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Hello, welcome to Look East, with Susie and me. | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
The region's response to the threat of serious flooding | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
two months ago is condemned as "inadequate". | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
A review highlights 64 short-comings. | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
Faulty equipment, losing a set of keys for the emergency stores, | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
lack of training - those don't instil confidence? | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
Well, as I say, there's definitely lessons | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
to learn and it's a relief to us all that it was a near miss. | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Keeping babies safer at night by sleeping in a box. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
Experts hail the success of a pilot project in Essex. | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
and speak to the man who invented the Chopper. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
And the X Factor auditions come to Clacton. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
We will be meeting some of the contestants. | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
# I can't answer, I can't answer that #. | :00:50. | :01:07. | |
The night of Friday 13th of January this year, | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
You might remember it was the night the North Sea threatened to flood | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
Luckily it didn't and it seems that was just as well. | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
It turns out that behind the scenes there were dozens | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
A new report highlights 64 in Suffolk alone. | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
losing a set of keys to emergency stores | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
The short comings will go before councillors tonight. | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
Let's get the details now from Kevin Burch. | :01:40. | :01:49. | |
We are at Felixstowe Ferry, the waters tonight really benign but | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
look back to January, there was an angry sea up there. We had had | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
warnings what to expect going through the night. As it was, things | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
were baited but still hundreds of people had to be moved from their | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
homes. These tidal surges still represent a major threat and that is | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
why officials have gone through everything in microscopic detail. | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
The village of Snape knows only too well about the impact of flooding, | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
the surge of 2013 left a pub and homes awash, | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
so as trouble loomed again in January, they were ready. | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
A rest centre in the village hall took in about 30 people, it emerged | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
as one of the busiest around on that night. | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
But one area of worry was a lack of communication with council | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
The initial concerns we got as a community | :02:34. | :02:45. | |
were through the media, people were asking us as volunteers | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
in the community, are we going to be asked to evacuate? | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
So it took a bit of time just to get the clarity | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
That need for better communication is the key one | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
in this list of more than 60 recommendations after council | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
officials ordered a root and branch review of how it handled the threat. | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
On that night, this community building in Leiston was set up | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
as a rest centre but, says the report, it | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
lacked amenities and the team here had not been trained or told what | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
There's also the question of public car parks in flood zones, they | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
weren't closed off, it suggested they should be to avoid potential | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
damage to vehicles and keep the sightseers away. | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
And Waveney's own council base in Lowestoft is | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
flagged up, home to the emergency control centre but sitting in a | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
And what about other niggles there on the night, a missing key | :03:33. | :03:42. | |
for a vital storage cupboard, an emergency satellite phone which | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
didn't work and staff being unsure how to login to or use a critical | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
I've used the analogy before, it's a bit like | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
You'll always have somebody who says, "yeah, | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
but the defence could have been a bit better." | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
There are also some recommendations in there, like having an extra | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
whiteboard in the room and boxing blankets | :04:01. | :04:12. | |
how many we are issuing, that sort of stuff is pretty easy | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
The really important ones are about communications, about | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
access to facilities, they have very much been takEN on-board | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
and they will improve our response next time around. | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
He says he doesn't accept if the latest | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
surge had been more damaging these flaws in the planning could have | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
Whatever the level of threat had been, he | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
believes, what's already a pretty slick system would have adequately | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
Officials say it is important to keep this in perspective. 60 odd | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
recommendations but this is a water no process. This report will go | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
before councillors in Felixstowe tonight. | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
Therese Coffey is the MP for Suffolk Coastal | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
Late this afternoon I got her reaction to the report. | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
I actually thought the council's worked | :04:53. | :04:53. | |
really well together with the | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
emergency services and I think it is the hallmark of a strong performing | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
council that they go back and look in detail at this near miss and then | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
I think there were some obvious things | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
that perhaps could have been done but they have also been, they have | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
very high standards and I think overall, | :05:10. | :05:10. | |
my impression is from the | :05:11. | :05:11. | |
communities that I have visited at that time, | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
is that they felt the council had been responsive. | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
Faulty equipment, losing a set of keys for | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
the emergency stores, lack of training - those don't | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
Well, as I say, there are definitely lessons to learn | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
and, you know, it's a relief to us all that it was a near miss but I | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
think the broader communication that happened at the time made sure that | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
householders were certainly aware of the risks to them and certainly I | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
saw in different communities that they had learned from the previous | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
flooding and that they'd developed their own community plans. | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
Now, that hasn't happened quite everywhere. | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
And I'm sure that councils are working with the Environment Agency | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
will continue to try and do that and of course there are things that | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
could've been done better but I think we saw generally much better | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
response along coast than we have seen in previous times, including | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
But you will accept that 64 items on that list is not | :05:59. | :06:07. | |
I think there are some big lessons to learn but I | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
think other smaller things, sometimes it is human error, | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
sometimes it is systematic failure but the important thing is that they | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
have done this review and they are going to address it for the future. | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
The important thing to remember here is that | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
everybody knew this was coming | :06:22. | :06:22. | |
and so for some things to fail at the last | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
Well, I'd think the fact that people were | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
notified, that people were encouraged to evacuate, kind of the | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
I mean, there are some recommendations | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
on that report, for example, a lack of mobile phone signal at | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
Well, that is something that will need to | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
be addressed in due course but it is not entirely in the hands | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
It does highlight the problem that many people have in | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
rural communities in this area, that is you can't get a mobile phone | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
signal, sometimes you can't get decent broadband. | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
Well, that's something you'll be aware | :06:57. | :06:57. | |
I'm personally keen to see greater deployment of | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
mobile phone masts around our countryside | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
and that is what we're doing in trying to encourage | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
more of the mobile network operators to set up those | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
Norfolk was also threatened by the tidal surge. | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
The county is ranked tenth in England | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
Away from the coastal defences, the county council | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
is spending millions of pounds on tackling surface-water flooding. | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
This from our chief reporter Kim Riley. | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
Scenes in the heart of Norwich after heavy | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
rains overwhelmed dreams and | :07:38. | :07:38. | |
threatened homes and businesses in May 2014. | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
It came about that far away from the front door and it was about | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
that far away from coming in the back door. | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
Fire crews pumped out flats and nightclubs after flash | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
Against siff competition, the county council successfully bid | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
for more than ?9 million from the Department for Transport | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
to improve surface water drainage in high risk | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
areas like Thorpe St Andrew near Norwich. | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
The problem was, historically, the surface water when | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
it rained wasn't drained away properly, it went into old systems | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
What we are doing now is opening up the ground, | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
putting pipelines in that are taking the surface | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
water away when it rains, when we have flooding events, it | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
will now go away, it will discharge down to the river | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
Today the pipe laying meant Jill Thomas couldn't drive | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
from her home but she accepts the work is important. | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
There certainly have been flooded areas, big puddle in | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
It is something that has to be done, isn't it? | :08:29. | :08:37. | |
A new network of surface water drains is replacing many boreholes | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
A growing population, thousands of new | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
homes on the way and more heavy rainfall expected heighten | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
This will be a state-of-the-art scheme, it will put | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
everything right to dispose of all the surface water here in the city. | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
I can never say no more flooding but I | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
It will deal with hopefully everything that is thrown at us in | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
So far, three miles of piping has been laid in high risk | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
areas of Norwich and a further two miles | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
will be laid before the | :09:09. | :09:09. | |
The county council will then spend hundreds of thousands of | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
pounds more addressing training issues in some of our market towns. | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
Elsewhere, the Environment Agency has recently completed a | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
multi-million pound scheme replacing over 500 metres of title defences, | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
reducing the risk of flooding to the Southtown and Cobholm | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
There's been a drop in unemployment in this region. | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
The latest total is 138,000, that's down 9,000 on the previous quarter. | :09:38. | :09:46. | |
4.4% of the workforce is unemployed, the national figure is 4.7%. | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
A fire has badly damaged a thatched cottage near Stowmarket. | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
About 70 firefighters spent most of last night | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
It is believed to have started in a wood burner. | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
Crews were alerted just before 10pm by the owners who heard a smoke | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
Last year we told you about the small cardboard boxes | :10:05. | :10:15. | |
given to new mothers at Colchester Hospital | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
to help reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
The idea is to stop babies rolling on to their tummy. | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
The experiment appears to be working. | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
Midwife Tracy demonstrating to new parents Jenny and Stuart how to use | :10:26. | :10:39. | |
their baby box. Baby Poppy, less than 24-hour gold will sleep in this | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
cardboard box to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome. The | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
idea is simple, besties in Finland in the 1930s, the baby is based on | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
its back in the box, preventing it from rolling onto its tummy which | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
could cause the Internet to stop breathing. A lot of families are | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
telling us that if they have got a Moses basket, if they have got a | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
baby, they will use these bands, they are there in front of them and | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
encouragement their baby done and not to co-sleep with their babies. | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
In the eight years leading up to 2014, 221 babies in the east have | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
lost the rights to sudden infant death syndrome. Since the boxes were | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
introduced at the hospital a year ago, 700 have been handed out to new | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
parents in the hope of reducing that risk. It is a safe place for a child | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
to sleep, to rest but I think the most important part as well is the | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
basic but yet vital information that you get in the box as well. The | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
first-time parents, I think it is a wonderful idea. Will you use it? We | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
are definitely going to give it a go. I have got a Moses basket as | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
well and I'm sure she will have a preference. It is good in an | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
emergency as well. Colchester Hospital was the first in the region | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
to launch these baby boxes. They are now being rolled out our hospitals | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
in mid-Essex and Norfolk this spring. The baby Poppy, it is almost | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
time to lead the maternity ward. Her parents hoping for a good nights | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
sleep and a chance to try out the baby box in the comfort of their own | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
home. Gorgeous. will be spending 24 hours reporting | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
live from Ipswich Hospital They will be talking | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
to patients and staff in A You can follow live updates | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
on the web page for BBC Suffolk. Click on to bbc.co.uk/suffolk, we'll | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
have a full report on that tomorrow. You're watching Look East | :12:41. | :12:53. | |
with Susie and me. Stay with us for our special guest - | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
the man who invented the Alex has got the weather | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
and a new search begins in Essex It's Day Three of the Look East | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
Referendum Road Trip. we are re-visiting the places | :13:05. | :13:14. | |
we went to in June to find out what people | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
think about Brexit. and last night went | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
to Northamptonshire. Tonight, we take the road | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
to Cambridgeshire where there are concerns around | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
the availability of labour While in Silicon Fen, the focus | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
is more on where to recruit Hannah Olsson is at the wheel | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
for tonight's report. On the road in the Fens, | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
it may seem a long way from Westminster but the effects | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
of Brexit are far reaching. And even here the debate over | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
the EU is still growing. 7000 people in Cambridgeshire | :13:47. | :13:55. | |
work in farming, growing the food that ends up | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
in our supermarkets. 8000 tonnes of leeks | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
a year are grown by this farm and they rely on migrant | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
workers to pick them. But after the Brexit vote, | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
coming to the UK is no longer the first choice | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
for many Eastern Europeans. Most of them, you know, | :14:10. | :14:21. | |
they like to go more to Europe countries, | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
like Sweden, Denmark, because Brexit | :14:24. | :14:24. | |
and they are thinking of the future, That's why they are taking | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
a different kind of choice and the After harvesting, | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
the leeks arrive here But in the future, will there | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
be enough workers to keep our supermarket | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
trolleys full of produce? We're trying to make as much | :14:38. | :14:46. | |
as we possibly can and apply technology where we can | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
but if we can't find the jobs, the workers to fulfil our jobs, | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
we will go and find the workers which means we will | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
take our business abroad. It's not just workers | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
that farmers are concerned about, there is also | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
changes to subsidies. They have got to sort out trade, | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
where that has got to be, where the Labour is going to come from so we | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
can anticipate, from that subsidies to make us more productive, more | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
technically efficient in the future. At the moment, the government has | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
promised subsidies will be matched until 2020. But after that, there | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
are no guarantees. From farming to pharmaceuticals, in Cambridge, | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
developing drugs is big business. When pharmaceutical giant moved to | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
this camp later this year, it will become one of the leading medical | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
research centres in the wild, more than 17,000 people working here. It | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
is what we do with Brexit itself. You see the building behind me | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
represents real optimism about what Cambridge can become if it is a real | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
player in the global environment which has been since its inception. | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
There is a lot of optimism that can be greeted from it as well, it is | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
certainly not doom and gloom and you don't feel that in Cambridge at all. | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
That option -- opinion is not shared by many. There are still questions | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
what the pharmaceutical industry will look like after Brexit. He at | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
the outcomes research UK drug discovery Institute, they are | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
developing the dementia drugs of the future. Like the farm, they have | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
questions over funding and immigration. They also want to make | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
sure there are no issues with drug regulations. The moment we do that | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
wrap the whole of Europe with the European medicines agency, if we | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
lose that agency, we will have to have our own process. I do not think | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
we know at the moment what that would look like. The concern that | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
people have is that we might find ourselves behind the rest of Europe | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
in our ability to access the most exciting new medicines. | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
Keeping cross-border trials running and collaborative with partners | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
overseas is what the scientific committees that is needed now to | :16:52. | :17:00. | |
keep it in the driving seat. -- scientific communities. | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
And tomorrow night, Andrew Sinclair will bring the mini to Norfolk | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
to get the views of people in fishing and farming. | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
And a new bicycle came on the market like nothing before it or since. | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
which is the subject tonight of a BBC documentary. | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
Released in 1970, it is arguably Raleigh's | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
Motoring journalist Mark Hughes got one | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
There was just no way once you've seen that as a | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
ten-year-old kid, there was no way you couldn't have that. | :17:37. | :17:47. | |
It was just lust, that is the only way you could | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
Grown men still talk about that name back. Tom Curran is the man who | :17:52. | :18:06. | |
designed the Chopper. He is in our Cambridge studio. Why do you think | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
it became so iconic? I ought to explain that in my design of it, I | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
wanted every project to be a huge success. I think the Chopper was a | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
bit unusual in that it was a bit unlike any other bike and it really | :18:29. | :18:36. | |
caught the imagination of children. I always meet people who either had | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
one or desperately wanted one. It just became a great success. We had | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
a lot of those in our newsroom today talking about it as well. What did | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
you do to come up with the idea? How did you come up with the idea, | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
especially of the saddle? The Raleigh, Raleigh needed to compete | :19:01. | :19:10. | |
with something in America. They came to me and asked me to design | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
something which would compete with this bike but had a different kind | :19:15. | :19:24. | |
of flavour. I was very keen to make it like a dragster with a big wheel | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
at the back and a small wheel at the front. I think that made it | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
different from any other bike. It had a lovely gear shift which | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
children liked a lot and the saddle was fun. It had make-believe springs | :19:39. | :19:50. | |
on it, you may notice. It was all about the looks, it was not | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
necessarily the best bicycle to ride but it was all about how it looked. | :19:55. | :20:05. | |
It... I am not sure I am quite with you. | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
I was just talking about the fact that the looks of it was so | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
important rather than what it was like as a right. -- ride. I have got | :20:15. | :20:30. | |
one in my home, I am not answering your question. I have got one in my | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
home and it belonged to my first-born who said a long time ago, | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
early 70s and it was restored by the Chopper club. I have got an | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
11-year-old grandson and he has got his eyes on it. He drove it down my | :20:53. | :21:02. | |
garden and went down some steps as well. Get me back on track, if you | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
will. You have invented so many things as well as the Chopper. | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
Including the also iconic marble run which I think both your children and | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
grandchildren have loved playing with. I am glad you mentioned the | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
marble run. I am so proud of that because it has given pleasure to | :21:28. | :21:37. | |
properly millions of children. -- Raleigh too. I thought of it in 1970 | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
and we made a prototype and it has been running ever since. I was one | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
of the people who love that as well. Thank you so much for talking to us, | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
Mr Karen. Thank you. It's cold and dark, | :21:53. | :22:02. | |
the shops are bursting and the chances are the finalists | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
will come from Essex, Today, the search for a new star got | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
underway in Essex on Clacton Pier. # Oh, I do like to be | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
beside the seaside # Oh, I do like to be | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
beside the sea #. If you want to find fame and fortune | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
on reality TV, this is where the X Factor journey starts - | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
auditions in the spring. Olly Murs, Matt Cardle | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
and Louisa Johnson are all In a room next door | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
to the bowling alley, the Clacton hopefuls are | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
trying their luck. I found out yesterday | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
so I was like, why not? # I'm leaning on a lamp | :22:51. | :22:59. | |
post on the corner Natalie Imbruglia | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
could be good, I think. Go on, give us a little | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
burst of that now. # I thought I saw | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
a man brought to life # He was warm, he came around | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
like he was dignified #. Waiting in the queue | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
for more than two hours is 28-year-old Toni Parker, | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
she works for Asda and has always For as long as she can remember, | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
Toni has had a stutter and would break down | :23:30. | :23:43. | |
in tears when asked No, it was always, I always used | :23:44. | :23:44. | |
to sing a lot as a child and do karaokes and everything and it was | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
always all OK, the singing. For the X Factor | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
audition, Toni sings an Alanis Morissette | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
song called Thank You. We can't film the | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
audition itself but... I have to wait either | :24:02. | :24:14. | |
for an e-mail before I know It is a long way between here | :24:15. | :24:29. | |
and the X Factor final at Wembley just before Christmas but if today | :24:30. | :24:41. | |
proves anything, it proves that this Mike Liggins, BBC | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
Look East, Clacton. He was desperate going. You could've | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
gone on. Let's get the weather. Blue sky today. 18 Celsius in Essex. | :24:51. | :25:12. | |
Beautiful scene here in Suffolk coastline and lots more lovely | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
photograph sent in today showing the fine weather. It is going to change | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
a little bit through tomorrow, more cloud around that ending the day on | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
a clear night. It is expected to ten quite misty as we go through the | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
night, down to around six Celsius. We start the day tomorrow with some | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
mist bad thing. This weather from coming in from the west will turn | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
things cloudy. It should be a bright bat for many of us, once the mist, | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
some good sunshine, particularly across eastern counties drain the | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
morning. Across western counties, the cloud coming in from the west so | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
it is going to cloud over and it will not be as warm as it was today. | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
Up to 12, 13 Celsius. A notice or breeze as well from the south-west. | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
The evening and overnight, some patchy rain but not expected to | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
amount to very much. A splash of rain for many others. And we are | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
getting towards the end of the week and into the weekend, looking | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
unsettled. Some rain later in the day on Friday, much of the day does | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
that drive but cloudy. This is how it shapes up for the next few days. | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
We get a cold night for tomorrow night, worth noting once that | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
weather front has me through. We are into cloudy forecast for much of the | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
day on Friday with some rain arriving later. Looking mostly for | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
here in the east in the weekend, temperatures lifting to mid teens. | :26:34. | :26:34. | |
Not so much of the sunshine. Thank you. We've had an e-mail to | :26:35. | :26:46. | |
from Karen to say she was the only girl who | :26:47. | :27:09. | |
'The UK has voted to leave the European Union | :27:10. | :27:13. |