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They call it the greatest show on Earth and today the Tour de France

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has been casting its magic over this region. You can't be anything but

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impressed by the way the cotnties around England have turned out for

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this. The best cyclists in the world racing while being cheered by

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thousands of fans. We have seen it in France but on home territory it

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is even better. The atmosphdre is amazing. Tonight we are basdd here

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at thinking field one of dozens of villages where the massive support

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cast has raced through at speeds sometimes reaching 40 mph. @nd I am

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in Cambridge read all startdd with the grand depart from just over

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there. We will have all of the reaction from the city with cycling

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at its core. They call this the most photographed village in England and

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it is easy to see why. Especially earlier when it was bathed hn

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sunlight. There were 10,000 people here watching the Tour de France,

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through. Around 1 million pdople watched it across the region and in

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this village and they watchdd it from all sorts of vantage point If

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you look at the church clock there were people up on top of thd church

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tower and they reckon that just before 25 past one today thd first

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two raiders came through. Then we waited around for the half linutes

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until just before 1:30pm whdn we got the main peloton coming through The

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astonishing thing is that the embankment behind me was covered by

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people. Everyone was enjoying a great day. One of the great things

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about the Tour de France was that everyone got involved. The police

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were coming through, those on motorcycles, some of them actually

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took their hands off the handlebars as the cycle through so it has been

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a great stay here. We will have more of the day's newsletter in the

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programme but let's start the coverage in Cambridge. Front row,

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splash of colour, everyone lade it. The city looking its best. We think

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it was a once in a lifetime opportunity, but it has seeled so

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successful they may come back! Cambridge is a great role model for

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the other towns in Britain to see what can be achieved. The UK's

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cycling capital, a match made in heaven with a British fuel. How did

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it go? And should be a straightforward run. Compardd to the

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last few days. Receiving a very famous Cambridge sendoff. They will

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not start racing until later, then it is 12 miles within Cambrhdgeshire

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before this whole road show moves all of the way through to Essex

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They can hardly contain thelselves, praying position to greet the pellet

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on. We are in the heart of the town, it is hard to believe that

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nearly 200 raiders will squdeze in the year. It will be a good race.

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The sun is out so this corndr is the best place in town. The crowds and

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seemingly, it is the best sport I have ever been to. There we are the

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chasing pack known as the pdllet on, the atmosphere is incredibld. ``

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peloton. What a view of the action area. So

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far, so good. All of the rahders are adding safely at the head ott of

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town and into the heart of the Essex countryside. This is how streets

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just north of Chelmsford, htndreds converged on the verge having a real

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blast. Well, almost. No drop`off in peace for the pros, 19 minutes in.

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Here, the main pack, is chilling moment. A moment of great contrast.

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For this tiny community, thhs is a camel to is welcome. This h`s been a

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good couple of months in thd making, when you start looking this morning

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at four o'clock pulling your hair out to work out where an extra

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prison with a gazebo goes that is part of the fun! For the organisers

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it is about legacy, for the raiders that is about this link. He`ding to

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cancel. Two hours and 12 minutes in setting off and now 50 miles into

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the stage at the riders are streaming through the usually

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tranquil Essex countryside. The tour 's long`awaited arrival will be at

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Telstra and has triggered a celebration of cycling. Lots of

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people came out, it has been great to meet people, other cyclists, talk

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about returns the tour. There was some disappointment because Alex

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deficit had not made the totr. He will try to get into the totr next

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time. He needs this box tapdd. This is a bigger tour. As locals reclaim

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the tour, it continued on its 4 miles to the finish. We havd had a

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gloriously hot day as I say, in the skies opened about 20 minutds ago

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but let me show you some pictures of the end of the Tour de France. It

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went to Chelmsford and then passed the Olympic Park into London and the

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winner was Marcel Kittel who won the first stage as well, he is having a

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very good Tour de France. It was around three hours 30 minutds and 30

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seconds to do the whole course. It was raining in the mall when he got

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there. That did not dampen our day`to`day, with the top 22 guys who

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have done well. He is, landlord of the fox in. And Frank Tyler, a

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restaurant. Any idea how much business you have done? It has been

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a weeks business in a day. 400 copies for breakfast. And wd ran out

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of taken, 400 bands in. Excdllent. And you have special deals with

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celebratory packages and evdrything? , we had a marquee on the green

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which is still going on, but the also had 80 people within the pub

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who had a champagne breakfast and a four course lunch. We have sold a

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lot of beer and wine have h`ve had a great day. A lot of beer behng

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dumped out your! And my feet are a little sore now. I brought hn extra

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staff, my children came in. Apart from the business, when you looked

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out, this is a place that you do come to every day. What was your

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reaction? I have lived in 18 years and we thought, what will it be

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like? It was so friendly. Stch nice people. They queued all day and got

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their drinks and said thank you and it was great. It was fantastic. It

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made us all immensely proud of the village, it was lovely. A lovely

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day. Thank you for coming ott this evening in the rain. I hope that

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cries out for the celebrations. It is hard to believe that it was just

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the a few hours ago that thd tyres of the best cyclists in the world

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where lined up here. I was here at 7am and the crowds were alrdady

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beginning to gather. By the time of the Rhondda Park there were

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literally tens of thousands of people lining the small strdets and

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here. It has been a the rest day. And here in the centre of C`mbridge

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is where the party has taken place today. Things being cleared up now

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but you can still see behind me the white tents and that was cycling,

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that was village city reallx encouraging more people to get on

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their bikes. And you can sthll smell the cooking of French food from the

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market here. It has been a horrific day. As dawn broke over Cambridge

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UK's capital of cycling was preparing to host the biggest race

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of them all. 12`year`old jewel and ten`year`old Davie had gottdn up

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extra early to secure their place. How long have you been here? 61 , so

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does the two hours. As you `re just on the startling, that is alazing.

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How excited are you? Very excited. A flavour of France in the centre of

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Cambridge. What's the sea and plenty to eat. The party was starthng on

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Parkers piece and everyone was invited. I saw you through the

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crowds and has to stop you. I needed to answer the question, can I read a

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Penny Farthing? So I thought I better build one. In diffictlt is it

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too late? Raiding is OK but stopping any hurry is difficult. We have been

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warned! Thank you. This was Regent Street. Packed five or six deep in

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places, others found a way to avoid the crowds. Flags, cameras, mobile

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phones at the ready. This is the moment we have all been waiting for,

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the world elite cyclists whhzzing past and I tell you what it does not

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matter if you're cycling ard not it is really exciting to be here in the

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middle of it right now. We were expecting crowds and a lot of people

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but I can tell you that Parkers piece is absolutely packed. Everyone

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has moved on to watch the rdst of the race on the big screen `nd we

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will have a chat with these people. What was it like? Absolutelx

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brilliant, the noise, peopld shouting, the horns of motorbikes,

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really magnificent. It was ` great atmosphere wasn't it? Everyone was

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involved in is cheating, it was great. This was the birds exe view

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of the city that had looked forward to this day for months. There was

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real optimism that it had bden great for business. Hundreds of thousands

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of pounds of additional income that businesses will have gotten in

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Cambridge but everyone was hn the spirit and spending their money with

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a smile. A day that had been planned for months, erase that had been and

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gone in seconds but for manx the memories will last longer.

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Tony Purnell is from British Cycling.

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It has been amazing. Tremendous a party. You are responsible for the

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technical side of things and have experienced the Formula One. I

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wonder whether the rate is to the Tour de France as the car is the

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Formula One? Absolutely not, in Formula One it is 70% car, 30%

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brighter. At most it is the opposite here. Definitely 70% rate. The team

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makes a difference, so maybd 20 . 10% the bicycle itself. Any

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challenges facing the cyclists today? To be honest I think it was a

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straightforward, easy day for them. They certainly needed one after

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yesterday! We are more gentdel than the Yorkshireman, we sent them to

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see the Queen in London. It's the current governor have seconds to go

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past, I am just wondering whether you think that there will bd

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something longer lasting cure for Cambridge. Absolutely. If there are

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enough people seeing this, the very pinnacle of cycling, they whll be

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inspired. It is a great sport and what the nation needs for its

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health. Hopefully lots of youngsters will take cycling. And then I think

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the fact that over the CDs lore than 3 million people have turned out to

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see this, not just watched ht on the TV but gone out of their beds and

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come to see it, enjoyed the party atmosphere, it is a wake`up call to

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the politicians. We should raise our cities to the cycling cities, like

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Copenhagen in Europe which H believe as 50% of its journey by bicycle,

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much more than any city in Dngland. Cambridge is doing well but he could

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do better! Thank you very mtch. More from here later in the programme.

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Thank you very much indeed. People got here very early today and we

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stood alone in bright sunlight and then the cyclists went throtgh and I

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reckon with that bridge painted me which is one of the slowest point on

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the whole course it took thdm about 15 or 20 seconds to get through

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here. We waited for hours btt it was worth it. We will be back hdre later

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in the programme. But first let s round up the rest of the dax 's

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news. Hello, more than ?100 million pounds

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of Government funding has bden announced for our part of the

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region, and more than half of it The money will help completd

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a number of projects including the roll out of stperfast

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broadband, new relief roads for Bury St Edmunds and Beccles and further

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improvements to the A127 in Essex. Three of our further educathon

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colleges at Lowestoft, Easton This is a big award that business

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leaders say will make the difference. Making it easier for

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local businesses to grow in the local workforce to be traindd. 60

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million will be spent in Norfolk and Suffolk over the next two ydars

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Fantastically important. A transformational moment for the

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knowledge and Suffolk econoly. We are being given ?300 million to

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spend on growth, jobs and enterprise. Education does well

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among the big winners in Lowestoft College which will spend ?10 million

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on an engineering centre. Wdll Eastern College near Norwich will

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spend still formally and potnds on a new construction training cdntre

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which it hopes to have open in the next two years. This is verx

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important to us, we have bedn proved by industry to develop work in

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construction to make what is it very significant demand for construction

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in the region. We have had considerable success in doing so.

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But we have run out of spacd. Today the plans won the approval of the

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transport minister. There h`s been an important change this tile

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around. Local business groups have decided where the money shotld go.

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Far too often if Waco dictates, Whitehall will save me what this but

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then locals will see, we wish you had done something else. Wh`t this

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does is listen to local people s priorities. That is why it hs so

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important. There will be money to help small companies expand, like

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this past the manufacturer which has just bought a bigger factorx thanks

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to a loan from a local enterprise partnership. This housing scheme can

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now be completed because money has been found for a new development.

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Labour call is a stunt and see it as too little too late but the

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government says the record investment will make the difference.

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The region's commuter trains could get a better WiFi service,

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It's to be paid for out of ` fine, which is being imposed on

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Network Rail for failing to meet punctuality targets.

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Train firms will have to bid for the money.

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Priority's expected to be ghven to the busy lines into London.

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Two men have been charged after armed police surrounddd

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a holiday complex near Great Yarmouth at the weekend.

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A trained negotiator was also called to the scene in Ormesby.

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The men were arrested after three hours.

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They face 20 counts of theft, burglary and possessing weapons

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Tributes have been paid to a former motorcross rider who's died

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Dave Bickers from Suffolk was nicknamed

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He later ran a stunt companx and worked on eight James Bond films.

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He has rendered ten! He has done it! What a fantastic race! The

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fearless fighter whose race was never over. He was so passionate

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about bikes that he said he never worked a day in his whole lhfe. He

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met his wife when she was a motocross Marshall and just a few

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weeks ago aged 76 attended the veterans weekend in Colorado. Every

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day of his life he got up in the morning and was in the workshop and

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I cant remember him being any different. It was 90% of his life,

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motorbikes. After his motocross career Dave Vickers opened ` stunt

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company. His collection of bikes is still housed in the workshop. In

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1979 he appeared in escape case chatting. It was in 1983 th`t his

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association with James Bond film started. Helping engineer the speed

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for scene in Octopussy. It was all about getting the boat to go through

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360 degrees and live in the water with Bond in the boat. It w`s a very

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tricky stunt at the time my dad did not get enough recognition for it.

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He also engineered the car stunts into one of advice. We had ` great

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time chasing the BMW. Loving motorbikes meant loving wifd. And

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Suffolk the man they called Mr Fixit will never be forgotten.

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Norfolk's police commissiondr is going back to work while

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Stephen Bett had said he was "stepping aside" while the

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Independent Police Complaints commission looked

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But questions were raised about whether he could legally pass

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He says he's returning to work to avoid a "costly legal wrangle".

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It follows a meeting of the county's Police and Crime p`nel

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The expenses under investig`tion involve claims for mileage between

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That is it from the newsrool. Back to Stewart in the village of

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cinching field. Welcome back to Essex on thd day

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that the Tour de France camd to visit. As I was driving herd a

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source of many people on thdir bicycles coming here and as you

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moved around there were so lany representatives of death cycling

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clubs from all over the reghon. People who have come here today to

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enjoy it. I read one person who cycled one of the routes from one

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state of the Tour de France and was about twice as long in doing it as

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the raiders in the race. It was a busy day.

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Fans of the tour started arriving at 40 a.m. And by 9am it was btsy. A

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big day for local traders and for the many cycling clubs that had come

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to watch. This club has comd from Luton. We have come here and thought

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this was a nice spot becausd they sell bacon rolls! And althotgh we

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are able to copy or head on a Saturday and we are known as the

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bacon rollers because there must be a beacon all involved somewhere

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before we can go home. Therd was modest batting, jets on the road and

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vans selling Tour de France merchandise. From the air, the

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village would the picture. Steve Eve Graham only has the top of the

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village and had one of the best seat in the. You have a beer? Of course!

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It is only 11 o'clock in thd morning. It is allowed. Look at

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this. It is superb. The tour came by just after one o'clock. Aftdr a long

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wait, here comes the peloton. Team Sky are at the front, but it is hard

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to see much. It is very exchting. Excellent. They flashed by dnd

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22nd, the crowd cheering. Vdry. I have seen it in France but on home

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territory it is even better. For some it was all too much. Btt in

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years to come and her about the day the world 's biggest big race came

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to the village. Let's meet two others from the

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village. Graham is the parish council chairman and this is the

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manager of the Guildhall and you have lived here all your life. Have

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you seen a deal like this? Ht has been quite extraordinary. The

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atmosphere was electric and exciting so it has been a great thrill and it

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was a huge success for everxone I have spoken to many people hn the

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village added has put us on the map again. It is the most photographed

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village and country but it looks a picture today. It was fantastic for

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the village and a great day for everyone who was here. Visitors and

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residents. And hopefully successful for local businesses. But a great

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wonderful family atmosphere all day. It has been. Thank you for looking

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after us. Let's go back to Cambridge.

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Thousands of people were here today and nearly all of them had ` tablet

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or mobile phone ready to capture the moment. Many of you were sh`ring

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your stories and tweets with us today. Thank you for that.

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Like this one from Elle Wilson who tweeted from her father's office to

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say "Best view in Finchingfheld of the Tour de France perks of Dad s

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job" and this stunning imagd sent to us from Paul Coxon of the rhders

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going past King's College in Cambridge.. Here's the bdst

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Thank you to everyone who got in touch to help us record this very

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special day. For me it was best summed up by the batons Phelps

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family from Suffolk who simply said it has been a great party. Back to

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you. The sun has not come out but the

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rain has stopped. That is p`rt of the weather forecast. Time for the

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rest of it. I start with the satellite picture,

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the blues and greens indicating where we have those heavy downpours

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that affected Stewart. We still have the risk of further showers into

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this evening and the rest of the night. When you see when it could be

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on the heavy side with perh`ps some thunder but becoming drier

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everywhere. Lows for many of us around 12 degrees. Some of ts could

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drop to around six or 7 degrees Tomorrow we start of Financd try

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with patchy mist and fog but that should quickly clear and thdn some

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showers, some of which could be heavy profundity. The best hn the

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sunshine will be inland, and earned 21 degrees. We finished the day with

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a good scrapping of heavy thundery showers and The Met office has

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issued a yellow warning for that heavy rain. The heaviest is expected

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to hit parts of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire where we are

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expecting to get 20 or 30 millimetres. Definitely somd

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localised flooding. A great deal of uncertainty on Wednesday depending

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on how quickly the warm front pages westwards but looking like ` dry

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start with heavy rain and blustery wind moving in. On Thursday it is

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looking closely with further outbreaks of heavy rain and then on

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Friday, depending on what h`ppens on Wednesday and Thursday, probably

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some showers but it could bdcome much warmer and the could sde

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something as high as 24 or 25 degrees. Before I call thesd are

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overnight lows. Today I have seen people watching

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the Tour de France standing on the back of trailers, they have put them

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up very high to see over thd heads of people in front of them. Someone

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on a flatbed truck, handing out of windows. The organisers is said by

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the Tour de France came herd that they wanted this region to be shown

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in a very special light. Thd sun shone, the riders came in this

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region looked a picture. From all of us, good night.

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