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:00:00. > :00:07.Hello, I'm Amelia Reynolds. That's Newsnight with Emily

:00:08. > :00:16.The mother of the missing airman Corrie McKeague has told Look East

:00:17. > :00:23.And the company behind Sizewell C promises to limit disruption.

:00:24. > :00:27.And plenty of winter sunshine to end the working week, all the details

:00:28. > :00:31.later in the programme. The mother of the missing airman

:00:32. > :00:35.Corrie McKeague has told Look East that press coverage about her son's

:00:36. > :00:37.membership of adult dating websites Corrie went missing on a night out

:00:38. > :00:42.in Bury St Edmunds in September. Today, his mother, Nicola Urquhart,

:00:43. > :00:45.said his membership of adult sites was not a revelation and had been

:00:46. > :00:47.part of the Police You only have to look at moments

:00:48. > :01:03.caught at home to appreciate that Corrie Mckeague

:01:04. > :01:05.was outgoing and popular. For four months, Nicola Urquhart has

:01:06. > :01:08.been on the front line in the hunt for her missing son,

:01:09. > :01:10.handing out leaflets and helping out with the physical search

:01:11. > :01:12.in the surrounding countryside. Knowledge that he had been

:01:13. > :01:15.using popular dating Today's front-page news in some

:01:16. > :01:25.tabloids that he had looked online for sex with couples,

:01:26. > :01:28.she said, was never a secret. It was known to his family long

:01:29. > :01:31.before he went missing. The first thought is has

:01:32. > :01:35.he just tried to walk home? Has something happened to him

:01:36. > :01:40.on his way up the road? The absolute immediate thought

:01:41. > :01:43.after that is could any of these sites have had anything

:01:44. > :01:45.to do with this? Could he have arranged

:01:46. > :01:48.to try to meet someone and it's not Suffolk Police say they are aware

:01:49. > :01:57.of the social media and website he was using and this is part

:01:58. > :01:59.of the investigation. Nicola and Corrie Mckeague's

:02:00. > :02:01.girlfriend have told us that he's April discovered she was pregnant

:02:02. > :02:07.a fortnight after he went missing. This week, his brothers took

:02:08. > :02:09.to social media to say the latest The 23-year-old airman based at RAF

:02:10. > :02:18.Honington was last seen in the early hours of the 24th

:02:19. > :02:22.of September in Bury. Yes, we could have deleted

:02:23. > :02:24.all these accounts to save What is more important is finding

:02:25. > :02:34.out what has happened to Corrie. Meanwhile, private investigators

:02:35. > :02:36.brought in say they are still unanswered questions,

:02:37. > :02:40.not least around an area known locally as the horseshoe

:02:41. > :02:42.where the airman was He didn't magic himself out

:02:43. > :02:47.of the horseshoe and any vehicle that left the horseshoe,

:02:48. > :02:49.there should be more work done to discount them

:02:50. > :02:54.from the investigation. The mystery surrounding this young

:02:55. > :02:57.airman's disappearance has raised public interest in his private life

:02:58. > :03:02.but his mother is adamant the focus must turn to the search for him

:03:03. > :03:09.and hopefully his safe return. The jury at an inquest

:03:10. > :03:11.into the death of a prisoner at Chelmsford jail has retired

:03:12. > :03:14.to consider its conclusions. Dean Saunders was jailed

:03:15. > :03:16.after attacking members Weeks later he was found

:03:17. > :03:20.dead in his cell. Dean Saunders's parents

:03:21. > :03:29.Mark and Donna have been During his evidence,

:03:30. > :03:32.Mark Saunders told the jury he believed had son had

:03:33. > :03:35.been badly let down. Dean Saunders died at Chelmsford

:03:36. > :03:41.prison in January 2016. He had electrocuted himself

:03:42. > :03:45.using wires from a TV in his cell. He was in prison after stabbing his

:03:46. > :03:49.father during a paranoid episode. The jury heard how signs he was

:03:50. > :03:52.mentally ill had not been acted His family believe he should have

:03:53. > :03:57.been in hospital, not present. They have criticised

:03:58. > :03:59.the decision to take him off constant watch

:04:00. > :04:00.and to check on him only every

:04:01. > :04:04.half-hour instead. A private company called Kia UK

:04:05. > :04:07.has the contract to run Among the 28 witnesses

:04:08. > :04:11.who have given She told the jury she was part of

:04:12. > :04:18.the team that decided to take Dean None of the team was

:04:19. > :04:23.medically qualified. Dean Saunders's partner

:04:24. > :04:24.Claire, the mother of his son, had told the jury that

:04:25. > :04:28.a nurse at the prison told The jury has been given a list of 24

:04:29. > :04:35.questions to consider and one of them is this -

:04:36. > :04:38.was the decision to observation of Dean

:04:39. > :04:40.Saunders a financial one? The jury will be back tomorrow

:04:41. > :04:43.morning to resume its Next tonight, the company behind

:04:44. > :04:53.plans to build the Sizewell C nuclear power station on the Suffolk

:04:54. > :04:55.coast has told Look East it will do everything it can

:04:56. > :04:58.to mitigate the negative impact All this week we've been taking

:04:59. > :05:03.a close look at the plans At the peak of construction,

:05:04. > :05:10.there would be 5,600 workers at Sizewell,

:05:11. > :05:12.an extra 2,000 vehicles and up While the project promises

:05:13. > :05:18.significant economic benefits, campaigners are asking

:05:19. > :05:19.at what price? In a moment, we'll here

:05:20. > :05:21.from the project director of Sizewell C but first this report

:05:22. > :05:29.by Richard Daniel. Construction on Sizewell B

:05:30. > :05:37.is underway. The influx of thousands

:05:38. > :05:39.of workers brought money, There was heavy drinking,

:05:40. > :05:50.prostitution and drugs. This resident says

:05:51. > :05:54.left social problems. We weren't ready for

:05:55. > :06:02.the displacement, there were so many people standing at the tills

:06:03. > :06:06.with bottles of whiskey. People felt the town didn't

:06:07. > :06:14.belong to them any more. At the peak of construction

:06:15. > :06:22.there would be more at Sizewell. About half of those would be living

:06:23. > :06:28.in or near the town. EDF says all would stick

:06:29. > :06:30.with a code of conduct. There will be testing

:06:31. > :06:32.and a hotline for complaints. Already in the plans

:06:33. > :06:36.are having an effect. This estate agent has seen increased

:06:37. > :06:39.interest in property investors. There would be a lot more

:06:40. > :06:45.business coming to town The town council says Sizewell C

:06:46. > :06:51.could be a huge economic At the moment it is not

:06:52. > :06:54.supporting it. It says there is insufficient

:06:55. > :06:56.information about the impact on GP services, schools,

:06:57. > :06:58.policing and the annual in-service There is a lot more detail that

:06:59. > :07:10.needs to come to the council and we would hope to work with EDF

:07:11. > :07:18.before we get to the next age. At a recent meeting, local companies

:07:19. > :07:21.were urged to sign up. EDF has already placed

:07:22. > :07:28.contracts worth 460 million. If Sizewell C was built, plenty

:07:29. > :07:30.of opportunities could lie ahead. I asked him about the influx

:07:31. > :07:44.of workers and those concerns surrounding prostitution,

:07:45. > :08:19.drugs and alcohol. The other concern is the volume

:08:20. > :08:38.of people coming to work It will be further work done,

:08:39. > :08:42.environmental monitoring and checking the condition of the Lords

:08:43. > :08:46.but further, there is feedback from local people and how that can be

:08:47. > :08:51.mitigated. The feedback from local people and the traffic issue is that

:08:52. > :08:55.they think it can't be mitigated. We have to work with the local

:08:56. > :08:58.authorities to convince them while we think the mitigation we will

:08:59. > :09:04.propose at the end of the consultation process will actually

:09:05. > :09:09.make it much better. I think many people can see the economic

:09:10. > :09:12.benefits, but the question that remains, at what price? That is a

:09:13. > :09:20.balancing act you have to make. Very much so. That is why we are

:09:21. > :09:26.consulting. We are obviously very proud of the opportunities that it

:09:27. > :09:29.could bring economically and job wise, skills development for the

:09:30. > :09:32.local community. It is a very large construction projects as part of the

:09:33. > :09:37.progress that like process we are progress that like process we are

:09:38. > :09:40.going through is to try to mitigate the negative impact while still

:09:41. > :09:42.realising all the benefits that go along with it. Thank you.

:09:43. > :09:44.Finally tonight, a pilot project is underway at The East

:09:45. > :09:47.of England Ambulance Service to reduce the number of people taken

:09:48. > :09:51.Instead of sending frontline crews, patients will be treated by a senior

:09:52. > :09:53.emergency medical technician and an occupational

:09:54. > :09:56.16% of all calls to the service are fall related, Putting

:09:57. > :10:08.Coming up now, the weather with Julie.

:10:09. > :10:17.But from the rest of the team, good night.

:10:18. > :10:24.Thank you. A dry night ahead with the a lot of clear sky although more

:10:25. > :10:28.in the way of cloud in the north, but under clear skies it'll be very

:10:29. > :10:32.chilly indeed with the temperature already lower than these values.

:10:33. > :10:37.With very light winds we are looking at patchy mist and fog as well.

:10:38. > :10:42.Tomorrow, high pressure in charge keeping it fine and dry and the fog

:10:43. > :10:47.may take some time to clear. There should be a lot of sunshine for much

:10:48. > :10:53.of the day. The temperature of around six Celsius. And we finished

:10:54. > :10:59.the day with again a lot of sunshine. The national just the

:11:00. > :11:01.moment but the outlook, and on Saturday more clouds but hopefully

:11:02. > :11:06.more sunshine, some decent sunny looks as though we can, a bit more

:11:07. > :11:11.cloud on Sunday. Now the national picture.

:11:12. > :11:17.Good evening, it will gradually get colder in the UK in the next few

:11:18. > :11:20.days, something we don't have to worry about in Australia at this

:11:21. > :11:21.time of year. Of course it's the Australian