16/02/2014 Look East - East

Hello, I'm Shaun Peel. First, more on the death of a

retired businessman from Essex who was killed during Friday's storms.

James Swinstead, who lived near Colchester, died on a cruise ship

when it was hit by a huge wave in the English Channel. His widow says

there must be a thorough inquiry into what went wrong.

He was lovely. He was a very good husband.

James and Helen Swinstead had been married for 30 years, they had been

many trips, but their latest holiday was to end in tragedy. But in the

restaurant on Valentine's Day when the wave blew out the window of the

ship. There were four windows that had

crashed in and people were bleeding. The dinner waiter moved me away from

the table, because I was very wet. I sat there and they called the doctor

and he took my husband away. James, who was 85 years old, bought

the brunt of the water and glass. He died later in hospital after being

airlifted. A number of the other passengers on board were also hurt.

Helen Swinstead said that the boat was badly maintained and it was

clear to see. There was rust and there was water

on the windowsill. If you have rusty water going through the windowsill,

you plug it. You should not have the water coming in.

Marco Polo was 40 years old. When it was chartered by a German company,

it hit the headlines after many people went down with a sickness bug

and one person died. It is now run by another operator, Cruise and

Maritime Voyages. The company said that they would not comment on the

views of Helen Swinstead. She says that there must be a review to see

if safety on board was compromised. Engineers have been working through

the weekend to restore electricity supplies which were cut during the

storm. Around 11,000 homes and businesses across the East lost

power at the height of yesterday morning's gales. Most of the

problems were caused by fallen trees tearing down overhead lines. By

today, only a handful of homes were still off.

Across the region, assessment of the damage caused to buildings is

continuing. Part of the roof was ripped off the sports hall of the

Manor School at Raunds in Northamptonshire. And a former

antique shop at Chatteris in Cambridgeshire was flattened by the

force of the winds. Collapsing masonry wrecked a car parked

outside. And the Imperial War Museum at

Duxford near Cambridge is unlikely to reopen this week. The main hangar

has suffered damage. It's the second time in just over a month that

sections of the roof have been ripped off in high winds.

Once we were able to go onto the roof to assess the conditions, we

will then look at longer`term strategies and improvements to

ensure that when we enjoy these difficult conditions that all our

buildings are very safe. A patient who went missing from

Colchester hospital has been found. The disappearance of pensioner

Gerald Shelcot this morning prompted a big police search of the hospital

grounds and surrounding area. Officers found the 78`year`old safe

and well this afternoon at a supermarket on the other side of the

town. In football, just five of our sides

played yesterday. Ipswich and MK Dons added points to their play`off

ambitions, Southend slipped up at home, and there was misery again for

Stevenage and Northampton. Ipswich boss Mick McCarthy gave this

assessment of the mill`nil `` 0`0 match. He said that they could have

won it. He also said that they did not play well enough to win it.

There was a 2`1 win at home to Oldham.

Oldham took the first half lead, and it was heading for a draw when Ben

Reeves found an empty bed `` net in stoppage time.

The home side led before the break, Stevenage thought that they had

stolen up point. They could not lock it down, as rather stock with the

winner two minutes later. There was a pair from the head of Mark

Phillips, but Exeter finished with a lightning bolt, and with three

minutes left on the clock, Elliott Richard left it 3`2 to Exeter.

The boss felt that his side were closer to Fleetwood then the score

suggests, but they are near the bottom and they are running out of

places to look. And here is the weather.

Good afternoon. After clear skies at first, the temperatures will drop

down quite quickly tonight. By dawn, the next band of cloud will

arrive will stop we could get outbreaks of patchy rain throughout

the morning. The wind a little stronger than today, where the

afternoon towards northern parts, that rain still around stop light

and patchy rain towards the south of the region. As we had further to the

rest of the week to Tuesday, perhaps in heavy showers around for Tuesday

morning. Some brighter stars in the afternoon, but a dry days we head

into Wednesday. Whilst we are talking about wet and

windy weather in the week ahead we will lose the extremes of last week.

The first glow of the week will approach overnight. Clear skies will

cause temperatures to fall awake, and we are looking at a frost in

eastern England and for northern Scotland with Pitt -- patches of

mist and fog. Temperatures will rise through the night as the cloud comes

in and the wind begins to lift and the rain arrives. The far north of

Scotland will get off to a frosty start. Further south, outbreaks of

rain for the rush hour. Rain