05/07/2011 Look East - East

In Look East tonight: More on the phone tapping scandal, with

allegations that the News of the World hacked into the phone of the

father of Jessica Chapman, murdered in Soham nine years ago.

Hello from Stewart and me. Also tonight: Travellers facing

eviction are branded "disgraceful" after threatening to use violence

to stay in their homes. The threat of putting children in

harm's way, from a community that says they look after each other,

that's one of the reasons they want to stay together. The two don't fit

well together to me. Off shore and on target, how wind

power is energising the east coast - and bringing new jobs.

And, the underground carvings that have survived for centuries, now

First, the village of Soham in Cambridgeshire is in the spotlight

tonight over new allegations over phone hacking by the News of the

World. Nine years after the murders of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells,

it's been revealed that police have contacted their families over

claims that their phones were tapped by journalists. Mike

Cartwright has been in Soham today, and joins us now from our Cambridge

news room. I spoke to Kevin Wells, he told me, at a strict no comment.

He said a number of Newsagents had been in contact. He had told them

all, no comment. When these allegations arose in March, he told

the newspapers, police are keeping us informed but we are maintaining

a no comment across the board. Cambridgeshire police have

confirmed officers from the Metropolitan Police have been in

touch with the two family is, and they are helping them with

inquiries. We have some pictures of the two girls, it is 10 years since

the girls were murdered. Allegations are the News of the

World instigated the hacking of the phone of Leslie Chapman, the father

of Jessica. Kevin Wells is the man I spoke to earlier today, and these

allegations arose when Labour MP Tom Watson made them on Newsnight,

and earlier on today. These follow the other allegations that Glen

Mulcaire is alleged to have tapped the mobile phone of Milly Dowler.

There'll be a Commons debate on the phone hacking scandal tomorrow.

What's been the reaction from our MPs?

James Paice has called this truly appalling, if it is true. And it

needs to be investigated urgently, he says. There are calls for

Theresa May to confirm whether this is true. I think these allegations

are truly shocking and it is right they should be looked at and

investigated with great vigour. Obviously, we have been absolutely

kick in relation to all of the allegations about phone hacking,

this is a matter for the police, and they should take those

investigations were ever the evidence leads them. There will be

a debate in the Commons tomorrow. Basildon District Council has

described threats made by travellers camped illegally at Dale

Farm as "disgraceful" and "irresponsible". This was the scene

yesterday when 90 families were given 28 days' notice to quit. In a

moment, how we've reached this standoff. But first, to the nearby

village of Crays Hill, and Gareth George.

This is one of the nicer streets in Crays Hill, close to Dale Farm

where there was a protest. Gas cylinders were built into

barricades. That protest criticised by the council. The residents have

had their council tax reduced because they are so close to Dale

Farm. I asked them about the looming eviction. Dale Farm's

neighbours are pleased the eviction is looming. A our homes have been

devalued because of the travellers being so close. So, I have found

personally that they have been quite intimidating. They have been

told so many times. This time, they must make an effort to move. Be if

they are only taking 50 families, that will leave 50 behind. Half of

these will stay, they are legal. It is the other half who have until

the end of August to move. The survey of official notices

triggered this barricade. A taste, said the travellers and, of the

fight they will put up for their homes. Threats criticised by the

council. They don't have permission. To come and put barricades up, to

put themselves at risk of, as well as people carrying out their lawful

decision to clear the site, it is irresponsible and illegal. That is

not half as dangerous as when the bailiffs were coming with the big

machinery that children have never seen. The travellers at Dale Farm

say they have nowhere to go. The council has offered to find them

homes. Some are said to own land elsewhere in Cambridgeshire. But

some may be forced to move on to land illegally, like these

travellers, not connected to Dale Farm, who have pitched up near raid

gear white superstar. Back at Dale Farm, supporters say human rights

activists will flock to the area to help keep the bailiffs at bay.

could be into the hundreds. People are committing to come down and to

assist the travellers whichever way they wish them to. If the

travellers stay, they seem determined to do so, clearing Dale

Farm will be very difficult. A council source has said councils

across East Anglia and south east England are tightening security,

making sure car parks and playing fields are locked in case

travellers from Dale Farm tried to move on.

Basildon District Council says the evictions will go ahead, to

preserve the green belt and "prevent planning anarchy". But how

did we get to this state of affairs? Here's our chief reporter

Kim Riley. The legal battle has been going on

for more than ten years. But, to make sense of the Dale Farm story,

we need to look back to the 1970s, when Basildon Council gave planning

permission to 40 English Romany families to live beside what was

then a scrap yard. In 1996, the scrap yard owner, denied permission

to carry on the business, sold Dale Farm to an Irish travelling family

for �122,000. Five years later, a growing number of families had

moved in. Breaches of planning conditions were reported to

Basildon Council, but no action was taken. By 2004, attendance at

Cray's Hill Primary School had plummeted from 200, to just 50

pupils. A significant development a year later, Basildon Council voted

to take direct action. A travellers delegation went to Number Ten. They

were given a two-year reprieve. In 2006, a public inquiry. Local

property prices in Cray's Hill village had slumped by an estimated

�50 million. The following year, Basildon Council voted to evict 14

families. Next: at the High Court in London. A legal challenge by the

travellers. We built on a scrap yard. It was never green fields,

back in the 1970s. We are living on the scrap yards. The High Court had

deemed the council plans unlawful. But at the Court of Appeal, that

judgement was overturned. So in March this year, the council voted

to go ahead with the eviction. Is the aim to clear the whole site? No.

On this part of the site, they do have planning permission to be

there. It's on the other side where you can see many more individual

caravans that the evictions are now set to go ahead. And the cost of

the mass eviction? In 2005, it was estimated at �1.9 million. Today,

the total bill could be as much as �18 million.

News just in. A car and a train have collided on

a level crossing on the A10 Littleport bypass in Cambridgeshire.

It means there'll be no First Capital Connect services between

King's Lynn and Cambridge for the rest of the evening. It's believed

there were three people in the car. The mother of a teenager, who was

found dead after a night out, has begun her own crusade to tackle

underage drinking. 16-year-old Theo Kawala was last seen staggering

drunk along a street in Peterborough. He fell into the

River Nene where his body was found a month later. Staff at two pubs

have been given fixed penalty fines for serving the alcohol. Today, an

inquest recorded a verdict of accidental death.

Cecile Kawala is getting ready, but not for a normal night out. She's

heading to Peterborough's city centre. She starts where her son

was last seen. I am really upset about this, because I know feel was

being served alcohol here and he was only just 16. He should not

have been served. I want to raise awareness about alcohol. This night,

she only meets people who are the legal age. But this teenager has

been coming here since he was just 16. We know about the dangers but

most young people choose to ignore it. Hello. Nice to see you again.

How many units of alcohol do you think that you drink? A hunt got a

clue. Quite a lot, because we are not driving. What she is doing is a

good idea, making youngsters aware about alcohol and drinking too much

and being stupid. Going out with people who will not leave you, who

are really good friends. Cecile heard how some drinkers spent �140

on vodka in just one night. I have seen some youngsters who are not

completely aware what they are drinking. They are saying they are

drinking a little bit. They tell you that they are drinking less

than they thought. But it's the venue that's served them, and it's

here the police are cracking down. We have to try to tighten up.

Something we are always tried to do. They will come at passports which

are out of date, with their brothers and sisters. You even get

people in a crowd where they will start passing idea to one another.

Theo's mum said the night was hard, but it helped her know how he spent

his final hours. As a parent, we need to be responsible and make our

child be responsible for their racks. I already did that but it

was not enough, apparently. Still to come tonight: The lucky

lotto couple with three million I am heading down a 40 ft into

subterranean Royston to find out The family of a pensioner from

Norfolk, who was conned out of tens of thousands of pounds, is warning

about the dangers of junk mail fraud. The woman's daughter says

the fraudsters built up a relationship by writing letters to

her, and then persuaded to hand over large sums of money.

This is how it all began for this woman's elderly mother. A piece of

junk mail through her letter box hooked her in, and convinced her to

part with thousands of pounds. The shame of her mother falling victim

to fraudsters meant she didn't want to be identified. Blank cheques

were written and sent. Many to addresses in the Netherlands and

Switzerland. But in her mother's mind, the people she was sending

her money to weren't fraudsters but instead friends who wrote letters

to her on a regular basis. I would see these letters and I

would immediately recognise them as scam letters. But she wouldn't have

that. Whatever I said, she would say, they are dear friends. She was

feeling very close to them. Norfolk Trading Standards investigates

thousands of pieces of scam mail every year. Despite the different

shapes and sizes, most letters are the same, with the aim to

manipulate people into parting with their cash. Emotionally speaking,

it is very draining for the actual person. And for their family, if

they should find out about it. A lot of people do not tell their

families until the finances are drained. The problem is a hard one

to crack. When one source of scam mail is shut down, another one

crops up. But, by raising awareness of the crime, it's hoped fewer

people will fall victim to it. The police are investigating the

death of a woman in her 30s at a holiday park near Great Yarmouth.

Her body was found in a tent at Clippsby Hall this morning.

For some of us, our analogue signal for BBC Two is being switched off

tonight. If you live in Beswick or suffer and get your pictures from

the Sudbury transmitter, this means you.

This is because we know some people are getting ready for the switch-

over at the last minute. It means they have another two weeks before

they lose all of their analogue channels, so this is just one

channel this week. If you are going to switch this week, you will have

seen captions for the last two week's warning of this. It is very

hard to ignore it is coming. People might know it is coming but they

might still be worried about what they have to do. Can you run

through what they have to do? you are an analogue you're watching

five channels at the moment, you need to convert your television

with a set top box to get ready for switch over. Any television with an

aerial or socket can be converted. There are lots of set-top boxes,

prices are coming down. If you are already watching free view, through

an aerial, you need to read to on both date. Otherwise you will lose

its channels. If people are worried, There is help? We have an advice

line which is opened extra hours this weekend so people can ring.

You can ring us about anything to d with switchover at all. If you need

help with retuning, we can talk you through it on the phone. You have

overseen other transmitters, this has been smooth so far? Absolutely.

We had one that switched earlier this year, it went very well. We

know a few people will need our assistance, but we are there to

help. If you have any problems tomorrow, that phone number you can

The Gorleston Lifeboat returned to port after a major refit costing

�300,000. The work has been carried out over the last four months in

Ireland. A crew from the RNLI in Gorleston flu it to Dublin to bring

the boat home. The final long leg of the journey started in Newhaven

this morning. For the first time 9 lifeboat has an extra propeller. A

new agreement was signed today to help this region cash in on the

business boom created by the offshore wind industry. It will see

councils in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk working in partnership to

get new investment and jobs. When it comes to the offshore wind

business, the port at har ridge is a key player. It entered the market

three years ago. It's one of the busiest places in the country for

handling the components of the turbine trade. It's a boost to the

whole economy. The contracts have a lot of people here. They are based

here. They are in the hotels and restaurants locally. There is a lot

of money that gets spent ashore. They will be dwarfed by the next

generation of generating sites. As the scale grows, so does the

potential economic gain. For these three councils, working as one is

the key to secure fresh investment, jobs an training. Speaking for

Essex, we see the energy sector and the offshore wind sector in

particular as being a huge opportunity for employment in a

part of Essex that really needs employment. It is the first step

towards the three counties working together to exploit a once-in-a-

lifetime opportunity. We are looking at the bigger picture. An

ability to share resources, work together and ensure we have a

holistic approach in this will be nothing but benefit. I'm glad we

are not falling over each other on this. Competition will be fierce.

Not just from other areas in the UK, -- competitors too. A big cheque

and even bigger smiles. Great fun. Work has started to conserve

medieval carvings in Hertfordshire. The Royston Cave is shaped like a

bee hive, and is blow the high street. It's thought to be 5,000

years old. The drawings are slowly disappearing. Specialist teams have

been brought in to try to save them. Several hundred years ago if you

came off London Road here, through this Archway you would come into a

coach house. That is long gone. Behind this door lies a far greater

and more important secret. Follow this path way down and we descend

through 40 feet of chalk. The temperature goes down by six

degrees Celsius. It's damp, it's cool and smells musty and it's

The cave is around 5,000 years old. The kafrpbgskafrgs a mere 600.

Times have been tough. Water and vibrations from the above above

traffic causing cracking and erosion. More unusual is the worm

problem. There's one just moving across there. One of the reasons

that the carvings have started to disappear is that, at some point,

the caves become contaminated with worms. Different types types of

worms. They have started to eat through the soft tkhaubg chalk

thesm caused it to Coe claps in some places. Whole sections of the

carvings have fallen off. That is why Tobit and his team have been

charged with stopping thousands of thousands of invertebrate intruders.

We have to find out what it is that the worms like about this place.

You can't use chemicals. You can't get rid of them. You can make sure

that they don't want to be there. It's understanding their life cycle

and what attracts them here. It might be the humidty, nutrients. We

could change them and they might go away. If the caves and theiring

carvings have to survive long-term then constant vigilance is a must,

worms or no worms. I had never heard of the caves before, aren't

they fantastic? A seven-year-old boy from Northampton is getting a

trial with the top football club in Europe. He gets it after a kick

about during a holiday in spin. P Kai Fifield boy was visiting

Barcelona with his dad when he joined in a game with bunch of

local kids near the Nou Camp stadium. Little did he know that

the match was being watched by the club's talent skoupbts. -- skoupbts.

-- scouts. As we were leaving the stadium itself there is another

stadium, a five-aside stadium. Beautiful. A load of kids playing

in. It he played. After an hour they didn't seem to mind. I

approached them and said, who do you play for? They said bars lone

yafplt I was like, you are kidding. -- They said they had been watching

him for the last hour and were impressed and would like to give

him a trial. On the day he was a giant amongst men, let alone boys.

He was so composed. If he had nerves he didn't show it. He was

desperate to play. He said, "dad, I feel perfect for football today".

No, I didn't. I said, "I want to gn on the pitch now" No, I didn't.

What did you say then? I said, "when are we on?" Then what

happened? We went on. What happened then? I played. Did you play well?

I don't know. He has developed a disdain for the media, which should

stand him in good stead. Apparently I read a story about the Royston

Cave two years ago. There are at least ten occasions in the last few

years. Nice to see them again. Getting for getful. Most of us can

dream of what we would do if we won the Lottery. What would you do if

you checked your numbers and you found had you won �3.5 million. A

couple from Wellingborough were watching TV on staet Saturday night

and decided to check their numbers on-line. All six they had. Today,

they were celebrating. He's a fork- lift engineer. She's only just

retired. Life for this couple from Wellingborough dramatically changed

Sitting there Saturday night, checking the iPhone. I have a

checker. It come up that we'd won. We didn't pleev it. The head is

spinning. You don't know what to do. It do you not know what to think.

What are you going to do with all this money? I don't know what to

think, to tell you the truth. I just, the house is the main thing.

I'm still don't even know what type of house I want to go for. It's so

surreal, really. You just don't know how - what you are going to do

until you see something that you want, basically. Is it time to

retire now? Yes. I've done 46 years at work. It's all been in

engineering, fork-lifts and plant repairs. I've yet to have nice

clean hands. Apart from the house and a manicure for you, to get your

hands looking like millionaire's hands? Yes. No other big plans?

really. I can't stop smiling. It's just still not hit home yet. Not at

all. Later in the week they are off on holiday to celebrate no. Round-

the-world cruise for for this couple. They are hopping in their

camper van and heading to the south coast. After 40 years of marriage

it's time for early retirement. Life will never be the same again

for this lucky couple. Good for for this lucky couple. Good for

them. How wonderful. The weather. We have been clinging on to the

warm sunny weather in the east. It's starting to change. This low

pressure is bringing the China. You will see cloud across the region.

If we look at the radar picture you can see the track of the showery

band of rain that is in the west of the region right now. This evening

it will track eastwards. There could be persistent bursts in

amongst that. It will linger around the north and east of the region

towards dawn. Behind it, some showers. They could be in the west

at first light tomorrow. Temperatures no lower than 13

degrees with a light wind. Tomorrow the low pressure is with us. It

keeps things unsettled for the next few days. Tomorrow, a mixture of

sunshine and showers. It will feel cooler in a stronger breeze and the

temperatures taking a dip, as that rain clears through. You will see a

scattering of showers. Some could be heavy. We could get thunder.

Temperatures up to 21 degrees. Moderate south-westerly wind

throughout the day. Through the afternoon, still we have some

further showers, generally they will tend to fade towards evening

time. There will be sunshine across most of the region. So, for the

next five days, this is how it looks. Cooler, breezier, the chance

of showers. The showers could be on the heavy side. Warmer into the

weekend. There is uncertainty about that at the moment. If we have a

look at the overnight lows, a couple of nights of double figures