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Hello and welcome to the Look East late news.

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Warnings over the dangers of customising cars

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after two people are killed by carbon monoxide poisoning.

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Rescuing children from the trauma of bullying.

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A local charity gets a national award.

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a cold night expected for tonight. Join me later for a full weather

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forecast. First tonight, a warning

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about the dangers of customising cars, after an apprentice engineer

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and his friend died from carbon Thomas Putt worked

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for Ford in Essex. In his spare time he had

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customised his own Ford Fiesta, and today an inquest was told

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that he died in the driving seat with his friend, Nikki Willis,

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sitting next to him. Both had been overcome

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by exhaust fumes. Police were mystified when two young

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friends were found dead in a car The Ford Fiesta ST

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was Thomas Putt's. Police discovered he had turned

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the car into a deathtrap He'd removed the car's catalytic

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converter which is a device which makes exhaust fumes less toxic

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and that left a small gap between the exhaust system

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and engine and exhaust fumes were leaking through that gap

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and they were coming Now, what he'd also done was,

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in his bonnet, he'd put two vents, vents designed to improve

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the engine's performance by keeping it cooler but those exhaust fumes,

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leaking up through the bonnet, He had the car's heater

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on because it was December. The heater's intake is just below

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the windscreen wipers, but instead of sucking in fresh air,

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the heater was sucking in the exhaust fumes,

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leaking through the vents. Postmortem examinations found Tom

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and his passenger, Nikki Willis, died from inhaling fumes,

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including carbon monoxide. Miss Willis' parents

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were among the family members at this morning's inquest,

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where a coroner concluded that the young friends both died

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as the result of an accident. After the hearing, police said

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modifying cars has inherent dangers. He was an apprentice

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at Ford and had carried out The message today is -

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even if you think you know what you are doing,

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have your vehicle checked. There can be unintended consequences

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of modifying your vehicle. I urge anybody who's carried out

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modifications on their vehicle, to have your work checked

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by a qualified mechanic The coroner said they both had

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bright futures and she expressed her sympathy to their families

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in what she described Customising cars has become a huge

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craze in recent years. Thousands of people enjoy

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tweaking their cars to make them look good, sound loud,

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and go faster, but how do Kevin Burch has been

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talking to the experts. Few people know more

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about the complex inner workings of an exhaust, than the team

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at Demand Engineering. Based at Stonham Aspel in Suffolk,

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what they design and produce Made for performance cars,

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classic cars, even aircraft. But what happens at the other end

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of the scale worries them deeply. We see some very interesting

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repairs, sort of home modifications Relatives, for instance,

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have suggested they can do it Quite often the perception

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of what the customer has is that it is very expensive

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to have a custom exhaust made so they want to modify it themselves

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and they don't necessarily do that Car modification, as this rally

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in Southend at the weekend proved, Thousands of them spending thousands

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on distinctive touches and a distinctive tone,

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but on the exhaust matching old and new, especially,

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if the fittings are cheaper, Now you've got to try to get those

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to marry up, crawling around underneath your car

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on your driveway. Now if that isn't a good seal,

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that's where you will get exhaust gas leak out and that's

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where you will have problems. And then drivers will often

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use a paste or wrapping Asking for trouble, when asking

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for advice is all it takes. Designed by engineers on a budget

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of millions, modified by you. If you are going to work

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on your own vehicle to modify it, You should never work with changing

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the exhaust or the emissions. It is actually illegal anyway,

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because by changing it to enhance performance,

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you are actually changing Well, that's an old clamp

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someone has grafted on. The phrase they hate it hear

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is "It's only a piece of pipe". It isn't and they want every

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driver, for their own NICE has published guidance

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which says people diagnosed with a mental health problem

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within the criminal justice system should receive annual checks

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and staff should be better trained 25-year-old Dean Saunders

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was suffering mental health problems when he killed himself

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at Chelmsford Prison Abellio has completed the sale

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of 40% of its Greater Anglia rail franchise to the Japanese giant

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Mitsui. News of the sale first

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emerged in January. It's the first time any Japanese

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business has had a stake The RMT union has criticised

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the sale, but the Department for Transport believes

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passengers will benefit. A charity from the region

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which works to turn around the lives of severely bullied children has won

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an award at Westminster tonight. Red Balloon, which has centres

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in Norwich and Cambridge, was praised for its work helping

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bullied children recover In a moment we'll hear

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from the charity's founder, Founded more than 20 years ago

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the charity's Learner Centres provide alternative education,

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therapy and support to children bullied so badly that mainstream

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school becomes unbearable. Red Balloon's teachers,

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therapies and volunteers work to build self-confidence and help

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students self-excluded from school to get back

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into education or training. The Centre For Social Justice

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founded by the former Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith

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this evening awarded Red Balloon its Education,

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Employment And Skills Award. Prior to joining Red Balloon

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more than 80% of parents described their child's mental

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health is very poor. After enrolment in its programme

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that figure fell to just 6%. At least 90% of children enrolled

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in its recovery programme for six weeks or more return to mainstream

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education or take up Locally the charity sees high

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demand for its centres. Across the country thousands

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of children between the ages of 11 and 15 are absent from school

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primarily because of bullying. Tonight the Centre for

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Social Justice described Red Balloon's work as unique

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and truly transformative. Carrie Herbert is the founder

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and president of Red Balloon. Earlier this evening

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she was given the award Afterwards she went into our

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Westminster studios. I mean, it sort of really gives us

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the credibility to continue. We know what we are doing,

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we know we do well, and suddenly This is 20 years of hard work to get

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to this point, isn't it? Yes, we started around my kitchen

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table in 1996 in Cambridge, and 20 years on we have four

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centres, one here in Norwich, one in London, one in Cambridge

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and one in Reading, as well as our Red Balloon Of The Air,

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which is our virtual Red Balloon, which can reach children

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anywhere in the country. Is there any way you could put

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a number on how many children have We started, of course,

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with ten in my house, but now we are dealing

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with about 140 a year, so the numbers will suddenly start

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to pick up but, yes, it is well over 400 now,

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and these children were young people who were so badly damaged

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by bullying that over 50% of them were seriously contemplating

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taking their own life. Has demand for what you do

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and what you offer increased We now are clear that we take

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children who have been both severely bullied and those who are school

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phobic or suffering a great trauma. With the programme we have it's

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about 50% academic work - maths, science, English,

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that kind of thing - and about 50% well-being and therapy,

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set in a community. Our children need to belong,

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and with that kind of magic, I suppose, over 94% of our children

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go on to lead fulfilling lives back in the community

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from which they came. Carrie Herbert, thank you very much,

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and congratulations Coming up now, the weather

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with Alex, but from the rest A cold night expected for tonight,

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under clear skies across the region. Temperatures will drop close to

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freezing so quite widely down to three or 4 degrees and back apps

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locally a bit lower, bringing the risk of a touch of Frost. Start the

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day tomorrow on a chilly note. There will be wet weather through tomorrow

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but not first thing. This is the pressure pattern. Low pressure

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across much of the country means some outbreaks of rain. A chilly

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start then fine weather and a chilly start the

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morning. Showers follow with brighter spells and temperatures

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around nine or ten. The rain were clear and the winds continue to ease

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by the end of the day. Here is the outlook. A largely dry but cloudy

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picture for Thursday and high pressure builds on Friday for the

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weekend. It looks gradually improve through Friday and

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the weekend isn't looking bad. Heavy rain, snow and ice are all in

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the forecast once again. It was quite a wintry scene today,

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especially in Scotland. Some very cold looking winter skies here, and

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we had some snow falling at times in West Lothian. For a while earlier

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today, there were quite a few showers running through central

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Scotland, all in that cold air. Right now, we have two areas of

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cloud, one in northern Scotland and this deepening area bringing heavy

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