:00:15. > :00:18.On Look East tonight: A woman is jailed for the torture
:00:18. > :00:24.of a three-year-old boy in one of the worst cases of child cruelty
:00:24. > :00:28.ever seen by the police. I think she deserve the sentence. That
:00:28. > :00:32.child is fortunate to have survived. Could this be the new home for the
:00:32. > :00:37.travellers from Dale Farm. It is just a few miles down the road.
:00:37. > :00:42.are against it. Everyone has a right to settle somewhere, but
:00:42. > :00:45.they're asking for another 60 plots. That is more than anywhere else.
:00:45. > :00:55.The Government makes its final decision on our coastguards with
:00:55. > :00:58.
:00:58. > :01:08.two stations closing for good. And beautiful Britten made in the
:01:08. > :01:17.
:01:17. > :01:23.Hello. A woman from Essex is starting a nine year jail sentence
:01:23. > :01:28.tonight for causing grievous bodily harm to a three-year-old boy. The
:01:28. > :01:31.boy was beaten, scratched and strangled. He had bite marks all
:01:31. > :01:34.over his body and his feet had been held under scalding hot running
:01:34. > :01:37.water. The woman, who was looking after the boy for a month,
:01:37. > :01:40.eventually phoned the paramedics for help because she was worried
:01:40. > :01:44.the boy was dead. Our Chief Reporter was in court and joins us
:01:44. > :01:48.now. This was one of the most sombre and
:01:48. > :01:51.shocking court hearings I have ever attended. 28-year-old Karen Victory
:01:51. > :01:58.admitted grievous bodily harm, two counts of actual bodily harm, and
:01:58. > :02:02.child cruelty. She was sobbing even before she got into the dock. She
:02:02. > :02:05.sobbed and shook uncontrollably throughout the hearing. She seemed
:02:05. > :02:09.to cover her ears as some of the most horrific details of her
:02:09. > :02:12.cruelty to this young boy were given. It happened while she was
:02:12. > :02:17.looking after the boy for over three weeks at her one-bedroom flat
:02:17. > :02:21.in this road in Witham. It was the address to which she finally called
:02:21. > :02:26.paramedics in February. She had been throttling the boy and was
:02:26. > :02:29.scared she had killed him. At first, she claimed her own daughter had
:02:29. > :02:33.been playing a game with him that involved tying a scarf around his
:02:33. > :02:39.neck. At first, the paramedics thought he was dead. But he was
:02:39. > :02:42.still breathing. They found bite marks on every part of his body.
:02:42. > :02:47.Scratches, cuts, serious bruises, and, as you said, the most dreadful
:02:47. > :02:51.injuries. Extreme burns to his feet which required skin grafts. Judge
:02:51. > :02:54.Anthony Goldstaub said fingernails had been dug into his skin. There
:02:54. > :02:59.were strangulation marks on his neck. He had screamed with pain
:02:59. > :03:02.when touched. The little boy said Karen had held him under the
:03:02. > :03:10.boiling water. I want my mum, he had said. The photographs of 40
:03:10. > :03:16.separate injures were harrowing, said the judge.
:03:16. > :03:19.The defence had plenty to say in mitigation?
:03:19. > :03:22.Sarah Vine, defending, said however horrifying the offences, whatever
:03:22. > :03:26.level of revulsion they cause, they were not and never were about
:03:26. > :03:32.sadism. They were an overspill of the most tragic variety of
:03:32. > :03:39.unmanaged and unaddressed emotions, fuelled by alcohol and drugs.
:03:39. > :03:44.Victory had lost her mother at 13. She had later gone into care. She
:03:44. > :03:48.had become involved with a very violent man. Over several years,
:03:48. > :03:51.she said he beat her and he beat her and he beat her. He battered
:03:51. > :03:59.any last shred of self-worth out of her. She dampened the pain with
:03:59. > :04:06.alcohol and drugs. It was an explanation, not an excuse. She
:04:06. > :04:09.said Victory insisted she loved the little boy. The judge said Victory
:04:09. > :04:13.had shown considerable remorse. But she'd had responsibility for the
:04:13. > :04:16.child in her care and had shown a shocking breach of trust. He
:04:16. > :04:18.sentenced her to nine years in prison and barred her for life from
:04:18. > :04:22.working with children. The police and Crown Prosecution Service say
:04:22. > :04:25.it is one of the worst cases of child cruelty they have ever
:04:25. > :04:31.witnessed. He was so traumatised that he was
:04:31. > :04:36.not even able to react to medical staff when he arrived at hospital.
:04:36. > :04:40.Totally scared of other human beings, so he physically turned
:04:40. > :04:45.away from medical staff initially. We had a situation grew this young
:04:45. > :04:55.child had lost more or less all faith in other human beings as a
:04:55. > :04:57.
:04:57. > :04:59.result of the incident with this lady. Tonight, the boy is in care.
:04:59. > :05:02.The Essex Safeguarding Children's Board says it has commissioned a
:05:02. > :05:05.serious case review in respect of the injuries caused to him by Karen
:05:05. > :05:08.Victory. She left the court as she arrived. In tears, mouthing the
:05:08. > :05:11.words, "I am so sorry." A planning inquiry began today to
:05:11. > :05:15.decide if travellers evicted from Dale Farm in Essex should be
:05:15. > :05:18.allowed to move onto a new site nearby. Basildon Council has
:05:18. > :05:23.already refused planning permission for 12 plots on land just a few
:05:23. > :05:31.miles from Dale Farm at Laindon. Today the travellers argued a
:05:31. > :05:37.further 50 temporary plots should be allowed there as well.
:05:37. > :05:43.Could this land become the next Dale Farm? It is owned by a
:05:43. > :05:47.government quango. Travellers say it was offered to Basildon council
:05:47. > :05:54.to meet their needs. In August, the council rejected a planning
:05:54. > :06:00.application by travellers to build 12 plots year. The reason is that
:06:00. > :06:06.studies have shown this site is home to several endangered species
:06:06. > :06:11.of birds and insects and reptiles. Today, an inquiry began. It will
:06:11. > :06:18.decide whether the travellers' needs outweigh the loss of open
:06:18. > :06:24.space and wildlife. These people from Dale Farm hanging on there. It
:06:24. > :06:29.is dire and they are living in difficult conditions. We're putting
:06:29. > :06:33.in a request to be allowed to develop 50 temporary sites to get
:06:33. > :06:38.out of the mud that Dale Farm has been to turned into. That is
:06:38. > :06:45.causing alarm here. Locals fear at the primary school might suffer the
:06:45. > :06:55.same fate as the school close to Dale Farm for all stop there are
:06:55. > :07:00.
:07:00. > :07:06.road safety concerns. The state of the India could be developed into a
:07:06. > :07:11.larger site and deal for. Whether the families end up a few miles
:07:11. > :07:17.away from Dale Farm will be down to the planning inquiry and ultimately
:07:17. > :07:20.the Secretary of State. A woman who has been a nurse for 29
:07:20. > :07:23.years told an inquest today she was horrified by the severity of bed
:07:23. > :07:26.sores on the back of an elderly patient. She said she could count
:07:26. > :07:29.on the fingers of one hand the number of times she had seen
:07:29. > :07:32.anything as severe. 74-year-old Anna Dunmore was a patient at the
:07:32. > :07:42.Old Vicarage Care Home at Littleport in Cambridgeshire. The
:07:42. > :07:48.details now from our reporter in Huntingdon.
:07:48. > :07:54.Well, nurses to give evidence today said these bedsores were grade for
:07:54. > :07:58.which has the worst type. They say they could have been prevented.
:07:58. > :08:02.They say the bed sores to DUP caused the death, but they
:08:02. > :08:10.contributed to it. When this picture was taken, Abed
:08:10. > :08:15.saw had he done deep into Anna Dunmore's back. Eight centimetres
:08:15. > :08:21.wide. This nurse told the coroner that she was horrified. In 29 years,
:08:21. > :08:25.she could count on one hand how many times she had seen pressure
:08:25. > :08:31.sores so severe. Anna Dunmore developed an abyss care home. She
:08:31. > :08:35.had dementia and Parkinson's. Her family have heard evidence the care
:08:35. > :08:41.home did not meet her needs. A district nurse said the pressure
:08:41. > :08:45.sores were so developed but had not been spotted. She should have been
:08:45. > :08:55.turned every two hours. For one period of nine days, she was not
:08:55. > :08:56.
:08:56. > :09:01.turned at all. One district nurse who could not be named said that --
:09:01. > :09:05.allegedly said that turning was not necessary. It took a fortnight for
:09:05. > :09:14.the county council to get permissions and arrange transport
:09:14. > :09:20.for a transfer to a house with greater supervision. The nurse said
:09:20. > :09:23.that the patient would have been in extreme pain.
:09:23. > :09:30.So, if Mrs Dunmore had been turned regularly, the sore would not have
:09:30. > :09:38.developed? Pressure sores are caused when
:09:38. > :09:45.blood cannot access part of the body when someone is in bed or in
:09:45. > :09:54.bed for a long period of time. In another care home, they look out
:09:54. > :09:57.for pressure sores when the Bay's people and turn them regularly. --
:09:57. > :10:00.when they bathe. Still to come on the programme:
:10:00. > :10:03.When will the fog clear? Jim Bacon is here with the weather.
:10:03. > :10:07.And Nikki Jenkins off to school to sample some pub grub.
:10:07. > :10:17.I am off to the pub to find out what is on the menu for school
:10:17. > :10:18.
:10:18. > :10:21.A man has been convicted of murder after stabbing a woman more than 50
:10:21. > :10:24.times when she answered her door. Howard Livings was found guilty at
:10:24. > :10:27.Chelmsford Crown Court of the murder of Tina Bennett on Easter
:10:27. > :10:30.Sunday in Braintree. Livings has never explained why he did it.
:10:30. > :10:33.Campaigners say they will carry on their fight to save two coastguard
:10:33. > :10:37.stations in the region. The Government has confirmed a decision
:10:37. > :10:45.to close them. The announcement about Great Yarmouth and Walton on
:10:45. > :10:49.the Naze was made in Parliament this afternoon.
:10:49. > :10:55.This is the coastguard station at Norfolk. Since 1791, boats have
:10:55. > :10:58.been launched from here to save people stuck at sea. Today, the way
:10:58. > :11:04.emergency calls will be handled in the future has changed. A decision
:11:04. > :11:13.was made to shut the coastguard stations in Great Yarmouth and at
:11:13. > :11:19.Walton and the knees in Essex. understand that the loss of some
:11:19. > :11:24.cause guard jobs and the closure of some centres will cause some
:11:24. > :11:31.distress. But the decisions announced today will deliver a
:11:31. > :11:37.modern network we need for the future, whilst reducing costs.
:11:37. > :11:44.Under new plans, all emergency calls will go through Southampton.
:11:44. > :11:51.The proposals have not gone down well. They face fierce opposition
:11:51. > :11:59.and fears about safety. Local knowledge saves lines -- saves
:11:59. > :12:04.lives and that is a fact. I think it is very important. My consort --
:12:04. > :12:10.my concern is that someone in Southampton is not aware of what is
:12:10. > :12:16.going on in this area. Around 50 jobs will be lost when the
:12:16. > :12:19.coastguard stations are eventually shut, which could happen within a
:12:19. > :12:21.couple of years. There has been another apparent
:12:22. > :12:24.release of e-mails from the University of East Anglia's
:12:24. > :12:27.Climatic Research Unit. More than 5,000 emails and other documents
:12:27. > :12:29.have appeared on a Russian server a week before the annual UN climate
:12:30. > :12:33.summit. Something similar happened in 2009 which triggered the
:12:33. > :12:36.climate-gate affair and accusations of fraud. These were later
:12:36. > :12:38.dismissed. A decision is expected soon on
:12:38. > :12:41.whether to prosecute Energy Secretary Chris Huhne over claims
:12:41. > :12:45.he tried to avoid a speeding penalty incurred on the M11 in
:12:45. > :12:50.Essex. The Director of Public Prosecutions said the only
:12:50. > :12:53.remaining issue was evidence held by a newspaper. Mr Huhne has denied
:12:53. > :13:00.claims he asked his then wife to take responsibility for a driving
:13:00. > :13:02.offence in 2003. A bright future for Britain's
:13:03. > :13:06.biggest container port was predicted today by a top official
:13:06. > :13:09.from China. Lee Shenglin, the Chinese Minister of Transport, was
:13:09. > :13:17.paying his first visit to Felixstowe. It's the main gateway
:13:17. > :13:27.into Britain for Chinese goods. Labour getting ready for someone
:13:27. > :13:31.
:13:31. > :13:36.very important at Felixstowe today. -- they were. This man is
:13:36. > :13:42.recognised as the most influential person in world shipping. He is the
:13:42. > :13:46.Chinese Minister for Transport. China get its goods to the UK end
:13:46. > :13:53.through it Felixstowe, so he wanted to visit the poor. TRANSLATION: The
:13:53. > :13:56.future development of the sport will be more prosperous and create
:13:56. > :14:02.more opportunities for the development of co-operation between
:14:02. > :14:07.China and the UK. Everyone knows the Chinese sell an awful lot of
:14:07. > :14:14.exports to us. But the donned by very many British goods and
:14:14. > :14:18.services in return. That is a problem. Last year, the East
:14:18. > :14:25.imported over �6 billion worth of goods from Asia. But we only
:14:25. > :14:30.exported just under �3 billion. lot of these containers go back to
:14:30. > :14:34.China, so that is a great opportunity for British companies
:14:34. > :14:40.to move into the Chinese markets. We have access to the biggest and
:14:40. > :14:46.most efficient ships moving to China. It is a great opportunity.
:14:46. > :14:49.The Chinese influence on Felixstowe was clear to see today.
:14:49. > :14:54.In the football tonight, Southend are at home to Preston in a first
:14:54. > :14:57.round replay in the FA Cup. The winner will be at home to Oldham.
:14:57. > :15:00.Southend are unbeaten in 14 games. Live coverage on BBC Essex.
:15:00. > :15:03.A decision is expected tonight on the future of the open air swimming
:15:03. > :15:07.pool in Ipswich. The Broomhill Lido, which is Grade 2 listed, has been
:15:07. > :15:14.closed since 2002. The Borough Council has five options, including
:15:14. > :15:16.demolition. Earlier this month, a full page advertisement in a local
:15:16. > :15:23.newspaper was taken our by campaigners in support of an option
:15:23. > :15:25.for the site taken over by a private operator.
:15:25. > :15:28.The final digital switchover in East Anglia begins today. Analogue
:15:28. > :15:31.TV signals are being turned off and the digital TV signal boosted to
:15:31. > :15:38.reach all of Norfolk and Suffolk. More than 75,000 viewers in digital
:15:38. > :15:42.blackspots will have Freeview channels for the first time.
:15:42. > :15:47.From tomorrow, all households in Norfolk and Suffolk will only be
:15:47. > :15:56.able to watch television if they have a deep -- digital receiver.
:15:56. > :16:00.few weeks ago, the signal for BBC Two went off. Tonight, the rest of
:16:00. > :16:07.the analogue channels will go off. All of the commercial channels will
:16:07. > :16:14.now come in at high power for the first time. It is the end of an era
:16:14. > :16:19.for Broadcasting's year. Just before midnight, 55 years of
:16:19. > :16:27.analogue TV will come to an end. TV signals are carried in fibre-optic
:16:27. > :16:34.cables along these pipes. They are amplified before being transmitted
:16:34. > :16:40.from a new transmission mast. Some people will get BBC free view
:16:40. > :16:45.channels for the first time. are eligible for help if you
:16:45. > :16:52.receive certain disability benefits, are registered blind or partially-
:16:52. > :16:57.sighted or are over the age of 75. It is not too late. We can convert
:16:57. > :17:01.one of Europe sets to digital for you. Most viewers will have to
:17:01. > :17:11.retune their televisions tomorrow. People who receive their pictures
:17:11. > :17:21.
:17:21. > :17:24.from a satellite system or a cable It's one of the region's biggest
:17:24. > :17:27.employers and it's in trouble. Thomas Cook saw a dramatic fall in
:17:27. > :17:30.it's share price today after a warning from the company that it
:17:30. > :17:33.needed more help from banks over its debt. Thomas Cook saw its
:17:33. > :17:36.shares fall by 73%. The company has suffered badly this year after
:17:36. > :17:41.political unrest in Egypt and Tunisia, and the recent floods in
:17:41. > :17:47.Thailand. Thomas Cook employs 19,000 people in the UK, 1,500 of
:17:47. > :17:53.those work at its headquarters in Peterborough. It has just over
:17:53. > :17:55.1,000 high street branches, about 130 of those are in our region.
:17:55. > :17:58.There have been suggestions from business experts that the company
:17:58. > :18:04.is considering closing 200 of them across the country Thomas Cook
:18:04. > :18:13.won't confirm that number. It is simply saying its reviewing all of
:18:13. > :18:17.its retail units, but remains confident about the future.
:18:17. > :18:22.Thomas Cook is a holiday company that has been around for 100 years.
:18:22. > :18:27.They have sent millions of customers overseas. We have
:18:27. > :18:32.excellent customer relations. I am confident that we will send
:18:32. > :18:35.millions of British people over seas next year.
:18:35. > :18:38.Earlier I spoke to Simon Calder who is an independent travel writer. I
:18:38. > :18:43.started by asking him, despite the company's optimism, whether we can
:18:43. > :18:47.expect job losses at Peterborough. I fear that we are going to see job
:18:47. > :18:52.losses at Peterborough. Very difficult to see any alternative.
:18:52. > :18:57.That is because, in future, and I believe there is a bright future
:18:57. > :19:02.for the strongest brand in travel, in future we will see that Thomas
:19:02. > :19:07.Cook is a much leaner, much more efficient organisation. There are
:19:07. > :19:12.great people at the headquarters in Peterborough. But unfortunately
:19:12. > :19:17.many of them run the wrong business. Thomas Cook has not quickly enough
:19:17. > :19:23.got out of the very bottom of the market two-star self-catering
:19:23. > :19:27.packages to the Med. Those sort of packages that your right to put
:19:27. > :19:35.together in two minutes on the in to net. What about the high street
:19:36. > :19:44.branches? Many of our high streets have Thomas Cook branches. 20 years
:19:44. > :19:48.ago, if you wanted a package holiday, you would want to put a
:19:48. > :19:54.holiday through a large tour operator. Those days have gone.
:19:54. > :19:58.There are so many consumer choices. The good thing is that Thomas Cook
:19:58. > :20:03.is still a going concern. Despite the many mistakes and misfortunes,
:20:03. > :20:08.it is still a profitable companies. It still has a place in the
:20:08. > :20:13.marketplace as mac it has. weather in the UK is not always
:20:13. > :20:17.perfect. We will always want to travel. A lot of us who have many
:20:17. > :20:20.happy memories of holidays with Thomas Cook will continue to grip
:20:20. > :20:25.with the strongest brand in Travels. Should those people who have
:20:25. > :20:31.already booked and paid for their summer holiday be worried about
:20:31. > :20:35.this news today? No, I can understand their concerns, however.
:20:35. > :20:39.People have got in touch with me saying that they have booked
:20:39. > :20:44.holidays for next year and they want to know with the money is safe.
:20:44. > :20:47.Your money is saved as it is ultimately underwritten by the UK
:20:47. > :20:51.government. It is extremely likely the holiday will go ahead as
:20:51. > :20:56.planned. It is a great time to be a traveller. Unless you work for
:20:56. > :21:01.Thomas Cook, in which case your future looks a little uncertain at
:21:01. > :21:05.the future, it is not a bad time to work in the travel business. Thank
:21:05. > :21:08.you. There are a few things essential to
:21:08. > :21:11.village life. And a school and a pub have got to be pretty high on
:21:11. > :21:14.the list. But they're under pressure. So what can we do? The
:21:14. > :21:19.village of Haynes in Bedfordshire is typical. But they could have
:21:20. > :21:29.found an answer. In the old days, kids were welcome
:21:29. > :21:39.in pubs but only in the car park. At this pub, they are very
:21:39. > :21:43.
:21:43. > :21:48.important customers. These schoolchildren. Forget Plowman,
:21:48. > :21:53.thinks schoolboy. The pub is now the school kitchen. It was hard for
:21:53. > :21:59.a couple of weeks as there are about 70 orders. We do most of the
:21:59. > :22:06.preparation the night before. We will just cook what they are having
:22:06. > :22:11.in the mornings. Once 12pm comes and we have served the school food,
:22:11. > :22:17.we carry on with the pub. Being a small school, we do not have a
:22:17. > :22:23.kitchen on site. Another school has always cooked our meals. When the
:22:23. > :22:27.contract ended in the summer, we were unable to afford the contract.
:22:27. > :22:32.They would have pushed the price of the meals up too high for our
:22:32. > :22:38.parents. At �2 per head, there is not a lot
:22:38. > :22:41.of profit. But there are other benefits. This is guaranteed income.
:22:41. > :22:49.The children liked the food, so the encourage their parents to come at
:22:49. > :22:55.the weekend. Demand has soared. From 10% to 60%. Their very nice. I
:22:55. > :23:05.like the puddings, especially rice pudding with jam. I need it most
:23:05. > :23:07.
:23:07. > :23:10.days. Sir is no better proof than clean plate.
:23:10. > :23:12.This region can lay claim to many great artists, from painters like
:23:12. > :23:16.Constable and Gainsborough to the composer Benjamin Britten. Britten
:23:16. > :23:20.was born in Suffolk and lived most of his life in Aldeburgh. Next year
:23:20. > :23:30.marks the centenary of his birth. And we can look forward to a big
:23:30. > :23:47.
:23:47. > :23:57.musical celebration. Today we got a These singers are performing one of
:23:57. > :24:06.Benjamin Britten's hems for St Cecilia. He was born in 1913. That
:24:06. > :24:14.is St Cecilia's Bay, the patron saint of music. Benjamin Britten's
:24:14. > :24:21.roots are firmly in East Anglia. He was inspired by the last kick.
:24:21. > :24:25.people have heard of some of his more famous works, but he wrote
:24:25. > :24:35.lots of music for ordinary people to sing. He said he wanted to be
:24:35. > :24:48.
:24:48. > :24:51.There is now a museum. This afternoon, the turf was cut for a
:24:51. > :25:00.new archive centre in the grounds. Benjamin Britten would have been
:25:00. > :25:10.delighted. He would have been bemused and wondering what this was
:25:10. > :25:19.
:25:20. > :25:29.Benjamin Britten died in all opera in the 1970s. -- in the old brass.
:25:30. > :25:41.
:25:41. > :25:49.Will we get rid of the fog? Yes, tomorrow. Stabbing sent a
:25:49. > :25:59.wonderful photograph. The fog cleared today, but it has left us
:25:59. > :26:02.with misty skies. Clear skies tonight, so it will be called. Mist
:26:02. > :26:09.patches possible. The main talking point for tonight is that with
:26:09. > :26:17.these clearing skies are edging in the temperatures will fall. Much
:26:17. > :26:26.colder than recent nights. There will be a widespread ground frost.
:26:26. > :26:33.Some misty low cloud for the Essex Court -- the Essex coast. There
:26:33. > :26:37.will be sunshine for most of the day. Dry with a southerly wind.
:26:37. > :26:42.Temperatures similar to today. Feeling a world apart because of
:26:43. > :26:47.the sunshine. By the end of the afternoon, we will see a little
:26:47. > :26:52.more thin and high cloud in the west of the region. The outlook is
:26:52. > :27:00.more interesting. Much more changeable. A front will come along
:27:00. > :27:04.later on Thursday. Brighter weather for a time on Saturday. Very cold
:27:04. > :27:10.air is coming all the way across the northern half of the Atlantic
:27:10. > :27:14.from Canada. Very strong winds soul colder weather and a touch of
:27:14. > :27:18.winter for the north of the country. It will bring our temperatures down
:27:18. > :27:23.in the south. Mainly dry weather for Wednesday and Thursday. Patchy
:27:23. > :27:29.rain first thing on Friday. On Saturday and Sunday, mainly dry by
:27:29. > :27:34.deed but some rain on Saturday night. It turns a lot colder. The