25/01/2017 Look East (West)

In Look East tonight: More than 300 jobs at risk -

and many local branches going - as the Norwich and Peterborough

And no money, no medals, Badminton bosses fight to keep funding

And bitterly cold temperatures expected tomorrow, all the details

later. More than three hundred

jobs across this region are at risk tonight,

as the owners of the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society

announced it will be scaling back its branches and losing posts

at its headquarters. In all, 28 branches will close

across East Anglia and up to 340 jobs could be lost,

and the brand will disappear This from our business

correspondent Richard Bond. It has been a trusted name

on the high street for decades, But soon the Norwich

and Peterborough name will completely disappear,

it all the Yorkshire building society to close 28 N and P branches

including this one of the outskirts

of Peterborough. It does have an effect on people

in the area which is particularly felt with the older

community year but also for the young people, so my younger brother

uses it because it is near to where It is a bit of an upset

because people have to travel further, for those who love appeared

especially because it is the neither Be changes put at risk 340 jobs,

in branches and at the After the closures,

only 17 branches will It was formed in 1986

to the merger of the Norwich and Peterborough

building society is, for 20 years the organisation thrived but had

suffered a major setback about ten years ago when it started selling

the investment products of a company Customers were compensated

by the scandal cost them ?57 million, and led

to the Yorkshire takeover. The Yorkshire CV banking market

is changing, more customers are conducting business online

and use of high-street branches like this

is Further investment in

that network can't be But the argument will disappoint

thousands of members who inspect -- expect a building

society to provide a good branch network

in places where the big

banks aren't represented. These are some of the place is set

to close, the changes due to take effect from

September this year. Members are being encouraged

to embrace online banking but some elderly customers may find

that difficult to do. So what will the changes

mean for customers? The Chief Executive

of the Yorkshire Building Society, Mike Regnier, joined me from out

Leeds newsroom to explain. The thing that makes

building society is different from banks

is the overall objectives are

completely different, the building society objectives are to act

in the interests of our members, we don't have shareholders,

we look at the And provide the best

service and best value. Lots of your members value

having a local branch You are not providing

value for them. What is important to say is that

for most of those people the nearest branch will

still be two or three or four miles away from

one closing because in the main we are proposing two )

is where we have another branch in the close

We will still have 260 branches and agencies on the high

And from our perspective that is still going

to be a significant investment in face-to-face service.

This will involve a certain amount of job

In East Anglia we are consulting with

our colleagues at the moment and these changes will take effect on to

the next 18 months so our priority really is to see how many of those

colleagues that we have spoken to today we can find them out of

employment for because we do have a number of months for us

to find them alternative rules were that is

possible and where their skills match and very find something they

A lot of people might be sad and losing the

name, Yorkshire does not mean a lot to them.

Any understand that and how can you reassure them?

While the name might change them while the

pink and purple blobs might change to green,

the service customers get day-to-day will be just as good if

And for those branches it will remain, it will be

the same people there that customers can turn to to help them with their

Four officers from Bedfordshire Police have been dismissed

At a disciplinary hearing, Police Constables Robin Denton,

Matthew Neild, Todd Mills and Deanna Waite were found to have

breached professional standards in discussing a sensitive case.

The Chief Constable said he had apologised to the victim concerned.

The force hasn't released any further information because of other

Badminton England, based in Milton Keynes,

says success at the next Olympics is in jeopardy - unless funding

Public money for badminton was cut after the Rio Games,

despite two MK players winning bronze in the men's doubles.

Our sports editor Jonathan Park has this report.

They want to turn bronze into gold, in Tokyo.

But right now and medallists Marcus Ellis and Chris

They like the other players training at the National Badminton Centre

face an uncertain future after the sport's funding

Hearing the news was obviously a real kick in the teeth for us and

everyone, I don't think anyone could believe what had happened.

It was not just the case of funding reduced

18th of August 2016 the day Marcus and Chris won

Brent's first-ever men's doubles awarded medal but before the year

was out the UK sport decision not to --

made the decision not to spend a

This was leading up to the Tokyo games in 2020.

Badminton has launched an appeal but still must

prepare for the worst if the appeal fails.

UK sport's Badminton snub means that Marcus and

Chris may have to fight between 60 and ?70,000 each in the run-up to

A court is ?10 per hour and retrain sex hours a day and we need six

courts so that is a lot of money in itself.

These are not luxuries, these are the basics we need and

then turn its wise if we are not travelling a pointer internment our

opponents in competitions are and they go up in the ranks on the go

Badminton players and coaches and management are confident in the

sport's ability to win Olympic and paralytic medals in Tokyo and

The head to London in two weeks' time for the appeal to be

heard by UK sport in what will prove to be

a pivotal moment for the

Well a short time ago the head of Badminton England told me

the loss of funding could be catastrophic for the sport.

If we are unsuccessful effectively it will turn the sport upside down.

We have players that we absolutely believe can meddle in Tokyo and if

UK sport that they want your appeal we have got to look at certainly a

much smaller programme. Other people training now who have the funding in

the will have to change the regime or would be able to train any more?

What will the impact beyond people affected? In realistic terms were

looking at a programme that at best is half the size of what it is now,

the players know which players are potentially going to be carrying

food and those players that unfortunately we have the release

from the programme. The implications around that are also to the coaches

and staff involved in the programme, as a consequence of this decision we

have had to serve formal notice of redundancy. None of the staff, none

of the quotas are players deserve what is happening to them right now

is which is why we are so determined to ride what we believe to be a

wrong. How will it affect the grassroots level? What the

grassroots level does is give us a fantastic shop window and without

that how do we actually attract our sport to young people who have the

aspiration to go on and become future medallists? We believe our

clubs will suffer, but not so many people will be attracted to the

sport, so from a grassroots kids playing in school right through to

the podium, this decision has a significant impact for our sport.

The Prime Minister says Milton Keynes has a great future.

At Prime Minister's Questions today, the MK South MP Iain Stewart

asked Teresa May to join in the celebrations

We are providing additional funding for the east-west rail project, I

know he supported that through sharing the APPG. We will see a

country that works for everyone. Milton Keynes has had not just a

great 50 years but I am sure will have a great future as well.

Pasolini is, here's the weather. A lot of cloud around, quite misty

conditions but still cold the coming in from the new continent so that is

going to mean temperatures down below freezing quite widely, the

risk of frost and icy patches on untreated surfaces. We have this

cold continental air making its way across as overnight tonight and into

tomorrow and at strengthening south-easterly wind will be a

feature of the weather through to tomorrow making it feel bitterly

cold. It will already be a cold start the day with the widespread

frost and although there will be a lot of cloud around it looks like

there will be some brighter spells and perhaps even some sun chamber

temperatures for many of us are not expected to get above freezing all

day. Factor in the wind-chill and it will feel bitterly cold. The

National weather is coming up but he's out like and the weather will,

temperatures will recover by Friday, it will stay cloudy added into the

weekend and it is looking take a look at the Outlook towards

the weekend.