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That is all from the BBC News At Six, | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Frustration at Papworth Hospital tonight as the government puts a | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
last`minute hurdle in the way of its move to Cambridge. Phasing out of | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
Middle School ` Northants parents take up the fight. And we will be | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
here later in the programme with farewell Afghanistan as troops from | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
this region prepared to leave for the last time. And Bedford's Nigel | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
Lavine laps it up in the 400 metres ahead of the world indoor | :00:31. | :00:31. | |
Championships. Good evening. Welcome to Look East. | :00:32. | :00:45. | |
First, questions and confusion over the future of Papworth Hospital. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
First, questions and confusion over the future of Papworth Hospital. `` | :00:50. | :00:50. | |
the future of Papworth Hospital `` Look East can confirm the government | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
is reviewing its plan to move the hospital from its site near | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
Huntingdon to Cambridge. The move has been in the pipeline for years, | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
with work due to start on the new multi`million pound side this | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
summer. But it is the most project has not been signed off yet. The | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
government is looking again at the benefits of the mood and its | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
affordability. In a moment, we hear from the chief executive of Papworth | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
Hospital. First, this report. It was here they carried out the | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. Now the UK's | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
biggest centre for heart and lung surgery treats hundreds of thousands | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
of patients every year. But it has outgrown its buildings, and in | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
December the chief executive told Look East that it would move to a | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
new site right next to Addenbrooke's Hospital. The work they undertake is | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
very complex. In today's world, it is so important that we have the | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
specific back`up. Being on the Cambridge biomedical campus, that | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
offers our patients the best care in the world. The plans are already | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
well advanced. This artist's impression was even created, showing | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
how the new Papworth Hospital would look. Construction work, due to | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
start this,, the hospital complete by 2017. The government has now | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
ordered a review of the whole move, looking at whether it makes sense | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
financially and how much patients would benefit. The Department of | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
Health wouldn't put anybody forward for interview but, in a statement, | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
said: And alternative option that is being | :02:28. | :02:40. | |
considered is moving into Peter brain instead. The trust that runs | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
that hospital is in financial trouble, unable to afford the cost | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
of its new building. There is a new space which Papworth Hospital could | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
move into. That might help Peter borough pay its bills. Would it be | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
best for patients? In a statement, the trust confirmed that last | :02:58. | :02:58. | |
September, when this was considered: At the time, such a move described | :02:59. | :03:13. | |
as unworkable. People travel from across the region for treatment at | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
Papworth Hospital. Even Prince Phillip had heart surgery there one | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
Christmas. The move to Cambridge would cost up to ?170 million. The | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
governance said it expects to make a decision soon. `` the government. | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
Stephen Bridge is the Chief Executive of Papworth Hospital. I | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
met him a short while ago and asked him if he was expecting this latest | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
round of red tape. I wasn't. We have been at this for over ten years. We | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
have done everything, at every step of the way, by the rule book. I was | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
disappointed that we were informed of this literally the Friday before | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
Christmas. Are you being kept in the dark about conversations that might | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
be going on at other levels? I was disappointed to hear that they have | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
now introduced another obstacle They wanted an external clinical | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
review, as well as another review of financial checks. It has added | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
another six`month delay on the project that has already been much | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
delayed. Talking of the timescale, it was only a couple of months ago | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
when we were talking about this and you were proudly showing me the | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
artist's impressions of the site. This is frustrating. It is. | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
Particularly as Cambridge and the campers were hoping for it to be a | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
world leader. `` the campus. Next door is going to be the global | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
headquarters of a pharmaceutical company. It is going to create many | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
jobs. It is going to come up with world latest research for heart | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
disease. It is great news for the country, for the patient and the | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
economy. I am wondering, because the review is looking at the financial | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
situation, whether people might be thinking again about moving Papworth | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
Hospital to Peter borough. `` Peter bra. | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
The financial issues around Peter borough are so big that moving | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
Papworth there would not only be wrong but would make a small dent in | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
the size of the deficit. We have got this latest review. Have you been | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
given any time frame now when you can be confident that the plans that | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
you thought were very much in place will in fact move forward? To give | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
you a straight answer, I have not got any date. What we are able to do | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
is give the answers back to the Treasury as quickly as possible so | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
that they can then be in a position to give us a speedy answer. I would | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
hope that certainly by early to mid March that all the formation they | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
will have. The clear up is still underway after Friday night's geld | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
force winds. The Met Office recorded gusts of almost 70 mph. `` gale | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
force. Travel was disrupted and buildings were damaged. The Imperial | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
War Museum in Cambridgeshire had to close over the weekend after a | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
section of the main aircraft display building was ripped open by the | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
storm. The high winds also tore half the roof of this sport centre in | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
Northamptonshire. We invest a huge amount in our sights here and our | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
buildings. When you come in and you see the damage, it upsets you. You | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
want things to be right for the children and the start on a | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
day`to`day basis. We will work with for it to be right. There are no | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
severe warnings from the Environment Agency this evening. Compare to | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
other parts of the country, we have escaped any serious problems. In the | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
Fens, this is largely thanks to some complex engineering which keeps tens | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
of thousands of acres Drive, whatever the weather. | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
The betaine 14 near Thorney in Cambridgeshire today. Here, they are | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
used to flooding, but may `` not everywhere is affected. Here is one | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
reason why. The Denver sleuth, doing what King Canute famously failed to | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
do, literally holding back the tide. It protects this region from | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
flooding. But without it... We would be talking about the fans as they | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
were 400 years ago. It would all be flooded. This is one of the gates. | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
They work into microwaves. If the river has been high and there has | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
been a lot of rain, they can open the gates and the water flows to | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
see. If the tide is coming in and it is high, they shut the gates and it | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
stops the water flowing in that direction to Cambridge and Ely. Now | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
without the gates, tens of thousands of homes could be flooded, along | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
with thousands of acres of farmland. The conditions are so extreme and | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
the moment, one alone is not enough. Even at low tide, the water on this | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
side is high enough that the gates have to stay shut to stop it | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
overwhelming and already high river further inland. While it protects | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
Cambridge and Ely from the time, further inland. While it protects | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
Cambridge and Ely from the time it Cambridge and Ely from the time it | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
means the river water can't throw out to sea. That is where the second | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
sleuth comes in. It diverts the water into a relief channel, a ten | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
mile stretch of river where it can be stored, and then let out into the | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
sea. This protects about 100 miles of river. By dropping it down before | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
the rain fall, it increases the storage considerably. Once we have | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
had the rain, we can open the sluice even more. We can train the river | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
down and tour the water down from Ely and Cambridge. There has been a | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
sluice here since the mid`1600. Nowadays, more sadistically | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
operation, it can train three a living swim pools of water every | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
minute. `` nowadays, a more sophisticated operation. | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
Related to night, inside out investigates the aftermath of the | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
region's storm damage, reporting the lengths people will go to keep the | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
insurance premiums down. Next to a row in Northamptonshire | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
over the phasing out of middle schools. Today, the county council | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
resist `` released more details of its plans but many parents are not | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
convinced. At the moment there are lower, middle and upper schools, | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
convinced. At the moment there are lower, middle and upper schools but | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
the council is to reduce it. The plans will affect 13 schools and | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
aims to raise standards. The future of Northamptonshire's middle schools | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
has sparked many heated discussions. The council insists no decisions | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
have yet been made. If the loud voice is we don't want this to | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
happen, the county council will step away from it. Then it will be down | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
to each individual school to deal with the impact themselves and to | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
deal with the cost of that themselves. It would be a fractured | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
system. Here, they have both the low and middle schools next to each | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
other. Some parents here have raised concerns that if the middle school | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
were to close them some of the buildings would be sold off or | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
development, something they saved would be short`sighted. The county | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
council say that wouldn't happen. Instead the buildings will be | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
retained and incorporated into one large primary school. Parents are | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
also worried about standards. This middle school received a good Ofsted | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
rating, whereas its replacement requires improvements, which the | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
school says are taking place. Our trajectory is as spelt out by the | :11:10. | :11:10. | |
county. We want to make it good. county. We want to make it good. | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
That is where we want it to be in the next Ofsted, which we expect in | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
September. Northampton abolished its middle school ten years ago, and | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
there the council say the figures speak for themselves. In 2003, 40 6% | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
of pupils got five or more GCSEs at grade C or above. `` 46%. For | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
Priscilla, it is a case of deja vu, having fought against the three tier | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
system in the 1970s. The majority of the country has to tears. It is | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
ironic, because I think my vision was proved right. The consultation | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
runs until the middle of March. The council insists it is listening and | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
all views are welcome. A farming business has been ordered | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
to pay ?90,000 following the death of a teenager and his older brother | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
at a lake in Cambridgeshire. Ashley Yardley and his 17 brother, Luke, | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
both drowned in September, 2011. Luke fell from a boat while working | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
at the site. His brother jumped in to help but also drowned. A court | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
heard the farming partnership breached health and safety laws. I | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
breached health and safety laws I rode in the centre of Northampton | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
has fully reopened to traffic two years after fire badly damaged and | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
building. `` for a road. Since the fire, it has undergone a large | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
repair and restoration programme. Local businesses have been calling | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
for the road to open. Two of the region's train companies are not | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
providing a satisfactory service according to any survey. The | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
consumer group, Which, claim that just 40% of passengers said they | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
were satisfied with their service. The survey of 7000 passengers found | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
that less than half were pleased with their journeys. The most common | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
complaint was ticket prices. Those are your top stories. Now it is over | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
could have their contracts terminated. Dr Cormack says he will | :13:21. | :13:20. | |
take the consequences. Still to come tonight. Some of our | :13:21. | :13:31. | |
top athletes fighting for a place at the Commonwealth Games this summer. | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
Plus, after the storm surge and the flooding, nature's own repairs to | :13:36. | :13:45. | |
hold back the sea once more. About 1,000 military personnel from | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
this region are nearing the end of their last major deployment to | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
Afghanistan. By the end of this year, all British combat troops will | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
pull out. Over the last 13 years, more than 60 local soldiers and | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
airmen have lost their lives. But now the military presence is scaling | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
down, and a huge removal operation is under way. | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
Have a listen. What sounds like corn popping could be the sound of the | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
end of a war. Ken Underwood from Northamptonshire invented this | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
contraption. In it, 46,000 bullets an hour explode in a drum. No longer | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
needed, they're made safe A few miles away, Anglians go on patrol. | :14:25. | :14:34. | |
When I think back, and looked to be standing in a desert I would say, | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
that is life. Their base at Lashka Gar hasn't been attacked once in the | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
five months they've been here. But they take no chances. It is easy to | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
get the risk of vehicle IDs. Coming down a main route. While some of the | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
600 Anglians here hone their skills on the range. For others this is the | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
front line. Passing power and security to local Afghans. The | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
keyword. Transition not attrition. Plenty of time then to prepare for | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
home. And it's a mammoth operation. Deep cleaning armoured vehicles | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
engrained with seven years of desert sand. Hundreds of containers packed | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
and ready to ship out. The Anglians will be the last to leave Lashka | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
Gar. This was after 1200 people. There are six in containers of | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
equipment. Vehicles and office space. Those have now gone. We | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
updated those out. That has been our focus for the past five months. It | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
feels different now. It is almost ready to hand back to the Afghans. | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
It's been a long 13 years campaign for the East's servicemen and women. | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
Colchester based paratroopers were among the first, openly welcomed | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
into Kabul. A very different reception five years on in Helmand. | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
Local soldiers deployed to a hostile region dominated by the Taliban. 65 | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
men and women. That's more than one in seven of British personnel killed | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
are from this region. The commander of the last brigade into Afghanistan | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
is from Norfolk. His role is to help draw down and pull British forces | :16:10. | :16:19. | |
out of Afghanistan. Beyond here, we are in a new operation which will go | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
into our capitals and native countries. That is alongside the | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
Afghan government. The details of that still finalised. Eight years | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
ago, the Defence Secetary vainly hoped not a single bullet in Helmand | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
would be fired. Now at least in Lash Ka Gar, millions are being | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
destroyed. During the tidal surge in December, | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
the shingle bank at Cley in Norfolk was breached. The sea poured through | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
the gap, flooding the marshes and villages along the coast like | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
Salthouse and Cley`next`the Sea. But now the shingle bank is starting to | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
repair itself. Which is exactly what the owners, the Norfolk Wildlife | :16:58. | :17:11. | |
Trust, want to happen. This is known as Marsh. We purchased this in | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
December. Kevin Hart is head of nature | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
reserves for the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. This morning he showed us | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
onto Popes marsh at Cley. This whole section of the north Norfolk coast | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
took a fearful battering in December. This was pretty disastrous | :17:24. | :17:36. | |
in terms of the immediate aftermath. There was a lot of | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
damage. We took damaged infrastructure for visitors. We have | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
done a lot of work. We have got boardwalks back in place. We had one | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
that was completely destroyed. But further on it's possible to see how | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
the shingle bank is starting to repair itself. Over the past month | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
the sea has brought in a huge amount of shingle and plug the gap, if you | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
like. The bank has completely changed. There are sections which | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
are much lower and wider adoption has moved on by 300 metres. The | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
shape of the bank has changed to become flatter and wider, but | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
according to the Wildlife Trust that might not be a problem. They want to | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
see what is called the managed retreat of the coastline. That is | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
what it is doing. We have to give the habitat time to adapt. We need | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
to a loud species to adapt, from a freshwater system to a more | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
attainable one. We need to manage this retreat and the reserve easily | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
manage in such a way that species can move and can adapt to the | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
change. The Norfolk Wildlife Trust has no intention of abandoning these | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
marshes. Far from it. But the Trust says they will have to change and | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
any solutions to changing weather patterns must be sustainable. | :19:01. | :19:09. | |
If you are a top athlete, this is a very special year. There's the | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July, but before that, it's the | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
World Indoor Championships in Poland in early March. The Bedford runner | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
Nigel Levine is already on top form, winning the 400 metre title at the | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
British Indoor Championships at the weekend. Olympic gold medallist Greg | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
Rutherford was also competing, after a long break with injury. | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
Some athletes choose to miss the indoor season, but if you're Nigel | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
Levine, you thrive on it. He hit the deck hard and fast in Birmingham, | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
leading from the front to clock an equal personal best.The perfect prep | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
for Poland. Today he was back with his coach Linford Christie, | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
reflecting on a job well done. The aim was not to panic, stay relaxed | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
and calm and whatever happens, happens. Getting prepared for the | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
world Championships, to this race was just a stepping stone. How much | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
cricket do you think you think out of the win this medal and also a | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
Commonwealth Games medal? Very quick. I will have to sacrifice and | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
do something I've not done before. It was also an important moment for | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
the Milton Keynes long jumper Greg Rutherford, back competing after a | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
hamstring tear which ruined his World Championships last summer. | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
He's raised eyebrows by admitting he wants to compete at a Winter | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
Olympics in the skeleton. For now though, he heads to the sunnier | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
climbs of California, having jumped eight metres and finish third. It is | :20:38. | :20:45. | |
wonderful to come out here and get germs back to back, and jump well as | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
well. I am happy with my staff. This is the best art I've had my career | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
and the best art career I've had. I want to win, but I have to be | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
sensible. And it's been a successful month for the Cambridgeshire | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
high`jumper Robbie Grabarz. Having already won the British Indoor title | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
in Sheffield. He finished third on Saturday, clearing a season's best | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
two metres 27. In the football, if Peterborough can | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
beat Swindon tonight they will be playing in a Wembley final next | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
month It's the Southern Area final of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy. | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
It's 2`2 after the first leg. The winner will play either Fleetwood or | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
Chesterfield on March 30th. There's a good chance that lots of | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
you will be eating potatoes for your evening meal tonight. And it's | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
likely that when they were grown last year, they'll have been sprayed | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
with chemicals to kill the fungus that causes potato blight. Without | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
spraying, most of our main crop potatoes would wither and die. But | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
now, in a three year trial, scientists in Norwich have developed | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
genetically modified potatoes that are resistant to blight. | :21:52. | :22:02. | |
These potatoes stems may look tiny, but could herald a big change for | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
farmers. At the moment, millions are spent fighting a disease. Blight is | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
a number`one threat to potatoes, thriving in damp and humid | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
conditions. Scientists at the Sainsbury laboratory have found a | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
gene which is resistant to it. It is like downloading an apt to your | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
smartphone. After you have downloaded it, it is still a | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
smartphone, but it has the added function. Once you have downloaded | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
the gene to hear, it is still a potato but it has the added function | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
are being Blight resistant. Farmers have to spray of the 15 times a | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
season to protect against the disease. If you can control it with | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
genetics and chemistry, you don't have to do all that spraying. You | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
don't have tractors coming up and chemistry, you don't have to do all | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
that spraying. You don't have tractors, other bit longer, or do | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
something else. It makes agriculture more efficient and reduces its | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
impact on the environment. 16 turned potatoes are sold every year, so it | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
is expensive if the crop is damage. Blight cost farmers ?60 million a | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
year, which is why scientists say this is such a breakthrough. But | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
will consumers buy potatoes with a GM logo? Public confidence in GM | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
food has been shaken by action from environmentalists, who say it is | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
untried and untested. The scientists here are about to take their new | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
potato to the States, where company wants to develop it. But with EU | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
regulations to pass, it is estimated it will take at least eight years | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
before we see the GM potatoes here. If you're interested in what the BBC | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
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access call: 0800 092 6030. Let's get the weather. Today may be | :24:29. | :24:37. | |
in luck on Sunday's sunshine, but a quieter day than late. This is a | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
picture of a farmer harvesting sugar beet in Suffolk, making the most of | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
this welcome break in the weather. For this afternoon, we have had rain | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
pushing towards us from the South West. We have had bits of pieces of | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
rain too, producing heavy bursts. That sets the scene for tonight. | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
Cloudy skies with rain pushing eastwards. Under half an inch of | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
rain in places. It does mean that a black cloud, it will be a frost free | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
nights, with temperatures no lower than six or seven Celsius. Light | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
southerly winds as well. Tomorrow, this is the weather front. It moves | :25:19. | :25:27. | |
off towards the continent. It is not a bad day. The last of the rain will | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
clear pretty quickly, then we are left with bodies start. Largely | :25:32. | :25:43. | |
cloudy, `` body . The winds will be fairly slowly and light | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
south`westerly winds. Moderate at times on the coast. Another mild day | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
with double figures in the temperature. For the rest of the | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
afternoon, we will see further slow`moving showers, possibly heavy | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
and thundery. They will die away as we head into tomorrow evening. Then | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
on Tuesday, it does look like a lot of cloud around. A bit of brightness | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
with sunshine and showers. Wednesday has filed first thing, but generally | :26:20. | :26:28. | |
quieter with winds and cloud. Then Thursday has low pressure with wet | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
weather. At some point in looks like we will have rain pushing west to | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
east, and a blustery day too. Blustery showers on Friday too. | :26:40. | :26:51. | |
Those are your overnight lows. Rain, rain, rain. Goodbye. | :26:52. | :26:56. |