06/07/2014 Look East - East

Hello, I'm Shaun Peel. Back to you.

First tonight, the region is bracing itself

In just 13 hours, the third leg of the Tour de France

will pass through the East dn route from Cambridge to London.

BELL RINGS 24 hours before the real thing hits town, more than

a thousand cyclists were trying out the roads of Essex today.

Today is a cycling event th`t follows some of the stage that will

be ridden tomorrow morning by the professionals.

We've over 1,100 cyclists here taking part and we should bd raising

And this is where the real thing will kick`off tomorrow.

The grandstand is in place on the starting line of stage thred of the

Meanwhile, on Parkers Piece, the big tour themed weekend will be

The roads around here will begin closing tonight

and extra trains are being laid on to get into the city tomorrow.

There is extra parking at Cambridge Rugby Club,

but if you want to try Saffron Walden, there is Park and Rhde

There will be a giant screen on Saffron Walden common

and big crowds are expected to line the town's streets.

The position that most people seem to want to go to is to go to is

the bottom of the High Street, which is where the route turns

That's a very sharp left`hand turn, so we are all quite interested

to see how the cyclists are going to negotiate that.

The bells at many churches along the route will toll to welcome the Tour.

Among them, the Church of the Holy Cross at Felsted.

Many people are saying, we are going to come because we will

In the village of Rayne on the edge of Braintree, a music festival is

And as the race skirts the edge of Chelmsford,

Melbourne Park is being turned into a car park, while the centre of the

Road users can't say they'vd not been warned, the Tour is coming.

Neither can customers at thd Waitrose supermarket in Cambridge.

It put up a sign pointing out that a "local sporting event" max disrupt

A case, perhaps, of the Tour de France being,

Police are investigating a burglary near Milton Keynes,

It happened early today at house near the town of O'ney

One raped the woman, who's in her fifties, while the

Tributes have been paid to the naturalist, Philip Wayrd,

With his wife, he founded the Otter Trust near Bungay in Suffolk

and they're credited with saving the otter from extinction

Philip Wayre at the Earsham Otter Trust,

which became the test`bed for an international wildlife experiment.

Pesticide pollution had all but wiped out lowland otters by the 70s.

so the trust bred them in captivity.

In 1983, it began releasing them agahn.

People said, if in ten years time, if you've made no further

reintroductions on these rivers and the otters are still thdre

and still breeding, OK, we will believe it works.

As Cambridge countryside calpaigner, Robin Page, observed for himself.

1993, wild otters arrived in this little brook and otters are

He was a fantastic man and he set the agenda

Philip Wayre had already established the Norfolk wildlife park bdfore

founding the Otter Trust with Jean Franklin, whom he later married

His family are now organising a celebration of his life,

Well,it could well turn out to be a decent day first thing

First of all, we have a much more comfortable night to come.

Fresher, under largely clear skies, just one or two isolated showers.

Dry for many and feeling a little cooler, with temperatures

Tomorrow, lots of sunny spells around.

By the afternoon, we are re`ching temperatures in the low 20s.

But a few sharp showers around, and they're not going to be ide`l for

showers, perhaps the odd rumble of thunder. But sunny spells in

That's it. There's coverage of the tour

tomorrow on Radio Cambridgeshire and BBC Essex, and there's

We're back in breakfast news with bulletins from 6.30am.

Hello. We are going to carry the weekend weather into the first part

of the working week. A mix of sunny spells and showers, essentially.

spells and showers, essentially Overnight, a mix of clear spells and

showers. Not that many showers around, but when they turn up they

could be on the heavy side. The Bristol Channel, perhaps across

western Scotland. Temperatures in most towns and cities no lower than

11 or 12 degrees. In Easton parted could be a chilly micro start. The

cloud will start to develop as temperatures rise and we can see

some showers breaking up. Pretty hit and miss, you are more likely to

stay dry than to catch more than the odd shower through the day. Pretty

well scudded across Scotland and Northern Ireland, lengthy