26/09/2014 Look East - East

Good evening, I'm Katherine Nash. Now on

First tonight, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed th`t six

tornadoes from RAF Marham in Norfolk will join military action in Iraq.

The deployment will only involve jets already based in Cyprus and

The decision was made by politicians in Westminstdr.

But the consequences will bd felt in towns and villages around M`rham.

This was the Greyhound pub hn the centre of the town today, the debate

was on television and more `ction in prospect for local RAF crews. I

don't have a problem with that, I think it is a good thing. Wd were

kept open for a reason. It supplies a lot of code around here and is

good for the local economy. They should do all they can to sort it

out. I think it is wrong, what is going on. Links between RDF Marham

and this town are strong. Ntmber two Squadron have been given honorary

citizenship, these families send their children to local schools and

the noise of the jets is a constant remainder that the bases ne`rby So

many people here are employdd by Marham, so many people have retired

from Marham and stayed in the region to live here. And the effort to pull

themselves, they do not all live on base. Tornadoes flew out to Cyprus

armed with high`tech cameras and imaging equipment. Their role has

been humanitarian. Helping `ircrews drop aid in the right place. But

that rule can be switched, the jets could be armed with laser`gtided

bombs and missiles in just ` few hours. The warning today from the

Islamic party of Britain th`t fracture in Iraq will not protect

people here. It is the past failure of the policies that MPs have voted

for that have made us less safe and by continuing down that road and

giving the impression to thd population that you are comhng back

and doing something is not going to make us more safe. It will lake us

less safe. MPs have voted yds for military action and that me`ns that

the mission for the aircrews has changed hugely.

Out of 29 MPs in this region only two voted against military `ction

Essex MP John Baron and South Norfolk MP Richard Bacon.

Our Political Correspondent Andrew Sinclair followed the debatd

The Prime Minister paid tribute to what he called her inspirathonal

Armed Forces, who as a result of this motion put themselves hn harms

way to keep our safe. There is a very real recognition that the

support would place personndl from Marham in danger and a numbdr of MPs

have told me they thought vdry long and hard before deciding how to

vote. Among them was Henry Bellingham whose constituency

borders RDF Marham. He voted for the air strikes but said he is conscious

of the dangers that the personnel will face. The are incredibly

professional and well traindd and have fantastic equipment and will be

operating in what is even a just cause against an evil organhsation

that threatens security and peace in the West. Then there are thd

arguments against that Rich`rd Bacon and John Barron supported, that air

strikes on Iraq will not be enough. Without the Iraqi army being able to

take and hold ground there was a real risk that air strikes `lone

will not just proved an effdctive but could put `` could becole

counter`productive. It was like all the MPs are united in taking action.

Along Mac the wear but it w`s was a narrowly worded motion. It only

spoke about air strikes on Hraq not Syria. It promised no conduct ``

now, personnel on the ground. If that issue comes up you will not see

the unanimity that we have seen today.

Andrew Sinclair, talking to me earlier.

The Norfolk and Norwich Hospital has admitted it's been under extreme

It's been on ''Black Alert'', the highest level of concern,

And in a report discussed bx management today, financially, the

It is where we go for emergdncy treatment after an injury or a

referral. But the AMD department here at the Norfolk and Norwich

Hospital has reached full c`pacity this week which means a shortage of

beds. The knock`on effect is patients have been transferred to

track escalation areas, othdr departments in the hospital used for

outpatients and the procedures which is not the ideal place to ghve them

the care they need. We can never shut their doors, we never do. As a

consequence of never shutting outdoors sometimes we must do things

that are not in line with otr vision that we would not necessarily want

to do if we had the choice. There are times when we must make the

beast unpalatable of a serids of unpalatable choices. Why have they

been on black alert? Last ydar there were over 25,000 emergency

admissions that led up to over 25,000 emergency admissions that on

October 20 6000 this year, `n extra 840 patients. The hospital say

patients cannot leave the Ddpartment because of a lack of communhty care.

Last month staff sickness ldvels were high and for the first time the

hospital is expecting an ?10 million shortfall. All of this puts pressure

on the hospital and staff. On black alert that means there are lore

patience than we can actively cope with but we will see them all.

Thinking of the financial pressures that means that at any time the

trust is carrying lots of v`cancies among the staff and they ard doing

more work than they would if they had a fool, and of colleaguds. Being

on black election now means that they only have a few months to ease

the situation until it is whnter when there is normally a significant

Firefighters have been tackling a fire at a pub in Bradwell in Essex.

They were called to the Kings Head at about 5.30 this evening to find

A investigation is underway, but it's being treated as suspicious.

That's all from the late te`m. But I'll leave you with the weather

There is going to be a lot of dry and warm weather around but it will

be cloudy at times. There whll be closed around and breaks in the

cloud that will allow temperatures to drop further than last nhght It

could be cold in one or two spots on the potential is therefore lissed

and fog patches to four and they could be quite dense. It will be

party which throws them as ` hazard in the early hours of tomorrow. This

should live their into low`level close, it might remain cloudy in

some parts to the day but there are good prospects that the clotd of

them and break and we will see greatness and sunshine. The

temperature should go up in the sunshine so we should record

temperatures of 21 degrees hn the afternoon. Here is the outlook, dry

and sunny for Sunday, some `reas of Good evening. Some very useable

weather on offer this weekend in. Fact, most of September has been

decent, and that's because our jet stream that drives our weather

systems across the Atlantic has been driving them to the North West of

the UK. So not much rain has made its way across our shores. By the

same token, it's been quite warm, especially in the south. Little

change to that pattern this weekend. Mainly dry with warm sunshine. We

will pick up for fog than we've seen. That could