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It's been claimed tonight that a car rally in Southend at the weekend | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
will leave tax payers with a policing bill | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
It's been claimed tonight that a car rally in Southend at the weekend | :00:17. | :00:47. | |
will leave tax payers with a policing bill | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
Two years ago, after a similar event, the local council | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
took out an injunction to stop dangerous driving. | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
While this weekend's rally passed off peacefully, | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
the council wants organisers to make future events official. | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
One of over 2,000 high-performance modified cars on display | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
My brother has his daughter and son here. | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
This is the first major car cruise in Southend | :01:14. | :01:31. | |
since the council clamped down on unauthorised events in town. | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
Following filming of an event in 2015, the local authority | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
That banning order was aimed at car cruising events, | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
and allowed police to prosecute anyone driving dangerously | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
We are giving reassurance to everyone tonight... | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
On Saturday, extra police officers were on hand to carry out spot | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
We would rather organisers got in touch with us before the event | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
but it is what it is, and we would look forward to working | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
with participants to ensure safety of those involved and those | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
Critics of the cruise say that local residents have to foot the bill | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
The hidden reality is, at a time when we have | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
limited police resources, the police are being drawn | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
away from other jobs they should be doing. | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
The organiser argues that the cost is no more than policing a sporting | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
event and that this brings an economic benefit to the town. | :02:32. | :02:32. | |
The event went well, securing Southend as the capital | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
But this title does not sit well with the whole of the town. | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
MPs have been told that Norfolk has one of the highest rates | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
in the country of students who've been permanently | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
The number has almost doubled from 170 to 300 | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
The Norfolk MP Norman Lamb raised the issue in parliament this | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
afternoon and received a promise that ministers will investigate | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
Given the awful result outcomes for children | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
who are permanently excluded, wht message does he send | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
to Norfolk to sort out this unacceptable situation? | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
Exclusion should always be a last resort and we need to make sure | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
there are no inappropriate exclusions, either in Norfolk | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
I am meeting the honourable gentleman on another matter | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
and perhaps that's something we can discuss. | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
Norfolk County Council has been fined ?60,000 for leaving sensitive | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
files about children in a filing cabinet, which was sent | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
It came to light three years ago when the person who bought | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
the cabinet found social work case files. | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
The council has apologised and says procedures have been tightened. | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
Lorry drivers are facing a ban on overtaking along stretches | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
Highways England is introducing the restrictions next week | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
to improve traffic flow, especially near Stansted Airport. | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
The announcement was criticised by some truckers. | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
Long stretches of the M11 are just two lanes, meaning when lorries | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
overtake each other, a big tailback can | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
So Highways England is going to restrict lorries overtaking | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
during the day on uphill stretches of motorway. | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
Signs are going to go up saying any vehicle over 7.5 tonnes cannot use | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
The lorry overtaking restrictions would be in place | :04:20. | :04:28. | |
between junction 8 near Stansted, and junction 9 for the A11. | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
Highways England believes it will ease congestion, | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
but some HGV drivers said not being able to overtake | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
If you are stuck behind trucks going at 40 mph, ours can do 56, | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
it makes quite an impact on what time you can get there. | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
You have vehicles with odd weights and loads, | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
and if it is a slight incline, it is surprising how much | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
Then you are stuck, probably behind 20 or 30 lorries, | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
The daytime overtaking ban for lorries is already in force | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
on this stretch of road, the A14 in Northamptonshire. | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
Highways England says lorry speeds haven't changed, | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
Lorry drivers caught overtaking where they shouldn't can be fined. | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
On the M11, the overtaking restriction is expected to start | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
One lorry driver said that the best way of tackling congestion | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
here would be widening this section of the M11 to three lanes. | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
The former fashion designer Wayne Hemmingway, famous | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
for the Red Or Dead label, has been addressing a meeting | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
He believes the town could do with a makeover and he's had success | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
in other seaside resorts around the country. | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
We'll hear from him in a moment, after this from Alex Dunlop. | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
"Come to Lowestoft," they told Wayne Hemingway, "on a good day, | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
Well, perhaps not today, but the design guru sees | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
At a seafront hotel, he came up with a master plan | :06:05. | :06:14. | |
to transform the town with a straight-talking | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
lecture to local business leaders and politicians. | :06:21. | :06:21. | |
His message - you need more radical ideas if you want | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
Everyone has got to rise to that challenge. | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
The fact is that people have a lot of choices | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
where they come on holiday, where they go to eat what they do | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
We've got to make your we've really got something special to show | :06:36. | :06:47. | |
to people to prove that Lowestoft is the place they can come | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
A decade ago, ?40 million was spent locally to regenerate lost. | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
More than 1 million people came here last year. | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
Wayne Hemingway has helped boost of fortunes of other coastal towns | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
with designs on seafront buildings and ambitious projects. | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
It's pushing people and he's going to make things happen. | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
He was coming at it from unusual angles. | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
He clearly brings with him a lifetime of experience. | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
But don't expect an overnight transformation - the momentum, | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
says Mr Hemingway, must come from those who have a lasting | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
I spoke to Wayne Hemmingway earlier this evening and asked him | :07:16. | :07:25. | |
what it is he thinks Lowestoft needs. | :07:26. | :07:26. | |
It just needs some TLC and some exciting things to happen. | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
Everything is here that you want, that the British people | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
It's got sand, a lovely sea, great buildings, the promenade, | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
all the ingredients are there, but it is lagging behind a little | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
We're not talking specifics at the moment. | :07:42. | :07:51. | |
We're here with my team, the Hemingway Design team, | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
tonight to start to meet the local community and the regional community | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
That doesn't come in the form of some designer striding | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
in on a white horse and saying, "This is my great design, this | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
Great design also costs money, doesn't it? | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
As you well know, the cash-strapped council doesn't have any. | :08:12. | :08:22. | |
I would say that's where you're wrong, because ideas don't cost | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
anything at all and as long as the idea is intelligent and fun | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
and makes people smile, other things start to happen, | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
it brings ideas out in other people and eventually, | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
So are you to the seaside resort what Mary Portas | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
We've had a lot of success doing things for Morecambe, | :08:37. | :08:49. | |
we're working in Hastings to Weston-Super-Mare so we become | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
experienced, but no, I don't want to be held in the same | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
All right, I won't do that, but change is coming to Lowestoft? | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
These things take time, but we're here to create positive change. | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
It is the most easterly part of Great Britain | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
and we want to bring that out to make it a place the East visits | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
and people come from wider, there's no point in rushing things, | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
Wayne Hemmingway talking to me earlier. | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
But from the rest of the late team, goodnight. | :09:21. | :09:30. | |
It's rather cool out there at the moment, a much fresher feel to | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
things compared to earlier today and we have one or two showers to | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
contained with tonight but a lot of dry weather, some clear spells and a | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
breeze carrying a shower through but most places are dry and a chilly | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
night, temperature is not far off freezing by tomorrow morning so | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
maybe a bit of frosty than there. A I started Tuesday, lots of sunshine | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
in the morning. 18 breeze will make you feel quite chilly but cloud | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
bills through the day, maybe one or two showers in the afternoon -- | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
cloud builds. Feeling colder because of the southwesterly breeze. The | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
middle of the week, low pressure gives us a lot of uncertainty in the | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
forecast. For Wednesday, a dry start. The rain will dry to head | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
east but there is uncertainty about how quickly that happens if it ever | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
reaches the Far east. We will keep you updated about that but it will | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
feel chilly we get the cloud in the rain and on Thursday, if it reaches | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
the east, we get in northeasterly winds developing sort the rest of | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
rain is still there but not raining all the time, some dry and bright | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
weather in between as well. The same is true for Friday. Some rain in the | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
south and southeast and the further north and west you go, staying dry, | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
but still a chilly, northeasterly breeze. For the weekend, low | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
pressure is dominating but pulls away and high pressure topples and | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
so things settle down for the weekend. As they go into the | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
weekend, it is looking mainly dry with sunny spells. Pleasant by day | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
but still the chance of frost at night and if you're | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
outlook for Saturday and Sunday is for something dry and settled, sunny | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
spells but a bit on the cool side. This week we are starting off with a | :11:07. | :11:20. | |
taste of winter. This is Paul and maritime air, it has come from a | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
long way north and will push in lots of showers. The last of any mild air | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
gets swept away with the cloud. Tonight we have showers mostly | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
across the northern half of the UK, which will turn wintry and that | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
means more snow, particularly across Scotland and Northern Ireland, | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
perhaps northern England. With those temperatures it is not just snow | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
that is a concern, it is icy roads. Quite a few wintry showers still | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
packing in across the north and west of Northern Ireland, west of | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
Scotland by this stage. Eastern Scotland much more sheltered so it | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
should be drier and we may have early sunshine here as well. For | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
England and Wales, plenty of sunshine to begin | :12:09. | :12:09. |