:00:00. > :00:00.A boost for poultry farmers and nature reserves as the Government
:00:00. > :00:09.The chief veterinary officer says they were right to get tough.
:00:10. > :00:17.We've got an exclusive interview with the Olympic
:00:18. > :00:23.We feel for those as businesses were made much more difficult but without
:00:24. > :00:24.the restrictions we might have had a much greater problem.
:00:25. > :00:26.We've got an exclusive interview with the Olympic
:00:27. > :00:28.sprinter Nigel Levine just months after a motorbike accident
:00:29. > :00:42.When I realised I couldn't move, I realised this was a real bad.
:00:43. > :00:44.Britain's first female firefighter looks back on a trailblazing career.
:00:45. > :00:54.And the story behind the latest internet craze -
:00:55. > :01:10.First tonight: Bird flu restrictions eased at last.
:01:11. > :01:13.But Government experts warn poultry farmers they still need
:01:14. > :01:20.The strict rules were introduced in early December to try to protect
:01:21. > :01:23.birds against the H5N8 strain of avian flu.
:01:24. > :01:27.It's meant that all poultry have had to be kept indoors or under netting.
:01:28. > :01:30.But now the Chief Veterinary Officer says the risk is much lower -
:01:31. > :01:32.because migratory birds have moved on.
:01:33. > :01:44.We'll hear from him in a moment, after this from Alex Dunlop.
:01:45. > :01:47.They should be free range, but these chickens have never
:01:48. > :01:52.This is what chickens would do in the wild.
:01:53. > :01:56.The region's biggest free-range poulty producer has a million
:01:57. > :02:00.For four months they have all had to stay undercover.
:02:01. > :02:02.The birds may have been released today, but Defra say this
:02:03. > :02:05.Farmers are not out of the woods yet.
:02:06. > :02:09.As you can see from the way I am togged up, strict security
:02:10. > :02:11.measures are in place, and will be for the
:02:12. > :02:19.We have restrcted access to our farms.
:02:20. > :02:22.We are certainly not loosening our belts now and saying,
:02:23. > :02:24.thank goodness, this is all over and done it because it
:02:25. > :02:28.At this popular wildlife park nearby, a more colourful release,
:02:29. > :02:37.700 birds here have had to live under netting over winter.
:02:38. > :02:39.With every chance of bird flu could return next autumn,
:02:40. > :02:43.these businesses will have to think long term on how to deal with it.
:02:44. > :02:47.Should it become endemic, should it come back again, we need
:02:48. > :02:50.to be able to house our birds far quicker than we were able to,
:02:51. > :02:55.so that means probably leaving some of temporary structures we have
:02:56. > :02:58.in place now up, or even looking to make some of the more permanent.
:02:59. > :03:06.By now, many will have migrated, so the biggest threat has passed.
:03:07. > :03:09.There was only one outbreak of bird flu in the east at this time,
:03:10. > :03:16.Restrictions were then relaxed in the white areas
:03:17. > :03:23.It's meant free-range egg producer Daniel could put out,
:03:24. > :03:29.I think they have taking a compass, put it in a map map,
:03:30. > :03:31.and done circles wherever they have to like doing them.
:03:32. > :03:36.I think, as Daniel said, there is no bird flu at the present
:03:37. > :03:39.moment in East Anglia, so why are we being punished?
:03:40. > :03:44.Bird flu isn't new, of course, but it is a deadly strain that
:03:45. > :03:50.In a sector was ?120 million in east alone, they know all too well it
:03:51. > :03:56.will almost certainly return to our shores.
:03:57. > :04:05.Nigel Gibbens is the Chief Veterinary Officer.
:04:06. > :04:08.He told me that set beaded juice but it is vital porta producers maintain
:04:09. > :04:10.a high levels of security. I've been very impressed by the fact
:04:11. > :04:13.that despite the challenge we have only had seven cases
:04:14. > :04:15.across Great Britain And three in backyard
:04:16. > :04:21.flocks essentially. Generally, I think
:04:22. > :04:23.people are complying. Those that don't really
:04:24. > :04:27.must, and I hope they will be subject to pressure
:04:28. > :04:29.from their peers. We want to see the back of this
:04:30. > :04:35.disease and we want to be in a situation where we have already
:04:36. > :04:45.had our last case, but that is not There has been quite a lot of upset
:04:46. > :04:51.in a region of these high-risk areas which are now being lasted. While
:04:52. > :05:00.that the looked at if this situation we have cars? We consulted very
:05:01. > :05:08.carefully with ornithology experts to establish whether highest
:05:09. > :05:17.concentrations of aquatic world virds, which were high as risk would
:05:18. > :05:20.be. I'm up as a buffer around those areas of about five kilometres. Of
:05:21. > :05:23.course we feel for those whose businesses were made much more
:05:24. > :05:26.difficult by these measures, but without them we could have seen a
:05:27. > :05:31.much greater problem. It is important that the country as a
:05:32. > :05:37.whole does not have a widespread disease and as quickly as possible
:05:38. > :05:42.get back to normal domestically, but also been able to trade. A lot of
:05:43. > :05:45.people would like to see a long-term solution. This isn't the first time
:05:46. > :05:49.this has happened. It is like that are having a game. It could happen
:05:50. > :05:56.next winter. There's anything that can be done to helping along term?
:05:57. > :06:03.Farms need to think very carefully about how they operate. We have a
:06:04. > :06:06.tradition in this country to increase feelings birds. If they are
:06:07. > :06:11.close to large bodies of water, which is what we have experienced
:06:12. > :06:16.this year, they are at high risk. Farmers can look after themselves by
:06:17. > :06:23.choosing where they locate their birds and depending on best they can
:06:24. > :06:26.decide what sort of operation makes sense. I do confident everything is
:06:27. > :06:31.being done now to protect our farmers and poultry producers and if
:06:32. > :06:36.it returns next winter we will be in a stronger position? I think we
:06:37. > :06:39.should maintain those levels of security and disease management even
:06:40. > :06:46.when the threat has gone away and stop many to think for the long-term
:06:47. > :06:53.what systems are going to be sustainable. We will assist in
:06:54. > :06:56.maintaining surveillance and to nationally so that we can work with
:06:57. > :07:03.the farming sector again. Thank you very much.
:07:04. > :07:06.Three teenagers who were killed when their car crashed in Norfolk
:07:07. > :07:09.An inquest today was told the accident happened
:07:10. > :07:11.just over a week ago at Pulham Market near Diss.
:07:12. > :07:28.These teenagers lives were ended when their car crashed and burst
:07:29. > :07:33.into flames near the village of per the market. Now all that remains is
:07:34. > :07:39.bound to hedge is lined with others. Today, their families paid tribute.
:07:40. > :07:43.Karl, who worked as a farm hand was described as his family as a cheeky
:07:44. > :07:51.chappie who had a passion for banger racing and he brought home several
:07:52. > :07:55.trophies. Dominik's mother described him as beautiful, much loved person
:07:56. > :07:58.who will be greatly missed. Billy's family said from the day he was born
:07:59. > :08:04.he made everyone spell. He was one in a million. Today, the inquest
:08:05. > :08:09.into three of their death were open. Not for's senior coroner recorded
:08:10. > :08:13.the cause of death as multiple injuries caused by the crass. No
:08:14. > :08:18.information was given as to who was driving the vehicle and inquest was
:08:19. > :08:25.adjourned until July. A memorial to the tulip followed the accident and
:08:26. > :08:29.a book was set up in the local church. Last friend spontaneously
:08:30. > :08:33.gathered at an airfield and released Chinese lanterns in memory of the
:08:34. > :08:37.three teenagers. Teenagers that suddenly had a life cut short.
:08:38. > :08:41.More and more people are trespassing on railway tracks in this region.
:08:42. > :08:43.The latest figures from the British Transport Police
:08:44. > :08:45.show that most offenders are young people.
:08:46. > :08:48.And its during the school holidays that the number
:08:49. > :09:02.After stumbling across the tracks, this person dragged himself up onto
:09:03. > :09:11.the platform, struggling to get their legs out of the way, just in
:09:12. > :09:17.time. And here is fitted of another heart stopping you must. Network
:09:18. > :09:20.Rail and the British Transport Police say more people are
:09:21. > :09:23.trespassing than ever before and it is young people who are a slightly
:09:24. > :09:30.to take a risk. There are more incidents in the Easter and summer
:09:31. > :09:33.school holidays. Last year, 487 people were caught trespassing in
:09:34. > :09:39.the railways in a region. The year before it was the hundred and 82.
:09:40. > :09:47.Network Rail discredit and Chris as astonishing. Boys aged 14 to 16 are
:09:48. > :09:52.the biggest offenders. When I see these fitted I always gas. I'll
:09:53. > :09:57.think of the train drivers that can do anything. If you have it in
:09:58. > :10:00.travelling up to 100 mph, once the break is applied it can take up to a
:10:01. > :10:05.mile for that train to stop. They can't swerve like a can in a car was
:10:06. > :10:11.up I always feel for them. I hope that by releasing this fitted that
:10:12. > :10:17.people will see, do you know what? I am not going to do this any more.
:10:18. > :10:22.That could be me. This footage of a man hanging onto the back of it
:10:23. > :10:29.train was taking at Colchester. It isn't just tell sequels. Passengers
:10:30. > :10:42.who drop their phone or who cross the tracks who are on the wrong
:10:43. > :10:55.platform. Network rail to our train as they must live in Europe
:10:56. > :11:01.but, engineering works and to be something other bank holiday
:11:02. > :11:07.tradition and this weekend is no different. If you are using this
:11:08. > :11:18.line to get down to London, you will get as far as India it and then it
:11:19. > :11:20.is a bus to Liverpool. Detectives will be accepted on the Central line
:11:21. > :11:26.between Newbury Park and Liverpool Street. The work could affect other
:11:27. > :11:37.parts of the region, so the advice is to check before you travel.
:11:38. > :11:40.Alex will be looking ahead to the weather
:11:41. > :12:02.It's three months now since the Olympic sprinter
:12:03. > :12:04.Nigel Levine suffered a serious motorbike crash in Tenerife
:12:05. > :12:10.Speaking for this first about the accident,
:12:11. > :12:14.he accepts he will be out of contention for 18 months.
:12:15. > :12:17.But the man from Bedfordshire is determined he will be back,
:12:18. > :12:27.Nigel Levine, in crutches but among friends.
:12:28. > :12:30.Recovering and recuperating after a horrendous bike crash.
:12:31. > :12:34.An experience biker, he was sightseeing and Tenerife
:12:35. > :12:37.with his team-mate when a car swerved and hit them.
:12:38. > :12:41.When I realised I couldn't move, I was like, this
:12:42. > :12:48.And I asked James if he could move, and he said, no.
:12:49. > :12:58.First of all, when it happens, you don't believe it.
:12:59. > :13:00.Then you pinch yourself and you realise this
:13:01. > :13:07.Levine was on a team training camp when the accident happened.
:13:08. > :13:10.He had a biker's license and claimed that British Athletics didn't stop
:13:11. > :13:14.Levine broke his pelvis and was in hospital for a month.
:13:15. > :13:19.His team-mate James Ellington broke his pelvis and both his legs.
:13:20. > :13:22.I'm not angry any more because these things happen.
:13:23. > :13:32.There are certain things you can't avoid.
:13:33. > :13:35.I have just got to accept it and I have accepted what has
:13:36. > :13:37.happened, and I am grateful to be well and alive.
:13:38. > :13:40.Levine is a key member of Britain's relay team.
:13:41. > :13:43.He has featured in two Olympics and has won eight
:13:44. > :13:45.championship medals, the highlight being
:13:46. > :13:54.He is now out of competitive action for 18 months and is unsure
:13:55. > :13:59.I will be back on the international scene.
:14:00. > :14:01.I fully believe I will be back on the scene.
:14:02. > :14:05.It is going to be a tough one but it is not impossible.
:14:06. > :14:11.Levine is still deciding whether to prosecute the driver.
:14:12. > :14:18.For now, he is just grateful to be fighting back.
:14:19. > :14:21.When do you think Britain got its first female firefighter?
:14:22. > :14:28.Amazingly, the first firewoman working for a county fire brigade
:14:29. > :14:35.Her name is Jo Reynolds and she was based in Norfolk.
:14:36. > :14:37.Now, 35 years later, she's written a book
:14:38. > :14:41.We'll talk to her in a moment, but first Kevin Burch has been back
:14:42. > :14:51.to Thetford Fire Station, where it all began.
:14:52. > :14:53.When Joe started training is a junior
:14:54. > :14:54.firefighter in 1982 she was
:14:55. > :14:57.Thetford was her first base, Nigel Monument her first boss
:14:58. > :15:00.and today reunited again they reminisced about her first day.
:15:01. > :15:05.I thought they are just going to think who is this
:15:06. > :15:15.I had a good team, good group, and hopefully Joe would agree
:15:16. > :15:26.that she was welcomed with open arms.
:15:27. > :15:37.The image I love of Jo is her dashing here on her bicycle around
:15:38. > :15:51.the corner onto what was then a gravelled suffers. Jean was on their
:15:52. > :16:02.word for it. This was Joel on Mideast in 1987. As these cuttings
:16:03. > :16:07.show, it was big news, and await this next question is bit tells you
:16:08. > :16:10.much about attitudes at the time. What do you male colleagues make
:16:11. > :16:20.been endeavouring to the job i.e. Women driver? Given me a lot about
:16:21. > :16:23.it but they are not too bad really. We have got a female in charge at
:16:24. > :16:32.London Fire Brigade and at London please. It is a fantastic job. Every
:16:33. > :16:39.day is different and I think Jo will make the best of that. Jo remains
:16:40. > :16:46.modest about what proved a landmark Korea. She was asked by friends to
:16:47. > :16:50.write anger thought an eight bit. It truly as some story.
:16:51. > :17:04.Did they decide they want to open up to women? I think right timing was
:17:05. > :17:10.right in the 80s. It was a time of teams. And then onto me, they had
:17:11. > :17:15.advertised for junior firefighter was up I saw the advert and applied.
:17:16. > :17:22.My house had burnt down when I was a young thing. I just applied and...
:17:23. > :17:31.Yeah. I got in. I was the first woman day opened the door to. How
:17:32. > :17:34.many other women did you work with? Or lady cooks and things and
:17:35. > :17:40.people's ways but not to work with on-the-job. The others excepted you
:17:41. > :17:47.completely? You didn't make your life difficult in any way? Not.
:17:48. > :17:52.Training was difficult at times. It was the 80s and not very politically
:17:53. > :17:58.correct at times. Having said that, at the station Nidal and the guys,
:17:59. > :18:08.it was like a massive family. To be excepted you had to do all of the
:18:09. > :18:12.difficult things. Yes I joined as a firefighter not something in the
:18:13. > :18:18.middle. Proper firefighting, carrying the 12 stone dummy. You
:18:19. > :18:21.have to be able to do that anyway. Winning chemical protection suits
:18:22. > :18:26.and going down into sewers and onto ships. You did it for four years,
:18:27. > :18:34.but you didn't stop because he didn't enjoy it, you did love the
:18:35. > :18:42.work's I loved it. You can see how happy I was. By the time I was in my
:18:43. > :18:46.mid-30s I be able to is besetting this time a desk getting other
:18:47. > :18:52.people to run around. That was my plan. Then things changed as they do
:18:53. > :18:59.in life. As it stands today, less than 5% of firefighters and women. I
:19:00. > :19:05.was very surprised. No one is following you read. I hope other
:19:06. > :19:10.girls out there well. It is a wonderful place to work noted days
:19:11. > :19:21.at the same. It is fascinating, you learn so much. And people like
:19:22. > :19:23.firefighters. Glad to see and glad you enjoyed work back then. Thank
:19:24. > :19:25.you for having me. 100 years ago, thousands of young
:19:26. > :19:27.men from this region were taking part in the War
:19:28. > :19:30.on the Western front. More than a million had already
:19:31. > :19:32.been killed or injured The horrors of Passchendaele
:19:33. > :19:36.were just a few weeks away. To mark the anniversary,
:19:37. > :19:38.lots of schools have visited France and Belgium to teach children
:19:39. > :19:42.about the misery of trench warfare. But now there's an alternative
:19:43. > :19:45.closer to home. Practice trenches dug
:19:46. > :19:47.by soldiers at the time For many soldiers in
:19:48. > :19:55.the First World War, this was the reality of life
:19:56. > :19:57.on the front line. Many hours spent deep
:19:58. > :19:59.in the trenches. But before they were sent
:20:00. > :20:10.to the Western Front, they practiced digging those
:20:11. > :20:12.defences back at home. And here, in Norfolk,
:20:13. > :20:14.100 years on, some of those First of all, they would have taken
:20:15. > :20:18.a barbed-wire barrier Then they would dig a trench five
:20:19. > :20:22.yards long, stop for two yards, dig another one five yards long,
:20:23. > :20:28.stop for two yards and put soldiers in it, just to defend them
:20:29. > :20:31.if they were discovered. And then they'd dig the zig-zags
:20:32. > :20:34.and the supply trenches back. Those trenches were built
:20:35. > :20:35.by the Lovat Scouts, a Scottish regiment based
:20:36. > :20:38.in Hunstanton in 1915. By September of that year, they had
:20:39. > :20:42.been dispatched to Gallipoli. The rocky terrain there meant
:20:43. > :20:44.they were never able But now, the trenches that they dug
:20:45. > :20:52.here are being used to teach When they hold the things and see
:20:53. > :20:58.them and try them on, obviously, that gives a much better impression
:20:59. > :21:01.of what it would have been like than just seeing things
:21:02. > :21:06.in books or being told about it. Walking through the trenches,
:21:07. > :21:09.past boards displaying information and poems,
:21:10. > :21:12.gives the children a sense of what it was like to
:21:13. > :21:16.live on the front line. I feel bad for the soldiers that had
:21:17. > :21:19.to live in those mouldy They would be quite sad
:21:20. > :21:29.because they would be cold. I don't like the explosives
:21:30. > :21:34.and the scare of being round the corner and there was a whole
:21:35. > :21:37.army of Germans just At the entrance, we call them
:21:38. > :21:43.the Call Of Duty generation. All the little lads
:21:44. > :21:46.that jump up and down. You know, bang, bang,
:21:47. > :21:49.we're going into the trenches. By the time we got to board ten,
:21:50. > :21:53.you could shake a pin drop. Trenches payday key role
:21:54. > :21:55.on the battlefields Now the trenches left behind
:21:56. > :21:59.in his Norfolk fields are helping a new generation learn
:22:00. > :22:10.about the realities of war. Do you remember the
:22:11. > :22:12.Ice Bucket Challenge? Where people had cold
:22:13. > :22:14.water thrown over them The latest online craze involves
:22:15. > :22:22.a musician from Cambridge, a trombone and a famous
:22:23. > :22:27.bit of music. Jayne Murrill shares her love
:22:28. > :22:30.of the trombone with Stephen Sykes. When she discovered Stephen
:22:31. > :22:33.was seriously ill and needed an expensive drug to save his life,
:22:34. > :22:36.she turned to music. It's called The Acrobat, and thanks
:22:37. > :22:51.to Cambridge trombonist Jane, The Acrobat Challenge that struck
:22:52. > :23:14.a massive chord on the Thinking about the Ice Bucket
:23:15. > :23:19.Challenge, and The Acrobat is such a famous trombone solo,
:23:20. > :23:21.so it just popped I have been absolutely
:23:22. > :23:24.staggered by the response. I thought it might raise
:23:25. > :23:27.a couple of hundred pounds and I was dreading that
:23:28. > :23:31.I would be the only video up on the We have had pledges
:23:32. > :23:34.from all over the world It is to raise ?90,000
:23:35. > :23:38.for Stephen Sykes from Bristol, In fact, they have
:23:39. > :23:44.all been really good. Some of them have been so exciting
:23:45. > :23:48.that it is making my hair I met Stephen a couple of times many
:23:49. > :23:55.years ago when he was at the Welsh College, and a trombone
:23:56. > :24:00.quartet that I play in called Bones Apart had coached him,
:24:01. > :24:02.so I think I felt that as a fellow trombonist,
:24:03. > :24:06.that would be a great thing to do. Not just trombonists,
:24:07. > :24:10.it is all types of instrument - a global ensemble that has grown
:24:11. > :24:29.from just Jane and her trombone. We are going to have that music and
:24:30. > :24:46.head all day now. The weather. The Easter weekend is almost upon us
:24:47. > :24:49.and it is not looking as warm as last weekend. Perhaps not quite as
:24:50. > :24:53.good as it could be but some lovely weather around today's. Some
:24:54. > :24:59.beautiful blue skies around and Norfolk. Closing over a little bit.
:25:00. > :25:02.The satellite image shows we have started to get more cars coming in
:25:03. > :25:06.from the north-west as this weather feature is moving down across the
:25:07. > :25:11.country. Eventually, it will bring something later on tonight but it
:25:12. > :25:14.should stage I this evening. Generally, rather cloudy. The odd
:25:15. > :25:17.clear spell that should means damage is not dropping as low as last
:25:18. > :25:24.night. By the end of the night, a few spots of light drizzle coming
:25:25. > :25:30.and, perhaps quite a Dabbs sought to Good Friday. The pressure patent
:25:31. > :25:33.shows you that high pressure is dominating for our Easter weekend.
:25:34. > :25:38.North-western bees is going to be a feature which will make it feel a
:25:39. > :25:42.bit chilly. It will be a little bit chilly at times. This is our
:25:43. > :25:46.summary. There will be sunshine around, some rain and just a rather
:25:47. > :25:49.kill filter things, generally. Tomorrow, we have a south-westerly
:25:50. > :25:56.wind so things could get down to the teams. It should brighten up,
:25:57. > :26:01.perhaps even some sunshine. Depending prayer that is, we could
:26:02. > :26:07.record highs of 14 of 15 degrees. We see rain appearing in the afternoon,
:26:08. > :26:11.so Cecily later on in a day and into the evening, some rain moving and.
:26:12. > :26:20.That's where the frontal and to do cooler air. Some sunshine around and
:26:21. > :26:23.quite a fresh field designs on Saturday. It will feel a little bit
:26:24. > :26:27.chilly with the north-westerly breeze. A fine day on Monday.
:26:28. > :26:31.Perhaps isolated showers on Sunday but not too bad.