42. | |
`` Suffolk rival. There's been some other important | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
business news today. A settlement worth millions of pounds has been | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
agreed for former workers at Visteon which made car parts. The v`lue of | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
their pensions was slashed when the company went into administr`tion. | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
This is what Richard had to say about that a short time ago. | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
Well, this is a long`running saga. One of a number involving | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
occupational pensions which have been in the news in recent xears for | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
all the wrong reasons. It involves former Ford workers from Basildon in | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
Essex. Their car parts division was sold by Ford to a company c`lled | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
Visteon. It subsequently went into administration in 2009. And the | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
members lost their jobs, but subsequently, they also found that | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
the value of their occupational pensions had been slashed bx up to | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
40%. So a real double blow. But a settlement has now apparently been | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
reached. The union Unite has been campaigning on this for four or five | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
years. MPs have been involvdd. There have been a number of legal | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
hearings. And according to Tnite, it has reached a settlement worth | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
several million pounds with Ford to benefit 1200 members at four | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
locations in the UK, includhng Basildon. And members have | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
overwhelmingly supported thd settlement, no doubt delighted to | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
put the whole business behind them. The union Unison has been holding a | :15:52. | :16:05. | |
protest today over a pay offer to thousands of local government | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
workers which is below infl`tion. It wants a pay rise of at least ?1 an | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
hour to make up for what it says has been years of pay`cuts. Our chief | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
reporter Kim Riley is here. So is this just a local protest? Well | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
today's action was at the Chvic Centre in Southend. Very much part | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
of a national campaign by ptblic sector unions to get a bettdr deal | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
for hundreds of thousands of local government workers. Once yot are a | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
relatively low paid. `` ones who are. The employers have offdred a 1% | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
pay rise, slightly more to the very lowest paid. The unions say this | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
follows a three`year pay`frdeze A 1% increase last year. In effect, | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
another pay cut. They are p`ying for this crisis. A crisis they didn t | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
actually cause in the first place. Very clearly, our members are angry | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
about the way they have been treated. They are being askdd to | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
work longer, harder and acttally for less pay. And I think that's not | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
fair. We just want a fair p`y rise. The employers say they're f`cing the | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
biggest cuts in living memory. And this is a fair deal. But unhon | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
members are now balloting on possible strike action. We've had | :17:11. | :17:12. | |
politicians talk about pay `nd the cost of living. What are thd facts? | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
Let's take one measure of p`y ` gross weekly earnings. Latest | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
figures from the Office of National Statistics, to April last ydar, put | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
London at the top of the table. Surprise, surprise. ?658. Northern | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
Ireland at the bottom. ?460. This region comes fourth in the table. | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
?505 a week. That's up 2% on the previous year. But here, as | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
elsewhere, there is a gender divide. Men averaging ?550. Women in the | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
East, 440. A difference of `bout ?6,000 a year. Now we know wages | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
have been squeezed during the recession. This graph shows annual | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
increases in gross weekly e`rnings over 15 years. Note the sudden drop | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
from the start of the econolic downturn. Now let's put on the | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
Consumer Prices Index. The CPI. The cost of living. For ten years, wage | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
rises stayed well ahead. But see how the two indexes crossed as the | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
recession took hold. Inflathon continuing to rise, far outstripping | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
wage settlements. Those werd firmly going down. Only now are thd two | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
measures coming back into b`lance. That shows why so many families have | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
struggled to make ends meet during the recession. And by trade unions | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
think the time is right to seek a better deal on wages and thdy said, | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
if people are paid more, thdy can spend more, which is better for the | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
economy. Thank you. They reckon that one nurse hn every | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
four working for the NHS in this region comes from overseas. They are | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
plugging a vital gap in the workforce. Most of them are already | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
trained when they arrive and most of them know what to expect at work. | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
But what about their free thme? For some, it's a very big changd. Dawn | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
Gerber has been to King's Lxnn to find out. | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
Paula Santos and Caroline Dhago have been staff nurses at the Quden | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
Elizabeth Hospital in Kings Lynn for nearly one year. Like many hospitals | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
in the region, it has been recruiting from abroad for lany | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
years, places like South Africa the Philippines and Europe. The standing | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
of `` the standard of nursing, particularly in Portugal, h`s been | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
very high. A lot of the English nurses say that they have found that | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
they have had to almost compete and it has raised their game, so I think | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
it has raised tandems all round And in the news, there has been the | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
issue of people from overse`s taking British jobs. They are not, we have | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
advertised them to the Brithsh and have not got the response, some of | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
that is the location that wd have, and more younger people are looking | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
for perhaps city life. They have uprooted from Portugal after | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
struggling to find work. I looked for a job in Portugal for one year, | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
for her it was two years. Wd did a lot of applications, and thd answer | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
was nothing. After all that time, we want to work. So I applied for this | :20:26. | :20:34. | |
one, once I applied for a job in England. And we got this ond and we | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
came. But once their duties are over, what is life like outside It | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
was hard in the beginning. We stayed more together. All of us in the flat | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
and the hospital. But after a certain time, you see the hospital | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
in front of you and need to change. Normally, we go shopping, whth | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
friends, and we go for walks, like today is a sunny day, go for a | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
coffee, dinner, we like to go for dinner. They want to build ` life | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
year and they will not be the last overseas nurses to join the | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
hospital, the more experienced staff retiring and people living longer, | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
meaning the need to recruit more nurses and some of those will be | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
from abroad. Alex is here. Before she dods the | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
weather, she's been to a new zoological park which has jtst | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
opened in Norfolk. Yes, it's called the Shorelands Wildlife Gardens A | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
garden with wildlife roaming free. Lots of birds and really untsual | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
ones, all kinds, many of thdm rare and endangered. And you can get up | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
close? Yellow but absolutelx, quite a unique place. | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
Tucked away in a secluded p`rt of the Norfolk countryside, a new | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
zoological Park has recentlx opened to the public. Shorelands Whldlife | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
Gardens were set with conservation in mind. It was the brainchhld of | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
Ben Potterton. It started off as a hobby. We used to be birds for zoo | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
and look after older birds. Then we decided to open to the publhc in May | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
and let people into have a look round. We think it is quite nice and | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
a pleasing attraction for pdople to visit. Many of the animals roam free | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
in the gardens. And this relaxed atmosphere has encouraged breading. | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
So this is a baby white stork. He is looking a little scruffy today after | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
the torrential rain of Saturday And this is a European white stork. And | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
he will grow up to be a nicd strong chick. He is about three and a half | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
weeks now. So he's getting there slowly. His feathers are st`rting to | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
appear. There are also older birds in the collection, like these | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
retired pelicans. They came from a zoo in Austria. `` in the | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
Netherlands. I love the ide` this has become a retirement homd for | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
pelicans. Well, we have a fdw, we do take on a few animals that `re | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
older. We have 44`year`old cranes here as well. And some with | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
extraordinary plumage. This is a female grey crowned crane. @nd she | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
is a particularly steady felale She's got a mate here, and nest to | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
my right. But being bred in captivity and born in captivity she | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
does bond to certain people. Here she is, she has come to see what I'm | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
doing. Quite relaxed bird and normally out on the lawns. We give | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
them space here where they can come and nest in a corner part. @nd | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
again, a bird that is probably quite endangered in the wild. But they are | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
beautiful birds. One of the most attractive birds we have here. | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
Shorelands was created alongside Blacksmiths Cottage, one of the | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
region's top plant nurseries. And visitors can enjoy the garddns which | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
are teeming with insect lifd. And it's also home to a variety of other | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
animals. Running breeding programmes with institutions across Europe | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
Shorelands aims to conserve rare and endangered theses and ensurd their | :24:00. | :24:00. | |
future survival. `` species. Why don't the birds fly awax? They | :24:01. | :24:15. | |
are so happy and well fed, they stay there, and I was worried about the | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
pelicans, but he said they were more interested in the fish buckdt. | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
A lovely place to visit and it is open between Wednesday and Sunday. | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
And a perfect place to go in this kind of weather. Today was very | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
warm, temperatures getting to 2 Celsius, and here are the hotspots. | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
For the rest of the week, wd can expect more worn their visu`ls `` | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
warm temperatures, maybe cooler tomorrow but plenty of sunshine The | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
risk of some showers in places, but mainly dry. Increasing amounts of | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
cloud across the West. Not spoiling things for us, but low`pressure out | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
to the west meaning some showers up across the Midlands, but if you live | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
somewhere like Northamptonshire Peterborough, you might catch one of | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
those showers before the end of the day, but a fine end to the day for | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
the rest of us and dry night with long clear spells, temperattres a | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
degree or so lower than night, to around 10`11dC and a light | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
south`westerly wind. We start tomorrow with high`pressure bringing | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
lots of dry, fine and sunny weather, a beautiful sunny lorning, | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
some patchy cloud through the day, the small risk that somewhere might | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
catch an isolated shower, btt largely dry for most of us. Cooler | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
tomorrow, temperatures around 2 or 21 Celsius, like westerly breeze, | :25:57. | :26:04. | |
and some onshore breezes cotld develop, so cooler on the coast But | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
largely fine and dry for thd rest of the day. Looking ahead, this weather | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
is picking around, temperattres creeping up slightly for Thtrsday, | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
maybe 23 Celsius, possibly higher, long spells of sunshine. On Friday, | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
this could be the warmest d`y of the week, possibly of the year hf | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
temperatures go higher than 24 degrees, it looks fine and sunny, | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
with long spells of sunshind, more cloud developing, showers from the | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
north which may get into thhs part of the world, and as for thd | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
weekend, looking reasonable, but the risk of showers returning. | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
Thank you. Hopefully the we`ther will be good tomorrow, as Khm Riley | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
will be live in a suspect n`ture reserve for Springwatch 2014 ending | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
on Thursday, and he will john the team who, among other things, will | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
be looking at adders. And I am sure he does not like snakes! We will see | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
you tomorrow night. Goodbye. | :27:13. | :27:17. |