05/08/2013 Look East - West

ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne for a drunken assault in Stevenage. The

storm over the dinner lady sacked for serving pork to a Muslim child -

the parents speak out. Helping the wounded in war - the

centre helping soldiers adjust to life outside the army.

The youngest ever competitor The former England footballer Paul

Gascoigne has been fined more than �1,200 following an incident at the

railway station in Stevenage last month. At court today, he admitted

assaulting a railway guard and being drunk and disorderly. It is the

latest in a series of high-profile setbacks for the troubled sportsman.

Another Paul Gascoigne story that has made it big in the media. He

arrived through a swarm of cameras. No comment outside, but inside he

spoke twice, pleading guilty to assault and drunken behaviour.

Gascoigne wants to publicly apologise for his actions that

evening. He now wishes to be left alone to carry on with his recovery.

He was travelling from Newcastle to King's Cross, but got up here at

Stevenage. We had been drinking, had trouble standing and he was

stumbling towards the track. A security guard dry to help them to

wheelchair, but the court was told that Paul Gascoigne became abusive,

and grabbed him around the collar, pulling his shirt tightly. Charges

that Paul Gascoigne also assaulted as former wife here were turned

in the World Cup semifinal. Off the pitch, drink, drug and mental health

problems. In 1998 his marriage to Sheryl broke down after reports of

domestic violence. In December 2005 he was sacked as Kettering town

manager after over 39 days. More than once he has been arrested for

drink-driving. This year, this event in Northampton, film sobbing and

slowing his words, soon afterwards heading to America for specialist

treatment. I remember him way back, when he was playing for England.

needs support. If you stop stinking, he could get back to his former

self. It -- he just needs support. We obviously has his problems, and I

just wanted to make sure he was OK. His solicitor said that he had been

under stress and in pain after I had operation and this has been his

first drink for a long time. Paul Gascoigne is �1200 in fines and

costs and he says he will redouble his efforts to sort out his problems

with drink. As you may have seen on the Six

O'clock News, a mild who died after a row over a disabled car parking

space in Biggleswade has tonight been named. He was Brian Holmes, who

was 64 and came from Sandy. He had just been given the all clear from

cancer. Stuart Ratcliffe reports. Today, Brian Holmes was described as

a family mild he adored his family. The details of what happened here

were not clear, but it appears that Brian Holmes and 65-year-old mild

work involved in a dispute beside this disabled bay. Mr Holmes was

pushed to the ground. He was rushed to hospital where he later died.

Very sad for his family. A simple argument over a parking space.

in my flat and I could hear the helicopter. I looked out the window

and a sidelined in the fields. Obviously, it took off. When I came

here it was full of the police. Normally quite friendly right here.

I can't understand something like that happening in their over a

parking space. Someone died over a parking space, it is just weird

round this area because you don't hear that kind of thing round here.

The family of Brian Holmes said that there are devastated by the loss in

such shocking circumstances. A lost his wife -- a Gloucester husband,

best friend and care are all in one go. This week Mr Holmes was given

the all clear following cancer treatment. Better please say a 65

your old mild was arrested on Saturday afternoon under suspicion

of manslaughter. They said that on Saturday this car park was full of

shoppers and they are urging those shoppers to come forward to help

them piece together how and why this happened.

The Muslim parents at the centre of a school dinner row said today they

were being hounded and vilified because of their beliefs. We

reported last week that their daughter had been served pork at

school by mistake, leading to the dinner lady being sacked. Today, the

girl's parents said they had been frightened by the reaction.

It was late last week when the article had the headlines, first in

the sun and around the world. This dinner lady was sacked that dishes

served pork timbres and pupils in a Cambridge school canteen. This

couple were thrust into the Spotlight after they complained, but

they didn't expect such a backlash. The question weather those sort of

headlines would have taken place if it would have been be served to a

Hindu, pork served to a Christian, it was very disappointing. A very

understatement. How did you feel when you saw the article? Terrified,

because they did know who to trust, where I can go for help. I was

literally shaking in my house, my own home. I was driven out of my

house because I felt so fearful that I packed my bags and they took my

children away from Cambridge. you felt since? I have just been

traumatised by it. I have been reading the papers every day, seeing

the comments that have been put up. It is just horrible. I am a British

citizen, was born in this country, done everything that everybody else

does in this country. I would never get anybody fired over something

like this! I haven't been able to sleep, haven't we been -- been able

to eat, to concentrate. My family don't even know me. Alison had been

a school dinner lady for 11 years when she was dismissed. She said to

made an honest mistake and was made a scapegoat. There should be a

system where they have some sort of colour-coordinated scheme. The

clinical a restaurant, so every child knows where they go, what they

can in candidate. We have had a few comments like this, and we have had

some supportive comments, but this is a reflection of what you have had

to go through. This runs as a Muslim child should attend as limbs cool if

it is not to their liking. What do you think you're in a comment like

that is? It is very upsetting. I want my children to be around all

different people, all different colours and faiths. We are all

equal, we are all humans. It is important for everyone to understand

each other. I don't think Muslims should just day with one community

and be separated. I think that is ridiculous. They have received an

apology from the School of how they had been treated by the national

media. They also contacted the press complaints commission. They said

they didn't expect anyone to bend over backwards for their beliefs,

they just wanted to be respected. Two passengers who sparked a

terrorist alert at Stansted Airport appeared in court today and tonight

the charges against them. In May, Tayyab Subhani and Mohammed

Safdar were on board an aircraft travelling from Pakistan to

Manchester when it was diverted, prompting a full emergency

operation. Police boarded the Pakistan

International airlines aircraft after it was diverted to Stansted

Airport. It had been flying from Lahore to Manchester, but was

stopped after the reports of threats made on board. Essex police carried)

to test on the plane and later arrested two mild -- two men. The

two defendants, 30-year-old Tayyab Subhani and 42-year-old Mohammed

Safdar, stood side-by-side in the dock. The indictment was read to

them, join the charging them with endangering the safety of an

aircraft by threatening that the group and the passengers of the

flights would be killed is anti aircraft by threatening that the

group and the passengers of the flights would be killed is

anti-aircraft blow asked that they plead guilty or, in the blue, had

his bail renewed. His co-accused is expected to be released tomorrow

after a �50,000 security was processed. He needs to report daily

to the police and surrender his passport. The trial is to be set for

Monday, the 11th of November and is expected to last six weeks.

Corby is to keep its ambulance station after a U-turn by the East

Midlands Ambulance Service. The controversial plan was to create two

new hubs in Kettering and Northampton and a series of

community stations shared with other emergency services. But, that would

have meant closing these six existing ambulance stations

throughout Northamptonshire. Now it seems the station in Corby will

survive. Emma Baugh reports. It is one of the biggest shake-ups

in the history of the service, closing and build stations across

Europe and the jerks and sending crews out from larger hubs. Corby

was one of those facing closure, but today the time learned it had been

saved. Any services, especially things like ambulances, it has to be

a good thing to have your own station. It is still needed. I have

a child who has epilepsy and about the ambulance service in Corby, it

could be really serious. It is not the same everywhere. Rushed and

others are due to close. Campaigners here say they have concerns over

waiting times. It is vital that villagers, outlining areas, have

some sort of immediate ambulance response. It is not just about this

area, it is about Daventry, and the other areas that need to make sure

that there need to make sure that their needs are being mapped.

trust maintains to improve patient care, giving staff more time to help

they are needed. Today's news comes days after the chief executive of

the trust. It says its plans would carry on. No one from the trust was

available to be interviewed today, but they said that while Corby would

stay open, other closures would still continue because it was a

decision made by the board of the trust and would not be affected by a

change in senior management. There is no set timetable for the

changes, but they could start within months.

A mosque in Peterborough has joined up with a Christian charity to start

operating a food bank from its premises. The City's Islamic Centre

says it's the first in the UK to work with the Trussell Trust. It has

been spearheading the rapid growth of emergency food distribution