:00:00. > :00:00.Hello and welcome to the late edition of Look East.
:00:07. > :00:08.In the programme tonight, the mother of the missing
:00:09. > :00:13.after Suffolk Police admit her son's body is almost
:00:14. > :00:24.What the budget could mean for smaLL businesses across Essex,
:00:25. > :00:30.All the details later in the programme.
:00:31. > :00:38.Good evening. I'm Vanessa Baffoe.
:00:39. > :00:39.First tonight, the crucial evidence missed by detectives
:00:40. > :00:41.after the disappearance of airman Corrie Mckeague.
:00:42. > :00:44.For nearly six months, they had all but ruled out
:00:45. > :00:47.a theory linking him to a landfiLL site near Cambridge.
:00:48. > :00:50.But now they have finally admitted that he will almost
:00:51. > :00:58.Today, Look East was given access to the search operation
:00:59. > :01:03.It is where bins from Bury St Edmunds were taken just
:01:04. > :01:09.Slowly and methodically, specially-trained officers
:01:10. > :01:13.mindful that, just feet below them could lie
:01:14. > :01:20.Nearby, a digger waits to collect it after each search.
:01:21. > :01:23.Scented air is dispensed here, to mask the smell.
:01:24. > :01:29.Further in, the police have set up a compound for the search teams,
:01:30. > :01:32.from which a specially-built access route leads to the search site -
:01:33. > :01:37.920 square metres and eight metres deep.
:01:38. > :01:40.Does it bother you that someone can put waste into a bin lorry,
:01:41. > :01:43.can unload it at a landfill site and nobody notices
:01:44. > :01:51.Yes, it bothers me. Of course it bothers me.
:01:52. > :01:58.That is somebody's son. It is Corrie.
:01:59. > :02:01.If that is what has happened, we need to understand how that
:02:02. > :02:03.has happened and to understand the circumstances of what happened
:02:04. > :02:09.These are the last images of the 23-year-old airman
:02:10. > :02:20.He went missimng from this area of Bury St Edmunds.
:02:21. > :02:23.A rubbish lorry made a pick-up here within an hour of
:02:24. > :02:27.The last movements of his mobile phone coincided with the route
:02:28. > :02:30.that the bin lorry would have taken to the landfill site.
:02:31. > :02:32.Police say the error over the weight of the bin was made
:02:33. > :02:34.by the waste company, who provided the data.
:02:35. > :02:37.They said there was no intention to mislead
:02:38. > :02:41.Had police known at the outset about the true weight of the bin, how
:02:42. > :02:42.different would this investigation have been?
:02:43. > :02:47.Why did it take more than five months for this fact to emerge and,
:02:48. > :02:50.if Corrie was in that bin, how could a body be taken
:02:51. > :02:58.to a landfill like this and for no-one to have noticed?
:02:59. > :03:01.Frustrated by the apparent slow progress of the investigation,
:03:02. > :03:02.Corrie's family had brought in their own intelligence
:03:03. > :03:04.expert, to sift through some of the evidence.
:03:05. > :03:07.We would like to think we had something to do
:03:08. > :03:09.with directing the police towards that site.
:03:10. > :03:12.From the very outset - and the family hold this opinion,
:03:13. > :03:20.too - there should have been more work done on the landfill site.
:03:21. > :03:22.In five months, police only made one arrest.
:03:23. > :03:25.Last week, they questioned a man reported to be from the bin firm,
:03:26. > :03:28.on suspicion of attempting to pervert the courtse of justice.
:03:29. > :03:34.on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
:03:35. > :03:38.Both men have been told they will not face any more action.
:03:39. > :03:41.All eyes are now focused on this landfill site
:03:42. > :03:45.The Mckeague family are praying for the best, but are now more
:03:46. > :03:48.This is still a missing person's enquiry, but there is every
:03:49. > :03:55.expectation that the remains of Corrie Mckeague will be found.
:03:56. > :03:57.Corrie's mother, Nicola Urquhart is a serving police officer.
:03:58. > :03:59.She has followed every twist and turn
:04:00. > :04:05.of the investigation with an expert eye.
:04:06. > :04:07.Today, Susie Fowler-Watt went to see her at her home
:04:08. > :04:11.in Dunfermline in Scotland. She said up to now,
:04:12. > :04:14.she had pinned her hopes on the belief that Corrie could not
:04:15. > :04:24.And those facts were the bin weighed 11 kilograms.
:04:25. > :04:25.They checked it. They double checked it.
:04:26. > :04:28.So, he couldn't have been in it. They checked the calibration.
:04:29. > :04:33.And so, knowing that, we've... We've had to go through all of this.
:04:34. > :04:46.And I know you've had an up-and-down relationship
:04:47. > :04:49.with Suffolk Police during that time, but how do you
:04:50. > :04:54.feel about the fact that this has come out now?
:04:55. > :04:59.I don't feel let down by Suffolk Police.
:05:00. > :05:04.I feel let down by decisions that have been made that
:05:05. > :05:15.that have made things harder than they had to be.
:05:16. > :05:19.I think there's lessons that can be learned.
:05:20. > :05:23.I don't think the next family that have a missing child,
:05:24. > :05:27.or a missing loved one, will go through some of the things
:05:28. > :05:32.And I'll probably be quite vocal about making sure some
:05:33. > :05:38.When we first talked, right at the start of the investigation,
:05:39. > :05:44.you talked about the agony of not knowing.
:05:45. > :05:52.Now you probably do know, is it still agony?
:05:53. > :05:55.I would actually say that's one of the things I've
:05:56. > :06:00.so completely incorrect. It's not the agony of not knowing.
:06:01. > :06:02.Because when you don't know, you can still believe
:06:03. > :06:05.that they are alive. The agony is when you do know...
:06:06. > :06:19.It seems like you're always so strong, but this news has almost,
:06:20. > :06:30.kind of, knocked a chunk in your resolve.
:06:31. > :06:33.when I was trying to organise searches or getting volunteers,
:06:34. > :06:36.I felt like I have been doing something constructive
:06:37. > :06:40.Now, just sitting and waiting for a phone call, to find out
:06:41. > :06:43.whether they've found him or not, I don't do that well.
:06:44. > :06:48.So, what is your overriding emotion at the moment,
:06:49. > :06:55.I cannot explain how this is making me feel right now.
:06:56. > :07:13.I'm so upset that I've brought over 120,000 people into this, with us,
:07:14. > :07:15.and I'm making other people upset, because I needed their support,
:07:16. > :07:22.when maybe this didn't have to happen.
:07:23. > :07:25.I'm angry that I've had to criticise a police force, when maybe this
:07:26. > :07:38.I can't even describe how it makes me feel for my boys.
:07:39. > :07:42.There was help in the Budget today for companies in the region who have
:07:43. > :07:46.They will get a share of more than ?400 million,
:07:47. > :07:49.with local councils able to give money to what they consider the most
:07:50. > :07:55.Our business correspondent Richard Bond is here.
:07:56. > :07:58.The Chancellor was under a lot of pressure to act on business
:07:59. > :08:02.rates and there was more money for social care, but a tax rise
:08:03. > :08:17.Yes they have been recalculated and there are some who have won and some
:08:18. > :08:24.who have lost. In the senior, businesses have not done too badly.
:08:25. > :08:34.In only four districts, is the arise. But there are some massive
:08:35. > :08:37.increases in individual cases. The majority of pubs will get a discount
:08:38. > :08:39.of around ?1000. Anything is a help.
:08:40. > :08:41.1,000 quid to some people is a lot of money.
:08:42. > :08:43.In the great scheme of things, I don't suppose it is too much,
:08:44. > :09:03.but anything is a great help. There was more money for social
:09:04. > :09:13.care, but Horizon National insurance for the self-employed? Yes, this is
:09:14. > :09:22.an area of high self employment. This has annoyed business groups.
:09:23. > :09:27.The Suffolk Chamber of Commerce says it has a body blow for
:09:28. > :09:30.entrepreneurs. The theatre is taking away the incentive for people to
:09:31. > :09:35.take the plunge into self-employment. With regard to
:09:36. > :09:43.social care, they will get a share of the two billion pounds nationally
:09:44. > :09:45.over the next few years. Many people feel that will not be enough to plug
:09:46. > :09:48.the funding gap. It has emerged that another inmate
:09:49. > :09:50.has died at Chelmsford Prison. Essex Police say last week's death
:09:51. > :09:53.is not being treated as suspicious. A man in his thirties was found
:09:54. > :09:56.unconscious at the jail and taken to hospital,
:09:57. > :09:58.where he later died. Procedures at the prison
:09:59. > :09:59.were criticised after who electrocuted himself
:10:00. > :10:09.in his ceLL last year. Alex is next with your weather.
:10:10. > :10:34.But from me, goodnight. He mild forecast over the next
:10:35. > :10:42.couple of days. We start tomorrow with this weather system quite
:10:43. > :10:48.close, but that is enough out of the way to suggest we will enjoy a fine
:10:49. > :10:55.day of weather. If freshening breeze coming down from the North West.
:10:56. > :10:58.Temperatures 12-15dC. outlook, staying mild and Nick has
:10:59. > :11:08.the bigger picture across the UK. Hello. Spring is in the air with
:11:09. > :11:13.temperatures reaching 14 or 15 in a few spots today as they will again
:11:14. > :11:20.over the next few days. Very pleasant in the sun. The daffodils
:11:21. > :11:25.were loving that in York. More places under blue sky tomorrow and
:11:26. > :11:29.dry. Tonight heavy showers moving across Scotland on strong to gale
:11:30. > :11:33.force winds, some may clip Northern Ireland. It's a mild night in
:11:34. > :11:44.southern England and South Wales but damp and drizzly, misty with coastal
:11:45. > :11:50.and hill fog elsewhere. Temperatures in between and dry: This damp
:11:51. > :11:52.weather hangs on from parts of the Channel Islands, to Cornwall.
:11:53. > :11:57.Elsewhere, it's getting brighter in South Wales and southern England. In
:11:58. > :11:58.England, Wales and Northern Ireland some sunny spells around from the