:00:16. > :01:03.Hello and welcome to a special edition of Look East, live from
:01:03. > :01:14.member of staff dies fixing overhead power lines.
:01:14. > :01:19.If you have ever used this road, you will see that traffic is moving OK
:01:19. > :01:24.this evening. You can be bumper to heal gay all the way up this stretch
:01:24. > :01:29.of road, it can take a lot of time to come up here. —— on part two
:01:29. > :01:32.tailgate. Just to give you a quick bit of geography, the St Ives
:01:32. > :01:43.junction is just there. Felixstowe lies in that direction. Behind the
:01:43. > :01:47.camera, you will find Huntingdon and Northants incher and the Midlands.
:01:47. > :01:52.We are here because the government has announced plans for this road.
:01:52. > :01:55.The plans are expensive, they're ambitious. And already they're
:01:55. > :01:59.proving controversial. The existing road heads north west from Cambridge
:01:59. > :02:05.towards Huntingdon. That will change. This road will head
:02:05. > :02:15.cross—country and will not rejoin the A14 until Hillingdon. —— LE
:02:15. > :02:20.didn't. Many thought that drivers would still be able to use the old
:02:20. > :02:25.road, but the government will remove a crucial road bridge across the
:02:25. > :02:30.railway here, forcing cars onto the toll road. As part of the package
:02:30. > :02:35.there will also be improvements to the A14 and the A1. No, the
:02:35. > :02:40.timetable. The government is consulting on plans until October
:02:40. > :02:49.2013. It will confirm the route in late 2013. If all goes to plan, work
:02:49. > :02:57.will start in 2016, and be complete within three or four years. Finally,
:02:57. > :03:05.the tolls. The proposals here, £1 or £1 50 per car and double that for
:03:05. > :03:11.lorries. Already people are calling —— talking about rat runs and we are
:03:11. > :03:17.on a bridge where one of those rat runs will go. People who come here
:03:17. > :03:26.to avoid paying the tall and go back onto the A1 that way. We are already
:03:26. > :03:32.giving lots of opposition. I'm at Offord Hill Farm, and in seven years
:03:32. > :03:39.time this field is set to be the new A14 toll road. The theory will be
:03:39. > :03:42.gone. —— the greenery will be gone. Three lanes of traffic in each
:03:42. > :03:46.direction, they'll run from junction 28 of the existing A14 at Swavesey.
:03:46. > :03:51.About eight miles in that direction, through to Ellington which is about
:03:51. > :03:57.four miles over there. And that is where the road will join up with the
:03:57. > :04:01.A1, which you might just be able to see in the distance. The A1 will
:04:01. > :04:10.also need widening there to cope with the extra traffic. Mike
:04:10. > :04:16.Cartwright has the details. This woman's family has farmed the for
:04:16. > :04:21.more than 60 years. This hedge just 60 metres from her house is where
:04:21. > :04:26.the toll road will go. The traffic in the glare from street lights in
:04:26. > :04:31.the landscape she loves will be ripped in two. Terrible. It is going
:04:31. > :04:39.to cut the farm in half, we have lived here since 1952. It is awful.
:04:40. > :04:44.It makes you want to cry. I am sure there are other places they could
:04:44. > :04:49.put it. There are many roads between here and Cambridge that they could
:04:49. > :04:55.take and add another lean on to. In Huntingdon this flyover carries
:04:55. > :05:02.traffic. There are plans to put it down, and then rewrote local traffic
:05:02. > :05:06.through the town. If they drop the bridge it will be good because it
:05:07. > :05:15.will bring a local traffic into town. Good for business.It is good
:05:15. > :05:19.for traffic if they will stop. In St Ives there is fear of more
:05:19. > :05:25.congestion if people search for ways to beat the tall. The RC seeing you
:05:25. > :05:29.must use the toll road unless you want to beat the traffic. It could
:05:29. > :05:38.be a bad thing, traffic is bad in the morning. The A14 gets really
:05:38. > :05:46.jammed. We are on the A1, you join the new road here in Buxton and
:05:46. > :05:52.joined the the A14 that way. It will go past Helton had to Swayze. One MP
:05:52. > :05:57.said it is the wrong solution. I do not think it is the right way to go.
:05:57. > :06:02.We must control the costs of this project, and deliver improvements on
:06:03. > :06:09.what we currently have. We should try and fit more on the real ways
:06:09. > :06:13.rather than the roads. If the toll road comes, this landscape could
:06:13. > :06:23.change forever. Most people agree that something must be done to fix
:06:23. > :06:28.the A14. For people in these villages, this new road is not about
:06:28. > :06:34.improving the economy or journey times, it is about how it impacts on
:06:34. > :06:39.their lives. Many are worried that the mere mention of this route today
:06:39. > :06:47.is enough to wait a large chunk off the value of their homes.
:06:47. > :06:52.Janine thank you very much. When the heavy vehicle goes over this bridge
:06:52. > :06:57.it wobbles. About 85,000 vehicles use this section of the A14 every
:06:57. > :07:00.day. Now on a normal road you would expect about one in ten of those
:07:00. > :07:03.vehicles to be an HGV. But on the A14 it is one in four. A reminder
:07:03. > :07:07.that this road is a major artery between the port at Felixstowe and
:07:08. > :07:10.the Midlands. So what do hauliers and businesses make of the plan?
:07:10. > :07:25.Here is our business correspondent Richard Bond. This man set up his
:07:25. > :07:32.transport company 25 years ago. It has 200 lorries, 150 of them working
:07:32. > :07:38.out of Felixstowe. They want in a 14 upgrade but deplore the idea of a
:07:38. > :07:44.toll. They are indicating a toll of around three or £4. Each journey,
:07:44. > :07:53.given that we carry out 150 journeys per day, that is going to be 250, or
:07:53. > :07:59.£200,000 per year. What will that be in five years time? Huge costs.
:07:59. > :08:09.Felixstowe as the UK's biggest port. It is a cornerstone of the economy.
:08:09. > :08:13.We feel that this will be a tax on Suffolk, and in town it will be a
:08:13. > :08:20.tax on UK plc by taxing the significant ports that come through
:08:20. > :08:25.Felixstowe. But you want the the A14 to be improved. Shouldn't hauliers
:08:25. > :08:29.tip into the cost? We have already paid for our road network through
:08:29. > :08:34.the taxes we pay already. Piling another tax on top of that business
:08:34. > :08:40.is no way to go about it. However unpopular road tolls are, they are
:08:40. > :08:44.an essential part of the business case for the new road according to
:08:44. > :08:50.the highways agency. New road tolls, no new road. The Treasury
:08:50. > :08:54.will not pay for the entire scheme, they are providing most of the money
:08:54. > :08:57.but believe that road users should contribute, too. There is support
:08:57. > :09:03.for this view in the business community. We cannot ultimately
:09:04. > :09:09.leave the A14 in the situation it is in at the moment. We must have the
:09:09. > :09:14.solution. From the business perspective I would hope that they
:09:14. > :09:19.would support a small level of the in order to get the A14 improvements
:09:19. > :09:23.underway. If there is one thing this region needs it is better
:09:23. > :09:29.infrastructure. The A14 upgrade would deliver that. Subtle colliers
:09:29. > :09:31.and see it should not be at the expense.
:09:31. > :09:37.So opposition from people who live near the new route. Concern from
:09:37. > :09:42.people in business. Opposition too from some hauliers. Plenty to put to
:09:42. > :09:47.the roads minister, Stephen Hammond. And when I spoke to him from the
:09:47. > :09:51.studio early today I started by asking him about the decision to
:09:51. > :09:55.make this a toll road. What we have always said as a government is that
:09:55. > :09:59.we are always prepared to look at polling as a way to make sure we can
:09:59. > :10:04.infrastructure. This is the biggest single project that the highways
:10:04. > :10:16.agency will be updated —— will be already local support for this from
:10:16. > :10:21.the local county council. The AA said that asking drivers to pay
:10:21. > :10:22.the local county council. The AA use the A14 with no alternative
:10:22. > :10:30.rewrote is a double whammy, many drivers see the tolling proposals as
:10:30. > :10:38.the thin edge of the wedge, a Trojan horse to introduce wider calling.
:10:38. > :10:44.existing infrastructure. But it might be that you will build future
:10:44. > :10:50.roads using tolls. We have always said that. The A14 is an example of
:10:50. > :10:56.this. We are not ruling it in or out. But you always said there would
:10:56. > :11:00.be an alternative, but there isn't. There are alternatives for locals,
:11:00. > :11:14.there is an alternative on the a fortune eight onto the A1. How much
:11:14. > :11:19.There is no final decision. —— how much will the private sector put
:11:19. > :11:26.into this? The central government is putting 1.5 billion into this. That
:11:26. > :11:33.presumably expect the private sector to fill the overspend. I am not
:11:33. > :11:38.expecting any overspend, and I will not prejudice any relationship
:11:38. > :11:44.caused by the split in costs between public and private sectors. In ——
:11:44. > :11:47.are you concerned that by having this toll road on a public route
:11:47. > :11:53.that you will take away traffic this toll road on a public route
:11:53. > :11:54.the port of Felixstowe? This will be huge for Felixstowe in terms of
:11:54. > :11:59.access, far from taking away it huge for Felixstowe in terms of
:11:59. > :12:05.accentuate the virtues of Felixstowe as a port. If you do hear strong
:12:05. > :12:08.opposition from local people, you will listen? That is why we are
:12:08. > :12:17.having this consultation. Thank will listen? That is why we are
:12:17. > :12:19.very much. Later in the programme we will hear some more of your views,
:12:19. > :12:43.foreign—born people living in the Fens has tripled over a ten—year
:12:43. > :12:46.period. A study by Oxford University found that the percentage increase
:12:46. > :12:49.in the number of immigrants in Fenland was higher than almost every
:12:49. > :12:58.other council area in England. Ben overall picture of immigration in
:12:58. > :13:06.our region, but these figures reveal more detail about how it is changing
:13:06. > :13:11.and 2011, Fenland had the fastest growing immigrant population in
:13:11. > :13:14.and 2011, Fenland had the fastest an increase of more than 5,500
:13:14. > :13:19.people. That was one of the biggest far behind was Peterborough, with
:13:19. > :13:24.the immigrant population increasing by almost 150%. Meanwhile, in Luton
:13:24. > :13:28.the number who were born abroad by almost 150%. Meanwhile, in Luton
:13:28. > :13:31.by just over 70%. Not such a big increase in percentage terms, but it
:13:31. > :13:35.still has the biggest number of immigrants as a whole — almost one
:13:35. > :13:40.in three people who live there were born outside the UK. For areas like
:13:40. > :13:45.the Fens, the District Council says this has been welcome news for
:13:46. > :13:47.employers especially in agriculture. But it means a greater demand on
:13:47. > :13:51.services, like schools, housing But it means a greater demand on
:13:51. > :13:59.health care, at a time when money is tight. One of the downside is an
:13:59. > :14:02.influx on a large scale in such tight. One of the downside is an
:14:02. > :14:07.short period of time. That is what has caused the problems, because it
:14:07. > :14:11.wasn't planned for. There were inadequate resources from local
:14:11. > :14:12.wasn't planned for. There were central government to fund the
:14:12. > :14:16.infrastructure that was so badly needed. These figures show how the
:14:16. > :14:20.population has changed in our towns over the past ten years. The effects
:14:20. > :14:31.A lorry carrying a skip ended up on Northampton. It happened at Church
:14:31. > :14:34.Brampton causing severe delays to Birmingham and beyond. The lorry
:14:34. > :14:42.through fencing onto the track. Birmingham and beyond. The lorry
:14:42. > :14:45.Three teenagers have been arrested in connection with an attempted
:14:45. > :14:48.arson attack at the Islamic Centre 16—year—old boys and a 17—year—old
:14:48. > :14:56.120 part—time soldiers from the 16—year—old boys and a 17—year—old
:14:56. > :15:00.have just returned from a training exercise in Croatia. With big cuts
:15:00. > :15:04.in the number of regular soldiers, reservists will soon play a key
:15:04. > :15:06.in the number of regular soldiers, in the army. In the first of three
:15:06. > :15:17.special reports, Alex Dunlop joined the Royal Anglian reservists near
:15:17. > :15:21.the Croatian town of Slunj. Call them weekend warrior is, and they
:15:21. > :15:33.will not thank you forward. —— weekend warrior is. For a fortnight
:15:34. > :15:38.William. Matthew, and Joseph. You learn to build up a family. You
:15:38. > :15:40.William. Matthew, and Joseph. You this sort of thing, train, learn
:15:40. > :15:45.your skills and push yourself to the limit. The government wants more
:15:46. > :15:50.like William to do just that. The regular Army is set to shrink by one
:15:50. > :15:57.fifth, and the hope is that there The army are offering benefits that
:15:57. > :16:00.were never there to reservists, The army are offering benefits that
:16:00. > :16:02.I think I am the Army hope that The army are offering benefits that
:16:02. > :16:04.will encourage more soldiers to The army are offering benefits that
:16:04. > :16:12.the reserves and offer that more looking to cut costs, why send
:16:12. > :16:14.the reserves and offer that more men out of Croatia for two weeks
:16:14. > :16:21.when their rock training areas in Immersion in a different country and
:16:22. > :16:27.a different culture. This town still bears the scars of the bloody civil
:16:27. > :16:29.war of the early 1990s. Minefields and memorials to dead soldiers are
:16:29. > :16:37.Anglian reserve list. A handful and memorials to dead soldiers are
:16:37. > :16:44.Afghanistan next month —— the Royal Anglian reserve list. Will people be
:16:44. > :16:47.less inclined to join the reserves? We have a generation of soldiers in
:16:47. > :16:50.the battalion at the moment whose primary aim was joining to be on
:16:51. > :16:58.operation. My job, as commanding, is to identify what the hooks to keep
:16:58. > :17:03.people in the reserve team in the future. There is an opportunity
:17:03. > :17:07.people in the reserve team in the progress the reserve career. ——
:17:07. > :17:12.progress their reserve career. Certainly the novelty of training
:17:12. > :17:16.alongside Croatian soldiers is a draw. This is the first time. They
:17:16. > :17:23.have made is very welcome, so thank you very much. Paul, who works at
:17:23. > :17:28.Stansted Airport, is proud to be part of the first British military
:17:28. > :17:33.unit to train in Croatia. What skill set can you take back to Stansted
:17:33. > :17:39.Airport? It is a general confidence, you're a more rounded person, time
:17:39. > :17:45.management. When the enemy is in front of you, try not to get focused
:17:45. > :17:49.on that. The Anglians enjoy strong local loyalty across the eastern
:17:49. > :17:51.region, but it's a sobering thought for these men that come 2021 than
:17:51. > :17:57.one in three soldiers will be a for these men that come 2021 than
:17:57. > :18:01.timer. —— by 2020 more than one for these men that come 2021 than
:18:01. > :18:07.three. On to rugby, Northampton Saints have kicked off their season
:18:07. > :18:10.inspired by their captain Dylan Hartley with Saints sealing the
:18:10. > :18:18.bonus point victory before half reflecting and refocusing during an
:18:18. > :18:21.11 week ban, but on Saturday Dylan Hartley's response was telling as he
:18:21. > :18:26.said about repaying the faith of the club that backed him. The skipper
:18:26. > :18:30.was in his element, leaving a five try rout against Exeter. George
:18:30. > :18:37.North showed off his dancing feet. But fellow winger —— one fellow
:18:37. > :18:44.winger also showed he could compete just as well. There were two further
:18:44. > :18:49.tries from Tom Ward and the other peerless first half. Despite two
:18:49. > :18:52.yellow cards, they have enough in the bag for a fifth in the second
:18:52. > :18:57.half as the PAC began beating up Country. It won't have healed the
:18:57. > :19:03.herd of losing last season 's final, but as opening games go, it was
:19:03. > :19:04.herd of losing last season 's final, mighty fine start —— it won't have
:19:04. > :19:08.healed of the hurt. Just before mighty fine start —— it won't have
:19:08. > :19:11.re—join Stewart and Janine on the A14, a moment to tell you about
:19:11. > :19:16.tonight's Inside Out. Barri White, Manning's murder, tells the full
:19:16. > :19:22.story of his struggle to rebuild his life to Mark Daly, the BBC reporter
:19:22. > :19:33.faces is these so—called 'Fatbergs' which have built up in the sewers.
:19:33. > :19:37.Back to Stewart on the A14. Welcome back to the A14 in
:19:37. > :19:41.Cambridgeshire. Just a quick reminder of why we are here. Today
:19:41. > :19:47.the government announced plans for part of the A14 to become a toll
:19:47. > :19:51.road. The new stretch will run for some 12 miles between the Swavesey
:19:51. > :19:54.junction and Ellington. As part of the package there would also be
:19:54. > :19:59.improvements to the existing A14 and the A1, all at a cost of £1.5
:19:59. > :20:06.billion. Let's talk to her political correspondence, Andrew Sinclair.
:20:06. > :20:10.This has been a years in coming. I was talking to Andrew Lansley who
:20:10. > :20:15.reminded me that when he first became a Kim Butcher MP in 1987 he
:20:15. > :20:20.talked about improving the A14 in his maiden speech. The campaign had
:20:20. > :20:24.been going on for that. There are two problems, the first is that Kim
:20:24. > :20:31.Butcher is growing, the roads are very congested. —— Cambridgeshire is
:20:31. > :20:37.growing. Traffic will increase by 20 or 25%. But it is so expensive to do
:20:37. > :20:41.something that previous plans have failed. The government says that
:20:41. > :20:47.things will be different, they have a big and bold plan. This is one of
:20:47. > :20:53.the problems that people have, they will have two use the road and pay
:20:53. > :20:58.for it. A new precedent has been set, if you look at the other pole
:20:58. > :21:03.road in the country, the M6, you can either choose to pay to go on it or
:21:03. > :21:06.go up the old insects. Here they are taking daily bread so the obvious
:21:06. > :21:12.alternative is gone. There will be other alternatives, but the
:21:12. > :21:16.government has admitted that they want as many people as possible
:21:16. > :21:23.using this new toll road. That has made a few MPs jumping. The Suffolk
:21:23. > :21:29.MP is worried about what this will do to the future of Felixstowe port.
:21:29. > :21:34.Most MPs, their reaction is that they do not want to have a toll road
:21:34. > :21:40.but it is the best thing. Thank you very much indeed. Let's get more of
:21:40. > :21:45.your reaction. Thanks, Stewart. We've already heard
:21:45. > :21:50.how people living close to the route of the new road feel. Hauliers too.
:21:50. > :21:54.But of course the A14 runs right through this region. And it affects
:21:54. > :21:57.anyone heading to and from the Midlands. So we asked our Suffolk
:21:57. > :22:03.reporter Kevin Burch to gauge opinion 50—odd miles east of here in
:22:03. > :22:08.Bury St Edmunds. But a Saint Edmunds is packed with personally. There is
:22:08. > :22:13.something around every corner. One of the constant is the A14. It
:22:13. > :22:19.rumbles relentlessly. It is the highway that never sleeps, except of
:22:19. > :22:24.course when it is gridlocked. It is frustration over constant hold—ups
:22:24. > :22:31.that has fuelled fears lobbying for an the A14 upgrade from the business
:22:31. > :22:40.community. At this special was printing firm in Bury Saint Edmunds,
:22:40. > :22:46.they operate here and abroad by the £10 million annual turnover and they
:22:46. > :22:51.say the idea of a toll road on a key route is an outrage. Build a new
:22:51. > :22:56.road, yes, but paying for it in addition to what we already pay,
:22:56. > :23:00.that is bad for all commercial enterprises. This man chairs the
:23:01. > :23:06.local Chamber of Commerce. He believes that this will appeal local
:23:06. > :23:10.firms when they are helping to drive the economy forward. Anything that
:23:10. > :23:15.improves the road is good news to the area, but when you put
:23:15. > :23:19.additional costs on you can see where they end up. They end up with
:23:19. > :23:22.the consumer. Use our taxes to improve the road.
:23:22. > :23:30.I would pay to go through, I don't mind. To put a toll on the existing
:23:30. > :23:36.road seems like lunacy. Will they get any tax advantage for
:23:36. > :23:43.contributing? I think not. Will you pay the toll or would you look for
:23:43. > :23:48.another route? Green man —— I am a white van man, I will find a route
:23:48. > :23:56.around it. The government say they are keen to hear what people think
:23:56. > :24:02.about the idea. Kevin Burch there with some views
:24:02. > :24:06.from Bury St Edmunds. And we're keen to hear your stories on this
:24:06. > :24:10.subject. We've already had a big response — overwhelmingly negative
:24:10. > :24:13.so far. Just a quick flavour tonight: Jonathan Bowman on Facebook
:24:13. > :24:17.predicts thousands of cars and lorries will use side roads to avoid
:24:18. > :24:21.the tolls. And Dougie Richmond accuses the government of neglecting
:24:21. > :24:26.East Anglia. Would they toll the M25, he asks. Thank you very much
:24:26. > :24:29.for your comments. You can get in touch in the usual way And do
:24:29. > :24:41.remember to leave us a contact telephone number.
:24:41. > :24:46.Just before we came on air, the skies opened but the sun is out and
:24:46. > :24:48.it is pleasant. Let's catch up with the weather.
:24:48. > :24:57.We have sunshine and showers, two, the main area of rain heading into
:24:57. > :25:04.the North Sea. Some of these showers are heavy and Sunday. The risk of
:25:04. > :25:12.showers head into the evening. —— heavy and sundry. Or many of us it
:25:12. > :25:17.will become dry, but we will have a warm spot under clear skies and we
:25:17. > :25:22.could see a chilly eight degrees. The wind is settling towards the
:25:22. > :25:27.north—west and picking up on the north Norfolk coast. Tomorrow we
:25:27. > :25:31.have low pressure in the north—east with the weather front draped around
:25:31. > :25:35.it, that brings wet and windy weather to some of us. From the word
:25:35. > :25:40.go we are expecting some heavy and sundry showers, we could see some
:25:40. > :25:46.brightness and sunshine coming through. Then a more organised band
:25:46. > :25:50.of rain pushing westward. The heaviest rain is expected in North
:25:50. > :25:56.Norfolk, where we could see 20 millimetres of rain, nearly an inch.
:25:56. > :26:01.We will see this this evening and overnight. As well as heavy rain we
:26:01. > :26:04.are expecting strong to deal force winds around parts of the course
:26:04. > :26:12.tomorrow, the strongest winds expected in the north Norfolk coast
:26:12. > :26:19.with gusts of 45 to 50 mph. A call day for some of us, highs of around
:26:19. > :26:23.11 degrees. That is around 10 degrees below average for this time
:26:23. > :26:28.of year. Into the evening we expect the rain to go further westwards
:26:28. > :26:38.before it retreats to the east. The rain might go to some western parts
:26:38. > :26:43.and others will remain completely dry. There will be when the weather
:26:43. > :26:48.and on Wednesday the last of the weather will clear the east and we
:26:48. > :26:52.can see a try and brighter slot, but another area of rainbow push down
:26:52. > :26:57.from the north—west later in the day, on Wednesday. Firstly looks
:26:57. > :27:01.fine and dry with some brightness and perhaps some sunshine, but on
:27:01. > :27:06.Friday a return to cloudy conditions with further outbreaks of rain. A
:27:06. > :27:13.humid feeling day on Friday. Does before I go, these are your
:27:13. > :27:18.overnight lows. Thank you very much indeed. As you
:27:18. > :27:23.stand here, you get a constant rumble of heavy goods vehicles
:27:23. > :27:30.coming up and down this road, it goes on and on. When the new road is
:27:30. > :27:33.built the junction will be just down the road there, couple of miles.
:27:33. > :27:40.Then we can look forward in seven years time in 2020 two This Rd being
:27:40. > :27:40.almost empty. That is a long way away. From hollows, good night.