04/01/2017 Look East

With David and me. - so it's goodbye from me -

The headlines tonight from Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk:

The region's poultry flocks to stay in lock down as the threat of bird

Yellow Masco -- if you don't adhere to rules, that is where the problem

lies. An Essex tradesman accuses

housebuilders of snobbery after his van is banned

from a new estate. It is outrageous because range

Rovers are the same size. What is the difference?

Mourners from the travelling community gather

in Suffolk for the funeral of a man killed in Ipswich last month.

And all present and correct - the zoo carrying out

The region's poultry farmers suffered another blow

tonight when they were told to keep their flocks indoors

To guard against the risk of bird flu.

The restrictions imposed by DEFRA were first brought

in on December 6th after outbreaks of bird flu

It meant all captive birds had to be kept under cover for 30 days

to stop them getting infected by wild birds.

An auction of poultry, due to take place near

Mildenhall later this month, has been cancelled.

The restrictions were due to end on Friday.

But this afternoon the government confirmed it was extending them

This field in South Norfolk should beef full of free range chickens but

not the last four weeks. They will be confined to quarters that the

next eight weeks, safely undercover until the threat of bird flu has

passed. A worry for Mike Gordon who rears 1 million free range birds

across 50 farms. It is a huge worry. We have farms across the whole of

East Anglia and there is a huge amount of migration coming into this

part of the world. It is a real worry. This is an issue that is not

going to go away. It is here and here to stay. An outbreak has

strained nerves. 5000 turkeys at this farm near Louth died or were

cold and another case at a property in Wales. Public Health England say

there has been no recorded places of the H five Nah strain as a risk to

humans. The commercial risk of that is another matter. If bird flu is

found in their flocks, the clean-up operation could cost hundreds of

thousands of pounds. The East was hit hard by bird flu ten years ago.

Thousands of turkeys and chickens had to be slaughtered. This is a

massive industry and produce 107 million eggs every year. The sector

is worth ?640 million. No new outbreak in the East the latest rain

has hit businesses. There is also a ban on poultry shows and gatherings.

It is something you live with and expects. I have survived for tanned

mouth, bird flu, bird flu again and we will carry on and endeavour to do

the best we can. The threat is from wild birds migrating over the

eastern region and only until that threat has passed will mark release

his turkeys and chickens back into East Anglia's fields.

Stephen Lister is a veterinary specialist in poultry from Norfolk.

He came into the studio earlier, and I asked whether he was surprised

that the restrictions had been extended till the end of February.

I am and was expecting a month because that would be sensible so it

didn't confuse people. Taking it to the end of February is longer than

we expected but it does take us to the end of the migratory period for

wild birds. Is there any sign that not everyone is abiding by the zone

or is it widely dear to? The commercial poultry sector in this

region and elsewhere in the country are 100% compliant. We don't know

whether we have reached or backyard poultry producers because even if

you have five chickens in your back garden, you should be housing those

and keeping them away from any wild birds. How does it affect free range

birds because there are real -- balls. They have to be free range to

be sold as free range. They allowed 12 weeks to allow free range birds

to be housed if it is better that their care. The closer we get to 12

weeks, the more concern there is as to whether those eggs could still be

marketed as free range. The farmers have talked about their concern

about bird flu. It is an ongoing issue and could be back next year.

Is there anything more that could be done on a more permanent basis to

protect flocks? We will never stop wild bird incursions as that is the

nature of migration. We have a requirement that consumers who want

free range eggs and meat of all types and therefore we will have to

keep birds outside and there will always be a seasonal risk. This year

is exceptional because this particular strain is very active and

very prevalent in wild birds across the whole of Europe. Any that come

over here have the risk of containing the virus. This area has

a huge poultry industry. The effect could be devastating, could net, if

it came here? You only have to look at America and Europe and it could

be devastating for these birds. Whether you're wanting to do poultry

shows, auctions or dealing with commercial poultry. It has massive

international trading locations as well. Thank you very much.

When there's an emergency, and people call for an ambulance,

there's an expectation that the crew which turns up are fully trained.

But the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has discovered that some

staff at a private ambulance company based in Essex, had as little

as an hour's training on how to respond to emergencies.

James Melley, has this special report.

When we dial 999, most people expect NHS ambulances to respond. NHS

trusts are having to use private companies to meet demand. One of

these companies is the private Ambulance Service based in Basildon

Essex. It carries out work like taking patients to hospital

appointments, transferring sick people between hospitals and it

provides cover for 999 calls for the East of England NHS ambulance trust.

We were told the staff are not popular -- properly trained and

equipment is not up to scratch. We spoke to several people who have

worked there. Paul would only speak to us if we disguised his identity.

He worked as a mesic -- medic but lost his job last year. I didn't

have any training. I was sent out that was it. It was clear that I was

with people that weren't trained. They weren't competent in the job

and not confident in joining -- dealing with certain situations.

They did know how to take blood sugars, ECG's, manual blood

pressures, basic stuff. We heard to store being stories about a lack of

trading -- training the staff. David was sacked back in 2013. The job

could require him to drive under blue lights when taking an emergency

patient between hospitals. What training we've given to drive under

the blue lights? One hour's training on blue lights. That's it. That is

astonishing. What is an acceptable level of training to drive under

blue lights? The courses four wheat is long and the foundation is then

to move on to blue light training and it takes two weeks. The

approached -- we approach the private Ambulance Service phone

interview. They told us... The east of England's ambulance and

the sad thing you to use Ambulance Services to keep up with demand.

They are increasing front-line recruitment of paramedics so as not

to have to rely on private Ambulance Services in the future.

Police are searching for a man who stole lead from a church roof over

Christmas. A 38-year-old man from Essex has

been arrested after two men died in an apparent hit and run

incident in Cambridgeshire. It happened between Yaxley

and Farcet near Peterborough just after eleven o'clock

yesterday morning. Officers searching

for the driver of a BMW arrested a man in Chelmsford

later that night on suspicion of causing death

by dangerous driving The funeral has been held today

for one of two men killed in a double stabbing at a travellers

site in Ipswich. Barry Street, who was 32,

lived at West Meadows. Barry Street's cortege made its way

to the cemetery for a private burial. His coffin flanked by family

members and other mourners. Earlier a funeral service was held nearby at

Saint Gregory 's Church. Proceedings relayed by loudspeaker to mourners

outside. Barry Street was one of two men stabbed to death that the West

Meadows traveller site in Ipswich on December eight. The other was

18-year-old Nathan Oakley. The 17-year-old boy was arrested and

charged with both their murders. Barry Street, pictured here weeks

before his death, was sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2006. He was

part of a gang that carried out more than 30 RAM rains -- Ram raids and

armed robberies across East Anglia. A few days after his death, two

caravans were burned down and other properties were damaged. Six people

have been charged with arson with intent to date -- endanger life.

Today there were long delays as Barry Street's cortege passed

through and there was a significant police presence. The teenager

accused his peers of murder and is -- and is due to appear in court

next month. -- the Chino Ajax accused of murder is due to appear

in court next month. You're watching Look East

with David and me. Stay with us for the debut novelist

who's just won a top award. Alex has got your

weather forecast, and we're at the zoo on the day

they made sure everyone Well, whatever your views

on politics, you have to admit 2016 was a watershed year,

both here and across the world. David Cameron out of Downing Street

in the summer after Britain And Donald Trump heading

for the White House. All this week, our correspondents

are gazing into their crystal balls to consider what the year

ahead will bring. Tonight, our political correspondent

Andrew Sinclair talks to political figures in our region about a 2017

which will almost certainly be Last year's referendum led to the

creation of a newspaper. Published in Norwich, the New Year appearance

reflects the views -- views of those who voted to stay and six months on,

many haven't given up hope. A portion of our readers are holding

out that we will get a second opportunity to back out of this

through a second referendum or a general election. Brexit will

dominate British politics for a long time to come. The only thing we know

is that nobody knows anything right now. It may be two years ago but

there is growing pressure on the government to explain how Brexit

will affect us. MPs of all parties say the uncertainty is starting to

worry local employers. EasyJet, an airline based on European travel

being easy, Vauxhall, where we can't get away with higher tariffs, that

is one small part of our region. We need answers many of these

questions. Politicians will be at the forefront of this year's Brexit

negotiations. The early work will be done here at the European Parliament

and one of our Euro MPs will pay eight key role. -- play a key role.

I want to keep as many things the same. The EU is over half of our

exports for the Easterby and and I want to make sure that doesn't fall

off a cliff. At Westminster, Ben Gummer is in charge of making sure

government departments are prepared for Brexit. Agriculture Secretary,

Andrea Leadsom, will have to make it work for farmers. Stuart Jackson is

a key aide to David Davis. Meanwhile those of our MPs that leading

figures in the leave campaign will be watching closely. Worried that

some in the government will be trying to drag their feet. We know

there are people in Parliament that have made it clear that they don't

accept the result and want to play the long game. The Longo time we

take to exit, the more chance of some event occurring which would put

it off. You sound like you were worried this may never happen. I am.

It seems appropriate that 2017 should've started with fireworks at

Westminster. A lot more will follow as Brexit begins.

Peter Bone is worried that Brexit may yet be scuppered - is he right?

Look at the row over the resignation of our ambassador in Brussels. There

is this suspicion that there are elements of the civil service, the

press, Parliament who will try to scupper Brexit or slow things down

and not make it work. The official line from Whitehall is that the

referendum must be respected. We are leaving. If you look at the Labour

Party, there are MPs like -- that feel they will vote against article

15. Norman Lamb wants a second referendum and hinting they will

slow things down in Parliament. Six months on, I am still speaking to

people who believe Brexit can be stopped. They believe it can be

stopped. I think it is a long shot but people are trying. We will be

talking a lot Brexit but will anything change? On one front, no.

The Brexit talks will have just begun and we will be for members of

the European Union. What I think will be far more different will be

uncertainty. Gavin was talking about that in my piece. Firms and

institutions, research is Egyptian plan five or ten years ahead and

students plan five or ten years ahead. What our future relationship

will be is something that will worried them and we will be talking

a lot about that. Which voter would you say symbolised Margaret

Thatcher's success in the 1980s? That will be Essex man. That is

right. That's right and Essex

man, or at least some It follows news that commercial

vehicles are being banned from parking on a new housing

estate in Colchester. The builder, Persimmon Homes, said

the rule was designed to protect The local MP said the ban

sounds like snobbery. The Luke Wood Meadows estate has

already made headlines. He was set by his 300,000 dream home until he

realised he wouldn't be able to park his works fan outside his house

because of a restrictive covenant that bars commercial vehicles. Not

far from the estate, builders were working on an extension and Matthew,

plumbing and heating engineer, said he thought the van ban was unfair.

It is ridiculous and discriminating against someone who goes to work and

works hard. Just because they use a van, it is outrageous. At the

florist, they use a van fit delivers and were not impressed. It labels

people with the type of jobs that they do. It is good enough to be an

office worker but not good enough to be a tradesman and park your vehicle

at your own property. Colchester's MP is a former property lawyer and

he wants an end to restrictive covenants that Bob commercial

vehicles. There were lots of hard working people that rely on vans,

use bands often. It is their only mode of transport and say they can

build a house but not able to live in one because they can't park there

than there is snobbery. Persimmon Homes,, they said...

At the estate, residents said they were happy with the band but not

all. People should be allowed to have whatever vehicle they wish. If

they purchased out -- purchased a house, they should have whatever

vehicle parked on the driveway. The only white van we spotted was

leaving. The writer from Cambridge who's won

a major award for his first novel. Francis Spufford

is best-known for his His latest work, Golden Hill,

is his first novel and it's won the Costa Book Award

for a debut novel. I'm delighted to say Francis

is in our Cambridge newsroom now. Good evening. Well, congratulations.

Thank you very much. Before we go into how you found out about this

award, what is the book about? It is about a suspicious in man with a

suspicious name of Smithfield intones opinion New York in winter

1746 when instead of being a gigantic world city, it is still

basically a village where everyone knows everyone. You are not used to

being a well published author. How did you make the transition? Was

there something you always had in your mind that you thought one day

you would put it to paper? Not this thing but I always thought I had an

appointment with fiction sometime in the future. Code is held me back for

years and years. It is only now in my 50s that I felt I wouldn't make a

total fool of myself if I did it. They say there is a good book in

most people. In 2007, you were nominated a Royal fellow of the

Royal Society of literature. Here you have done it and you have this

prestigious award. I suppose anybody watching, if you have an idea, do

it. Absolutely but this is where the writing teacher in me comes out. It

is extremely hard work getting from the golden glowing idea through to

the actual words on the page and it is a process of turmoil and

compromise and disappointment from time to time. It is worth

persisting. When did you find out you have the award? I have to reveal

the inner workings because they told me before Christmas and I have been

sitting on this news and biting my tongue for the last ten days.

Difficult to keep that information. Wouldn't it be great to have

revealed it before Christmas? I couldn't possibly comment. The think

you now is you have the debut novel and it has done well. If you get the

overall award, you now have the difficult second album of coming up

with another album. There is two in their jostling like two fat people

trying to get through a revolving door. It is about London over the

last 50 or 60 years starting with a bang. Congratulations again.

What do lions, giraffes, ringtailed lemurs and Madagascan

Well they were all part of the big annual

stock take today at the Africa Alive Zoo near Lowestoft.

In fact every zoo has to count all its animals

You can't miss a giraffe but at Africa Alive Zoo, they have to count

them all the same. You are going to steal it all? We have four. Not easy

to tell apart if you don't work with them every day. When you do, you can

easily see how different they lock. No surprises. Zoe locks the official

number and the giraffes are ticked off the list. We do it to make sure

our records are the same as what we have and we put it on a large

database and nine times out of ten, we have the same and it matches up.

The only times he might not as if we have a birth. They have 2000 animals

at the zoo and they are not big. These are Madagascan hissing

cockroaches. There is an angry one. What causes them to hiss? Little

holes in their body. They suck in air and blow it out. They live in

the same place as the ring tailed lemur and they like to eat them for

their dinner. These are the ring tailed lemurs. All males and keen to

get their hands on some snacks. The keepers thought there were nine and

there are nine. Most of the time, that is how it is. You do get to see

new births and it is an excuse to walk over. It is nice to see the new

arrivals because you don't always see them if you work in a different

part of the park. They will start to crunch the numbers and arrive at the

official total and they'll do it all again in the year's time.

The lemur's always steal the show. I have held a scorpion and a cockroach

but not at the same time. Good evening. It will be eight very

cold night night. This was a dramatic photograph that caught my

eye in Bedfordshire. We have had photographs of rainbow sent in by

some of you. This is where the showers have been falling. There

hasn't been a huge amount of them. This weather front brought us some

patchy rain and it set up this cold northerly wind. It has felt bitter

in that wind and that is what has brought in the showers. There is the

risk of further showers as we go through the evening but they should

fade away. The biggest risk is the frost. Whether the showers have

fallen, there could be some icy stretches. Elsewhere, dry across

those clear skies and temperatures falling to minus three Celsius. It

could get down low. Really cold start to Thursday. High establishing

itself and lots of fine weather expected tomorrow. It is a cold and

frosty start and we shouldn't have a problem fog overnight. Lots of dry

and bright Weatherford tomorrow. The risk of some showers the parts of

Norfolk and Suffolk. Across the board, lots of wintry sunshine but

turning cold into the afternoon. Temperatures for some of us, no

higher than four Celsius. As we get into the evening and overnight, we

are expecting some dense fog patches to form. That could linger through

much of the morning on Friday. This weather front is going to change

things to a milder regime for the weekend. It will bring some rain

although not expected until my four. The bulk of the day is dry. Some fog

patches lingering. A cold day expected. As we get into the

weekend, it looks as if it will be rather cloudy. Look at those

temperatures. That is all from us. Goodbye.

as he explores Naples, Venice and Florence.

It's like we're walking through a giant's armpit.

We can follow the escape route of Michelangelo.