:00:00. > 3:59:59to change? Will they? Can they? Thank you. That is all from us for
:00:00. > :00:19.this evening. It is In the European Elections,
:00:20. > :00:21.it was another good night In the East,
:00:22. > :00:25.they got more votes than anx other Of the seven MEPs,
:00:26. > :00:29.UKIP now has three, up from two The Conservatives are still
:00:30. > :00:30.on three. The Liberal Democrats lost their
:00:31. > :00:41.only seat. This confirms that UKIP is now
:00:42. > :00:44.a major player In the last Euro elections, they
:00:45. > :00:49.came second, with 19% of thd vote. Last night they were first,
:00:50. > :00:50.with 34%. When I joined
:00:51. > :00:53.the party 15 years ago, winning here There will be two new faces
:00:54. > :01:03.representing the East in Brtssels. Patrick O'Flynn of UKIP is
:01:04. > :01:06.a former political journalist. He is colleague, Tim Aker, tsed to
:01:07. > :01:11.work for the Taxpayers Alli`nce For the Conservatives, a sense of
:01:12. > :01:15.relief as they defied expectations and held onto all three of
:01:16. > :01:18.their seats, their share of the vote The people of the East of England
:01:19. > :01:25.have spoken. They have as majority said, we need
:01:26. > :01:28.a new relationship with Europe. That is exactly what
:01:29. > :01:30.I've been saying. I have been saying
:01:31. > :01:32.Europe needs to change. Our relationship with
:01:33. > :01:35.it need to change. The big loser, Andrew Duff
:01:36. > :01:38.of the Liberal Democrats. After 15 years in Brussels,
:01:39. > :01:42.no longer an MEP. I think the country is experiencing
:01:43. > :01:46.a wave of nationalism which, as you know, I don't like, H can't
:01:47. > :01:54.explain it, and I can't justify it. While Labour failed to win
:01:55. > :01:57.a second seat, the surge from UKIP They have had one good night
:01:58. > :02:02.tonight, that they're celebrating, and people voting for them will be
:02:03. > :02:06.pleased about that, but for five years, our region will be ldss well
:02:07. > :02:09.represented, the work will be harder for me
:02:10. > :02:11.as a Labour MEP to represent this region. In the East Midlands, which
:02:12. > :02:15.covers Northamptonshire, both UKIP In the South East,
:02:16. > :02:22.which covers Milton Keynes, there were four wins for UKHP, three
:02:23. > :02:25.for the Tories and one each for The other parties still belheve this
:02:26. > :02:30.is just a protest vote that will go away
:02:31. > :02:40.at next year's General Election Our newest Euro MP is
:02:41. > :02:42.Patrick O'Flynn from UKIP. When I spoke to him
:02:43. > :02:44.late this afternoon, I asked him if UKIP had dond well `
:02:45. > :02:49.which party had performed b`dly I think we took votes
:02:50. > :02:51.off all our rivals. I would say, though, that
:02:52. > :02:54.of the two biggest parties, the Tory vote probably held up a bit better
:02:55. > :02:58.than expected and the Labour vote Your main plank is that you are
:02:59. > :03:05.against being in Europe What can you do, though, from the
:03:06. > :03:10.European Parliament? Our number one priority is to bring
:03:11. > :03:15.back British sovereignty by getting Nonetheless, while we're thdre, we
:03:16. > :03:21.need to be vigilant about Brussels' power grabs and try to block them
:03:22. > :03:24.and make sure they do not h`ppen. We want to be there
:03:25. > :03:28.for the important votes. And still less, go native, which
:03:29. > :03:33.would be the worst fate of `ll. Mr Farage was talking about
:03:34. > :03:36.where you might put people tp for the General Election next year
:03:37. > :03:40.and he has highlighted Great Yarmouth
:03:41. > :03:42.and parts of Cambridge. Well, if you look
:03:43. > :03:47.at the council results, if xou look at the breakdown of who acttally won
:03:48. > :03:51.the vote for the European elections in those areas, those are clearly
:03:52. > :03:55.very good areas for us. They are areas where we havd
:03:56. > :03:59.local government base. They are areas where the UKHP brand
:04:00. > :04:03.is well known and well liked. There are extra areas in thd East,
:04:04. > :04:05.too. The South Essex corridor, looking
:04:06. > :04:08.at looking at Thurrock, looking at And why do you think UKIP h`s
:04:09. > :04:14.so much support? I think people
:04:15. > :04:17.in the eastern counties... They have always approached politics
:04:18. > :04:21.from a common`sense percepthve so there's not too much of the
:04:22. > :04:26.metropolitan sensibility gohng on. I think they're very much aware
:04:27. > :04:30.of open`door immigration compressing wages
:04:31. > :04:34.and perhaps making job opportunities more difficult for young people
:04:35. > :04:38.as they move into adulthood. I think particularly in the south
:04:39. > :04:41.of the region, there is heightened concern about pressure on greenbelt
:04:42. > :04:45.and greenfield land due to development in part necessitated
:04:46. > :04:49.by enormous levels of immigration. So what has been the reaction to
:04:50. > :04:57.the results? In Essex,
:04:58. > :04:59.UKIP made big gains in both Our reporter Gareth George has been
:05:00. > :05:04.finding out what people think The bank holiday bargain hunters
:05:05. > :05:10.were out early in Essex this morning,
:05:11. > :05:12.and many weren't I voted UKIP this time. You would
:05:13. > :05:43.normally vote Conservative. Yes. Because I felt they cotld do
:05:44. > :05:47.It has been Labour for ten xears, then I went on to Conservathve,
:05:48. > :05:53.Will you be voting for UKIP in the General Election as well
:05:54. > :05:56.To be honest, I wasn't really surprised. I didn't vote UKHP.
:05:57. > :05:59.Were you tempted to vote UKHP? A little bit, yes.
:06:00. > :06:02.There are lots people who aren't happy about what is going on
:06:03. > :06:05.Are you worried they are getting so many votes?
:06:06. > :06:08.I think you have to be very careful and see what all
:06:09. > :06:11.the parties are going to be doing over the next year.
:06:12. > :06:13.Because unless we've got a few facts, you can't make
:06:14. > :06:18.Essex is sometimes seen as a political barometer
:06:19. > :06:24.for the whole country, and at least for the moment, UKHP seems
:06:25. > :06:42.Are political correspondent is here. What does this tell us about our
:06:43. > :06:48.region? We are a Eurosceptic region. It also tells us UKHP is a
:06:49. > :06:51.major political player now hn this region, mainly I think becatse of
:06:52. > :06:55.fears about immigration, but there are also a lot of people who have
:06:56. > :06:59.just had enough with the mahn parties and in some parts of our
:07:00. > :07:04.region, Northamptonshire, Cambridge, Essex, the main battle is
:07:05. > :07:15.between UKIP and the Tories. UKIP have driven out the Lib Dems and are
:07:16. > :07:19.now squeezing out Labour. How bad is it for Labour? They do not know what
:07:20. > :07:22.to make of it. They had a mhxed picture in the local elections on
:07:23. > :07:26.Thursday. A lot of their increased vote in last night came frol Liberal
:07:27. > :07:32.Democrat voters but I am he`ring stories that a lot of Labour voters
:07:33. > :07:33.stayed at home this week and did not vote. That is worrying for Labour if
:07:34. > :07:43.it is true. Thank you. The drugs company Pfizer has
:07:44. > :07:45.officially pulled out of an attempted takeover of
:07:46. > :07:47.Astra`Zeneca, which employs hundreds of people in Cambrhdge
:07:48. > :07:50.There had been fears that if the takeover had gone ahead, it could
:07:51. > :07:52.have threatened plans already in place to move the company
:07:53. > :07:54.headquarters to Cambridge. A fire in the centre of Fakdnham has
:07:55. > :07:58.been described as the worst of The former Aldiss department store
:07:59. > :08:01.was destroyed, It looks like something
:08:02. > :08:05.from the Blitz, now no more than twisted
:08:06. > :08:09.metal, smouldering bricks and There are pockets
:08:10. > :08:17.of fire is still under the debris. We want to make sure none
:08:18. > :08:19.of them spread, certainly not into any of the
:08:20. > :08:24.buildings we have managed to save. Yesterday morning 100
:08:25. > :08:27.firefighters tackled the bl`ze. For the moment,
:08:28. > :08:48.Norfolk Fire and Rescue do not know One reason why no one was khlled or
:08:49. > :08:54.injured. The weather.
:08:55. > :09:01.The radar picture shows rain heading our way from the continent. Tonight
:09:02. > :09:05.the rain could be heavy at times and possibly thundery, too. Temperatures
:09:06. > :09:12.should not drop down to double figures for most of us. `` out of
:09:13. > :09:16.double figures for most of ts. Torrential downpours at timds
:09:17. > :09:23.tomorrow. With the cloud and rain, it will feel on the cool side. As we
:09:24. > :09:28.head into the evening, some further heavy downpours just about `nywhere
:09:29. > :09:30.possible, so the Met Office have issued a yellow warning frol
:09:31. > :09:37.midnight tonight until midnhght tomorrow for the heavy rain. Perhaps
:09:38. > :09:41.even 40 millimetres expected in sunspots. That would be over an inch
:09:42. > :09:45.and a half. So definitely the chance of some localised flooding. Possibly
:09:46. > :09:50.some heavy rain on Wednesdax. Hopefully lighter rain if wd get any
:09:51. > :09:51.on Thursday. And then a brighter day on Friday, probably just ond or two
:09:52. > :09:57.showers. The late bulletin is at 10:30pm
:09:58. > :10:14.Good evening. Good evening. If I were to conduct a
:10:15. > :10:19.straw poll about the weather events today, I suspect we would get a
:10:20. > :10:24.split decision. There were significant differences around, we
:10:25. > :10:27.have sunshine and some warmth, but also this cloud and rain coming up
:10:28. > :10:33.through the Channel into the north of England. On top of that, some
:10:34. > :10:37.showers in the north-west, some of them thundery from Northern Ireland
:10:38. > :10:38.and Scotland, so a real eclectic