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Transcript of SGR FM 7AM news, November 15th, 2006

• presenter: Now we can reveal thousands of people could soon be heading to Ipswich with news a planned information(sic) centre could be built in the town. Our reporter Kelly McCormack has more.
• reporter: We all know the red-tape we have to go through to get a passport and we've all seen pictures of massive queues when there's backlogs and people want to go on holiday. Now imagine all that in Ipswich.
• Geoff : On an early summer Saturday, when everyone is trying to renew passports before going on holiday, we're going to see probably two, three times as many, so maybe six hundred people trying to get into the office. Quite honestly, I don't think the traffic system will cope with it, which is why we're objecting on planning grounds
• reporter: That's Ipswich man Geoff Brace from NO2ID. They've told us a Big Brother style interrogation centre is planned for Crown Street; It'd be one of 69 in the UK. It's not too much of a problem at the moment, but if national ID cards are made compulsory, people from all over the region will have to travel to Ipswich to be put on the Government surveillance database. That'd cause massive traffic issues.
• Geoff: Every person who attends will want to park their car somewhere near, and the Crown Street car park is difficult to get at and expensive. Many people will want to park kerb-side. Traffic problems to the north of Crown Street are going to be pretty appalling as a result of this.
• reporter: Members of NO2ID will be protesting outside Ipswich Borough Council this morning ahead of a planning committe meeting, where the application could be thrown out completely.

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