:00:00. > :00:00.Hello and welcome to the Look East late news.
:00:00. > :00:08.Officers begin a painstaking search of a landfill site
:00:09. > :00:13.near Cambridge for missing airman Corrie Mckeague.
:00:14. > :00:19.We go down a new mineshaft at Grimes Graves near Thetford
:00:20. > :00:23.to find out how Stone Age man lived 5,000 years ago.
:00:24. > :00:26.And I will be here with your weather for the week ahead,
:00:27. > :00:39.Police officers have started a crucial stage in their search
:00:40. > :00:42.for Corrie Mckeague, who went missing after a night out
:00:43. > :00:47.Today, they started sifting through tonnes of rubbish
:00:48. > :00:52.in the search for the missing airman.
:00:53. > :00:55.A bin lorry made a collection in the town
:00:56. > :00:59.shortly after Corrie was last seen on CCTV.
:01:00. > :01:01.The lorry went to the landfill site at Milton,
:01:02. > :01:18.This is such a big operation, it has taken the police more than two weeks
:01:19. > :01:22.to prepare the groundwork. If you yards behind the gate is the
:01:23. > :01:29.landfill, and they have two putting politics and sands repair access
:01:30. > :01:35.roads. It could last 6-8 weeks. Diggers will take out the rubbish,
:01:36. > :01:37.transfer it to a flat area, and then officers will go in and search for
:01:38. > :01:38.clues. Today, specialist police search
:01:39. > :01:40.teams are wearing Phyllis and jackets begin what could be
:01:41. > :01:42.a mammoth, painstaking Almost item by item,
:01:43. > :01:47.they will pick through 920 square They are booking for anything
:01:48. > :01:52.that could be linked to I think there is a very strong
:01:53. > :01:56.possibility that Corrie Mckeague if he is not, that leads us
:01:57. > :02:04.to other vehicles that The people that have been spoken
:02:05. > :02:15.to perhaps need spoken to again. These are the last now-familiar CCTV
:02:16. > :02:17.shots of Corrie Mckeague before he went missing after a night out
:02:18. > :02:20.in Bury St Edmunds town centre. The 23-year-old was seen going
:02:21. > :02:24.in but not coming out of this area, Shortly after, a waste lorry took
:02:25. > :02:27.away rubbish from one of these commercial bins
:02:28. > :02:30.where he disappeared. Corrie Mckeague's mobile phone
:02:31. > :02:34.was thought to be inside it. The lorry went to Barton Mills
:02:35. > :02:37.and then onto Milton, 30 miles away In the early days of
:02:38. > :02:41.the investigation, it was one We know that the refuge lorry did
:02:42. > :02:48.travel between the two locations. And the times would correlate
:02:49. > :02:52.loosely with the time at which the mobile telephone,
:02:53. > :02:56.which colleague was mentioning, was picked up in Bury St Edmunds,
:02:57. > :03:01.and then moving over there. A few days into their investigation,
:03:02. > :03:06.police told operators at the Milton site not to put any
:03:07. > :03:09.more rubbish in the area 19 weeks after Corrie Mckeague has
:03:10. > :03:18.disappeared, the best answer as to what happened to him
:03:19. > :03:33.could lie under here. Officers will delve to a depth of 26
:03:34. > :03:44.feet. One arrest of a 26 ruled in Saint Edmunds. Accusations of
:03:45. > :03:47.perverting the cause of justice, he has been bailed. The family will be
:03:48. > :03:50.expecting the worst but hoping for the best.
:03:51. > :03:53.Earlier, I spoke to Steve Gaskin, a former Scotland Yard detective
:03:54. > :03:55.who says searching landfill sites is hugely complex.
:03:56. > :03:57.I asked him what the decision to search meant they
:03:58. > :04:01.I mean, you wouldn't enter into this sort of search without having
:04:02. > :04:03.some idea that you're going to find something.
:04:04. > :04:05.Because, as we know, this is a huge operation
:04:06. > :04:09.in terms of manpower, in terms of cost, and there is a lot
:04:10. > :04:12.of work to be done to sift through effectively 8000
:04:13. > :04:18.And I suppose, as a cliche, as a police officer,
:04:19. > :04:24.I have never seen a surge on this scale.
:04:25. > :04:27.And these police officers will be searching with
:04:28. > :04:34.Yeah, the thing is, it will be very easy to overlook things.
:04:35. > :04:35.There is going to be all manner of detritus
:04:36. > :04:49.And it will have to be some form of digger to remove the staff
:04:50. > :04:53.you will have to go through that to determine what is useful
:04:54. > :04:59.And of course, what they would do is that's, it is a joint operation
:05:00. > :05:05.And they will need a specially trained officers to help with that.
:05:06. > :05:06.Together with, I suspect, a forensic team.
:05:07. > :05:09.And if it was me, I would want a pathologist on stand-by
:05:10. > :05:15.You would expect, after five months a fair degree of decomposition.
:05:16. > :05:20.What, therefore, might be left to provide a positive identification?
:05:21. > :05:23.Surprisingly, even after this time, and we are talking about six
:05:24. > :05:25.months ago, there will be the possibility of fingerprints.
:05:26. > :05:29.I know that sounds bizarre, but fingerprints are fairly
:05:30. > :05:34.In other words, you can still get marks even after that time.
:05:35. > :05:38.Your teeth do remain for a long, long time.
:05:39. > :05:50.So that will be the best way of identifying the person.
:05:51. > :05:52.Equally important is, you have got to deal
:05:53. > :05:55.Because you are dealing with a massive crime scene.
:05:56. > :05:58.Any evidence that is accried needs to be dealt with in the same way
:05:59. > :06:03.Offshore wind experts say they remain confident that a factory
:06:04. > :06:05.making turbine blades will be built in the East.
:06:06. > :06:08.The first factory was built in Hull by the German company Siemens.
:06:09. > :06:10.But business leaders say another local Manufacturing base
:06:11. > :06:15.It is a world-class factory, producing blades for wind farms off
:06:16. > :06:24.But rather than being in Lowestoft or Great Yarmouth, this ?300 million
:06:25. > :06:36.Made from hundreds of layers of fibreglass.
:06:37. > :06:39.Many used to work in the local caravan industry,
:06:40. > :06:46.The blades we are producing at the moment are for
:06:47. > :06:50.Which is for our customer Dong Energy.
:06:51. > :06:53.We are also producing the wind turbines for the Dudgeon wind
:06:54. > :06:55.farm, which is just off the coast of Croma.
:06:56. > :06:58.Over the last 13 years, lots of wind farms have been
:06:59. > :07:05.Some of the biggest are off Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex.
:07:06. > :07:10.Great efforts have gone into building up an onshore supply
:07:11. > :07:13.chain to maximise the number of jobs for the region.
:07:14. > :07:16.Which is why it is disappointing that, so far, we have missed out
:07:17. > :07:18.on getting a blade factory of our own.
:07:19. > :07:22.Around them, clusters of companies supplying the needs
:07:23. > :07:26.of what is a massive industry eventually locate themselves.
:07:27. > :07:31.Chris Starkey is one of those who has lobbied
:07:32. > :07:38.We know that, if all or most of the wind farms that
:07:39. > :07:42.are planned come on stream, we will need an awful lot of blades.
:07:43. > :07:45.And that is far more than the Hull factory can produce on its own.
:07:46. > :07:48.And we think that Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft on the east coast
:07:49. > :07:51.is perfectly positioned to take advantage of a second
:07:52. > :07:58.A consignment of blades leaves Hull for Norfolk.
:07:59. > :08:00.Perhaps in future, they might be made nearer to home.
:08:01. > :08:18.5000 years ago, East Anglia was home to flint mining..Today a new mine
:08:19. > :08:20.shaft opened to the public at Grimes Graves near Thetford.
:08:21. > :08:25.It is an extraordinary, lunar-like landscape.
:08:26. > :08:27.At Grimes Graves, hundreds of prehistoric flint
:08:28. > :08:32.Now, a second shaft here is being opened to visitors.
:08:33. > :08:36.But you will need to have a head for heights.
:08:37. > :08:43.It is incredible to think this shaft was made about 2000 BC.
:08:44. > :08:46.The sides I am looking at would have been exactly what the Neolithic
:08:47. > :08:51.It is very much an industrial site because they were clearly getting
:08:52. > :08:55.In some cases, they were working it into some basic shapes.
:08:56. > :09:02.We know, because they found a Cornish greenstone axe in here.
:09:03. > :09:06.It is incredible to think that this 40-foot shaft was dug by miners
:09:07. > :09:09.equipped with picks fashioned out of red deer antler.
:09:10. > :09:17.And this is what they are after - flint floor stone.
:09:18. > :09:20.Greenwells pit will soon be welcoming small, guided groups,
:09:21. > :09:23.the conservators here well aware of the need to protect this historic
:09:24. > :09:32.We're back in Breakfast tomorrow from 6.30, but I'll say goodnight
:09:33. > :09:40.and leave you in the hands of Julie with the weather.
:09:41. > :09:47.Of tonight, Shell was drifting through. For most of us, dry with
:09:48. > :09:51.clear spells. Underneath the Chris buys, temperatures could get lower
:09:52. > :09:56.than these values towards freezing. It will be a chilly start of the
:09:57. > :10:04.day. This weather front pushing towards us from the south-west.
:10:05. > :10:10.Apart from a few showers, fine and dry. Some spells of sunshine. That
:10:11. > :10:14.should help to produce up to 10 Celsius. We finish the day fine and
:10:15. > :10:19.dry. After. We will see the cloud thickening up. As the rain
:10:20. > :10:22.associated with the weather front pushing eastwards, some on the heavy
:10:23. > :10:28.side. It is associated with this weather front. Uncertainty as to how
:10:29. > :10:32.quickly it will clear to the east. When he gets off to a cloudy start
:10:33. > :10:35.with our great suffering. Hopefully the rain will eventually create and
:10:36. > :10:46.we will see things becoming drier and brighter. -- outbreaks of rain.
:10:47. > :10:53.Pressure pushing towards us but Thursday a dry day with some
:10:54. > :10:56.sunshine. Some rain moving through during Thursday night into Friday.
:10:57. > :11:00.Cloudy on Friday with some outbreaks of rain. The national forecast
:11:01. > :11:02.coming cool, it will be windy at times as
:11:03. > :11:06.well and still rather unsettled with some blustery showers around. That's
:11:07. > :11:07.the London forecast and now for the National forecast, over to Nick
:11:08. > :11:20.Miller. North-west France and Plymouth were
:11:21. > :11:26.miles apart weather-wise. This southern flank in north-west France
:11:27. > :11:29.there was a wind gusts of 120 mph which we just dodged. That area of
:11:30. > :11:34.low pressure continues to move quickly south-eastwards so that by
:11:35. > :11:38.tomorrow it is in Italy on its southern flank, stormy in Sardinia
:11:39. > :11:42.and around it strong winds blowing through south-east France. We've got
:11:43. > :11:45.a little bump in the ice bars with lighter winds, a brief ridge of high
:11:46. > :11:49.pressure, things briefly settled going into tomorrow, overnight there
:11:50. > :11:52.are some showers around moving through western Scotland and
:11:53. > :11:55.north-west England and the Midlands, clearing Wales, one or two in the
:11:56. > :11:56.east, the North Sea