:00:11. > :00:11.Good evening. for the news where you are.
:00:12. > :00:14.Travellers parked illegally near the seafront at Walton-on-the-Naze
:00:15. > :00:17.in Essex could face court action to force them to move.
:00:18. > :00:18.Caravans have been on Bell House Meadow
:00:19. > :00:21.on Eastern Esplanade since Tuesday - with more arriving yesterday.
:00:22. > :00:30.A sunny start to the bank holiday at Walton-on-the-Naze;
:00:31. > :00:32.businesses hope good weather will bring day-trippers flocking.
:00:33. > :00:35.But not everyone here welcomes THESE visitors.
:00:36. > :00:36.The first caravans arrived on Tuesday -
:00:37. > :00:39.this morning there were 14, parked up on a council-owned
:00:40. > :00:46.The council describes it as an authorised encampment.
:00:47. > :00:48.I've just been on the site to speak to the travellers,
:00:49. > :00:51.none of them wanted to be interviewed on camera,
:00:52. > :00:54.but one of them told me the reason they're here is because it's close
:00:55. > :00:57.to Harwich where you can catch the ferry over to Holland,
:00:58. > :01:00.and he said six of the caravans will be leaving here today to catch
:01:01. > :01:07.They're on land that's owned by the council,
:01:08. > :01:12.They have been in there for showers, and paid for their showers
:01:13. > :01:15.like anybody else, and it seems that they've kept the site fairly tidy.
:01:16. > :01:18.We've been round this morning, handed out some black bags for them
:01:19. > :01:20.to put their rubbish in, and we will collect
:01:21. > :01:25.Also in Essex earlier this week, other travellers faced another
:01:26. > :01:29.The family that owns these plots, near Basildon, put mobile homes
:01:30. > :01:31.on them despite a court injunction banning it.
:01:32. > :01:33.They'll be sentenced at the High Court next month,
:01:34. > :01:38.after admitting being in contempt of court.
:01:39. > :01:40.Meanwhile, back in Walton, the first travellers to arrive
:01:41. > :01:42.here have already been served a direction to leave,
:01:43. > :01:45.giving them 24 hours to move on, but they ignored it.
:01:46. > :01:53.If they're still here next week, court action will be taken.
:01:54. > :01:55.The former owners of Bernard Matthews have been
:01:56. > :01:57.criticised for rejecting a buyout offer which would have
:01:58. > :02:05.Letters released by the Work and Pensions Committee show that
:02:06. > :02:09.Rutland Partners opted for a deal which gave them more money,
:02:10. > :02:10.but offloaded its pension responsibilities onto taxpayers.
:02:11. > :02:18.The pension scheme has 700 members, and a deficit of ?75 million.
:02:19. > :02:21.Suffolk Police have released a video of a carer stealing war medals, cash
:02:22. > :02:26.The incidents took place over a five-year period.
:02:27. > :02:28.Sonia Maisonave, from Essex Road in Lowestoft, has been
:02:29. > :02:36.Manor Court Homecare says she betrayed the trust of everyone.
:02:37. > :02:40.A man has been charged with the rape, kidnapping
:02:41. > :02:42.and imprisonment of a woman in Luton.
:02:43. > :02:45.Police were called to a property in Putteridge Road on Wednesday,
:02:46. > :02:47.after concerns were raised about a woman's safety.
:02:48. > :02:49.Joel Nestor, who's 39 and from Tottenham,
:02:50. > :02:56.Four derelict houses have been completely destroyed
:02:57. > :03:04.Local councillors in the area are now calling for landowners
:03:05. > :03:06.with empty properties to do more to secure them.
:03:07. > :03:10.In the early hours of this morning, four derelict properties in Southend
:03:11. > :03:17.An aerial platform was used by firefighters to put out
:03:18. > :03:25.This morning, the full scale of the damage could be seen.
:03:26. > :03:28.The cause is believed to have been a small deliberate fire in one
:03:29. > :03:30.This isn't the first time these derelict
:03:31. > :03:36.Filmed last year, locals tell me that these buildings were often
:03:37. > :03:39.broken into by squatters in the area.
:03:40. > :03:42.Local councillors say that property owners should do more
:03:43. > :03:54.If necessary, boarding it up and charging the developer the cost
:03:55. > :04:00.of making it secure - that way round, we get developers
:04:01. > :04:02.taking proper action against their properties
:04:03. > :04:08.and their planning permissions that they've got, rather than leaving
:04:09. > :04:11.them in a derelict site and causing all sorts of problems.
:04:12. > :04:19.Police are now investigating, to work out exactly what happened.
:04:20. > :04:21.A new centre for creative businesses in Northampton has
:04:22. > :04:24.The Vulcan Works was an iron foundry which manufactured equipment
:04:25. > :04:33.Councillors have approved plans for it to be converted into a centre
:04:34. > :04:36.to house new businesses linked to the arts and creative industries.
:04:37. > :04:38.A fly-on-the wall documentary series which follows
:04:39. > :04:42.Bedfordshire Police has been nominated for a Bafta award.
:04:43. > :04:44.24 Hours In Police Custody has been nominated for the prestigious awards
:04:45. > :04:49.The programme follows the work carried out by officers
:04:50. > :04:57.and staff across a range of investigations and incidents.
:04:58. > :05:00.On to football now, and there's been a full Good Friday programme
:05:01. > :05:03.In the Championship, Norwich lost 3-1 at home to playoff
:05:04. > :05:06.hopefuls Fulham despite them only having ten men, Cameron Jerome
:05:07. > :05:14.In League One, Southend scored 4 away to Chesterfield,
:05:15. > :05:17.leaving them just a point away from the play-off places.
:05:18. > :05:20.Elsewhere, MK Dons failed to win against Scunthorpe,
:05:21. > :05:24.and Peterborough stay mid-table after losing at home to Fleetwood.
:05:25. > :05:32.Colchester did well to draw against top of the table Doncaster.
:05:33. > :05:34.Grimsby got two past Cambridge, Brad Halliday grabbing a late
:05:35. > :05:38.Luton Town remain fourth in the table after they drew
:05:39. > :05:40.at home to Leyton Orient, and it was the second
:05:41. > :05:42.defeat in a week for Stevenage against Morecambe.
:05:43. > :05:45.Ipswich Town play later this evening; the Blues are
:05:46. > :05:48.After today's other games they're just six points
:05:49. > :05:55.They have a tough match against title-chasers
:05:56. > :06:01.We still need points, I know it's a tough ask
:06:02. > :06:03.for the teams below us, and they'll be playing
:06:04. > :06:06.of course at three o'clock, some of them before us,
:06:07. > :06:08.but we want to do it ourselves, not rely on anybody else.
:06:09. > :06:13.And we've got an opportunity this weekend.
:06:14. > :06:16.We'll bring you a full round-up of the goals in tomorrow's bulletin.
:06:17. > :06:19.It's not been a bad start to the bank holiday weather-wise -
:06:20. > :06:24.Sara is here with the weather for the Easter weekend.
:06:25. > :06:30.Things are going slightly downhill at the moment, and we've had a lot
:06:31. > :06:35.of dry weather around today but quite a lot of cloud as well. There
:06:36. > :06:41.were some breaks at times when it doesn't fill -- didn't feel too bad,
:06:42. > :06:46.but this rain add to the west and North West, heading our way at the
:06:47. > :06:51.moment courtesy of a frontal system. So it turns more unsettled in the
:06:52. > :06:55.coming hours, bits and pieces of rain thinning and breaking, and
:06:56. > :06:58.behind it, they called north-westerly wind for tomorrow.
:06:59. > :07:00.But it's through this evening that rain comes through, is
:07:01. > :07:05.clearing away by breakfast tomorrow clearing away by breakfast tomorrow
:07:06. > :07:09.morning, the temperature is holding up in high single figures. Any last
:07:10. > :07:14.bit of cloud clears away and we get bit of cloud clears away and we get
:07:15. > :07:17.sunshine coming through, but that is tempered by this north-westerly
:07:18. > :07:22.wind. If you can get away from the wind and shelter a bit in the
:07:23. > :07:26.sunshine, not too bad at 13 or 14 degrees but it will be cool in that
:07:27. > :07:35.win. It's the best day though of the weekend, a change for Easter itself.
:07:36. > :07:41.-- Easter Sunday. It looks like we will start dry, but pretty chilly
:07:42. > :07:45.for your Easter Sunday, and then we have got rain spreading in. So the
:07:46. > :07:49.headlines for the coming day, we've got rain through this evening and
:07:50. > :07:52.then a cool wind for tomorrow, but there will be bright weather and
:07:53. > :07:54.rain further east -- rain for Sunday.
:07:55. > :07:57.That's all for now - I'll be back with the late news
:07:58. > :07:59.tonight at tweny past ten and our bulletin tomorrow
:08:00. > :08:17.To think that this time last weekend, temperatures were in the
:08:18. > :08:23.20s. They got up to 25.5. Much cooler across the country this
:08:24. > :08:26.weekend. And this headline is true for the weather next week. That cool
:08:27. > :08:31.air stream from the north will persist. The mild air tries to get
:08:32. > :08:36.in, but never really wins. What have we got for the rest of today? The
:08:37. > :08:40.rain we had across Wales earlier will move southwards, but once the