:00:00. > 3:59:59for Mosul underway, there will have to be some follow-through. So what
:00:00. > :00:07.comes next? Join Hello and welcome to
:00:08. > :00:09.the Look East late news. In the programme tonight,
:00:10. > :00:11.protests from the public gallery, as another county council admits
:00:12. > :00:14.services will be hit, despite a big Hopes that our wartime history
:00:15. > :00:24.will prompt a friendly And after an exceptionally mild
:00:25. > :00:29.Monday, I will have the weather Hello.
:00:30. > :00:41.I'm Amelia Reynolds. The region's council tax
:00:42. > :00:43.payers are in line for big to plug the gaps in local
:00:44. > :00:48.government spending. Today, Norfolk agreed its budget
:00:49. > :00:50.for the new financial year and it has gone for its biggest
:00:51. > :00:57.increase ever - 4.8%. That is an extra ?57 a year
:00:58. > :01:00.for the average home. Last week, Essex increased its
:01:01. > :01:03.charge by ?36 a year for an Southend sets its bills separately.
:01:04. > :01:08.Its increase is even higher. Suffolk went for a 3% rise,
:01:09. > :01:26.meaning an extra ?56 a year. Today the county council admitted it
:01:27. > :01:30.would have to make savings. This is where the pain
:01:31. > :01:34.will be felt this year, in sheltered housing -
:01:35. > :01:36.warden-run homes for the elderly I think it is a very important
:01:37. > :01:40.part of the social care It enables the elderly
:01:41. > :01:43.residents to live longer and maintain their independence, thus
:01:44. > :01:46.avoiding having to go into nursing If your funding from the county
:01:47. > :01:52.council is cut, what happens? Obviously, some of the services
:01:53. > :01:55.we may be able to provide But in some cases, we may have
:01:56. > :02:04.to even reduce the services. And that subsidy is going to be cut
:02:05. > :02:07.this year by up to 50%. So, too, funding for charities
:02:08. > :02:09.in Norfolk who provide accommodation County councils no longer have
:02:10. > :02:13.a statutory obligation to provide So, with spending
:02:14. > :02:15.pressures elsewhere, this part of the budget
:02:16. > :02:23.is being scaled back. I regret that, but we have been
:02:24. > :02:26.subsidising the district councils and they have their own
:02:27. > :02:28.tax-raising powers. What we are saying is, "Hang on,
:02:29. > :02:35.we can no longer do this for you." This was the most contentious
:02:36. > :02:43.part of today's budget. The opposition parties tried
:02:44. > :02:45.to reverse the cuts, but when they failed, there
:02:46. > :02:48.were cries from the public There will be an increase
:02:49. > :02:54.in homelessness. There are places already closing
:02:55. > :02:56.down that look after vulnerable people and women's centres
:02:57. > :02:58.and so on. And they have been lost and are in
:02:59. > :03:01.the process of being lost. I don't know where people like that
:03:02. > :03:05.are supposed to now go. The council says that,
:03:06. > :03:07.in making difficult choices, it has been able to protect
:03:08. > :03:09.frontline services. Libraries, even mobile
:03:10. > :03:17.ones, are staying open. No fire stations are being closed.
:03:18. > :03:19.And school crossing patrol survive. But it has meant some painful cuts
:03:20. > :03:22.and a big increase in council tax. How is this going to go down
:03:23. > :03:31.with the electorate? Andrew Sinclair was at today's
:03:32. > :03:34.meeting at County Hall in Norwich. I asked him earlier
:03:35. > :03:36.what the local tax rises tell us about the pressures faced
:03:37. > :03:38.by our local councils? The fact that all our authorities
:03:39. > :03:41.are putting up council tax in an election year gives
:03:42. > :03:43.you an idea how serious things are in local
:03:44. > :03:45.government finance. Over the past six years,
:03:46. > :03:49.their grant from central government By 2020, they have to make further
:03:50. > :03:54.savings of ?120 million. and if they see services
:03:55. > :03:58.like youth services, housing support, which they do not,
:03:59. > :04:05.by law, have to provide, there are going to be cuts
:04:06. > :04:10.in funding for them. What we are talking
:04:11. > :04:13.about tonight is the county council's share of the council
:04:14. > :04:14.tax bill. The financial bill is
:04:15. > :04:32.likely to be much more? Over the next few nights,
:04:33. > :04:37.district councils in Norfolk - most of them, at least -
:04:38. > :04:39.are going to increase their share We already know that the police
:04:40. > :04:44.share of the council tax bill is By the time this comes to an end,
:04:45. > :04:48.most council tax payers in Norfolk will be looking at an average rise
:04:49. > :04:51.of ?70 this year. That is quite a lot
:04:52. > :04:56.for voters to swallow. but there is another row brewing
:04:57. > :04:59.around the re-evaluation The Chancellor Philip Hammond has
:05:00. > :05:03.said tonight that he is I asked our business correspondent
:05:04. > :05:06.Richard Bond to explain. Most businesses out there are lucky
:05:07. > :05:09.enough not to see increases But there are places
:05:10. > :05:12.where the rates are going up What we are seeing in Southwould
:05:13. > :05:16.in Suffolk, for example, and Burnham Market in Norfolk,
:05:17. > :05:19.where rents have risen most since the last valuation
:05:20. > :05:21.nearly ten years ago. This bakery in Southwold,
:05:22. > :05:25.which has recently been refurbished, is expecting its business
:05:26. > :05:27.rates to rise from ?2,000 At the moment, I pay myself only
:05:28. > :05:34.the minimum wage of ?10,000 a year. Everything that I make goes
:05:35. > :05:36.back into the business. So we are looking at decisions,
:05:37. > :05:39.potentially, about the likes of the people that
:05:40. > :05:41.I employ and employ and decisions about where money
:05:42. > :05:50.is invested in the business. But are increases
:05:51. > :05:53.on that scale typical? No, they are not.
:05:54. > :05:55.The government has been at pains today to say that the main
:05:56. > :05:57.areas seeing increases are in London and the South East,
:05:58. > :06:00.not in this region. It says businesses in the East
:06:01. > :06:03.will see an average 7% fall in their business rates, equivalent
:06:04. > :06:08.to a saving of ?180 million. And the winners, in more detail,
:06:09. > :06:11.include Chelmsford, which will see a reduction of 10%,
:06:12. > :06:13.Ipswich 11% and Norwich 5%, though that does not mean that
:06:14. > :06:15.all premises in those places a reduction of 10%,
:06:16. > :06:22.Ipswich 11% and Norwich 5%, though that does not mean that
:06:23. > :06:25.all premises in those places The first residential
:06:26. > :06:31.home in Suffolk for women with eating disorders has
:06:32. > :06:33.been officially opened. The White House is operated
:06:34. > :06:35.by a commercial company. hose who need help can
:06:36. > :06:38.be referred by the NHS and given help with planning
:06:39. > :06:51.their meals and life skills. 75 years ago today,
:06:52. > :06:54.at the height of World War II, the so called "friendly
:06:55. > :06:56.invasion" of East Anglia Now, the tourism
:06:57. > :07:02.industry in this region wants to make sure our wartime
:07:03. > :07:05.history is not forgotten. Mike Liggins reports from
:07:06. > :07:08.the Imperial War Museum at Duxford. and the launch of a new
:07:09. > :07:20.tourism campaign called 75 years ago, 180,000 US servicemen
:07:21. > :07:24.came to East Anglia, to serve with Now, Visit East Anglia has put
:07:25. > :07:32.together new itineraries, based on locations like Duxford,
:07:33. > :07:43.which will be sold in America. The Queen has her royal retreat
:07:44. > :07:45.here in East Anglia. They like that.
:07:46. > :07:47.We have our Downton Abbeys. We have links golf courses,
:07:48. > :07:51.we have English whisky distilleries. All the things that we know American
:07:52. > :07:53.tourists like, we tick those boxes, as well as having
:07:54. > :07:56.the peg of the 75th anniversary At today's launch, there
:07:57. > :08:00.were several VIPs here, from Playtone, Tom Hanks's
:08:01. > :08:06.production company, which is planning to make a new TV
:08:07. > :08:10.series about the 8th Army Air Force. Been a long war.
:08:11. > :08:14.It's been a tough war. The same company made the worldwide
:08:15. > :08:16.hit, Band of Brothers, and are now in production
:08:17. > :08:19.of a series based on a book I can't promise exactly
:08:20. > :08:31.if we will be shooting here, but certainly we do so much research
:08:32. > :08:35.on what we do with these projects. There will certainly be that
:08:36. > :08:37.presence, to do research. What does it look like?
:08:38. > :08:39.What did it look like? And to talk to some of
:08:40. > :08:42.the local people, who have knowledge, of what it
:08:43. > :08:44.was like in the '40s Tom Hanks will not star
:08:45. > :08:48.in the series, but will be a writer The storyline will probably
:08:49. > :08:52.concentrate on those of the 100 Bomb Group, aka "The Bloody
:08:53. > :08:55.100", who were based here, The worst job you could have
:08:56. > :08:59.in World War II was to be an American or British flier in one
:09:00. > :09:02.of these aeroplanes 30,000 feet over Germany.
:09:03. > :09:03.It was pretty tough. The camaraderie that grew out
:09:04. > :09:06.of that is simply extraordinary and is really at the
:09:07. > :09:08.heart of our drama. It is estimated there
:09:09. > :09:10.are ten million staying in our region, but with a
:09:11. > :09:13.blockbuster series about our wartime days on the way,
:09:14. > :09:15.Visit East Anglia says that the potential
:09:16. > :09:17.to sell the region to Coming up now the weather
:09:18. > :09:51.with Julie, but from the rest A largely cloudy knit, with
:09:52. > :10:00.outbreaks of patchy rain. Tomorrow, the front responsible for two nights
:10:01. > :10:06.dream, eases away towards the south. Eventually, it should become dry of
:10:07. > :10:18.Arabia. Some spills of brightness. Temperatures getting up to 12-13 C.
:10:19. > :10:25.On Wednesday, this front pushing down from the north, introducing
:10:26. > :10:32.more rain. Eventually, that should push away towards the south. Dry
:10:33. > :10:37.conditions following. Similar temperatures to witness the. These
:10:38. > :10:50.isobars fairly close together, signalling that the weather is going
:10:51. > :10:56.to become increasingly breezy on Thursday. The wind should ease by
:10:57. > :11:02.Friday. But you will see the temperatures considerably lower than
:11:03. > :11:03.for the rest of the week. Here is the outlook.
:11:04. > :11:14.As you have just seen, after a day in which some of you have been
:11:15. > :11:17.shedding the layers, you will be putting them back on for the rest of
:11:18. > :11:20.this week. Big changes ahead, all down to where the air has been
:11:21. > :11:21.coming from. Today, it originated in