22/02/2017 Look East

If we don't have migrant workers, I have no business. There is not

enough local labour for meat is a new business will bash for me to

sustain the business. 18 months after this devastating

fire, businesses in Sudbury say The covers are off as Formula One

gets ready for the new And I'll have the story of the 100th

bomb group and why Hollywood producers have been in the region

today hoping dues in fact into fixing. -- to change back into

fiction. First tonight: A warning

that the region's farmers could struggle to produce enough

food if Brexit leads More than 40,000 people work

in agriculture in this region. Nearly 7000 are seasonal workers

and most of them are migrants. They harvest fruit and vegetables

and work in poultry production industries which bring nearly

a billion pounds into Today, landowners and business

leaders told MPs they need a guarantee the workers they need

will be allowed to come here. Securing tumbles on Andy Allan's

School farm before the storm blows in tomorrow, between April and June,

the seasonal workers from Bulgaria and Romania will harvest 250 tonnes

of asparagus. We with the balding on GDP froth off the ground. For Andy,

Storm Doris is an inconvenience but his degree is Brexit. He hates is

one up on 20 while EU workers will still be welcomed in the UK. I think

everyone here does. Everyone here speak to me about Bulgaria and

Romania. I come here for one or two years and maybe it's the latter, I

don't know. There's though quick return on asparagus farming. Andy

Allan Lindsay a profit on this crop for the next three years or so. He

wants to replace these polythene tunnels but he said he guarantee do

so because, in the next two years, he may not have any migrant workers.

If we don't have migrant workers, I have no business, I cannot find

enough local labour to sustain the business and continue taking the

crop which I have in the ground. It sounds sensational, but I would have

to be packed up. That is the message put in front of MPs at Westminster

to day. We already see a shortfall in people wanting to come here. That

was massively exacerbated after the referendum with the exchange rate

and people feeling less welcome. I think it would be totally

irresponsible for its to stop fully migrant workers coming into this

country. While of course, EU migrants play an even wider role in

the region's economy. From food production to show to care, to

tourism. David Davis reportedly said this the gift of the year and years

before we get British citizens to do their jobs. -- it will be years and

years. The Prime Minister has said Helen

clearly politics and they gave stations will largely determine the

future of anti-'s workers. For more than a decade, they return you to

help him harvest. The next decade will be harder to predict fall out

-- to predict. A short time ago, I spoke

to Tim Breitmeyer, the Deputy President

of the Country Land and Business Association,

who farms in Cambridgeshire. A short time ago, he told me

about his meeting with the MPs. I think the select committee we gave

evidence today to understand the issues that farmers face,

they understand the huge uncertainty and it could have a detrimental

effect to their business. In the long-term, this could lead

to not only lack of profitability but also some of these businesses

really looking at, strategically, whether it's best for them

to continue to produce, in this country or whether

they might have two, as a pan-European business,

move some of the business I think if you take East Anglia

as an example, there's certainly one area in the Anglia and I know

there are others, it's the same in Herefordshire, but in East Anglia

and Cambridgeshire, I know there are only 250 people

on the unemployment register It would be the same

in Norfolk as well. So, the actual supply of UK

labour is not really I think also added to that,

we have young people who have aspirations of going to university,

aspirations of going into the media and technology and financial

services, having got a degree, and probably, actually,

a job in the rural industry, picking vegetables to start with,

is probably not where You will understand that the Brexit

vote, one of the things that encouraged people to vote for Brexit

was that they didn't want I do understand that,

but our businesses need that supply of labour if they are going to be

able to produce the produce, which in turn will end up

on the supermarket shelves There is little choice

at the moment, we feel, sadly, other than to continue asking

for that supply of labour. If this doesn't happen, what would

happen to your industries? They will have their businesses

severely curtailed. They will not be able to take

the risk to plan those Then if they don't think they will

be able to find your labour to pick and process them to get

to the supermarkets. As I think I mentioned earlier,

in the long term, they will have to strategically decide

whether it is best for them to keep their business

here in the United Kingdom, which is all to do with

rural economic growth Something we badly need,

both in Norfolk and in my part Don't we have the best places

to grow some of these vegetables? We have all the hardware

in place as well. We do, and some of the finest

horticultural businesses in the world, and it's a huge

proportion of our agricultural exports, and we dearly

would like to make sure that we don't even consider the idea

of having to move any of that industry abroad and we would dearly

love those businesses to be able to produce and increase

their productivity going forward, and I'm afraid that comes back

to they need a supply of labour. More than ?400 million will be spent

over the next two years in this region to create thousands

of extra school places. Essex County Council

is spending the most, more than ?300 million,

with ?80 million in Suffolk The work should be finished by 2019

and will help schools cope We have been visiting

the building site and watching At Glenwood Special School,

there is huge excitement. Next door, a new school

building is taking shape. Soon, the old, cramped

classrooms will be gone. The new school will not only give us

spaces that we haven't ever had before, but they will actually let

us take in another 60 pupils So, at the moment,

we have nearly 150. We will be able to go

right up to 210. With a growing population,

Essex is spending ?315 million to create 13,000 new school

places by 2019. The need for more places

isn't the only pressure One headteacher in Essex said

the industry is facing He said budgets are under huge

pressure and schools The council are responsible

for schools acknowledges recruiting need each is needed

will be a challenge. I think, in some ways,

for the profession itself, new teachers like to go and work

in new schools, it's That clearly does not solve

the overall problem. There is still something

we need to address. Is there a specific challenge

in Essex because of your proximity to London and the higher wages

there? Back at Glenwood School,

the building work is on schedule, and there's already a waiting

list for pupils. If all goes to plan,

the children will be any 18 months ago, the town of Sudbury

was hit by a devastating fire. It broke out in Friars Street,

which had to be closed Now, 18 months later,

to the relief of traders, the roads have reopened fully

for the first time, and life It was a night few people here

will forget as the blaze raged Wrecking business and buildings,

and leaving people But now, 18 months on, the traders

can savour a landmark moment, We had only been here

three months or four We watched it from the apartment

on the top floor of the We could actually feel the heat

coming through the windows, It was awful and also,

you did wonder what was I think a lot of

people in town for a few weeks thought nothing was going

on in Friars Street at all. Now, I think everyone

feels the same. Our lunchtimes have dropped 70%

because footfall has gone down. Hopefully it will build up now

the roads are back open. Officials say the view

that the restoration work would prove complex with a host

of different owners and insurers, There is clearing up

the site, making sure There was a gap in the middle

where the planning is We've got traffic flowing

and running properly. Looking down Saint Peters,

down the Markethill, beautiful site. We've been here a long time

and hopefully it'll be a long The traders admit they felt

isolated at times, left to fight their own corner,

but they have banded together The dark days, they believe,

are behind them. They are hoping to

organise in the coming months a special event

in Friars Street to prove it. A company has admitted breaching

health and safety regulations six years after four men died in Great

Yarmouth. Brothers Daniel and Thomas Hazelton,

Adam Taylor and Peter Johnson were killed when a steel grid

collapsed on them at Claxton Encompass Project Management has

pleaded guilty to breaching Claxton Engineering has

denied similar charges. Norwich Airport has announced a 10%

increase in passenger numbers. New figures show the airport

handled more than 500,000 passengers last year,

up by 43,000 on the previous year. Managers say the growth is due

to new year-round flights to warm destinations,

including Malaga and Alicante, Tonight, the Norfolk

and Norwich Festival is revealing It's one of the UK's largest arts

festivals and takes place in May. Among the more unusual highlights,

there'll be the opportunity to sit beneath a giant, inflatable moon

featuring detailed Nasa imagery. We're counting down to the start

of the new Formula One season. We meet the man with the job of

counting birds in Northamptonshire. And tomorrow, the focus is on Storm

Doris. It has the potential to bring ours from damaging gusts of wind

through the afternoon. All the details later in the afternoon. --

later in the programme. What's the connection

between the Hollywood superstar Tom Hanks and what's left

of a World War Two The answer is that Tom Hanks

is hoping to make a new TV series about the 100th bomb group,

as you may have seen in a Look East They were based at Thorpe Abbotts,

near Diss, and Mike Hello. We are on top of the control

tower at Thorpe Abbotts anti-Americans came here in 1983 and

created a town of 3000 people full up -- and the Americans. I'd

appreciate its dark as you can see much. They were here for just two

years and sadly, they are worth 768 men in next time. Let's pop inside

in the control tower so you can have a quick look. It has been

beautifully rethought to almost exactly as it was back in 1943. The

American tapping back here today and the museum had some very important

from Hollywood. The 100th bomb Memorial Museum

at Thorpe Abbotts, near Diss. It's a little museum

in the middle of nowhere, but the story of the men who served

here is now set to get the TV Tom Hanks' production company,

Plato, is developing a script for a TV series called

Masters Of The Air - I've been thinking about this,

and this place now, Now that I'm actually here,

it takes a while to absorb it. This isn't just another

place, this is THE place. The 100 bomb group flew B17 flying

fortresses in raids over Germany. They suffered heavy losses and came

to be known as the bloody hundredth. Donald Miller wrote a book,

Masters Of The Air, on which the TV One reporter for the Times,

Harrison Salisbury, said to fly with the air force

was to own a ticket Tom Hanks won't star

in the new series, but will be Playtone also made Band Of Brothers,

which was a hit, both And under my command,

this will be the first and finest So, will this production be

filmed in East Anglia? Well, I'm hoping that the whole

trip, particularly Thorpe Abbotts, is just to imbue the place

and to take it home with me and have a better understanding

of the texture in the context of where these men fought and died,

and lived, and eventually, How do we try to recapture

what is really the unimaginable? We put ourselves in their

place, but we can't. How do we try to do

that with the audience? What they did, what they have to go

through and enjoy here everyday. The Americans are here

at the invitation of tourist The hope is, Masters Of The Air will

bring more Americans to the region. We have a rich and important

history here and today, the American TV producers saw

the facts behind their fiction OK, let's talk to save Etam, one of

the trustees of the museum. What did you think of today? We have been

overwhelmed with publicity. -- Sophie Towne. We are really

interested in what the prospect of the HBO CDs may bring Friars in the

future. Inode it is -- seaweed may bring in the future. I know it is

early days, but what do you think will happen? This could bring more

visitors to the museum in many years. What was he produces most

interested in? They spent a lot of time in the archive room. Yes, I

showed them a lot of archival images we hold that the museum, a lot of

were donated by veterans of the hundreds. The HBO guys who get an

idea of what the base would have looked like any more time and

recreate that accurately for their series. You have this great film

footage we used in our film, shot by a guy called Shultz. They are

interested in that as well. Guess, I will hopefully be liaising with them

to help them have the best informed new series. Had he started talking

to you within? No, no, no. Nothing like that. Just beat with the

publicity and e-mail on. It is doing wonders for us and the other museums

in the area. -- we are just pleased with the publicity at the moment. We

have ran this museum for 40 years, not me personally, but we have go

with things like this, not this skeleton of what we will be able to

put it together and make sure everyone who visits ours is made to

feel welcome. Thanks for having us today. From Thorpe Abbotts, back to

you. Very exciting that Tom Hanks might come. She has definitely not

been running it for 40 years. No, not old enough. No.

The eyes of the Formula One world were on Silverstone today

for the launch of Force India's new car for 2017.

The team are based near the Northamptonshire

circuit and finished fourth in the constructors'

The new car is called the VJM10 and our sports editor,

Jonathan Park, was there to see it alongside the world's media.

Welcome to Force India, I'm at the factory at Silsden where they spend

a lot of time working on the car they think will propel them up the

league this season. It's called the VJM10. This is not the real one,

that will be uncovered over Very special. Lots of hard work for the

team over the winter. We started in May. I a lot of hard work. It's a

big occasion to reveal the car today. Formula 1's version of

sleeping beauty in front of a room full of journalists, photographers

and wonders waiting for Force India's new card to emerge from its

covers. Who are you here for? I'm here from a press agency, we are

here for the French market for me to follow the development. There is a

French driver in his third season. This was streamed around the will

and the panic started in December. This is the man who picks up the

bill, falls India's owner. Mind you, he is a billionaire. -- VJM10. How

much satisfaction you get from this? Your company, your car and you pay

for it to. Well, I am a rating man myself so the adrenaline is very

high full it is very exciting. -- a racing man. Not many people finish

them Force India last season. They have held onto their talented

Mexican driver and have a new Frenchman in your line-up. This is

what they will be screaming into. The VJM10. Virtually every part of

its brand-new. With the new rule changes, faster due to better

aerodynamics. It's a massive car with big tyres, big bodywork. Very

much looking forward to driving this big machine. I think it'll be very

demanding physically, mentally and the drivers will be pushed to their

maximum. It looks beautiful in their but how quick will be out here? That

is the big test which we will find out in a month when the new series

starts in Australia. Something very special about race

cars. Now, did you know that every county

in the region has somebody Their job is to log and count all

the birds which visit our region. Of course, they move, which makes

life very difficult. I don't know how they do it. Big you know you

gather that wonderful? -- did you know you can do that wonderful?

It's part of a national programme to create an archive

of our bird populations and how they change over time.

In Northamptonshire, the bird recorder is retiring,

and the search is now on to find a replacement.

Our reporter Stuart Ratcliffe has been to Wollaston

near Wellingborough to meet the county's very own bird man.

In sun, snow or rain, but mostly rain, Mike is out and

about, waiting, watching and recording Northamptonshire's birds.

It's a great job because of all this information coming in, we are able

to monitor bird population dynamics and also how things are changing

with different species and it also helps us to look at different

habitat types and which areas are concerned for conservation.

Today, he's at a nature reserve near Wellingborough,

where a great white egret from France has been spotted.

In the ten years in this job, might have seen many changes.

Well, corn bunting used to be a very common

sight in the Northamptonshire countryside, but it has declined

Nationwide, I think we've seen a decline of something

like 86%, and we've only had three in Northamptonshire this

The county has also seen many success stories, in particular its

We reintroduced the red kites in Northamptonshire

It is very difficult to go somewhere and

Why do you think red kites have been so is

I think he habitat requirements of red kites

have been fully met in

They do like a mixed countryside with open

Also agricultural land where they can actually get in and

feed because they are phenomenal scavengers, red kites, and they eat

They are not the sort of bird a lot of people

They don't prey heavily on other species of birds,

but they do like pulling out worms from the ground in

They are happy just getting their talons and beaks on anything

But now Mike is hanging up his logbook.

His predecessor was the county recorder for 20 years and

said it is a job with a very specific skill set.

You got to be very keen on birds coming you got to

be quite a good communicator because you've got to get on the

bird and you obviously encourage them then to send you their record

of the so they can be used in whatever means you wanted be used

If you don't mind the rain, have an eye for not only birds but

spreadhseets as well, could well the job for you.

Now, let's get the weather. Doris is on the way.

Doris is on the way. Widely weathered additions coming. A lot of

cloudy scenes for you. There is a signed photograph taken on the

ethics code but there has been some rain. Most of it affecting across

the southern and western counties. It is all tied into this weather

system here, stringing along the coast. Bringing out across the

region. It is expected that rain will spread across the region as we

head overnight. Some of it could be persistent and happy. Clearing into

the north sea. This is a sign of things to come, staying relatively

mild, temperatures anywhere between 6-10 C. That wind coming from the

south-west and that will be the focus of our weather through

tomorrow. All eyes on Storm Doris which is expected to bring us some

fairly intense winds. So the net offers have issued an amber weather

warning for strong winds across our part of the country. If you look at

this map, you can see just what part of the country are affected. -- Met

Office. This is where the winds will be stronger and they could peek into

the evening rush hour. We start the day already quite blustery. Moving

through, dry interludes. You can see this wind picking up from the

south-west. As it turns to the north-west, the wind will peak.

Around the VPN onwards for a good couple of our lives. Those winds

will be short lived what you have the potential to cause damage and

disruption to transport networks. -- Robert 3DM. Peaking at around 60-70

miles talent. If you Jake into account the coastline, this is way

could get costs in excess of 80 mph. Potential for disruption. They will

ease down into the evening, easing down. Certainly I around 9pm, much

calmer conditions. A cold day, looking mainly dry and bright and as

we get into the weekend, getting slightly milder again but a bit more

down with rain. Thank you very much. That's it from

all of us, thank you for joining us this evening and we'll see you later

tonight. Thank you. Goodbye full of -- goodbye.

Good job, guys. We totally nailed it.

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