15/02/2017 Look East


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Hello and welcome to the Look East late news.

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On the programme tonight: The cull of thousands of birds gets under way

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at a farm in Suffolk after the discovery of bird flu.

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The prefab houses being built in Essex to tackle a growing

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And the latest Bronze Age discovery on our coast,

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A cull of thousands of chickens got underway in Suffolk today,

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The outbreak, at a farm in Redgrave near Diss, is the first

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Tonight, a lorry took thousands of dead birds away

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from the breeding unit, which is run by Banham Poultry.

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Restriction zones in place around Bridge Farm in Redgrave today.

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A clear warning that bird flu is present in the area.

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Today, the culling of 23,000 birds after a single case of highly

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pathogenic H5N8 was confirmed at the site on Sunday evening.

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The farm is used for breeding birds and not producing meat.

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A ten-kilometre temporary control zone is in place

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for poultry farmers, meaning all birds

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It's the second restriction to be put in place since December,

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after bird flu cases were discovered first in Europe and

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Daniel Brown is an egg producer near Mildenhall.

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He's 23 miles from the infected site.

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He has 44,000 birds, normally allowed to roam freely outside,

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now being kept inside to reduce the risk of infection.

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The Ministry vets would come in, they would assess the birds

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and if you're found to have it, they basically shut you down.

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You can't even leave work to go home without getting a licence.

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Everyone has to be checked out and all the birds have to be culled

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Clean down costs can run at anything about ?10 per bird place.

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Last night it was confirmed this case of bird flu is the same as that

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found in wild birds and farmed poultry in other

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Four chicken sheds are in the process of being emptied

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No birds can be housed here for the next 30 days.

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Banham Group Ltd manages this breeding site.

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It's released a statement today, to confirm that a flock of birds

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are being culled on this site in accordance with EU law.

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It also confirms there have been no other cases of bird flu in the area.

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We understand the culling process could take up to two days

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to complete and teams will be back on this site first

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Low-cost houses that measure just four metres by eight metres will be

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put up in Chelmsford for people on the waiting list who might

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They're a modern version of the old-fashioned prefab -

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and the City Council says the rents will be kept low.

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Chelmsford City Council is showing off this eco-modular home

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in the hope that it might solve their very own housing crisis.

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The interesting thing about this unit is that it was assembled

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What we've got is a separate bedroom, living area,

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and through here, we've got a shower room, a bathroom.

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In the kitchen, the fridge, washing machine already plumbed in,

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Assembled on-site in half a day, effectively it's good to go.

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By the spring, this parking lot will be one of two council sites

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where the first 18 prefab homes will be assembled.

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The people on the waiting list and in need of immediate

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accommodation are people that will have become homeless

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from their present accommodation for a variety of reasons,

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so it is the start of a slightly different approach that

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we've had in the past, and I believe many other councils

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We would build more of these if we can, yes.

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Construction methods have come a long way since prefab first

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appeared in the urban landscape, generated by a housing crisis

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Many factories say the modules can be built for half

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the cost of a brick house, and are more energy efficient.

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In the east, we need 32,000 new homes a year, but we're

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Modular housing could be part of the solution,

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but we need Government to step in and provide much more land

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Otherwise modular housing really is trying to solve the blockage

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Between them, neighbours Brian and Sandler have clocked up 94 years

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This is very much a quick fix for the local council,

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but perhaps the wider housing industry will take

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With so many young people unable to get onto the property ladder,

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these prefab homes could be a game changer.

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The charity Chess runs a night shelter in Chelmsford.

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This evening, Barbara Buxton, one of the managers,

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told me about the growing demand for accommodation.

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We have seven beds here and 22 beds elsewhere, so we have 29

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At the moment we are running a winter project which is doing

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That's being utilised pretty much all the time now.

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We still can't actually cope with all the capacity that's out there.

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The figures in Chelmsford show a huge increase

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in the numbers of people needing emergency accommodation.

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What kinds of reasons will people find suddenly themselves homeless?

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A few months ago I had a gentleman that walked up on a Friday evening.

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He had a job, had accommodation, everything was fine

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He came home one day, he found his partner with someone

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else, and in that one fell swoop he lost his accommodation.

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He worked for her parents in the hotel business.

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So he lost his accommodation, he lost his partner,

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he lost his job, literally in the space of a few minutes.

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He turned up here with nowhere to go.

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He didn't have any friends locally, because he's from another

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We were full at the time, so it was then trying to find him

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hotel accommodation for the evening, which we struggled,

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So it's things like that, where literally one minute

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everything was fine in his life, the next minute,

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Do you think these prefab houses will help and make a difference?

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There's not that many, as such, compared with the problem.

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So the more that could be done would be better,

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but obviously, anything, any step in the right

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Firefighters from across Suffolk have been tackling a blaze

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at a country house near Saxmundham this evening.The fire,

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in Main Street in Kelsale, broke out just before 6pm.

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Fire crews from around 16 locations were called to the scene.

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No one was believed to be in the building

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Councillors have welcomed plans for a new ?70 million rail depot

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Rail operator Greater Anglia is planning the development,

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to service and repair its new fleet of trains on former

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Essex County Council said it will create around 30 jobs,

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with wider benefits for the local economy.

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In 1998, one of the biggest Bronze Age discoveries we've ever

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It was called Seahenge - a huge timber circle,

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which had been buried in the sand for hundreds of years.

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Now more Bronze Age timbers have been found on the Essex coast,

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and experts think they could be part of an ancient causeway.

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On Mersea Island, a race against time and tide.

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Thank you so, so much for coming and for being here very early.

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Members of the Coastal and Intertidal Zone

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Archaeological Network - Citizan for short -

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are battling to capture a piece of history before it goes for good.

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The site is only accessible when the tide is out.

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They believe this could have been home to an ancient settlement,

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but they know it won't be long before the sea that

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Their discoveries featured on today's Countryfile Winter Diary.

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Look at that, a massive series of oak beams.

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It might look to the untrained eye like just another

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piece of muddy old wood, but to the archaeologist,

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it's a vital clue - left behind by those who lived

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Normally, archaeologists would slowly excavate

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the site inch by inch, to uncover its secrets,

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but with the tide coming back in no such luxury.

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They are hoping to preserve the landscape in virtual form,

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creating a 3D model of the whole site.

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We found the remains of - and I mean the remains,

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fragmentary remains - of a deliberately constructed raft.

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Maybe this is a shepherd's hut, maybe it's a seaside villa.

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Many questions still have to be answered about this now submerged

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historic landscape and the people who used to call this

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Without the efforts of the team from Citizan, their story might

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Good evening. The mild weather will continue this week and into the

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weekend and beyond. Tonight, the earlier rain has cleared. We are

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left with clear skies. It will be chillier tonight than last night.

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Some of us getting loads of around five Celsius. Tomorrow, we start

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with the fog and mist patch around. That should clear. High pressure

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building in from the south. The second picture for the next couple

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of the days. Once the mist on fog has cleared, lots of sunshine

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through the morning. Temperatures around 10-11 for many of us. It

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should feel quite pleasant. As we get into the afternoon, a little bit

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more cloud coming in from the West, particularly affecting Northern

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parts of Norfolk. There could be the odd spot of rain. For most of us,

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it's expected to stay dry. Here's the outlook. For Friday, looking

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fine and dry with some long spells of sunshine. Still staying milder

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and a slightly cooler night follows. The weekend looks like a dry

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the weekend. Wouldn't promise you two dry days but you never know,

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here is Nick with the national picture.

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Hello. We put that cold weekend well behind us now. Temperatures edging

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upwards and our weather watchers are seeing plenty of signs of spring.

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Spending more time looking down than looking up at the skies, we see

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these early blooms. They are set to continue as we are set to stay mild

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for several more days to come. Average daytime temperature this

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time of year around eight, but getting into double figures all the

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way through the weekend. The start of next week into the mid-teens

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potentially, very mild indeed. It was 14 in Lincolnshire today. A lot

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of heavy rain to end the day. That clearing from Yorkshire to the North

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Sea. A few showers in the west and the odd one may continue into the

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night. Many becoming dry, just this rain still into western parts of

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Scotland gusty winds. Lighter winds to

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