15/02/2017 Look East

after the region's first confirmed case of bird flu in Suffolk.

Neighbouring farmers are braced for the possibility of further

23 miles is probably about half an hour's flying time for a diseased

bird. When it's 100 miles away, you put into the back of your mind but

this is different. The race to preserve

prehistoric timbers that gave him a reason to look

forward to the future. First tonight, a cull of thousands

of chickens got under way in Suffolk today,

following the discovery of bird flu. It's the first outbreak

in the region this winter. A protection zone of three

kilometres has been put in place around the farm at Redgrave just

a few miles from the It's a breeding unit

run by Banham Poultry and today the operation began

to cull 23,000 chickens. Let's go live to Katherine Nash

near the affected farm. This is the need we could get to the

farm, about a mile away. The road is closed to stop members of the public

from entering the premises. This came about as the culling of 23,000

birds gets under way today in container gassing units on Sunday,

death Defra confirmed H5N8 at this bird farm in Suffolk. We have seen

birds going in and out of the decontamination shed is the process

gets under way. Restriction zones in place around

Bridge for in Redgrave today. A clear warning that bird flu

is present in the area. Today, the culling of 23,000 birds

after a single case of highly pathogenic was confirmed at the site

on Sunday evening. The farm's used for breeding birds

and not producing meat. A ten-kilometre temporary control

zone is in place for poultry farmers meaning all birds must

be kept inside. It's the second restriction to be

put in place since December after bird flu cases were discovered

first in Europe and He's 23 miles from

the infected site. He has 44,000 birds who are normally

allowed to roam freely outside but are now being kept

inside to reduce The ministry vets would come in,

they would assess the birds and if you're found to have it,

they basically shut you down. You can't even leave work to go home

without getting a licence, everyone has to be checked out

and all the birds have to be culled and you'll apply for compensation

and clean-down costs can run at anything about ?10

per bird place. Last night it was confirmed this

case of bird flu is the same as that found in wild birds and farmed

poultry in other Four chicken sheds are in

the process of being emptied No birds can be housed

here for the next 30 days. The management released a statement

to confirm that culling is taking place on this site in accordance

with EU legislation and that so far there is no further evidence that

bird flu outbreaks have taken place in other farms around the area. We

understand this process of culling will take up to two days to complete

and we expect teams will be back on the site first thing tomorrow

morning. Low-cost houses that measure just

four metres by eight metres will be put-up in Chelmsford for people

on the waiting list who might They're a modern version

of the old-fashioned prefab and the city council says the rents

will be kept low. While they might not win

top marks for looks, they're fully equipped

with all mod cons. Chelmsford City Council is showing

off this eco-modular home in the hope that it might

solve their very own housing prices. The interesting thing about this

unit is that it was assembled What we've got is a separate

bedroom, living area got a shower room, a bathroom

and in the kitchen, the fridge, washing machine already plumbed

in and a cooking unit. Assembled on-site in half a day,

effectively it's good to go. By the spring, this parking lot

will be one of two council sites were the first 18 prefab homes

will be assembled. The people on the waiting list

and in need of immediate accommodation are people that

will have become homeless from their present accommodation

for a variety of reasons so it is the start of a slightly

different approach that we've had in the past and I believe many other

councils are in the We would build more

of these if we can, yes. Construction methods have come

a long way since prefab the first appeared in the urban landscape,

generated by a housing Many factories say the modules

can be built for half the cost of a brick house

and are more energy efficient. In the east, we need 32,000

new homes a year but we're Modular housing could be part

of the solution but we need Government to step in and provide

much more land at affordable prices otherwise modular housing really

is trying to solve the blockage Between them, neighbours Brian

and Sandler have clocked at 94 years They live just a stone's throw

from where the new modules will go. People have got to live somewhere

so why not over there? It's all over one level,

it's large inside, the garden is huge and as a child we used

to climb on the roofs! This is very much a quick fix

for the local council, but perhaps the wider housing

industry will take With so many young people unable

to get onto the property ladder, these prefab homes could be

a game changer. Many military families are alarmed

at a plan by the Ministry of Defence to change the way claims

for compensation are handled. At the moment service personnel can

sue for negligence but the plan now is to use an assessor appointed

by the MoD to avoid The parents of Ashley Hall

from Essex who lost both legs in Afghanistan in a roadside bombing

told Kevin Burch the planned Cheryl Hall and Stephen Robertson

are the kind of people who always look for the positive,

so despite reeling from their son Ashley's combat injuries,

they immediately set Initial thoughts were about

fundraising for Bricks and Mortar, a specially adapted centre,

but they quickly realised that the real need was just

being there to listen, to help families facing

the same nightmare. At that initial time,

your thoughts are, my goodness, he's surviving, so you're constantly

on this roller-coaster of emotion and if somebody else has

come along and said, we'll take care of this part,

you are very thankful it's something you don't have to deal

with because your attention is on your loved one

and their immediate well-being. This was Ashley in October 2010

during a medal ceremony I'm proud to get recognised

for what you've done. Ashley's case was handled

by the MOD, but his parents fear the new rules could deny families

claims for negligence and allow The MOD are trying to shirk their

responsibility and duty of care. None of us want to be in this

position, but if they will at least accept some accountability

for the things that happen, and learn from it, that's got to be

some way of helping. What we are consulting on is a way

of getting them faster and better compensation so that if the ministry

has done something wrong with a piece of equipment,

they don't have to spend years suing You will still have a solicitor

or a High Court judge will oversee the process but you already have

that in courts anyway, The consultation over the planned

change ends next Thursday. Cheryl and Stephen say

they are adamant there must be no compromise for support

for the Armed Forces because, in the words of their

slogan, freedom is never free. Colonel Richard Kemp

is a former commander of the Royal Anglian Regiment

and a senior commander They say this would be unfair. Do

you agree? I don't agree. I can understand why people are cautious

about this change but I think it is going to be for the better, for

winded -- wounded soldiers and families but I think the other

benefit is that we avoid the need to go through lengthy legal processes

and the money that would otherwise be spent on costly lawyers will

hopefully go into the compensation itself and then you have the benefit

that field commanders will be able to do the job instead of looking

over their shoulders, worrying about litigation coming their way. One of

the problems people see in this is that problems would get heard and

will get brushed under the carpet. -- will not get heard. An

understandable concern but in my experience working in the Armed

Forces, and time and the Ministry of Defence, but mainly in combat units,

there is no intention to hide problems, there is no intention to

brush things under the carpet when things go badly wrong. I think the

Ministry of Defence and the Army on the whole a pretty good, and having

an effect of culture -- effective culture of fixing problems. I don't

think that is a real need for people to be concerned about things not

being investigated. I think the great benefit is that the problem

areas will be investigated while at the same time every single soldier

killed in action or wounded in action will be compensated or their

families will be compensated without having to worry about court cases.

Wouldn't it be better to have an assessor who is not part of the

Ministry of Defence? I think there is a need for the assessor to be

seen as independent of all any process like this is open to an

appeal and oversight above the level of the Ministry of Defence, so I

think these assessments will not be closed shop Ministry of Defence

only. I think it will be on an appended basis. Thank you.

A man who died when his lorry crashed off the road died of a

haemorrhage. He was killed on the A12 last week. The details of what

happened before the accident is still not known. Still to come, we

got the sport with a round-up of the football from last night and a pawn

that Callum wrote about cerebral palsy which turned his life around

-- poem. In 1998 one of the biggest

Bronze Age discoveries we've ever It was called Seahenge a huge timber

circle which had been buried Now more Bronze Age timbers have

been found on the Essex coast and experts think they could be part of

an ancient causeway. The timbers and there is to remove them was featured

on the BBC's country file diaries with presenter George husband. --

Hudson. I'm on Mersey Island,

rushing to meet a group of archaeologists who have gathered

to investigate what they believe is a unique historic landscape

that the winter storms have revealed The conditions are perfect,

but it is a race against time and tide before the next storm can

wash it away forever. Oliver Hutchinson is from

the Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network,

or Citizan for short. His team of experts and volunteers

are battling to capture this piece of history before it is gone

for good but as the site is only accessible

when the tide is out, From what Oliver and his team have

discovered, they believe this could have been home to an ancient

settlement, complete with timber structures,

but they don't have long to find out more before the sea that uncovered

it will reclaim it. This is probably as far out

as the tide will let us get. Today, yes, this is as far

as I think we should venture. To the untrained eye,

this might just look like muddy like muddy old wood,

but to the archaeologist, it's a vital clue left by those

who once lived and worked year. Normally in archaeology,

you would slowly excavate a side inch by inch to uncover the secrets,

but with the tide on its way back Luckily, the latest technology

is helping to preserve this ancient We're trying to create a 3-D model

and that is done by basically stitching a lot of photographs

of the same object, the same feature together with some

very smart software. The team are hoping to create a 3-D

map of the whole site to help build up a picture of what had once looked

like before it is lost for good. Thousands of years' worth of storms

have eroded away the structures and revealed an ancient land surface

that could once have We found the remains

of a constructed raft. Maybe it is a shepherd's hut,

maybe it is a seaside villa. Clearly there are still many

questions that need to be answered about this historic submerged

landscape and the people who called This is a story that could so easily

have been forgotten, lost in the midsts of time,

but thanks to the team and their efforts and their volunteers

and their commitment to the past, And you can see Countryfile Winter

Diaries on BBC One at 9:15 tomorrow morning and at the same time

for the rest of the week. Imagine a world in science fiction

where nobody grows food but instead Well, that's the goal of a hi-tech

company in Cambridge. They've still got some way

to go but basically this They will use a 3-D printer

linked to a phone app It could be on the market

later this year. How do you make a 3-D printed

strawberry? Take a look inside this laboratory in Cambridge. They take

the information into a smartphone app which is sent to a machine, add

some intense strawberry flavour from real strawberries, mix it with the

magical solution, pop it into a 3-D printer and you have a strawberry.

We can recreate it by loading the flavours and ships that people like

and combine them in an interesting way and have it ready in a matter of

minutes. but before you change your diet plan, here's a a simple fact.

Scientists say they still don't know what the nutritional value of 3-D

food is and if you prefer strawberries more ripe and crunchy,

changing texture isn't possible. To buy one of these printers, it will

cost you as much as a high-end food processor, but available to the end

of the year, and it is not fast food, the printing process is slow

but faster than regular 3-D printing but thinking outside the kitchen, it

is hoped this technology could be a solution to a shortage of

vegetables. Bad weather in Southern Europe meant farmers were not able

to drove the normal amount of vegetables, a problem expected to

get much worse -- grow. As we see changes in climate across Southern

Europe we will see drier weather and wetter summers which will have huge

impact on agriculture and production. But 3-D printed

technology doesn't stop with food. We already making parts for

aircrafts and even body parts right here in the East.

In football, as we enter the final third of the season,

only one of our ten teams is in the play-off zone

It could have happened for Norwich last night but they would have

Ipswich also drew but Southend and Peterborough have plenty

Fans at Carrow Road certainly got their money's worth last night.

Leaders Newcastle were in front after just 23 seconds,

Ayose Perez giving Norwich keeper John Ruddy no chance.

Cameron Jerome, all muscle, Jacob Murphy just too quick.

End-to-end stuff with the keepers heavily involved.

Norwich stay seventh, now four points off the play-off zone.

Effort like that week after week, I'll be happy.

It's a team effort, it's not like watching a pinball table

Improving Ipswich faced a tough test at second-place Brighton.

Tom Lawrence's free kick was bundled in by Chambers,

He bravely carried on but the Seagulls fought back.

Bruno was on the canvas and they scored a penalty.

They'll be missing key striker Tom Lawrence,

suspended for the Leeds and Norwich matches.

In league one, Peterborough set just outside the play-off places.

The Blues were 2-0 winners at Oxford.

Manager Phil Brown praised the fans and offered to buy all 472 of them

Peterborough had to use their heads to get past Shrewsbury.

I said that to the boys at half-time, this is a big, big game.

We talk about the process and performance and winning,

but I said to the boys, this is it, this

In league two, Luton continued to catch the eye,

a comfortable 3-0 win over Hartlepool.

Danny Hilton got the ball rolling, 18 for the season so far.

Then it was two inside 15 minutes then the long wait for the third,

They stay fourth, three points off the automatic promotion places.

We don't win games easily, not in this league.

The other team celebrating on the night was Stevenage,

Cheltenham 2-1, winning a penalty then doing the easy bit.

16 for the season now to leave Borough on the

A few months ago, Callum Burnham had reached the lowest point in his life

Callum is 16 years old and has cerebral palsy.

He had been bullied and thought there was nothing for him

Callum decided to make a video and put it online.

It's a poem he wrote himself about living with cerebral palsy.

Already it's been seen by thousands of people and it's given him

the confidence to look forward to the future.

For most teenagers, their birthday is one

of the happiest times of the year, but for Callum Burnham,

You look at him, you see a chair, something tells

But the funny thing is, you don't even care about the small

innocent kid that's just sitting there, the same kid there doesn't

want to be in a crowd, just because he's too afraid

He explained to me how he came to be in this dark place.

People were saying nasty comments about the fact that

I'm in a wheelchair, about my condition with cerebral

palsy, making references that it's like cancer and that

His unhappiness took its toll on the whole family.

It was like all the work that I'd done up until that point

was just for nothing, because no matter what I said

he wouldn't listen, he wouldn't change and see that he can

In the end, Callum turned to poetry to try and explain

The video was uploaded to Facebook and has now reached

I was blown away by how quickly it took off!

I hope that it does change the way people see people with cerebral

palsy and other disabilities and I'm hoping I can change the world.

I will not cry just because you stare or just

because I think life is slightly unfair and even if you can't

accept that it's me, just as remember this is how God

designed me to be, because this is my sole and this is my face

and this is what I want to chase, to prove I have a heart

and soul like you and tell you that I'm human, too.

And now he says that, he feels like he has

It's not just identity he found through poetry,

he has discovered a way to give people hope and understanding

regardless of mobility or disability.

Well done, what a great thing to have done.

A much milder forecast and it looks like the mild weather will stay

until next week. Fantastic photographs to show you. In this day

starred in Northamptonshire with some beautiful sunshine and blue sky

in Norfolk. Lots of rainbow photographs. This is one of many

taken in Essex. There has been an area of rain spreading across the

region and it has meant heavy bursts of rain, but some parts of the

region have escaped it. It is centred on east and western and

central parts of the region so if you live in coastal parts, you may

escape what is left of it and it will be at the way fairly swiftly

suffer many of us it is looking like a largely dry night and it could be

the odd mist and fog patches we go through the night. A little bit

colder at 56 Celsius. A cold start tomorrow. A ridge of high pressure

is building in so a lot of fine weather but it may be mistaken for

the first things were some low-level cloud around to start the day but

then it should brighten up with some good spells of sunshine and with

that milder temperature it should feel really nice in the sunshine, up

to 11 Celsius, a light, moderate southwesterly wind. It is possible

the thickness of the cloud could produce one or two spots of light

rain. A lot of dry and fine weather for tomorrow. The high pressure

builds on for Friday and it is preventing these weather systems

from bringing in rainbow by the time we get to the end of the day on

Saturday, we might succeed in bringing a splash of rain to many

parts of the region so fine days but chilly nights under clear skies,

perhaps just a few patches of mist and fog on Thursday and Friday

morning. It is looking generally cloudier as that weather system

approaches but it should stay dry for the start of the weekend with

the chance of some rain into the start of the evening. Temperatures

could be higher into next week. We'll see you tomorrow night.

Goodbye. when farmers leave

their daily routines behind... Right, here we come, Dorset!

..for a show day.