:00:00. > :00:00.In Look East tonight: More than 300 jobs at risk -
:00:00. > :00:08.and many local branches going - as the Norwich and Peterborough
:00:09. > :00:14.And no money, no medals, Badminton bosses fight to keep funding
:00:15. > :00:28.And bitterly cold temperatures expected tomorrow, all the details
:00:29. > :00:31.later. More than three hundred
:00:32. > :00:34.jobs across this region are at risk tonight,
:00:35. > :00:37.as the owners of the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society
:00:38. > :00:39.announced it will be scaling back its branches and losing posts
:00:40. > :00:41.at its headquarters. In all, 28 branches will close
:00:42. > :00:44.across East Anglia and up to 340 jobs could be lost,
:00:45. > :00:46.and the brand will disappear This from our business
:00:47. > :00:55.correspondent Richard Bond. It has been a trusted name
:00:56. > :00:58.on the high street for decades, But soon the Norwich
:00:59. > :01:04.and Peterborough name will completely disappear,
:01:05. > :01:08.it all the Yorkshire building society to close 28 N and P branches
:01:09. > :01:10.including this one of the outskirts
:01:11. > :01:15.of Peterborough. It does have an effect on people
:01:16. > :01:18.in the area which is particularly felt with the older
:01:19. > :01:21.community year but also for the young people, so my younger brother
:01:22. > :01:25.uses it because it is near to where It is a bit of an upset
:01:26. > :01:34.because people have to travel further, for those who love appeared
:01:35. > :01:37.especially because it is the neither Be changes put at risk 340 jobs,
:01:38. > :01:44.in branches and at the After the closures,
:01:45. > :01:50.only 17 branches will It was formed in 1986
:01:51. > :01:55.to the merger of the Norwich and Peterborough
:01:56. > :01:59.building society is, for 20 years the organisation thrived but had
:02:00. > :02:03.suffered a major setback about ten years ago when it started selling
:02:04. > :02:05.the investment products of a company Customers were compensated
:02:06. > :02:14.by the scandal cost them ?57 million, and led
:02:15. > :02:21.to the Yorkshire takeover. The Yorkshire CV banking market
:02:22. > :02:24.is changing, more customers are conducting business online
:02:25. > :02:25.and use of high-street branches like this
:02:26. > :02:26.is Further investment in
:02:27. > :02:35.that network can't be But the argument will disappoint
:02:36. > :02:39.thousands of members who inspect -- expect a building
:02:40. > :02:43.society to provide a good branch network
:02:44. > :02:46.in places where the big
:02:47. > :02:48.banks aren't represented. These are some of the place is set
:02:49. > :02:51.to close, the changes due to take effect from
:02:52. > :02:53.September this year. Members are being encouraged
:02:54. > :02:55.to embrace online banking but some elderly customers may find
:02:56. > :03:04.that difficult to do. So what will the changes
:03:05. > :03:06.mean for customers? The Chief Executive
:03:07. > :03:08.of the Yorkshire Building Society, Mike Regnier, joined me from out
:03:09. > :03:13.Leeds newsroom to explain. The thing that makes
:03:14. > :03:15.building society is different from banks
:03:16. > :03:16.is the overall objectives are
:03:17. > :03:19.completely different, the building society objectives are to act
:03:20. > :03:22.in the interests of our members, we don't have shareholders,
:03:23. > :03:25.we look at the And provide the best
:03:26. > :03:32.service and best value. Lots of your members value
:03:33. > :03:34.having a local branch You are not providing
:03:35. > :03:39.value for them. What is important to say is that
:03:40. > :03:42.for most of those people the nearest branch will
:03:43. > :03:46.still be two or three or four miles away from
:03:47. > :03:50.one closing because in the main we are proposing two )
:03:51. > :03:53.is where we have another branch in the close
:03:54. > :03:57.We will still have 260 branches and agencies on the high
:03:58. > :04:03.And from our perspective that is still going
:04:04. > :04:08.to be a significant investment in face-to-face service.
:04:09. > :04:10.This will involve a certain amount of job
:04:11. > :04:18.In East Anglia we are consulting with
:04:19. > :04:21.our colleagues at the moment and these changes will take effect on to
:04:22. > :04:25.the next 18 months so our priority really is to see how many of those
:04:26. > :04:30.colleagues that we have spoken to today we can find them out of
:04:31. > :04:34.employment for because we do have a number of months for us
:04:35. > :04:36.to find them alternative rules were that is
:04:37. > :04:39.possible and where their skills match and very find something they
:04:40. > :04:42.A lot of people might be sad and losing the
:04:43. > :04:44.name, Yorkshire does not mean a lot to them.
:04:45. > :04:48.Any understand that and how can you reassure them?
:04:49. > :04:50.While the name might change them while the
:04:51. > :04:53.pink and purple blobs might change to green,
:04:54. > :04:58.the service customers get day-to-day will be just as good if
:04:59. > :05:05.And for those branches it will remain, it will be
:05:06. > :05:08.the same people there that customers can turn to to help them with their
:05:09. > :05:13.Four officers from Bedfordshire Police have been dismissed
:05:14. > :05:18.At a disciplinary hearing, Police Constables Robin Denton,
:05:19. > :05:20.Matthew Neild, Todd Mills and Deanna Waite were found to have
:05:21. > :05:25.breached professional standards in discussing a sensitive case.
:05:26. > :05:28.The Chief Constable said he had apologised to the victim concerned.
:05:29. > :05:31.The force hasn't released any further information because of other
:05:32. > :05:38.Badminton England, based in Milton Keynes,
:05:39. > :05:41.says success at the next Olympics is in jeopardy - unless funding
:05:42. > :05:47.Public money for badminton was cut after the Rio Games,
:05:48. > :05:50.despite two MK players winning bronze in the men's doubles.
:05:51. > :05:57.Our sports editor Jonathan Park has this report.
:05:58. > :06:00.They want to turn bronze into gold, in Tokyo.
:06:01. > :06:02.But right now and medallists Marcus Ellis and Chris
:06:03. > :06:09.They like the other players training at the National Badminton Centre
:06:10. > :06:11.face an uncertain future after the sport's funding
:06:12. > :06:19.Hearing the news was obviously a real kick in the teeth for us and
:06:20. > :06:21.everyone, I don't think anyone could believe what had happened.
:06:22. > :06:23.It was not just the case of funding reduced
:06:24. > :06:31.18th of August 2016 the day Marcus and Chris won
:06:32. > :06:37.Brent's first-ever men's doubles awarded medal but before the year
:06:38. > :06:39.was out the UK sport decision not to --
:06:40. > :06:41.made the decision not to spend a
:06:42. > :06:45.This was leading up to the Tokyo games in 2020.
:06:46. > :06:48.Badminton has launched an appeal but still must
:06:49. > :06:53.prepare for the worst if the appeal fails.
:06:54. > :06:55.UK sport's Badminton snub means that Marcus and
:06:56. > :06:59.Chris may have to fight between 60 and ?70,000 each in the run-up to
:07:00. > :07:05.A court is ?10 per hour and retrain sex hours a day and we need six
:07:06. > :07:09.courts so that is a lot of money in itself.
:07:10. > :07:12.These are not luxuries, these are the basics we need and
:07:13. > :07:15.then turn its wise if we are not travelling a pointer internment our
:07:16. > :07:18.opponents in competitions are and they go up in the ranks on the go
:07:19. > :07:23.Badminton players and coaches and management are confident in the
:07:24. > :07:26.sport's ability to win Olympic and paralytic medals in Tokyo and
:07:27. > :07:31.The head to London in two weeks' time for the appeal to be
:07:32. > :07:33.heard by UK sport in what will prove to be
:07:34. > :07:35.a pivotal moment for the
:07:36. > :07:44.Well a short time ago the head of Badminton England told me
:07:45. > :07:46.the loss of funding could be catastrophic for the sport.
:07:47. > :07:59.If we are unsuccessful effectively it will turn the sport upside down.
:08:00. > :08:06.We have players that we absolutely believe can meddle in Tokyo and if
:08:07. > :08:10.UK sport that they want your appeal we have got to look at certainly a
:08:11. > :08:15.much smaller programme. Other people training now who have the funding in
:08:16. > :08:19.the will have to change the regime or would be able to train any more?
:08:20. > :08:25.What will the impact beyond people affected? In realistic terms were
:08:26. > :08:29.looking at a programme that at best is half the size of what it is now,
:08:30. > :08:34.the players know which players are potentially going to be carrying
:08:35. > :08:37.food and those players that unfortunately we have the release
:08:38. > :08:44.from the programme. The implications around that are also to the coaches
:08:45. > :08:49.and staff involved in the programme, as a consequence of this decision we
:08:50. > :08:53.have had to serve formal notice of redundancy. None of the staff, none
:08:54. > :08:55.of the quotas are players deserve what is happening to them right now
:08:56. > :09:00.is which is why we are so determined to ride what we believe to be a
:09:01. > :09:04.wrong. How will it affect the grassroots level? What the
:09:05. > :09:09.grassroots level does is give us a fantastic shop window and without
:09:10. > :09:13.that how do we actually attract our sport to young people who have the
:09:14. > :09:18.aspiration to go on and become future medallists? We believe our
:09:19. > :09:23.clubs will suffer, but not so many people will be attracted to the
:09:24. > :09:29.sport, so from a grassroots kids playing in school right through to
:09:30. > :09:31.the podium, this decision has a significant impact for our sport.
:09:32. > :09:33.The Prime Minister says Milton Keynes has a great future.
:09:34. > :09:36.At Prime Minister's Questions today, the MK South MP Iain Stewart
:09:37. > :09:38.asked Teresa May to join in the celebrations
:09:39. > :09:52.We are providing additional funding for the east-west rail project, I
:09:53. > :09:57.know he supported that through sharing the APPG. We will see a
:09:58. > :09:58.country that works for everyone. Milton Keynes has had not just a
:09:59. > :10:10.great 50 years but I am sure will have a great future as well.
:10:11. > :10:13.Pasolini is, here's the weather. A lot of cloud around, quite misty
:10:14. > :10:17.conditions but still cold the coming in from the new continent so that is
:10:18. > :10:21.going to mean temperatures down below freezing quite widely, the
:10:22. > :10:25.risk of frost and icy patches on untreated surfaces. We have this
:10:26. > :10:30.cold continental air making its way across as overnight tonight and into
:10:31. > :10:32.tomorrow and at strengthening south-easterly wind will be a
:10:33. > :10:37.feature of the weather through to tomorrow making it feel bitterly
:10:38. > :10:40.cold. It will already be a cold start the day with the widespread
:10:41. > :10:43.frost and although there will be a lot of cloud around it looks like
:10:44. > :10:46.there will be some brighter spells and perhaps even some sun chamber
:10:47. > :10:50.temperatures for many of us are not expected to get above freezing all
:10:51. > :10:54.day. Factor in the wind-chill and it will feel bitterly cold. The
:10:55. > :10:59.National weather is coming up but he's out like and the weather will,
:11:00. > :11:02.temperatures will recover by Friday, it will stay cloudy added into the
:11:03. > :11:03.weekend and it is looking take a look at the Outlook towards
:11:04. > :11:05.the weekend.