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on settling down and turning warmer. That is all from the BBC News at

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Six. Goodbye Local people depend on the trains

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to get them from one place to another on time, and yet thdy

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have become reliably unreli`ble More coverage of that train chaos

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coming up, plus an interview with Safety warning to parents

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after this toddler is killed A special report from Newmarket

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where equine vets are leading And the memories come floodhng back

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as these majestic planes return to Train services

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in this region are under fire again tonight after thousands of commuters

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were left waiting on a platform Network Rail who are responsible

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for the line were upgrading tracks and signalling at Ipswich Station

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over the weekend. But engineers faced major problems

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overnight which meant cancellations The train operator

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Abellio Greater Anglia was bombarded The mess prompted the strongest

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words yet from the region's MPs Abellio Greater Anglia should

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be stripped of its franchisd. And in an interview,

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Ipswich MP Ben Gummer said " In a moment we'll hear from

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Network Rail. But first let's go to Gareth George

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at Colchester train station. It was signalling at Ipswich that

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needed replaced over the wedkend. That should have taken Network Rail

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eight hours, that is the tile they had scheduled for that job. It ended

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up taking much longer, hencd the main line behind me was not ready

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for the rush hour this mornhng, and that caused chaos. Another lorning

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to forget for these unfortunate passengers, queuing for bosses at

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Ipswich station. At Colchester, the delays came as no surprise.

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They should have been able to plan how long the engineering works would

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take. This happens too often after a weekend or Tuesday after a bank

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holiday. Every time they do engineerhng work,

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it seems to overrun. One MP called for Abelio Grdater

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Anglia to be stripped of its franchise.

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Local MPs depend on the trahns, and yet where it comes to Abelio Greater

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Anglia, they have become reliably unreliable.

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And other MP criticised Network Rail. We need to get somebody who

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can do the work so that this does not happen again.

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A Network Rail executive was asked whether he would resign.

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Abelio Greater Anglia apologised and to respond to what

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Abelio Greater Anglia apologised and said that the scope of engineering

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work would be reviewed. We will sit down with Network Rail

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to identify the actions the need to be taken to ensure that the work

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programme is completed on thme. The BBC's political editor was also

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stranded today. There were queues of people, a

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stationary train, people wahting for a bus, people waiting for t`xis

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people bewildered. Some delays said to continud into

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the evening, check the Abelho Greater Anglia website. The question

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for Network Rail is, did thdy try to squeeze too much engineering work

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into two short space of timd. Many engineers say that for this line to

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really improve the government needs to invest much more money.

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You saw Robin Gisby, Network Rail's managing dirdctor

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of network operations, in that report responding to calls

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When I spoke to him earlier I asked whether this was

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a case of poor planning, bad management or incompetence.

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What we found at Ipswich is intervening

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in 40`year`old equipment we have stumbled, and stumbled badlx, and I

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can only apologise to passengers for what we did to them this morning.

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We have stumbled in dealing with some really quite

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We opened it up at the weekdnd and when we tried to put it back

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together in the small hours, what was there just wouldn't work

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We have to put safety first, in the testing we were doing,

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and this became one of the most frustrating overruns.

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I went to bed last night re`sonably confident it would come back

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I spent the small hours of this morning trying to gdt some

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the project teams that we work with, nobody else, and we've just got to

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I wanted to ask you about that, because as you say there has been

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One MP has said the company should lose its

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Are you saying the problems are entirely the fault of Network Rail?

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Yes, this is not the problel of the train operator.

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They can only run the service as well as the infrastructure,

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I understand it is major infrastructure work,

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but I spoke to one of your colleagues a few wedks ago,

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he said something similar to you and that lessons would be ldarned.

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Some of them were, but I thhnk this has gone higher up the food chain,

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We have just got to get mord into the details.

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This 40`year`old equipment, when you go and intervene

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and improve it, you find thhngs you did not expect to be there.

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We thought we were on top of this, we planned this much better,

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but we still got it badly wrong in the small hours.

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I think we are through the worst of it now, and I have got to work

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with the train operator and passengers to rebuild a bit

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of trust here, because we h`ve let people down very badly thred times.

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There will be more, and more reliable, services in the

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future as part of the 25 million we are spending at Ipswich and the 2

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billion we are spending across the whole of East England in thd future,

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but it is a sorry performance this morning and we have to do bdtter.

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Passengers are understandably furious,

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One e`mailed us to say that the economy of the whole cotntry is

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suffering because of Network Rail, and it is a national scandal.

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We did 1,000 jobs this weekend across the network.

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We're to rebuild the railwax in real time.

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Major open`heart surgery we did at Ipswich this weekend.

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But we are trying to do that so we can run a railway on ` Monday

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We had the extra day becausd of the bank holiday weekend.

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I think it would be a step backwards if we got

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so risk averse we planned to put everybody on replacement buses.

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But passengers want reliability whether it is

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on buses or the train, at ldast they can get to work on time.

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These are people who cannot get to important meetings and are not told

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That is what was even more frustrating

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I spent the early hours this morning working with

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the operating team trying to get the service back to restore somd kind

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of train service, in the me`ntime, looking around at short nothce

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On a first day back after the holidays there ard many

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It was not by any means our finest hour.

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I'll hold my hand up, we got it wrong,

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But we are through the back of it now, and I do think wd will

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have a much better railway for passengers in the futurd.

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Robin Gisby, from Network R`il, speaking to me earlier.

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In other news a safety warnhng tonight from a coroner after she was

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told that a two year old girl died when a fireplace fell on top of her.

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It was made of marble and stone and had been fixed to

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The inquest today into the death of Trinity Coward from Norwhch

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Coroner Jacqueline Lake said Trinity Coward's death was

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Her father, following advicd, had used industrial strength glue

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to secure the stone and marble structure to the wall

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at the family home in the L`kenham area in Norwich.

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The court heard the second`hand fireplace h`d been

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bought on eBay two years ago and did not come with fitting instrtctions.

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In a statement read to the hnquest, Trinity's father Sean told how she

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had been playing around happily then she stood on tiptoes,

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put her hands up to the mantelpiece and started to swing.

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All of a sudden, the firepl`ce had fallen away from the wall.

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Trinity had landed on her b`ck, the fireplace surrounding hdr.

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He bent over to pick her up, and when he did so,

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"I am absolutely devastated at the loss of Trinity",

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"She was my rock, a real daddy 's girl.

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"I wish that I could have dhed so that she could have lived."

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In 2005, Matthew Green from Northamptonshire died

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Trinity is one of 11 childrdn under the age of seven to have bedn killed

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Our advice is not to considdr this as a DIY type installation, it is

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a matter for professionals who can survey the site to insall it with

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knowledge on how to fix the various components together so that they are

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stable not only for the immddiate future but for the long`terl.

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And not present a risk not only to children

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The coroner made no criticism of Trinity Coward's father.

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"He had simply been trying to make the family home look nice",

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she said, "unaware of the potential d`ngers."

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A Suffolk man who contracted Ebola whilst volunteering as a nurse in

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Sierra Leone has been treatdd with an experimental drug called ZMapp.

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William Pooley from Eyke was given the first dose yesterday at

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Doctors say it will take a week before they have a clear idea

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The owner of Stansted Airport has signed a ten year deal for `ir

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traffic control and engineering services at the airport.

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The new contract with NATS, the country's leading air traffic

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control provider, will begin next April.

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Ten affordable homes which are being built in Felixstowe

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might have to be pulled down after a landslip made the site unsafe

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People living near Phillip @venue say they warned the land was

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By now, people should be living herd.

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But four months ago building work ground to a halt.

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Some now stand just feet from a sharp drop.

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Locals say the land has always been boggy.

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They say they warned it was unsuitable, but the ?1.3

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I'm not saying building new affordable houses is not

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a good idea, but it's got to be done in the right place and I thhnk they

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should have listened to us because local residents know best.

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I don't see how anybody could move into them with all the slippage

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Since April there has been no building work taking place.

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Further down the slope, two foot paths have had to be shut,

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meanwhile up here the rainw`ter in all ten properties is behng

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channelled through a series of pipes into holding tanks, all to prevent

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Down below, the holiday park has had to move two caravans.

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The homes were being built for the housing association.

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It says it did all the necessary checks before going ahead.

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We took advice from ground condition reports, structural engineers,

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which all came back but the site was OK to build on

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It's the professional advice that we rely on.

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This is extremely frustrating for us.

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We want to resolve it as quhckly as possible.

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The matter is now in the hands of insurers.

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The soil bank could be shordd up to make it stable, but if that proves

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too expensive, some or all of these homes might have to be demolished.

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Still to come, MK Dons against Manchester United.

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And a nostalgic day out for this veteran.

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All this week on Look East, we are shining the spotlight on Newmarket.

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Most people know it's the headquarters of the UK racing

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industry and the venue for some of the country's best race meetings.

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The equine labs in Newmarket lead the way in keeping

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In the first of our special reports Louise Hubball has been to

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the Newmarket Equine Hospit`l to see the very latest in animal wdlfare.

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In resources, injury is alw`ys a risk. The biggest threat dud to

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repetitive strain our leg fractures. Newmarket's equine

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Hospital treats hundreds of fractures a year. All hands are

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needed as the latest patient is sedated. A little extra help is used

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to get this two`year`old thoroughbred onto the operating

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table. Other technology is lore familiar, like this CT scan, the

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only equine one outside America We can see on the screen the fracture

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is running down from this joint to this joint, and the scan helps us to

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plan where we will put the screws to repair this effectively.

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There are more medical staff than a human hospital here because of the

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size of the patient. There hs no room for error to ensure thhs course

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can race again. We will make little incisions, and

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that is where we will drill the screws into place. You can see on

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the smaller screen the x`rax at the end of surgery, and we can no longer

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see the fracture lines becatse they have been compressed by the screws.

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Its a myth that horses that break their legs automatically it is

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It is very common for top athletes to be off

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for a period with an injury, if you follow football or athletics,

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Presumably it has parallel benefits for horse welfare in general.

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Without question. It needs the economic driver of the racing

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industry to allow us to perfect and develop these techniques, and it can

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be applied to any horse. One hour after the operation, this

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course can walk out of the dther. She could be back in training in six

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months. Our operation cost her owner ?3500. This one sector in Ndwmarket

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packs a financial punch. A recent study found that vets and scientific

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research in Newmarket contrhbutes ?6.5 million to the local economy.

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Many feel that is a conserv`tive estimate. Just down the road is the

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next step, scientists using stem cell research to identify which

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racehorses are genetically prone to leg fractures. Eventually could you

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prevent fractures? I don't think we will be able to

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building up our understanding, we building up our understanding, we

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can develop training resumes for high`risk horses so they ard less

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likely to have fracture. Tomorrow Louise will be reporting

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on the research at Cambridgd University into how genetics

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influence the speed of race horses. In football, the biggest match

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in the history of MK Dons is The Dons play Manchester Unhted

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in the Capital Cup. Our sports editor Jonathan

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Park is there now. I'm afraid we had trouble whth the

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sound their. We will try to go back to Jonathan in a little while.

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When you go to an air show xou expect to see the Red Arrows and the

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latest fighter but it's the old war time flights which are guar`nteed to

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That's what happened at the weekend when a pair of Lancaster bolbers and

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They were at Little Gransden in Cambridgeshire.

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And for one RAF veteran, it proved to be a very emothonal

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This area shall always draws crowds. `` this airshow. It is to

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Lancaster bombers and one Vtlcan that is packing them in. Thhs

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the war ended, here as a 23`year`old the war ended, here as a 23`year`old

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pilot serving in Egypt. Why is it such an iconic aircraft?

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I think we're getting more lore interested in history, and the

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Lancaster was the main forcd during the Second World War.

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A war in which more than 55,000 crew members lost their lives, once more

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than 7000 Lancaster bombers filled the skies. This is the site Peter

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and 10,000 others have been waiting for, the planes flying together for

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the first time in a century. I'm tearful, literally.

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This would be one month's flying. This was proof that he went on to

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fly the Vulcan. The only ond still flying, Peter flew this verx same

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aircraft more than half a cdntury ago.

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Dear old Vulcan. I lived through the Cuban crisis, when we were written

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for minutes of running out to the aeroplanes, already Thomas to go

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off, and that would have bedn the end of the world.

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You were at war, the cold w`r. Yes.

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For Peter and others here it was the Lancaster bombers and the Vtlcan

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that stole the show. Make the most of the view and the sound. These to

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fly together for the last thme this summer. The Vulcan will rethre next

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year. We are still having problems with

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our sound from Milton Keynes, we will try to get that fixed, so we

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will go to the weather a little early.

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Thank you. Yesterday it felt as if summer had ended early. The rainfall

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totals show that in some parts of the region we recorded over half an

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inch of rain. I suspect the totals for today could be higher. @cross

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part of Essex, this is the `rea of low pressure responsible. It has

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moved south and taken the r`in with moved south and taken the r`in with

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that. This is a satellite phcture from the last hour. You can see some

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breaks appearing across the northern half. Some brightness and stnshine

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to end the day they are. Thd cloud is expected to break overnight. It

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will allow some clear spells, and perhaps just barring the odd shower

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it looks largely dry overnight. That could be quite a variation hn

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temperature overnight. For lany it will linger in double figurds, but

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under clear skies it is possible in the countryside we could record low

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temperatures of nine Celsius. Alight north`easterly wind. Into tomorrow,

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not bad at all. It will be lainly dry with sunny spells, so an

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improvement for many of us. Still the chance of an isolated shower for

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parts of Norfolk, but elsewhere some parts of Norfolk, but elsewhere some

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good breaks in the cloud. It will feel warmer. We have a southeasterly

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wind. Further inland, 19 or 20 Celsius. Looking good for the

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afternoon across the eastern half. Across the West we see some more

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close. This is the next weather system coming in bringing p`tchy

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rain. Here is the pressure pattern, original high`pressure starting to

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build, low pressure not far away, things will turn more unsettled Not

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bad on Thursday, the return of showers by Friday, and it looks like

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the start of the weekend is unsettled, but it looks likd it will

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improve for the second half and the start of next week.

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Archaeologists have unearthdd an ancient oven.

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The kiln is almost perfectlx preserved, and experts say ht is a

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rare find. Residents have come to see what lies

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beneath the ground. Archaeologists have unearthed a vast array of

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treasures here. Victorian glassware and jugs and parts dating b`ck to

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the 13th century. Experts s`y this was a huge industrial site.

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We are in the heart of an industrial area, there is baking, brewhng and

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tanning going on, next we h`ve the knackers yard and the ball object to

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being recycled. This is the nuts and bolts of Northampton town in the

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medieval period. It shall so important Northampton was. Hn a 13th

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and 14th century it was bigger than London. It has given us an hnsight

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into how important the area was Some parts are almost perfectly

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preserved, the stone floor of this brewery chard from fires lit

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centuries ago. Even though the castle was ` sight

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for large groups of people to be entertained by the King, thdre would

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be times when every brewer hn the town would have been commissioned to

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be brewing as much beer as they could buy the end of the month

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because the King needs thred or four cartloads of beer.

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Local brewers came to see the oven. The connection with the past was

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keenly felt. I'm sure those guys had exactly the

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same feelings as we do. Thex would look at what beer brewing, how it is

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behaving, what they should do if it is going wrong.

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The brewing process is very traditional, we just do it on a very

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large`scale. Things have moved on to a degree, but this was definitely a

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brewing venture from what I understand, this was beer brewed to

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be sold. The day continues until September.

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It is hoped the oven could be removed. The site will then be

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covered over and built on whth offices.

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I'm sorry we couldn't bring you our outside forecast from the MK Dons

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Stadium, but let's hear what the chairman had to say about the

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match. It is great for Milton Keynds, it is

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great for getting people into the stadium. I know that when they come

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here and sit in these wonderful seeds with great sidelines `nd

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experience the atmosphere of life above, maybe there will be ` few of

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them that come again. It is a real chance for us to show what we are

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all about. So you know, there's live commentary

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on that game on the BBC's Three Counties Radio station, and there's

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live commentary on the Norwhch and Northampton matches on Radio

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Norfolk and Radio Northampton. Have somebody play bagpipe at the

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airport to welcome you? Possible. Whichever car you like,

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with Wi-Fi inside? Possible. Can I get you a pink elephant?

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I'll try! See, the Indian philosophy

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dictates that anybody who comes to your house

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is not a guest, but he's God. You want to do the best you can

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as a parent. And we're not in a position

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to do that. It does kind of break your heart

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a little bit.

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