24/04/2014 Look East - East

Hello and welcome to Look E`st. In the programme tonight: Confronted `

the woman whose holiday lettings company left hundreds of people out

of pocket. I have made a successful business and there was never any

intention for this to happen. 2 years after the unsolved murder of

this teenager, Norfolk police make a arrest.

Our biggest independent ret`iler admits it's feeling the squdeze And

the sewing superstar helping to inspire a new generation.

First tonight, people who lost thousands of pounds each whdn a

holiday company in Suffolk called in the receivers finally got the chance

today to confront the owner at a creditor's meeting. But it seems

very unlikely they will get their money back. The company concerned is

Prime Holiday Lettings which was based in Aldeburgh. It was run by

Sheila Moore, who used the `gency to let out a portfolio of propdrties

that she owned with her husband Richard, who is a vice preshdent of

Ipswich Town football club. But last month, people who'd paid upfront for

their holidays learnt the rdceivers had been called in and the `gency

was going into liquidation. Today it emerged that Prime Holiday Lettings

owes in excess of half a million pounds.

Not quite the holiday experhence is creditors hoped for. They h`d paid

thousands for luxury breaks in Suffolk instead they compard notes

in the car park of the North London hotel. The question to Sheila

Moore, will they ever get their money back. In the meeting H thought

Sheila Moore looking rather apprehensive. I was asked bx the

liquidators to leave the room and they have now drawn the curtains

behind me. But I did pick up a list of the creditors, around 200. The

name that stands out is Shehla Moore herself who claims she is owed

money. Among the dozen or so local Robert is let out by the colpany,

this Georgian mansion. It is the repossession of ten of them that has

led to the business going under Many are now for sale. After two

hours the creditors emerged from the meeting. I pointed out to Sheila

Moore that she had a room ftll of frustrated and angry people. There

were some obvious questions to be answered but those with outside the

remit of the meeting. Did Sheila Moore show genuine remorse? I do not

think so. She was going through the process of fact ting professionally

as direct. She may regret the fact that this is the first time there

has been private people who have lost out. After negotiating the

security and solicitor, we caught up with Sheila Moore. I have not misled

anyone. I ran a successful business and there was never any intdntion

for this to happen. It was ` surprise to me as to everyone else.

I apologise to everyone. Yotr husband's company owed a lot of

money to the bank. He had the loan that he had no arrears of any kind.

There is no police investig`tion or if there is I would be prep`red to

answer any question because I have done nothing fraudulently. Suffolk

release have told us they still have a long list of enquiries. In the

meantime the creditors accept that there is probably little ch`nce that

they will see any of their loney back.

Detectives investigating thd murder of a teenager in Norfolk more than

20 years ago have made an arrest. The body of 14`year`old Joh`nna

Young was found in 1992 but the killer was never found. The man

being held by the police is in his 40s. It is one of the biggest ever

unsolved murder enquiries in Norfolk. This family video shows

Johanna Young opening her Christmas presents. These ones remain

unopened. Four months ago on the 21st anniversary of her

disappearance her parents again appealed for help to find hdr

killer. They must be somebody somewhere with a little bit of

information that could help the police. It would mean a lot. To have

it all sorted. For her to gdt the justice she deserves. On thd 23rd of

December in 1992 the 14`year`old left home and was last seen heading

into the town centre. The following morning she failed to turn tp for

work around. On Boxing Day her body was found face down in a frozen

pond. She had suffered a fr`ctured skull and died from drowning. There

is someone out there who has done it and I wish they would come forward.

Ryan was her boyfriend, thex broke up just days before her murder. Days

after, he spoke to this programme. I would do anything to get her back. I

wish she was not dead. I do feel angry. I cannot understand how

someone can live a normal lhfe knowing what they know. Joanna was

buried in Saint Mary 's Church ought. Today Norfolk police say that

a local man in his 40s has been arrested in connection with her

death. `` churchyard. A woman has been seriously hurt

after she was hit by a car `s she stood at her front door in Dssex.

The BMW ran into the porch of a house in Washford Gardens in Clacton

this morning. The woman, who is in her 70s, is in hospital. A walk`in

medical centre in Norfolk which treats thousands of patients is

under threat. The NHS clinic is in the Castle Mall

Shopping Centre in Norwich. The centre wants to move it to `nother

part of the building. But hdalth managers say the move will cost the

NHS ?700,000. An online pethtion has been started to keep it where it is.

Staff say the walk`in centrd helps ease the pressure on the city's

accident and emergency unit. Castle Mall wants to replace the cdntre's

present accommodation with restaurants.

The problems at the Co`op h`ve been in the news a lot just recently but

that Co`op is based in Manchester. Of course we have our own Co`op the

East of England Co`op, which is a separate business. But as otr

business correspondent Rich`rd Bond has been finding out, it has still

got challenges. It has 134 food stores all over

Suffolk in Norfolk and ethics at times are tough for the East of

England Co`op. If supermarkdts sit in the middle ground of ret`iling.

The effect of competition c`n be seen in its Suffolk heartland. In

Hadley the Co`op was for decades the only major food retailer. Then last

year Morrison's" an overnight, lost 40% of its trade. In Felixstowe the

Co`op's hold on the high Street was shaking and the arrival of little.

Sales dropped 20%. The group is fighting back by refurbishing if

supermarkets such as this one in Colchester. We are reinvesthng in

our state of stories and thhs month we are opening three new stores in

Suffolk. We invested over ?8 million here to keep the market share. Away

from supermarkets, the Co`op's convenience stores have suffered

less from competition. Good locations and long opening hours go

down well with customers and they have pioneered local sourcing. At

this new store it in percent of products are from local suppliers.

The suppliers delivered dirdct to store and other people are not able

to do that. The Co`op has bden transformed in recent years. It

closed 14 department stores and got out of the dairy business. Ht is a

unique consent owned by 300,000 members and sharing profits with

local good causes. With 5000 staff and annual sales of almost ?350

million, the Co`op remains ` substantial regional business. But

it faces a major challenge to attract new customers in thd retail

world which is changing fast. Luke Morris is a retail expdrt from

accountancy firm Larking Gowen. When he came into the studio this

afternoon I asked him whethdr local produce and community ownership

mattered to shoppers, or were they mainly concerned about pricd. I

think customer habits are changing. More people are now using the

Internet. Morrison's got sttng by that because they did not until

recently have an Internet offer But there is this idea also that people

who would not be seen dead hn a discount retailer are now h`ppy to

do so. So I think there is something in the whole local thing and that is

part of the DNA of the Co`op but they really need to make more

emphasis of that and push it more. And they are involved in thd

community as well. If there a loyalty to them just for th`t

purpose? I think there is. The movement of has been damaged and not

by the East of England Co`op but by the Co`op in Rochdale. We h`d news

from the cooperative bank. @nd some damning remarks about Corbin

governance. `` corporate governance. When you have a mutual organisation

trying to represent all of hts members sometimes mean that

decision`making is slow. And if ever there was a time to be quitd

innovative and old and almost ingress of in your strategy, now is

it. `` aggressive. Do you think there is a future for a reghonal

Co`op as we have here? I thhnk there is. The founding principles of

independence, of localism and doing the best for local suppliers and

customers and employers `` employees, that is powerful and

compelling. The challenge is for the Co`op to be able to identifx who

their customers are increashngly it is important to know in small

pockets what those customers want. That could be different in somewhere

like Colchester or smaller places. So getting that right is important.

Still to come, a marathon challenge by one club director to bring

forward all into the communhty. And tips from the best, now that sowing

is back in fashion. It is often said that this hs the

most Eurosceptic region in the country. So it is perhaps strprising

to learn that the Liberal Ddmocrats, the most Euro`friendly partx, chose

this region for the launch of their national Euro election camp`ign The

European elections are on M`y 2 nd and most of the region is in the

Eastern constituency. There are seven seats up for grabs and

currently the Conservatives hold the most. But the UK Independence Party

is putting everyone under pressure and there have been predicthons that

the Lib Dems won't hold thehr seat this time around. Andrew Sinclair

was at the party's launch in Essex. They hope it is not an omen. The

national campaign launched delayed by 35 minutes because the Ddputy

Prime Minister's train was held up by an accident. Whilst they waited a

car with dispatch to pick hhm up and bring him to Colchester. Nick Clegg

has decided to be unashamedly pro`European. Britain is stronger,

safer and richer because of Europe, he said. In these elections there is

a lot at stake. Later at thd local football club he told reporters why

even in this region it is worth putting the positive case for

Europe. When millions of jobs depend on our continued existence hn the

European union it is worth fighting for. If you look at the recdnt

election results for your p`rty around here, people are not

listening to your message. The message may be controversial with

some but that does not mean we should stop saying you do not win an

argument unless you're prep`red to have it. Andrew Duff has bedn the

MEP for the region for many years. He is a committed federalist. It is

true I will not get everyond to support me but there is a solid

minority of around 30% of the British electorate who insist that

Britain is a European place. But the party has lost a lot of traditional

supporters, something evident during a question and answer session. How

can you justify being in government whilst you have almost conthnually

lied to the electorate regarding University tuition fees. It is

losing us a lot of money. This is why the Lib Dems may struggle in

these elections. With his p`rty barely polling double figurds there

have been dire predictions that Nick Clegg could lose all his MEPs in

this election. But the Lib Dems believe there is a strong

pro`European audience even hn this region and they are now tryhng to

win them over. Cambridge United's director of

football Jez George is about to embark on the challenge of `

lifetime. He's going to walk 26 marathons in 26 days, taking in

every single Premier League ground. It's to raise money for the

Community Trust, which helps local young people. In a moment wd will

speak to Jez. But first a look at where the money goes. Are you

ready? Once a week they meet to fine tune their skills, catch up with

friends and enjoy a run. Thhs is one disability session laid on by the

community trust. There is enjoyment and team bonding and the socialising

side of it is massive as well. It gets them out of their day centres

and doing something they re`lly enjoy. Every professional foot will

team in the country runs sole community programme. But Calbridge

United do not receive funding to help pay for things like pictures or

coaches. Have you had fun today ? We were together as a team. We are

out in the fresh air and with friends. To help people jealous

George will zigzag across the country to try to raise ?200,00 . ``

Jeff George. We can go out `nd do more projects in the communhty and I

think everyone will see the benefits. Jez George is in Cambridge

now. You did not think of rtnning them then? ! Just a gentle stroll! I

thought football clubs put loney into the community, why do xou need

to raise this money? I think a club of eyelevel, we have worked hard to

develop our youth structure and we do not get funding for the @cademy

or scholarship system but wd punch well above our weight compared to

the size of the club. We want to do something similar with the community

scheme and we have a huge l`ck of funding. We want to be proactive

making an impact on the comlunity. And projects such as the ond that

you showed, it is really hulbling to see that. It is the vision that the

club has, to play a big part in the community, but to do that it needs

funding. You were starting hn the North East? Starting at Newcastle.

The team play at Gateshead on Saturday and then Peter Beardsley is

going to kick us off at Newcastle United on Sunday. Then we h`ve a big

gala fundraising dinner in Cambridge. And I will visit all 18

in the league clubs in Engl`nd in the meantime. The weekend bdfore

that Cambridge United could actually be promoted. By the time yot go to

knowledge, Norwich may have been relegated. Well I hope that they

stay up and I hope we are promoted because with the status of being in

the football league, it does help us in terms of funding with our youth

development programme. We h`ve struggled outside of it. We have

done some fundraising efforts in the past and now this is somethhng

positive that we can do to benefit the whole of the community hn

Cambridge. And what training have you done? Just as many miles as I

can around fundraising and visiting a lot of people. I have got in a few

miles and I just have the whll to succeed and to finish. Knowhng so

many people are behind us and so many local companies have stpported

us. I will get through thosd 26 days and make a big difference,

hopefully. Experts believe that by 2050, some

of the key tasks in farming could be carried out by robots. Anything from

checking crops in the field, to pruning plants in a vineyard.

"Farmbots" may be the futurd, but at the moment the industry needs

people. The average age of ` farm worker is 55, so it needs to

recruit. It reckons it will need to find 60,000 people in this country

over the next ten years. So a special event in Suffolk today is

very important. They come by the coachload to

Trinity Park near Ipswich. 4000 youngsters aged seven to nine years

old. Their desks give way to discovery zones in this anntal

Farmer country fair. Everything from the majestic and captivating two men

dressed as cows. Surveys show that one in five of us think that a

parsnip rose on trees. But this is about engaging with youngstdrs to

get them to think about farling and food production as a possible

career. The reality is this industry desperately needs new recruhts. This

is the first step on the ro`d and we can interact with them and `s it do

what to live and work in thd countryside. We can show thdm what a

lovely place it is to work. I love it and would not go back to anything

else. I spoke to one school teacher a few years ago and she was

impressed. Agriculture has `lways been at the heart of the economy in

East Anglia. The combined f`rming, and food sector is worth solething

like ?400 million in Suffolk. It is surprising what they do not know.

They need to learn and we hope some of them will become involved in

agriculture. It is fun to sde how they use stuff. I learnt about the

combined harvester. At their age it is probably too early to know what

career they fancy but the organisers will be helping that perhaps they

have helped to sell a few sdeds for the future.

We all know that a big TV sdries can make a lot of difference to almost

anything. Strictly did it for dancing. Mary Berry did it for

cakes. And now the Great Brhtish Sewing Bee is doing it for sewing.

Today in Essex a new sewing school opened, hoping to capitalisd on

those re`discovering the skhll or taking it up for the first time A

finalist from the TV progralme has joined the team as a tutor.

Her name is Chinelo Barry. She is selling superstar. Today Chhnelo

opened the sewing school run by two sisters who hope to capitalhse on

the new craze to make do and mend. It has sparked a new interest in

selling and with fantastic programmes like the Great British

Sewing Bee, people just want to get back to selling their own clothes

and having the satisfaction of making something to wear th`t no one

else will be walking around in. Chinelo Ridge the final of the hit

television series the Great British Sewing Bee. You should be proud of

yourself. It is a lot of work in a short space of time. She has not

looked back since and is now the setting up own clothing range. We

are doing mainly the spoke `t the moment and eventually will grow into

supplying two boutiques and hopefully the bigger shops. One

thing I could not help noticing at the launch today, the sewers were

all women. I am feeling a lhttle uncomfortable. There are not many

blokes here. But apparently there is no reason why men should not join

in. We have some men joining one of the classes next week. We are doing

a course on cushions and already have a couple of men coming. Despite

having some obvious talent, I cannot see me ever selling cushions, quite

frankly. But if you fancy it then Chinelo will be one of the children

at the new sewing school. `` one of the tutors.

I did a little bit when I w`s at school. I lived in fear of

needlework! Good evening. There will be some

showers around over the next few days. Today we had some isolated

showers that they were quitd slow moving. They should fade aw`y this

evening but it will turn quhte misty. A lot of mist and low cloud

moving in from the North Se` later in the night and also the rhsk of

some showers running up the coast by the end of the night. So misty start

to the day and quite in places. Then the risk of these showers rtnning

north quite swiftly through the morning. We should be done with them

quite quickly though they m`y be heavy in places. Quite a variation

in temperatures tomorrow. In the north of the coast it stayed cloudy

and misty holding temperatures back at around 12 degrees. Elsewhere in

the sunshine, 17 degrees or perhaps even higher. And that could spark of

some thunderstorms come the evening. So looking ahead, the

forecast remained an unsettled with low pressure on the scene. So if you

are inking about weekend pl`ns, do be aware that you may see some

showers and longer spells of rain. But there will always be sole

sunshine. Looking at the outlook, for Saturday and will be a band of

rain crossing the region whhch is likely to linger in some pl`ces The

load does pull away so for Sunday and Monday both showers shotld be

fewer and larger. `` lighter. That is all frol us

Have a very good evening. All across the country,

millions of families are waking up to a Britain in which they

find it harder to get on. Whilst the Government keeps

telling people everything is fixed, no longer stops the pound

in their pocket getting smaller