:00:00. > :00:12.In the programme, the Labour leader for the news where you are.
:00:13. > :00:18.In the programme, the Labour leader comes to the region with a message
:00:19. > :00:23.after Brexit. Some small businesses warn a change in rates could hit
:00:24. > :00:27.tomorrow with colder weather heading tomorrow with colder weather heading
:00:28. > :00:34.our way. I will have all the details mother. -- later.
:00:35. > :00:37.The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has made his most important speech
:00:38. > :00:43.He told supporters that he wouldn't bow to pressure to support
:00:44. > :00:48.But he did reassure a region which returned one of the biggest
:00:49. > :00:50.votes for Brexit that he will lobby for schemes to prevent
:00:51. > :00:52.cheap migrant labour from under-cutting local workers.
:00:53. > :00:55.In a moment we'll speak to the Labour MP for Norwich South,
:00:56. > :01:00.but first this from our political correspondent Andrew Sinclair.
:01:01. > :01:04.Labour and its leader are undergoing a bit of a New Year rebrand.
:01:05. > :01:06.This afternoon's speech was billed as Mr
:01:07. > :01:09.Corbyn's big response to the Brexit vote.
:01:10. > :01:13.Labour accepts those challenges that the voters have given us.
:01:14. > :01:16.Among his big ideas, more money for the NHS, a crackdown on
:01:17. > :01:21.high levels of pay, and yes, a new policy on immigration.
:01:22. > :01:24.The advanced briefing was that he would back a
:01:25. > :01:27.restriction on the number of people coming to Britain, but he didn't say
:01:28. > :01:31.Instead he spoke about the importance of migrants to our
:01:32. > :01:35.economy, and said improving local services was the answer.
:01:36. > :01:38.The question of underfunding of services
:01:39. > :01:42.In this city, in Peterborough, for example, this
:01:43. > :01:44.council here seems to be more interested in selling off council
:01:45. > :01:47.housing to a private sector organisation
:01:48. > :01:50.rather than housing the
:01:51. > :01:52.people that are homeless and need to be housed.
:01:53. > :01:55.So you say if there was more funding in services, people
:01:56. > :01:56.wouldn't be so concerned about immigration?
:01:57. > :01:59.I think sometimes there are issues surrounding shortages of
:02:00. > :02:02.services in which people are unfairly blamed.
:02:03. > :02:04.It is generally accepted that fears about
:02:05. > :02:07.the pressures caused by immigration were the reasons for the large
:02:08. > :02:13.Leave campaigners said the solution is to
:02:14. > :02:17.Mr Corbyn believes more support for local councils is
:02:18. > :02:23.There was a lot of jobs that perhaps we don't want to do,
:02:24. > :02:29.I do think we should put a cap on it.
:02:30. > :02:31.But I think they are hard workers, some of them
:02:32. > :02:35.You're going to have to cap them, there's no other way to
:02:36. > :02:39.Why have you come to a pro Brexit city to deliver an
:02:40. > :02:43.Labour has always struggled to do well in the
:02:44. > :02:47.Being on the Remain side in a largely Brexit voting area won't
:02:48. > :02:51.So today was all about offering a new message in the hope
:02:52. > :03:11.Clive Lewis is the only Norfolk MP. I prided to him there was criticism
:03:12. > :03:15.that Mr Corwin's speech lacked clarity. Did he agree.
:03:16. > :03:20.Speeches in a 24-hour context usually develop, and
:03:21. > :03:22.people will find nuances and differences in there, but actually I
:03:23. > :03:24.think it's been quite clear, he spoke today
:03:25. > :03:25.about his vision for the
:03:26. > :03:28.future, about our position on Brexit, on those negotiations.
:03:29. > :03:32.And on issues such as higher pay, which I
:03:33. > :03:35.think a lot of people at the moment are quite concerned about.
:03:36. > :03:37.This region returned a very strong vote
:03:38. > :03:40.for Brexit, yet we have a number of businesses here that rely on migrant
:03:41. > :03:45.I mean, is Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party trying to be
:03:46. > :03:49.I think you are doing something here which
:03:50. > :03:50.is becoming quite commonplace, which is
:03:51. > :03:52.you are equating the vote on
:03:53. > :03:59.Immigration is a huge issue here in the East, isn't it?
:04:00. > :04:04.But I think there are lots of reasons why people
:04:05. > :04:07.It wasn't just about immigration, but yes, of
:04:08. > :04:10.course, the freedom of movement, immigration, is a big issue in this
:04:11. > :04:12.country, is a big issue in the eastern region,
:04:13. > :04:14.and of course, yes, you have to address that.
:04:15. > :04:16.Jeremy Corbyn has said today that his
:04:17. > :04:18.priority is spending more on public services,
:04:19. > :04:20.and that will address the
:04:21. > :04:23.issues and the challenges of immigration.
:04:24. > :04:26.But that's not going to do it alone, is it?
:04:27. > :04:29.No, and I think, if we have a hard Brexit, and that
:04:30. > :04:33.will make it ever more difficult to be able to have the investment.
:04:34. > :04:36.People want to see clarity, businesses want to see clarity.
:04:37. > :04:38.They want a level of certainty about what
:04:39. > :04:41.the British government is going to do in those negotiations.
:04:42. > :04:43.We need to hear that, and we're not getting it.
:04:44. > :04:50.A man from Norwich has been charged with murdering a mother of two.
:04:51. > :04:53.Kerri McAuley, who was 32, was found dead at a flat
:04:54. > :04:58.A post mortem examination was inconclusive.
:04:59. > :05:01.Police believe she was severely assaulted.
:05:02. > :05:03.Joe Storey, who's 26, will appear before Norwich
:05:04. > :05:10.Some of the region's small firms are warning their businesses will be
:05:11. > :05:15.Business rates are charged on properties, such
:05:16. > :05:21.They are set by the Government and collected by councils.
:05:22. > :05:23.But in some places bills are set to more than double,
:05:24. > :05:29.Getting the floor done today and tomorrow...
:05:30. > :05:31.Rebecca Bishop is investing in the future of her
:05:32. > :05:35.business, the Two Magpies Bakery on Southwold high-street closed for
:05:36. > :05:41.She employs 21 people, but on April 1st, her business
:05:42. > :05:47.rates are going up from ?4,500 a year to 15,500.
:05:48. > :05:50.At the moment I pay myself only the minimum wage, I pay
:05:51. > :05:55.Everything I make goes back into the business.
:05:56. > :06:00.So we are looking at potentially decisions about people I employee,
:06:01. > :06:04.decisions about where money is invested in the business.
:06:05. > :06:09.It's the first revaluation since 2008.
:06:10. > :06:11.The rates are based on the rentable value
:06:12. > :06:13.of a business property, with a
:06:14. > :06:19.Areas where rents have risen sharply over the last nine years will be
:06:20. > :06:24.But nationally, three quarters of businesses will see no
:06:25. > :06:29.Rebecca Bishop is a victim of Southwold's success.
:06:30. > :06:31.National chains are moving into the High Street and
:06:32. > :06:36.At the moment my rateable value per square metre is
:06:37. > :06:42.This square meter will go up to ?700.
:06:43. > :06:44.The Department for Communities and Local Government
:06:45. > :07:09.The Crown pub and hotel at Stoke-in-Nayland, in Suffolk, is
:07:10. > :07:12.The Crown pub and hotel at Stoke-by-Nayland, in Suffolk, is
:07:13. > :07:14.also facing a big rise in business rates.
:07:15. > :07:16.There's been major expansion over the past ten years, and now it
:07:17. > :07:20.In 2003, when we bought the Crown, we were paying
:07:21. > :07:24.In 2008 we put an extension on, and they went up to just
:07:25. > :07:30.Today we have been notified our rates are
:07:31. > :07:31.going up to ?102,000 a
:07:32. > :07:36.Richard Sunderland says his business rate rise is a tax on
:07:37. > :07:41.The changes are designed to make the system fairer, but for the
:07:42. > :07:51.Selena Dawson is from the Federation of Small Businesses.
:07:52. > :07:56.I asked her how widespread the concern among members is.
:07:57. > :08:00.There's going to be winners and losers, and members out in rural
:08:01. > :08:02.Norfolk are telling us in market towns that
:08:03. > :08:09.Some of those businesses are captured.
:08:10. > :08:13.Where it is really impacting is the city centre
:08:14. > :08:18.And there's still that unfairness, the unfairness on
:08:19. > :08:21.being that business rates has nothing to do with your performance
:08:22. > :08:26.as a business, so it's that property element
:08:27. > :08:28.and you're captured if you are
:08:29. > :08:32.The government is actually saying that
:08:33. > :08:36.they think this revaluation will actually make the system fairer.
:08:37. > :08:38.Are you saying you disagree with that?
:08:39. > :08:40.What I'm saying is it's a positive step.
:08:41. > :08:44.However, we are not at the end of that road yet whatsoever, and
:08:45. > :08:47.there is still that detriment and we are still hearing that detriment
:08:48. > :08:51.for small to medium businesses, and we need reform.
:08:52. > :08:54.So ideally, then, how do you get a system, as you would
:08:55. > :08:57.see it, that is completely fair for all businesses where ever
:08:58. > :09:04.And this is something that we are fighting hard
:09:05. > :09:09.Businesses differ, people differ, and areas differ as well.
:09:10. > :09:16.And we need to have a reform that is going to embody...
:09:17. > :09:17.It sounds like that could be impossible, then,
:09:18. > :09:22.No, I'm not saying it's impossible, what I'm saying is
:09:23. > :09:24.that there needs to be a lot of thought.
:09:25. > :09:27.What has happened so far is we've had small reform moving in
:09:28. > :09:31.positive steps to a lot of small businesses.
:09:32. > :09:34.We've still got a lot of thought process to go and a lot of
:09:35. > :09:37.minor change to go in government to actually make differences.
:09:38. > :09:47.A soldier was given a fitting send off in Norfolk this
:09:48. > :09:51.afternoon from 200 mourners, many of whom he'd never met.
:09:52. > :09:55.Reginald Watson, who lived in Ormesby St Margaret,
:09:56. > :10:01.He had no living relatives but, after a campaign on social media,
:10:02. > :10:04.he was given a funeral that many felt the decorated
:10:05. > :10:11.Coming up now, the weather with Alex.
:10:12. > :10:18.But from the rest of the late team, goodnight.
:10:19. > :10:24.Good evening, a mild night this time of the year with a lot of cloud
:10:25. > :10:29.around overnight. Wind is picking up as well, the chant some patchy rain
:10:30. > :10:32.arriving by tomorrow morning. We start the day with temperatures at
:10:33. > :10:36.around seven or eight Celsius, and they will continue to increase the
:10:37. > :10:40.morning. This weather system comes in and brings in some much cold air
:10:41. > :10:44.from the North west, and those north-westerly winds will be a
:10:45. > :10:45.feature or tomorrow. Quite a windy forecast, some patchy rain and a
:10:46. > :11:00.cloudy conditions first thing, before we
:11:01. > :11:01.get brighter skies and sunshine. Those winds freshening all the time,
:11:02. > :11:04.and these are the average wind of the week, and to start the
:11:05. > :11:05.weekend as