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Hello and welcome to the Look East late news. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
A Conservative councillor has resigned after this video emerges | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
The Norwich Peterborough building society brand | :00:12. | :00:26. | |
is about to disappear from the High Street. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
And how the recent storm surge may have played a vital role in saving | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
In the last few hours a councillor from Norfolk has resigned | :00:34. | :00:48. | |
following his behaviour during a hunt. | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
He was filmed making lewd comments to a hunt protestor. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
Until recently, Charles Carter was the master of the West Norfolk hunt. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
He is also a Conservative councillor for Breckland. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Tonight, both the local MP and the leader of the council told | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
Excuse me, didn't you know hunting was banned? | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
Video of the Middleton Hunt in North Yorkshire, filmed | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
Linda Hoggard challenges at Charles Carter. | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
He starts filming her, then makes a lewd comments. | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
Charles Carter has been on Breckland Council since 2011, | :01:25. | :01:40. | |
representing the ward of Saham Toney. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
A man in that position should know so much better anyway. | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
And a woman shouldn't be spoken to like that | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
People shouldn't say things like that. | :01:52. | :02:01. | |
He shouldn't be representing anybody with those beliefs anyway. | :02:02. | :02:12. | |
In June 2015, Mr Carter was the master huntsman | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
Look East spoke to him about the ban. | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
Having to look over one's shoulder all the time for fear | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
of being in breach of bad law is not what the country should be about. | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
Tonight, the local MP George Freeman says that | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
while being rude isn't a crime, he believes all in elected public | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
office have a duty to set the highest standards of conduct. | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
North Yorkshire Police have confirmed they were | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
called to an altercation and they are investigating. | :02:42. | :02:53. | |
We made several attempts to contact Mr Carter today, but we've not heard | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
back from him. However, I did speak to | :03:01. | :03:01. | |
William Nunn is the leader of Breckland council, | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
he made the decision to suspend Mr Carter as soon | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
I was pleased to receive Charles' resignation. | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
I felt he had done a dreadful thing, and it was absolutely right | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
he resigned from his position on Breckland Council. | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
And when he spoke to you earlier this evening to say | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
that he was going to resign, what did he tell you? | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
He was sorry he'd brought embarrassment to myself, | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
to the local Conservative group and to Breckland Council. | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
More so, I know that he contacted the protester to apologise | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
to the husband and make it clear it was meant in no way to be rude. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
But the footage, you say yourself, you are shocked and appalled by it. | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
When you did see it, were you also surprised by it, | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
because you obviously know Mr Carter well? | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
I've known Charles for some years now on the council. | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
I was shocked he had used that sort of language to a person | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
It was an absurd thing for him to do. | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
But he did it, I felt as council leader I had no choice | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
but to immediately suspend him from the Conservative group | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
on Breckland Council, which has, obviously, | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
George Freeman, the local MP, has said he too was appalled. | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
How much damage do you think this has done to the Council and to | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
I hope it hasn't done any damage to the Conservative Party locally. | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
I think, as a party, we've handled it swiftly and appropriately, | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
and I think that's the way it should be dealt with. | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
Of course, for Charles, this is not good, | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
The Norwich Peterborough Building Society brand | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
will disappear from our high streets later this year. | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
28 branches across the East will be closed and hundreds | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
The society is owned by the Yorkshire Building Society, | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
which says it wants to focus on the main brand. | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
It's been a trusted name on our high streets for decades, | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
But soon, the Norwich Peterborough name will completely disappear. | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
It's owner, the Yorkshire Building Society, plans | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
to close 28 N branches, including this one | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
It's a shame, our elderly customers are going to feel the impact more. | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
They rely upon the convenience on their doorstep of being able | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
to withdraw their money and spend it at local businesses. | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
In the vast majority of cases, it's matter of a couple of miles | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
Of course, there are other ways we could help them as well, | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
and what we'd certainly urge customers to do, if they have | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
any concerns, please come and talk to us, | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
pop into the branch and we'll do anything we can to help them. | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
They're in branches and at N's headquarters in Peterbrough. | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
After the closures, only 17 branches will remain under | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
The Yorkshire says the banking market is changing. | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
More customers are conducting their business online, | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
and use of High Street branches like this is declining by 7% a year. | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
Further investment in that network can't be justified. | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
But that argument will disappoint thousands of members who expect | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
a building society to provide a good branch network in places where | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
These are some of the places set to close. | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
The changes are due to take effect from September this year. | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
Members are being encouraged to embrace online banking, | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
but some elderly customers may find that difficult to do. | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
Earlier, I asked Richard whether he was surprised | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
Building societies are supposed to be different from banks. | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
They're mutual organisations, owned by members, not shareholders. | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
Building societies are supposed to use the money they save by not | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
paying dividends to do good stuff for members, | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
such as paying good interest rates and maintaining | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
I think today's announcement risks making | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
the Norwich Peterborough look like any old bank. | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
So are we expecting some of our other smaller | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
We're got the Ipswich and the Cambridge. | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
I spoke to the Ipswich earlier today, they have nine branches, | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
We had about 50 regional building societies in the 1950s, | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
Plans to provide an extra 1200 school places in Essex | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
Two weeks ago, our coastline was bracing itself | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
for the devastating effects of strong winds and spring tides. | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
But while many places were left counting the cost, | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
at Orford Ness in Suffolk, they were counting their blessings. | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
There, the waves dumped thousands of tonnes of shingle | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
on the shoreline, and that could prove vital in a battle | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
Once again, the volunteers are stepping into the | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
This, the latest phase of work costing more than ?6,000 | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
to try to delay the now-redundant structure's collapse, | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
using what they call these shingle-filled sausages. | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
While they feared the worst as the most recent storm | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
sea swelled, for once, the waves proved friend, not foe. | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
Built in 1792 using three quarters of a million bricks, | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
Below, there's another 20 feet, as the profile | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
Once powered by whale oil, it was decommissioned in 2013. | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
It's now owned by a trust driven by passion and pride. | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
It's a landmark that everybody loves. | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
When you drive into Orford, the first thing you see out | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
Orford without a lighthouse would be disastrous. | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
Do you have any vision of how many years you've got left? | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
We will take it year by year, and at the end of each winter | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
we will be able to assess how she's got through the winter. | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
That's when we will start dismantling and moving | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
These voice pipes go all the way down to the kitchen of the cottages, | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
when the cottages were here by the side. | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
The keeper could summon his mate to come up here and give him a hand. | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
When the end is finally nigh, they will hope to salvage | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
and exhibit in a museum this and other artefacts from the inside. | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
The very top of the building will be taken away and preserved too. | :09:39. | :09:47. | |
They know that day will surely come, but for now it is all about digging | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
Coming up now the weather with Alex, but from the rest | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
thank you very much. Good evening, another cold night across the | :10:01. | :10:11. | |
region, despite the amount of cloud out there. Colder air coming in from | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
the consonants, misty conditions and a few spots of rain possible, and | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
the risk of icy patches on untreated surfaces. Temperatures widely low, | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
lower than these temperatures as we get to the early hours of tomorrow | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
morning. Already a cold start to tomorrow, but also this cold mass of | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
continental air moving across us. It will feel bitterly cold, | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
temperatures not likely to get above freezing all day. A lot of cloud | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
around, as that moves in, the chance of some sunshine. But take a look at | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
the temperatures, around 1 degrees for some of us. Factoring in | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
wind-chill, it will feel bitterly cold. The National weather is coming | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
up, USA outlook, cloudy take a look at the Outlook towards | :11:02. | :11:03. |