22/02/2017 Look East

First tonight: whether cities like this

Landowners and business leaders have warned MPs today

that some of the region's farmers could struggle to produce enough

food if Brexit leads to a shortage of migrant workers.

More school places. And the largest arts festival reveals its line-up.

Landowners and business leaders have warned MPs today

that some of the region's farmers could struggle to produce enough

food if Brexit leads to a shortage of migrant workers.

More than 40,000 people work in agriculture in this region.

Nearly 7,000 are seasonal workers, most of them are migrants.

Securing poly tunnels on Andy Allan's farm before

Between April and June, the seasonal workers from Bulgaria

and Romania will harvest 250 tonnes of asparagus.

We are trying to keep the frost off the ground with the polythene.

For Andy, Storm Doris is an inconvenience but his

Within a few years, he fears his 120 loyal EU workers will no longer

I will come here for one or two years and maybe it's

There's no quick return on asparagus farming.

Andy Allan won't see a profit on this crop

He wants to replace these polythene tunnels but he said

he dare not do so because, in the next two years,

If we don't have migrant workers, I have no business, I shut up shop,

I cannot find enough local labour to sustain the business

and continue picking the crop which I have in the ground.

It sounds sensational, but I would have to be packed up.

That is the message put in front of a committee of MPs

We were already see a shortfall in people wanting to come here.

That was massively exacerbated after the referendum

with the exchange rate and people feeling less welcome.

I think it would be totally irresponsible to stop fully migrant

Clearly politics and negotiations will largely determine

For more than a decade, they have returned here to help harvest.

The next decade will be much harder to predict.

More than ?400 million will be spent over the next two

to create thousands of extra school places.

Essex County Council is spending the most,

With 80 million in Suffolk and 70 million in Norfolk.

The work should be finished by 2019, and will help schools cope

We have been visiting the building site and watching

At Glenwood Special School, there is huge excitement.

Next door, a new school building is taking shape.

Soon, the old, cramped classrooms will be gone.

The new school will not only give us spaces that we haven't ever had

before, but they will actually let us take in another 60 pupils

So at the moment, we have nearly 150.

We will be able to go right up to 210.

With a growing population, Essex is spending ?315 million

to create 13,000 new school places by 2019.

The need for more places isn't the only pressure

One headteacher in Essex said the industry is facing

He said budgets are under huge pressure and schools

The council are responsible for schools acknowledges

recruiting teachers needed will be a challenge.

I think, in some ways, for the profession itself,

new teachers like to go and work in new schools, it's

That clearly does not solve the overall problem.

There is still something we need to address.

Is there a specific challenge in Essex because of your proximity

to London and the higher wages there?

Back at Glenwood School, the building work is on schedule,

and there's already a waiting list for pupils.

If all goes to plan, the children will be in the

A company has admitted breaching health and safety regulations

six years after four men died in Great Yarmouth.

were all killed when a steel grid collapsed on them

at Claxton Engineering in Great Yarmouth.

Encompass Project Management

has pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety rules.

Claxton Engineering has denied a similar charge.

One of the largest arts festivals in the country has this evening

The Norfolk and Norwich Arts Festival attracts audiences

It's survived funding cuts and organisers promise

there is something for everyone despite criticisms in

Robbie West is at one of the outside venues for us now.

If we look into the sky tonight, we can't see the moon. But that will

all change during the festival. Why? There is a large replica moon that

is going to hang here at the Forum. There will be lots of venues,

including here. Today, I went to the launch.

We have weird and wonderful experiences.

And, last but not least, we have got things you definitely

Tonight, a packed line-up was announced for the Norfolk

Acts like the sensational Australian circus group Casus

performing in their show, Driftwood.

As well as performers, they have announced literature events,

The Khan Company take audiences from Britain to Bangladesh with this

cross-cultural performance of Chotto Desh.

As well as these ticketed shows, the festival organisers were keen

to make the festival accessible to as many people as possible.

We see the arts as being for everyone regardless

of whether you like theatre or classical music,

or whether you can afford to buy a ticket or not.

And for those who cannot, a free event that includes

the Norwich Total Ensemble and the Cathedral Choir,

who will be performing under the giant moon that will be

That's moon will have the racist Nasa imagery mapped on. There will

be pictures for people to watch the and while performances are not on.

For a full list of the minor, go to the festival website. -- line-up.

Today, a little bit of Hollywood came to what's

left of a World War Two airfield in Norfolk.

Tom Hanks is hoping to make a new TV series about the 100th bomb group

Mr Hanks himself wasn't part of the visit today,

but members of his production company were.

The 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum at Thorpe Abbots near Diss.

It is a little museum in the middle of nowhere.

But the story of the men who served here is now said to get to the TV

Tom Hanks' production company, Plato, is developing a script

for a TV series called Masters of the Air,

I have been thinking about this, this place, for several years.

Now that I am actually here, it takes a while to absorb it.

This is not just another place, this is THE place.

The 100th bomb group flew their B-17 flying fortresses

And began to be known as the Bloody 100th.

Tom Hanks won't star in the new series.

But will be closely involved in the production.

Which was a hit but in America and in the UK.

Under my command, this will be the first and finest

With this production film in East Anglia?

I am hoping that the whole trip, particularly Thorpe Abbots,

is just to embue the place and to take it home with me

and have a better understanding of the texture and the context

And eventually, the lucky few who went home.

We have a rich and important history here, and today,

the American TV producers saw the fact behind their fiction.

Coming up now, the weather with Alex, but from the rest

Some fairly lively weather conditions over the next 24 hours

with the arrival of storm dollars. Outbreaks of rain out there at the

moment. Relatively mild but the wind picking up from the south-west

through the night. All focus on Doris tomorrow. Outbreaks of rain

but particularly strong winds for our part of the country. Amber

weather warning because they could be damaging gusts particularly into

the afternoon. We start the day when. Some rain and drier intimates.

It is when this wind swings into the north-west, it could pick up. Gusts

between 60 and 70 mph particular in the afternoon hour. The North

Norfolk coast it could be higher. The national weather is coming up.

some sunshine around and light winds. For more on Doris and its

impact, here is the national weather.

Good evening, a rough patch weather on the way. Time to fasten your seat

belt. A high wind warning from the Met office, an amber one, so pretty

severe. Let's see where Storm Doris is right now, only just developing

to the west of the UK, in its early stages which is not good because it

will be at its peak when it crosses the UK. You can see this hook of

cloud which is where the twisting is starting to happen, which is where

the big mid-latitude cyclone is starting to develop and it will slam

into the centre of the UK during the morning and move across the country

through the morning and into the afternoon. Two rounds from this

storm, we will see some snow across southern and central parts of

Scotland first tonight and into the early