:00:00. > :00:23.That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me and on
:00:24. > :00:25.Hello and welcome to the programme with David and me
:00:26. > :00:27.Coming up, all the news frol Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk.
:00:28. > :00:29.In Chelmsford today, pop star Tulisa is back in court
:00:30. > :00:33.The region's parents facing a tougher penalty for taking
:00:34. > :00:49.The last week of any Terran the majority of the time they play games
:00:50. > :00:54.and watch DVDs. It is often a choice of going on
:00:55. > :01:01.holiday or not going on holhday This Norfolk beach is now hosting
:01:02. > :01:08.the UK's biggest colony of little terns.
:01:09. > :01:13.The Government promised to do a lot more to make cycling safer
:01:14. > :01:15.today, after a Look East survey revealed almost
:01:16. > :01:18.half of cyclists thought biking on the road was too dangerous.
:01:19. > :01:20.The Minister for Cycling admitted that more needs
:01:21. > :01:23.to be done and that the job of making cycling safer should have
:01:24. > :01:26.We will be hearing from him in a moment.
:01:27. > :01:41.An introduction to would`be cyclists who are perhaps apprehensivd of
:01:42. > :01:48.taking to our roads. They are struggling at first, but in
:01:49. > :01:50.a few months they are climbing hills and enjoying it.
:01:51. > :01:59.More than one in five Norwich take to two wheels. The
:02:00. > :02:05.council wants to double that in a decade. As part of its
:02:06. > :02:08.investing in an eight mile cycle route across the city at a cost
:02:09. > :02:13.?5.7 million. There isn't enough room for all the
:02:14. > :02:17.traffic and the cyclists. This morning, people schools and try to
:02:18. > :02:24.cross the roads. The route will cross an acchdent
:02:25. > :02:28.hotspot. The plan is to turn this into this,
:02:29. > :02:32.separated from cars and pedestrians.
:02:33. > :02:37.We can continue to have a chty clogged up with more and
:02:38. > :02:41.alternatives to the current situation.
:02:42. > :02:47.street, it tends to happen that trade goes up.
:02:48. > :02:50.As revealed on our poll last night, 49% of adults we questioned said it
:02:51. > :02:56.is too dangerous to cycle on roads. Yet here in Norwich the dedicated
:02:57. > :03:01.cycle route is almost unused. Just yards away, cyclists prefer to stay
:03:02. > :03:07.on the road amongst the car is. the footpath.
:03:08. > :03:15.Why don't they I don't know, and when they
:03:16. > :03:23.generally write up the side of the Cyclists don't like to have to
:03:24. > :03:28.cross, you cycle on the path, then you have to cross and drop another
:03:29. > :03:34.few roads. prompted dozens of you to contact us
:03:35. > :03:39.at Look East. eyebrow about the cost of
:03:40. > :04:00.redesigning roads for cyclists. 1.4 consensus is perhaps thhs,
:04:01. > :04:04.create the space and you will encourage the culture for s`fer
:04:05. > :04:11.cycling. I put that to the cycling minister,
:04:12. > :04:18.but is that easier said than done? We have made a lot of progress in
:04:19. > :04:23.this country in terms of creating space for cyclists in our
:04:24. > :04:31.better still where we can have space away
:04:32. > :04:40.cycling tracks. But we freely admit we have a long way to go to catch up
:04:41. > :04:48.is a huge amount of investment in cycling, which we do not
:04:49. > :05:00.amount going in in those countries. I was asking
:05:01. > :05:17.you should have started 25 xears ago to get to where we are.
:05:18. > :05:31.are more likely to look out for cyclists. In
:05:32. > :05:44.You want to encourage the average cyclists, is in those
:05:45. > :05:57.and when was the last time his primary school on bikes? Cycling is
:05:58. > :06:15.I was speaking to Chris Boardman yesterday and he said one of the
:06:16. > :06:36.the problem, they are not even suitable for
:06:37. > :07:02.investment here and there, we need consistent funding over
:07:03. > :07:23.do more, and some of the thhngs we can do do not cost such a
:07:24. > :07:34.Our home affairs corresponddnt Sally Chidzoy is in Chelmsford now.
:07:35. > :07:43.wrangles continued. At times she had her head in her hands,
:07:44. > :07:48.for her. Arriving at the magistrates court, Tulisa had no entour`ge,
:07:49. > :07:55.is accused of assaulting a celebrity blogger,
:07:56. > :08:03.the events took place at the V Festival last year.
:08:04. > :08:13.writing about celebrities claims the former X factor judge had
:08:14. > :08:21.which she had had him removdd from our VIP area at a London nightclub.
:08:22. > :08:27.prosecution, the court was told that the singer had swung at the
:08:28. > :08:33.was a very personal matter. He described her as a
:08:34. > :08:39.she needs to be. The blogger's character was attacked,
:08:40. > :08:47.that he was not a man to be trusted, and he used his
:08:48. > :08:59.She had no previous convicthons and that was no evidence she
:09:00. > :09:10.one key witness failed to ttrn up after missing a
:09:11. > :09:22.verdict next month. Denied the singer's
:09:23. > :09:28.her music career. The judge will deliver his
:09:29. > :09:30.Hatchfield Farm should not be built, as the extra traffic generated
:09:31. > :09:32.The original application for 1200 homes was scaled b`ck
:09:33. > :09:33.after being rejected by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles.
:09:34. > :09:35.Our reporter Louise Hubball is at that meeting at Forest Heath
:09:36. > :10:01.needing homes, on the other hand we have the racing community
:10:02. > :10:10.foreign investors will put loney into new market because it comes
:10:11. > :10:19.What important is that not one of these
:10:20. > :10:32.spoiled, not where they will be walking their dogs, this is to