08/02/2017 Look East

Hello and welcome to the Look East late news.

In the programme tonight: Norwich South MP Clive Lewis resigns

from the Shadow cabinet and votes against Article 50.

Long delays on the A12 after a lorry crashes off a bridge in Essex.

I saw this lorry hit the barrier on the breach and all the metal

railings were just flying off -- bridge.

And the latest from the trial of a man accused of murdering

the Suffolk couple, Peter and Sylvia Stuart.

The Labour MP for Norwich South, Clive Lewis,

has tonight resigned from the shadow cabinet.

He stepped down as business spokesman just minutes before voting

against Article 50 - the bill which will start

the process for us to leave the European Union.

He said he owed it to his constituents

Let's go to Westminster and join our political

Most MPs in our region voted for Article 50, the exceptions were the

Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb and Clive Lewis who voted against.

Official labour policy tonight was to accept that the majority of

people in Britain voted to leave -- Labour. And therefore Article 50

should be supported, but Clive Lewis could not do it.

This is something Clive Lewis has been agonising over

This morning, as he left his home, he was still struggling

It's my intention to do what's right by my constituents and my conscience

and whatever that takes, and also I have to think

It's a really tough call and I think lots of MPs are having a tough time

An MP for less than two years, Clive Lewis had already become

a leading member of the Shadow Cabinet.

Often talked about as a future party leader.

He was also a key member of the Labour in campaign

and with 56% of Norwich voting to stay, he felt that he had

It could put me out of a job in the Shadow Cabinet.

I have to be clear here, I came into politics to make

a difference but also I have a conscience.

As MPs began to vote tonight he issued a statement which said:

This is a blow to the career of someone who has been seen

Tonight Jeremy Corbyn called him an asset to the party and said

he looked forward to working with him again in the future.

Well, he is now a backbencher and he has no special responsibilities and

he will fade from the limelight, but it is interesting, how nice Jeremy

Corbyn was about him in the resignation statement. I ran into

Jeremy Corbyn early this afternoon and he said Clive is a lovely man,

and he didn't want to destroy him. I wonder if his exiles to the

backbenches will not last for very long.

But many of our MPs must be happy tonight that Brexit has

Many of our MPs have been campaigning for many years to leave

the EU, and there were a lot of smiles around Westminster when the

bill went through. It's been a long march

to get to this moment, to get the political establishment

here in Westminster to agree to They now agree to that and we now

need to get on with it. We've started on the journey, but

they still very long way to go. Thanks for joining us. The -- there

is still a very long way to go. Next tonight there've been major

delays on the A12 tonight after a lorry crashed off a bridge

onto the Southbound carriageway. The accident happened

at about 4pm afternoon. The emergency services,

including five fire crews Our chief reporter Kim Riley

is close to the scene now. We are on the bridge from which the

lorry fell this afternoon down the steep bank towards the southbound

carriageway of the A12, the roof of the cab ripped off, and we have no

information yet on the condition of the driver. BBC Essex spoke to one

eyewitness. I've come round the bend and I can't

believe what I was seeing. I saw this lorry hit the barrier

on the bridge and all the metal railings were just flying

off like anything. The recovery operation has been

hampered by hazardous materials on the lorry, the lorry burst into

flames and that had to be put out. This is the divisional officer.

The articulated lorry was carrying an uninterrupted power supply,

a large number of lead acid batteries as well as computer

We need to get the vehicle off the embankment.

However, it's still an unstable situation.

With small pockets of fire remaining.

We can't access the container itself because of its unstable position.

The recovery operation is expected to take some time and it hasn't

really started and it is expected that this section of the southbound

A12 will remain closed through tomorrow's rush-hour. Thanks for

joining us. The trial of a man accused

of killing a couple from Suffolk has been told blood from the husband

and hair from the wife were found The body of Peter Stuart was found

in a stream near his home The body of his wife Sylvia

has never been found. Alex Dunlop has been

at Ipswich Crown Court. On day two of this trial,

the daughter and son-in-law of the Stuarts, Christy

and Stephen Paxman gave evidence. Wiping away tears, Christy Paxman

told the court how she had alerted the police after her parents had

failed to turn up for Hours later her father's

body was found. Listening through an Albanian

interpreter the defendant, wearing a grey T-shirt,

listened intently The last time Peter

and Sylvia Stuart were seen was in Goody's farm shop

near their home. Peter's body was found five

days later in a stream close by their remote

cottage in Weybread. The 75 year old had been

repeatedly stabbed. Sylvia's body has never

been found but police The following day the prosecution

say the defendant fled to France, Forensic officers examined it

and on the driver's door they found blood which matched Peter Stuart's

DNA profile and in the boot they found human hair

which matched the profile They say the defendant's

fingerprints were found on the driver's door

and on a plastic Identity is a key

issue in this case. The man in the dock,

who was extradited from Luxembourg to face trial, claims he is not

Ali Qazimaj but Vital Dapi. He says he has never

visited the United Kingdom. But the prosecution

say that's not true. British police already had

a record of his fingerprints after he had previously been

arrested sometime before. Another witness, Christy Paxman's

88-year-old father-in-law Sidney Paxman, told the court

that the defendant had been his carer in South Essex

and knew him as Ali. He said the day Peter Stuart's body

was found, Ali seemed agitated and told him he had

done something bad. But pressed by the defence team,

he said it was probably a reference to the fact that Ali had

just quit his day job. The defendant pleads not

guilty to double murder. Alex Dunlop, BBC Look East

at Ipswich Crown Court. A third of people living in this

region are over the age of 65. And that presents a huge

challenge for social care, our Health reporter Nikki Fox has

been to the market town of Swaffham in Norfolk -

where they are trying something new by reorganising

how care is delivered. Sandra Webb's been

a carer for 13 years. You have that one first and then

you chew the other one after. A former champion greyhound trainer,

the 88-year-old has For a lot of people you're the only

person they see all-day. It makes such a difference,

even half an hour with someone can They're on their own

the rest of that time. Agencies in Swaffham

were working separately, now they have formed a scheme

called Swaffham Cares. Sharing clients when short-staffed

and recruiting together. Care homes also provide services

for the wider community. She can go shopping or something,

while I'm out of the way. They are also telling doctors

and nurses about their services. GPs and social workers should

be out there advising people what's available,

meeting their needs, pointing them in

the right direction. This is going to help?

Hugely, absolutely. If we work collectively

under this umbrella, because it's not happening

at the moment. What Swaffham is doing is obvious,

getting social care working together within a town,

but it's not being done elsewhere. And a time when everything

is stretched is a time The cold wintry weather is setting

in over the next few days, temperatures dropping lower tonight,

and the risk of wintry showers for coastal areas as we go through the

night. Private Eye widely down to freezing and possibly a couple of

degrees below -- temperatures widely down. The pressure set up shows the

huge area of high pressure across Scandinavia and that will block any

weather systems from the Atlantic. We have a cold easterly wind which

will press on through the day and feel bitterly cold and that will

also bring showers from the North Sea, and the showers could move

further west. They are likely to be quite wintry, they might give a

dusting of snow in places. The risk of icy patches, temperatures no

higher than 2 degrees. This is the outlook, staying wintry

cloudy and Ben Rich will take you through the bigger picture.

Good evening. Over the next few days I suspect it's going to feel like we

have been plunged into the deep freeze. Cold weather on the way and

not necessarily crisp cold weather, with blue