:00:12. > :00:13.I'm so disappointed, I'm so upset that I've brought
:00:14. > :00:16.over 120,000 people into this with us and I'm making other people
:00:17. > :00:18.upset because I needed their support when maybe this didn't need
:00:19. > :00:28.I'm angry that I've had to criticise the police force when maybe this
:00:29. > :00:42.I can't even describe how it makes me feel for my boys.
:00:43. > :00:45.The mother of Corrie Mckeague speaks out as Suffolk Police finally admit
:00:46. > :00:48.that her son is almost certainly in a Cambridge landfill site.
:00:49. > :00:50.Tonight, why did it take detectives almost six months
:00:51. > :01:00.to discover that crucial evidence was wrong?
:01:01. > :01:07.Does it bother you that people can put waste into a waste Lawrie, can
:01:08. > :01:14.unload it at a landfill site, and nobody notices there is a body
:01:15. > :01:15.inside? -- lorry. Yes, of course, that if somebody's some, that's
:01:16. > :01:26.Corrie. -- that is somebody's son. What the budget means
:01:27. > :01:30.for this region. Extra rate relief for small
:01:31. > :01:32.pubs is going down well. We speak to the top man
:01:33. > :01:37.at Essex county council. Why did it take detectives nearly
:01:38. > :01:45.six months to find out crucial evidence in their search for missing
:01:46. > :01:47.airman Corrie Mckeague was wrong? For most of that time
:01:48. > :01:50.they had virtually ruled out -- the possibility that his body
:01:51. > :02:01.was in a landfill site in Cambridge. But today, at that landfill site,
:02:02. > :02:03.they told this programme they believe they are now searching
:02:04. > :02:06.in the right place. Tonight Susie has been to Scotland
:02:07. > :02:08.to get reaction from Corrie's And I've been speaking
:02:09. > :02:11.to the detective superintendent But we start with the latest
:02:12. > :02:23.from the landfill site, The cost of searching this landfill
:02:24. > :02:28.site behind me could cost, would you believe it come up to half ?1
:02:29. > :02:31.million. If you are a cash strapped police force you don't put that sort
:02:32. > :02:35.of money in unless you are sure you are going to get a result. This all
:02:36. > :02:39.hangs on the weight of a bin that was collected from the area Corrie
:02:40. > :02:43.Mckeague disappeared in Bury St Edmunds. At the time the police were
:02:44. > :02:47.told it weighed around 11 kilograms. But five months on the waste
:02:48. > :02:51.disposal company have gone back to the police, said they've done some
:02:52. > :02:56.number crunching, and in fact it weighed more than 100 kilograms,
:02:57. > :02:59.that is 16 stone, also more than the weight of an average male.
:03:00. > :03:04.Slowly and methodically specially trained officers rake through waste.
:03:05. > :03:09.Mindful that feet below them could be the remains of Corrie Mckeague. A
:03:10. > :03:17.digger waits to collected after each search. To search this area we are
:03:18. > :03:22.using the digger to draw out the waste, to lay it out on the ground
:03:23. > :03:26.carefully. Katie Elliott from Suffolk police has led a five-month
:03:27. > :03:30.investigation. She is confident her team will find Corrie Mckeague here.
:03:31. > :03:34.This landfill site is massive, to the right a site for household
:03:35. > :03:39.waste, furthering police have set up a compound to search the remains for
:03:40. > :03:45.which a special access route leads to the site, 920 square metres, and
:03:46. > :03:51.eight metres deep. This is the last images of Corrie Mckeague. He went
:03:52. > :03:54.missing from this area of Bury St Edmunds. A rubbish lorry made a
:03:55. > :03:58.collection from here within an hour of his disappearance. The last
:03:59. > :04:02.movements of his mobile phone coincided with a route the lorry
:04:03. > :04:09.took to the landfill. Police say the weight of the bin was made by the
:04:10. > :04:12.waste company. They said there was no intention to mislead the
:04:13. > :04:15.investigation. Had police known about the true weight of the bin how
:04:16. > :04:21.different with this investigation have been? Also, why did it take
:04:22. > :04:27.more than five months for this fact to emerge, and if Corrie was in that
:04:28. > :04:32.bin, how could a body be taken to a landfill like this and for no one to
:04:33. > :04:37.have noticed? Frustrated by the apparent slow progress of the
:04:38. > :04:39.investigation Corrie's family had brought in Beveren intelligence
:04:40. > :04:49.expert to sift through some of the evidence. -- their own intelligence.
:04:50. > :04:57.The family think more work should have been done on the waste site. In
:04:58. > :05:01.five months, police only made one arrest. Last week they questioned a
:05:02. > :05:06.man reported to be from the bin firm on suspicion of attempting to the of
:05:07. > :05:14.justice. A second man was cautioned. Both men have been told they will
:05:15. > :05:20.not face any more action. The family are praying for the best but are now
:05:21. > :05:25.more than prepared for the worst. -- attempting to pervert the course of
:05:26. > :05:29.justice. It will then be up to a pathologist to decide how he died.
:05:30. > :05:34.If there are any signs of third-party involvement, as well.
:05:35. > :05:38.This is still a missing person's enquiry. We must still assume that
:05:39. > :05:41.Corrie is alive unless he is found dead. Today, I've spent most of
:05:42. > :05:48.today talking to the police officers. There was a sombre mood
:05:49. > :05:55.around them. Let's not forget that Nicola Urquhart is a police officer.
:05:56. > :05:57.She is devastated and she will be expecting the worst.
:05:58. > :06:00.Thanks very much. Corrie's mother, Nicola Urquhart,
:06:01. > :06:03.is a serving police officer. and has followed every twist
:06:04. > :06:05.and turn of the investigation And sent this from
:06:06. > :06:09.Dunfermline in Scotland. This is where Corrie
:06:10. > :06:11.Mckeague grew up. He used to love coming
:06:12. > :06:18.back here and spending I've been here today to speak
:06:19. > :06:27.to his mother, Nicola Urquhart, I have spoken to Nicola many times
:06:28. > :06:30.over the course of the investigation and I've been so impressed
:06:31. > :06:32.by her strength, her resilience, But I could tell that this latest
:06:33. > :06:36.development in the investigation has When I got the first phone call
:06:37. > :06:49.on the Monday to say that Corrie hadn't come back
:06:50. > :06:51.after the weekend I I knew we were unlikely
:06:52. > :06:58.to see him again. But if there is anybody,
:06:59. > :07:03.and I mean this so much, that some fantastic story could have
:07:04. > :07:06.happened to, and they came back six months later, or a year later,
:07:07. > :07:09.Corrie is the one that it But that was on the basis
:07:10. > :07:15.of the facts that I was being given. And those facts were the bin
:07:16. > :07:19.weighed 11 kilograms. And I know you've had an up-and-down
:07:20. > :07:43.relationship with Suffolk police during that time,
:07:44. > :07:46.but how do you feel about the fact I don't feel let down
:07:47. > :07:59.by Suffolk police. I feel let down by decisions
:08:00. > :08:02.that have been made that That have made things harder
:08:03. > :08:16.than they had to be. I think there's lessons
:08:17. > :08:18.that can be learned. I don't think the next family that
:08:19. > :08:21.have a missing child, or a missing loved one,
:08:22. > :08:23.will go through some of the things And I'll probably be quite vocal
:08:24. > :08:29.about making sure some And are you prepared, emotionally,
:08:30. > :08:38.for them to find him now? When we first talked, right
:08:39. > :08:47.at the start of the investigation, you talked about the agony
:08:48. > :08:49.of not knowing. Now you probably do
:08:50. > :09:00.know is it still agony? I would actually say that that's
:09:01. > :09:03.one of the things I've probably said that is just
:09:04. > :09:05.so completely incorrect. Because when you don't know you can
:09:06. > :09:12.still believe that they are alive. It seems like you're always
:09:13. > :09:27.so strong, but this news has almost, kind of, not a chunk
:09:28. > :09:32.in your resolve. When I was trying to organise
:09:33. > :09:39.searches, or getting volunteers, I felt like I have been doing
:09:40. > :09:41.something constructive Now, just sitting and waiting
:09:42. > :09:47.for a phone call to find out whether they've found him or not,
:09:48. > :09:50.I don't do that well. So, what is your overriding
:09:51. > :09:58.emotion at the moment now I cannot explain how this
:09:59. > :10:02.is making me feel right now. I'm so upset that I've brought over
:10:03. > :10:18.120,000 people into this, with us, and I'm making other people upset
:10:19. > :10:21.because I needed their support when I'm angry that I've had to criticise
:10:22. > :10:32.the police force when maybe this I can't even describe how it
:10:33. > :10:40.makes me feel for my boys. For Nicola the focus remains
:10:41. > :10:51.on finding Corrie and finding out But with the amount of time that's
:10:52. > :11:02.passed and the effect that will have had on any evidence she is resigned
:11:03. > :11:06.to the fact that she may never get the answers
:11:07. > :11:08.she so desperately wants. I was at that landfill site this
:11:09. > :11:12.morning and saw specially trained officers from Norfolk and Suffolk,
:11:13. > :11:16.each one wearing two layers of protective clothing,
:11:17. > :11:18.going through pile after pile This long investigation has
:11:19. > :11:24.been led by Detective She told me she is confident that
:11:25. > :11:29.answers to the many questions I'm confident that we'll
:11:30. > :11:38.find answers here. You can see the scale of
:11:39. > :11:41.the operation that is mounted here. That's not something
:11:42. > :11:44.we enter into lightly. Do you wish that you
:11:45. > :11:49.had come here sooner? I would have liked to have had
:11:50. > :11:51.the information sooner that But it is a result of the checking,
:11:52. > :12:01.the rechecking, the going back to the experts within that
:12:02. > :12:03.organisation that could give us that information,
:12:04. > :12:06.that have interrogated the raw data to tell us the true weight
:12:07. > :12:09.of the bin that was collected Did anybody, did anybody try to give
:12:10. > :12:16.you wrong information, No, I don't think there has been
:12:17. > :12:20.any deliberate attempt to mislead the investigation,
:12:21. > :12:22.or to hamper the Clearly when we found out
:12:23. > :12:27.there was this error in the information that had been
:12:28. > :12:30.provided to us it was important that we investigated
:12:31. > :12:31.that and considered that How can an error like
:12:32. > :12:42.that have been made? It's an error in the way that data
:12:43. > :12:45.has been read and interpreted to us. It's by going back to the experts
:12:46. > :12:48.in the company that can interrogate the raw data and understand truly
:12:49. > :12:51.what it says, that we've been able to establish
:12:52. > :12:55.what the true weight was. So it's those experts
:12:56. > :12:57.who are expert at reading this The people within the company that
:12:58. > :13:01.gave us the data initially Do you wish that you had
:13:02. > :13:08.sent your own experts to read the data so that you had known
:13:09. > :13:11.sooner that the data was wrong? I'm not sure that would have
:13:12. > :13:14.made any difference. We sent detectives and we sent
:13:15. > :13:16.detectives back and spoke to different people
:13:17. > :13:30.within the organisation in order Uncomfortable we did that as quickly
:13:31. > :13:35.and as diligently as we could do. -- I am comfortable. There has been
:13:36. > :13:39.frustration from Corrie's family about the way the investigation is
:13:40. > :13:44.going. Did they wanted to come here sooner than you did? We have
:13:45. > :13:47.discussions with the family around searching the landfill site at the
:13:48. > :13:53.beginning of the investigation when we understood Corrie's phone tracked
:13:54. > :13:59.a similar pace to the waste lorry. However, the information at that
:14:00. > :14:03.point did not lead us to believe that it was justifiable to come and
:14:04. > :14:08.search here. So his family wanted you to come here soon after the
:14:09. > :14:14.investigation? And he said no? We discussed it with them. We also
:14:15. > :14:19.discussed the process of the waste disposal. At that time we understood
:14:20. > :14:22.that the process in the area would have been searched, that it would
:14:23. > :14:26.have been likely that Corrie would have been identified in the
:14:27. > :14:33.processing before he could have got here. Does it bother you that people
:14:34. > :14:36.can put waste into a waste lorry, can unload it at a landfill site,
:14:37. > :14:43.and nobody notices there is a body inside? Yes it bothers me. Of course
:14:44. > :14:49.it bothers me. That is somebody's son. It's Corrie. If that is what
:14:50. > :14:54.has happened then we need to understand how that has happened.
:14:55. > :14:58.And to understand the circumstances of what happened to Corrie. And you
:14:59. > :15:02.are confident you are looking in the right place now? Yes I am. Thank you
:15:03. > :15:04.very much. Thank you. And there is much more
:15:05. > :15:06.on that story online, Including Kevin Burch
:15:07. > :15:08.answering your questions during a facebook live
:15:09. > :15:09.earlier today. You can watch that again
:15:10. > :15:12.by going to our bit of facebook. we'll be getting the full
:15:13. > :15:26.weather forecast with Alex, but first let's have
:15:27. > :15:28.a look at the Budget. If you've just come in
:15:29. > :15:32.here are some of the headlines. The Chancellor promised
:15:33. > :15:35.an extra ?2 billion over the next three years
:15:36. > :15:39.for social care. National Insurance for the self
:15:40. > :15:41.employed is going up And there will be an extra
:15:42. > :15:46.?630 million for education, some for new free schools,
:15:47. > :15:48.some for new grammar schools, and the rest for work
:15:49. > :15:51.on existing school buildings. But we start with the planned
:15:52. > :16:02.changes to business rates. Basildon is one of those places
:16:03. > :16:07.where business rates are about to fall. At least that is according to
:16:08. > :16:14.the government. For Paul Crouch they are going up. Last year he spent
:16:15. > :16:18.?100,000 converting a redundant pulp into an American diner. Things are
:16:19. > :16:21.going OK. He's just about breaking even. But next month his business
:16:22. > :16:29.rates will nearly double to ?6,000 per year. We have options like
:16:30. > :16:34.reducing staff. Which will impact on service. We can reduce portion
:16:35. > :16:38.sizes. Which again will affect the customer flow and people coming
:16:39. > :16:44.back. It is very difficult. At the moment we are considering closing
:16:45. > :16:47.the business from the 1st of April. Business rates are a tax on
:16:48. > :16:51.commercial property. They've been recalculated for the first time in
:16:52. > :16:56.seven years. The government says this region has come out of it well.
:16:57. > :16:59.Average bills in all of these districts will fall. Only in these
:17:00. > :17:06.four will they rise. And only then by a maximum of 5% on average. But
:17:07. > :17:16.individual cases of businesses facing sharp increases profit the
:17:17. > :17:22.government -- asked the government for more help. Most pubs will get a
:17:23. > :17:25.?1000 discount. Anything to help. ?1000 to some people is a lot of
:17:26. > :17:29.money. In the great scheme of things I don't suppose it is too much, but
:17:30. > :17:36.anything is a great help. I'm glad they have listened to the small
:17:37. > :17:40.businesses. We welcome the reforms the Chancellor has made within his
:17:41. > :17:45.Budget today. However we are still looking for business rate reform
:17:46. > :17:49.because we feel they are not fair. Each year business rates raise ?24
:17:50. > :17:53.billion nationally. Half of that goes to national government, half to
:17:54. > :17:56.local authorities. Although some firms resent paying business rates,
:17:57. > :18:01.we should remember that money from them helps to pay for public
:18:02. > :18:06.services such as libraries and bin collections. For many small
:18:07. > :18:10.businesses they are a big burden and if the planned increases go ahead
:18:11. > :18:12.they may mean Paul's restaurant isn't open for much longer.
:18:13. > :18:15.Richard is here - has the Government come up with enough money to deal
:18:16. > :18:28.The total relief package adds up to 400 35mm pounds, which is about 2%
:18:29. > :18:31.of the revenue this tax races each year. It includes a discretionary
:18:32. > :18:36.fund which local councils will be able to dole out to the most needed
:18:37. > :18:42.cases. -- 430 ?5 million. Whether this helps some of the businesses
:18:43. > :18:45.such as the ones we saw in Southwold, who are seeing huge
:18:46. > :18:51.increases, we just don't know yet. The Essex Chambers of commerce, in
:18:52. > :18:54.welcoming the measures, said they were disappointed that the
:18:55. > :18:59.Chancellor has appeared to rule out a proper review of the existing
:19:00. > :19:01.business rates system many feel is unfair.
:19:02. > :19:06.How does all of this fit in with the fact that councils will be able to
:19:07. > :19:10.keep all of their business rates? That's true. Councils only get to
:19:11. > :19:14.keep half of this tax they collect, the other half goes to the Treasury.
:19:15. > :19:18.By 2020 they will keep all of it. They will lose some other grant
:19:19. > :19:23.income, but it means this locally connected tax will actually stay in
:19:24. > :19:26.the local community. And it's part of the government's policies to push
:19:27. > :19:28.revenues and powers out of London and into the regions.
:19:29. > :19:33.Thanks very much. the Chancellor had some extra
:19:34. > :19:36.cash for Social Care. ?2 billion over
:19:37. > :19:38.the next three years. Opposition parties say
:19:39. > :19:40.that's not enough. And one local politician
:19:41. > :19:45.told us today on what many people
:19:46. > :19:50.in local government Patricia Bawden from Tollshunt Darcy
:19:51. > :19:58.in Essex lives with her husband Ronald who's diabetic
:19:59. > :19:59.and has angina. At the moment their allowance
:20:00. > :20:03.covers their care costs. Essex County Council says its rate
:20:04. > :20:19.was generous but it's changing We can't find another ?40 per week.
:20:20. > :20:28.Something is going to have to go. It's probably less care. Which, as
:20:29. > :20:32.you have probably seen, would be very difficult. It is clear Budget
:20:33. > :20:38.cuts are having impacts. Today an announcement of extra money. Today,
:20:39. > :20:43.Mr Deputy Speaker, I'm committing additional grant funding of ?2
:20:44. > :20:48.billion to social care in England over the next three years. ?1
:20:49. > :20:52.billion of that will arrive in the next financial year. One council
:20:53. > :20:57.leader is quite optimistic. But wants to decide how to spend it.
:20:58. > :21:02.Clearly it will have an impact. But the devil will always be in the
:21:03. > :21:05.detail, how do we allocate that? What are the restrictions on
:21:06. > :21:10.requests from the government on how it is allocated? That is yet to be
:21:11. > :21:14.worked out. Councils are right to be wary, some money could go to the NHS
:21:15. > :21:19.to reduce so-called bed blocking. It is at record levels in East. Care
:21:20. > :21:24.homes like this one in Cambridge say with some of the funding they could
:21:25. > :21:27.help. The 25% reduction in the number of old people receiving care
:21:28. > :21:31.in the last five years, we don't know what happened to them. Many of
:21:32. > :21:37.them may have used health services, had to go into hospital, and maybe
:21:38. > :21:40.investment in those services, had it continued, maybe some of them might
:21:41. > :21:45.not have had to go in and the current NHS crisis could be lower.
:21:46. > :21:47.The government has promised a future funding consultation but some say
:21:48. > :21:54.the discussion needs to be quicker and wider. We can't escape from the
:21:55. > :21:58.impossible pressures the system is under unless they take a more
:21:59. > :22:03.fundamental look at the whole system, the health and care system.
:22:04. > :22:08.Any extra cash will be welcomed by care providers, but with reductions
:22:09. > :22:10.already affecting people like Patricia and Ronald they are
:22:11. > :22:13.unlikely to be dancing in the streets.
:22:14. > :22:18.Let's get the thoughts of our political correspondent who was at
:22:19. > :22:23.Westminster tonight. What stands out for you, Andrew?
:22:24. > :22:28.He has had to do some firefighting today. There was a row going on
:22:29. > :22:32.about business rates. He threw money at that. The row over social care.
:22:33. > :22:37.He threw money at that. He's throwing money at hospitals to
:22:38. > :22:42.relieve the pressure is in accident and emergency. In winter a couple of
:22:43. > :22:45.hospitals in Essex ran a triage system which weeded out those who
:22:46. > :22:49.did not need immediate treatment. They now want to see that rolled out
:22:50. > :22:53.across every hospital in the country. Apart from that it was a
:22:54. > :22:58.dull Budget. Neighbours say he could have done more for those affected by
:22:59. > :23:01.posterity. The Chancellor said that now is not the time to splash the
:23:02. > :23:08.cash. And an announcement about a
:23:09. > :23:11.roundabout in all of that? Yes, the only local reference in the
:23:12. > :23:17.whole of this Budget, page 44, is a plan for a new roundabout at Hailes
:23:18. > :23:20.in South Norfolk. That was announced by the county council last week. It
:23:21. > :23:25.was in there because the government wants to flag up the fact it's given
:23:26. > :23:30.money to local councils to put money into local road schemes. We will get
:23:31. > :23:33.those details later on. But most of today was big picture stuff. We will
:23:34. > :23:38.get the local details in the weeks and months to come. One thing which
:23:39. > :23:41.did jump out was another ?270 million, which is going to science
:23:42. > :23:46.and research and development. I'm told some of that money will be
:23:47. > :23:49.coming our way, particularly in Norfolk. The government is very keen
:23:50. > :23:56.to support up and coming businesses as we start to head towards Brexit.
:23:57. > :23:59.One row developing here tonight is a plan to increase National Insurance
:24:00. > :24:04.contributions for those who are self-employed. That goes against the
:24:05. > :24:06.manifesto pledge. Ukip have said that the government is discouraging
:24:07. > :24:08.entrepreneurship and it's turning its back on white van man.
:24:09. > :24:16.Thanks very much. Much milder temperatures today. The
:24:17. > :24:21.mild weather will be around for the next couple of days. This image on
:24:22. > :24:26.the satellite shows this weather system to the south and the cloud
:24:27. > :24:29.associated with it. We did have some rain first thing this morning but
:24:30. > :24:33.actually a lot of fine weather to end the day in some parts of the
:24:34. > :24:40.region. A contrast depending on where you live. Lots of cloud this
:24:41. > :24:44.afternoon in Stevenage. But just go a little bit further north in
:24:45. > :24:49.Cambridge and there is blue skies and sunshine. A fine the day for
:24:50. > :24:53.many. Clear skies out there as we go through the night. Some patchy
:24:54. > :24:58.cloud, particularly across counties where we are closer to the front.
:24:59. > :25:03.Just the odd spot of drizzle. But it looks to be mostly dry. Despite the
:25:04. > :25:08.clear skies it will be mild. Temperatures not lower than around
:25:09. > :25:11.seven Celsius. Tomorrow, bad weather front scoots out the way, it is
:25:12. > :25:17.still to the south, but for tomorrow it is looking like a fine forecast.
:25:18. > :25:21.A brisk wind will swing around to the north-west. Perhaps a bit of
:25:22. > :25:25.cloud around first thing. Once it has shifted and broken up it should
:25:26. > :25:30.be quite sunny. Lots of lovely weather round, particularly into the
:25:31. > :25:33.afternoon, and we are looking at highs of 13 degrees. We might be
:25:34. > :25:36.reviewing these tomorrow, saying they have gone higher in the
:25:37. > :25:41.sunshine. You will be aware of the breeze coming in from the
:25:42. > :25:45.north-west. It'll swing around and head the other way by the end of the
:25:46. > :25:50.afternoon. But lots of finance mild weather to enjoy. Our pressure
:25:51. > :25:58.pattern shows there is some changes on the way. For us in the east much
:25:59. > :26:01.later on Friday. It'll eventually bring in some rain. It looks like
:26:02. > :26:07.there will be fine weather round for Friday itself with the risk of rain
:26:08. > :26:10.late in the day. As for the weekend, we are looking at a sunny one, a
:26:11. > :26:16.little unsettled with rain at times and it'll feel cooler. More cloud
:26:17. > :26:21.around on Friday. The chance of rain arriving later. It could be a wet
:26:22. > :26:25.start to Saturday, becoming brighter during the course of the day. Likely
:26:26. > :26:28.to be some showers around for Sunday. Both days likely to be
:26:29. > :26:34.breezy. Temperatures overnight falling away a little as we get into
:26:35. > :26:38.the weekend. Thanks very much. Thank you for your
:26:39. > :27:21.company this evening. We will see you tomorrow night. Good night.
:27:22. > :27:23.Let's Sing And Dance exploded onto our screens,
:27:24. > :27:26.setting the stage alight...literally.
:27:27. > :27:31.Stars were a-swinging... Could somebody help me?
:27:32. > :27:43.Join the party, as new stars perform on...
:27:44. > :27:47.You can still see her - but it has to be supervised.