:00:00. > :00:07.Hello and welcome to Look East. In the programme tonight:
:00:08. > :00:09.Wellingborough based Booker Group is bought by Tesco
:00:10. > :00:11.in a multibillion pound deal - what could that mean
:00:12. > :00:24.police investigating historical abuse allegations in football.
:00:25. > :00:27.In her first public engagement since her illness over Christmas,
:00:28. > :00:47.champion, and don't call it table tennis.
:00:48. > :00:49.First tonight - the huge business deal centred on this region.
:00:50. > :00:52.Tesco has agreed to buy Wellingborough based
:00:53. > :00:57.wholesaler the Booker Group for ?3.7 billion pounds.
:00:58. > :01:01.Booker supplies food to 700,000 businesses
:01:02. > :01:04.including independent high street names like Budgens and Londis.
:01:05. > :01:07.Tonight the Wellingborough MP Peter Bone told Look East he hoped
:01:08. > :01:19.it would mean more jobs at the HQ and warehouses in his constituency.
:01:20. > :01:27.Burqa, basting Wellingborough. -- Bookers. Today, they gained a whole
:01:28. > :01:37.lot of weight. Taken over by Tesco in a deal worth ?3.7 billion. From
:01:38. > :01:43.the distribution centre, Booker supplied 200 cash and carry, more
:01:44. > :01:48.buying 5000 convenience stores, pubs, restaurants, cafes. I buying
:01:49. > :01:58.into this business, Tesco are taken on a whole new market. Londis and
:01:59. > :02:02.Budgens are part of Booker. This man owns this shop, along with a pub and
:02:03. > :02:08.a coffee shop here, all supplied by Booker. He calls the backbone of his
:02:09. > :02:12.prisoners. I think it is good. It'll be a strong the supplied chain, we
:02:13. > :02:19.will get more stock and hopefully that prices will be good for the
:02:20. > :02:22.consumers and ourselves. I'm looking to open new stores with Tesco's and
:02:23. > :02:28.Booker to help us, it should be good. We are told workers have
:02:29. > :02:34.welcomed the news. The company employing 1300 people, it has one .3
:02:35. > :02:41.million customers and suppliers 700,000 small misses. It is
:02:42. > :02:44.exceptionally good news and it will hopefully lead to more jobs and more
:02:45. > :02:49.growth for the combined group. Tesco is an enormous company but Booker is
:02:50. > :02:55.a very big company too. I think what we'll see is growth overall which
:02:56. > :03:01.will hopeful lead to more jobs than it will certainly lead to better
:03:02. > :03:04.profitability, more economy is and that is good for the economy as a
:03:05. > :03:11.whole. The company built on supplying the small independent has
:03:12. > :03:16.now swallowed up the biggest of all. There's a real endorsement of our
:03:17. > :03:20.sector and independent retailers. Everyone was predicting the demise
:03:21. > :03:25.of independent retailers, that they would be overtaken by the likes of
:03:26. > :03:32.Tesco and now we see in 2017, Tesco buying the right to supply those
:03:33. > :03:33.retailers. Booker, part of the shop steel, now being budgeted by the
:03:34. > :03:36.food industry. Our business correspondent
:03:37. > :03:39.Richard Bond is in our newsroom. Why do Tesco and Booker
:03:40. > :03:49.want to merge? I think there is as wrong chance
:03:50. > :03:53.that the competitions and authorities will want to look at it.
:03:54. > :03:57.Tesco is Britain's biggest retailer, it controls a third of the UK
:03:58. > :04:06.grocery market and it owns the convenience jaw stain with -- chain.
:04:07. > :04:11.I think if this deal is to proceed, the com petition authorities will
:04:12. > :04:14.want to look at those relationships and to them, maybe even ask for one
:04:15. > :04:20.of those businesses to be disposed of. Why do Tesco and Booker want to
:04:21. > :04:25.merge? I think this is all about buying power. Both of them need to
:04:26. > :04:29.buy their supplies as cheaply as they can so they can offer
:04:30. > :04:35.attractive customer prices to their customers. Tesco, by virtue of its
:04:36. > :04:40.size, already carries a lot of clout in negotiations with big suppliers
:04:41. > :04:45.like Unilever. Adding Booker customer base will give Tesco even
:04:46. > :04:49.more clout and it will be able to extract more value in the supply
:04:50. > :04:54.chain, in other words, keener prices, and that will allow keener
:04:55. > :04:56.prices to be passed back to Tesco and Booker and will give them a
:04:57. > :05:25.competitive edge in a brutal market. A man has been arrested by
:05:26. > :05:32.Cambridgeshire police in their ongoing investigation into
:05:33. > :05:37.historical abuse. Kit Carson is well known internationally and here for
:05:38. > :05:43.what has sometimes been described as his pioneering youth element work.
:05:44. > :05:47.He joined Norwich City, he left ten years later to take up the post of
:05:48. > :05:52.academy director at Peterborough Road United, and then he moved to
:05:53. > :05:59.Cambridge United, becoming the head of talent and development, that was
:06:00. > :06:06.between 2001 and 2006. Mr Carson began coaching youth teams in
:06:07. > :06:10.Finland from 2012 but it is unclear whether he is still actively
:06:11. > :06:14.involved in coaching there. We understand the allegations here
:06:15. > :06:17.relate to his work at Cambridge United and Peterborough United. The
:06:18. > :06:24.police confirmed they arrested a man in his 70s and put him into custody
:06:25. > :06:27.on suspicion of indecency with children and assault. He is
:06:28. > :06:31.currently being questioned at a police station in the county. Police
:06:32. > :06:38.say anyone with concerns should call them on 101.
:06:39. > :06:41.MPs and business leaders got together today to find out what's
:06:42. > :06:43.happening with one of the region's most important planned
:06:44. > :06:46.The upgrade of the Ely junction has been promised
:06:47. > :06:49.But the message today was that passengers will have
:06:50. > :06:59.It is probably the most strategically important junction in
:07:00. > :07:06.the nation but when will it be improved? Today, another rail
:07:07. > :07:10.summit, local politicians and business leaders once again pushing
:07:11. > :07:17.for the work to start as soon as possible in Ely North. It has a
:07:18. > :07:20.length the process to it. We've got some money available and we would
:07:21. > :07:26.like to say get on with it but actually we have allocated the money
:07:27. > :07:31.and there is a big long process. The ?200 million junction improvement
:07:32. > :07:40.would make it possible to run more trains. The hope was that the work
:07:41. > :07:44.could again in 2019 when the new Network Rail budget kicks in but
:07:45. > :07:48.officials from the company told today's meeting that the project was
:07:49. > :07:52.complex and there wouldn't be ready to start by then. Although they
:07:53. > :07:57.insisted that Ely remains a priority. This scheme would generate
:07:58. > :08:02.500 minion pounds for the local area. In my view, it has to be done.
:08:03. > :08:07.We need to open up the line to Kings Lane. We want good services from
:08:08. > :08:10.Norwich to Cambridge and we want to get the heavy lorries off our road
:08:11. > :08:15.and get those onto freight trains. There is a huge benefit to local
:08:16. > :08:21.people in doing this but it is a quite torturous process. There was
:08:22. > :08:24.some positive news today. Trains running through Ely will have more
:08:25. > :08:29.carriages after the summer which should ease congestion. Local
:08:30. > :08:33.businesses have committed almost ?8 million to pay for a study that will
:08:34. > :08:38.hopefully speed up the design and planning process. There is a real
:08:39. > :08:42.determination to see this junction upgraded a bad decision will be
:08:43. > :08:46.taken by Network Rail when it has the money and the plans in place and
:08:47. > :08:48.the reality is that it is still likely to be several years before we
:08:49. > :08:52.even have a start date for the work. This week, we've been
:08:53. > :08:54.celebrating the 50th birthday of Milton Keynes but being one
:08:55. > :08:57.of Europe's fastest growing towns The NHS nationally is feeling
:08:58. > :09:01.the pressure but what happens when your population is due
:09:02. > :09:04.to grow by around 15% Currently, Milton Keynes
:09:05. > :09:09.Hospital has 526 beds More than 4,000 babies
:09:10. > :09:16.were delivered there last year and more than 84,000
:09:17. > :09:20.people visited A and E. Stuart Ratcliffe has
:09:21. > :09:36.been to the hospital This hospital opened in 1984. Then,
:09:37. > :09:45.the population of Milton Keynes was 110,000. 30 years later, and the
:09:46. > :09:47.population is 250,000. The hospital itself has also expanded but it does
:09:48. > :09:54.illustrate the pressures that this hospital faces and to see for myself
:09:55. > :10:00.those pressures, I spent the same -- day with Julie whose job it is to
:10:01. > :10:06.manage the hospital beds. It is to be on Friday. What is the situation?
:10:07. > :10:15.It is that Tripoli -- typically busy day. We are on an escalation. It is
:10:16. > :10:18.governed by the number of patients waiting for heads, the number of
:10:19. > :10:21.four hour breaches that you have, the number of fun place to patient
:10:22. > :10:29.you have and that volume of patients coming in. We have three M T beds
:10:30. > :10:32.currently which we will be filled shortly and an additional 20 or so
:10:33. > :10:37.definite discharges and a further ten potentials. I have 50 patients
:10:38. > :10:43.in my A department, ten of which definitely need beds. With pressures
:10:44. > :10:50.building in A, it is the obvious first port of call. We are still on
:10:51. > :10:53.red. We want to create capacity for the male patients we have waiting
:10:54. > :11:00.for us. We should have beds coming up shortly. In total, Julie manages
:11:01. > :11:07.526 beds in this hospital and it is a constant juggling act. But a new
:11:08. > :11:13.ward with an extra 20 beds is due to open next month. It is all part of
:11:14. > :11:18.the rebuild but without the -- with the publishing booming, will it be
:11:19. > :11:23.enough? We believe the building programmes we have will allow us to
:11:24. > :11:30.cope with the extra demand. It is harder to say, the NHS is doing very
:11:31. > :11:34.well at looking after even more sick patients. It is always hard to
:11:35. > :11:40.predict. We believe what we are doing here is the right entered the
:11:41. > :11:44.doing. Do you think the NHS model is sustainable in the future? I
:11:45. > :11:49.absolutely believe it is. The values that drive the NHS, the staff that
:11:50. > :11:55.work in the NHS, the level of care, the policy of care is still without
:11:56. > :12:02.question one of the best, is not the best in the world. The chief
:12:03. > :12:05.executive also admits at this hospital and the wider NHS are
:12:06. > :12:10.coping. But only just. Back on the wards, that means the search for
:12:11. > :12:16.words in the juggling of resources continues. Despite its booming
:12:17. > :12:21.population, this hospital does rather better than many hospitals
:12:22. > :12:24.which spent much of the winter on black alert. Over the next ten
:12:25. > :12:30.years, the population here will grow by another 50,000. Even with that
:12:31. > :12:31.planned redevelopment, there are still concerns about whether this
:12:32. > :12:35.hospital will be able to cope. Jurors at St Albans Crown Court have
:12:36. > :12:38.today been shown pictures of the police excavation
:12:39. > :12:40.of the cesspit where children's author Helen
:12:41. > :12:42.Bailey's body was found. Police made the discovery
:12:43. > :12:44.in the garage of the Royston home that Ms Bailey shared
:12:45. > :12:48.with Ian Stewart in July 2016 - That is it from us. Later in the
:12:49. > :13:14.programme, we'll have your weekend Julie is here with your
:13:15. > :13:16.weekend weather forecast. And a masterclass in ping pong -
:13:17. > :13:25.from the world champion. The Queen received a warm welcome
:13:26. > :13:29.today from crowds and Fijian warriors when she toured a museum
:13:30. > :13:42.exhibition in Norwich. It was the Queen's first official
:13:43. > :13:50.engagement since a heavy cold kept out of the spotlight since
:13:51. > :14:02.Christmas. This was showcasing art from Fiji.
:14:03. > :14:06.A traditional Fijian welcome. The crowd delighted to see Her Majesty
:14:07. > :14:11.looking fit and well after her health problems over Christmas. I
:14:12. > :14:16.like seeing the Queen because her clothes are pretty. And I love your
:14:17. > :14:24.crown, did you make that yourself? Yes. You look royal. Well done. Will
:14:25. > :14:26.you remember it for a long time? Yes, because we are allowed to keep
:14:27. > :14:34.these flags. That is fantastic. One of the Fijian
:14:35. > :14:50.warriors was a professional rugby player in a different guise.
:14:51. > :15:04.Different from the day job. This is made from the bark of a tree. This
:15:05. > :15:09.is an important symbol... When the Queen visited Fiji in 1953 she was
:15:10. > :15:15.presented with a whale tooth, one of the artefacts now on display in the
:15:16. > :15:24.exhibition. There is also a canoe which featured in celebrations last
:15:25. > :15:30.year. There is a wedding dress which was
:15:31. > :15:41.worn by the daughter of a high chief who married a relative of one of her
:15:42. > :15:53.ladies in waiting. This is a Fijian who was part of the choir who sang
:15:54. > :15:58.to the Queen. I am gobsmacked. Speaking to Her Majesty was an
:15:59. > :16:05.honour. This is the largest exhibition about Fiji ever
:16:06. > :16:09.assembled. Before she left the Queen met staff and students. Her
:16:10. > :16:10.enthusiasm for the exhibition and her affection for the Commonwealth
:16:11. > :16:15.country clear to all. Something a bit different now
:16:16. > :16:17.because across the region today people have been marking
:16:18. > :16:18.Holocaust Memorial Day. the BBC has been telling the story
:16:19. > :16:23.of one survivor of the death camps. and this is his account
:16:24. > :16:27.of what happened You could see the squat chimneys
:16:28. > :16:54.belching fire and smoke, sort of a sweet smelling smoke
:16:55. > :16:57.of human bodies. The SS asked very politely,
:16:58. > :17:03.no dogs or whips or anything, they said, if you feel you aren't
:17:04. > :17:06.quite fit, we can take Of course, some people did,
:17:07. > :17:15.the old and the disabled Of course they put them straight
:17:16. > :17:27.into the gas chamber. I was extremely confused and not
:17:28. > :17:31.terribly happy for the simple reason that for the first time,
:17:32. > :17:35.we were separated. I was separated from my
:17:36. > :17:37.parents and the parents My mother spotted me,
:17:38. > :17:44.broke ranks, came over to me, I saw her then go along
:17:45. > :17:52.this ramp and at the end Those who survived realised
:17:53. > :18:04.that was into a gas chamber. Yes, the deadline's next
:18:05. > :18:19.Tuesday at 11 o'clock. Ipswich boss Mick McCarthy
:18:20. > :18:21.is certainly working hard He's agreed a loan deal with former
:18:22. > :18:24.Newcastle defender Steven Taylor but not in time to play
:18:25. > :18:26.at Preston tomorrow. Toumani Diagouraga could make
:18:27. > :18:28.his debut after signing Preston meanwhile have turned down
:18:29. > :18:33.a second bid for a reported ?2 million from Ipswich
:18:34. > :18:35.for their striker Jordan Hugill. nothing concrete in terms
:18:36. > :18:38.of transfer activity. Alex Neil will bring up his 100th
:18:39. > :18:44.game in charge against Birmingham. The manager also confirmed
:18:45. > :18:46.Louis Thompson's out Elsewhere, a couple of local
:18:47. > :18:51.derbies to look forward to. In League One,
:18:52. > :18:53.Peterborough host MK Dons. The Posh boss Grant McCann has
:18:54. > :18:56.revealed he slept at the club's training ground after Tuesday's
:18:57. > :18:58.defeat to Oldham. He said it was their worst
:18:59. > :19:02.performance since he took charge. He'll be hoping for
:19:03. > :19:13.better against MK. Derivate games are always great. We
:19:14. > :19:17.have been good in their big games this season. We need to make sure we
:19:18. > :19:19.do it again this Saturday. Looking forward to getting back in front of
:19:20. > :19:22.our home supporters. The U's have been in good form
:19:23. > :19:34.but are looking to bounce back It is massive. They are big games,
:19:35. > :19:41.big games that everyone looks forward to. We have been involved in
:19:42. > :19:44.to know. Their game against Luton earlier this season did not go our
:19:45. > :19:46.way and we are disappointed about that and we want to go there and do
:19:47. > :19:49.ourselves justice. Now, do you know the difference
:19:50. > :19:51.between ping-pong and table tennis? Andrew Baggaley from
:19:52. > :19:53.Milton Keynes is an expert. After a decade as England's most
:19:54. > :19:56.successful table tennis player And this weekend, he's looking
:19:57. > :20:06.to make it a hat-trick. Welcome to the fast and furious
:20:07. > :20:10.world of ping pong. In a corner of a sports hall
:20:11. > :20:13.in Milton Keynes you will find the world champion who kindly agreed
:20:14. > :20:17.to slow it down for me. The sound for one is a lot hollower
:20:18. > :20:37.and then there is the kit. Explain the differences between ping
:20:38. > :20:40.pong and table tennis. The main difference
:20:41. > :20:41.is the equipment. A table tennis bat is with sponge
:20:42. > :20:44.rubber as you can see there and the ping pong
:20:45. > :20:46.bat is with sandpaper. How does that affect
:20:47. > :20:51.the way you play? Table tennis is a very fast sport,
:20:52. > :20:56.you get a lot of spin on the ball with the rubber and sandpaper
:20:57. > :21:00.is a bit slower and also more A two-time Commonwealth
:21:01. > :21:09.table tennis champion, Andrew Baggaley has won the last two
:21:10. > :21:12.world ping pong titles The brainchild of
:21:13. > :21:16.promoter Barry Hearn. A tournament still in its infancy
:21:17. > :21:21.but watched by millions worldwide. It is just a phenomenal feeling
:21:22. > :21:25.to win two world titles in a row and looking to try and see if I can
:21:26. > :21:29.do it again. If you had to choose,
:21:30. > :21:31.ping pong or table tennis? At the moment there is only one ping
:21:32. > :21:37.pong tournament in a year so... My heart is with table tennis,
:21:38. > :21:46.my heart is with ping pong so I love both of them,
:21:47. > :21:48.I can't choose. This weekend the blue bat is boss
:21:49. > :21:51.once again at Ally Pally. He'll be hoping it's best too
:21:52. > :21:56.for a third time in a row. Norfolk's Alfie Hewett
:21:57. > :21:58.missed out in the final He lost to his British
:21:59. > :22:01.teammate Gordon Reid There's coverage of all
:22:02. > :22:10.the sport on your local Diana Moore is one of the country's
:22:11. > :22:17.leading operatic singers and has Now she has come home to East Anglia
:22:18. > :22:23.to give a special one-off She will be exploring
:22:24. > :22:27.the history of female singers Alex Dunlop is at the Norwich
:22:28. > :22:47.Central Baptist Church. You can see behind the Diana Moore
:22:48. > :22:49.warming up with members of knowledge Barack. She has travelled the world
:22:50. > :23:08.but she is a Suffolk girl. -- Norwich Baroque.
:23:09. > :23:17.Trouser roles, this is woman dressing as men on stage playing
:23:18. > :23:22.Baroque roles. It is exploring the lives of people who did this as a
:23:23. > :23:26.living. For a woman to break into that world in the 18th century, they
:23:27. > :23:33.must have had to be strong willed. Yes, they were characters. This lady
:23:34. > :23:39.here, she was a famous actress and singer in the 18th century. But her
:23:40. > :23:50.career was destroyed through a sex scandal. Handel wrote the part in
:23:51. > :23:59.Messiah for her and she never looked back. Why come here? It is home.
:24:00. > :24:04.Last summer we had a fantastic time. They invited me to choose a
:24:05. > :24:13.programme of my own. This is what I wanted to do. Good luck. You are
:24:14. > :25:03.going to sing as a part from a Handel's Opera, another close rule.
:25:04. > :25:15.Thank you very much. What a wonderful voice. Here is the
:25:16. > :25:20.weather. Some parts of the region last night
:25:21. > :25:28.fell as low as minus six. That meant fantastic weather watchers pictures.
:25:29. > :25:37.It still has not thawed out at three o'clock this afternoon.
:25:38. > :25:43.Plenty of blue sky on the Norfolk - Suffolk border.
:25:44. > :25:47.The thickest of the cloud will continue to feed up through tonight
:25:48. > :25:51.and it is producing outbreaks of rain in places but most of the rain
:25:52. > :25:56.to the night will be liked and patchy but we cannot rule out the
:25:57. > :26:01.odd heavy airburst here and there. Not as calls tonight. Nothing more
:26:02. > :26:05.than two Celsius. Light to moderate sized to south-easterly winds.
:26:06. > :26:08.Tomorrow's weather dependent on how quickly this weather front clears
:26:09. > :26:12.out to the north Sea. Still uncertainty about how quickly it
:26:13. > :26:16.will do that. At the modem looks like a cloudy start to the day.
:26:17. > :26:21.Further outbreaks of rain, most of it light and patchy. We are
:26:22. > :26:28.expecting to hold onto a lot of cloud. Temperatures could be double
:26:29. > :26:32.compared to today, seven or eight Celsius, closer to average. The
:26:33. > :26:42.winds change to south to south-westerly. Sunshine in the
:26:43. > :26:48.extreme West late on. For most of us it will be a cloudy day from start
:26:49. > :26:55.to finish. On Sunday the weather dependent on how far north this
:26:56. > :26:58.system spreads. We are not sure how fire officers going to get. The
:26:59. > :27:01.further south you are in the region on Sunday the likelihood is you will
:27:02. > :27:10.have a cloudy day with outbreaks of rain. Further north, may just stay
:27:11. > :27:15.dry. Monday and Tuesday is a lot of cloud around. Monday perhaps light
:27:16. > :27:19.rain and drizzle, largely dry. Tuesday more persistent rain late on
:27:20. > :27:30.in the day. And check your barometer in the West, it should be 29.82
:27:31. > :27:37.inches of mercury, in the East, 29.88 inches of mercury.
:27:38. > :27:53.That has flummoxed us. We know you understand the risks
:27:54. > :27:56.associated with your pregnancy. Because I'm smaller, people think
:27:57. > :27:59.my hopes are not so great. You know what it's like when
:28:00. > :28:07.help is needed. You just jump in. Are you saying that
:28:08. > :28:21.he's stalking you now?