04/04/2017 Look East


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Welcome to Look East. Troops in effort -- Essex and Sussex go to

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Estonia to get ready to be part of a deterrent against Russia. Why you

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could end up paying a toxin tax. A settled outlook,

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but rather cloudy at times. Troops from this region have been

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getting ready to be part of the biggest military deployment

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to Europe since the end Soldiers from the UK began arriving

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in Estonia last month, part of what the government has

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described as a deterrent And today, as hundreds

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of troops from this region were on their biggest training

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exercise of the year, it's emerged that they are likely

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to be heading there, too. 16 Air Assault Brigade

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is based in Colchester. Leigh Milner has been watching them

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train today in Suffolk and Norfolk. Preparing to jump from

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800 feet in the sky, these soldiers from

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the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment

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are part of 16 Air Assault Brigade, the British Army's

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rapid response force. We're a couple of hundred people

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in the exact same boat, where they have done 100 jobs,

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or not as many as that. I have only done four,

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this is my fifth. Trained to be deployed any time,

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anywhere, they're about to fly 39 miles to the training ground

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near Thetford for a fictional

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yet credible scenario. It is a notional country

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that looks very much of the government we have been asked

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to come in because they have a problem with an insurgency,

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terrorists, and forces do not have the ability

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to deal with the insurgents, so they have gone to a third party

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through the UN Security Council, who passed a resolution,

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and we're part of the multinational force providing

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security in the country. Last month the first of 800 troops

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were sent to Estonia as part of the Nato response

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to concerns over Russia. These soldiers training

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today could be next. We are one of the very high

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readiness response forces. We can go anywhere

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the government wants us to go. We train for contingencies,

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so we can go to Estonia, Africa, the Middle East,

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frankly we can go to anywhere Above the training ground,

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soldiers are closing in. Here it comes, the C130 Hercules,

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this can carry up to 80 personnel, double the amount

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of a Chinook helicopter. It can travel up to 1,000 miles

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at a time, exactly what you need when transporting

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a rapid response force. The side doors open and one by one,

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they jump 800 feet above the drop zone, which stretches a couple

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of kilometres, north to south. As soon as they touch the ground

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they quickly pack away their parachutes and head

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towards the shelter of the trees. Leigh Milner reporting

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on today's military operation Next tonight, Cambridge is bidding

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to become one of the country's first clean air zones,

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by the idea of charging a toxin tax The government is announcing plans

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this week for some areas to be able to charge up to ?20 a day

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to drive into cities. The toxic gas nitrogen dioxide

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causes lung problems Last year, a Look East investigation

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found dozens of locations where the average level of air

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pollution is illegal. I don't want to suggest that a large

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number of people, not a high percentage of people,

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die, but nevertheless, lives are shortened by these gases

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that we have to breathe Our chief reporter

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Kim Riley is with me. How serious is the problem? I think

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carbon dioxide and nudged in dioxide levels, some towns there seem to be

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more serious. In Cambridge, let's have a look at the figures we have

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four 2015. In Norfolk, ten testing sites are in breach of levels of NIO

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two. In Suffolk, 24, most of them quite a considerable number.

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Ipswich, 17. Then we get to Essex, 27 sites in breach, and Colchester

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topping the county table on nine. Tossing all of that up, in the three

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counties, 61 test sites are in breach. -- adding all that up. Are

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they following Cambridge? They are not rushing to follow Cambridge, as

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far as I can gather. The council say there are no plans to introduce

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taxes for privately owned diesel vehicles. It said it would continue

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to tackle hotspots in the city centre, work closely with the

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council managing buses and try to push down pollution here. Colchester

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said the air quality action plan involved a number of different

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initiatives to bring concentrations of pollutants down to acceptable

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levels. It would be considering a possible clean air zone but I got a

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definite picture it did not involve targeting private cars. Ipswich

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could not tell me exactly what it was planning but from Colchester and

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possibly from Norwich, they believe things are gradually improving

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anyway. Thank you very much. Two men who were accused

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of the attempted rape and kidnap of a woman in Ipswich have pleaded

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not guilty to the charges The woman was attacked and left

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unconscious in a car park George Hari Constantinescu

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and Danut George are both 29 Suffolk Police say they have sifted

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through 13 tonnes of rubbish at a landfill site in the search for a

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missing airman. The search team has been at Milton near Cambridge for

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almost five weeks. They are searching for a man who vanished

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after a night out in Bury St Edmunds last year. Laura James is a

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successful writer from Norfolk and a happily married mother of four. Just

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two years ago she was diagnosed with autism and that diagnosis has made

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her look back on her life and see it in a very different way. She has now

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written a book about her experiences and we went to meet her.

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This is where Laura James feels comfortable, writing in her own

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I am researching, I love learning things.

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If I come across something, I kind of want

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to know everything about it as soon as I can, if it sparks my interest.

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This is where she feels out of her comfort zone.

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Her autism makes a simple shopping expedition

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The low ceiling and shiny floors makes me feel slightly dizzy.

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Then I can hear every single noise, the buzzing of that fridge, I can

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hear things being run through the All those things are

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overloading my senses, that phone that just rang,

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everything is overloading my senses and I can't separate

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out those noises. Then you look at something

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like yoghurt and there so many If I don't know what I want,

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if it's hidden or something, I'm overwhelmed

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by the sheer number of yoghurts Laura was only diagnosed

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as autistic at the age of 45. She spent her life

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feeling different. She found it difficult to relate

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to those around her. Despite being bright,

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she could not do exams. Despite a successful career,

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marriage and four children, she lives with a sense of unease,

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a need for order and predictability. Tom works for the National Autistic

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Society and has an autistic son. He hopes Laura's openness

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about her autism will improve At the moment there is a huge

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awareness of autism, but not enough understanding of what it

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means on a day-to-day basis for So what we need is more examples out

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there of people's day-to-day experiences in places

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like supermarkets, leisure centres, that they go, which brings to life

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the experience of autism. That is why Laura has

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written her book, to shed a light on what autism is like,

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especially for women and girls, who can mask their traits

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as they try to fit in. People who, particularly women

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and girls, who could not quite put their finger on something,

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I wanted it to be out there and if they stumble across it and find

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it was them I hope it Now you are a couple of years down

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the line from diagnosis. I know often I can

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be hard on myself. The Duchess of Cambridge has been

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at the opening of a West End musical this evening as part of her role

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as the patron of East Anglia's young people who have benefited from

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the charity's work. More on that story

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on Look East tomorrow. Just one football result

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to tell you about. Ipswich Town won 3-nil

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to Wigan Athletic. More on that match on BBC

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Radio Suffolk's breakfast Coming up now, the weather

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with Alex, but from the rest

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of the late team, good night. Thank you very much. Good evening.

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Cloudy this afternoon but as we go through the evening and night,

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increasingly clear skies. That means a rather chilly forecast tonight,

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four or five Celsius at the lowest, we could get down to two Celsius in

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some parts of the region, which could bring in ground frost as we

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start the day tomorrow. High pressure from the south-west. They

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settled outlook but might be rather cloudy at times with a

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north-westerly wind. A chilly start but a bright start, good spells in

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the morning but as the day progresses it tends to turn cloudy

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the North. We are looking at brighter spells for the afternoon

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rather than sunshine. I think temperatures probably not higher

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than around 12 Celsius. The National weather is coming up. Here is the

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other. Looking cloudy for Thursday and Friday with brighter spells.

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Looks like it will stay largely bit from the south, so we could get

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to 18 or higher on Sunday. Now the national focus. Good evening,

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things are looking good in the next few days, some pressure drifting in

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from the Atlantic, bringing some finance settled with it. Just some

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questions about the amount of cloud we will see under that. The cloud we

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saw the sea links gave rise to a lovely sunsets are many areas. This

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is the view from one of our weather watchers in Cornwall. Look at the

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