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Here on BBC One, it's time

for the news where you are.

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On Look East tonight:

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A Brexit bombshell for

Milton Keynes, kicked out

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of the competition to become an EU

Culture Capital.

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But why wait until today?

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The shift in policing

which could see an end

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to community support officers.

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And it's turning much colder again.

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Join me at the end of the programme

for the latest weather.

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First tonight, just a week before

the winner was due to be announced,

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Milton Keynes has been kicked out

of the competition to be

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the European Capital

of Culture in six years' time.

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The title brings great economic

benefits, and Milton Keynes

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was one of five places in the UK

under consideration.

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But today the European Commission

has told them they'll no longer

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be allowed to continue

because of Brexit.

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Mike Cartwright reports.

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Celebrations for MK's 50th, a party

that they hoped would carry on.

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Milton Keynes, short listed

for European Capital of Culture

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2023, a title putting culture

at its centre.

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Celebrating what's already

here and what's to come.

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£150,000 spent on the bid.

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But after months of planning

and excitement, today,

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learning they would no longer be

considered because of Brexit.

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For the council, a bitter blow.

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It's hugely disappointing,

I think there was a real desire

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in the city and the people

were quite excited about

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bidding and becoming

European Capital of Culture.

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And it's a loss to the city,

all that economic development

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it would bring in.

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All the investment and all the jobs

it would have created.

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MK's bid going along with five

other British entries.

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Tonight, anger from all of them

about the decision to ban them now.

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Why has the commission waited

17 months to let people know?

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Because that public money

would clearly not have been invested

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if people had known,

well, there's no point

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in putting a bid together

because the European Commission

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is going to say, "You can't enter."

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A fallout from Brexit the council

here say they never expected.

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Now, not withdrawing their bid,

hoping a compromise can be found.

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And Mike's here now.

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Obviously, the timing of this

is really the problem -

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but did it really come out

of the blue?

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Yes and no. Of course, councils are

now asking when it allowed UK

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entries if they were going to be

thrown out a week before announcing

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the winner. But this goes further

back. In 2014, before the

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referendum, it was decided in 2023,

a British city would become culture

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capital. But in December 2016, the

UK Government said the competition

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would run as normal but they did one

bidder is that there may be subject

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to Brexit negotiations. So it looks

like councils were worn but pressed

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ahead anyway. But it does seem

rather late in the day for the

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decision. Did the commission leave

it late on purpose? Critics would

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say yes, probably.

Of course. But

£150,000 for effectively competition

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entry, it sounds like a lot of

money. Is it wasted no?

It is a lot

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but MK Council say it's not a waste

because it paves the way for them to

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develop art and coach there. But

they do feel they have missed out on

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an opportunity to selling here

abroad. And they have lost out

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financially. The culture capital

2008 cost the city 170 million to

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win the bid but it generated £750

million, four times what they spend.

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So was it a gamble worth taking's

they would say yes.

Thank you very

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much indeed.

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A man from Luton who planned

to fight for Islamic State in Syria

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has been jailed for six years.

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22-year-old Mubashir Jamil

was arrested after this raid

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at his home in Belmont Road.

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The former straight-A student had

also considered carrying out

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a suicide attack in the UK.

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The judge said a mental health

disorder was only partly to blame

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for his actions but he will be

treated in a secure hospital

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until he's fit for prison transfer.

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Next tonight - the shift in policing

which could spell the end

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for community support officers.

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15 years ago, PCSOs were hailed

as the way to put more

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bobbies on the beat.

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But they were controversial.

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Lacking the powers of

arrest or interrogation,

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critics called them "plastic police"

- a cheap alternative.

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Now, the force in Cambridgeshire

says with a rise in complex crime,

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what they actually need is 50 more

fully trained police officers,

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but it means losing 46 PCSOs.

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And it's a trend being echoed in

Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire,

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which have seen PCSO numbers halve

over recent years.

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Emma Baugh has the story.

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PCSOs were originally brought

into have more visible policing,

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with officers on regular patrols.

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But now all that is changing.

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With pressures on budgets,

in Cambridgeshire, they say

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the money is better spent

on regular officers.

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We are really focusing on recruiting

police officers next year.

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We have the highest number we've

recruited into the force for many

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years, that's really good news.

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And PCSOs, we will obviously need

to revisit that at some

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stage in the future.

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But at the moment, our

focus is on recruiting

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warranted police officers.

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So was it a mistake to have

so many in the first place?

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It was absolutely right thing to do

to bring them in then.

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Crime changes and people

and societal issues change.

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We need, I need, warranted police

officers in some parts of the county

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now to do things that PCSOs aren't

legally entitled to do.

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Community support officers

like these aren't much cheaper

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to employ them regular police

constables, but unlike them,

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they can't make arrests,

investigate crimes respond

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to incidents in the same way.

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But in Huntingdon today,

some were not convinced

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that the plans are good idea.

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I think it's really sad

because they're always helpful.

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My brother has been lost a few times

in town and they helped

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bring him back to us.

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I think it's a good idea,

because obviously, the PCSOs

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can't enforce anything,

whereas police can.

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Solving the crimes is

what I'm looking for,

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rather than a visible presence.

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The Police and Crime Commissioner

says they have to prioritise.

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If we had more funding,

we can tackle criminality.

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It's the low-level stuff,

sometimes, that people feel

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really passionately about,

the things that affect them

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that are becoming less

of a priority for policing.

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And I think, again,

you will see less of that,

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perhaps, in the future,

because of the funding constraints.

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From April next year,

you will see fewer of these PCSOs

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patrolling town centres,

but more officers

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investigating serious crimes.

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Now to the councils criticising

the Chancellor for ignoring them

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in yesterday's budget.

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Leaders in Northamptonshire,

Peterborough and Cambridgeshire had

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been campaigning hard

for fairer funding

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to take into account the huge surges

they've seen in population

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and demand on services.

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They were hoping that the budget

would bring them good news.

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But it brought them no news at all.

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Our political reporter

Tom Barton explains.

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Do you need to take your inhaler?

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Yes.

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Margaret and Ted Walton

are both 87 years old.

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Ted has lung disease and recently

spent time in hospital with sepsis.

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Most couples in their position

would get daily help at home,

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but Margaret provides almost

all of Ted's care herself.

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She's able to do so because after

he was released from hospital,

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Cambridgeshire County Council

provided support designed

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to help her look after him.

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It's the confidence, I suppose,

to know that you can do it.

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Because it's a very worrying

thing, really, at first,

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when you think about...

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the responsibility you have.

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Very important.

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COUGHS.

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Because I have got utter,

utter faith in Margaret,

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which you can't have

with a stranger.

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If you know what I mean.

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It's a service that can be

good for older people,

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but is also good for the council.

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Instead of having a care

package and that care

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package being maintained,

we take an enabling approach.

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So, as Margaret explained,

we listen to individual people,

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we work with them and actually

manage to reduce the amount

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of care that they receive.

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Cambridgeshire County Council says

it wants to provide more

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of this sort of support.

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But demand for care services

is growing faster than funding.

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And they don't have the resources to

grow innovative services like this.

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But there was no solution

for council leaders

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in yesterday's budget.

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I was disappointed by

the fact that we didn't

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move towards announcing

a new needs-based formula.

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This is the way that our funding

will be rectified in the future,

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it's desperately overdue at this

present point in time.

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It cannot be fair that

a resident of inner London has

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£1190 spent on them,

when I have to make do with £650.

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The Government says it is listening.

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We are committed to fairer funding.

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It's something I've talked

about and I think it's

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a perfectly reasonable request

from local council.

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This hasn't been looked at,

how funding is distributed hasn't

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been looked at by governments

for more than a decade.

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It's about time we looked

at it again and I will...

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The process has already

started to get us there.

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Back in Burwell, Margaret is working

with Ted to get him fit again.

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As for the councils

which support older people,

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their finances aren't so healthy.

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The big question they face

is where the funding

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will come from in future.

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The A14 has been closed in both

directions near Cambridge tonight

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after several separate incidents.

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It began with a multi-vehicle crash

westbound at junction 34

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for Fen Ditton, but was soon

followed by a crash on the eastbound

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side at the same point.

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Within an hour, police also

closed the road just

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a few miles along at junction 32

because of another problem.

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They say traffic

is still very heavy.

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That's all from us for now.

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Now, let's get the weather.

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Hello, there.

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Cold weather on the way

and it is going to turn much

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chillier overnight tonight.

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There could be some outbreaks

of rain coming in across Southern

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counties during the course

of the night but a lot of dry

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weather across the north

with some clear spells,

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so temperatures potentially

down at 1-2 degrees,

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bringing the risk of frost

and icy patches.

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This is the pressure

pattern for tomorrow,

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we have got this weather system

close by but essentially,

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a lot of fine weather on the way.

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A bit of a cloudy start in one

or two spots and there

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could be an isolated shower,

but for most places it stays dry

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with some good spells of sunshine.

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But it is going to feel very cold.

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There will be light winds

through tomorrow but certainly,

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despite the sunshine,

temperatures not getting higher

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than around 7 degrees.

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It's expected to stay

fine for the afternoon.

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National weather is coming up

but here is the outlook.

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And a freshening wind

from the north-west into the weekend

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will make it feel bitterly cold.

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5-6 degrees our high.

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Some sharp frost on the way

but there will be some

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good spells of sunshine.

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