26/07/2011 Look East - East

Back he used to beat us and take photos. Also tonight, a suicide

note from a mother who killed herself and her two young sons. The

bulldozers move in at Bradwell as demolition begins. An unwelcome

A BBC investigation has discovered that a paedophile who worked as a

head teacher in Suffolk went on to abuse children in India. Derek

Slade is behind bars serving a 21 year sentence. He was jailed to

last summer for abusing children at St George's boarding school in

Suffolk in the 1970s and 1980s. He was investigated by the BBC, but it

took decades for the police to catch up with him and bring him to

justice. In the intervening years, the abused children abroad. This

report is from Roger Cook. When Derek Slade was convicted of child

abuse, his victims were grown men. He abuse children at St George's

boarding-school in Stowmarket. Peak physically and sexually assaulted

pupils as young as eight. They are still living with the legacy of

that abuse. I tried to commit suicide within six months. I had

several failed relationships. I have tried time and time again.

Back in 1982, the BBC Radio 4 Checkpoint programme exposed his

reign of terror in Suffolk with the help of pupils and staff. Some

people were forced to change clothes. The whole of his backside

was covered in bruises. Even though the sexual abuse remained secret,

the abuse made national headlines and he resigned in 1983. And later

conviction for physical assault in 1983 made it work and my children

difficult for him. He later on he launched a campaign and exploited

his position in schools abroad, including this one, funded by a

Leicestershire charity. We track down some of his victims. How many

of you were beaten? All of you? TRANSLATION: He used to beat us

every Sunday, and then he took pictures and offered us chocolate.

He would then say nothing happened. The school cost �85,000 to build

and run. Much of it was paid for by and charity in Leicester. Another

charity also gave him funds. A trustee was convinced by his work

across the world. They did not check his credentials. In all of

our lives, we made -- we make mistakes, and this was a very grave

mistake. If it passed by again, I would never do it again. How was he

finally caught and convicted? Eight full story in a special programme

tonight. As you heard, watching could -- Roger Cook has never given

up on this story. He has been speaking about the Radio 4

programme Checkpoint, which carried out an investigation in 1982.

but how difficult it was to convince people to talk batted back

then. It was taboo. We were convinced more was going on. It was

an authority whitewash as he... I have such -- stuck to this story.

Justice was not done then, and it is still not complete now. What

remains in my memory is just how far a paid far would go to get

access to children. For these victims, it is not over. Many of

them are suing the company he works for. The police are investigating.

Earlier, I spoke to Rosie Carter from the Suffolk charity SafeChild.

I started by asking her how worried she was about cases like this when

abusers slipped through the net and continued to work with young people.

This is an incredibly shocking case, and it is not an isolated incident.

Many people want to defend with children and young people who get -

- gravitate towards the community. They will come to voluntary and

community sector. We know that I know this is what your charity

does to try and stop this sort of thing happening. What did charities

do it to protect themselves? People often feel shy about it, but the

first step is to have a clear policy and procedures to deal with

any concerns and allegations within your group. The second key thing is

recruitment. If it had been carried out properly, so any references,

and an interview to checkout the attitude of the individual, it

would have been a great help, and we encourage people to risk a

assess and make sure that everybody is working properly. It took the

long -- today long time for the law to catch up the best man. Do think

that they are more safety checks in place now? From next year, we have

the new Bill going through Parliament. CRT's are going to beat

That is a great concern to us at Also, the most important thing it

is to encourage children a young people to speak out if they are

being targeted. I think so, and certainly parents and carers have a

key player it -- key role to play You can see that investigation, An

Abuse Of Trust, tonight at 10:35pm. A suicide note written by a mother

before she killed herself and her two young sons, has been read out

at her inquest. The body of Susan Talby was found by her husband the

family home in Peterborough in 2007. Susan Talby took her own life when

the balance of her mind was unbalanced. That was the verdict of

the coroner. The death of her two boys recorded as unlawful. This was

the inquest into another who suffer from depression. Susan Talby, a

mother who took a own life after taking the lives of her two young

sons. I am truly sorry, she wrote to her husband. "I cannot have some

Today, the family's figure spoke on their behalf. I am left utterly

devastated. I love them with all my heart. They meant everything to me

and others, and we had many great times together. I know that Sue

would not have done these horrendous acts had she been well.

For returning home from home or -- work, he found his family dead

inside. What his family found was read out at the inquest. He saw her

hanging from -- hanging in his bedroom -- in her bedroom with a

belt. He he -- she had killed my After treatment, Susan Talby,

proved no risk to anyone else. Communication between GPs and

mental health care was poor. The deaths were totally unexpected.

Mother and sons were later rest in 2007. Susan Talby had been asked --

had asked that they would be buried together. When he kissed his family

for the last time, he had no reason to be concerned. What Richard will

be saw that day, the coroner described as horrendous. He had to

deal with the stress and trauma of this inquest.

Still to come, Alex will be here with the weather, and Ken is down

on the Broads. I am taking an unscientific sample of the water.

It has a green tinge. The bad news is that toxic algae is back. We

will have more on that when -- A new police band designed to catch

people who break the law on level crossings has been put on show

today. It has nine cameras as well as technology to recognise

numberplates. These are the only light that but even emergency

vehicles can't go through. That does not stop people trying. This

is the police's later bit of kit to stop them. It has and extras pack

the price of a BMW, but I think Jeremy Clarkson would 11. We need

something that would take an image of the driver's face. The automatic

numberplate recognition cameras will allow us to find out the name

and address of the driver. I think the piece de resistance is the red

eye, the camera that can work day and night. More than 60 people were

prosecuted on this crossing alone, and that was too serious for the

crossing keeper to ignore. Now, he would not be the one working alone.

It is not just targeting motorists. This was picked up earlier today.

It is quite clear what it is here. If they persist on people --

pitting others in danger, and the police will come down on them.

Essex and 10 digits seemed to be the worst offenders, but with over

1,000 coffers -- crossings in the region, the police will have their

The southbound carriageway of the A12 in Suffolk was closed this

afternoon after a car hit a tree at Capel St Mary. Two people were

killed and two teenagers were cut free from the wreckage. Ambulance

crews arrived at about one o'clock. One man in his late teens was

airlifted to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge with serious chest

injuries. Another was taken to hospital in Colchester with

injuries to his leg and face. One of the region's water companies

is likely to pass into foreign ownership. Investors from Asia are

poised to buy Essex and Suffolk Water, which has nearly two million

customers in towns such as Southend, Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth.

You may never have heard of Li Ka- Shing. But the Hong Kong

businessman has been busy buying up the utility companies that millions

of us depend on. Last year, his companies bought UK Power Networks,

which owns and operates the cables and power lines that bring

electricity to our homes. And today he announced plans to buy Essex and

Suffolk Water. It supplies water to 1.8 million homes. But regulators

don't want Li Ka-Shing to get too powerful. They've ordered him to

sell Cambridge Water, which he bought seven years ago. The new

owner of Cambridge, which has 300,000 customers, is the HSBC bank.

But today's moves mean the influence of the Hong Kong

businessmen continues to grow. More than 200 charities across the

region have seen big cuts to their budgets this year as part of the

squeeze on public spending. A survey by a group of trade unions

names Suffolk as one of the worst affected counties, with county

council cuts to the voluntary sector of �1.1 million. But

Tendring and Colchester Councils are praised for increasing their

spending on charities. There was a security alert today

after a suitcase was found outside a mosque in Southend. Roads were

cordoned off around the building in Chelmsford Avenue and an army bomb

squad called in. But it was a false alarm. It's thought a case full of

old pillows had been left there by mistake.

Work is underway to demolish part of the old Bradwell Nuclear power

station in Essex. The turbine hall is the first building to be cleared

at the site, which stopped generating electricity in 2002. The

decommissioning process will take 100 years to complete.

For 50 years, it's been part of the local skyline. But no more. This

huge water tank once fed one of six steam turbines at Bradwell. This

was the turbine hall before demolition began. The polished

dials now lie discarded. The turbines themselves are being sold

off for scrap. 1950s engineering, it is built to last and it has

lasted well. Unfortunately, it has gone past it shelf-life and we have

come in to demolish it. So far, 6,500 tonnes of scrap metal

have been cleared. Every skip is checked for radioactivity. Soon

attention will turn to the two reactor buildings. They will be

covered in cladding and left until 2087, when levels of radioactivity

will have subsided to a point where they too can be taken down.

In all, Magnox Limited estimates the total cost of decommissioning

Bradwell to be around �1 billion. Extra funding from the Nuclear

Decommisioning Authority has allowed the early stages to be

completed more quickly than originally planned. This is the

first sight that will be incurring maintenance for the UK. The lessons

we learn here will be taken to other sites, like once in Suffolk

and Kent. We are the pilot, but we are very proud to be the first to

progress to the maintenance phase. The Government has confirmed it

regards Bradwell as suitable for a new nuclear power station. The old

station's turbine hall will be gone soon, but its huge reactor

buildings will be around for many years to come.

With the new football season starting on Saturday, Colchester

United want to sign two new forwards. The players were at the

Weston Homes Community Stadium today for the annual photo-call.

The club has been trying to sign a striker all summer.

But there is some good news.Striker Steven Gillespie is fit. He has

struggled with injury during pre- season, but will be available to

play at Preston this weekend. Colchester are looking to build on

last season. I need to supplement the front part, we are a bit short.

I don't want to replace people, we are happy with the team, but they

would play every game, we have to -- they won't.

It's been revealed that some companies in this region don't want

to employ British workers because they believe people from Eastern

Europe work harder. All this week, we're looking at the

issue of immigration. Here in the east, numbers of Eastern European

workers have almost quadrupled in the last five years. In 2006, there

were 20,000 employed here. In 2011, that figure has grown to 77,000,

according to official Government figures. Some British workers have

told Look East that they feel discriminated against.

The it is the start of the potato harvest. Hard, Brack -- back-

breaking work. These Lithuanians are part of the team. They have

been found for a local farmer by a gang master who came here from the

Ukraine 15 years ago. Eastern Europeans people come to this

country for one reason, because economics in Eastern Europe are so

bad. There are not many jobs. take my hat off to the migrant

workers. They come from the other side of the world to find work. You

have got to admire that. A lot of British workers would go from one

side of town to the other. -- will not. I did mean that as a

generalisation, there are some very good British workers, but migrant

workers come from the other side of the world and you have to take your

hat off to them. There is no denying how much migrant labour is

part of life here in the east, but is it going too far? We have had

from a staffing agency in the region that some companies prefer

not to have British workers. It is illegal to ask for anyone from a

particular country or not from a particular country, it is

discrimination. But although it is illegal, people manage to get it

into the conversation and it is purely because they have been let

down so many times that they decide, I will not take English people any

more, I will take someone who actually wants the job. We Speech

is one of the main areas where migrants have chosen to come and

live and many of them work on farms or in factories, much fewer Orin

managerial posts. But they make up some of the 77,000 migrants now

living and working in the east. Outside the JobCentre, some say

they are being discriminated against by firms and of being

overlooked in favour of foreign workers. They actually pull the

strings with that kind of work, the factory worker and everything. If

you are not a foreigner, you have a hell of a job to get a job. I have

been looking for a job for a year, I have been to the JobCentre, there

are no jobs out there. I have tried going to the agency, they have no

work. You can't live at British standards on the minimum wage. And

if the money keeps going out of the country, it is like a hole in a

balloon. Some are concerned that because by gross have such a low

wage in their own country they are prepared to to accept lower

conditions here -- micros. With no controls on the number of people

coming from Europe, the tension surrounding the region's job market

is unlikely to go away. And tomorrow we'll be looking at

some of the issues raised in that report, when we talk to the

Immigration Minister, Damien Green. It's been a good start to the

school holidays for the tourist industry in the region. But it's

not all good news, especially on the Broads in Norfolk.

The return of hot sunny weather has encouraged the blooming of an algae

that's turning the water green. Lets go live to the Broads and our

chief reporter Kim Riley. Yes, down the years, from time to

time, we have seen our waterways infested by this toxic algae. It

can cause health problems in humans and can cause animals and fish to

die. Thanks to the recent hot weather, it is back, but to see it

most dramatically, you can take to the air.

A gallery in the market town. For the next few weeks, it is

showcasing the talents of an aerial photographer. He has been flying

over the East Anglian countryside and coastline since the 1970s. This

is his normal view. I know we get blue-green algae appearing at

different times of the year on the Broads, but normally it is in small

amounts just around the edges, and you see a green tinge. I was around

that the Broads on Sunday and the whole of the it was completely

green. I took a couple of pictures, and hence we have this startling

shot of blue-green algae. Busy with holiday kit -- holidaymakers this

afternoon. The Holiday Trust has posted a algae warning, of

regarding skin rashes, stomach upsets and other complaints. This

family from Oxfordshire are frequent visitors to the Broads.

were out sailing this morning and I have never seen it so bad. We

noticed it yesterday as well. There were kids jumping the end, despite

the signs, and it looked really horrible -- jumping in. Back in the

1960s, visitors to the Broads were unlikely to be troubled by algae.

In later years, nitrates running of surrounding farmland are encouraged

their growth. Today, the message to holiday makers -- holiday makers

was not to panic. Where they see a blue scum or a green tinge on the

top of the water, that might be a warning sign that there is blue-

green algae, so it is sensible to keep your dogs out of the water, do

not swim and do not get it on your skin. In the meantime, you can

certainly enjoy yourself on the water. And a change in weather

conditions is all that is needed to tackle the green menace.

The Broads Authority is are appealing to people on the boats

are to use environmentally sensitive stuff when showering,

when washing up, not to put back into the water things that can

actually encourage the growth of these algae. The best thing that

can happen, though, is a change in the weather.

I think we might be getting one of those!

A unique wartime autograph book which has its roots in Suffolk was

sold at auction today. It contains more than 100

signatures, including Douglas Bader and other pilots from the Battle of

Britain. This report from Kevin Burch.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so

many to so few. Sir Winston Churchill recognised

how precious these signatures were. This wasn't just a book of names,

he said, but a book of heroes. God Forbid it should ever be lost.

is a unique item. It is very difficult always to put a price on

things like this. One cannot say that once sold recently for so and

so much, there is nothing comparable.

Collected in 1941 by a steward in the officers' mess, what's called

The Celebrated RAF Book of Heroes has 107 names, including Douglas

Bader. He was based here at what was RAF Martlesham Heath from

December 1940 until March 1941. And it was Bader, apparently, who had

the book bound in leather, cut from an old chair at Martlesham. I can

imagine him having this book, or the mess man showing him the book,

and him saying it, we can't leave it like that, it needs some leather

around it. And hacking it out of the chair! Bader's extraordinary

life was immortalised on the big screen in the 1956 film. Reach For

The Sky. Today, the small pocket- sized book in which he also

featured proved another draw. It was expected to fetch �8,000 at

auction, but it sold for just over �33,000, bought by a private

collector in the UK. Ride, with the algae forecast and

Ride, with the algae forecast and some animals, here is Alex -- right.

Thank you. It was warmer today. These baby elephants enjoyed a

cooling down at Whipsnade Zoo. If we look at temperatures across the

region, we can see many locations got up to 27 or 28 degrees. We will

keep these humid conditions for another few days before fresher air

returned by Friday. It is quite unstable air, so it has triggered

one or two showers. There were some this morning that it jumped up from

London and there will be a second crop just around the south-west of

the region. So one or two heavy showers still about. They will

become isolated this evening but there is a risk of them overnight

as well, and it will stay really humid. You can see where the

computer thinks the shares will fall tonight. Some clearer skies

between the odd shower, but temperatures will not get lower

than 15 or 14 degrees tonight. The wind is a light South-south-

westerly. Tomorrow is a day of heavy, thundery showers, and really

warm, humid temperatures. We will start the day find with some

sunshine, and a good scattering of showers across the region -- fine.

Some could turn heavy and thundery. You can see the darker colours

indicating where they are heaviest. Temperatures climbing even further

tomorrow, 27 or 28 degrees possible, with the wind staying lighter,

south-south-easterly. A little cooler around the coast. Through

the afternoon, still a further risk of those heavy showers, you can see

at times they merge together to produce a more persistent band of

rain down the centre of the region. Thursday and for the rest of the

week, low-pressure is driving things. This front presents itself

on Thursday. After a dry start, we could get heavy rain falling in a

short space of time. Here is the outlook. Heavy and thundery showers

tomorrow, heavy rain for Thursday and into Friday, cooler and fresher

conditions, mainly dry with some sunshine. Unsettled into the

weekend with the chance of some weekend with the chance of some