14/02/2017 Look East

In the programme tonight, preparing for the cull:

after bird flu is confirmed on a farm in Suffolk.

It is concerning times for the industry.

It is the most extensive series of outbreaks we have

The trial of the man accused of killing Peter and Sylvia Stuart

hears how cash disappeared from of their accounts.

with the smallest pacemaker in the world.

And I'm here at RAF Wittering near Peterborough, where the Duchess of

Cambridge has been visiting Air Cadets.

First tonight, a cull of thousands of birds will begin within hours

after it was confirmed that avian flu has reached this region

23,000 birds will be killed on a farm in Suffolk.

In December restrictions were imposed throughout the country

after outbreaks of bird flu were recorded across Europe.

It meant all captive birds had to be kept under cover

to stop them getting infected by wild birds.

Last week Defra announced the restrictions would be lifted

at the end of this month in some places.

Birds in the white areas of this map could be moved outside.

Those in the red areas, the high risk areas,

Yesterday came confirmation of the first case of bird flu

The H5N8 strain has been found at a farm near Redgrave

Our chief reporter Kim Riley has this report.

Here at Bridge farm, preparations have been underway for that mass

cull. The company that manages this site said it would not happen until

they'd had concerned diagnosis from the Defra laboratory. We have had it

now confirmed that the strain of the virus picked up here is the highly

pathogenic strain that has been detected at the number of sites

across the country. Four chicken sheds here are the centre of the

latest alert. Hanan Portree, one of the biggest producers in the region,

manages the bomb. It says the infection was confirmed after it

notified Defra of a number of deaths among its flocks. The company says

birds at its other farms appear healthy and there is no evidence of

any spread of infection. The development at Redgrave is a blow to

It is concerning times for the industry.

It is the most extensive series of outbreaks we have

So, yes, there is concern but there's also determination to work

with Defra to stamp out bird flu. But producer gracing foods has a

large processing factory in Redgrave. It falls within a ten km

open water or zone imposed now around bridge farm. It says that

production has been transferred to headquarters near Woodbridge until

further notice. The company says it has no connection with which farm.

All that its birds are in good health. Given the restrictions

imposed in December, one key question is how the infection spread

here. At this stage it is impossible to say, really. We will just have to

wait for Defra to do their epidemiology work, which means the

tracing back of the disease, which is going to take days, if not weeks,

to complete until we have a clearer picture as to how it might have

entered this block. This ex-soldier lives close to Bridge farm. All of

the top of a cull he is concern for the nine chicken she keeps beneath

netting in his garden. There is no birds that can get in here. I just

hope that I have done everything humanly possible. You have a fear

that Defra might turn up and say that as a precaution we will have to

kill your birds? With the government, everything is possible,

isn't it? I just hope that it is only a small outbreak and they have

caught it in time and that won't happen. The paltry industry is worth

?700 million a year to the economy of this region. The ra hopes that

East Anglia could get through the winter without bird flu spreading

here, but now produces finding themselves in the new control zone

are concerned for the future of their businesses. After the cull the

sheds at Bridge farm have to stand empty for 30 days or more. Tonight,

Defra said investigations are continuing to try to find the source

of the outbreak here. Graham Cooke is the deputy chief veterinary

officer. I asked him how this farm could have been infected despite

restrictions being in place for two and a half months. Did it show that

government measures were not affected? This is a devastating

disease and its complex in how it spreads. Yes, of course it is

disappointing to find it in a new part of the country, and it is

disappointing that it has affected such a large block, but we all have

to realise -- flock, but there is no single measure that will protect

flocks, and Defra has produced in cooperation with the industry the

best possible bio-security advice that we can at this time, but this

case reminds us that we should be ever vigilant. Investigations will

be carried out into this source, but what is the most likely source,

given that these birds were all how is? -- host? It is too early to say.

The purpose of the investigations is to try to establish the likely

cause. Traditionally the disease is associated with wild birds but how

that interface happens between infected birds and the wild bird

population can be complex, so it is too early to give any judgment on

that. Last week the government announced some restrictions would be

eased at the end of this month, in just two weeks' time and that places

would be high risk or lower risk. This was in the low risk area, this

farm. Does that mean that those restrictions will be changed again

to include more areas? Those proposals are still subject to

review. Every new piece of information including new cases that

come along will inform that review. So, our decision, as yet, as to what

will happen on the 28th is not fixed. There are farmers in the

high-risk areas who are very upset about the affect it is going to have

on their businesses. They say that it is a postcode lottery and they

will not be able to sell produce as free range, and they could incur

significant costs because of that. This has been a balanced judgment.

And it is still under review. But there was no intention to affect the

industry and its normal workings as much as possible and we believe that

at least 75% will be outside the current proposed high-risk area. It

is the duty of government to put forward proposals which give the

best chance to mitigate the risk of infection. You are saying that the

loss of some businesses, potentially, has to be put against

the context of this very deadly disease? I'm certainly not saying

that the government has any intention to disrupt an industry to

that level. I'm saying that this is at an early stage in the proposals.

We are still reviewing them. We may have to take a changed approach

depending on the information between now and the 28th. Thank you.

The trial of a man accused of killing Peter and Sylvia Stuart

who lived in the village of Weybread in Suffolk has been hearing that

cash was taken from Mrs Stuart's bank account in the days

Mr Stuart's body was found near his home,

This was May last year, the final time that the Stewart couple were

seen alive. ?25 was paid out at the time on Mr Stewart was my car. The

jury was told that the next night that card was used to withdraw ?200

from a supermarket cash machine at Gray's Inn Essex, Anne Dunham

humanist later another ?100 was withdrawn and then an attempt to get

?500 from another cash machine in the area was decline. Four further

attempts to withdraw a total of ?900 at sites in the Grays area failed.

CCTV at various locations filmed a hooded figure wearing dark clothing.

Three days later the body of Mr Stewart was discovered. Two days

later a Citroen car registered to Ali Cesame was found at Dover. He

says he's the victim of mistaken identity but the prosecution say

that that is alive. The jury was read witness statements from people

who worked with Ali Cesame at an environmental recycling company in

Essex. One said that he was hard-working but something of a

fantasist. On 3rd of June last year he subdued and quiet. A colleague

said that Ali Cesame told him he was leaving. He was asked where he was

off to, to which he replied, best you don't know. There was later an

altercation and Ali Cesame quit and was escorted from the premises. This

afternoon the jury saw evidence from number plate recognition cameras and

phone records which the prosecution says places Ali Cesame in the

Weybread area numerous times and for the killings. The trial continues.

-- before the killings. A dog breeder from Norfolk who made

?171,000 by claiming her dogs had Kennel Club pedigrees has today

been ordered to pay ?1 Lisa Walsh, who lives

in Barnham Broom, was jailed for six

months in August 2014. Council tax in Essex

will rise by 3% from April. It means the average

household will pay an extra The decision was taken at a meeting

of Conservative-controlled Simon Dedman, BBC Essex's political

reporter, was there. The councils in the rest of England

are putting up their council tax... Labour and the Lib Dems the

Conservative budget. Support, coming from the Essex Police and Crime

Commissioner who, until May, is still a County Council, but for some

on the conservative side, something is running out. From central

government of all size is being sorely tested. Applause for

opposition parties because government grants for councils will

end by 2020 and local authorities like Essex pay for social care. The

debate today centred on care funding. The Conservative

administration says... We have taken the view that we think we can do

what we need to do with the social care preset with all of the

innovative ideas and processes that we are putting in place, we can

deliver. The Lib Dems support the council tax rise but want over ?2

million to end bed blocking in Essex hospitals. Labour wanted to raise

council tax by 5% and spend ?8 million more on care. With these

taxes we are taking it out of that... The author of the budget

then questioned the opposition parties' ability to balance the

books. I think at the end we saw a true reflection of the Tories at

their best. It was like a circus. Lots of people in that chamber today

are really worried and concerned. The ra enormous pressures on adult

social care at the moment. We feel that the government should have come

out with extra money for adult social care. The Essex budget has

passed, down to the Conservatives' majority on these benches over here,

and this is the last time the whole council will meet aren't all those

all-important camp the elections in May. Elections were the future of

care funding will be a huge campaign issue.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn has appointed

Jon Green is currently working at the West Suffolk Foundation Trust.

He will join the Queen Elizabeth in May.

The Care Quality Commission rates the hospital

Still to come tonight, Alex is here with the weather. We look forward to

the football action and how Air Cadets have been keeping the Duchess

of Cambridge on her toes at RAF Wittering.

Next the story of a young man from Essex whose life

has been transformed by a tiny electronic device.

When Joshua Taylor's heart stopped beating,

he became the first in this region to get a new kind of a pacemaker.

It's actually about the size of one half of the top joint

That makes it the smallest pacemaker in the world.

It's so small it can be inserted through a vein.

The details from our health reporter, Nikki Fox.

Hi, there. Thank you. Joshua Taylor manages a pharmacy in Essex. Since

the age of 11 he's had an irregular heartbeat. Just before Christmas his

heart stopped and he completely blacked out. I was getting ready for

bed, just about had my usual warning signs, so pressure underneath the

nose and the eyes, I became dizzy and that's all I remember. Then

coming round, having my legs in the air to help the blood flow, cold

compress and water on my face. To regulate his heartbeat experts at

Basildon Hospital fitted Joshua with the smallest pacemaker ennobled. The

conventional pacemaker has a generator that sits on the muscle on

the front of the chest beneath the skin but would have a conventional

lead. It is quite a large system, as you can see. The new system is one

tenth of the size, it has no extra lead. Instead of being fitted

outside the heart, it is inserted into a vein in the leg, pushed into

the heart, and sends electrical impulses to the organ, making it the

more regularly. The league is then removed leaving the pacemaker

attached to the heart. This is how. If you can hold the end of the

catheter against the mould, I will show you how it is deployed. Then we

need to pull away, and that is how it would be attached to the inside

surface of the heart. The pacemaker benefits people with slow heart

rhythms or you think. Cosmetically, it also looks better. In a young

person if he goes on holiday and what is this it by the swimming pool

without a top on, it would be obvious if he had a conventional

pacemaker. There is a scar and you can see it, but with something like

this, you would never know, and with someone who's having the current

collapses and passing out, it can be life changing. I have got no leaves

that can be dislodged from the heart, and it is easier to replace

in ten years' time and errors less risk of infection throughout my

life, really. Back at work just two weeks after the operation, Joshua is

hoping he's seen the end of his blackouts. It's hoped that this

technology could be available to a wider group of heart patients in

future. That is fantastic, isn't it? So clever.

We've had a Royal visit to the region today.

The Duchess of Cambridge was at RAF Wittering in Peterborough.

The Duchess is Honorary Air Commandant of the RAF Air Cadets

and she was there to meet cadets

who were taking part in a training camp.

She also had the opportunity to fly a flight simulator.

Her husband may be due to leave his job as a helicopter pilot with the

East Anglian Air Ambulance, but the Duchess of Cambridge looked very

comfortable getting in position behind the controls of this plane.

There were plenty of people watching, but it was down to one

lucky cadets to explain how the plane work. It was quite an exciting

time to sit next to the Duchess and it was a very calm conversation

about what she was doing with the Air Cadets and also the Air Cadets

experience which she seemed very interested in. Kate visited

youngsters from Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire as they took part in

this half term training camp. Today is the third visit by the Duchess to

the RAF Air Cadets. Since the Duke of Edinburgh past patronage stir

after 63 years serving as the honorary Air Commodore in cheap. The

Duchess now represents more than 40,000 Air Cadets aged between

12-19. And she got fully involved with this group who have recently

joined. They conduct personal development sessions such as

leadership and team-building sessions. It is amazing to have such

a nice young royal come in and see what we do, and see what we enjoy.

It was really nice to have a royal coming in and how that honour of

shaking her hand and speaking to her. I spoke to her about what we do

in Air Cadets, what we have been doing through our time as cadets and

how we see our future in the RAF, things like that. It was really good

that she came around and talk to all of us. And she had a go on a flight

simulator, perfecting her technique with a great sense of humour. The

RAF was delighted. It's been a fabulous day. The weather has been

kind. It is great at RAF Wittering to help of local cadets. It means a

lot for the cadets to see her Royal line is. Everyone has had a great

day. Many of those here today are thinking about a career in the RAF.

Today brought inspiration, recognition and, of course, a touch

of royal glamour. Football, and it's a busy night

for the region's teams. All ten

are in action. For Norwich and Ipswich

in particular, it's a very big night, taking

on the Championship's top two. Norwich are at home

to leaders Newcastle. Thanks, Stuart. One month ago most

Norwich fans looking at this fixture would have felt real trepidation at

the prospect of facing high-flying Newcastle, but much has changed in

recent weeks, and of course not, Norwich have dragged themselves

right back into the promotion picture, winning four of the last

five matches. They started well, they fell off a cliff and now they

are fighting back. What is going on? They have found out what they need

to do in the championship. They started the season well, everyone

thought it was great, but I think maybe players thought they were

Premier League players rather than championship players and forgot

about the other side of football that you have got to win the ball,

to be able to play with it. That is what the manager has been talking

about and they have got back to it now, getting into the faces of

opponents, making them make mistakes, and they have got enough

quality to go and beat teams as long as they can do that side of the game

which they have been doing, lately. Tough one to predict tonight. Both

sides could be happy with the draw. Norwich have got to go for the win.

It is all right saying that it is Newcastle have been flying all

season, but Norwich have got together the victory because they

have got to keep up that tempo, if results go well they can get back

into the play-off places and it kicks on again. If they can get five

wins out of six, they are really flying. The games coming up, they

are running up fast. If you can keep getting the three points and keep

going at the other clubs, it will scare them off. OK Greg, enjoy the

game. Elsewhere, there is a full programme of league action. Ipswich

are at second placed Brighton. No easy task but the club is feeling

positive after beating Aston Villa on Saturday. Any pressure, I don't

feel that. I would be annoyed, I put myself under pressure to have a good

team, so, yes, I do feel better about myself, because my teams

played well, and they won on Saturday not because anybody else

might be thinking nice things about me. I am not bothered. And in League

1, no standout tie. MK Dons heading to bury, Peterborough at home,

Southend hoping to bounce back from the defeat on Saturday heading to

Oxford, Colchester hav Spolli, Luton could get into the automatic

provision places by beating Hartlepool, Stevenage are at home to

Cheltenham and Cambridge, who have lost quite a Mac games in a row head

to Yeovil Town. Don't forget, coverage of all tonight's football

is on your BBC local radio station. It wouldn't be Valentine's Day

without a love story, and one of the greatest ever

is the romance between Hers was a face that

artists loved to paint. His, one of the best

known faces in Britain. that sent shock waves

through polite society. Now a new exhibition has opened

at the Royal Maritime Musuem His passions ran deep

for a blacksmith's daughter. Then this man, George Romney,

the most fashionable painter of the day, came across the young beauty

and at his studios here in Cavendish It was a remarkable

time of an explosion in Mass-produced cheap black

and white prints of Romney's It was like Hello!

Magazine for the first time. She was naturally beautiful

which was one of the reasons she was painted in the first

place and those images were carried So printing technology

and prints of Emma Hamilton Fame made her desirable and lead

to marriage to this man, Sir William Hamilton,

He was the British envoy to Naples. It was here that Norfolk's

favourite son, the hero of the day, Lord Nelson,

stopped for supplies "How do I idolise you,

my dearest husband of my heart? "You are all in this

world to your Emma." I can neither eat nor sleep for

thinking of you, my dearest love. Last night I did nothing

but dream of you, even But it also fuelled

another familiar feature of modern-day life -

scandal. Sir William watches

as lovers carry on. Nelson and Lady Hamilton

in love tryst. After losing his eye, and then an ar

Nelson's luck ran out. Shot dead, "Kiss me,

Hardy", and the rest, But her legacy will always be one

half of one of the world's greatest

love affairs. So his luck ran out after he lost an

eye and an arm. It wasn't so good, then. I love that, in colour, moving

pictures. And the weather now with Alex. Good evening. We are entering

a much milder regime for the rest of this week and the weekend. We are

likely to get some rain in the next 24 hours. Cloud is piling in from

the west on this weather system here. By the time it reaches us, not

a great deal left. It is bringing milder air behind it. That comes

after quite a cold start of the day this morning. A frost evident on the

grass here in Cambridgeshire, in Cottenham. And some photos showing

the shadow of the trees there in Essex. For many, we will start the

night and evening with clear skies. Temperatures dropping a little but

not as cold as last night. As we go through into the evening and further

into the night, it will become more cloudy from the west and there could

be the odd spot of patchy rain, but not a great deal. Then it starts to

become a little bit misty as well. By the end of the night, fairly

misty conditions and not great facility. Temperatures belfry of the

frost tonight. A mild start tomorrow and a milder day generally. Some

uncertainty in the forecast. This weather system here could produce

some lively weather conditions. There is some uncertainty over the

tracking of it. Some Northern counties could stay dry but mostly

see rain later in the day. It should brighten up after a misty start. The

bulk of the daily strive for many parts of the region. And a mild day,

well into double figures, perhaps even 12 Celsius with that win coming

from the south. You can see that line brain, predicted on the

computer, and as it moves north-east, there could be the odd

clap of thunder but it will move through fairly swiftly, bringing

more mild air with it. Then we're into a couple of fairly settled

days, because a high pressure will start building, meaning some fine

weather across the region, but it could be more foggy at night. That

fog taking a little time to clear on Thursday and Friday morning.

Hopefully it will clear and we will see some fine sunshine on Thursday

and Friday, with temperatures in double figures. It will be a little

cooler overnight but we should be frost free, under those clear skies,

and at this stage the weekend looks as though it will turn a little bit

wet. Another Atlantic system coming in, cloudy picture, but staying

well. I don't think we have seen Sonny Siouxsie recently. That is all

from us. Goodbye.