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Kier Starmer as well. Join me now on BBC Two.

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Hello and welcome to the Look East late news.

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In the programme tonight - a cliff collapses on the Suffolk

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We assess the impact of a weekend of wild weather.

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The GP crisis - in Essex, 10% of surgeries are refusing

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to take on new patients, prompting many to pay to go private.

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And after the drama of last week, I'll have a fairly settled

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The Environment Agency is warning home owners not to be complacent

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after many communities escaped the worst of the

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Thousands of people who were advised to evacuate, chose to stay at home

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In Suffolk a man died after a cliff collapsed on him

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But while most defences held, some of the most serious damage

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was on the north Norfolk coast. Alex Dunlop is in Cromer.

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Take a look at the size of this rock and now imagine this and thousands

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of others being picked up on this beach behind me by the wind and the

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waves and thrown against the seafront. A pretty devastating night

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on Friday but not as bad as four years ago and that is because at the

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last moment, the crucial trio of the high spring tide, the surge down the

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North Sea and also the north west wind didn't quite aligned as many

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had feared. The cost of clear-up

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in and around Cromer pier will run into the hundreds

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of thousands pounds. The force of the waves over the pier

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ripped up the decking. In a way, we are sort of relieved

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we got off lightly but the first thing we want to do is make sure

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things are safe for the public and then get the pier open

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as soon as possible. Chris Taylor filmed the storm

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hitting Cromer on Friday night. He is a photographer

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and the helmsman of the local RNLI. You could hear as the water came

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down, this clattering of big stones. Looking around us here, there

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are rocks the size of your head. Serious amounts of power there.

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The benches along the prom, big, heavy, metal benches being swept

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along the prom in the water. At Thorpeness in Suffolk,

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the storms may well have undermined this section of cliff.

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On Saturday, it collapsed on top of a man in his 50s who was walking

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on the beach with his wife. He was eventually dug out

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but it was too late. We are all very sorry to hear

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what happened and our hearts go out to the family and friends that

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are involved in this accident. I think perhaps people who are not

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from around here are less likely to be aware of how eroding

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those cliffs are. And on a nice, sunny day,

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it looks very benign. This tragic death has led to renewed

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safety warnings about the dangers of the soft cliffs which line much

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of the local coastline. At Jaywick in Essex

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and at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, most of the thousands of homeowners

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who were told to evacuate their properties have

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decided to sit tight. The defences held

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as the wind abated. At Salthouse on the Norfolk coast,

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the road was closed by debris And at the nearby reserve

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at Cley, seawater washed There is a lot of destruction

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in the short term, in terms of reedbeds, invertebrates that

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will have been killed and things like that,

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so food for birds is going to be The danger for now has passed

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but there are several more As you can see, the clear up is well

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underway. A real concern in the emergency services that a lot of

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people further down the coast who decided to stay in their homes...

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This was a close call and next time they say it could be different.

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Charles Beardall is from the Environment Agency.

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A short time ago, I asked him how concerned he was the vast majority

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of people at risk decided to stay in their homes despite all

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We issued 17 severe flood warnings this time and we only issue those

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when we think that people's lives are in danger, so it is very

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worrying that people do hear what the police say and then choose

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And our advice would be to anyone who hears from the police

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about evacuating their house, that they take heed of that advice

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But I mean, next time we have weather conditions

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like this, there may be even greater complacency.

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We got away with it this weekend, got away with it in 2013,

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I think we have got work to do with the police

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and the emergency services, the local authorities,

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to make people more aware of the danger that they are under

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if they do stay in their house. And if we can do that,

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then hopefully more people will evacuate next time.

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I know that you feel that the sea defences stood up

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well over the weekend, but there are some communities

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around the coast - smaller communities -

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that always feel at times like these, that they are overlooked,

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that the investment hasn't gone in there and that they are

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We maintain and manage over 500 miles of sea defences around

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East Anglia and we have invested multi millions of pounds in those

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Even at the moment, we have just done a schema Great Yarmouth

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which is ?28 million worth and another one in Ipswich is 32,

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but there are smaller schemes all around East Anglia that

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are protecting smaller communities up and down the coast.

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But of course, they all cost money and you can't protect everywhere.

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We can't afford to protect everywhere all the time

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and there will undoubtedly be big surge tides coming down the coast

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in the future which will overtop some of our defences.

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And that is why it is so important that the warning and informing

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is done in advance of these surge tides coming down.

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I would just like to say that it does stress the importance of people

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listening to the advice they are getting from the police

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and evacuating areas that they are advised to so they can

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be safe from these surge tides in the future.

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Thank you very much. Thank you.

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An inquest has been told that a mother begged staff

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at Chelmsford Prison to keep her son on suicide watch.

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Dean Saunders was found electrocuted in his cell a year ago.

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A nurse who was giving evidence this afternoon said Mr Saunders had

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told her he did not intend to harm himself.

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Instead of suicide watch he was monitored every half hour.

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In parts of the region, the number of patients forced

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to wait at least a week to see their GP has been steadily

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Surveys of GP practices suggest the crisis in the service

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In Essex, 10% of GP surgeries are refusing to take

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on new patients, prompting an increase in the number of people

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He has regular check-ups with his private GP.

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For Tim, paying to visit his doctor is worth every penny.

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Do I think my health is more important than ?400 a year,

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which is half a cost of a holiday or something like that?

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And the answer is, my health is more important.

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Here in Essex, private GP practice is thriving.

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We are seeing an increasing number of new patients

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who are here because they cannot get an appointment with their NHS GP.

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Across the county, practices are struggling

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Here, a combination of an ageing population, doctors retiring

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and problems recruiting, has led to a huge strain being put

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Dr Peter Skew joined the Green Elms Medical Practice five years ago.

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His aim? To turn around a failing practice.

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Dr Skew concentrated his efforts on recruitment, offering

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such as defined hours, to attract GPs to the practice.

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Now, the surgery has five regular GPs and one long-term locum.

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Because we know the patients are going to come back to us

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if we don't get it right, we have a much stronger driver

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Surveys of GPs suggest the workload issue is becoming more and more

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of a crisis and that plays into your ability to

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The government says it is responding and it is committed to spending more

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and maintaining free access to GP practice.

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It is not just the NHS, it is what society wants

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And if they can only get it privately, we have failed.

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And you can see a longer version of that report

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by searching for Inside Out East on the BBC iPlayer.

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Coming up now, the weather with Julie.

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But from the rest of the late team - goodnight.

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It will be difficult to predict how much cloud we will get over the next

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few days. Underneath a clearer skies, temperatures already falling

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closer to freezing and likely to drop lower. A fairly widespread

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frost, come the morning and with light winds, perhaps some patchy fog

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as well. Cold, frosty start tomorrow for many and it looks like it will

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have quite a lot of sunshine if all goes to plan. Temperatures, even

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with the sun, will struggle. Light winds. As we go into Tuesday night,

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under the clear skies, temperatures could fall even lower. Tuesday night

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looking very cold. Wednesday, high pressure in charge, this front

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should stay to the north and for many of us, a cold and frosty start.

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The further north you are, the more likely thicker cloud will appear.

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Temperatures only two or three degrees above freezing again. A

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weather front of Thursday pushing down from the north which could

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introduce more cloud on Thursday with some drizzle perhaps. At the

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moment, Friday looking at a repeat performance, generally cloudy skies

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and a lot of dry weather with hopefully some brightness and

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temperatures around six Celsius at best. Nick will have the national

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forecast in a moment but herd comes the outlook for next weekend.

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perhaps a little milder. If you like the mild weather, you'll have to

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head elsewhere in the country. Find out more in the national weather

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forecast. Our weather is going against normal expectations this

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week. In Highland Scotland some snow to be seen on the hills.

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Temperatures as high as 12 Celsius today. Over the next few days the

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coldest air is in the far south-east of England where there is sunshine

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to be had. Four or five Celsius in Kent. Differences remain over the

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next few days and here is why. I pressure in control of the weather.

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Some clear a

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