10/03/2017 Look East


10/03/2017

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Good evening, I'm Katherine Nash.

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First tonight, the sacking of Norwich City manager Alex Neil.

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A few hours ago, the club announced that it had terminated his contract.

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It follows a disappointing run of results which has left

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the Canaries well short of the promotion places

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The news comes on the eve of their home game against Blackburn.

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This from our sports reporter Tom Williams.

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Alex Neil guided Norwich to Premier League promotion

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Their return to the championships been inconsistent

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with the Canaries falling off the play off pace

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Is it the right decision to sack him?

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It's felt, to me, for a while like this is when,

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They had a run over Christmas where they lost eight out

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of ten league games, they dropped from top of the table

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to 12th and since then, Alex Neil has had the

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majority of the supporters, if not completely against him,

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In a statement, Norwich said, the board has taken

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the tough but unanimous decision, believing it's in the best interest

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of the club for a new manager to be in place through a crucial

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Alex Neil made an immense and immediate impact at Norwich,

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these scenes at Wembley after victory in the play-off final

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But in recent months, fans who once adored him

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had become increasingly agitated and the players'

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We seem to go 1-0 down, 2-0 down, 3-0 down

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It's like, you know, we almost quit, we don't play for each other,

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Following Saturday's 5-0 humiliation at Sheffield Wednesday,

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Well, the fact is, we just haven't played well enough.

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So I don't really know what you want me to say.

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The fact is, we went to Brighton and we got beat

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We've now went to Sheffield Wednesday and we've got beat and

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What you're basically saying is these players aren't

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The opportunity is there to get somebody in, to give them a good

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chance to look at the squad and makes some big decisions over which

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players are going to go and which players are going

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I think this is the start, this is the first of many changes

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we're going to see at Norwich City Football Club over the next

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First-team coach Alan Irvine is in caretaker charge, the Canaries

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now without a chief executive, with scant hope of promotion.

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Managerless, some would say rudderless.

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The board will hope Norwich can now get back on course.

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Earlier I spoke to Darren Eadie, a former Norwich City player.

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I asked him for his reaction to the news that the club

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Well, I guess I'm a little surprised.

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I'm a little surprised it didn't happen after the poor run

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But I am probably a little bit more surprised now,

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that they've sacked him now considering the backing

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they were only giving him a week or so ago.

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I kind of felt if they were going to do it, it was going to

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happen before and all the noises coming out of Carrow Road were,

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"He's our man, he's the one to take us forward for the next so many

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years and he'll do it his way and he needs to change the players,

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have a bit of a clear out," and that was kind of the focus,

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it seemed it was all the noises that were coming out

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But in a press conference earlier, Alex Neil said that he was

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So do you think this is the right decision to make?

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Well, I don't expect him to say anything else.

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I don't think he's ever going to come out

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and say, "Actually, I think I'm struggling.

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They gave him the opportunity, things

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started to turn around again but the poor run

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of form in recent games, I think, they had no other choice.

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So who do you think will take on this job now?

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I think they've missed out on a few in recent months.

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Somebody who probably does stand out a little bit to me,

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only because I know him, is Gary Rowett.

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I played with him at Leicester, a very kind of true pro,

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traditional pro, does things right, prepares right,

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He's a defender and also defenders tend to

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build from the back when they're building their teams and that's

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an area where Norwich have struggled for probably

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two or three, four, maybe five years now.

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So certainly someone like that would be given

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an opportunity and I'm sure he would love

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Controversial plans have been announced today to install

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traffic lights at one of the region's busiest junctions.

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The Fiveways roundabout on the A11 is a main road joining up

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Local people insist it will help them cross

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But there are concerns it will actually slow traffic down.

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This from our political correspondent Andrew Sinclair.

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Some 30,000 vehicles a day use the Barton Mills roundabout.

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While hold-ups on the main A11 are short lived, for those trying

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to cross from nearby towns like Mildenhall, it can take a long time

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There have been quite a few accidents on that

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roundabout, like with people not going in and out

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Today, the Transport Secretary announced

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funding for a number of congestion relief schemes

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and he's going to spend ?400,000 putting traffic lights at Fiveways.

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It is a junction that sees congestion too often.

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This will smooth the flow of traffic through it,

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it will help the overall flow of traffic up the A11.

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It's one part of a programme of smaller

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schemes to sit alongside the big investments we're making.

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But will traffic lights really relieve congestion?

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Some regular users of the A11 aren't impressed.

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Well, it's just going to make it clog up even more, isn't it?

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Today, local councillors were telling reporters

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though a little disruptive, will make Fiveways safer.

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They say it will only be an interim measure

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until money is found to divert the A11 away from here.

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The A11 is an important trunk road, we don't want

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to slow down traffic on the A11 and clearly having

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Local people are pleased with today's news.

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A11 drivers will nervously wait to see what happens.

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the world-renowned architect Sir Norman Foster

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has been chosen to design three new crossings at the port

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Today, images of the multi-million pound

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It's hoped they'll help ease traffic congestion in town.

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That's it for now but i'll leave you with the weather.

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It's a largely dry night, perhaps a little bit of drizzle. Some patchy

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mist and fog so some of us. Very mild, temperatures for many of us

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will not drop any lower than seven Celsius. Tomorrow, any mist and fog

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should clear and then dry leading up from France will help break the

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piled up. Some decent sunny spells developing. Temperature is quite

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widely around 14 or 15 Celsius, in the best of the sunshine, perhaps 18

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Celsius. A different day on Sunday, cloudy with outbreak of rain for a

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time. Some of this rain could be on the heavy side. Hopefully we will

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have some fine and dry weather also. Sarah will have the national

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forecast but I will leave you with the outlook and high pressure in

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charge on Monday and Tuesday, Where the sunshine broke through to

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the North of Cornwall temperatures rose to 17 degrees under the blue

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skies. For many of us the cloud didn't break up through the day,

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keeping temperatures pegged at around about 13 degrees. That was

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the high today in the London region. Mild over night with the blanket of

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cloud around. Most places

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