15/02/2017 Look East (West)

Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

Two teenagers questioned by police after a seventeen

year old was stabbed to death in Northampton...

When you don't own the land your house is built on -

And lighting up the city - some of Cambridge's most iconic

buildings become works of art for the night...

Two teenagers are being questioned by police, after a seventeen year

old was stabbed to death in Northampton last night.

The attack happened on St George's Street -

where the victim was found with neck injuries, and taken to hospital

He's been named tonight as Liam Hunt.

A large area cordoned off by police as a murder

Police say a 17-year-old was attacked here at around 5.00pm

The teenager suffered serious neck injuries.

People living nearby believe he was stabbed.

One eyewitness has told me the teenager was treated outside

He was then taken to hospital, but sadly died.

You could see that the police were there, the ambulance

was there and somebody was doing CPR, that's it.

People don't think, don't stop and think and it's the victim,

it's sad for the victim and their family.

I came home, just before 6.00pm, I literally came around

There was a bunch of people there, standing.

Police asked a few guys, basically, to stay behind because I believe

It's bad, and especially so close to where we live

And I heard somebody was quite young, so when young lives,

like that, get involved in things like that, that's the most

disturbing thing for anybody, in any neighbourhood,

you don't want that kind of things to happen.

You don't want lives to be lost or lives to be damaged in that way.

Forensic officers are now at work here looking for clues as police

search the surrounding streets and nearby industrial estate.

The area is also close to a school and local businesses.

Police say a separate area of the town, also cordoned off,

A 17-year-old boy, arrested on suspicion of murder,

Meanwhile, detectives have now also arrested a 15-year-old boy

Police say they are keen to hear from anyone who was around here

yesterday. Perhaps they were returning from work around five

o'clock and saw something. They are also keen to stress that cases like

this are very rare, and they say they want to reassure the community

that they are working tirelessly to solve this case.

Next - the increasing trend for selling new homes

on a leasehold basis - without the freehold.

It means the buyer's lease can be sold on,

with new owners able to change the details and costs.

In 2015, almost 9,000 leaseholds were created.

And over the past 10 years, around 45,000 leasehold

Now there are calls for the law to be changed.

It's a riddle the answer to which Louise O'Reardon

She is one of a growing number of people who have bought

She thought she'd be paying an affordable amount of ground rent

But since buying the house, it's emerged that freehold

could be sold on with ground rent potentially rising.

I feel stupid that I believed what a sales person was telling

me and that I didn't investigate it further.

But I did trust that what they were telling me

was correct because obviously this is the biggest purchase

The practice of reselling a freehold is perfectly legal.

As the leaseholder, Louise owns the property for the length

The freeholder owns the ground outright.

Louise says she was led to believe the freehold would never be sold

on because it was owned by a local college.

Louise isn't the only one who claims she was mislead.

You pay ?200 per year, for 499 years, I was told that you have

Louise has now taken her concerns to the local MP.

It seems to me that the developers are trying to make extra money

by selling the house and then also collecting in ground rent

and selling the leasehold back to the people they have already sold

I think that's an unfair and wrong practice.

Louise claims the developers duped her.

In a statement the company told us...

But that sum could run into the tens of thousands.

It was supposed to be a dream home, a first term for Louise and her

family. That dream is rapidly turning into a nightmare.

Well, there's a group that campaigns for leaseholders in the same

Sebastien O'Kelly from the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership

joined me to explain why developers do it.

If you sell a house leasehold, rather than freehold,

you are creating an investment asset class at the expense of the person

Sometimes a ground rent rises with retail price inflation,

That has a significant impact on the value of the property,

but it's an excellent investment, if you happen to own the freehold.

A lot of these people are paying ?295 a year for ground rent.

What service do they receive for that?

Nobody has explained what ground rent is for.

It is nothing, except for an artificial construct

which produces a significant revenue for the murky investors

So what would you like to see happen then?

Well, I'd like to stop building leasehold tenure full stop,

including for flats, we could go on to commonhold

system, which prevails in the rest of the world,

including Scotland and Ireland and North America and Australasia,

so other jurisdictions, which had a significant influence

There's really no reason to perpetuate leasehold tenure,

forms of commonhold exist everywhere else.

But for people looking to buy now, then, what's your advice to them?

What should they be watching out for?

If you are offered a leasehold house, you tell the developer

straight off that you're very interested in buying it, but you

The developer will say - Oh, no, but you can buy

You cut through that nonsense and say, you can sell the freehold

perfectly easily to me now, and you should do so,

For the last few nights, landmarks in Cambridge have been lit up

with a dazzling display to encourage passers-by to see them

The Eluminate festival highlights the city's place at the forefront

of technological research while celebrating its heritage.

I am here at the Senate house, which tonight has been transformed into a

giant canvas polite, this one celebrating the life of Robert Cross

test, was a pioneering theologian, philosopher and scientist during

medieval times. Caron, the artist, is with me. What goes on to creating

these incredible effects? The whole effect is created by taking medieval

imagery and images generated by computers within modern cosmology.

We have tried to bring the two together to show the medieval

worldview and the modern worldview within one piece, in order to

celebrate gross test 's amazing visions of how the universe was

potentially created. This is just one of 24 buildings being lit up the

night, all with lots of different designs, and people here have been

really enjoying themselves. It's lovely, amazing lasers. Use it here

mesmerised with history, it is really fascinating. It exit look

beautiful. A of gorgeous colours and imagery but what is the point of it

all? David, the organiser of the is here. Eluminate Cambridge Festival

heritage. The festival itself is not heritage. The festival itself is not

just about installations in the evening, we have had conferences,

concerts became rich corn exchange, all using the theme of play, which

has been the overall theme of the. David, thank you. This unfortunately

is the last night of the festival, but it will be back, I am told, next

year. Thousands of workers at Tata Steel

have voted to accept a deal to reform their pensions in order

to secure the future There are around 500 workers at

Tata's plant in Corby. Good news for cycling fans

in Northamptonshire - as this year's Women's Tour

will start in Daventry. The five-day race will begin

with a 92-mile stage between Daventry and Kettering

on the 7th of June. That's the late news from Look East

- let's get the weather with Alex. A mild forecast for the rest this

week and dry. Early rain has just about cleared away and we're left

with a dry night and some clear spells out there. They will be a

little chillier than last night but temperatures not lower than five or

6 degrees for many of us. We start the day on a slightly chillier now

done today but we have high-pressure building in from the south that will

bring us lots of fine weather. Maybe just the odd mist and fog patch

first thing, lifting the lower level cloud, and then by the spells of

sunshine into the afternoon. Temperatures will be mild, well into

double figures, 11 or 12 degrees with the wind is coming from a

westerly direction, picking up a little through the day. It will turn

a little bit cloudier towards the end of the afternoon but it should

stay dry. The National weather is coming up, here is the outlook. A

mild forecast with some fine sunshine on Friday. By Saturday

telling a little cloudier by day with a chance of rain arriving

the weekend. Wouldn't promise you two dry days but you never know,

here is Nick with the national picture.

Hello. We put that cold weekend well behind us now. Temperatures edging

upwards and our weather watchers are seeing plenty of signs of spring.

Spending more time looking down than looking up at the skies, we see

these early blooms. They are set to continue as we are set to stay mild

for several more days to come. Average daytime temperature this

time of year around eight, but getting into double figures all the

way through the weekend. The start of next week into the mid-teens

potentially, very mild indeed. It was 14 in Lincolnshire today. A lot

of heavy rain to end the day. That clearing from Yorkshire to the North

Sea. A few showers in the west and the odd one may continue into the

night. Many becoming dry, just this rain still into western parts of