:00:00. > :00:00.Hello and welcome to the start of a new week on Look East.
:00:07. > :00:08.He came, he saw, he failed to conquer.
:00:09. > :00:10.The millionaire party donor pulls out of the election
:00:11. > :00:16.They go to a hustings and they become the local MP.
:00:17. > :00:18.Former Colchester MP Sir Bob Russell says he's coming out of retirement
:00:19. > :00:23.Worries on the region's farms as the Met Office confirms this
:00:24. > :00:32.Later I'm in Newmarket, the home of horse racing talking to a sporting
:00:33. > :00:43.great, Lester Piggott. It's been a day of twists and turns
:00:44. > :00:47.in the General Election with one of Britain's biggest party donors
:00:48. > :00:50.changing his mind over This morning, Arron Banks went
:00:51. > :00:55.to Clacton to persuade Ukip supporters to choose him
:00:56. > :00:58.as their candidate on June 8th. But, within the past hour, Mr Banks
:00:59. > :01:02.has withdrawn from the race. He's a multi-millionaire
:01:03. > :01:05.who made his fortune in insurance. But it seems the combination
:01:06. > :01:09.of wealth and influence failed Mr Banks said a short while ago:
:01:10. > :01:15."I have no intention of standing in the way of hard-working activists
:01:16. > :01:19.who are the soul of the party." Our political correspondent
:01:20. > :01:32.Andrew Sinclair reports. If you hours ago, Aaron Banks
:01:33. > :01:36.appeared to be on a roll, posing for photographs and meeting voters.
:01:37. > :01:41.Archer impression so far? I'm enjoying it, everyone has a sense of
:01:42. > :01:45.humour which they will need if I am standing. He is well-known as the
:01:46. > :01:50.man who bankrolled Ukip, a close friend of Nigel Farage, the media
:01:51. > :01:53.were very excited about him standing there. But there was an obvious
:01:54. > :02:01.problem. Do you know who Aaron Banks is? Who? No idea. No, no. An
:02:02. > :02:08.article, I believe, in the local paper mentioned him. His day began
:02:09. > :02:12.meeting party members over sandwiches and crisps at a partial
:02:13. > :02:16.tell. He told them he wanted Ukip to win here again and he wanted to be
:02:17. > :02:20.the candidate. They told him they already had a local person in the
:02:21. > :02:26.frame and afterwards when we spoke, this was playing on his mind.
:02:27. > :02:29.There's a good local candidate. I'm not going to rush in here and take
:02:30. > :02:35.over from here so let's wait and see what happens. If there is a local
:02:36. > :02:39.candidate, you will support him? What I said was, Clacton is Ukip was
:02:40. > :02:43.'s another one seat and we will be financially supporting him come hell
:02:44. > :02:47.or high water. Obviously there are unquestionable benefits to somebody
:02:48. > :02:53.like him coming into Latin and being the candidate. His money? That would
:02:54. > :02:59.be among them but he also has knowledge and experience and you
:03:00. > :03:03.cannot ignore that. What also came out was the need perhaps for a local
:03:04. > :03:06.element. In the last hour, he has issued a statement saying it would
:03:07. > :03:09.be wrong but him to stand in the wake of a good liberal candidate and
:03:10. > :03:15.he has promised the local party has full support. The question now is,
:03:16. > :03:22.can Ukip when again in Captain? I think they will, yes. After the last
:03:23. > :03:28.one when everybody had leaflets in their garden voting Ukip. In this
:03:29. > :03:33.area, I believe they do have a chance. I think Douglas will win
:03:34. > :03:37.because he is a good local MP. I don't think it was the Ukip factor
:03:38. > :03:42.so I think it is false to say this is a Ukip very. For Aaron Banks, it
:03:43. > :03:44.has been embarrassing today but at least he got an ice cream out of it.
:03:45. > :03:50.Let's have a word with our political correspondent.
:03:51. > :03:57.Looking at the amount of media attention Aaron Banks got today, if
:03:58. > :04:00.he had stood as Ukip's candidates, Clacton and Ukip would have been
:04:01. > :04:04.centrestage and would have got a lot of attention out of it but it was
:04:05. > :04:08.very clear that he came away with a clear message that the party was
:04:09. > :04:14.united and united behind a local person and he will remember that in
:04:15. > :04:18.2014 when others cars well defected to Ukip, it split the local party
:04:19. > :04:31.that had a local candidate ready to go but he was tossed aside so he
:04:32. > :04:34.will remember that. Ukip does OK out of this. The local party gets his
:04:35. > :04:38.money, which they will be pleased about that secondly and more
:04:39. > :04:42.importantly, Aaron Banks has pledged to support the Ukip. A few months
:04:43. > :04:46.ago, he was talking about forming his own party. There were many in
:04:47. > :04:50.Ukip who were worried that he could really cause some problems in this
:04:51. > :04:53.election. He is now back on board with Ukip and in the Ukip hierarchy
:04:54. > :04:54.tonight, many people will be very happy.
:04:55. > :04:57.In other political news today, the former Liberal Democrat MP
:04:58. > :04:59.for Colchester, Sir Bob Russell, confirmed he would be trying
:05:00. > :05:10.Sir Bob, who's now 71, lost in 2015 to the Conservative's Will Quince.
:05:11. > :05:18.Sir Bob Russell at the canned in 2015, knowing he had lost the seat
:05:19. > :05:24.he had held for so long. I was swept in on a national tide and stuck
:05:25. > :05:31.there for former general collections and I have been swept out on a
:05:32. > :05:34.national tide. But now aged 71, he wants to make a return to
:05:35. > :05:36.Westminster. He has announced he is standing again as the Liberal
:05:37. > :05:42.Democrat candidate in the General Election. I have the experience in
:05:43. > :05:47.abundance, I have the enthusiasm in abundance so I think that's a
:05:48. > :05:53.winning formula. Colchester is not a Tory town, it's got a Tory MP
:05:54. > :06:00.because of the 2015 General Election and too many people who were not
:06:01. > :06:04.Tories voted Labour or green. I think he did a good job, give him
:06:05. > :06:09.another go, experience is a good thing. Personally don't think MPs
:06:10. > :06:16.should be above 70, there should be a line trying to give younger people
:06:17. > :06:20.are chance. I would certainly vote for him. Do you think he's done a
:06:21. > :06:25.lot for this town over the years? Is, he has. Will Prince turned
:06:26. > :06:32.Colchester blue and he's convinced he can do it again, Sir Bob, or no
:06:33. > :06:36.support. We're making great progress. Full test now has a seat
:06:37. > :06:39.at the top table of government and people do want, I think, over the
:06:40. > :06:46.next five years, to see annex plan of action. What do you make of his
:06:47. > :06:50.decision to stand again ) I was astonished to be honest. They say
:06:51. > :06:54.never go back, don't they? I think you should have taken that advice.
:06:55. > :06:58.We are confident that we have the money members in Colchester, about
:06:59. > :07:01.1,200 members and if we get them out on the street telling people what
:07:02. > :07:06.our policies are, we think we have a chance. He's been in a few general
:07:07. > :07:09.collections of years but in what could be a 3-way marginal seat, he
:07:10. > :07:11.knows he faces his toughest political battle yet.
:07:12. > :07:14.Farmers in the region say rain is desperately needed after the UK's
:07:15. > :07:20.In places, there's been no significant rainfall since February.
:07:21. > :07:30.Irrigation has begun months ahead of schedule to save some crops.
:07:31. > :07:36.This is the side we have irrigated for planting yet over here, you can
:07:37. > :07:41.see we are very standing. It is dust here. There is nothing at all. This
:07:42. > :07:46.is a direct result of months of no rain. Every year they grow thousands
:07:47. > :07:51.of bedding plants, shrubs and trees at this nursery. The start of this
:07:52. > :07:56.growing season has been far from normal. Months earlier than usual,
:07:57. > :08:00.they have had no choice but to irrigate. We would just lose the
:08:01. > :08:05.plans and there wouldn't be anything here for us to go on with. It's been
:08:06. > :08:13.exceptionally dry as a bloody nose for this time of year. We have
:08:14. > :08:18.trickle irrigation onwards at the containers you can see behind me, it
:08:19. > :08:22.uses less water. He is not alone, at this far they have been very getting
:08:23. > :08:27.bottom and spring cereal crops are something they normally wouldn't do
:08:28. > :08:30.until mid-May. Met Office data shows that between October last year and
:08:31. > :08:37.March this year was the driest in the UK for 20 years and East Anglia
:08:38. > :08:41.was no exception. During that period, the region had just over 551
:08:42. > :08:49.millimetres of rain, that makes it the 19th driest spell since 1910.
:08:50. > :08:51.Getting this sugar eight crop the German it has been a challenge and
:08:52. > :08:57.now it's at risk of damage from sand, stirred up by a biting wind.
:08:58. > :09:03.We have had a below average rainfall since the end of last year and no
:09:04. > :09:07.significant rain in this part of Norfolk for the past six or eight
:09:08. > :09:12.weeks. You start to see the emergence of the crops which ends up
:09:13. > :09:19.in the work yields for the end product. Growers are well used to
:09:20. > :09:21.the weather but all see some rain soon, even if it is short lived, and
:09:22. > :09:24.provide some welcome leaf. The sculptor Antony Gormley has
:09:25. > :09:28.defended criticism of his work at the University of East Anglia
:09:29. > :09:31.featuring life-size human statues Some students at the UEA claimed
:09:32. > :09:35.the figures resembled people But Gormley said all art should be
:09:36. > :09:40.unsettling and his work I think it's a wonderful place to
:09:41. > :09:50.actually balance that intellectual life with an object that in a way
:09:51. > :09:56.is silent, doesn't need to be read. It has to be felt,
:09:57. > :09:59.it has to be lived The port of Ipswich has
:10:00. > :10:03.opened a new storage depot Ipswich is Britain's biggest
:10:04. > :10:21.exporter of grain with much of it It's the latest key facility at the
:10:22. > :10:24.port of Ipswich, a new bulk storage terminal for the agricultural
:10:25. > :10:29.industry. This warehouse is the second one we've built in two years.
:10:30. > :10:33.These are the two newest warehouses and together they represent a space
:10:34. > :10:39.about the size of a football pitch. This warehouse behind us is really
:10:40. > :10:43.important because it gives us an opportunity to grow the volumes even
:10:44. > :10:47.further through the porch of the card was we handle which helps
:10:48. > :10:52.because of the farmers can grow it and store it and it can be shipped,
:10:53. > :10:56.we want it to move through the port of Ipswich. The unit is fast and can
:10:57. > :11:00.store up to 12,000 tonnes of cargo, products such as grain, barley and
:11:01. > :11:09.pulses and animal feed for the counties farming community. Trade
:11:10. > :11:12.here in Ipswich date back to the eighth century. Green brought here
:11:13. > :11:17.was turned into malt to supply breweries around the world. The port
:11:18. > :11:24.has developed during the last 200 years and is now the U:K.'s biggest
:11:25. > :11:30.grain exporter. This new facility is a boost for the town. In 1850 when
:11:31. > :11:33.the port opened it was four acres larger than the port of London so
:11:34. > :11:41.it's been a significant port for hundreds of years and continues to
:11:42. > :11:45.be so. The investment here for jobs, impact on the committee, is
:11:46. > :11:47.tremendous. The company has three ports on the east which handle more
:11:48. > :11:52.than 3 million tonnes of cargo every year. They say is official opening
:11:53. > :11:54.is just part of the series of investments they have planned.
:11:55. > :11:58.There's another news update in our late bulletin at 10:30.
:11:59. > :12:13.Time now to hand over to Stewart who s is in Newmarket.
:12:14. > :12:22.Welcome to Newmarket, this is the National heritage centre for horse
:12:23. > :12:25.racing and sporting art. There's a big separation going on in that room
:12:26. > :12:29.behind me, lots of champagne. Especially a couple of the trophies
:12:30. > :12:33.because at the end of next weekend, this is the trophy for this 1,000
:12:34. > :12:38.Guineas which is on the 7th of May, and this is the trophy for the 2000
:12:39. > :12:46.Guineas, which is on the 6th of May. Last year it was won by Frankie
:12:47. > :12:47.Dettori, trained by Hugo Palmer and today Tom Williams has been to meet
:12:48. > :12:49.him. For Hugo Palmer, a horse well
:12:50. > :12:52.with its weight in gold. Galileo Gold, a Guineas
:12:53. > :12:56.winner, on a glorious day The fact that we were able to get
:12:57. > :13:02.such a dream run with Galileo Gold last year,
:13:03. > :13:06.I still, I pinch myself Frankie Dettori won the Guineas
:13:07. > :13:14.and a first for Hugo Palmer. What is a victory
:13:15. > :13:16.like that mean for you? Well, what it's meant is that we've
:13:17. > :13:21.got more clients and more horses this year, which is very
:13:22. > :13:26.exciting and while it's not entirely a numbers game, racing,
:13:27. > :13:31.having 40 or 50 more that within those 40 or 50, there's
:13:32. > :13:36.going to be another champion. Galileo Gold struck
:13:37. > :13:39.gold for trainer Hugo Even if he doesn't win another race,
:13:40. > :13:46.at least he's won the Guineas but he'll be
:13:47. > :13:49.hoping for many more. You've got Escobar this year,
:13:50. > :13:54.I'm sure you'd love I would love to protect and defend
:13:55. > :13:59.the crown but I would hate to We worked Escobar at
:14:00. > :14:03.Newmarket last week and he didn't quite sparkle in the way
:14:04. > :14:07.that we wanted him to and the way that Galileo Gold had
:14:08. > :14:10.12 months earlier. This year, all eyes
:14:11. > :14:12.are on Frankel's babies. His offspring three years
:14:13. > :14:18.old and part of the classic His son won the Guineas
:14:19. > :14:22.trial at Newmarket. Being the first British
:14:23. > :14:24.classics of the that everyone wants to win
:14:25. > :14:28.and the added excitement this
:14:29. > :14:30.year is the fact that girls and boys, will be competing
:14:31. > :14:37.in the 1,000 and 2000 Guineas. Back in the yard, Hugo
:14:38. > :14:40.has another 12 days to think about defending
:14:41. > :14:42.the 2000 Guineas. 1000 Guineas and of course
:14:43. > :15:09.the memories of last year will last These are the foods of horses that
:15:10. > :15:16.have done very well. When the horse died, they cut the fifth of entering
:15:17. > :15:18.them inkwell. Upstairs there is a great exhibition about one of our
:15:19. > :15:22.greatest ever sporting heroes, Lester Piggott.
:15:23. > :15:24.For nearly 50 years, Lester Piggott rode
:15:25. > :15:38.The first one in 1948, aged just 12, on a horse called The Chase
:15:39. > :15:44.No wonder he looms large here at the National Heritage
:15:45. > :15:48.He's one of those names that transcends racing into the general
:15:49. > :15:52.He's got such a presence and such an historic presence.
:15:53. > :15:56.For someone who's had such an extraordinary career, well over
:15:57. > :16:05.1957 was a very special for Leester and Newmarket,
:16:06. > :16:09.21-year-old Lecster won his first ever 2000 Guineas race on the horse,
:16:10. > :16:11.Crepello, and this is one of the hooves
:16:12. > :16:14.from Crepello and later on that
:16:15. > :16:17.year, they went on to win the Derby together.
:16:18. > :16:21.It's Crepello and Lester Piggott is drawing ahead yard by yard
:16:22. > :16:26.And for Lester Piggott, it's two winners
:16:27. > :16:31.Thousands will get to see that famous old hood=f and the tiny
:16:32. > :16:34.trophies thanks to Lester's generosity and they might even catch
:16:35. > :16:37.a glimpse of the greatest ever jockey.
:16:38. > :16:39.It's wonderful when he comes into the museum.
:16:40. > :16:44.He sometimes comes very quietly to see things but it's lovely
:16:45. > :16:47.for the public also to know that great names
:16:48. > :16:49.of racing are coming in to the
:16:50. > :16:54.60 years on from that famous season in 1957, Newmarket
:16:55. > :16:58.is preparing for another Guineas Festival next week,
:16:59. > :17:11.a fitting time to remember a sporting icon.
:17:12. > :17:19.Some fabulous stuff in here. This is one of the very old original soaks
:17:20. > :17:22.that the jockeys used to wear. A great pleasure for me today, I sat
:17:23. > :17:27.down with Lester Piggott. He's man who sometimes doesn't see a great
:17:28. > :17:30.deal but he was in very good mood this afternoon and I started by
:17:31. > :17:37.asking him about his very first Guineas winner. There were quite a
:17:38. > :17:50.few riders that day and he was the big favourite.
:17:51. > :18:01.He came with two furlongs to go and he won quite comfortably. But he was
:18:02. > :18:05.a very good horse. I've been listening to you talking about a lot
:18:06. > :18:11.of your very big races and you remember them so well. Do you have a
:18:12. > :18:24.mental picture of each race, each big race? Not really! I've won some
:18:25. > :18:29.little races as well. You remember the good ones, I think. Living
:18:30. > :18:39.around here, some pictures of you in your prime. What do you think of
:18:40. > :18:46.that jockey now? Well, he wasn't too bad! What was it, do you think, that
:18:47. > :18:51.set you apart from all the other jockeys. Was a determination? For
:18:52. > :19:03.you that much a better writer? No, not really, but I got a lot of good
:19:04. > :19:11.horses and I learned to ride. Very modest. You did very well on horses
:19:12. > :19:19.that shouldn't have one, didn't you? Well, it was a great story on it is
:19:20. > :19:24.a great story. I loved the right. That was a big thing. Were you more
:19:25. > :19:37.focused or what was it that did it? Not really. I was working at it. It
:19:38. > :19:43.was hard work? And the highs for you, what with the big highs in your
:19:44. > :19:53.career? Obviously the Derby because they meant so much more in those
:19:54. > :19:58.days than they do now. The Derby is everybody's favourite. Everybody
:19:59. > :20:05.wants to win the Derby. If you could pick one moment in your life, see a
:20:06. > :20:13.Derby winner, what would that moment the? Well, I think it would have to
:20:14. > :20:24.be the first one. Never say die? That was a great moment. Never say
:20:25. > :20:34.die wasn't fancied to win, was it? Not really but I think it was 33-1.
:20:35. > :20:41.But he was quite good, especially on a left-handed course. Nobody knew
:20:42. > :20:44.that at that time. You knew it but no body else did, is that what
:20:45. > :20:51.you're saying? It made no difference to him. He was exceptional. Do you
:20:52. > :20:55.remember that moment when you cross the line for the first time on
:20:56. > :21:06.Derby? I remember halfwit up the straight, yes. He went crazy. You
:21:07. > :21:13.aware at the time how big a celebrity you where when, you are up
:21:14. > :21:19.there with Muhammad Ali and George Best? Probably. But you don't think
:21:20. > :21:28.about those things. Did you not? Now. Would you have had it any other
:21:29. > :21:29.way? But really, no. Lester Piggott, thank you very much for talking to
:21:30. > :21:34.us. The region has a new
:21:35. > :21:36.world record holder. Ben Blowes from Suffolk broke
:21:37. > :21:39.the record for running the fastest marathon carrying
:21:40. > :21:41.a household appliance. He completed the London Marathon
:21:42. > :21:57.with a tumble dryer on his back The new world record is five hours,
:21:58. > :22:04.30 minutes. How was it? A long day. Were you the only person carrying
:22:05. > :22:07.something. Yes. I kept hearing people say, there's a bloke with the
:22:08. > :22:12.washing machine. What did you do with it when you finish? I put it in
:22:13. > :22:22.a skip. I needed to get it off my back. I said my goodbyes. Was it
:22:23. > :22:26.getting a bit hard towards the end? Six hours is a long time to be
:22:27. > :22:31.carrying it? It was, it was a tough all day. The last two hours were
:22:32. > :22:38.grim. The worst bit is when you're getting to the end or do you have a
:22:39. > :22:43.spell in the middle where you think? From 13 to 20 miles was a pretty
:22:44. > :22:46.dark time. Something clicked at 20 miles and then I picked up the pace
:22:47. > :22:51.and just manage to get under the six-hour limit. Were you overtaken
:22:52. > :22:56.by anything in fuzzy dress? I was overtaken by a rhinoceros! I thought
:22:57. > :23:02.I'm not getting beaten by Irene Austria. Congratulations.
:23:03. > :23:13.The weather is next. It may be late April but winter is
:23:14. > :23:16.not done just yet. At last year in late April, we got a spell of cold
:23:17. > :23:21.weather on the well. Not today. These are today's highs. 13 and 14
:23:22. > :23:27.from any. We have had this cold front sinking southwards. But much
:23:28. > :23:30.rain and behind that, north-westerly winds ticking over and that will
:23:31. > :23:36.introduce which Calder, Arctic air tonight and tomorrow. The average
:23:37. > :23:38.for this time of year is 13 15 is above average for today but over the
:23:39. > :23:44.next few days, were below average and more importantly, some damaging
:23:45. > :23:49.overnight frost for some of us. As we head towards the end of the week,
:23:50. > :23:54.temperatures recovered by the weekend, were up to the mid-teens
:23:55. > :23:57.and above average. Similar scenes across the region today. A lot of
:23:58. > :24:03.cloud for many of us. Some rain here and there but it didn't amount to
:24:04. > :24:06.much. A lot of cloud on the satellite picture. Northerly winds
:24:07. > :24:09.in behind that bringing there are conditions tonight but also colder
:24:10. > :24:15.conditions as well. 'S evening, some rain in the South. Then we try
:24:16. > :24:17.tonight with some good clear spells developing and a breeze blowing from
:24:18. > :24:23.the north-west carrying spells of rain in the North. These could have
:24:24. > :24:30.sleet mixed in the butt in the clear spells, temperatures getting the
:24:31. > :24:35.below freezing. Here is the jet stream pattern for tomorrow and into
:24:36. > :24:39.Wednesday. A lot of cold air within that and that is a classic set up
:24:40. > :24:43.for April showers so already showers from the world go in Norfolk. Many
:24:44. > :24:48.do, try and sunny, if rather chilly start with. Sunshine in the morning
:24:49. > :24:53.but cloud will develop and we will get showers developing more widely.
:24:54. > :25:00.The far south could stay dry in the day. The showers could have some
:25:01. > :25:02.hail, thunder and sleet mixed in the sunshine, 11 degrees, but feeling
:25:03. > :25:09.chilly in that brisk north-westerly wind. As we go into Wednesday,
:25:10. > :25:13.another chilly start. There will be some heavy ones, some hail again but
:25:14. > :25:19.equally interspersed with some sunshine and highs of nine or 10
:25:20. > :25:23.degrees. I pressure at West but the flow coming back in both the
:25:24. > :25:26.Atlantic as we get into thirsty. A cold, frosty start on Thursday but
:25:27. > :25:33.some early sunshine. More cloud sinking down from the North as we go
:25:34. > :25:36.through the day. Not amounting to two much but a bit wet here and
:25:37. > :25:40.there. Friday, a good deal of dry weather initially but there will be
:25:41. > :25:43.a few showers. But everywhere catching these but they will be
:25:44. > :25:50.heavy and could be slow-moving as well. Temperatures nudging up to 12
:25:51. > :25:53.or 13. That is the trend into the bank holiday weekend. With Minnie
:25:54. > :25:59.driver Saturday. Sam Hain potentially on Sunday. Uncertainty
:26:00. > :26:04.as to how quickly that will clear. Rain not too far away on Monday but
:26:05. > :26:13.some of us could get away with a dry day and it will be mild throughout
:26:14. > :26:19.the weekend. That's it from me. Just before we go, have a look at this
:26:20. > :26:22.statue. It's a horse cold around Jack and back in the 1920s, it won
:26:23. > :26:25.the Queen Alexandra stakes. They said at the time the horse is almost
:26:26. > :26:52.human. From all of us, good night. There are times in the life
:26:53. > :26:54.of a nation when the choices we make define
:26:55. > :26:59.the character of our country, times when people stand up
:27:00. > :27:09.and demand real, significant change. we have the chance to shape
:27:10. > :27:14.a brighter future for Britain