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She was such a lovely, bubbly person, always smiling. It is a

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shame. A real shame. Placed in special measures

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because of serious problems - this private mental health hospital

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has only been open a few months. With Christmas just around the

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corner, I am at Chelmsford city with a racecourse celebrating.

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And after yesterday's delay, the Queen and Prince Philip

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arrive at Sandringham to start their Christmas break.

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We start tonight with tributes for a mother and her 12-year-old

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daughter who died in a house fire in Braintree.

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The police and the fire service have launched a joint investigation.

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Her teachers say Emilia Kordaszewska was a delightful, friendly

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and positive student who was always smiling.

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Two other women were in the house at the time, but managed to escape

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The family is Polish and tonight, there will be a special mass

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This tragedy has been felt very deeply in the Polish community here

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in Braintree and 100 or so members have gathered here at the church

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where a mass has just started for Alina and Emilia, a mother and

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daughter who could not escape a fire that torso quickly through their

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home. Flowers and candles for a mother and daughter who died in a

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fire, placed by colleagues who worked alongside Alina Kordaszewska.

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She was such a lovely, bubbly person, always smiling. A shame, a

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real shame. I literally spoke with her a couple of days ago and I asked

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how was she doing for Christmas. She said she was still far away, as we

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mentioned, they have been taken far too soon, far too soon. The fire

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began around 10:30pm last night and neighbours told me the house went up

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very quickly. There is desperate to help beaten back. Just could see a

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glow in the back, oh my God, the house is on fire. I husband tried to

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help her. She was trying to break the window. It had literally come

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through, iPhones the Fire Brigade and about ten minutes after, they

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arrived. But it is very scary to watch. The roof was alight, it

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really went quickly and it kept stopping and starting up again. It

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is a tragedy. Very, very heartfelt sympathy goes out to them all.

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Living down this road, it is heartbreaking that something could

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happen so quickly. Within hours, a fundraising page had collected

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thousands. The timing of this fire so close to Christmas has heightened

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the sense of tragedy. Kept the house, there were prayers for Alina

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and the media as the investigation goes on. Emilia's score have issued

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a tribute to her. The headteacher has expressed an article surplus.

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This news is all the more distressing so close to Christmas.

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The Fire Service still have not said how big in this fire may have

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started. A mental health hospital in Norfolk,

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which has only been open a few months, has been placed in special

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measures by inspectors and could be forced to close

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if improvements aren't made. The Care Quality Commission found

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a number of "serious problems" at Mundesley Hospital,

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including "staff not up Beds at the private hospital

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are often taken up by NHS patients if no provision can

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be found elsewhere. Mundesley Hospital wants to become

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a renowned centre of excellence. Its Victorian building is said

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to be more like a hotel than a private hospital,

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but the CQC has rated It was inspected after

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Terence O'Shea from the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services

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reported their concerns to both the local mental

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health trust and the CQC. I think it is unusual that

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you can register a 27-bed psychiatric hospital,

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start admitting patients in February, only be inspected

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in September and have action taken During all of that time, people have

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been receiving what appears to be This hospital used to be home to

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a drug and alcohol treatment centre. It has since been taken over

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by Elijah Adeyemi and Lee Allison who suffered a breakdown

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16 years ago. He wanted to change the way mental

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health is viewed and treated, but the hospital has been criticised

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for staff not completing Strangulation risk assessments had

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also not been reviewed. Amongst the criticisms in this CQC

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report was that the hospital never reported any serious incident

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since it opened despite In one case, a detained

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patient left the hospital, was absent without leave,

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the police were involved, but the CQC wasn't informed

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and the staff did not log it fully. In the last six months,

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the local mental health trust has sent 171 patients here,

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allowing them to be treated The trust says it has been

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reassured they are safe. No-one was available

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from the hospital to talk to us today, but in a statement,

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it says they are undoubtedly disappointed to read the report,

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but with their ongoing developments, they are in a much different place

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now to what they were three months The CQC says it will carry out

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further inspections, including unannounced visits,

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to ensure the necessary The north Norfolk MP Norman Lamb

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is a former health minister who has campaigned for better care

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for mental health patients. Late this afternoon,

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he gave me his reaction These are serious failings and the

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CQC has acted decisively on them. I think it is important to note that

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the CQC found that the quality of care given by staff was good and

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that is important to know. It is a very interactive environment that

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people are in when they are there, but they have to address these

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failings. They are trying to do things differently. Do you applaud

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that? Yes, the traditional mental health ward is often absolutely not

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therapeutic in any and particularly when people are held for a long

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time, and so treating people in a nice environment which can be

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therapeutic I think is incredibly important. We have to be much better

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at keeping people out of hospital, much better preventive care,

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supporting people at home but if people do need hospital care, that

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sort of environment is a good one. Do you think the NHS should stop

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sending people that? There is a responsibility on the trust to

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ensure they are satisfied that patients will be safe, because that

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is one of the critical things, ligature points which increase the

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risk of suicide. You cannot get more serious than that. They have to be

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satisfied that patients are absolutely safe, received good care

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and stand a chance of recovery because that is ultimately what the

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system should be aimed at. Does it bother you that so much time goes by

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from a inspection to the time we hear about this? There is sometimes

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a delay. These inspections are quite substantial and quite robust. I have

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more faith in the Care Quality Commission now and the work that

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they do because -- we should be reassured the findings they reach

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are substantial. As far as you are concerned, this centre can keep

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going into the New Year but needs to be checked regularly? Monitored

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closely and it is important the trust continues inspecting.

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The Newmarket-based jockey Freddy Tylicki has been moved out

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of hospital to a specialist spinal unit The 30-year-old fell

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He's paralysed from the waist down after a four-horse pile-up

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He tweeted: "I've been waiting on this day for a long time."

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So far, ?330,000 has been raised to help fund his rehabilitation.

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Figures obtained by Look East show the number of rough sleepers

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in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk has gone up by 68% over

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There are now 300 people sleeping rough in the three counties.

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The biggest increase is in King's Lynn, where the figure

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On the longest night of the year, a special service at all Saints Church

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for the homeless. If you were here last night. Family break-up and

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unaffordable rents forced leaked onto the streets for seven months.

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Now he has a room in a house run by a local charity. The trust ensures

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that he and other rough sleepers have a home for up to two years. I

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just felt like it was better off ending it but glad I stuck it

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through. One false move, you are out on the streets and there is not a

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lot you can do about it which is when a lot of people turn to alcohol

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and drugs. Figures obtained that show that while Southend has the

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highest number of rough sleepers, King's Lynn has seen the biggest

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spike from five to 42. EU migrants make up 25%, 40% are under 25 but

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37% are women. Wade not for the trust, to date making up hampers,

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the numbers would be even higher. Two of the main reasons are mental

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health, a reduction in services there and the other one, key one is

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around relationship breakdown. That is a big problem. We found evidence

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of rough sleepers in car parks and back streets but many find refuge

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away from potential danger. At this site, I was due to meet a rough

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sleeper but was told he was reluctant to be filmed. He did not

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pick up the phone? He picked up but put it down. Among those finding

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themselves homeless or military veterans, a chef and architect and

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it is not just about lack of accommodation, mental health

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problems, addiction, fear of domestic abuse all played their

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part. Carla has chosen to live in a caravan. There is a lot of suffering

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going on, there are disabled people sleeping under car parks, not enough

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hospital beds, it is exasperating. The plight of rough sleepers is

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raised at this time of year but those who help the homeless note

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that in the wake of Christmas, many on the streets will again become

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invisible. Still to come tonight: Alex will be

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here with the Christmas Day weather. We're at the races in Chelmsford

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as Great Leighs celebrates And the amazing voice of 14-year-old

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Breeze Redwine with her version As I'm sure you're aware

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there are just two more shopping days until Christmas and tonight

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is the last late night Of course, some people deliberately

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leave their shopping until the very last moment,

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hoping to pick up Our business correspondent

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Richard Bond is with shoppers Did you know that these days we do a

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quarter of our Christmas shopping online, but actually it is now too

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late to place orders that way with most retailers, so what can you do?

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All you can do is shop in person which is what people here have the

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option to do tonight. Mike has been in Milton Keynes. Christmas Day now

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just around the corner. Only two shopping days to go. As the UK's

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largest single story shopping centre, this year pattern. Started

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with Black Friday, the majority of online shopping takes place then, it

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follows into December. We see significant increases and we expect

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about 80% of shoppers to shop in the last two weeks of this month. Today,

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long lines outside some shops. What they are calling here the man-.

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Last-minute shopping by men. I have a list here. Take everything off and

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then I can go home. Last-minute trip. 200 shops, one million square

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feet. This year some retailers really busy. Sometimes you cannot

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move in the store and this week it has been that way. Sales slowing

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down for others. It has been unusual this year. Over the last eight

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years, there has been steady growth. This year it has gone backwards.

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There are a lot of people about, however full four has been down.

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More than 2 million shoppers are expected in the run-up to Christmas,

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around 600,000 in the last week, 100,000 on Christmas eve alone. Have

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you done most of the shopping online? Online. We are just getting

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a view last bits now. Note online. -- loads online. I like looking

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around, I love the atmosphere and the decorations. A perfect present

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for retailers, a late surge in sales. In this centre, that would

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make it a magical Christmas. Here, they monitor shopping numbers using

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their cameras and last week, a year ago, there were 195,000 people here.

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The same week this year, 208,000. Colin is general manager. More

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shoppers, are they spending more? Definitely. All of the managers have

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been very happy with Christmas this year. Our people deliberately

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leaving their shop late in order to catch bargains? I think it is very

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much a man thing. We all tend to leave it a little bit late. Many of

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the ladies have been shopping early. Christmas this year probably started

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in the middle of November and carried through. Christmas Eve for

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the on a Saturday. What difference will that make? Last time this

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happened was 2011 and then we had 45,000 visitors on that Saturday

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alone. A lot of experts are predicting it will be panic

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Saturday. Thank you. The message from shopping centres like this is

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if you have not done your shopping for Christmas this year, get a move

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on but there is still time. As you have probably seen,

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the Queen and Prince Philip have arrived at Sandringham in Norfolk

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for their Christmas break. They should have travelled

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yesterday, but they both They travelled by helicopter

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and landed this afternoon. I spoke to the BBC's royal

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correspondent Peter Hunt and put it him that there'd been quite

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a change of plan. Very much so. The plan yesterday was

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that the train would take the strain but as the Palace later revealed,

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they have heavy colds so they could not go on the train, then this

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afternoon, a helicopter whisked them away from London to Norfolk and now

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they can start their delayed Christmas break at Sandringham. Has

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the Palace given any update on their health? No. Once they are talking

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about the Private health of these elderly monarchs, they believe they

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are entitled to protect some of the information about them. It was

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earlier this week that the Queen announced she would be stepping down

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from some of her charity roles. How significant was that? What was

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significant was that it reminded us that she is a 90-year-old head of

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state who does not intend to resign, abdicate and so something has to

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happen to insure her workload is eased and so that is why she has

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given up these patronage is and you see she has not done any long-haul

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travel outside of Europe in five years, and when she does invest a

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chirpy 111 more of those are done by Prince William and Prince Charles.

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What she will see is that she will continue to delegate some of her

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duty is which she -- while she continues to reign. What more do we

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know of her plans for Christmas at Sandringham? Christmas Day we will

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be able to establish the nature of the recovery of the Queen and Prince

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Philip. The Queen is normally driven to church and Prince Philip, he

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always tended to favour walking the short distance to the church. Thank

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you. I'm sure lots of you

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remember the Great Leighs It opened in a blaze of publicity

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and closed soon after. It re-opened a couple of years ago

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as the Chelmsford City Racecourse and now it's celebrating

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it's second birthday. And business at the new all-weather

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circuit is booming. It's had more than 250,000

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racegoers, lots of fixtures and prize money has also

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been going up. Tom Williams has spent

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the day at the races. What a difference two years can

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make. Chelmsford city racecourse today in all its glory. Still

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looking shiny and new and a festive feel for its final fixture of the

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year on its second anniversary. We have raced 120 times since we

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opened. We also trade seven days a week. Christmas parties have gone

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fantastic and the investment, we have put a lot of money into this.

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It is an independent West Coast. They have transformed the venue

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which now makes money on no -- non-race days. In two years, over a

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quarter of a million people have gone racing. We have ?100,000 in

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prize money today. It is superb. We have a champion jockey here, all the

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trainers, the big training centre is good, the best racing surface in the

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world. It is quite buzzing today, really busy. Everyone seems in well

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festive spirit. We are here for a good laugh. What a lovely day. Great

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please closed in January in 2009. It went into administration less than a

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year after launching. It was a sorry sight. I'm not but now cherished

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again. It is improving all the time. One or two problems with the service

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because it had been dormant for a long time. But they have done a

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great lot of work on it and it is much better now. First race and a

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winner for this year 's champion jockey and by some distance. Best

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start in a new job so great to get a winner. The racecourse has only been

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open for two years. What is it like? A good track. The prize money is

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critically important. We attract competitive racing and good horses.

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They plan to build a new grandstand, grass track and on-site training

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facilities to make Chelmsford not only one of the finest racecourses

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in the country but in Europe also. Now the weather. If you are hoping

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for a white Christmas, you will be disappointed. It will be

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exceptionally mild and quite windy. Some cold weather today but

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beautiful weather as well. A frosty start for many of us this morning.

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Quite chilly out there at the moment with clear skies across much of the

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reason -- region. High-pressure does mean we will be in for another

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chilly night tonight. Right overnight with long, clear spells.

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Temperatures for many getting down to freezing. We are expecting a

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force to form and these are the sorts of temperatures we will record

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in towns and cities. A chilly start tomorrow. The big feature of

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tomorrow's whether his storm Barbra, heading to the north of Scotland.

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What it will mean for us is it will get increasingly windy but it is

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expected to stay dry through the day with that Wayne arriving later on.

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Mist and fog. These winds whipping up from the south-west, so by the

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afternoon, these are our average wind speeds. As this rain band comes

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through, and those winds pick up even more, it will be through the

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evening very windy. We could record gusts of around 40 mph. That rain

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clears and we are into a dry forecast for Christmas Eve and for

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Christmas Day, they get this push very mild air. We may set some

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records for Christmas Day, but before then, Christmas eve is a

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little chilly. Temperatures around eight Celsius and then into the

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mid-teens for Christmas Day. He wins he is a little bit for Christmas Eve

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but then pick up again for Christmas day. Next week some fine days and

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cold nights. Tonight and tomorrow,

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we're ending the programme Tomorrow, it's the choir

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of Norwich Cathedral singing Ding Dong Merrily On High,

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but tonight, something It's a song made famous

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by Greg Lake, who died So here is 14-year-old

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Breeze Redwine, who was discovered by BBC Introducing, accompanied

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on guitar by Lisa Redford # They said there'll

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be snow at Christmas # They said there'll be peace

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on earth # But instead it

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just kept on raining # A veil of tears for

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the virgin birth # The winter's light

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and a distant choir # And that Christmas tree

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smell # And their eyes full

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of tinsel and fire # And I remember one

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Christmas morning # And I looked to the sky

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with excited eyes # 'Till I woke with a yawn

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in the first light of dawn # And I saw him and

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through his disguise # I wish you a hopeful

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Christmas # I wish you a brave

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new year # All anguish, pain

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and sadness # Leave your heart,

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let your road the clear # They said there'd

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be snow at Christmas # They said there'd

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be peace on earth Let's make this the best

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Christmas ever. If it's going to be my last

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Christmas, we might as well make it one to

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remember.

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