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Welcome to Look East. Troops in effort -- Essex and Sussex go to | :00:08. | :00:15. | |
Estonia to get ready to be part of a deterrent against Russia. Why you | :00:16. | :00:16. | |
could end up paying a toxin tax. A settled outlook, | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
but rather cloudy at times. Troops from this region have been | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
getting ready to be part of the biggest military deployment | :00:24. | :00:37. | |
to Europe since the end Soldiers from the UK began arriving | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
in Estonia last month, part of what the government has | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
described as a deterrent And today, as hundreds | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
of troops from this region were on their biggest training | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
exercise of the year, it's emerged that they are likely | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
to be heading there, too. 16 Air Assault Brigade | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
is based in Colchester. Leigh Milner has been watching them | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
train today in Suffolk and Norfolk. Preparing to jump from | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
800 feet in the sky, these soldiers from | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
are part of 16 Air Assault Brigade, the British Army's | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
rapid response force. We're a couple of hundred people | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
in the exact same boat, where they have done 100 jobs, | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
or not as many as that. I have only done four, | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
this is my fifth. Trained to be deployed any time, | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
anywhere, they're about to fly 39 miles to the training ground | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
near Thetford for a fictional | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
yet credible scenario. It is a notional country | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
that looks very much of the government we have been asked | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
to come in because they have a problem with an insurgency, | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
terrorists, and forces do not have the ability | :01:47. | :01:47. | |
to deal with the insurgents, so they have gone to a third party | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
through the UN Security Council, who passed a resolution, | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
and we're part of the multinational force providing | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
security in the country. Last month the first of 800 troops | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
were sent to Estonia as part of the Nato response | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
to concerns over Russia. These soldiers training | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
today could be next. We are one of the very high | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
readiness response forces. We can go anywhere | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
the government wants us to go. We train for contingencies, | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
so we can go to Estonia, Africa, the Middle East, | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
frankly we can go to anywhere Above the training ground, | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
soldiers are closing in. Here it comes, the C130 Hercules, | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
this can carry up to 80 personnel, double the amount | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
of a Chinook helicopter. It can travel up to 1,000 miles | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
at a time, exactly what you need when transporting | :02:33. | :02:41. | |
a rapid response force. The side doors open and one by one, | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
they jump 800 feet above the drop zone, which stretches a couple | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
of kilometres, north to south. As soon as they touch the ground | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
they quickly pack away their parachutes and head | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
towards the shelter of the trees. Leigh Milner reporting | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
on today's military operation Next tonight, Cambridge is bidding | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
to become one of the country's first clean air zones, | :03:09. | :03:18. | |
by the idea of charging a toxin tax The government is announcing plans | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
this week for some areas to be able to charge up to ?20 a day | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
to drive into cities. The toxic gas nitrogen dioxide | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
causes lung problems Last year, a Look East investigation | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
found dozens of locations where the average level of air | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
pollution is illegal. I don't want to suggest that a large | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
number of people, not a high percentage of people, | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
die, but nevertheless, lives are shortened by these gases | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
that we have to breathe Our chief reporter | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
Kim Riley is with me. How serious is the problem? I think | :03:54. | :04:07. | |
carbon dioxide and nudged in dioxide levels, some towns there seem to be | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
more serious. In Cambridge, let's have a look at the figures we have | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
four 2015. In Norfolk, ten testing sites are in breach of levels of NIO | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
two. In Suffolk, 24, most of them quite a considerable number. | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
Ipswich, 17. Then we get to Essex, 27 sites in breach, and Colchester | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
topping the county table on nine. Tossing all of that up, in the three | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
counties, 61 test sites are in breach. -- adding all that up. Are | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
they following Cambridge? They are not rushing to follow Cambridge, as | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
far as I can gather. The council say there are no plans to introduce | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
taxes for privately owned diesel vehicles. It said it would continue | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
to tackle hotspots in the city centre, work closely with the | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
council managing buses and try to push down pollution here. Colchester | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
said the air quality action plan involved a number of different | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
initiatives to bring concentrations of pollutants down to acceptable | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
levels. It would be considering a possible clean air zone but I got a | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
definite picture it did not involve targeting private cars. Ipswich | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
could not tell me exactly what it was planning but from Colchester and | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
possibly from Norwich, they believe things are gradually improving | :05:37. | :05:37. | |
anyway. Thank you very much. Two men who were accused | :05:38. | :05:49. | |
of the attempted rape and kidnap of a woman in Ipswich have pleaded | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
not guilty to the charges The woman was attacked and left | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
unconscious in a car park George Hari Constantinescu | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
and Danut George are both 29 Suffolk Police say they have sifted | :05:59. | :06:08. | |
through 13 tonnes of rubbish at a landfill site in the search for a | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
missing airman. The search team has been at Milton near Cambridge for | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
almost five weeks. They are searching for a man who vanished | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
after a night out in Bury St Edmunds last year. Laura James is a | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
successful writer from Norfolk and a happily married mother of four. Just | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
two years ago she was diagnosed with autism and that diagnosis has made | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
her look back on her life and see it in a very different way. She has now | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
written a book about her experiences and we went to meet her. | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
This is where Laura James feels comfortable, writing in her own | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
I am researching, I love learning things. | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
If I come across something, I kind of want | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
to know everything about it as soon as I can, if it sparks my interest. | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
This is where she feels out of her comfort zone. | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
Her autism makes a simple shopping expedition | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
The low ceiling and shiny floors makes me feel slightly dizzy. | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
Then I can hear every single noise, the buzzing of that fridge, I can | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
hear things being run through the All those things are | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
overloading my senses, that phone that just rang, | :07:22. | :07:30. | |
everything is overloading my senses and I can't separate | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
out those noises. Then you look at something | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
like yoghurt and there so many If I don't know what I want, | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
if it's hidden or something, I'm overwhelmed | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
by the sheer number of yoghurts Laura was only diagnosed | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
as autistic at the age of 45. She spent her life | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
feeling different. She found it difficult to relate | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
to those around her. Despite being bright, | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
she could not do exams. Despite a successful career, | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
marriage and four children, she lives with a sense of unease, | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
a need for order and predictability. Tom works for the National Autistic | :07:57. | :08:05. | |
Society and has an autistic son. He hopes Laura's openness | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
about her autism will improve At the moment there is a huge | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
awareness of autism, but not enough understanding of what it | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
means on a day-to-day basis for So what we need is more examples out | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
there of people's day-to-day experiences in places | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
like supermarkets, leisure centres, that they go, which brings to life | :08:26. | :08:26. | |
the experience of autism. That is why Laura has | :08:27. | :08:41. | |
written her book, to shed a light on what autism is like, | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
especially for women and girls, who can mask their traits | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
as they try to fit in. People who, particularly women | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
and girls, who could not quite put their finger on something, | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
I wanted it to be out there and if they stumble across it and find | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
it was them I hope it Now you are a couple of years down | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
the line from diagnosis. I know often I can | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
be hard on myself. The Duchess of Cambridge has been | :09:04. | :09:14. | |
at the opening of a West End musical this evening as part of her role | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
as the patron of East Anglia's young people who have benefited from | :09:19. | :09:32. | |
the charity's work. More on that story | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
on Look East tomorrow. Just one football result | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
to tell you about. Ipswich Town won 3-nil | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
to Wigan Athletic. More on that match on BBC | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
Radio Suffolk's breakfast Coming up now, the weather | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
with Alex, but from the rest | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
of the late team, good night. Thank you very much. Good evening. | :09:58. | :10:09. | |
Cloudy this afternoon but as we go through the evening and night, | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
increasingly clear skies. That means a rather chilly forecast tonight, | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
four or five Celsius at the lowest, we could get down to two Celsius in | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
some parts of the region, which could bring in ground frost as we | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
start the day tomorrow. High pressure from the south-west. They | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
settled outlook but might be rather cloudy at times with a | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
north-westerly wind. A chilly start but a bright start, good spells in | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
the morning but as the day progresses it tends to turn cloudy | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
the North. We are looking at brighter spells for the afternoon | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
rather than sunshine. I think temperatures probably not higher | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
than around 12 Celsius. The National weather is coming up. Here is the | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
other. Looking cloudy for Thursday and Friday with brighter spells. | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
Looks like it will stay largely bit from the south, so we could get | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
to 18 or higher on Sunday. Now the national focus. Good evening, | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
things are looking good in the next few days, some pressure drifting in | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
from the Atlantic, bringing some finance settled with it. Just some | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
questions about the amount of cloud we will see under that. The cloud we | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
saw the sea links gave rise to a lovely sunsets are many areas. This | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
is the view from one of our weather watchers in Cornwall. Look at the | :11:28. | :11:28. |