:00:07. > :00:11.21 miles, a six`lane bypass and no toll road. Today the governlent
:00:12. > :00:19.announced its proposed new route for the A14. Hello and welcome to Look
:00:20. > :00:23.East. In the programme tonight, we'll have local reaction and ask
:00:24. > :00:30.the Roads Minister if this time the upgrade will actually happen. We
:00:31. > :00:35.expect to be putting the first spades on the ground in 2016. The
:00:36. > :00:39.government has troubled the roads budget and we have the monex to do
:00:40. > :00:41.it. Also tonight, how to get a job ` the college course helping the
:00:42. > :00:44.unemployed in Northamptonshhre. And captain, my captain! Almost 500
:00:45. > :00:54.games for Dan Lewington leading the MK Dons.
:00:55. > :01:00.Good evening. Well, it's bedn promised, planned, scrapped and
:01:01. > :01:05.promised again. Today the government announced its latest proposdd new
:01:06. > :01:08.route for the A14. It would bypass Huntingdon with the aim of dnding
:01:09. > :01:15.bottlenecks and delays and transforming what's become the
:01:16. > :01:19.busiest road in the region. We'll bring you all the local reaction to
:01:20. > :01:22.the plan. And a promise frol the Roads Minister about when work is
:01:23. > :01:25.actually due to start. First though let's go live to Mike Cartwright.
:01:26. > :01:37.And Mike, you're actually standing where the new route could bd. Yes,
:01:38. > :01:42.the new route will pretty mtch follow the old told route. Ht will
:01:43. > :01:48.come out of that cutting, follow that hedge line and then out across
:01:49. > :01:53.the valley, across the East Coast mainline. Detailed plans were
:01:54. > :02:00.released today and our reporter has taken a look. Sitting in a traffic
:02:01. > :02:06.jam, it can feel as though xour journey is taking for ever, a bit
:02:07. > :02:11.like the plans to upgrade and improve the congested A14. So what
:02:12. > :02:16.is being proposed now? A14 north of Cambridge between Milton and curtain
:02:17. > :02:22.would be widened, from two lanes each side to three lanes. They would
:02:23. > :02:28.also be improvements at the interchange where two of thd busiest
:02:29. > :02:36.roads marriage, the A14 and the M 11. From there, the existing A1
:02:37. > :02:39.would also be widened. Then comes the biggest part of the project
:02:40. > :02:45.This is where the new stretch of the road would start the year at the
:02:46. > :02:51.Cambridge services. Instead of and lorries using the current fraud
:02:52. > :02:57.they would be diverted onto the new road with three lanes, to bd built
:02:58. > :03:17.on those fields over there. We did a consultation last xear
:03:18. > :03:24.that was a consultation on options. We had a tolling scheme then, but
:03:25. > :03:27.that has now been removed. We have statutory consultations before we
:03:28. > :03:32.make our submission to the planning permission to get legal powdrs to
:03:33. > :03:37.construct the road. And while in Huntingdon, the crumbling vhaduct
:03:38. > :03:48.would be knocked down, leavhng the old A14 as an access road. Hf this
:03:49. > :03:52.sounds familiar, it is. The route is pretty much the same one th`t has
:03:53. > :03:57.been talked about since the 199 s, so is this just an ex`part of the
:03:58. > :04:04.stop`start that has been thd journey of the A14 upgrade. The A14 is an
:04:05. > :04:10.incredibly imported rose and it needs this upgrade. If it goes
:04:11. > :04:16.according to plan, work on this ?1.5 billion project is due to start
:04:17. > :04:19.towards the end of 2016. Mike, today marks the start of a
:04:20. > :04:30.10`week public consultation. What are people saying so far? Speaking
:04:31. > :04:34.to business leaders, they are urging people to get involved in this
:04:35. > :04:39.consultation, to put pressure on the government to make sure this time
:04:40. > :04:44.this happens. These plans whll be shown in more than 20 venues. People
:04:45. > :04:49.ask, what is the point of going to see them, this is a done de`l? But
:04:50. > :04:55.the highways agency is says this is your chance to have your sax. They
:04:56. > :05:01.say the upgrade will happen this time. For the next ten weeks, people
:05:02. > :05:05.looking at the plans in village halls, leisure centres and
:05:06. > :05:09.libraries. In Huntingdon, not everyone is convinced it will be
:05:10. > :05:13.built. They have talked abott it so many times and nothing ever happens.
:05:14. > :05:19.I would like to think it will happen, but I very much doubt it.
:05:20. > :05:30.The more people talk about ht, the more that the government should do
:05:31. > :05:41.something about it. On the lap as the farm that his love's hole. I
:05:42. > :05:44.don't know what to say about it It will uproot everything and xour farm
:05:45. > :05:50.would be worth so much monex if you wanted to sell it. Some in
:05:51. > :05:54.surrounding villages are worried the road will reduced Sorrento house
:05:55. > :06:05.prices. This estate agent s`ys it is more likely it will make thdm rise.
:06:06. > :06:13.It can cause concern, but mostly and predominantly, I would suggdst to
:06:14. > :06:15.you that house prices will benefit. Once the project is completdd,
:06:16. > :06:21.people can see what it is lhke and it brings on the benefits of easier
:06:22. > :06:25.access to Cambridge. Road improvements have been given the
:06:26. > :06:29.go`ahead and scrapped beford. Business leaders warn the s`me
:06:30. > :06:34.mistake cannot happen again. We need to make sure we get everyond to
:06:35. > :06:39.response to the consultation in the same way, to show they despdrately
:06:40. > :06:43.need the road and make sure that whoever is in power after the
:06:44. > :06:49.election in 2015 knows and understands the depth of fedling.
:06:50. > :06:57.The earliest work could beghn is 2016, two years at least living with
:06:58. > :07:00.the old A14. Since the scrapping of the toll road, a big pot of cash has
:07:01. > :07:07.come from government to pay for this. The rest will come from local
:07:08. > :07:12.authorities along the way. There is a growing confidence that this will
:07:13. > :07:17.happen, but people in the street say they will believe it when they see
:07:18. > :07:21.it. Earlier I spoke to the Roads Minister Robert Goodwill and put it
:07:22. > :07:27.to him that when it comes to A1 improvements... Well, we've been
:07:28. > :07:34.here before. Yes, we had a previous consultation. At that point, we made
:07:35. > :07:38.the very important decision to ditch the tolling system. Now people will
:07:39. > :07:43.not have to pay. It was the only programme in the country whdre we
:07:44. > :07:47.were proposing that, but now we have more money from the Chancellor, so
:07:48. > :07:56.we can build this without a tolling system, which will alleviatd
:07:57. > :08:00.congestion problems. Are yot convinced the money is therd? David
:08:01. > :08:05.Cameron said, if we need new roads, we will simply have to pay for them
:08:06. > :08:12.and he was referring to tolling systems. We have actually tripled
:08:13. > :08:17.the roads budget, which means we can go ahead with big schemes lhke this,
:08:18. > :08:22.which are in big boost to local economy, and local people whll have
:08:23. > :08:27.the pressure and abbreviated on the existing road, which will still be
:08:28. > :08:31.available for local people. Let s talk about time frames. The
:08:32. > :08:34.improvement of the A14 has been rumbling on for years. We wdre
:08:35. > :08:41.discussing preferred routes at the previous government put forward in
:08:42. > :08:47.2009. Five years on, we're still discussing a preferred routd. It is
:08:48. > :08:52.really going to happen this time. We are consulting on the boot `t the
:08:53. > :08:57.moment and we expect me bridging the first spades in the ground hn 2 16.
:08:58. > :09:02.The government have tripled the roads budget and we have thd money
:09:03. > :09:08.to do it. You sound confident, but we have spoken to people today who
:09:09. > :09:13.are not, and you cannot blale them, because there is a general dlection
:09:14. > :09:18.next year, so you can't givd any guarantees. We have laid out our
:09:19. > :09:24.plans for after the election. I can understand people being concerned,
:09:25. > :09:33.because Tony Blair, when he came in in 1997, he declared a moratorium on
:09:34. > :09:38.road projects. We do understand the importance of interest at Church in
:09:39. > :09:42.shooting we have a modern economy, capable of withstanding the talent
:09:43. > :09:48.is of the 21st`century. The work will get underway in the sulmer of
:09:49. > :09:51.2016. I might even still be the minister then to go and makd sure it
:09:52. > :09:58.happens. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you. Other news and
:09:59. > :10:00.staff working at the Weetabhx factory in Northamptonshire are
:10:01. > :10:04.being consulted over possible cuts to pay and working hours. There are
:10:05. > :10:07.concerns there could be a 10% wage cut for some workers and a wage
:10:08. > :10:23.freeze for others. Weetabix employs 1,800 people locally.
:10:24. > :10:30.Staff at Weetabix could facd cuts to pay and working hours. Discount
:10:31. > :10:36.stores have risen in popularity and one of us are choosing supermarket
:10:37. > :10:40.own brands. It is a very modern problem for an historic firl.
:10:41. > :10:45.Founded in the 1930s, familx owned until a decade ago, in the last
:10:46. > :10:50.couple of years, a Chinese company what a 60% stake in the firl, which
:10:51. > :10:54.has led to moves conquer new markets. But no Weetabix has
:10:55. > :11:00.confirmed it has been consulting the staff over proposals on pay and
:11:01. > :11:06.shifts, but wouldn't go into details. The trade union sed
:11:07. > :11:12.discussions are ongoing. We have been contacted by someone who claims
:11:13. > :11:17.to work here at the factory. They say there is industrial unrdst here
:11:18. > :11:21.over proposals which would result in a 10% wage cut and that all this is
:11:22. > :11:27.happening while the Chinese owned company is making a profit. One
:11:28. > :11:32.national newspaper today is reporting the firm is trying to
:11:33. > :11:35.avoid compulsory redundancids. Police searching for a misshng
:11:36. > :11:38.teenager from Milton Keynes have handed the investigation ovdr to the
:11:39. > :11:43.Major Crime team. 16`year`old Cailey`Anne Payne vanished from
:11:44. > :11:47.Fishermead 12 days ago. She has not been in contact with her falily
:11:48. > :11:50.since then. Now a squad of specially trained officers will investigate
:11:51. > :11:54.her disappearance. Two men accused over the st`bbing of
:11:55. > :11:58.four men at a Bedfordshire barn party have had their cases dropped.
:11:59. > :12:01.The Crown Prosecution Service told a court it was offering no evhdence
:12:02. > :12:06.against Bailey Bowen and Li`m Daniels after the party at Begwary
:12:07. > :12:09.last October. Both men had been charged with conspiracy to cause GBH
:12:10. > :12:23.with intent and affray, but those charges were dropped.
:12:24. > :12:28.Plans for a waste incinerator in King's Lynn are no more. Norfolk
:12:29. > :12:31.County councillors voted thhs afternoon to terminate the contract,
:12:32. > :12:37.saying it did not represent value for money. Issue has dominated
:12:38. > :12:41.political life in the countx for the last three years. It will cost the
:12:42. > :12:49.local authority ?30 million to pull out of bed deal, that is about 200
:12:50. > :12:54.per household. Today protesters came to County Hall to celebrate. The
:12:55. > :12:59.public gallery packed half `n hour before the meeting began. I think it
:13:00. > :13:04.is a very important day, it is very big issue for King's Lynn and West
:13:05. > :13:07.Norfolk. This chimney would've been pumping 20 tonnes of materi`l into
:13:08. > :13:13.the atmosphere every hour. The council is gathered for a mdeting
:13:14. > :13:21.which they you would have f`r reaching consequences, the speeches
:13:22. > :13:27.impassioned. It is time to remove this dark cloud that hangs over that
:13:28. > :13:33.community. This is the wrong project in the wrong place at the wrong
:13:34. > :13:37.time. We have had a lot of hll informed mass hysteria from small
:13:38. > :13:40.groups of highly those of hhghly those effortless minorities, who
:13:41. > :13:47.basically do not want anythhng they could not understand in thehr
:13:48. > :13:52.backyard. The reason for pulling out now is because the Environmdnt
:13:53. > :13:55.Secretary still hasn't decided whether or not to grant planning
:13:56. > :14:02.permission and won't see whdn he will. The council says the delay
:14:03. > :14:08.adds ?140,000 a day and by the summer, it will no longer offer
:14:09. > :14:15.value for money. We inheritdd this contract, but we would have stuck to
:14:16. > :14:20.it and the Minister's delay in giving a decision meant it was no
:14:21. > :14:24.longer viable. The Conservatives say it still meant by you for money and
:14:25. > :14:30.the council has jumped too soon It was premature to make a dechsion
:14:31. > :14:36.today, because we know it h`s cost the council ?30 million tod`y, which
:14:37. > :14:46.is why I voted against it. The leader of the Liberal Democrats said
:14:47. > :14:54.it was a long and tortuous journey. This story is not over yet.
:14:55. > :15:02.anything I put any stamp of authority into the games. Ever since
:15:03. > :15:05.fixtures were published, thdy were to decide if it was Premier or
:15:06. > :15:18.championship football next season. It was a fortnight ago todax that
:15:19. > :15:22.the town of Corby was left reeling at the news that 900 jobs wdre going
:15:23. > :15:26.at Solway Foods. Since then there have been a series of job f`irs to
:15:27. > :15:29.help those people now out of work. But Northamptonshire alreadx has
:15:30. > :15:32.some of the highest rates of unemployment in the region. Corby
:15:33. > :15:37.itself at 11.5%, Wellingborough with 9% and Northampton at 8.4%. All of
:15:38. > :15:42.them as you can see well above the national average of 7.7%. The local
:15:43. > :15:45.college is trying to do somdthing about those figures and is now
:15:46. > :15:49.offering a course which teaches people how to get a job. Nehl
:15:50. > :16:00.Bradford has been to meet some students.
:16:01. > :16:05.This is a college course of the difference. As well as a promise of
:16:06. > :16:09.a qualification, students are guaranteed a job interview. It is a
:16:10. > :16:14.big opportunity for this 21`year`old, who has been unemployed
:16:15. > :16:19.for four months. After some last`minute preparation, her big
:16:20. > :16:22.moment has finally arrived. I am quite nervous. I have not done it
:16:23. > :16:30.for quite awhile, but the course is help me build up confidence. Touch
:16:31. > :16:40.wood, everything will be all right. Best of luck. Thank you. Lewis, who
:16:41. > :16:44.is 23, has also benefited from the course, run by Northampton College.
:16:45. > :16:50.Today he is hoping a successful interview will secure a job with a
:16:51. > :16:54.local company. The company has helped develop the course whth the
:16:55. > :16:59.College and the job centre. We get the opportunity to work with them
:17:00. > :17:03.over an extended period. Thd build`up self`esteem and fedl more
:17:04. > :17:08.confident when they come to interview, because they fully
:17:09. > :17:10.understand what we're asking for. Whatever the outcome of the
:17:11. > :17:17.interview, Lewis says the h`s been useful. You get experience `nd
:17:18. > :17:22.qualifications and it shows employers who are willing to do what
:17:23. > :17:26.is necessary to get into thd job. Back in the interview room,
:17:27. > :17:30.Chantelle has been putting her learning into practice. Aftdr more
:17:31. > :17:37.than half an hour, her nervds have been well and truly tested. How did
:17:38. > :17:40.it go? It was nerve wracking. I do confident you did the best xou
:17:41. > :17:48.could? Hopefully, I feel quhte confident in myself. Job offer or
:17:49. > :17:53.not, Northampton College saxs courses like this are a success for
:17:54. > :17:58.all concerned. A lot of people have that problem with either getting the
:17:59. > :18:03.interviewer once they get to interview, getting the job, and we
:18:04. > :18:09.can help them develop those skills, again, working with a real company
:18:10. > :18:13.to look at bespoke skills and development needed to get into that
:18:14. > :18:18.sector. The college is now looking for other local companies to work
:18:19. > :18:24.with. Chantelle, Lewis and the rest of the students face an anxhous few
:18:25. > :18:28.days as they wait for news. Football now and let's look ahead to
:18:29. > :18:32.what's going to be a crucial week for Luton and MK Dons, both still
:18:33. > :18:36.chasing promotion. The Dons are in the running for a play`off place in
:18:37. > :18:40.League One following their weekend win at Coventry. The team w`s
:18:41. > :18:51.captained once again by Dean Lewington, who's fast appro`ching
:18:52. > :18:56.500 games for the Dons. It hs rare to find a player who has st`yed
:18:57. > :19:06.loyal to one club. Dean Lewhngton has played 500 times for MK Dons. It
:19:07. > :19:11.is a lot of games, it doesn't feel like it is that many. It fedls like
:19:12. > :19:16.yesterday I was making my ddbut I'm surprised it has got to that many.
:19:17. > :19:23.He is the longest serving player in our region, a relic of the club s
:19:24. > :19:38.Wimbledon days. I was struggling to get into the team and you worry
:19:39. > :19:41.about where your career is going. A lot of the other players got
:19:42. > :19:49.released edit given opportunity for young boys to come in. He wdars his
:19:50. > :19:52.heart on his sleeve is, but off the pitch, he is a great man in the
:19:53. > :19:59.dressing room, he gets the lads going. He is a top man and he is
:20:00. > :20:03.good to be around. Respected by his team`mates, Dean Lewington's trusty
:20:04. > :20:07.left foot is also feared by his rivals, but not on this occ`sion. It
:20:08. > :20:12.was left one of the younger statesman to the business. There is
:20:13. > :20:25.little chance he will remain in MK Dons allows on this evidencd for a
:20:26. > :20:29.decade. Dons needed to keep going for their play`off chances. A
:20:30. > :20:33.masterstroke with the much travelled striker settling the game whth a
:20:34. > :20:39.touch of class. Captain and manager happy, job done. He is an
:20:40. > :20:47.unbelievable man. He could've gone to three times, but he staydd here
:20:48. > :20:53.because the football club mdans so much to him. Peterborough losing in
:20:54. > :20:57.sixth place means the gap is just six points and nobody 's booking
:20:58. > :21:02.their summer holidays just xet. Jonathan joins me now. So a crucial
:21:03. > :21:08.week for MK Dons. But it's `lso going to be an interesting week for
:21:09. > :21:22.Norwich City, isn't it? The team now have a new manager. Last night, the
:21:23. > :21:27.manager was sacked after a liserable run of six defeats and repl`ced by
:21:28. > :21:30.Neal Adams. Norwich are still five points above the relegation zone,
:21:31. > :21:38.but many fans wanted to see a change, particularly with four games
:21:39. > :21:45.against Liverpool, Manchestdr United and other teams. Adams said he is
:21:46. > :21:51.not daunted and the club sahd they had to make that decision. We didn't
:21:52. > :21:57.have much choice, because four points from six games is relegation
:21:58. > :22:02.territory, so we had to do something about it. That needs to be
:22:03. > :22:11.addressed. The battle to st`y in the Premier league is a worth about ?100
:22:12. > :22:13.million. For Luton town, it is the state is that really matters and
:22:14. > :22:20.they could end their non`le`gue exile this week. If they win
:22:21. > :22:25.tomorrow night and Cambridgd lose against Woking on Thursday, then
:22:26. > :22:31.they are up. 40 points they have had to deduct over the years and that is
:22:32. > :22:37.for financial irregularities and administration. If they did go up,
:22:38. > :22:47.they will be very happy indded. You can see more about Norwich `nd MK
:22:48. > :22:53.Dons and Dean Lewington on this week's Late Kick`off.
:22:54. > :22:57.That's BBC One tonight at the slightly later time of 11.24pm. Now,
:22:58. > :23:00.it's 40 years since every town in Britain was given a postcodd. The
:23:01. > :23:03.very first postcodes were jtst a single letter, introduced in London
:23:04. > :23:07.more than 150 years ago. Today, there are nearly two million of them
:23:08. > :23:10.covering the whole country. And now Norwich has been recognised for its
:23:11. > :23:12.role as a pioneer of the modern postcode.
:23:13. > :23:16.The plaque says it all. Norwich was the test`bed of present`day
:23:17. > :23:22.postcodes. They were trialldd in Norfolk and Norwich, becausd Norwich
:23:23. > :23:26.had an avant`garde postmastdr and he had machines put in here. The
:23:27. > :23:39.technology was first developed in the late 1950s. It made the sorting
:23:40. > :23:43.of male 20 times faster. That machine was one of the first to
:23:44. > :23:48.come to Norwich. It was one of the first to prove that machines could
:23:49. > :23:54.sort mail. 82`year`old Brian was one of the first post meant to try out
:23:55. > :24:01.the machines. We had many ydars to get people to use the postcodes but
:24:02. > :24:11.now it is somewhere about 90%. That is of the postcode has been extended
:24:12. > :24:15.to other fields. I got here by putting the postcode into mx sat now
:24:16. > :24:22.have. When you ring up about something, the first thing they ask
:24:23. > :24:27.for is your postcode. Sometimes insurance premiums go up
:24:28. > :24:32.when your postcode changes. Nobody has moved, no houses have moved but
:24:33. > :24:41.we are in a high`risk area because we belong to Felixstowe. Thdy can go
:24:42. > :24:46.wrong. Some deliveries go to the wrong place, including this
:24:47. > :24:51.scaffolding. I have had a l`rge television turn and somebodx's
:24:52. > :24:57.personal documents. As with postcodes, so with life, thhngs
:24:58. > :24:59.don't always go according to plan. Let's have a look at the we`ther now
:25:00. > :25:13.with Dan Holley. It has been quite mild, bec`use we
:25:14. > :25:21.are in between the warm and cold fronts. Our attention is mahnly
:25:22. > :25:27.focused on this narrow band of heavy rain starting to push in across the
:25:28. > :25:31.Midlands. That will continud to move its wheat used words over the next
:25:32. > :25:37.couple of hours. Heavy bursts of rain, gusty winds, some thunder The
:25:38. > :25:43.odd shower coming later in the night, but a predominantly trier
:25:44. > :25:47.enter the night. Temperaturds quite chilly, four or five degrees, but
:25:48. > :25:58.the strength of the wind should keep us mainly frost free. High pressure
:25:59. > :26:03.building, but a cute showers around, especially the mornhng. Some
:26:04. > :26:10.sunny spells, patchy cloud coming and going. A lot of dry weather
:26:11. > :26:17.around. The winds will still be quite strong. Temperatures on the
:26:18. > :26:21.monitor, maybe 12 or 13 degrees average for this time of ye`r. It
:26:22. > :26:33.will feel fresher than it h`s done over the last few days. Largely
:26:34. > :26:40.clear skies overnight on Tudsday and Wednesday. Predominantly settled,
:26:41. > :26:43.not a lot changing. This cold fronts eventually bringing some patchy rain
:26:44. > :26:49.later in the day on Thursdax and first thing Friday morning. Once
:26:50. > :26:55.that has gone through, it starts to brighten up again. A lot of dry
:26:56. > :27:01.weather around and that staxs the same on Saturday. Some chilly nights
:27:02. > :27:08.with perhaps frost over the next few days.
:27:09. > :27:11.That's all from us. We'll bd back with an update at 10.25. Until then
:27:12. > :27:14.have a very good evening. Goodbye.