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Good evening. First tonight, the money coming to Cambridge to help | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
unlock economic growth. Tod`y the Chancellor announced in his spring | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Budget that it will be given City Deal status, ?500 million worth of | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
investment to boost transport, infrastructure and jobs. Cotncils | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
will be able to set their own budgets and less control from | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
Central Government means more freedom on spending. It's the | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
largest package of its kind in the country. And George Osborne says it | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
will transform the city into the powerhouse of the national dconomy. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Our political correspondent, Andrew Sinclair, reports. This is ` | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
significant announcement whhch is likely to have a dramatic affect on | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
not just Cambridge but the surrounding area. ?100 millhon from | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
the Government over the next five years. 400 million more by 2030 To | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
be used for a variety of purposes, but particularly to make it easier | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
for people to get about. A place like Cambridge, which is wanting to | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
grow, has the capacity to grow, has the industry, has the local | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
companies that play on a national playing field, this is an investment | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
that will pay back for the country. More than 33,000 homes are planned | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
for the Cambridge area. But for them to be built for people to w`nt to | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
live in them, there's a desperate need for better transport lhnks Not | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
just improved roads, but better public transport services and new | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
cycle routes. Under the so called city deal, the Government whll give | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
a substantial ground to the greater Cambridge area and allow local | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
councils and business leaders to decide how and where to it. We need, | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
for example, to put new measures on the A10 corridor between Calbridge | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
and Ely, because it's cloggdd up all the time. We know that the @428 | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
capacity needs to be increased on that. We know that the 1307 is a | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
dangerous and poor capacity road. These are the kind of things we need | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
to do. A number of places across the country have been given Citx Deal | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
status. Here in Nottingham, they are using the money to extend their tram | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
network. The local council says in just two years the extra investment | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
has already attracted new btsinesses and created 700 new jobs. L`bour say | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
any extra money for the reghon is to be welcomed, but they worry that | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
focusing so much on Cambridge means that other parts of the reghon, | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
particularly rural areas, m`y lose out. But this Budget was all about | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
promoting economic growth and, in the eyes of the Government, City | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
Deal status for Cambridge goes a long way to help. | :02:38. | :02:49. | |
Andrew was at Westminster when George Osborne delivered his speech. | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
I caught up with him earlier and asked him whether the Chancdllor | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
mentioned investment for anxwhere else in the region. | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
The City Deal announcement for Cambridge was by far the biggest | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
piece of news for our region, but there are other things which have | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
been announced today which will go down well. There's going to be a tax | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
break for regional theatre. We talked about this on Look E`st last | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
week. Local theatres in our region have really struggled over the last | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
few years financially. This will go some way to help. There's also going | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
to be ?200 million for councils to bid for to tackle potholes hn their | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
area. This follows a campaign by the Northampton MP Michael Ellis. | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
There's also going to be a small fund to make donations to local air | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
ambulances. And one of the big stories down here today has been the | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
decision to cut the tax on bingo from 20% to 10%. That campahgn was | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
led by the MP for Harlow, Robert Halfon. He was so pleased when the | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Chancellor made the announcdment today, he led a chorus of, "House, | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
house!" One more announcement today. The Chancellor is going to put money | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
into an Alan Turing Institute, named after that the Bletchley Park code | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
breaker. He said it would ldad the way in the study of data. Wd don't | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
yet know with the institute would be based, universities can bid for that | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
money. Next, the news of more investment | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
and jobs coming to the region. Today Ryanair boss Michael O'Learx said | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
his budget airline was expanding at Stansted Airport. It could lean | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
another 2,000 jobs for the `irport, as well as dozens of new rottes | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
across Europe. Louise Hubball is at Stansted for us now. | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
This is big news for Stanstdd. As a passenger, it means there whll be | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
eight new destinations incltding Athens, Bucharest and Pragud. If you | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
want the figures, it means ` number of Ryanair flights will go tp from | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
490, to 700 every week. That could create up to 2000 new jobs. Today, | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
the boss of Ryanair said since the airport came under new ownership | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
last year things have changdd. I think not just the management but | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
also the people who work at Stansted. There's a new atthtude, a | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
welcome for passengers, the train services have improved and Ryanair | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
is playing its part by not just adding new routes and flights, but | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
also improving our schedules and improving our customer servhce as | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
well. We've heard that this has a good time for the airport. Stansted | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
has been struggling. That's right. Stansted has had a tough tile during | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
the recession. Traditionallx it has always focused leisure travdl. That | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
has suffered during the downturn. In fact, passenger numbers havd dropped | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
by 25%. But now bosses have said they are going to focus on business | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
travel. They are hoping to capitalise on economically rich | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
areas like Cambridge. For a region who has got strong growth | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
opportunities in business and inward investment, so the destinathons that | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
have been announced today and the frequency really supports otr | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
ability as a region to do btsiness and for other parts of the world to | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
do business with us. But thd proof of all of this will be how lany | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
passengers actually use these new routes. Police are still qudstioning | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
seven people after armed police raided a travellers' site in | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
Northamptonshire. A firearm and a quantity of Class A drugs wdre | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
seized during the raid which took place early this morning. Officers | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
have been continuing to search the site at Rothwell, near Kettdring. | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
Police say three women, thrde men and a teenager remain in custody. | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
That's all from us. Don't forget we will be back with the breakfast | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
bulletins from 6:25am tomorrow. Now let's take a look at the we`ther. | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
A dry night stretches ahead with some long, clear spells, but | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
temperatures aren't expected to get down to low with a brisk brdeze | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
Tomorrow, and much better prospect of seeing some bright or sunny | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
spells through the day, as the cloud starts to shift and break`up. These | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
temperatures may go a degred or two high in the sunshine. There will be | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
a noticeable south`westerly breeze through to borrow and that will tend | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
to freshen into the afternoon. This is the sign of the next reldvant | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
heading our way, and that whll bring some rain after nightfall, tracking | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
eastwards overnight. This brings a much cooler air mass for thd end of | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
the week. In a moment, the National forecast. But I'll leave yot with | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
our outlook. Cooler and shall report Friday and into the weekend the | :07:29. | :07:29. | |
return of some frost overnight. night it will be heavy in places. | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
This is the outlook: Bright enough for Friday and the weekend but much | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
colder and some of the showers could have a wintry nature. | :07:36. | :07:51. | |
Cloud coming in from the Atlantic. When it moves through we will get | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
cooler conditions with lively showers. But mild overnight with the | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
south-westerly breeze dragging cloud across England and Wales. As you can | :08:04. | :08:11. | |
see the heaviest rain and strongest winds overnight are confined to | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
Scotland and northern Ireland. Wet and windy here but it is an mild | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
night with the cloud cover and breeze. But, a miserable start to | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
the day in Scotland. Wet and windy, gusty wind through the central | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
lowlands in the morning. Up to 0 miles an hour and maybe more than | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
that over some of the hills. Not pleasant in the morning rush-hour | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
and not pleasant in Northern Ireland either. In England and Wales, a lot | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
of cloud around but maybe a few breaks to the east of | :08:43. | :08:43. |