06/06/2014 Look East - East

Special events have been taking place across the region tod`y to

70 years ago, the allied invasion of Europe began by landing thotsands of

It's probably the last time a major anniversary is markdd by

so many veterans, with most of them now in thdir 0s.

The war memorial in the centre of Norwich and a service mirrored by

that attended by the Queen. The former head of the Army Lord Dunnett

was a guest of honour, as w`s 80`year`old Len Manly landed on the

beach at Arromanches 7am on D`Day. A member of the Devonshire Regiment,

he saw heavy fighting onlind. We made our way to what is now Pegasus

Bridge, and it was not very nice there, because snipers were having a

go at us. The German fighter planes were coming down stray fingdrs,

shells were dropping, all around us. If it had not been a success, what

would Europe look like todax? We have great gratitude in our heart

and great thanks for all those people. It has been a busy few days

the 16 aerosol Brigade, basdd in Colchester. They have been `t this

drop zone for paratroopers on D`Day, and the first French villagd to be

liberated. 200 paratroopers from the brigade were among 300 men from

Britain, France, Canada and the United States who used the same drop

zones yesterday to pay tribtte to the paratroopers who fought in

Normandy 70 years ago. Back at the D`Day service in Norwich, primary

school children were involvdd. LAN man read the odour remembrance. At

the going down of the sun, `nd in the morning, we will remembdr them.

Before a loan bugle played the Last Post.

And earlier this evening we asked for your D`Day stories.

Douglas Smith called from Corton near Lowestoft.

He flew a Halifax bomber to soften up the German positions.

He says "there's not many of us left".

James in Norwich tweeted that his dad,

Colour Sergeant Albert Marrhott was a Royal Marine on D`Day.

James says he lost him a few years ago, but

And this is William Hutchins on his wedding day.

His daughter April called to say he was so badly hurt that

He now lives in Norwich and has eight children.

Thank you to everyone who contacted us.

Norfolk Police have defended their decision to arrest

the parents of an 11`year`old boy, who weighs 15 stone, on suspicion

The mother and father from King's Lynn told the Sun newspaper

Norfolk Constabulary has refused to comment directly on the casd,

but in a statement insisted that "intervention at this level is very

"rare and will only occur where other attempts to protect

Earlier I spoke to Tam Fry, an expert on childhood obeshty, and

he told me he thought authorities should have intervened earlher.

In my opinion, this boy could have been picked up as long ago

as the age of three or four, because a lot of medical services and also

teachers at school and nursdry school will have seen him and did

nothing at all, and that colbined, I think, has caused a lot of grief.

Had intervention happened at that stage,

then I think we wouldn't have been in the situation that we ard now.

In reality, what can a doctor, nurse or a teacher do if thdy

Certainly, they can refer them upwards to paediatricians.

Paediatricians are the people who are ultimately

the child doctors, who know exactly how to deal with weight man`gement

You have to be very careful what you do, and that would be

Secondly, they then can takd the decision to, with Social Services,

remove the child away from the family home whilst the family home

is being straightened out, `nd then when everything is cleaned tp, then

the child will go back, hopefully much thinner,

and hopefully will stay thinner because Social Services and

the medical professionals whll be keeping a watching brief on them.

That seems quite an extreme course of action at such an early `ge.

Unfortunately, for this child, it is extreme, because it has been left

so late, but were he to havd been picked up much earlier, we wouldn't

There would have been a weight management or weight loss course

which would have been appropriate for his age and size, but it

And that's what I'm getting at, is that if you pick these problems

up early enough, you can do something about it sensibly, rather

than waiting now at the 11th hour and having to take these me`sures.

Tam Fry, from the National Obesity Forum, thank you.

Managers at Southend University Hospital have told Look East

they were quick to spot the signs of possible blood poisoning

in a baby thought to have bden infected by a contaminated drip

The Chief Executive at the hospital says they alwaxs keep a

We always monitor babies particularly closely.

We are assured by Public He`lth England that there shouldn't be any

more cases of this, but we will always monitor babies as little

as this, who do get infections easily, very, very closely.

The head of the company which owns Southend Airport says it

could have 5 million passengers a year by the end of the decade

Julian Carr ` the managing director of Stobart Air ` says it'll create

But there's ongoing legal action from people living

nearby over fears airport growth could hit house pricds.

That is it from us. And now, the weather. Good evening.

As we go through the rest of tonight, the risk

of one or two thunderstorms coming up from the south, particul`rly

And temperatures not dropping too far, down to

about 13 or 14 degrees for lany of us, so quite an uncomfortable

Then tomorrow morning, some thunderstorms running their

Not for everyone, still some uncertainty about how far

They'll clear northwards, though, and then I think for the bulk

of the afternoon across the East, it does look mainly dry.

Any further storms tend to be further west of the M11,

so the further east you go, the drier you'll tend to be.

And a very muggy, humid sort of day, temperatures getting up to 23 or

improve to some extent. The showers move away and a fresh appeal to

things. Good evening. The good news is,

there will be some decent dry on a sunny moment to come through the

weekend. But over the next 24 hours, the threat of thunderstorms

looms large. The ingredients have been coming together today - warm

air pushing northwards out of Iberia, cooler air from the Atlantic

trying to pushed away. In between the cloud has been building with a

lot of energy in the atmosphere sparking off some nasty

thunderstorms across parts of northern Spain and south-west

France. They will produce most of the rainfall tomorrow. Ahead of it,

the cloud is starting to produce thunderstorms itself. We've seen in

Cornwall. A few sporadic thunderstorms across central and

southern areas and towards Northern Ireland through the