24/10/2016 Look East

Hello and welcome to the Look East late news.

The growing number of amput`tions linked to diabetes.

Southend now has one of the highest rates in the country.

The new boss of the Theatre Royal in Norwich tells me how

he plans to attract new and younger audiences.

And there is some milder weather on the way.

All the details in your fordcast for the week ahead.

The number of people diagnosed with diabetes is on the risd

and with it comes the risk of kidney failure, blindness and amputations.

A BBC investigation shows the area around Southend has one

of the highest rates of ampttations for diabetics in the UK.

It stands at 4.9 that's almost double the national average

of 2.6 and a rise of 23% in the past four years.

Our Health reporter Nikki Fox has been investigating.

Iain Wells from Essex has type 1 diabetes.

It's genetic so he can only manage it.

He has to check his blood stgar levels with a pen six times a day.

Three years ago he scratched his toe.

He didn't realise how seriots it was and his toe was amputated.

You could have stubbed the toe in your shoe or anything.

I have to be very, very cardful now when I put my shoes on.

The place with one of the hhghest rates of amputation,

The local health board, the CCG didn't have anyone to talk to us.

One expert in Norfolk says the key is regular foot checks.

What happens is that you end up not being able to feel your feet very

well so if you have a stone in your shoe or you develop a blistdr

you bought a new pair of shoes, you don't feel it.

If you get an infection in that wound then that can take hold

because if you have high blood sugars, your infection fighting

Amputations can occur in people with type one and type 2 di`betes.

From this map we can see pl`ces other than Southend have a problem.

The red areas showing the hhgher number of prescriptions

Deprivation may lead to bad diet or screening maybe better

The number of people with dhabetes has increased by 50%

Consultants say it is a major public health problem where

An inquest has been told th`t a climber who died on the hhghest

mountain in Vietnam sent a series of urgent messages to his ghrlfriend

Aiden Webb was found at the bottom of a deep ravhne

22-year-old Aiden Webb from Attleborough in Norfolk

was an adventurer on a trip of a lifetime.

He was travelling in Vietnal with his girlfriend Bluebell Baughan

As these pictures show, the Anglia Ruskin Universitx student

He decided he'd set out alone to tackle the country's highest peak,

He planned to do it in a dax, but things started to go wrong.

The court a series of messages Aidan exchanged with his

He told her that the trail was blocked by a landslide.

He had fallen and hurt his knee and he needed stitches

One of the messages, "I'm going to get pneumonia.

Vietnamese authorities said his body was found in a stream in a ravine.

They believed he drowned while unconscious following a foul.

Back home in Norfolk thousands of pounds had been raised to fund

In a statement Aiden's parents thanked all who had helped

They said their son had been a joy to be around.

Area coroner Yvonne Blake expressed condolences to Aiden's family

As the medical cause of death remained officially unascertained,

More than 100 MPs want Barack Obama to block the extradition

of a Suffolk man accused of hacking into computers in America.

A judge here has ruled that Lauri Love can be sent

to the States to face trial, but MPs say they're

The case for the extradition of Lauri Love is, for now,

still embroiled in the complexities of the legal system here.

And that, say MPs, is where it should stay.

105 of them from all parties urging Barack Obama to call a halt

and allow the courts on this side of the Atlantic to decide hhs fate.

Lauri Love is on the autism spectrum.

If he has done something wrong in terms of computer hacking, yes,

he is willing to face charges of course.

But he can be charged in thhs country where his health nedds can

Lauri Love, who is 31, is accused of hacking into computers

including those of the US Federal Reserve, the Army

What's described as digital civil disobedience.

Last month a judge in London ruled that the extradition was justified.

But the MPs in a letter to the president say:

He has sunk into despair and says my life is over.

The request for extradition is now in the hands of the Home Secretary,

Amber Rudd, she can either approve or refuse it.

That decision has to be madd before the middle of next month.

If she does accept it, Laurie Love's legal team can ask

for permission to appeal to the High Court.

That appeal process alone could say experts, take another ydar.

The new Chief Executive of the Theatre Royal has told

Look East his priority is to attract new and

Stephen Crocker is taking over in January but is already m`pping

out of the future of one of the region's most

We'll hear from Mr Crocker in a moment but first

The Sound of Music has just finished a successful run

Without regular funding from the Arts Council the theatre

has had to be good at putting bums on seats.

387,000 seats last year and occupancy rate of 75%,

but Stephen Crocker who is coming to Norwich from the Laurie

Arts Centre in Salford knows there is more.

The Theatre Royal now has the brand-new Stage Two Centre.

It is open to the community for education, theatre skills

training and the hope is th`t stage two will also help to build theatre

When Stephen Crocker came into the studio

I asked him what his priority is for the theatre.

What we have to do in the arts at the moment is to look at how

we bring new audiences in to engage with what we do.

It is critical and I think there is a point in time

with young people where you can catch the enthusiasm,

their inspiration, their crdativity and so giving them space right next

to the stage of the Theatre Royal to do that is so very important

and I'm going to be passion`tely pursuing all of the work around

Stage Ywo and how we amke the most of that incredible facility.

When I spoke to Peter Wilson when he announced that he w`s going

to be leaving as Chief Execttive, he told me that his greatest

achievement was trebling thd number of ladies loos in the theatre!

I laughed too, but he was s`ying he was making a serious point

because what you are taking on is a business and at the moment

a successful business, but it is costing ?45,000

It is something of that orddr. That's the reality in which we live.

I think theatres, all arts form cultural organisations are

Isn't the temptation then shmply to put on Andrew Lloyd-Webbdr

back-to-back, get the peopld through the door,

get them paying the tickets and not doing what regional

theatre should do as well, offering a more diverse platform?

I think that is absolutely the temptation and it is thd job

of a Chief Executive to makd sure there is that balance and that's

what I think Peter is reallx started to do very,

very well here and that's what I have to be a custodi`n

Stephen Crocker who'll be t`king up his role as chief executhve

of the Theatre Royal in Norwich in January.

Coming up now the weather with Julie, but from

Well, the further south you are tonight, the more likely yot are to

see showers. The further north, the more likely you are to stay dry

Temperatures down to low of five Celsius. So tomorrow we've got high

pressure extending down frol the north. Some showers around first

thing, but they should die `way and everywhere should become drx. Some

of us seeing more sunshine than others, but in the best of the

sunshine temperatures reachhng similar values to today. Up to 4

Celsius and the dry weather continues into the afternoon and

evening. Where we get furthdr clear spells developing the mist

reforming. On Wednesday a front pushing in from the west, btt not a

bad day. Any mist clearing. And it should be feign and dry with

reasonable spells of sunshine. With the winds round to a westerly to

south-westerly direction, it will feel much milder. And on Thtrsday,

yet another front pushing in from the west, but the rain stayhng to

the north and the west of us. So any mist clearing and then it should be

fine and dry. The computer over doing amounts of cloud for Thursday.

We should see decent sunny spells, temperatures getting a degrde or so

higher than these values. It is the same again on Friday. The hhgh

pressure doesn't really go `nywhere. So we should all enjoy some decent

spells of awe numb national sunshine. In a moment, it whll be

Darren with the national forecast, but I will leave you with a look at

the outlook for the weekend. High pressure staying in charge.

Remaining fine and dry. around 60 degrees. Towards the

weekend, more of the same, mainly dry and feeling very mild. Now your

national weather. Good evening, major changes in the

weather over the next couple of days, the result being it will