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A reminder of the day's main story... The

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Our headlines this Wednesday evening: Murdered for her millions -

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a jury finds Ian Stewart guilty of killing his partner:

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She is somebody who is narcissistic and thinks only of himself and is

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particularly wicked not only to kill the woman he is said to have lot but

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then dumped her body. -- said to have loft.

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Tonight friends and neighbours pay tribute to Helen,

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describing her as witty, bright and honest.

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Also ahead - who will pick our crops?

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Farmers raise fears of food shortages amid

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I spent the day with the bird recorder whose job it is to log all

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of the county's birds. First tonight, police

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described him as Ian Stewart has been found guilty

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of killing the Royston author Helen Bailey,

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hiding her body under the garage of their home,

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and deceiving everyone into thinking Mike Cartwright has been

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following the trial at St Albans Crown Court and joins

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us live from there now. Ian Stewart showed no emotion when

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he heard he had been found guilty of murder. He shook his head for the

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verdicts of fraud and perverting the course of justice. After six weeks

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of evidence was found guilty on all charges after just six hours with

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the judge praising them for their involvement in what he called a

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difficult and troublesome case. Anything you do say may

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be given in evidence. Arrested early in the morning

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in his dressing down, Ian Stewart slumped onto the stairs

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in the home he shared Police cameras picked

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up his questions. Getting up, after looking out

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of the window, this question. The garage where three months before

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he had had dumped Helen Sedated, suffocated,

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possibly still alive, Ian Stewart dropped her and Boris,

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her much-loved dog, down inside. At their home officers questioned

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him about the day Helen disappeared. He is a wicked and cynical man. You

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lied to us, his own family of Helen Bailey's family about the enquiry

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and that made it very challenging for us. I do not know if he's a

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psychopath, he is certainly thinks only of himself and is wicked, not

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only to kill the woman he is said to have loft, but the dumped his body

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as well. he killed her and tried

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to cover his tracks. On the 11th of April last year

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Ian Stewart smothered Helen Bailey somewhere in their Royston home

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sometime before 2:30pm. That afternoon at the

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rubbish tip this CCTV. He dumped the duvet used,

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it is thought, to move her body. Ian Stewart getting into his car

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after buying a takeaway just hours I don't know whether

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he is a psychopath. I think he is a narcissist, I think

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he thinks very much of himself, Four days after killing her,

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Ian Stewart called the police to say she had gone missing and had

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left a note. My partner has been missing

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since Monday and she has She hasn't ended up where

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she said she was going. She said in the note,

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something like, I need His defence - two mystery men,

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Joe and Nick, who kidnapped But his side of the story

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was as fictitious as one Ian Stewart's two sons and his

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brother left court silent. The sentence will be tomorrow. His two

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sons did not look at the father during the verdict. In a statement

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Helen Bailey's family said, there can be no celebrations. The shadow

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of loss has been cast over the hearts of many. The challenging --

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the police describe this as a challenging investigation and they

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said they will look into the death of Diane Stewart, Ian Stewart's

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first wife. She died suddenly of natural causes in 2010. Police say

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it is right and proper to consider Ian Stewart's past and they will do

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that with the help of Cambridgeshire's coroner.

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While the court in St Albans has been hearing about

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Ian Stewart's deadly plot, it's Helen who's been

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The author had only moved to Royston a few years ago, but neighbours soon

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Anna Todd has been speaking to some of them about their memories

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of the much-loved children's author.

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Described as witty, bright, honest and real Helen Bailey live

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Her world fell apart after her husband of 23 years

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But within a year, despite much angst and soul-searching,

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she fell for widower Ian Stewart, he made her happy.

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He ticked the boxes that were necessary for Helen.

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He loved dogs he was a good dad, he was funny, he was considerate

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Was there anything about him that suggested something was amiss

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And Helen would have picked up on that.

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Helen left her beloved London in the summer of 2013 and moved

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to Royston with Ian Stewart and his two sons.

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She used to walk her little dog, Boris, here on Royston Heath

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and she ingratiated herself with the neighbours,

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hosting Christmas parties with champagne and cake.

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Helen Bailey became a much loved and then very much missed member

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They lived at Hartwell Lodge, where Helen continued

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to work on Planet Grief, book she had started

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It helped her and hundreds of others.

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you to my new book, which is called When Bad Things Happen

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Subtitled Life After Death And A Dog Called Boris.

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I'm going to try and get Boris to get in shot now.

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Helen Cox frequently wrote about Ian Stewart in her blog,

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referring to him as the GGHW - gorgeous grey-haired widower.

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She muses about their lives together but she also writes about her fear

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of losing Ian and how happiness can be taken away in an instant.

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But the gorgeous grey-haired widower killed her and her beloved dog.

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Helen, I'm missing you more than I ever thought possible.

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Please come back safe and sound from wherever you are.

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I didn't know what to think, or where she was.

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And I still find it very hard to talk about.

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A family friend of Ian Stewart of his late wife, Diana,

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told me he had seemed depressed over many years but at a recent

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party with Helen he said he was a different man.

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His friends say the man described in court was not

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the person they knew, but neighbours say they now have

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And I do not think it is ever going to go away.

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I think we've got to live with it all the time we're here.

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The Hartwell Lodge has always been a very happy home,

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always full of laughter and that is somehow how I'm hoping

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that we can put a positive side and remember Helen in the time

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Knowing what you know now, how do you feel about Ian Stewart?

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Words can't convey what I feel about him.

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I look at her house and the garage where she was found every day

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and instead of seeing Helen like I used to see, knowing

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that she had finished writing and went to bed at night,

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I now just have these awful memories of what has happened

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to her and I do not know, what do you say?

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Helen Bailey was a woman on the cusp of her happy ending.

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Ian Stewart betrayed her love and trust.

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So what drives an outwardly loving and loyal fiance

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Earlier I spoke to Dr Samantha Lundrigan,

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a criminal psychologist at Anglia Ruskin University,

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and asked if this kind of partner killing is particularly rare.

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It is quite unusual in that what we have here is not a murder

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in the context of an explosive domestic abuse situation,

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but a very premeditated and planned instrumental crime where in fact

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the murder was kind of instrumental or incidental to the goal,

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which it seems, to all intents and purposes, to have

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Police have also suggested he may have preyed upon Helen Bailey

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from the beginning, knowing she was successful.

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It is within the realms of possibility he could have

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targeted Helen through the website he met her through which was

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around widowed people, which is a time of vulnerability.

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Perhaps he convinced himself he was this loving partner

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who wanted to spend the rest of his life with her.

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Police described him a narcissistic and selfish.

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Obviously being after someone's money is a selfish act,

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but what more will they mean by that term narcissistic?

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Well, right from the start it is clear there was only one

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person that mattered in this, from of the investigation starting,

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There was no regard for his victim, his victim's family, his own family,

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other people involved, right the way up until today

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when the verdict came out, Stewart was claiming to be innocent.

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And giving us this elaborate story that it was somebody else's

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fault and with no regard for anybody else's killings.

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Is there a possibility he believed it, he was deluded,

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He may have convinced himself, while knowing full well

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what he was doing, he may well have become quite comfortable with that

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role he was playing but I think there is no doubt that

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that was a role, he knew it was a role and it was a role

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he needed to play to try and get away with this murder.

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In fact, he did not play it very well and he made endless

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mistakes as he went through, in terms of trying to go

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undetected, and the result of that is this verdict.

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Lots of people wonder why did he kill her dog?

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It was tiny, it was no threat to him.

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Again, it was about destroying probably

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I think it was reported she never went anywhere without her dog,

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so it would have been very difficult, or more difficult

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to explain, why she wasn't around if the dog had been there.

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What will he be thinking now he has been found out, found guilty?

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I wonder if he may actually be thinking he is the victim.

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The role he was playing in this, he has convinced himself in some

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ways he may have been entitled to that money and even though

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he created the story and ruse to get away with it,

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actually, it is not fair he did not, and actually he is the victim.

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I know in court today there was a bit of the shake

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of the head when the verdict was read out.

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Again, that does not strike me as someone filled with remorse

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and regret for what they have done but, again, only Ian Stewart

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Dr Samantha Lundrigan speaking to me earlier.

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But we're moving on now - and a warning that the region's

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farmers could struggle to produce enough food - if Brexit leads

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to a shortage of workers from the continent.

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Today landowners and farmers have been to Westminster,

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urging MPs to make immediate guarantees to safeguard

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He really the only temperature farm but this man is hard at work. He is

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one of eight eastern Europeans employed permanently while many more

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joy in the summer months but Brexit may change that. -- join them. The

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pound is going down and I do not know how much exactly but I know it

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is going down. The same amount of work means less money. Robert Smith

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Farms 3000 acres and his crops such as potatoes and onions, are sold to

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big retailers. The industry is already struggling to recruit in

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this country and teams of seasonal migrant labourers are vital. He is

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already considering other options, just in case they stop coming. It's

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worries us and I do believe we have got to invest in new technology and

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in particular agriculture to make us more labour-saving and the use of

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robotics in the field and in our warehouse is. The Government today

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was asked for confirmation about the status of permanent and temporary

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foreign workers. The representatives of farmers and rural businesses said

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they are critical to the industry's success and wants the Government to

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take note given current recruitment problems. Given that we are already

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seeing and have evidence through our surveys we are seeing a shortfall in

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people wanting to come here. That was exacerbated after the referendum

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with the exchange rate and people feeling less welcome. That ask has

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been in for some time now and we really need an answer. A Government

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spokesman said supporting farmers will form an important part of our

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exit from the EU and the Prime Minister says she wants to protect

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the status of EU nationals already here. He remains positive and said

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he has a good life and hopes to continue his farming debris in

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Britain. Well, Cambridgeshire farmer

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Tim Breitmeyer is Deputy President of the Country Land

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and Business Association - and was I asked how bad the labour shortage

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is across the region. Dick Pound has devalued and

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alongside fast. -- the pound has devalued and that is the view with

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some eastern European they are not so welcome here any longer because

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of Brexit and that has put pressure on the number of migrant workers who

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really want to come and do the seasonal work required on farms.

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What have you been asking of the Government and where you reassured?

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We have been asking the select committee, rather than Government,

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we definitely do need this seasonal supply of labour from Europe and we

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also need a seasonal agricultural workers scheme was used to exist for

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Mac user, which will give us global access to labour, also as the

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Eastern Europeans coming in. If this is not resolved what will happen to

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the farming industry in a region? I think it can be resolved but if not

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inevitably farmers will have to look at their output. I do not suggest

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there will be food shortages but we might have to import more whereas in

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the past domestic production has provided that supply. Long-term, we

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must acknowledge some of those businesses will already be doing

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strategic planning to decide if they can afford to have the business

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still in the UK. This might sound a silly question, but why can't native

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workers do these jobs, we keep hearing unemployment is up. In

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Cambridge itself we have probably only 250 people on the unemployment

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register so there is a very small number of people available to work

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in the first place. We also have to accept the fact the aspirations of

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many people in our society is they should have a college education, go

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into media, technology, financial services, and perhaps because of not

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so many people understanding the rural countryside any more they do

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not see a job in agriculture as necessary that necessarily their

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career path, and neither do their parents, actually. -- do not see it

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as their career path. The opening of the beauty's largest

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school conversion project has been delayed for another year. -- of the

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nation's. It was due to open as Northampton International Academy in

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September but completion has been delayed 12 month due to technical

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problems. Pupils will be taught in temporary accommodation for one more

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year. It is expected to cost ?30 million and a commonly 2000 pupils.

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-- and accommodate 2000 pupils. Later, we will meet the board man of

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Northamptonshire keeping track of the region's birds.

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-- bird man. Tomorrow the focus is on storm Doris which has the

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potential to bring damaging gusts of wind in the afternoon. All the

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detail later. The eyes of the Formula One world

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were on Silverstone today for the launch of Force India's

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new car for 2017. The team, who are based

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near the Northamptonshire circuit, finished fourth in the Constructors

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championship last season. Our Sports Editor Jonathan Park

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was there to see it unveiled I am at the factory

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in Silverstone where they spent all winter

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working on the new car. They hope it will propel them up

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the Formula 1 grid next season. It is not this one,

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the real one will be unveiled a few hundred

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yards over there. Launches are special,

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a lot of hard work for the So it is the big occasion

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to reveal the car today. Formula 1's version of sleeping

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beauty in front of a room full of journalists, photographers and

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sponsors, waiting for Force India's Who do you represent? I appear with

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a press agency. We came here especially for the French market. We

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have a French driver and his very first season. The unveiling season

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is in full flow. This is the man who picks up the bills, Force India's

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over. Mind you, he is a billionaire. How much of a buzz do you personally

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get the witness is your team, your car and the drivers are paid by do,

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to? -- this is your team. I got into Formula 1 because I am a racing man

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myself so the adrenaline is always very high. Very exciting. Several

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teams finished above Force India last season in the constructor's

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championship. The handed -- the added regular Frenchman to the

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line-up as well as hanging onto an experienced Mexican. But every part

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of this VJM10 is brand-new and with the new Formula 1 rule changes it is

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faster due to better aerodynamics. It has expires, bigger bodywork, so

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I am looking forward to driving this big machine. -- big tyres. It will

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be very demanding, physically, mentally and the drivers will be

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stretched to the maximum. How quick will it be, that is the real test.

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We will find it -- find out in about a month when the Formula 1 season

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starts in Australia. It's part of a national programme

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to create an archive of bird populations and how

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they change over time. In Northamptonshire,

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their bird recorder is retiring, and the search is now

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on to find a replacement. Our reporter Stuart Ratcliffe

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has been to Wollaston near Wellingborough to meet

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Northamptonshire's In sun, snow or rain,

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but mostly rain. He is waiting, watching and

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recording Northamptonshire's birds. It is a great job because of all

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this information coming and we are able to monitor bird

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population dynamics and also how things change with different

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species and it also helps look at different habitat

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types and which areas He is at a nature reserve today

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where the great white And in the ten years in this job

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he has seen many changes. The corn bunting used to be a very

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common site here and it has declined dramatically and nationwide we have

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seen a decline of about 86% and we have only had three records

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in Northamptonshire this year. The county has also

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seen many successes, We reintroduced the red

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kites to Northamptonshire We were part of a pilot scheme,

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one of five sites in the country, It is difficult to go somewhere

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and not see one now. Why you think it has

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been so successful? The habitat requirements for them

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have been fully met here. They like mixed countryside

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with open woodlands, also agricultural land,

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areas where they can get in and feed because they are phenomenal

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scavengers and they will They are not the sort of bird that

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a lot of people think, they do not prey heavily

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on other species of bird but they do like carrion,

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pulling up worms, they are happy His predecessor was the county

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recorder for 20 years and says it is a job with a very

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specific skill set. You have got to be very keen

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on birds, quite a good communicator because you have to get

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on with the other birders and you encourage them to send

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you their records so they can be used for whatever means

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you want to use them for. If you do not mind the rain,

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have an eye for not only birds but also spreadsheets,

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this could well be the job for you. Not a great day out

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there for bird recording. Hello. There will be some lively

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weather conditions for the next 24 hours or so. Relatively calm at the

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moment and much cloudier today than yesterday. This photograph taken in

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Hertfordshire and another one in Northamptonshire on the wing --

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showing the thick cloud. We can expect an evening that is rather

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cloudy with further rain, some on the heavy side. Likely to persist in

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the evening and overnight and the wind picks up during the night was a

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noticeable breeze by the end of the night, but still relatively mild.

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Tomorrow's the focus is on Storm Doris, this deepening area of low

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pressure bringing some disruption to this part of the country as the Met

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office have issued an amber warning for many counties in the region for

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strong winds which could reach 60-70 mph during the afternoon rush hour.

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Some rain associated with this low pressure, some dryer into a good

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spot by lunchtime the wind starting to increase -- dryer interludes. The

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wind that should peak at around 3pm. It is from 3pm on what we're there

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could be some damaging gusts -- 3pm onwards. This proved -- could

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produce problems for transport. On the coast it could reach 80 mph.

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Quite short lived but the potential for disruption if they are so stay

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tuned to the forecast. It calms down somewhat by Friday. Eight, and

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called the with some sunny spells and then some slightly milder air

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but the conditions for the weekend. The focus is on tomorrow and Storm

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Doris. Our top story, Ian Stewart is found

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guilty of killing his partner, Helen Bailey, and hiding her body under

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the Royston home. That is all from us now. Join us

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again at 10:30pm. Thank you for your company.

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Good job, guys. We totally nailed it.

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This year, fundraising kits are going to be sent through the post.

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