09/03/2017

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:00:00. > :00:07.We need a change in the law - so it's goodbye from me,

:00:08. > :00:09.the Essex council which says it's too hard

:00:10. > :00:20.after travellers move on to more land.

:00:21. > :00:25.At Dale Farm yesterday, Hovefields today. What is tomorrow? I do not

:00:26. > :00:28.have the resources to do this. are at risk at the Harry Potter

:00:29. > :00:31.printers in Suffolk. The four-year-old who

:00:32. > :00:41.has to spend 20 hours And I am with double Olympic gold

:00:42. > :00:45.medallist Max Whitlock to who is taking time out of competition to

:00:46. > :00:51.gear up for the World Championships later this year.

:00:52. > :00:54.People living near an illegal travellers site in Essex say

:00:55. > :00:58.they believe another Dale Farm could be created as the travellers

:00:59. > :01:04.The site is at Hovefields in Wickford near Basildon,

:01:05. > :01:09.More hardstanding has gone down over the past few days.

:01:10. > :01:12.The council says it's trying to stop the site expanding,

:01:13. > :01:14.but it needs more help from the Government.

:01:15. > :01:28.Last weekend, residents of Hovefields Avenue noticed multiple

:01:29. > :01:34.lorries filled with gravel travelling down the road. Soon

:01:35. > :01:40.after, green belt land was covered in asphalt. Large mobile homes then

:01:41. > :01:46.appeared. Jill has lived in the area for over 16 years. She was

:01:47. > :01:51.horrified. I felt devastated and when we saw the amount that was

:01:52. > :01:56.going down there, we knew it was going to be a major development. It

:01:57. > :02:01.has been plotted off and looking at it, it will be a major development.

:02:02. > :02:09.The danger is it will turn into Dale Farm but bigger. Dale Farm, less

:02:10. > :02:13.than a mile down the road, with Europe's largest Traveller site. The

:02:14. > :02:18.eviction of 80 families left 15 police officers injured and saw 45

:02:19. > :02:23.arrests. The leader of Basildon Council says that due to the law is

:02:24. > :02:27.not changing, Hovefields could end in a similar way. The residents

:02:28. > :02:32.think this is going to become another Dale Farm. I share that

:02:33. > :02:39.fear. What we need is a change to the law. Should the government not

:02:40. > :02:43.have stepped in and change these laws? Absolutely. I can only work in

:02:44. > :02:46.the legal parameters and the framework that is laid down. The law

:02:47. > :03:02.needs changing. The government said? For Basildon Council things will

:03:03. > :03:07.keep going round in circles. People have to exist and they have to have

:03:08. > :03:11.a place to live. They can buy their own property, they could put in for

:03:12. > :03:18.planning permission but sometimes that takes years to go through and

:03:19. > :03:22.in the meantime, 99.9% of Gypsy travel applications get refused.

:03:23. > :03:25.Nobody involved wants another Dale Farm but with no clear answers,

:03:26. > :03:28.everyone fears history will repeat itself.

:03:29. > :03:30.There's been a huge groundswell of support

:03:31. > :03:32.for the mother of Corrie Mckeague after she apologised

:03:33. > :03:37.to the thousands of people who've supported the search for her son.

:03:38. > :03:43.This week, police started to search a huge landfill site more than five

:03:44. > :03:46.Nicola Urquhart told BBC Look East last night she felt she had

:03:47. > :03:47.made other people upset because she "needed their

:03:48. > :03:56.support when maybe this didn't have to happen."

:03:57. > :04:03.Dave four of the search of the landfill site. There is a growing

:04:04. > :04:08.conviction that the remains of Coran may be found here. A bin which took

:04:09. > :04:13.waste from the area when he vanished was far heavier than first thought.

:04:14. > :04:16.Heavy enough to contain a body. His mother told Look East she feels

:04:17. > :04:23.responsible for the hurt that will be felt by her online supporters. I

:04:24. > :04:30.am so upset that I have bought over 120,000 people into this with us and

:04:31. > :04:33.I am making other people upset because I needed their support.

:04:34. > :04:38.Hundreds who watch that interview took to our Facebook page to

:04:39. > :04:49.reassure Nicola. One wrote, no apology is needed.

:04:50. > :04:57.Scores of volunteers searched the countryside after Corrie vanished.

:04:58. > :05:02.The man who did then said he and they would do it again. I can say on

:05:03. > :05:08.behalf of 120,000 people that she doesn't need to apologise to anybody

:05:09. > :05:13.for anything, so she needs to concentrate on her own family. This

:05:14. > :05:19.hotel is a base and a refuge for Nicola when she travels from

:05:20. > :05:25.Scotland to Suffolk. Cheryl who runs it has got to know her well. Even

:05:26. > :05:30.now she is worried about other people, but others have taken this

:05:31. > :05:34.journey, they chose to take it and they are going to be heartbroken,

:05:35. > :05:39.but they chose to take it. This is still a missing persons enquiry.

:05:40. > :05:43.Support is now edged with the movement and frustration that the

:05:44. > :05:48.search of this landfill has only now got underway. There is a growing

:05:49. > :05:50.reconciliation that this 23-year-old gunner could soon be found but not

:05:51. > :05:52.safe and well. Farmers across the East have been

:05:53. > :05:55.left not knowing if they'll be paid after a major grain merchant

:05:56. > :05:59.went into administration. Wellgrain, which is based

:06:00. > :06:01.in Cambridgeshire, stopped trading The National Union of Farmers said

:06:02. > :06:16.this could have a bigger impact The clear up operation after storm

:06:17. > :06:22.Doris continues at this Cambridgeshire farm but another band

:06:23. > :06:28.of bad news is now blowing in. Wellgrain used by farmers has

:06:29. > :06:32.seemingly out of the blue gone into administration. The biggest problem

:06:33. > :06:37.of all has been that there has been nothing being spoken about up until

:06:38. > :06:42.last Friday, so we heard from the 22nd of February to Friday just gone

:06:43. > :06:50.where nothing was said and it was rumours and hearsay. The company's

:06:51. > :06:54.list of creditors currently stands at around 300, only two are secure

:06:55. > :06:59.and should get their money back. Most are farmers who could lose

:07:00. > :07:04.thousands of pounds. At Christmas his grain store was full of wheat,

:07:05. > :07:11.it all went to Wellgrain, some of it has been paid for by the last two

:07:12. > :07:16.loads that went on February 21 an unlikely to bring any return. It is

:07:17. > :07:22.a silent matter really. You cannot physically see people losing money.

:07:23. > :07:26.It is not like the flooding where there was a physical impact where

:07:27. > :07:30.insurance could pay a lot of farmers to help and alleviate some of the

:07:31. > :07:36.problems. Here there is no choice available. We have all got to bear

:07:37. > :07:42.the brunt of this. Members who were expecting that income to aid their

:07:43. > :07:46.cash flow and at a time when cash flows are tied and grain prices have

:07:47. > :07:52.not been what they have been in the past, that money was important. No

:07:53. > :07:58.one seems to know what went wrong, but today all was quiet at

:07:59. > :08:01.Wellgrain's HQ. The administrators say they are exploring whether the

:08:02. > :08:03.business has any future. The NFU has a helpline to offer

:08:04. > :08:05.advice if you've been affected. About 120 jobs are at risk

:08:06. > :08:14.at the book printing The company has been producing books

:08:15. > :08:37.for generations and printed Temp Heung-Min has been in business

:08:38. > :08:45.for nearly 200 years. It prints more than 140 million books a year. It is

:08:46. > :08:49.part of the St Ives group with turnover at just under ?70 million

:08:50. > :08:53.but with its share price falling, it has been forced to think hard about

:08:54. > :08:58.the future shape of the business and it has now seen a major contract

:08:59. > :09:02.lost to a rival. Managers say that as a direct result they have had to

:09:03. > :09:09.announce these redundancy proposals and will now start talking to the

:09:10. > :09:14.employees affected. Clays's managing director says he is understandably

:09:15. > :09:18.disappointed with the news and will try to find the best possible

:09:19. > :09:23.outcome. Unite says it will fight every step of the way to defend the

:09:24. > :09:26.jobs of its members and seek to avoid compulsory redundancies. It

:09:27. > :09:33.represents more than two thirds of the workforce. In a statement,

:09:34. > :09:57.Unite's regional officer said: There has been huge investment at

:09:58. > :10:03.Heung-Min in recent years to ensure it can cope not just with huge

:10:04. > :10:07.demand but small-scale orders also. But managers admit these are tough

:10:08. > :10:11.times and having enjoyed a long period of growth in their market

:10:12. > :10:16.share, the loss of a contract worth millions is a real body blow.

:10:17. > :10:18.Seven ticket offices on the Greater Anglia train

:10:19. > :10:20.line could close and be replaced with machines.

:10:21. > :10:23.The train operator is consulting over plans to close the offices

:10:24. > :10:26.at stations including Walton-on-the-Naze, Great

:10:27. > :10:31.The company says the stations have very low customer numbers

:10:32. > :10:34.and staff will be on hand to help with enquires.

:10:35. > :10:38.They hope to upgrade customer information and ticketing

:10:39. > :10:42.A consultation on the plans runs until 20th March.

:10:43. > :10:47.says work on the controversial northern distributor road

:10:48. > :10:51.Work started 14 months ago and the whole project

:10:52. > :10:56.Look East has been given special access to the vast building site.

:10:57. > :11:04.This from our chief reporter Kim Riley.

:11:05. > :11:13.The view from the air as work progresses on 13 miles of dual

:11:14. > :11:17.carriageway stretching from the A47 to the Fakenham Road. It is

:11:18. > :11:22.controversial but Norfolk County Council which is investing ?50

:11:23. > :11:25.million believes it will bring huge economic benefits. Down on the

:11:26. > :11:30.ground we were taken on a sometimes bumpy ride along the route. Some

:11:31. > :11:36.sections are well advanced, others just a sea of sand and mud. Someone

:11:37. > :11:44..7 million cubic metres of soil have been excavated. Here we ploughed

:11:45. > :11:49.through deep water. Of more than 150 people working here, 12% are women.

:11:50. > :11:55.In the fields of engineering and construction that is above average.

:11:56. > :12:00.I met 27-year-old Lizzie. She is a section engineer. She joined the

:12:01. > :12:04.lead contractor as a trainee three and a half years ago. I was placed

:12:05. > :12:09.by a recruitment engineering company and fell in love with the industry.

:12:10. > :12:14.It was not something I thought would be an option but once I was there, I

:12:15. > :12:19.fell in love with the charm of it. Along the route there are miles of

:12:20. > :12:26.green fencing, hundreds of frogs, news and codes have been moved. I

:12:27. > :12:32.deal with everything environmental so that can range from the animals

:12:33. > :12:37.on site so we have newts, tree protection, looking at water

:12:38. > :12:43.quality, air quality, looking for spills, cleaning up spills.

:12:44. > :12:47.Everything you consider environment. Laying down 150,000 tonnes of

:12:48. > :12:53.servicing is this year 's big challenge. Progress is good, we are

:12:54. > :12:57.on track, we are hoping to complete by December, nearer Christmas.

:12:58. > :13:01.Hindered slightly by wet weather but we are on programme. The county

:13:02. > :13:02.council believes it will prove its worth in an area where thousands of

:13:03. > :13:11.new homes are planned. Still to come tonight: Olympic

:13:12. > :13:14.gymnast Max Whitlock on why he's training harder than ever,

:13:15. > :13:18.even though he's decided not And the four-year-old

:13:19. > :13:22.with a rare condition, who has to spend 20 hours a day

:13:23. > :13:32.under UV lights. The Chancellor delivered his budget

:13:33. > :13:35.yesterday and I think it's fair In fact, the head teacher

:13:36. > :13:39.of his old secondary school in Essex Carole Herman says Philip Hammond

:13:40. > :13:45.is neglecting the type of school She says schools face an 8% real

:13:46. > :13:52.terms cut in their funding and she has made redundancies

:13:53. > :14:06.already because of We talk to our students about having

:14:07. > :14:10.aspirations, supporting those, you also can start here and become

:14:11. > :14:13.Chancellor of the Exchequer, but sadly Philip Hammond has not

:14:14. > :14:15.remembered that schools need funding in order to do the accident things

:14:16. > :14:16.they do. There was extra money for education

:14:17. > :14:18.announced in the budget, but much of it is earmarked

:14:19. > :14:20.for new schools. Many of those are expected

:14:21. > :14:22.to become grammars. Norwich is one of the places

:14:23. > :14:25.being tipped for a grammar school. Dame Rachel de Souza is the head

:14:26. > :14:38.of the Inspiration Trust chain You have been said to be reported to

:14:39. > :14:43.be interested in setting up a grammar in Norwich. It is critical

:14:44. > :14:48.we do not fall out looking at new ideas that could help our students

:14:49. > :14:51.in Norwich, in this region do better, so we will explore it and

:14:52. > :15:00.encourage everyone to explore it also. We were one of the first into

:15:01. > :15:04.the free School movements and three, four years on, our sixth form

:15:05. > :15:09.College is sending students to Cambridge, Oxford. Do you think

:15:10. > :15:15.grammar schools are the answer to social mobility? The answer is a

:15:16. > :15:19.great academic and well rounded education and every child should be

:15:20. > :15:24.entitled to that, but there are different ways we can deliver that

:15:25. > :15:31.and I think if grammar schools, if it is setup properly, it could be an

:15:32. > :15:36.answer to speeding up improvements. We need to. Look at the results, we

:15:37. > :15:42.are improving in this region but not quickly enough. What about the kids

:15:43. > :15:47.that do not end up going to a grammar school? We're not going back

:15:48. > :15:53.20 years. All the information we have are about the old system where

:15:54. > :15:58.people either went to grammars or secondary moderns. That is not

:15:59. > :16:02.coming back at all. If this legislation is passed, you are

:16:03. > :16:09.talking about a small number of grammar schools and like any policy,

:16:10. > :16:16.it means thinking about how could it benefit Norwich's Norfolk's

:16:17. > :16:20.children. You already run a chain of academies. Shouldn't the money be

:16:21. > :16:25.going to the schools that currently exist rather than building new ones?

:16:26. > :16:30.There is a huge need for new school places. Is there enough money going

:16:31. > :16:39.to the schools they run at the moment? If you look at the last 40

:16:40. > :16:45.years, spending in education has doubled. Yes, it is getting tighter

:16:46. > :16:52.now but that is what inspiration trusts, our 13 schools work together

:16:53. > :16:56.to make efficiencies. We made ?600,000 efficiencies on the back of

:16:57. > :17:00.their spending. We can work really hard to make sure all that money

:17:01. > :17:06.goes to the front line and we do better. It is great education, great

:17:07. > :17:10.teachers, while train teachers, fantastic subject knowledge that

:17:11. > :17:16.will help our children achieve. How we do it is a different question. It

:17:17. > :17:18.sounds like this is a debate will go on and we will talk to you again.

:17:19. > :17:19.Thank you. the big story from the budget is

:17:20. > :17:23.the increase in National Insurance who's been self-employed

:17:24. > :17:28.for about 20 years. and says he's been let

:17:29. > :17:42.down by the Chancellor. It is the cost. It will go. I will

:17:43. > :17:46.have to pass that cost on to my customers and at this time, people

:17:47. > :17:51.don't want to pay more if they do not need to. It is an added cost as

:17:52. > :17:58.a business to me personally. What did you think when you heard about

:17:59. > :18:02.the changes? Cheated, annoyed. Basically you vote for someone, you

:18:03. > :18:08.get told something a year or so down the line, they change their mind,

:18:09. > :18:11.they lie to you. We have all been cheated. Thousands, millions of

:18:12. > :18:20.self-employed people. This will affect a lot of people. Millions of

:18:21. > :18:26.people like myself, we go out, we work hard and we work hard for what

:18:27. > :18:31.we have got so why are we being penalised? If I had Theresa May in

:18:32. > :18:33.front of me now, I would ask, why me? Why is it us?

:18:34. > :18:37.and today, one of our Conservative MPs described the proposed

:18:38. > :18:39.to hard-working white van men and women.

:18:40. > :18:41.He said he will try to get it stopped.

:18:42. > :18:45.Our political correspondent Andrew Sinclair is outside a van

:18:46. > :19:00.He is Steven McParland, the MP for the village and he has formed when

:19:01. > :19:06.it comes to getting the government to change its mind over unpopular

:19:07. > :19:09.budget decisions. He is one of a small number of Tory MPs to say they

:19:10. > :19:14.cannot support what was announced yesterday. They need to drop this,

:19:15. > :19:21.it will not have the support from people like myself. They aren't

:19:22. > :19:25.panels are the backbone of this economy, they are opening those

:19:26. > :19:31.small businesses, employing apprentices. We have to get behind

:19:32. > :19:40.them. At the moment, he is in the minority. Most Conservative MPs are

:19:41. > :19:43.saying this is a fairness issue. Self-employed people access the same

:19:44. > :19:55.services as employees so why should they pay less tax? It is a tax rise

:19:56. > :19:57.but the self-employed now see they must pay the same contributions and

:19:58. > :19:59.that is reasonable. There's been an outcry

:20:00. > :20:01.in the papers today, but how much opposition

:20:02. > :20:09.is there really? The government says 60% of

:20:10. > :20:14.self-employed people will not be affected by this and those who are

:20:15. > :20:20.only pay an extra 60p a week and more. I took part in a phone in this

:20:21. > :20:24.morning and we were contacted by several self-employed people who

:20:25. > :20:28.said this is not a big deal, we do not mind paying extra so the

:20:29. > :20:31.government will be hoping that is what happens but this row is not

:20:32. > :20:36.just about self-employed people, there is the perception that the

:20:37. > :20:38.government has broken a manifesto promise.

:20:39. > :20:40.If you know any four-year-old boys, you will know it's very

:20:41. > :20:43.hard to keep them still, so imagine if your four-year-old had

:20:44. > :20:46.to stay in an area the size of a single bed for 20

:20:47. > :20:50.That's what life's like for Ishmail Ali from Luton.

:20:51. > :20:53.He's one of only 100 people across the world who has a liver

:20:54. > :20:56.disease called lifetime jaundice and he needs to stay

:20:57. > :21:01.under ultra-violet lights to manage his condition.

:21:02. > :21:06.Four-year-old Ishmail has spent almost his entire life like this.

:21:07. > :21:11.A rare liver condition called Crigler-Najjar means he eats,

:21:12. > :21:19.phototherapy lights for a minimum of 20 hours a day.

:21:20. > :21:21.Because he's missing an enzyme in his liver to

:21:22. > :21:26.break down what we call jaundice, he hasn't got that at all, so

:21:27. > :21:30.unfortunately because it builds up, it's like a toxin in the blood and

:21:31. > :21:34.as a toxin, if it goes to the brain, first thing they've said is it

:21:35. > :21:38.will go past the ears etc, he will become deaf,

:21:39. > :21:42.he will get some sort of brain damage, maybe permanent.

:21:43. > :21:46.He has to be cooped up in his medical phototherapy bed.

:21:47. > :21:48.He absolutely hates it, especially

:21:49. > :21:52.sister, so he just wants to run around like a normal four-year-old

:21:53. > :21:56.boy and just run around the house and play around with her, but it is

:21:57. > :22:05.The family have a carer that comes for six hours a

:22:06. > :22:09.week, but they're hoping to raise money through a crowdfunding page

:22:10. > :22:14.Our little sister, the seven-year-old, she's

:22:15. > :22:17.not getting any quality of life either because she says, you know,

:22:18. > :22:20.we're basically spending all the time with him, in and out of

:22:21. > :22:25.hospital, so we don't ever get to play with her so if

:22:26. > :22:29.someone can be with him, we can at least get a bit of a break,

:22:30. > :22:31.a little bit of a rest and then be able to

:22:32. > :22:34.concentrate on caring for him even more.

:22:35. > :22:39.It is very likely that Ishmail will spend the rest of his life

:22:40. > :22:46.Frustrating for an energetic and cheeky little boy, but his family

:22:47. > :22:50.say they will do everything they can to make sure he has the best quality

:22:51. > :23:02.The double Olympic gold medallist Max Whitlock is taking a six-month

:23:03. > :23:05.break from competition to get ready for the World Gymnastics

:23:06. > :23:09.The 24-year-old will continue to train full-time

:23:10. > :23:12.at the South Essex Club in Basildon, but says he needs time away

:23:13. > :23:14.from competing to practice new, more difficult routines.

:23:15. > :23:23.He's been speaking exclusively to our sports reporter Tom Williams.

:23:24. > :23:35.He is already on top of the world. At just 24, Britain's greatest ever

:23:36. > :23:40.gymnast. Good. Really nice. But there is always room for

:23:41. > :23:45.improvement. After winning double gold, Max Whitlock needs time away

:23:46. > :23:50.to get better. My target is to go on for another eight years, definitely

:23:51. > :23:54.four years, everything is striving towards Tokyo but eight years is my

:23:55. > :23:59.dream to stay in the sport. I need to take care of my body now to do

:24:00. > :24:04.that and I do want to go into competitions with the routines I had

:24:05. > :24:11.last year. I want to be new and improved. To achieve that he says he

:24:12. > :24:16.needs to work smarter. He will still train full-time but behind closed

:24:17. > :24:21.doors, devising exciting new routines, here's hoping one daring

:24:22. > :24:28.move will be named after him. Is there a lot more to come from you? I

:24:29. > :24:32.hope so. With the new skills I am preparing. I cannot stand still and

:24:33. > :24:38.sit there and be happy with those results. People underneath me will

:24:39. > :24:43.start to try and chase me. Max became Britain's first ever Olympic

:24:44. > :24:47.gymnastics champion at last summer's games and winning gold on Pall Mall

:24:48. > :24:52.and the floor. He will miss the World Cup event in London plus the

:24:53. > :24:58.British and European Championships. He has come from such a high in Rio

:24:59. > :25:03.so number one, level out, make sure his head is back in the game. We

:25:04. > :25:08.don't want to just go and participate and get back to the

:25:09. > :25:14.grind. We want to try to raise the level. He has become one of British

:25:15. > :25:20.sport most famous faces. Last month he was at Buckingham Palace. What is

:25:21. > :25:26.it like being referred to as Max Whitlock and be? Very weird but very

:25:27. > :25:30.nice as war. To go there and be awarded by the Queen, I was so

:25:31. > :25:34.nervous but that was truly an amazing day. He has six months to

:25:35. > :25:35.perfect his new routine before the pressure is back on performing in

:25:36. > :25:46.front of the world. Such a good bloke. Some weather.

:25:47. > :25:51.Spring was in the air today. Some beautiful sunshine across the

:25:52. > :25:55.region. Temperatures hit 16 degrees. But we have clear skies across the

:25:56. > :25:58.region at the moment, that will translate into quite a chilly

:25:59. > :26:04.evening and temperatures will drop away further than they did last

:26:05. > :26:08.night. Lows of around two or three Celsius. By the end of the night,

:26:09. > :26:13.more cloud coming in from the West so temperatures should recover.

:26:14. > :26:17.Still a fresh start tomorrow. The pressure pattern shows high pressure

:26:18. > :26:27.still holding on. This weather system coming the west but for us in

:26:28. > :26:30.the East, it should not spoil things too much. Some good spells of

:26:31. > :26:34.sunshine for the morning. The sunshine will turn hazy and in

:26:35. > :26:38.Western counties, it will cloud over for the afternoon. But not before

:26:39. > :26:45.temperatures have got to around ten or 11 degrees. It is possible

:26:46. > :26:50.temperatures could be higher. The wind coming from a southerly

:26:51. > :26:55.direction and today we had that chilly north-westerly, so not a bad

:26:56. > :26:59.day of work but as the cloud increases, perhaps the few spots of

:27:00. > :27:05.light rain. And looking beyond for the weekend, it is looking a little

:27:06. > :27:12.unsettled. At Len Tingle weather systems coming our way so we could

:27:13. > :27:17.expect Saturday to be the better date in terms of dryness. Maybe

:27:18. > :27:23.cloudy at times but some sunshine around. Sunday will be uncertain.

:27:24. > :27:28.That weather system moving in and it will bring rain and make things feel

:27:29. > :27:32.a little bit cooler. The outlook- cooling down to start next week and

:27:33. > :27:38.some fairly settled weather on the way for the beginning of next week.

:27:39. > :28:27.That is all from us. Have a very good evening. Good night.

:28:28. > :28:29.Oh, the dragon. Dylan Thomas.

:28:30. > :28:31.Richard Burton. Barry Island.

:28:32. > :28:41.The River Shannon. We invented the submarine.

:28:42. > :28:44.with a spectacular Friday night encounter...