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15.03.02

EAST REGIONAL TV


The East at Westminster - Is Land Power?


Sunday 17 March 2002, 1.00-1.30pm, BBC TWO (East)


In this week’s East at Westminster, reporter Andrew Sinclair asks - "is land power?"


Lord Leicester of Holkham Hall discusses whether he feels he has any more power because he owns miles of countryside in Norfolk, and how he feels the abolition of hereditary peers has affected things.


Guardian writer George Monbiot talks about the legacy of land ownership and how he feels it should be divided up, and the National President of the Country Land and Business Association (CLA), Sir Edward Greenwell, is in the studio to discuss the idea that land brings power.


Can Ipswich re-launch itself as the latest e-commerce centre? The IP-City initiative has been trying to get off the ground for around 18 months now but does anyone know about it, and why won't some IT firms consider moving their headquarters from Cambridge despite hugely reduced rents and rates? Richard Bond visits estate agents and businesses in Cambridge and Ipswich to compare directly what attracts people to both centres and keeps them there.


Sally Keeble MP is trying to free up more unused council property for those made unintentionally homeless. We visit Luton to talk to people living in a homeless hostel and in bed and breakfast accommodation to see what can be done, and speak to the town’s MP, Margaret Moran.


East at Westminster is at 1.00pm, this Sunday on BBC TWO (East).


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