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Hello and welcome to BBC Look East with Susie and me. | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
Coming up in the next 30 minutes: The village where a devoted couple | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
took their own lives because they could not bear to live without each | :00:13. | :00:21. | |
other. They came to a decision, they carried it out, from their | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
point of view, very efficiently. Find the gunmen who murdered our | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
sons - fresh appeals tonight in the Milton Keynes shootings. Please | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
help us to get the killer. Please, please! Big brother claims as these | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
cameras focus on the home of a controversial campaigner. | :00:43. | :00:53. | |
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And Angelina is jolly after her Hello. First tonight, the devoted | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
couple from Suffolk who went through with a suicide pact after | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
the wife discovered she was dying of cancer. An inquest in Bury St | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
Edmunds was told the couple had planned their deaths with great | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
care. Their research even took them to | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Mexico, where they obtained the powerful drug which they would use | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
to end their lives. In a moment, what the Church has to say. But | :01:19. | :01:28. | |
first, the details of the case from our chief reporter, Kim Riley. | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Coroner Dr Peter Dean delivered the final legal formalities over the | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
deaths of a retired publisher and former Reuters executive, John | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Lawrenson, and his wife, Caroline, a retired secretary. The couple, | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
married for 47 years, were found dead in bed by a neighbour at their | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
home at Great Waldingfield in Suffolk. They had signed a letter | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
addressed to the family, and research into planned suicide was | :01:45. | :01:55. | |
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found in a folder in the living room. Caroline Laurens and's cancer | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
was well advanced. Her husband decided he could not live without | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
her. Together, they researched on the Internet to find a way to end | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
their lives. They found the drug from a vet in Mexico and took an | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
overdose together. The coroner described their actions as very | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
well planned. Intentionally, he said, they took their lives, | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
understanding what they were doing. John Lawrenson was a leading light | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
and fundraiser with the Friends of St Lawrence Church. Fellow | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
committee member David Floyd told me he was a man who got things done. | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
The suicide pact would not have been entered into lightly. It was | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
not something they would have done on the spur of the moment. They | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
would have thought about it. you respect that? Yes. They came to | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
a decision, they carried it out, from their point of view, very | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
efficiently. A thanksgiving service for the lives of the couple was | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
held that the church in May, with donations to the local charity, St | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
Nicholas Hospice Care. It clinical director said a former user of its | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
services called it a lifeboat in distressing times. When you think | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
you at your wits end, the hospice movement is there to help you | :03:15. | :03:25. | |
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through really difficult times. Hospice care is about living. | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
their home, the Lawrensons are remembered with fondness and | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
respect. The couple's son, Frank, told Look East, "My mother was | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
incredibly sick and on the point of dying. My parents spent a very long | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
and happy life together. What occurred was very much out of love, | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
not despair or tragedy." Late this afternoon I spoke to the Right | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
Reverend Nigel Stock, the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, and | :03:47. | :03:57. | |
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started by asking for a church reaction to this story. We are pro- | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
life, by which we really want to help people to live life to the | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
fullest. To that end, we are very anxious that when people are in | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
real difficulties and sadness towards the end of life that they | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
have all the support that they need to because often it is because that | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
is lacking that some of these tragedies follow. Some people will | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
say that this is the last choice that we have - how and when we die. | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
Individual autonomy, that sense of choice is, of course, very | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
important to human beings. But we are also social beings. Our lives | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
have an effect on other people. Very often, some of the choices we | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
make have devastating effects on those around us. Of course, they | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
also have an effect on those we asked to help us in these sort of | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
circumstances. Two -- to ask someone to help us to die can be a | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
very painful thing to pick on someone. Is the charge moving in | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
any way to looking again at the way it reacts to people who decide it | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
is time to take their lives? A few years ago, if you committed suicide, | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
you could not be buried in a churchyard. You have moved on. | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
have moved a very long way from that and we would only want to | :05:26. | :05:34. | |
react with compassion to people in those circumstances. Certainly, if | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
an event like this has taken place, we are not sitting around wanting | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
to apportion blame or condemnation. We would only want to support those | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
most affected. We do still want to be very much pro-life, and what we | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
would really like to be -- to do is to see much wider provision for the | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
care of the terminally ill. There are, after all, some wonderful | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
hospices, and they are always having to raise their own funds and | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
to appeal to those roundabout. It is very noticeable that they have | :06:08. | :06:17. | |
wide support in the community. If we were to go down a long road of | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
legislating for some of these ideas of assisted suicide, it will take | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
up a lot of resources and legal time, and I wonder if we would not | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
be better putting more resources into the care and dignity of human | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
beings towards the end of life. Thank you very much for being with | :06:32. | :06:41. | |
There's been serious disruption on the A1 in Cambridgeshire this | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
evening after fire broke out at a farm complex. Smoke billowed across | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
the carriageway, forcing the northbound section to be closed | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
between junctions 16 and 17. Let's get the very latest from the scene | :06:50. | :06:58. | |
now. This is the closest we are being | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
allowed to the scene because there is a concern about gas cylinders | :07:01. | :07:09. | |
exploding. At 3:30pm today, six fire engines were battling a fire | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
at a car workshop. It is reduced now to a few plumes of smoke but I | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
can show you some pictures we took earlier. Emergency services have | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
kept the road closed because there is concern about the gas cylinders. | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
We know that at 4pm people reported the sound of an explosion. One gas | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
cylinder exploded before the fire service arrived. Derek tailbacks | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
throughout the whole area. Police are continuing -- there are | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
tailbacks. Police are advising people to follow the latest traffic | :07:50. | :07:59. | |
bulletins. Still to come tonight: Who's | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
playing who, when and where, as the fixtures are announced for the next | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
football season. And a profile of our number one women's tennis | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
player, getting ready for Wimbledon. Don't miss a real child of courage | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
as she attempts a charity walk at the tender age of two. And weather- | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
wise it's a bit of a mixed bag this weekend, with plenty of showers | :08:15. | :08:23. | |
around to dodge. Join me later for The owner of Ellingham Hall - where | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, is living - has denied | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
claims that surveillance cameras have been installed outside his | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
home. Mr Assange, who faces charges of sexual assault in Sweden, has | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
been under house arrest in Ellingham on the border between | :08:36. | :08:46. | |
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Norfolk and Suffolk. This is a man who has not been charged and is | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
being treated like a caged animal. Released by Wikileaks to mark six | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
months since Julian Assange's arrest, this campaign video shows | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
his strict bail conditions at Ellingham Hall - the electronic tag | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
he has to wear, his daily trips to Beccles police station. Then Mr | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Assange's supporters draw attention to this camera which has suddenly | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
and mysteriously appeared in Ellingham village. This is one of | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
the three cameras that have appeared outside the proper The. We | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
believe they are monitoring everyone who goes in and out. | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
cameras apparently record car number plates of all vehicles going | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
in and out of the Ellingham estate. But take a closer look, and what | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
Wikileaks claim to be new hi-tech spy cameras are in fact ageing | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
electronic safety signs. Not a camera, say locals, but a speed | :09:31. | :09:40. | |
sign. Norfolk County Council told me today, "Two speed reactive signs | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
were installed in Ellingham in June 2002, of which one appears to be | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
the sign that is featured in the film." The world's media pitched up | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
at Ellingham Hall when Julian Assange was granted bail six months | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
ago. So how could the organisation which seeks transparency have got | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
this so wrong? The man giving Julian Assange refuge is less than | :10:00. | :10:10. | |
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impressed. I feel slightly embarrassed by this, if I am honest. | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
If they are not cameras, I must come before you and tell you that I | :10:17. | :10:27. | |
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have possibly contributed to misinforming year. -- you. Today, | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
while Julian Assange kept a low profile, his supporters told me | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
they had been tipped off about the so-called cameras by a local taxi | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
driver. They had hoped their video would highlight his cause, rather | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
than have this caught on camera. The family of a mother and daughter | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
shot dead in Braintree have paid tribute to them. Christine | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
Chambers' parents described her as a "lovely looking girl with a | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
wicked sense of humour" And granddaughter Shania as "a | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
beautiful little girl". A 50-year- old man arrested in connection with | :10:52. | :11:02. | |
the murders remains under police guard in hospital. | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
Shell UK has admitted in court to breaching health and safety | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
procedures that led to a fire at Bacton in Norfolk. | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
This was the aftermath of the explosion, captured by a BBC Look | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
East Europe. Flames shot into the air and the terminal was sealed off. | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
The incident in 2008 was caused by a build-up of dangerous substances, | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
ignited by electric heaters. Luckily, no-one was hurt, but the | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
Health and Safety Executive said it was caused by serious failings of | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
management and that the training of staff was poor. In court, the | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
company said it was committed to protecting the health and safety of | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
workers and conducting its business in an environmentally responsible | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
way. They added that it was with -- that it was with profound regret | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
that in this case they had failed to meet their own standards. | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
Executives from Shell UK today admitted responsibility and said | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
there were mistakes in the design, commission, operation and | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
management at the back and plant. Since the incident, they have | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
changed emergency response procedures and reviewed safety at | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
the terminal. The company will be sentenced on Monday and are likely | :12:14. | :12:24. | |
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to face a substantial fine. Seven vineyards in this region have won | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
gold medals in a national competition. The competition to | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
find the best English and Welsh wines of the year took place at the | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
Apex Centre in Bury St Edmunds earlier this week. A record number | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
of producers entered the competition, including the Giffords | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
Hall Vineyard in Suffolk, which was named Best Rose. Several hundred | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
wines were tasted by a panel of judges. Vineyards from Suffolk, | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
Essex and Hertfordshire took the top prizes. In the annual English | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
and Welsh Wine of the Year competition, which took place in | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
Bury St Edmunds this week, vineyards in East Anglia managed to | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
win seven out of the 20 gold medals awarded this year, more than any | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
other region. Historians are trying to uncover | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
the secrets of Tudor tombs, including that of the illegitimate | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
son of Henry VIII. They've brought in X-ray machines and other high- | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
tech equipment to help unravel the mysteries of the Howard family, | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
whose remains are housed in a Suffolk church. This may look like | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
a traditional parish church but I am told that inside our late Tudor | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
tombs of European significance. They are using space-age technology | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
to try and unlock some of their secrets. Inside, men in white | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
shirts are firing lasers at the lavish tombs of the Howard family. | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
The tombs appear to have undergone a 16th-century makeover after being | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
moved from a nearby prior to it -- priory. Ideally, they would take | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
them apart to solve the problem. 3D modelling offers the next best | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
thing. We are scanning these tombs in three dimensions. Both of them | :13:55. | :14:04. | |
appear to be multi- phase monuments. What we are going to do is to | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
virtually disassemble them and reconstruct them in what I think | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
were the original appearances. the coming months, it is these | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
images that will be broken apart and reconstructed. The Howards will | :14:19. | :14:29. | |
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be left to rest in peace. You're watching BBC Look East. | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
Coming up: Everyone's a winner once Angelina's big day. | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
It's exactly three weeks since two teenagers were shot dead in Milton | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
Keynes, and today their families went to the scene of the shooting | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
to appeal for help in finding those responsible. Mohammed Farah and | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
Amin Ismail were members of the local Somali community. Detectives | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
believe some local people may have information but are too scared to | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
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come forward. Please help us to get the killers found. A lot of people | :15:11. | :15:20. | |
have tried to help. Please help. Broken-hearted and desperate, today, | :15:20. | :15:27. | |
this woman made the tortuous trip back to the scene of her son's | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
killing. Mohammed Farah and Amin Ismail were shot in the head here. | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
Police believe that someone is hiding the truth. Me and my older | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
brother, we have done a good job of stopping people from retaliating or | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
doing something stupid. Is there a fear that someone in the Community | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
might take matters into their own hands? It is not something we would | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
like to see. I want these people to be caught and to face justice in | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
court. Although the teenagers were known | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
to the police, detectives say that this was off the scale compared to | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
the minor crimes they had committed. At a packed press conference today, | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
the detective in charge admitted he is still waiting for that vital | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
breakthrough. Yes, we are frustrated. Yes, we share the same | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
opinion that actually there are rather people out there who have | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
significant information and they are not coming forward. The | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
response that we have had has been excellent, but we remain absolutely | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
certain that there are other people out there with evidence that can | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
prove this case. You may be scared or you may be protecting your own | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
sons, but if they did this, if they have murdered my son and his friend, | :16:55. | :17:03. | |
then you have to know when your heart that protecting them is wrong. | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
Police say that parading a mother's anguish this way is almost -- | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
always difficult. They hope it will prick someone's conscience. And if | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
you can help the police with that investigation, the number to ring | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
is 0845 850 5505. Football fans found out today what | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
they will be doing on Boxing Day and next Easter Monday. Yes, the | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
new fixtures are out and Tom's been having a look. | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
Well, ever since Norwich secured their place back in the Premier | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
League, all the talk amongst the fans has been about signings and | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
who they will face on the opening day. The answer? Wigan! Not the | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
glamour tie they may have hoped for, but perhaps a chance for early | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
points. Wigan only just survived, remember. The first home game is | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
against Stoke, then comes last year's runners-up, Chelsea. West | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
Brom, Bolton and Sunderland follow. While the first six could have been | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
worse, the final six perhaps could not. Away trips to Tottenham and | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
Arsenal mixed with home games against Man City and Liverpool. So | :17:58. | :18:07. | |
what do the fans think? A good start, just a bad finish. The last | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
six games we have Liverpool, Tottenham, Manchester City. What | :18:13. | :18:23. | |
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gain are you looking forward to the most? Chelsea and Norwich. That is | :18:27. | :18:37. | |
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definitely tough. Do you see many points there? No. If we can get our | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
points at the beginning of the season we will have nothing to | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
worry about. Just a couple of other games to | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
pick out. Norwich head to the champions, Manchester United, at | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
the start of October. They are at home to Tottenham on Boxing Day. | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
Then Man United come to Carrow Road in February. For Ipswich, no East | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
Anglian derby this year. Paul Jewell begins his first full season | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
in charge with a game at Bristol City. Town also play Posh and Leeds | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
in August, Leicester on Boxing Day, Doncaster on the final day. | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
Another promoted side, Stevenage, are looking forward to life in | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
League One, starting at home to Exeter before heading to last | :19:18. | :19:27. | |
season's League Two champions, Chesterfield. Fans will savour | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
trips to Sheffield Wednesday in February and Sheffield United on | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
the penultimate day. We know there are loads of teams that have been | :19:34. | :19:41. | |
in the Premiership before. It shows or improvement and how hard we have | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
worked. It is just about enjoying it and carrying on the progress we | :19:45. | :19:55. | |
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have made. Elsewhere, after missing out in the | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
play-offs, MK Dons kick off at home to Hartlepool, while Colchester are | :20:03. | :20:13. | |
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away to Preston. The opening day in League Two sees home games for both | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
Southend and Northampton. The Blues play Hereford, while Cobblers take | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
on Accrington. And don't forget you can have a look at all the fixtures | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
for your team on the BBC Sport website. Go to the football section. | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
From football to tennis. Wimbledon starts on Monday. Ipswich's Elena | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
Baltacha is in fine form going into it. The British No. 1 won a warm-up | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
event in Nottingham last week, but her schedule is frantic - 14 events | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
taking her from Brisbane to the Bahamas. Life as a tennis pro | :20:40. | :20:50. | |
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serves up all sorts. From hard courts in Melbourne to | :20:50. | :21:00. | |
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the green, green grass of home. Life 14 Baltacha up his non-stop. | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
Planning is key. I am a great backpacker. I have lists for one | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
week away, two weeks away, three weeks away. I think I am quite | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
organised but I need to be! I have more clothes with me so it probably | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
takes me twice as long to pack. So far in 2011, 15 tournaments, 11 | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
countries and almost 30 flights. am a really bad flier and that is | :21:28. | :21:36. | |
the one thing that I do not enjoy. I miss home a lot, my friends and | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
my family, waking up in my own bed and making a cup of tea in the | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
kitchen. It feels like heaven, to be honest. It is the small things | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
that I miss. Now she is back she is determined to overcome the pain of | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
Wimbledon 12 months ago where, under the gaze of the public and | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
media she suffered a miserable defeat. Those games make you or | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
break you. I am glad it happened because I feel like I am a | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
completely different player now. What is the pressure like being | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
British No. 1? Over the years I find that sometimes it has been a | :22:13. | :22:22. | |
little bit overwhelming. I am playing very good tennis. I have | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
come from an amazing clay season and that has given me confidence as | :22:25. | :22:33. | |
well. Hopefully, with a kind draw I can do well. | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
After a decade on the tour Baltacha has demonstrated she has the hunger | :22:37. | :22:46. | |
and the fight. Now with Wimbledon she has a point to prove. | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
I should mention that Craig Pickering is representing Great | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
Britain in the European team championships in Stockholm of the | :22:54. | :23:02. | |
weekend. -- over the weekend. A few weeks ago on Look East, we | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
were joined in the studio by the parents of a little girl who was | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
recovering from a remarkable operation on her brain. You might | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
remember it because the little girl, Angelina, had a good wander around, | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
with reporter Mike Liggins trying to keep an eye on her. Today | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
Angelina was the centre of attention in Sheringham, where she | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
was due to take part in a charity walk with her parents. But the | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
question on everyone's lips was this: Could a two-year-old complete | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
the whole circuit? Angelina had wings on for the occasion. Perhaps | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
she was thinking of flying. The two-mile walk didn't start | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
brilliantly. Angelina wasn't keen to walk past the toy shop without | :23:33. | :23:43. | |
going in. But she was quickly into her stride and was away. It was a | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
big decision to make - brain surgery - but nine months of | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
seizures was scary as well. It was slightly easier to make that | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
decision because we could see the outcome of other children who had | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
had the operation and how well they had done. Angelina was born with | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
Sturge Weber syndrome, a rare neurological condition which gave | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
her life-threatening fits. A year ago surgeons at Great Ormond Street | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
Hospital switched off half her brain, which left her without full | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
use of one side of her body. That said, she still gave me the | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
runaround when she came into the studio. When you're two, walking | :24:20. | :24:30. | |
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two miles isn't easy, but having If you get tired, a brief sit down | :24:38. | :24:46. | |
is never a bad idea. And of course, Dad is always around just in case. | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
I have had my rough times, but for Angelina's sake you keep going. You | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
see what a fighter she is and what an inspiration. That gives me the | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
strength to be strong for her. Angelenos is going to need medical | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
help but, as you see, this special little girl is a fighter, and I | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
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have a feeling she is probably Time for the weather. | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
Low pressure is dominating the weather at the moment. This front | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
has been pushing towards the north, bringing heavy rain. The next low | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
pressure system is waiting in the Atlantic so the weather will stay | :25:46. | :25:55. | |
unsettled. Drier weather for Sunday but more wet weather this evening. | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
This is the radar picture that shows where some of the rain has | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
fallen so far today. You will see some dark blue, that is over London | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
and heading in our direction. It will continue to reign deceiving | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
and overnight. This is how it looks at the moment. The rain moves north | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
through the night, some heavy bursts still possible. At daybreak | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
it starts to dry out in the south. Temperatures will not be lower than | :26:25. | :26:35. | |
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ten Celsius. There will be a moderate breeze. For tomorrow, we | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
still have low pressure very much with us. This weather front will | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
linger and that will mean that there will be rain in North Norfolk | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
and some fairly sharp showers through the day for the rest of us. | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
This is how we start tomorrow. The rain lingers in the north-east. | :26:57. | :27:07. | |
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Some brighter spells develop, but fairly hefty showers as well. The | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
chance of for the showers in the afternoon. Some sunny spells as | :27:14. | :27:24. | |
:27:24. | :27:29. | ||
well. The bulk of the region is dry on Sunday. It is parts of north | :27:29. | :27:33. |