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weekend. That's all from us. Now the news

where you Good evening. In the programme: The

man arrested for hacking into NASA and US government computer sites

from his home in Suffolk. The tens of thousands of homes still

without power. I have a fridge full of food, a cupboard full of food,

but I cannot even open a can of soup and heated because I've got no means

of heating. Approval for a waste incinerator,

but a warning it could still cost the council millions.

And the need to give the veterans of Christmas Island the recognition

they deserve. Hello. First tonight, the

28`year`old from Suffolk arrested on suspicion of hacking into US

military and government computer systems.

Lauri Love is described as a "sophisticated and prolific computer

hacker". On Friday he was arrested at his home in Stradishall and has

been released on bail until February. The authorities claim he

hacked into a number of systems including the US Army and NASA. This

from our chief reporter, Kim Riley. This is the family home of Lauri

Love, just a stones throw from the at Stradishall. It is alleged that

from here the 28`year`old helped to pull off a massive reach of military

computer systems. He did not answer the door to us today, the curtains

and many rooms stayed closed. When his father, a respected Baptist

minister and chaplain at the present came home, I asked to speak to him.

He referred me to the Home Office. The family have been under great

pressure. He made it clear that we were not welcome. Following his

arrest year under the computer misuse act, Lauri Love was granted

police bail until next February. In court documents he was described as

a sophisticated computer hacker. Prosecutors are alleging that he and

fellow conspirators stall massive quantities of secret information.

Among the so`called government thick and is named in the indictment by

the US Army `` government agencies. It is claimed that Lauri Love and

his conspirators stall details of thousands of service men and women.

Some chat room conversations were released.

In another... Lauri Love, pictured at a protest at

Glasgow University two years ago, could face a maximum five`year

prison sentence. The American authorities are expected to seek his

extradition. More than 20,000 homes are still

without power 36 hours after the storm blew through our region. All

of them are in Suffolk and Essex. In a moment we'll hear from UK Power

Networks, but first our reporter Kevin Burch has been meeting some of

you who're still in the dark. This is what life has been like for

this couple in Chelmsford since around 7pm yesterday # 7am yesterday

morning. With no power they have struggled to stay warm and eat basic

meals, given Ronald's health it is not great. He is on warfarin, which

makes him cold, but he is also diabetic and he needs to eat

regularly and a substantial meal because he is taking inshore and

injections. Cooking involves the small stalls, today it is bacon,

anything substantial is out of the question. They have tried to get

power updates but with no success. We tried to contact but we got was

recorded message. I hung on and nobody around to it. This lady is

also paying a waiting game. She lives in Holbrooke in Suffolk and

got caught off as well. A recorded message said that if she stayed on

the line for 30 minutes someone would talk to her. She did not. She

has family nearby but finds it tough. I have a cupboard full of

food, but I can't even open a can of soup and heat it, because I've got

no means of heating. So I've got to live on my fat. There's not a lot of

that! Never has been. These engineers are part of their many

army working around the clock to reconnect supplies. An estimated

15,000 homes in the region still had no power at lunchtime. But back in

Chelmsford, for Ronald and Linda, guess what... Can you believe it?

And in Suffolk, for Joan, helping hand as well. This was bought to me

`` brought me this morning by a kind man. It is a gesture that means for

so much `` that mean so much to a pensioner who admits at times she

feels forgotten. We saw in Kevin's report that some

people are getting their power back. So some good news for Matt Rudling

from UK Power Networks, but there is still a long way to go. The numbers

coming down power by hour. We are at around 14,000. That is a significant

reduction on what we had at the start of the day. We have engineers

coming across from all across the country to support our restoration

effort. We have heard a lot of complaints from your customers who

have said that they have been unable to get through on the helpline.

Yesterday we had two months worth of calls come in a single day. Two

months's worth of normal calls in one single day. It has been very

difficult for us to cope. We have done everything we can. We have had

three times as much staff as normal dealing with that. But one of the

things we have done today, as part of our normal operation, we have

made 10,000 calls back to customers today. We have been taking customer

calls, people who might sit in our financial argument resources teams,

they are there, taking calls. `` financial resources teams. You are

in customer relations, do you think it is acceptable that some body

should wait for three hours before they actually get through? It's

never going to be acceptable to anybody to have to wait any time to

get through when you have something as important to report as a power

cut, of course not. Like I say, we had two months's worth of calls in

one day yesterday. That's unprecedented. But I would much of

preferred everybody to have got through straightaway. You knew those

wins were coming, did you have enough staff on duty first thing on

Monday morning? `` winds. We did. We were coping well. But then those

winds did pick up and we had damaged like we have not seen in localised

areas. The constant murders `` the customers were trying to get

through. Some did not get through as quickly as we would have liked. Some

more good news. Since we recorded that interview late this afternoon

UK Power Networks have told us that the number of properties without

power is now about 20,000. Thousands of train travellers faced

a second day of disruption today as buses replaced trains on the main

routes into London. As the clear up continues across the region, Gareth

George has been looking at the problems St Jude left behind.

Delays, cancellations, crowded platforms, it was another

frustrating morning for passengers at Colchester railway station. I am

from Sudbury on the line is closed so I had to come here. I just do not

know how we are still facing delays. There were no trains running

yesterday, why is the debris still there? They had all day yesterday to

get rid of the debris. Here we are not used in the sort of thing, in

America they would have cleared it already. Network rain apologised ``

network rail. We did everything we could to reopen. But we had further

trees falling. Just at the moment we thought we had victory. Across the

region 's work is being done on scores of trees damaged in the

storm, including this weeping willow. Making it safe, taking out

any hanging branches, trying to repair any damage that could cause

potential damage to people. The severity of the damage was

surprising. When we got out to see the damage it was quite extensive.

It is not the obvious stuff, the trees across the parks, there are a

lot of trees that have lost branches that are hanging up. A lot of trees

hanging on other trees. It does not need a huge wind to bring that

down, they can just fall at a time. This is a National Trust site, it is

closed at the moment because there is a power line down within the

weed. Two other National Trust sites are also closed. `` within the

wood. National Trust 's staff are going in to make sure that they are

safe. Last night a double`decker bus was recovered. Eyewitnesses still

amazed by the brutal strength of the storm. You'll mag there was a

massive gust of wind and I saw the bus just left up. It carried into

the field and dumped on its side. Never seen anything like it. You

never expect to see it. It was a real shock. The storm was over in a

couple of hours but its impact will be felt for far longer.

And in football, Norwich City manager Chris Hughton says the

Capital One cup tie tonight at Manchester United is a welcome

distraction. His team is in the bottom three in the Premier League.

On Saturday they drew 0`0 with Cardiff. A number of changes to that

side are expected. Ricky van Wolfswinkel has a toe injury and

Alex Tettey could also miss out. Kick`off is at 7.45pm and there's

coverage on BBC Radio Norfolk. Still to come: We are live by

candlelight in a village in Essex where they are still without power.

And the campaign to recognise our Christmas Island veterans.

Today Norfolk County Council's cabinet formally approved the plans

to build a waste incinerator in King's Lynn. It is the latest stage

in a long and controversial saga which may not yet be at an end.

The original decision to build a waste incinerator was made in 2006.

Two years later the site at Saddlebow on the outskirts of King's

Lynn was purchased. The protests started soon after, and in a

referendum 65,000 people voted against. The council decided the

poll was meaningless and pressed ahead. The Government ordered a

public inquiry and we're still waiting for the result of that. But

two weeks ago the Government withdrew financial support. Then

yesterday the full council voted to go ahead and build the incinerator

after a warning that to pull out would leave them open to a claim for

compensation. And it's not over yet. Our political correspondent Andrew

Sinclair reports. They are not out of the woods yet,

today it is expected that the Cabinet will formally approve the

incinerator and for the developer is another milestone has been cleared.

You'll mark ``. There has been debate on all sides. It represents

good value for money. We will continue to work with the people of

Norfolk and deliver a great infrastructure project. But there is

still one big hurdle. Eric Pickles has the final say and he is being

heavily lobbied to reject the scheme. But if incinerator is

rejected the council will still face a compensation bill of around

?25,000. Mr Timmins told the meeting that the

council would not be able to use its reserves, and despite what local MPs

have suggested, he thought it would be unlikely that they would be

allowed to borrow the money. He said that the councils may want to start

asking officers to hold back on spending in case Eric Pickles

rejects the plans. Councillors left the meeting in a sombre Mead. To

find 24 million in the final phases of this financial year would have

catastrophic consequences. Why on earth did this administration and

previous administrations nor there was a risk of planning failure, it

was on the risk register. Why did they not start putting money aside

earlier. If Eric Pickles approves the scheme it will not be a problem

and building work will start your next summer. If it doesn't, this

will become a very real debate in a few months's time.

George Nobbs is a leader of Norfolk county council. This is a real mess,

isn't it? It is not a mess, it is a situation we have inherited, it is

not perfect. But just one thing, we did not decide today to go into a

contract, what we decided today was not to cancel the contract. Saw you

have no plans to build it? That is not what I'm saying. The contract

was signed many years ago, `` the contract was discussed many years

ago, signed 18 months ago. We had to decide whether to withdraw from the

contract and pay penalties. We have ?180 million worth of cuts to make.

We are now ?169 million worth of `` worse off because of the withdrawal

of PFI credits. We have extraordinary challenges to face. We

could not pay another ?30 million. Can I ask you about that point that

someone mentioned in the film, why did you not think about those

savings when you were elected on me the fifth? We took office on me the

24th. We were told then that we had ?140 million worth of cuts that we

had to make because of the cut in government grants. Within one month,

because of changes in government grants, we were told we had to make

another ?45 million on top of that. We were not planning at any time to

say that we would increase that by cancelling the contract. I'm in

crested. `` interested. You said it was not a mess, it sends like it is

to me. You'll mark I will tell you why it is a mess, it is because the

government granted this... It is a council thing. Norfolk county

council have got themselves into this problem. The government have

the rate withdraw that. You are wrong. One of my predecessors, when

they signed the contract they were promised ?169 million of government

grant. If you have a public enquiry the government can withdraw that.

Government inquiry has nothing to do with the PFI contract. The

government decided earlier this year that they would look at all of the

outstanding PFI grants to see if they wanted to continue in order to

save government spending. When they decided to weeks ago, at the behest

of some of our MPs, to... Who you are not very happy with X . I have

to ask you one last question. Have you heard from Eric Pickles, is

there a nod and a wink that you will get the money? No, I have not. But

we will be in touch with Mr pickles. Veterans of nuclear tests carried

out in the 1950s have taken their fight for compensation to

Westminster today. More than 1,000 men say they and their families have

suffered ill health since the Christmas Island tests. The Essex MP

John Baron held a Commons debate this afternoon. We'll be hearing

from him in a moment, but first this from Simon Newton.

A few mistakes were made because they had no idea what would happen,

no thought seemed to have gone into it. Now aged 74, David was a teenage

airman posted to Christmas Island. Within a few weeks of coming home my

gums started to bleed and within six months, I was actually losing teeth.

Like thousands of other veterans, David believes that exposure to the

nuclear blast left him with a lifetime of health problems,

including a seizure, an aneurysm and spinal problems. We all sat with her

back to it, that is probably one of the reasons why. He later developed

bowel and stomach cancer. The MoD has long denied any link, but today

John Baron led a Westminster debate calling for their sacrifice to the

recognised. The signs were unknown, the risk was unquantifiable, but the

cost to the veterans and their descendants was very severe indeed.

We just want the recognition and perhaps a handshake to say that we

are sorry that we did this to you. Only a few thousand atomic veterans

still survive. Some believe it is now time to give up, but David is

determined they should not be forgotten. For him and many others

it remains a battle worth fighting. This afternoon I spoke to the MP

John Baron and began by asking whether it was recognition or

compensation that was really important to the veterans and their

families. First of all, official recognition from the Prime Minister,

preferably oral but in rating if necessary, making clearer debt of

gratitude to these veterans. But the establishment of a ?25 million

benevolent fund that would be distributed on the basis of need,

not entitlement, to help veterans and their descendants when it came

to care. There is also a health needs analysis, helping veterans

through the NHS, which has been successful. This is a campaign that

has been going on for many years now, are you still optimistic about

getting this benevolent fund and the current economic situation? Yes, I

am. The reason being that this is a just cause and it is wrong that

needs to be righted. The government has a track record of doing just

that, I can think of thalidomide that ends. `` victims. The nuclear

test falls into this camp. We should never forget that there is a legacy

that we would these veterans. A debt of gratitude that we have not yet

fully acknowledged. We need to put that right, for the sake of not just

the veterans, but also their descendants. But are you running out

of time on this? We have been fighting a Parliamentary campaign

for a few years now. We rankle most at the bottom of what we call the

international table of decency when comparing how other countries treat

their test veterans `` we rank almost at the bottom. Canada, the

Isle of Man. Or you had to prove is that you were at the test and you

are ill and you will get a payment, you do not have to prove a causal

link. In this country very elderly veterans have to go through a very

torturous war pension scheme which often feels. That is clearly wrong,

we are at the bottom of the International table of decency and

the time has come to put that right. Back now to our top story, and the

tens of thousands of homes still without power after yesterday's

storm. Homes and businesses are affected.

Neil Bradford is at a pub in the village of Stebbing in Essex.

Good evening. I suppose we could say we are in deepest, darkest Essex.

Perfect for stargazing, not the best for finding your way around. We very

nearly did not find this pub, but I am glad that we did. Although it has

been without heating and electricity since yesterday it does of course

have a warm welcome. At has become a focal point for the community. Let

us talk to some residents about how they have been coping. How have you

been coping without power? It's getting to be a bit of a drag now,

to be honest with you. The biggest problem at home as the freezer, the

food is going off. You cant watch television, can do anything. I have

been over at `` you cannot do anything. I have been over at the

golf course. I have not tried to get out, but plenty of people have and

they have come in here. We just sit and wait. Conflicting messages from

companies. The reserve roaring log fire here. Let's talk to the

landlord of the white cart. It has brought the community together, but

it must be difficult trading like this? It is difficult, with the

glass washer and cooking especially. And food. You normally do food, but

you have not been able to? The odd sandwich, that is it. As of tomorrow

everything goes out. How much longer do you think you can cope? Who

knows. The bear is hanging in there, but it is warming up, which is not

good. `` the lager. At least it has brought the community together. UK

Power Networks has been on the village checking on the vulnerable

and that is what they are asking you to do. If you are in power affected

village, check on your neighbours. Time for the weather.

Stebbing make be without power, but look at the dramatic sunset they

have had this evening. We have spared the pictures up so that you

can see the sun sinking behind the trees. It will be a fine start to

the day tomorrow, but not before temperatures have dropped quite

sharply. We have a ridge of high pressure is starting to move them

from the south`west. That will mean light winds and clear skies. For

some of us a touch of ground frost. It will stay dry overnight tonight

and for much of the night those quiet skies stay clear. We are

dropping down into single figures quite widely across the region.

Certainly we could get close to two or three Celsius in more oral spots.

A bit of a crisp spot `` in more rural spots. Virtually unbroken

sunshine through the morning, a bit of a chilly start but those

temperatures could claim perhaps a little higher than they could today.

A bit of a brisk south`westerly breeze, that will tend to freshen

during the day and you will start to see Clay developing into the western

half of the region. That rain arriving for most of us overnight

into the early hours of Thursday morning. It may just take its time

to clear. Developing low could be interesting for the weekend.

Promising some and windy weather, but the track of it still not quite

established yet. It does look as if it will turn am settled. Some rain

to clear for the eastern half on Thursday. The risk of one or two

showers for the afternoon. Into Friday, we may get away with a dry

but cloudy start with some rain pushing on and the next system for

Friday, it is looking like it could be quite wet and windy to start the

weekend. Tonight is the night that we have the risk of ground frost.

Certainly some chilly weather still on the way.

Thank you very much indeed. Stay warm, we'll see you tomorrow

night. Goodbye.