:00:00. > :00:00.Hello and welcome to the Look East late news.
:00:00. > :00:00.In the programme tonight: Fears of another Dale Farm
:00:00. > :00:08.after travellers move on to a nearby land.
:00:09. > :00:13.The Local Council in Essex says a change in the law is needed.
:00:14. > :00:15.Olympic gymnast Max Whitlock on why he's training harder than ever,
:00:16. > :00:26.but will not be competing for the next six months.
:00:27. > :00:31.And after some fine weather today, a cold night follows. Join me later
:00:32. > :00:35.for all the details. People living near an illegal
:00:36. > :00:40.travellers site in Essex say they believe another
:00:41. > :00:42.Dale Farm could be created as the travellers
:00:43. > :00:45.move onto more land. The site is at Hovefields
:00:46. > :00:48.in Wickford near Basildon. The local council says it needs more
:00:49. > :00:52.help from the government Last weekend, residents
:00:53. > :00:58.of Hovefields Avenue noticed multiple lorries filled with gravel
:00:59. > :01:03.travelling down the road. Soon after, green belt land
:01:04. > :01:10.was covered in asphalt. Jill has lived in the area
:01:11. > :01:16.for over 16 years. I felt devastated and when we saw
:01:17. > :01:23.the amount that was going down there, we knew it was going to be
:01:24. > :01:28.a major development. It has been plotted off
:01:29. > :01:31.and looking at it, it will be The danger is it will turn
:01:32. > :01:40.into Dale Farm but bigger. Dale Farm, less than a mile down
:01:41. > :01:42.the road, was Europe's The eviction of 80 families
:01:43. > :01:49.left 15 police officers The leader of Basildon Council says
:01:50. > :01:56.that due to the laws not changing, Hovefields could end
:01:57. > :01:59.in a similar way. The residents think this is going
:02:00. > :02:03.to become another Dale Farm. Should the government not have
:02:04. > :02:11.stepped in and change these laws? I can only work in the legal
:02:12. > :02:17.parameters and the framework People have to exist and they have
:02:18. > :02:41.to have a place to live. They can buy their own property,
:02:42. > :02:44.they could put in for planning permission but sometimes that takes
:02:45. > :02:48.years to go through and in the meantime, 99.9% of Gypsy travel
:02:49. > :02:54.applications get refused. Nobody involved wants another
:02:55. > :02:58.Dale Farm but with no clear answers, everyone fears history
:02:59. > :03:06.will repeat itself. Head teachers in Essex have written
:03:07. > :03:09.to their MPs this evening criticising the Chancellor
:03:10. > :03:13.of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, over his stance on school funding
:03:14. > :03:18.in yesterday's budget. One of his sharpest
:03:19. > :03:20.critics is the current head at Shenfield High,
:03:21. > :03:24.which is Mr Hammond's old school. Our political reporter
:03:25. > :03:41.Simon Dedman is there now. MPs have got mail tonight. It is a
:03:42. > :03:45.second letter in as many months from headteachers and it says schools in
:03:46. > :03:50.far-reaching cuts that are already far-reaching cuts that are already
:03:51. > :03:54.stretched to breaking point and this comes from the headteacher of the
:03:55. > :03:59.School be Chancellor went to. She says she has had to make
:04:00. > :04:05.redundancies and if nothing is done, and entire department might have to
:04:06. > :04:09.go. I spoke to her earlier. We are very proud of Philip Hammond as an
:04:10. > :04:15.exploit of the school. He has been to visit us here and has talked to
:04:16. > :04:20.our sixth form but perhaps he has forgotten his roots and we are very
:04:21. > :04:25.sad about that. We talk to our students about having aspirations,
:04:26. > :04:29.supporting those aspirations, you too perhaps could become Chancellor
:04:30. > :04:33.of the Exchequer but Philip Avent hasn't remembered that schools need
:04:34. > :04:39.appropriate funding to do the excellent things they can do. Is
:04:40. > :04:44.there any reaction from the Treasury to night? Not directly. This letter
:04:45. > :04:49.has just gone live in the last two hours but the government has said it
:04:50. > :04:54.is investing in schools so pupils everywhere can prosper but that will
:04:55. > :04:58.not wash with headteachers here at academies and comprehensives. They
:04:59. > :05:03.say they face real term cuts of 8% and they have been neglected by the
:05:04. > :05:07.government with their focus on selective schools and free schools.
:05:08. > :05:10.Schools are following suit and writing to their MPs.
:05:11. > :05:14.There's been a huge wave of support for the mother of Corrie McKeague
:05:15. > :05:16.after she apologised on Look East last night to thousands of people
:05:17. > :05:18.who have supported the search for her son.
:05:19. > :05:21.The RAF serviceman has not been seen since September,
:05:22. > :05:25.after a night out in Bury St Edmunds.
:05:26. > :05:28.Day four of the search of the landfill site.
:05:29. > :05:31.There is a growing conviction that the remains of Corrie
:05:32. > :05:38.A bin which took waste from the area when he vanished was far
:05:39. > :05:45.His mother told Look East she feels responsible
:05:46. > :05:48.for the hurt that will be felt by her online supporters.
:05:49. > :05:55.I am so upset that I have brought over 120,000 people into this
:05:56. > :06:00.with us and I am making other people upset because I needed
:06:01. > :06:05.Hundreds who watched that interview took to our Facebook
:06:06. > :06:21.Scores of volunteers searched the countryside
:06:22. > :06:27.The man who did then said he and they would do it again.
:06:28. > :06:32.I can say on behalf of 120,000 people that she doesn't need
:06:33. > :06:37.to apologise to anybody for anything, so she needs
:06:38. > :06:44.This hotel is a base and a refuge for Nicola when she travels
:06:45. > :06:52.Cheryl, who runs it, has got to know her well.
:06:53. > :06:56.Even now she is worried about other people, but others
:06:57. > :06:58.have taken this journey, they chose to take it
:06:59. > :07:02.and they are going to be heartbroken, but they chose
:07:03. > :07:06.This is still a missing persons enquiry.
:07:07. > :07:09.Support is now edged with the movement and frustration
:07:10. > :07:14.that the search of this landfill has only now got underway.
:07:15. > :07:17.There is a growing realisation that this 23-year-old gunner
:07:18. > :07:23.could soon be found, but not safe and well.
:07:24. > :07:26.About 120 jobs are at risk at a book printing factory in Suffolk.
:07:27. > :07:31.Clays, which printed the Harry Potter series,
:07:32. > :07:34.was established more than 200 years ago.
:07:35. > :07:40.It employs 700 people on the Norfolk-Suffolk border.
:07:41. > :07:44.The double Olympic gold medallist Max Whitlock is taking a six-month
:07:45. > :07:51.His aim is to prepare for the World Gymnastics Championships in October.
:07:52. > :07:54.The 24-year-old will continue to train full-time
:07:55. > :07:58.at the South Essex Club in Basildon, but says he needs time away
:07:59. > :08:03.from competing to practice new and more difficult routines.
:08:04. > :08:08.He's been speaking exclusively to our sports reporter Tom Williams.
:08:09. > :08:14.At just 24, Britain's greatest ever gymnast.
:08:15. > :08:19.Careful of your shoulders moving backwards and forwards too much.
:08:20. > :08:21.But there's always room for improvement.
:08:22. > :08:25.After winning double gold in Rio, Max Whitlock now needs time away
:08:26. > :08:32.My target is to go on for another eight years, definitely four years,
:08:33. > :08:36.everything is driving towards Tokyo, but eight years is my real dream
:08:37. > :08:42.I need to take care of my body now if I want to do that and the next
:08:43. > :08:44.reason is I didn't want to go into competitions with
:08:45. > :08:49.I want to be pretty new and improved with brand-new skills,
:08:50. > :08:55.To achieve that he says he doesn't need to work harder but smarter.
:08:56. > :08:59.He will still train full-time but behind closed doors,
:09:00. > :09:06.He's hoping one daring move will be named after him.
:09:07. > :09:08.Is there a lot more to come from you?
:09:09. > :09:13.With the new skills that I am preparing.
:09:14. > :09:16.I cannot stand still and sit there and be happy with those
:09:17. > :09:22.He's become one of British sport's famous faces.
:09:23. > :09:25.Only last month he was Buckingham Palace.
:09:26. > :09:28.What is it like being referred to as Max Whitlock MBE?
:09:29. > :09:31.Very weird, very strange, but a really nice feeling as well.
:09:32. > :09:34.That's one of my proudest achievements for me and to go
:09:35. > :09:38.there and be awarded by the Queen, I was so, so nervous,
:09:39. > :09:43.He's got six months to perfect his new routine before the pressure
:09:44. > :09:49.is back on performing in front of the world.
:09:50. > :10:08.Good evening. Temperatures climbed to 16 degrees today, tonight they
:10:09. > :10:14.will drop close to freezing because we have clear skies across most of
:10:15. > :10:19.the region. We could be down as low as two or three degrees by first
:10:20. > :10:22.thing tomorrow morning. Further west, temperatures recovering. Cloud
:10:23. > :10:29.pushing in tied into this weather system here. We hold onto high
:10:30. > :10:35.pressure so a fresh start to the day but we will see a lot of sunshine
:10:36. > :10:39.through the morning. Turning hazy in the afternoon and this cloud
:10:40. > :10:46.increasing from the West which could produce the odd spot of light rain,
:10:47. > :10:50.but further east it was to find. It should still feel quite pleasant in
:10:51. > :10:56.the sunshine, up to around 11, 12 degrees. In the evening, cloud
:10:57. > :10:59.coming in and bringing in a few spots of light rain. It is turning
:11:00. > :11:01.unsettled for the weekend day. On Sunday, cloudier, maybe
:11:02. > :11:13.spots of rain. Good evening, in the spring sunshine
:11:14. > :11:15.we saw temperatures as high as 17.5 Celsius. Not as warm or Sonning on
:11:16. > :11:16.Friday.