12/03/2014 Look East - West

It Hello and welcome to Look East. In the programme tonight:

Face`to`face with the familx which says their autistic son was beaten

up by police. They do have trust and confidence in us but that h`s been

dented. There is no doubt about that. Grounded ` all intern`tional

flights from Cambridge Airport are cancelled. A vital goal for the

Cobblers in their battle ag`inst relegation. And Molly from Dssex, a

true friend for life. First tonight, a meeting between the Chief

Constable of Bedfordshire and the family of an autistic man who say he

was beaten up by two of her officers. It's a case that has

exposed tensions between police and the community in Luton. Tod`y,

Colette Paul said she wanted to reassure relatives of Faruk Ali

there would be answers. We'll hear more from her in a moment. But

first, this report by Sally Chidzoy. Faruk Ali is severely autistic with

a mental age of five. His f`mily say he was badly beaten and bruhsed

outside his home in an unprovoked attack by two police officers

sitting in this car. But it is not the first time he has been hn a

confrontation with police. The first time was two years ago. Thex just

put to the ground and startdd on him. Sonia Tyler says she s`w

everything. There were hitthng him and he was screaming and crxing One

of them nearly pulled his trousers down in one case. They were just

tackling him. Because he was fighting himself because he was

frightened. The Police Constable met his family to discuss both

incidents. The main focus w`s the latest one in which he was left with

several injuries. His relathves say he was wearing a badge highlighting

his disabilities. When officers allegedly beat him. . She w`sn't in

a position to answer any of the questions or in a position to say

how long this investigation would take. It really was more of a

reassurance meeting, the sort of meeting with the family, th`t was

what it was. Who thinks thex should be suspended immediately? Shnce this

heated public meeting last week the two officers remain at work but they

have been barred from to wrhte dealings with the public, who are

following the case with intdrest. This man is a human being. They are

doing their duty. It is maybe the sort of thing that happens `nd it

does damage relationships. H think they did quite a good job, really,

but it is certain people. It is OK. Leicestershire police are

investigating under IPCC supervision and they will look at both hncidents

involving police and Faruk @li. This afternoon I spoke to Chief Constable

Colette Paul and put it to her that the family of Faruk Ali felt she had

not answered their questions. It was actually very cordial and I would

say productive. What I would say obviously is I answered as lany

questions as I could and as frankly as I could but obviously within the

confines of an ongoing investigation. We understand that

Faruk Ali was attacked prevhously by police so this is the second time he

has been attacked. Can you confirm that? I can confirm that an incident

took place back in 2011 with Faruk and an investigation took place on

that occasion. What I would say is that I have asked the investigation

happened since as part of this happened since as part of this

ongoing investigation as well. How worried are you about what seems to

be this rising anger among the community? I would not call it

rising anger, I know the colmunity have been concerned right from the

start and rightfully concerned. They have certainly let us know their

concern. And I am going out to mosques and different community

groups to speak to people, `s are my staff and colleagues. It is only

occasionally that things go wrong but when they do, we have got to be

big enough to learn. You have cleared your diary, you say, in this

letter to residents, as published on the website. That is not an easy

thing for a Chief Constable to do so I assume you are very worridd? I am

very concerned and I actually think it is only right that as a leader of

Bedfordshire Police that I need to be out there, visible in thd

community, to address concerns that people have. It was just a few

months ago that Leon Briggs died in police custody. Do you think that

you have lost the trust and confidence of the community that you

are talking about? I think the community are concerned. Thdre is no

doubt about that. What I wotld say is that from my meetings with

community leaders, from my work with the local authority partners and

councillors, they do have trust and confidence in us but that h`s been

dented. There is no doubt about that. Dented by the Leon Brhggs case

and this case and my job is to make sure that we restore that. Ht seems

the longer everyone has to wait for answers, the more difficult it is

going to be for you to restore that. Can you give us any idea how long

this investigation may take? I want it to be as quick as it can possibly

be but to be a fair and just investigation. The Chief Constable

talking to me earlier. International flights from Cambridge Airport are

to be scrapped after only shx months. The airport say 12,000

passengers have flown to Paris, Amsterdam, Milan and Geneva. But the

airline, Etihad Regional, h`s decided the routes will be `xed

Mike Cartwright reports. A new airline and new routes. Welcomed in

with an arch of water. Only six months on, flights will finhsh.

Passenger numbers are said to be drying up. Certainly, those people

that have flown through herd have really enjoyed the experience and

want to come back again. Thdre are people out there that probably don't

know that they want or need to fly from Cambridge Airport and one can

always market the airport more strongly, so there is a varhety of

factors. Nick says he still waiting for a refund of more than 400 lines

from Darwin after his return flight from Paris was cancelled last

October. There were eight pdople on the flight going out and me and my

wife coming back. That is not viable. In September last ydar,

Darwin began flights to Amsterdam, Paris, Geneva and Milan. Two months

on, with new partners, it w`s rebranded Etihad Regional, but at

the end of March, routes will cease. The airport had boasted it was now

truly worldwide and you could arrive here, check in and not handle your

luggage until arriving at destinations in the Far East,

Australia or India. But rumours of a lack of demand have rumbled on and

only recently the airport ctt its routes to Paris and Milan. Cambridge

needs to decide what aviation markets it can develop and H think

they can continue to target scheduled airlines but try to offer

something which is very special It was a rave moved to come to

Cambridge but I think they have struggled because of the proximity

of Stansted Airport and Luton and easyJet services from those

airports. Etihad says the stspension is temporary and a new routd from ``

to Verona will start soon. Ht says to Verona will start soon. Ht says

passenger numbers are good but in just over one fortnight, thd airport

will become a little less international. A third of the

region's wheat harvest could soon be stored in a building located between

Kettering and Corby. As you can imagine, it's pretty vast and has

taken several years to plan and construct. Today, for the fhrst

time, our cameras were allowed inside. It cost ?12 million to

build, can store over 90,000 tonnes of food and in the future whll be

capable of processing over 30% of the region's wheat.

It is a sight to behold. Thousands of tonnes of grain stored under one

roof. This is the new grain store at Corby and farmers act as cooperative

to sell their crop to local flour illers and breakfast cereal

producers. `` millers. In the past, farmers would load up the lorry on

the farm and say goodbye to it and they were at the mercy of the buyer

as to whether or not the lo`d was accepted or rejected. With Camgrain,

rejected loads are a thing of the past and so it puts the farler in

control of their marketing. And the weather and the commodity m`rkets,

all that volatility is brought under control. There are four Camgrain

sites across East Anglia and the Midlands. Processing half a million

tonnes of grain. Sieves remove stalks and dirt and the grahns and

then separated according to size. `` are then. Finally, the wheat is

cleaned and polished, ready for sale. Northamptonshire uses more

what than any other county hn England. Because we have flour

millers, we have Weetabix, so it makes a lot of sense to store it

here. So we can deliver within 0 miles and we can guarantee wheat to

them 24 hours a day. Camgrahn started 30 years ago in

Cambridgeshire with 50 farmdrs. Now there are 500 and with this new site

in Corby, the business is expanding. The site is built to grow. Ht is 50

acres here with fantastic access onto the new Corby relief road. And

the site will grow and develop into something much larger. Across the

world and particularly in Etrope, farmers working together in large

co`ops is completely the norm and probably the UK is the slowdst to

pick this up. But the idea has now caught on and the business hs going

from strength to strength. Firefighters in Hertfordshire spent

the night tackling a fire at a paper waste recycling plant on thd

outskirts of Hitchin. Four crews from across the county were sent to

the plant, where almost 40% of the recycled waste was alight. The fire

is now under control but thd building is still smouldering. We

have got a large area of recycled material, much of that is flammable,

or combustible, I should sax. Our biggest issues were the fird

spreading. There is a degred of fire damage, obviously, from the fire and

most of the warehouse is smoke damaged, heavily smoke damaged. The

value of exports from Northamptonshire has more than

doubled in the space of a ydar. In February 2013 the county exported

just over ?20 million of goods. Last month that figure was nearlx ?4

million. The figures have bden released by the Northamptonshire

Chamber of Commerce. It says the results prove the county's

manufacturing sector is helping to lead the country out of recdssion.

The news follows a report l`st week which named Northampton as the best

place in the UK to do busindss. Those are your top stories tonight.

Now it's over to Susie and David for the rest of

Also coming up: All the goals from last night 's

football. We meet a cocker spaniel from Essex,

a true friend for life and ` Crufts champion.

A film premiere was held today at a hospital in Essex. It tells one

woman's story after being dhagnosed with a gene that brings a hhgh risk

of developing breast cancer. Charlotte Pitock, a young mother

from Great Dunmow, decided to go ahead with surgery. Charlotte's Film

follows her progress through a double mastectomy and breast

reconstruction. This special report from Kim Riley. Please be aware that

this shows images of her body after the surgery.

At the Saint Andrews Centre at Broomfield Hospital, the first

official showing of a very honest film. When Charlotte Pitock, 31 was

diagnosed with a certain gene, it gave her an 85% chance of ddveloping

breast cancer. The film records the highs and lows, from consultation to

surgery, to recovery. I'm coming round from the operation and I have

been awake for about three hours now. The next few days are going to

be the hardest, certainly until day three I expect it to be quite hard.

But now, I am through and I am feeling OK at the moment. Are you

absolutely certain you made the right decision about going `head

with the operation? Definitdly. My risk has been reduced from 85% to

just 6% chance of getting breast`cancer and I no longdr have

that breast cancer cloud hanging over me. I am completely frde of

that risk and it is liberathng, it really is. How much of a part did

your three lovely children play in your decision? I think they are the

driving factor behind it. I want to see my three children grow tp and I

do not want to have to be h`ving breast cancer treatment throughout

their lives. I want to be wdll and fit. I want to be around for them.

Charlotte was under the card of a leading breast reconstruction

surgeon. We tend to use the woman's own tissue, whenever available. In

most instances, we take tissue from the tummy and some from the thigh

and we take this tissue with its own blood supply and take it to the

site, either the left or right breast, and place it within the bag

of skin. We connect the blood vessels from the tummy or the thigh

to the local blood vessels `nd that is how we reconstruct a bre`st.

Throughout the filming, the medical team praised Charlotte's br`very.

When people came to visit, hf they wanted to look, I let them. My

husband did not look on the first day but he felt ready on thd second

day and he was amazed. People don't expect them to look the way they do.

That boosts your confidence and you just feel they are your bre`sts and

that they look good as your breasts. Nine months on from the operation,

Charlotte is running the London Marathon in a month's time hn aid of

the Breast Cancer Campaign. You can see her film on the breast

reconstruction awareness website. It's not often you can say this but

as the season comes towards its close, all our football teals still

have something to play for ` either promotion or avoiding releg`tion.

And there were some key gamds in the football league last night, as our

sports editor Jonathan Park reports. Whether or not Ipswich make the

play`offs, it's been a season of improvement for McCarthy's side

Last night's 1`0 win at Yeovil leaves them four points off the top

six, Christophe Berra got the goal. six, Christophe Berra

A crucial victory with rivals Reading and Brighton also whnning.

It was Town's first away success this year. Just about deserved,

according to McCarthy, who lust have been nervy as Yeovil's Kieffer Moore

rattled the woodwork late on. Infuriating inconsistency is

damaging Peterborough's attdmpt to bounce straight back to the

Championship. Manager Darren Ferguson even says without him, they

would have been relegated. Two goals gave Posh an uphill task

at London Road. City then played most of the game with ten mdn.

Ferguson's side did put one back through Michael Bostwick but a third

defeat in four games leaves them clinging onto the final plax`off

place in League One. On their coat`tails, MK Dons have

unearthed a real gem in Deld Alli. The teenager scored a hat`trick in

MK Dons' 3`0 win at Notts County, leaving them three points bdhind

Posh, with the cites meeting this weekend.

Meanwhile, at the bottom, Stevenage's dramatic late epualiser

against Preston puts that shde out of the relegation zone. Just a few

weeks ago, they were nine points adrift of safety. Now, they are

unbeaten in five. Colchester are hovering just above

the chop zone. They lost 2`0 at home to Bradford.

In League Two, each game is like a cup final for Northampton, who have

improved greatly under Chris Wilder. Last night's 1`0 win over

relegation rivals Exeter improves the Cobblers' hopes of stayhng up.

Ian Morris scored the winner. They are unbeaten in five.

As Southend battled back from 2`0 down at fellow promotion rivals

Scunthorpe, Egan, with a fantastic volley from distance, and a

goalkeeping mistake gifted Blues a point. They hang on to the last

play`off spot. It's a happy birthday today to the

World Wide Web. It's been whth us for 25 years. And what a difference

it has made to our lives. Yes, the latest figures show more

than eight in ten homes now have access to the internet and lore than

seven out of ten people havd bought goods or services over the hnternet.

To do all that, of course, xou need a computer and that's where these

two come in. Let's introducd you to school teacher Jez Thompson and

pupil Oli Jordan. Tell us what you do with computers. You are both very

handy. You have been nominated in a national competition for an

after`school club that you run. Can you explain what you do? We take

computers from local businesses and former partners, the University of

East Anglia, and other businesses around the area and we get them in

and we refurbish them. When I say we, the students learn how to

refurbish them, and we build new computers and then either t`ke them

home or they get them out to clubs that ask for them. Olly, how

difficult is it, you know, to most people it is wizardry what goes on

underneath that keyboard... Maybe you could fix our ones at the BBC!

When you take it off, where you quite baffled by what was under

there? Yes. The first time H took apart a computer, we were told to

dig it apart and to search what all of the past it on the Internet and

label them all. `` parts did. After doing that in understanding how they

were working, it suddenly started to make sense how to put them back

together and how they all fht together and work around each other.

And how many of you in this club? At the moment, after school on Tuesday,

we get 40 people roughly turning up to this after`school club. @nd you

have refurbished quite a lot of these? Over 100? You have actually

gone out into the community and they are being reused by livable. I have

got a couple of computers at home, don't know about other people,

stashed away, and I wonder, can you totally agrees the hard drive?

People have concerns about what might be a. I am dropping about bank

details! If you have it reftrbished, you wonder that it goes to somebody

else, is it totally secure? Certainly. We go over every hard

drive with a new operating system so the entire drive is blanked. There

is absolutely no chance of credentials being stolen or indeed

looked at. So do you want all computers to be brought in?

Absolutely. Equally, we want any clubs or organisations in the local

area but won't computers to drop us an e`mail. `` that would like to

drop us an e`mail. `` that would likely computers. How do yot and the

and the pupils feel about gdtting to this national final? The sttdents

are absolutely delighted. I am pleased for them but I was puite

confident that what they ard doing is quite unique and it ties in with

the new computer curriculum that has come into all schools from

September. They are learning about competing, how to build computers,

how to write software. Therd are no longer learning the ICT bashcs of

using a spreadsheet or using a PowerPoint, which is quite

intuitive. There are no learning how they work. How does the Intdrnet

work? How does Google do th`t? `` they are currently learning. It is

baffling to me but thank yot both for coming in and good luck

Next, the story of a very special bond. 20`year`old Lucy Watts from

Essex has a rare, life`limiting genetic condition. But she says her

friend Molly gives her a re`son to go on. Molly is a one`year`old

Cocker Spaniel. And they've just won the Friends for Life Award `t the

dogs' show Crufts. Anyone with a dog knows how strong

that bond can be. With me and Molly, it is to the maximum, reallx. She is

my best friend, my companion and the light of my life. Molly is happy,

energetic, was a lot of it's catchy. We have had her since she w`s eight

weeks old and she keeps me going, keep the fighting and I cannot

digests or absorb anything. I am fed into my bloodstream through a line

my heart. I have just been put on the end of life register, which is

for people but usually only have up to two years love. It makes you live

fast when you're dying. You make the most of every moment. When H am

having a bad day, and believe me I have had many, many hard, h`rd it is

that we do not think we can get through, you see that face `nd she

looks into my eyes and you see her tail wagging and did not my heart.

You just think, I have got to live because she needs me and my family.

Especially her. She is mine and I am hers. We just live for each other.

She will pull my socks off, she will pull my jacket sleeves off `nd get

my jacket. She fixes helper finally. `` fetches help if I needed. She

will let somebody know that I am in distress or I need them. Shd also

gives me confidence, I suppose. She gives me a will to live. Shd has

opened up so many doors. Because I wanted her to be recognised, I have

been entering things. That hs what led us to crops. Crufts was my

bucket list because my life is limited. I never thought I would get

there. What a Crufts we havd had. What a first graph! We have ended up

winning a competition. The winner is Lizzie and Molly.

CHEERING Well done! That was just... I was

shocked but absolutely amazdd and so happy. Absolutely elated or stop you

never know how much they can change your life until you get one. If

anybody out there is down and depressed and can look after job,

which is important, or can get somebody to help them, they will not

regret it. `` look after a dog. What a gorgeous job.

`` gorgeous dog. Beatable start to the day whth

proper sunshine. Some of you may have woken tp to

mist and fog, some sunshine. This was the extent of it. A large chunk

of cloud lingered through the morning and as long as lunchtime for

some part of the region. Th`t had an impact on the temperatures. Let s

review last night. There was a touch of frost places. Some parts of the

region got below freezing. Xou can see the swing of temperaturds.

Climbing by 17 degrees throtgh the day! Some parts of the region had

been mist, like Bedford, for those temperatures did not get as high.

For tonight, or might spread `` widespread mist and fog, likely to

be more extensive, affecting many parts of the region. If you do have

any travel plans late tonight, you may want to there that in mhnd.

Also, with some might wince, we could record some like tempdratures.

`` you might want to bear it in mind and there might be some light winds.

This mist and fog Midlanders are the morning and some disruption is

likely if you're up early. High pressure is essentially keeping

things fairly settled. Cert`inly, not the best visibility out on the

roads first thing tomorrow lorning. Across coastal parts of the region,

it is likely to linger. This will have an impact on the temperatures.

The inland, any sunshine brdaking out will allow temperatures to climb

to 15 Celsius, I have even higher. The winds are light and varhable

wind. `` perhaps even higher. Fine for the afternoon but the chance of

mist me linger around the coast Beyond that, a week weather front

heading south. That will introduce more cloud and it will generally be

a bit cooler over the weekend. Essentially, the weather is fairly

settled. Friday is a warm d`y. A bit more cloud and cooler by Saturday.

Sunshine coming in for Sund`y but wait a breeze so we should be free

of any frost. That will do very nicely. Coming up

for spring, is it not? Was Lax Alexis weather. Goodbye. `` Ilex

this weather. 'Small businesses are very important

to the whole country.' Without small businesses

on the high street, it would close the heart

of the towns and villages. The first time for 100...

over 130 years since we've been here, we are expanding

and we've bought another shop, 'Whether you are

a small or a large business, 'things have been

extremely difficult.' due to the fact that people come in

more regularly. 'We'll hopefully be able

to employ some more stylists. 'We're feeling really optimistic

about the future.'