05/04/2017 Look East


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Hello and welcome to the Look East late news.

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In the programme tonight, a council in Essex goes

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to the High Court to try to stop an illegal travellers' settlement

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Will patients suffer as ambulance response times for the most serious

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And up for sale: memorabilia which once belonged to one

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The leader of Basildon Council says they'll spend whatever it takes

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Six years ago it cost Basildon Council millions of pounds

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to evict people from parts of Dale Farm, which was the biggest

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The new battle focusses on Hovefields, less than two

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Today the council went to the High Court to stop

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history repeating itself, but the hearing was adjourned

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In a moment, Alex Dunlop revisits the eviction of Dale Farm.

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But first Robby West and the legal fight over Hovefields.

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Today, building work continues on green belt land.

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Basildon Council has already secured an injunction,

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It started last month, when residents of Hovefield Avenue

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noticed multiple lorries filled with hard-core, travelling

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Since then, more tarmac has been laid, and more mobile

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Work has continued over the last three or four weeks.

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Residents fear this situation will turn into another Dale farm.

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To stop that, the council have taken a different approach.

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With Dale Farm, it was about civil proceedings.

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That's because they owned the land, no injunctions were breached.

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On this one, we've had injunctions down for a number of months now,

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Earlier today, the council were at the High Court for a hearing

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The judge adjourned the case until next Tuesday

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Back at Hovefields, residents are pleased the council

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It matters not that they're travellers.

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It is just an individual, or a group of people,

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We've made repeated attempts to talk to the people living on the site.

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Unfortunately, they did not want to speak to us on camera.

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In the past, they have said they don't feel there's enough

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provision for the traveller community to live in the area.

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Nobody that's involved wants this to turn into a second Dale Farm.

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When the case returns to the High Court, it's hoped

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answers on how to avoid that happening will become clearer.

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That legal battle lasted several years and cost

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Six years ago, Alex Dunlop was inside Dale Farm when police

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It was a chaotic climax to a decade of illegal occupation

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They're just coming through the barrier now,

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they're having bricks thrown at them.

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As police piled into Dale Farm to clear the site, local residents

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Local travellers wondered where they would next

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A once semipermanent conurbation of 80 homes has now

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Dale Farm, to the right of the existing legal side,

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But the court battles and eviction cost Basildon Council

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And so, two years on, the government reinforced the law.

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Travellers' sites on the green belt, it says,

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And that the need for a traveller site should be done only

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through the plan making process, and not in response

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Those who work with travellers say there simply aren't

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enough authorised sites, that they're being forced

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People have to exist, and they have to have a place to live.

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They can buy their own property, they can put

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But sometimes, that takes years to go through.

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And in the meantime, 99.9% of gypsy and traveller

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One of the landowners at Hovefields has already launched an appeal

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against the local authority, which won't be heard

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This has the early signs of a long legal fight which, like Dale Farm,

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The East of England Ambulance Service should be able to meet more

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of its emergency response targets, because the target

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It means fewer people having a heart attack or stroke can expect

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an emergency ambulance within eight minutes.

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Our Health reporter Nikki Fox sent this from the Longwater Ambulance

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For a number of years now, this Ambulance Service has struggled

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And that's because it covers such a rural area,

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and has also seen a big rise in demand.

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I went out with the crew a couple of months ago,

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and the calls literally came back to back.

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In 2014, it was fined more than ?1 million for missing targets.

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Now, since then things have improved, but not enough to meet

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And that is to get to 75% of the most serious call-outs

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Now, that's now been relaxed to 68.5%.

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This has all been done quite quietly, but the trust says

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We publish it in our board reports, the targets are in there.

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And again, as we move into the New Year, it's not a lower

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target, it's nobody nationally is achieving those standards

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What we are doing this year, what are commissioners expect of us

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and have funded us to do, is to deliver an average,

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or above average, position nationally.

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Those in favour say relaxing the target is a reasonable thing

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to do, bearing in mind no one is meeting it nationally.

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But those against say by effectively moving the goalposts,

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it could make the Ambulance Service look better without things really

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A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a hit

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Three people were injured in the incident, which happened

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early on Sunday morning outside the SugarHut nighclub in Brentwood.

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A woman has also been arrested on suspicion

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Stansted Airport has been given planning permission

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for a new arrivals building costing ?130 million.

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It will be built next to the current terminal and include shops,

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better transport links and a bigger immigration area.

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Work could begin this summer and bosses say disruption

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Football now, and Norwich City's fading play-offs hopes took

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The Canaries were beaten 3-0 at Huddersfield,

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all the goals coming in the second half as Huddersfield

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It leaves the Canaries a nine points short of a play off place with just

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Mathematically possible, but highly improbable.

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In cricket, the former England captain Alastair Cook says he hopes

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to play more matches for Essex this season.

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Cook, who's 32, resigned as England's Test captain

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in February, but as newly promoted Essex faced the cameras today

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ahead of the new season, he said he wants to be involved

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I love playing for England, and it's a huge honour walking out

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in front of lots of people at Lord's or, you know, wherever.

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A collection belonging to one of the 20th century's greatest

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composers will go under the hammer in Norfolk tomorrow.

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The Malcolm Arnold Collection, which includes film scores,

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his trumpet, and his two Ivor Novello Awards,

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is attracting interest from all over the world.

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Sir Malcolm Arnold was a creative genius who wrote nine symphonies

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But he was also an alcoholic who had a turbulent private life.

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He was cared for in his later years by a man called Anthony Day,

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and it's his collection which will go on sale

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Among the items up for auction, the score to Malcolm

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Original scores do not turn up very often.

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Particularly from notable composers like Sir Malcolm Arnold.

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An opportunity to get something that no one else has got, and, you know,

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If one had came across an autographed letter

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by Charles Dickens, how wonderful to have.

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Born in north London in 1921, Mark Arnold grew up in a well-to-do

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family of shoemakers and went on to win an Oscar for

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the soundtrack to David Lee's film Bridge Over the River Kwai.

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He played this instrument, which is in the sale.

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This composer and conductor knew the great man well

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Remarkable in its way, because everything

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He would what we call composing, seeing him write, was actually

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just him taking down from dictation what he'd already

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Also in the sale is Malcolm Arnold's trumpet,

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two Ivor Novello awards and numerous paintings.

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The auctioneers are hoping for interest from collectors

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That's it, we're back in breakfast tomorrow from 6:30am,

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but I'll say goodnight and leave you with the weather with Alex.

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Thank you very much. Good evening. Some clear spells at the moment, so

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temperatures down to around two or three Celsius, the risk of a touch

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of frost. Through the night, more cloud comes in from the North, said

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the temperatures recover by the end of the night. A fairly settled

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period of weather over the next few days. I pressure continues to build

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in from the south-west. You would think some fine conditions, but with

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a northerly wind, more cloud comes in through the day.

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For Thursday and Friday, it looks like a cloudy picture. There should

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be some bright and sunny spells through the day. Temperatures held

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back with a northerly winds and cloud cover. So perhaps no higher

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than 13 or 14. Here is the outlook before the national weather. Friday

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still rather cloudy at times, with brighter spells.

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or 15. It is sunny towards the weekend and we could see the low 20s

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by Sunday. Here is Darren with the national weather.

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Hello. The weather has been a big news in North America across the

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Masters in Augusta, for the first time the par-3 competition was

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abandoned, the storms moving away and sunshine windy for a while.

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Temperatures about 17, which is on a par with what we had today in the

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south-east of Wales, blue skies around here. That's from one of our

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weather watchers. More sunshine over the next few days. Little or no rain

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once again,

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