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after passengers made their way smoke-filled concourse.

Hello and welcome to a new week on Look East

how the pound's decline could give the region's tourism industry

We are expecting domestic tourism to grow because people will stay at

home more and more international tourists.

A million pounds to transform an eyesore

Terror outside the Towie nightclub in Essex

as a car mounts the pavement and ploughs into clubbers.

And these forgotten photographs taken by a woman almost a century

ago has inspired one of the most successful portrait fashion

photographers to come to Norfolk. The region's holiday industry

was urged today to seize the opportunities offered

by the rising cost A survey by Southend Airport found

that four out of five people expect the cost of their foreign holiday

to go up as a result of the vote in the referendum

to leave the European Union. A third of people who took

part in the survey said they were considering a trip outside

the EU to make their Before the referendum last year

a pound would buy you 1.31 euros. today but it does mean a week

in Spain is a bit more expensive. 4000 people have come to call

Chester zoo. We have been voted by trip advisor

as the second best zoo in the UK and the second best in Europe. We cater

for everyone including youngsters. It is hands-on than they can meet

the animals. People staying for their vacation

look set to continue. Influences such as the Brexit and the weaker

pound. I think that is going to be really

positive. There are expecting domestic tourism to grow because

people will be staying at home more and international visitors to come

more. We have been running campaigns to attract people over because of

the weaker pound. That will clearly draw people over.

We tend to travel in this country in the caravan.

We still go to Spain. We go to Salut. The children love this would

back it. It's not put us off. Holidaying in Europe could become

more expensive. 79% of the people in the UK believe

there is good to be a cost increase in European holidays as a result of

Brexit. We are launching new routes to Croatia this summer. I think will

be -- think people will move away from the traditional destinations as

the impact of currency exchange rate becomes apparent.

I could call Chester zoo, they are enjoying the sunshine. This is the

most popular paid for attraction in the region. If the good weather

continues throughout the holiday season and exchange rates remain the

same, thousands of people could choose to soak up attractions like

this rather than head overseas. Well, tourism bosses in Suffolk

were also celebrating today after a plan to regenerate

a neglected part of Lowestoft A million pounds is being granted

to transform Ness Point, This is Ness Point,

Britain's most easterly point. Not really lovely on any day

if I'm being absolutely honest. You've got the gas holder, the

Birds Eye factory in the distance. The money is going to be spent here,

also on the promenade, which you can see behind me,

and at North Downs about a quarter I've been coming to Ness Point

for 20 years and it never seems to get much prettier but maybe

?1 million might just Plans are still a bit

sketchy but there could be Signage along the promenade will be

improved and, at North Deans, a cultural events space

will be created. This is fantastic

news for Lowestoft. It comes hard on the heels

of a couple of other successes. This will enable us to invest

to make a real difference here. But is all this going

to be money well spent? We found some very

mixed opinions today. There's nothing really that

much here, is there? It's a shame, really,

cos it's like Land's End. You don't want to commercialise it

as much as that but that's nice. Think I could find better

things to do with that, I think there's a lot

of things we can do with Designer Wayne Hemingway

was in Lowestoft recently. He's helping to regenerate

the other end of town, But the man who made his name

with the fashion label Red Or Dead had advice which could apply

here as well. One of the things that

Wayne Hemingway said was that people love to take selfies these days

and do need a place to do that. People want to come here but are

often disappointed when they do. The million pounds can't come

soon enough, surely. And the timetable now, well,

details about that are also quite sketchy but the hope is that this

project can be completed Let's get the thoughts

of Duane Dibartolomeo who has just been named as the 2017

Visit England Tourism Superstar. It says you bring American-style

service. Does that mean we are bad at service or you're particularly

good at it? We have different styles. I mean

maybe a bit more brash and load. I will be yelling orders across the

kitchen but we both want to do the same thing, we want to get the job

done in the best way. A lot of the customer service I get here is

really top notch. But we are more reticent about

talking to strangers in this country.

That may be a stereotype for the English but I have honestly find the

complete opposite. That might just be a Norwich thing that people are

genuine and they are asking about me. It is not nosy, just genuine

interest. If you have service, the rest will follow.

And if people come to this region, will we be ready to receive them?

I think we are. We have a hotel and every little bit of seaside there is

a notion and a hotel. Here you have some of the beautiful ocean and

there are amazing restaurants, not just ours.

Your number one on trip advisor for places to eat in Norwich. An

American Italian making fish and chips. What is all that about?

He went away and went to uni in London and he came back and fell

right back into it. We put our money into it. I stay in the front, he

cooks and is amazing. People are saying that going on

holiday will be more expensive. Do you agree? I don't think so. If

you can find the right places to go. We have visit Norwich which gets the

world out and has been promoting the area. Little shops and independent

places will be key to helping these people have an experience that is

key to the region. Thank you very much and

congratulations. Thank you.

Other news now and Essex Police were continuing their search today

for a hit and run driver who ploughed into revellers

It happened near the Sugar Hut in Brentwood the venue made

famous by the TV show The Only Way Is Essex.

Police say it happened after a disturbance in the early

hours of yesterday involving about 20 people.

Saturday night, just after 3am, a car mounts the kerb and drives

Three people were struck by a hit and run driver during a brawl

outside the club made famous by The Only Way Is Essex.

The Sugar Hut was a key venue in the show that started the careers

of stars like Joey Essex and Amy Childs.

Police said three people were hurt, one with serious injuries.

Eyewitnesses couldn't believe what they saw.

We were coming out the Sugar Hut and they were maybe

100 people on the pavement and they started spilling out

onto the road and then it was just like a riot.

The Sugar Hut security tried to break it up but they were

A couple of people were really badly hurt so I phoned

The following morning, police patrolled the high street.

They described it as an isolated incident and are urging anyone

with mobile phone footage to contact them.

You were actually inside the Sugar Hut when this

Were people aware of what was going on?

What's the latest on the three people who were hurt?

The injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. Police have asked

anyone with mobile phone footage to get in touch as soon as is.

Fire investigators are trying to find out what caused a fire

Ten fire engines and about 60 firefighters were called

to Pilson Green near South Walsham last night.

Water was pumped from a nearby broad to fight the flames.

Anglian Water says it's investing half a billion pounds over

It will spend 17 million pounds on tackling leaks 48 million

on maintaining its 24,000 miles of water pipes and 1 million

on a scheme in Newmarket looking at new technology.

They will also be spending money on tackling so called fatbergs

in sewers which are caused when people pour fats

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Over the last few weeks in Look East we have told

you about the challenges facing our GP surgeries.

Everything from finding enough staff to meeting the rising

Well, today news of practical steps being taken by GPs in Suffolk

One in five of the county's GPs are forming a new partnership.

The aim is to reduce bureaucracy and paperwork allowing GPs more time

to see patients and making the job more attractive to new recruits.

I have a few moles around that have started to concern me.

Here they are proud of the quality of care they give.

But they also recognise that being small has its downsides.

Which is why the surgery is joining 11 others in a partnership.

It will employ all the staff from all the practices,

giving them the chance to use their collective muscle

The simple things from the accountancy costs to the human

resources department, getting medical indemnity,

our insurance that sort of protects us from litigation,

They are all things could be taken from us in day-to-day management

but also financially saving for the practices.

Half of all GPs in Suffolk say they intend to retire

One sixth within the next five years.

For a practice like this that poses a real challenge.

It is that pressure, not budgets, that is really behind

the new partnership called Suffolk Primary Care.

It is hoped staff in future will have the opportunity

for more flexible working and better career progression,

making them less likely to leave or retire early.

There are specialist nurses within practices

and if I could perhaps tap into those opportunities to then

spent time with those nurses who are working with their practice

If we are offering something that they can come back and learn

The partnership insists patients will see the same GPs,

the same familiar faces and surgeries

It is, they say, a first for Suffolk.

And if successful a model others may well choose to follow in the future.

Tom Youngs is former footballer whose clubs included

Cambridge United and Northampton Town.

His world was turned upside down two and a half years ago

when he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

It's a condition that affects the central nervous system

and the symptoms can be very different in different people.

At first Tom struggled to talk about it the disease but that

changed and now he's written a book to help other people.

Our sports editor Jonathan Park has been to meet him.

That's me celebrating my first ever goal at the Abbey.

It was against Barnet in what was then called

Tom Youngs can still remember every goal he scored in a ten year

playing career that started at Cambridge United

It is while playing for the Ewes that Tom enjoyed his best moment.

This goal against Millwall in the FA Cup one of the 56

For anybody getting the chance to play football and then

at weekends getting the chance to run out in front of a few

thousand people and try and do your best is just

Life now for Tom revolves around his job as an accountant

and three special people in his life.

Wife Michelle and daughters Orla and Hannah.

What wasn't part of the plan was being diagnosed with multiple

Initially, Tom had struggled with his eyesight and then came

When you found out you had MS, how did you feel?

It's very difficult to get your head round because everybody who has MS,

it affects them in different ways so there is no standard, this is

MS is a disease of the central nervous system.

There is no cure but it is not life-threatening.

We've done a lot of research and there are people out

So at the moment it is just keeping our fingers crossed

It is hard and I think the girls know that something is a bit

different than normal but they are coping

really well and we just do our best, I guess.

Tom wants to share his story to help others who are diagnosed with MS.

He struggled at first to talk about it,

It's an uncertain future, I imagine, in terms of how things

I mean, currently I had a bit of a relapse about three weeks ago

and I'm struggling a bit with my left leg so walking

When the ball was hitting the back of the net

It has given him a platform to share his thoughts,

which might help others faced with a similar situation.

But tonight, we can show you an Egg House.

It floats and it's moored on the Grand Union Canal.

It's called the Exbury Egg and it's the work of Stephen Turner.

It's all part of the celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary

Welcome to the Grand Union Canal. It is a beautiful evening but

everything is not quite as it seems. This giant egg is part studio, part

gallery and part home and here is the man who created it, Stephen

Turner. We are here at the Exbury Egg which

is a large living space that we used to study the natural world.

Can we come in? You can feel it when you coming, can't you?

Every little ripple. It sends you to sleep that night.

Can you describe it? At its widest it is three and a half metres in

diameter. It is really comfortable to be in.

And you've got lots of artefacts. It's full of curiosities. Things I

have phoned and made, made from natural materials. Nests and eggs of

different sorts that we hatched. We incubated chickens. Are you

opening up to the public? Yes, we had a community day

yesterday and people are coming in all the time.

What do you make of it? It's amazing. I can't believe it is

floating. I'd love my dad to make one.

You'd have to see it at to believe it. What he has created is

absolutely mind blowing. Well worth a day out.

It is an impressive structure and you can see that this is Stephen's

home and he is living in basic conditions. You can come and see

this over the next month and it is all part of the Milton Keynes

50-year celebrations. We love the idea of incubating

chickens in an egg. A BBC documentary tonight will chart

the contribution of a remarkable Olive Edis who lived in Norfolk

was a real pioneer at the beginning It wasn't just that she was a woman

in a man's profession She broke new ground in her technique

and she went on to capture a huge range of personalities on camera

from aristocrats Ryan King is one of the most

successful fashion photographers and tonight in a documentary he looks at

a photographer that laid foundations for what they do today. She is Olive

Edis, the pioneering women back in the early 19 hundredths. Olive Edis

would spend her family holidays here when she was young and later open

her first exhibition. She was ahead of her time. Experimenting with the

first commercial colour process. By making most of her money from higher

earning clients in London, she was able to fund this studio and

photograph more local subject back in Norfolk. So why haven't we heard

more from Olive Edis before and where his/her work now? This museum

is home to the largest collection of her work.

I think from her death, her story has become a bit lost. The years I

have been working with the collection I have noticed her

popularity growing again and I have been boring people in pubs about her

for years. She deserves to be very well-known. I think she is one the

most important Norfolk residents. In 1975 she died at the age of 79.

No burried in sharing and cemetery under her married name, most people

don't even realise such an important lady was eaten here. But tonight,

and hopes to expose the forgotten photographs which have been hidden

away for over a century. And you can see that documentary

about Olive Edis later this evening. It's called Fishermen to Kings

tonight at 7:30pm on BBC One. We had some glorious weather over

the weekend but I'm thinking we are now going to get some snow because

it is April. I don't think so but it was a misty

and murky start today. Some people did get up to 17 degrees in the best

of the sunshine. There was a fair bit of that around this afternoon.

The only exception was on parts of the East coast with was an area of

mist and murk that lingered. Temperatures struggled to get out of

single figures. Mist and mark around especially towards the coast tonight

but eventually that thickens up and light and patchy rain coming

courtesy of the weak cold front. Quite chilly tonight but once the

cloud has thickened up we are looking at these kind of values by

the end of the night. Mainly light south-westerly winds. Tomorrow, high

pressure trying to build on and it will do so eventually we have this

cold front lingered for much of the Day so it will be rather cloudy and

we're going to have some outbreaks of light and patchy rain. I think

there will be a lot of dry weather around but not much sunshine. Is

that front clears away, we will see the winds turning more northerly

sword will feel noticeably cooler especially later on in the day. That

is Tuesday. On Wednesday, the high pressure starts to build on and

control our weather. It means it's good to be largely financed try. I

do think the computer is underestimating the amount of cloud

for Wednesday. That high-pressure looks like it is going to stay with

us right away through the week and into the weekend so on her Thursday

perhaps some mist and fog to start with but that should clear and we

should enjoy some spells sunshine. Again I don't think there is enough

cloud on this map or on the Friday chart. I think there will be more

cloud around but judging that over the next few days will be pretty

tricky. That fine and dry weather should continue into the weekend

with a dry Saturday and Sunday largely dry with just the small risk

of rain. For many of us will stay dry until Monday.

Once the computer discovers that it doesn't agree with Julie, there is

going to be trouble. Goodbye.