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Editorial This area deserves better
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THE EAST OF ENGLAND is regarded by many as a middle-class holiday playground. At one end is Constable Country, and at the other the "Blackpool" of the Fens.
It is the centre of the British bulb-growing industry and produces thousands of tonnes of sugar-beet. The Broads give pleasure to many in the summer and through Felixstowe and King's Lynn pass import and export tourists for the Low Countries.
But the East of England is more than this — it is a thriving transport area of Britain. Felixstowe Dock is a close competitor with Europe's busiest port — Rotterdam. King's Lynn has a thriving unaccompanied trailer business through Norfolk Lines at Atlas Wharf.
The European renowned business of Crane Fruehauf was born in a blacksmith's shop at Dereham. Its products today are operating in the more remote regions of Siberia.
The area's sugar-beet crop caters for the sweet tooth of Britain. The products of the bulb fields will enhance British gardens in the spring of 1985 as they have done for decades.
In East Anglia there is a thriving road transport industry, housing manufacturers too numerous to mention here.
There are many very successful hauliers working hard within the shadows of the dreamy spires of the colleges of Cambridgeshire. The area probably contains a larger percentage of Britain's 68,000 owner-operators than any other area in the country.
What then does it lack? The answer is, easy access. This thriving part of Britain demands better lines of communication. When Parliamentary lobbies have run out of arguments for the M25 and London's Archway scheme, perhaps they will turn their attention to the East of England.