:00:12. > :00:15.Hello and welcome to Look East. In the programme tonight... This is
:00:15. > :00:20.how an 87-year-old man was driving just seconds before he killed a 16-
:00:20. > :00:24.year-old girl. A coroner rules that Cassie McCord was unlawfully killed.
:00:24. > :00:28.Her mother wants to change the law to take unsafe drivers off the road.
:00:28. > :00:31.They couldn't withhold Colin Horsfall's licence. Had they been
:00:31. > :00:34.able to do that, he wouldn't have been driving. My daughter would
:00:34. > :00:37.have been here and we would not be here today.
:00:37. > :00:41.The Ipswich manager Paul Jewell under fire for sexist comments
:00:42. > :00:51.after another defeat. And a new life here for the girl
:00:52. > :00:58.
:00:58. > :01:01.who lost a leg in the Haiti Hello. First tonight, an inquest
:01:01. > :01:06.rules a teenager was unlawfully killed by an 87-year-old man who
:01:06. > :01:09.had been told he was not safe to drive. Cassie McCord was walking
:01:09. > :01:15.through the centre of Colchester with a friend when the Vauxhall
:01:15. > :01:18.Astra mounted the pavement and ploughed into a car. -- into her.
:01:18. > :01:22.Her mother is campaigning for Cassie's Law to let the police take
:01:22. > :01:25.away licences of unsafe drivers. Let us go live to Gareth George in
:01:25. > :01:30.Colchester. This is Head Street in Colchester,
:01:30. > :01:35.a busy one-way street brighten the middle of the town centre. One
:01:35. > :01:40.Monday morning last February during rush-hour, 87-year-old Colin
:01:40. > :01:45.Horsfall was trying to drive his Vauxhall Astra along the street. As
:01:45. > :01:50.he came along this junction, a vehicle behind him slowed down, --
:01:50. > :01:55.in front of him slowed down, and then said of using his break he
:01:55. > :02:02.pressed his accelerator with the tragic consequences, as this CCTV
:02:02. > :02:06.footage shows. A tragedy is about to take place. Bottom right, Colin
:02:06. > :02:13.Horsfall swerves onto the pavement and back onto the road, hitting
:02:13. > :02:19.Cassie McCord moments later. Watch it again slowed down. The vehicle
:02:19. > :02:25.minds the pavement, two pedestrians jump clear, saving their lives, the
:02:25. > :02:30.cards words onto the road, always been up, Cassie McCord is one of
:02:30. > :02:34.the pedestrians at the top of the picture the vehicle is about a
:02:34. > :02:39.career in two. Cassie suffered serious head injuries, highlight
:02:39. > :02:44.support was switched off the following day. The tragedy touched
:02:44. > :02:49.many in the town. The police said Colin Horsfall had already driven
:02:49. > :02:54.erratically in the past and they try to convince him to stop driving.
:02:54. > :02:59.We discussed all other areas of public transport, but unfortunately,
:02:59. > :03:05.efforts were to no avail. Police have to also live with the
:03:05. > :03:09.consequences. Three days later, he careered down Head Street. He told
:03:09. > :03:16.police he had pressed the accelerator instead of the break.
:03:16. > :03:19.He died of his injuries to be months later. This man was a
:03:19. > :03:25.passenger in a car that morning and said Colin Horsfall was going so
:03:25. > :03:30.fast, he thought it was a fugitive at making a getaway. Cassie's
:03:30. > :03:35.mother wants police to be able to seize licences on the spot, some
:03:35. > :03:41.pink they do not have the power or nowt. Put yourself in my shoes,
:03:41. > :03:51.someone who has lost a daughter. A -- something they do not have the
:03:51. > :03:51.
:03:51. > :03:54.power or night. It is a huge void. She was a vibrant, bubbly girl.'s
:03:54. > :04:02.family is convinced Cassie's Law Woodstock tragedies like this
:04:02. > :04:05.happening again. -- Cassie's family are convinced Cassie's Law would
:04:05. > :04:13.stop tragedies like this happening again.
:04:13. > :04:17.It was at this shop front that Cassie McCord was on the pavement.
:04:17. > :04:22.Essex Police share the campaign for a change in the law. If a driver is
:04:22. > :04:27.spoken to who police believe is unsafe, all that can be done is an
:04:27. > :04:37.appeal made for them to surrender their licence. Often, the driver
:04:37. > :04:38.
:04:38. > :04:41.themselves will not want to call it a day. Police want that to change.
:04:41. > :04:47.Do the police believe that Cassie's life could have been saved if they
:04:47. > :04:52.had extra powers? The police do so. They are quite categorical that, if
:04:52. > :04:56.they had been able to take Colin Horsfall's licence of him, Cassie
:04:56. > :05:02.would still be alive and Colin Horsfall would not have been on the
:05:03. > :05:06.road. Thank you. Linda Gill from Age UK deals with
:05:06. > :05:09.queries from older people about driving. I spoke to her just a few
:05:09. > :05:14.minutes ago. I started by asking whether she thought there were a
:05:14. > :05:19.lot of elderly people still on the roads who shouldn't be. We don't
:05:19. > :05:22.have statistics on that. I do know that older people, as a group, do
:05:22. > :05:25.not cause accidents significantly more than any other age group.
:05:25. > :05:31.Certainly, they are not the worst category of people for causing or
:05:31. > :05:34.having accidents. Those are young people? Exactly. But the kind of
:05:34. > :05:39.accidents old people have tend to be to do with the reaction times
:05:39. > :05:43.and concentration. That is right. We know that, as we get older,
:05:43. > :05:49.those are the things we are all subject to. Older people do tend to
:05:49. > :05:53.curtail their driving as they get older. They stop driving at night,
:05:53. > :06:01.might stop going to the city or motorways, and stay in local areas.
:06:01. > :06:04.There is a condensing of their driving. But we do get a lot of
:06:04. > :06:09.calls from concerned relatives saying, my father is still driving
:06:09. > :06:16.and we do not think he should. But it is a difficult decision for
:06:16. > :06:19.somebody to finally give up their licence. In those instances where
:06:19. > :06:22.relatives or, in this case, the police advise someone they
:06:22. > :06:27.shouldn't be driving, do you believe it should be possible for
:06:27. > :06:33.them to stop them? Even for their own safety, they are a risk. That
:06:33. > :06:37.is right. When people call us, there is not a lot we can say. We
:06:37. > :06:46.say to try gentle coercion, get their doctor or GP to put on some
:06:46. > :06:50.pressure. But it really is difficult. At this point in time,
:06:50. > :06:56.the police cannot just walk up to someone and take away their licence.
:06:56. > :06:58.So it might be helpful if the police had those powers. It would
:06:58. > :07:04.help concerned relatives who think their older parents or relatives
:07:04. > :07:07.should not be driving. It would give the police some power to go
:07:07. > :07:11.along, talk with them and make a judgement and perhaps make that
:07:11. > :07:19.decision. Do you agree with Cassie McCord's parents that the law
:07:19. > :07:23.should be changed? I think so, but I would like to add that would not
:07:23. > :07:30.like to see this done on age. There are drivers in their twenties,
:07:30. > :07:33.thirties and so on. This should not just be curtailed to older people.
:07:33. > :07:37.We would like the police to take the bad 40-year-old driver's
:07:37. > :07:42.licence away. That is what we would object to, if it was just based on
:07:42. > :07:47.age. Linda Gill, thank you very much.
:07:47. > :07:50.We have had some good news today. Riley Murray, the baby we featured
:07:50. > :07:54.in Look East last night, has been moved out of intensive care at
:07:54. > :07:57.Addenbrookes Hospital. Riley had been fighting for his life after
:07:57. > :08:00.his mother had to wait nearly two hours for an ambulance when she
:08:00. > :08:07.needed an emergency Caesarean. Our report prompted more of your
:08:07. > :08:10.stories about slow response times We start with a paramedic who did
:08:10. > :08:14.not want to be identified. He said, no doubt there will be an inquiry
:08:14. > :08:18.into this case. And the only response will be the normal lessons
:08:18. > :08:21.have been learned. This is rubbish, he says. There are not enough
:08:21. > :08:25.paramedics available. Ambulance crews are being split up to provide
:08:25. > :08:28.cars. The sole purpose is to achieve targets.
:08:28. > :08:31.Another ambulance worker contacted us to say the response times and
:08:31. > :08:35.distances are not uncommon. My partner suffered a heart-attack and
:08:35. > :08:42.the ambulance took 45 minutes to reach him.
:08:42. > :08:46.Shirley Hall says her husband broke his leg in a field in Essex. The
:08:46. > :08:49.first responder arrived quickly. But the ambulance took 2.5 hours,
:08:49. > :08:55.prompting concerns her husband was becoming hypothermic. The service
:08:55. > :08:59.was appalling, she says. John Emberson contacted us about
:08:59. > :09:03.his 91-year-old mother. She had a fall in her kitchen on Tuesday
:09:03. > :09:06.evening and lay all night on the floor. When the ambulance was
:09:06. > :09:15.finally called yesterday morning, it took nearly two hours, even
:09:15. > :09:21.though it was only coming from The amazing thing is, one of the
:09:21. > :09:24.ambulance men Kaimen and asked why I have waited so long. I did not
:09:24. > :09:29.understand why as though -- I did not understand what he meant. I
:09:29. > :09:38.said we did not wait too long and he was shocked. He said to me, we
:09:38. > :09:44.have only come from Basildon, Thanks to all of you who got in
:09:44. > :09:52.touch. We always like to hear what you have to say. You can contact us
:09:52. > :09:55.Later in Look East, it is two years to the day since the Haiti
:09:55. > :10:05.earthquake. We meet the girl who lost a leg in the disaster, but now
:10:05. > :10:08.Paul Jewell, the manager of Ipswich Town, is under more pressure
:10:08. > :10:12.tonight for sexist remarks he made about assistant referee Amy Fearn
:10:12. > :10:19.after the defeat at Birmingham last night. Ipswich lost the game 2-1,
:10:19. > :10:24.but Jewell was angry about a penalty appeal being turned down.
:10:24. > :10:28.With 11 defeats in 14 games, Paul Jewell desperately needed a win
:10:28. > :10:35.last night. Assistant referee Amy Fearn was part of the team in
:10:35. > :10:44.charge. Ipswich got they should have had a penalty. -- Ipswich had
:10:44. > :10:49.not. Lee Martin protested long and hard to E Amy Fearn. After the
:10:49. > :10:59.match, adjourn was said to Paul Jewell, everyone thought it was a
:10:59. > :11:06.
:11:06. > :11:12.He was given a chance to clarify his comments, but he dug deeper and
:11:12. > :11:17.made a few more derogatory remarks about the assistant lines person.
:11:17. > :11:22.He probably deserves some trouble today which she is getting.
:11:22. > :11:26.lunchtime, Paul Jewell issued a statement in which he said, I
:11:26. > :11:32.absolutely refute suggestions that my comments were made in assets
:11:32. > :11:38.this way. But fans I spoke to in Ipswich Town were less than
:11:38. > :11:45.impressed us. -- were made in a sexist way. The manager should not
:11:45. > :11:51.be making those comments. It is appalling and wrong. He said the
:11:51. > :11:56.remarks were not sexist. So why mentioning a woman? With Ipswich
:11:56. > :12:06.just three points off the relegation zone, Paul Jewell's team
:12:06. > :12:07.
:12:07. > :12:10.play Blackpool on Saturday. It is again he dare not lose. -- a game.
:12:10. > :12:14.And don't forget, for all the latest football action and news in
:12:14. > :12:19.this region, our football programme Late Kick Off is back on Monday.
:12:19. > :12:22.Join Matt Holland and Perry Groves on Monday at 11:05pm on BBC One.
:12:22. > :12:26.A 67-year-old man has been charged with a string of sexual offences
:12:26. > :12:30.against boys at a private school. They are alleged to have happened
:12:30. > :12:33.at the old St George's School which moved from Norfolk to Great
:12:33. > :12:35.Finborough in Suffolk in the early 1980s. Alan Brigden appeared before
:12:35. > :12:40.magistrates in Ipswich after being extradited from his home in
:12:40. > :12:44.Amsterdam. The former teacher faces 14 charges.
:12:44. > :12:48.Police have named a man found dead at a flat in Southend. Officers
:12:48. > :12:51.discovered the body of Roy Sly at his home on Tuesday. A man and a
:12:51. > :12:54.woman are being questioned on suspicion of murder. But more tests
:12:54. > :12:58.are being carried out to confirm how he died after a post-mortem
:12:58. > :13:00.proved inconclusive. A big windfarm off the coast of
:13:00. > :13:04.Norfolk could be delayed after North Norfolk District Council
:13:04. > :13:07.refused permission for the cables to be buried underground. The
:13:07. > :13:12.developers of the Dudgeon windfarm need the link to get the power into
:13:12. > :13:21.the National Grid. Onshore wind farms tend to be
:13:21. > :13:25.unpopular, which is why most are built at say. -- At Sea. But
:13:25. > :13:30.offshore wind farms are more important -- are more expensive and
:13:30. > :13:34.part of the expense is bringing the power from out there to where we
:13:34. > :13:39.are. Dudgeon windfarm would need to get power to as sub-station 30
:13:39. > :13:47.miles inland, meaning marine cabling across the North Norfolk
:13:47. > :13:53.countryside, with a corridor needed of 40 metres. Farmer William
:13:53. > :13:59.Runciman would see 10% of his farm to stir. The land will be restored,
:13:59. > :14:05.but never been at the same condition it is now. We will have
:14:05. > :14:11.Askar 45 kilometres long, 45 metres wide, no trees growing along. This
:14:11. > :14:17.she has to go. Every other she will go. North Norfolk council refused
:14:17. > :14:23.permission today for the cabling, citing the impact on the landscape.
:14:23. > :14:28.The windfarm company CAB will appeal. We have gone at great cost
:14:28. > :14:33.to preserve the beautiful countryside. Yet we have been
:14:33. > :14:40.refused on landscape grounds. Suffolk, other wind companies are
:14:40. > :14:45.planning to build pilon is to bring their power assured. Ironically,
:14:45. > :14:51.residents there are campaigning for underground cabling.
:14:51. > :14:53.One of the main victims of council cutbacks has been youth services.
:14:53. > :14:57.But as councils have withdrawn their funding, volunteers are
:14:57. > :15:00.moving in. Part of David Cameron's Big Society. In Norfolk, the county
:15:00. > :15:03.council claims it has actually improved what is on offer for young
:15:03. > :15:10.people. It is Friday night at this youth
:15:10. > :15:15.centre. What would you be doing if you were not here? I have no idea,
:15:15. > :15:19.probably sitting at home with no opportunities. This centre was run
:15:19. > :15:25.for years by the county council and is now only opened banks to
:15:25. > :15:29.volunteers. Parents and former staff raise funds and had a small
:15:29. > :15:34.fry and -- and had a small grant from the council to have the
:15:34. > :15:40.building went free. Every week we can keep it going is a real benefit,
:15:40. > :15:44.but is not close to what the youths need. There were cuts to the youth
:15:44. > :15:51.budgets last year leading to fears services would disappear. But it
:15:51. > :15:56.has not. Volunteers have moved in. The diocese of Norwich is now the
:15:56. > :16:01.largest provider of you did services in the county. It is
:16:01. > :16:05.somewhere they can come which is safe and where they can feel the
:16:05. > :16:10.matter. And Norfolk County Council has all but stopped running youth
:16:10. > :16:15.services, but it still oversees them and provides grants for those
:16:15. > :16:21.wanting to take them over. It is an exciting time for youth provision
:16:21. > :16:27.in Norfolk. What if money runs out? I do not think interest will be
:16:27. > :16:33.lost. Councils have a legal duty to maintain roads and look after
:16:33. > :16:36.vulnerable adults and children, but do not have to provide this, which
:16:36. > :16:41.is why you'd services have been such an easy target when it comes
:16:41. > :16:47.to saving money. -- which is why you did services. Other councils
:16:47. > :16:52.are now planning to follow this example. It is precarious leaving
:16:52. > :16:55.it to the Big Society, but it seems to be working.
:16:55. > :16:59.And there will be more on the future of youth services on our new
:16:59. > :17:03.politics programme. It is called Sunday Politics and is on Sunday at
:17:03. > :17:06.midday here on BBC One. Some routine appointments for
:17:06. > :17:09.surgery have been cancelled at a hospital in Norfolk, because of a
:17:09. > :17:12.rise in the number of emergency admissions. Three wards at the
:17:12. > :17:14.James Paget Hospital in Gorleston are closed, because of the winter
:17:14. > :17:20.vomiting bug. A new breeding programme for red
:17:20. > :17:28.squirrels is underway in Norfolk. The Countryside Restoration Trust
:17:28. > :17:31.has set up two reading enclosures near faking him. -- Fakenham. Red
:17:31. > :17:34.squirrels will be bred and then released into the wild. They are an
:17:34. > :17:37.endangered species. The aim is to increase the number living in the
:17:37. > :17:42.wild. The last working commercial
:17:42. > :17:45.windmill in Norfolk has had its final sail removed. It comes after
:17:45. > :17:48.29 school children narrowly escaped serious injury last year when
:17:48. > :17:54.another sail from Denver Mill collapsed. The owners say they do
:17:54. > :18:01.not have the money to restore it. Unlike the one which fell off, this
:18:02. > :18:09.one took six hours of hard work to release. It was held by a crane and
:18:09. > :18:14.gently lord to the ground. should be an easy job, and quick,
:18:14. > :18:19.but there are always complications. Something always goes wrong. You
:18:19. > :18:25.have to grin and bear it. It was in October when a party of
:18:25. > :18:28.schoolchildren had a lucky escape. The following piece landed just
:18:28. > :18:32.yards from where the children were sitting. The building had to be
:18:32. > :18:39.made safer. The council says it does not have the money to restore
:18:39. > :18:43.it. The last working windmill in Norfolk is no longer working.
:18:43. > :18:50.Because of the circumstances, it does not look like there is any
:18:50. > :19:00.likelihood of those being put back on. Mark Keable says he is still
:19:00. > :19:03.
:19:03. > :19:08.open for business. But it just only You are watching Look East from the
:19:08. > :19:18.BBC. Coming up, the table tennis challenge. The number one in
:19:18. > :19:20.
:19:20. > :19:23.Britain against a former world champion in badminton.
:19:23. > :19:28.Boris Johnson once called it whiff- whaff. Some people call it ping-
:19:28. > :19:32.pong. But to most of us, it is table tennis. And the top player in
:19:32. > :19:38.Britain is from this region. Andrew Baggaley from Milton Keynes is
:19:38. > :19:42.hoping to compete at the Olympic Games this year. And when you are
:19:42. > :19:48.number one, someone wants to knock you off the top.
:19:48. > :19:52.Call it whiff-whaff or ping-pong, do not call it easy. Gail Emms
:19:52. > :20:02.found that easy taking on table tennis number one Andrew Baggaley
:20:02. > :20:15.
:20:15. > :20:23.When Gail and her co-presenter on 3CR challenged Andrew in Milton
:20:23. > :20:29.Keynes, it was the mismatch of the day. It was great playing Gail at
:20:29. > :20:35.Badminton. I had not played for so many years. It was great fun. And
:20:35. > :20:39.playing table tennis was a chance for revenge. Surprisingly, andrew
:20:39. > :20:46.took up the challenge, and I was grateful, and be played badminton
:20:46. > :20:52.and table tennis. Let us say, we were good at our own sports. Andrew
:20:52. > :20:57.started playing table tennis when he was four. He played his first
:20:57. > :21:00.match at seven, turned professional at 13 and has been a national and
:21:00. > :21:08.Commonwealth champion. Winning an Olympic medal is really champion
:21:08. > :21:18.for him. It would be amazing, absolutely incredible, on home soil.
:21:18. > :21:27.The preparations are key to being at my best possible shape. Gail was
:21:27. > :21:33.not to be defeated, so bring on the Badminton. Revenge for the Olympic
:21:33. > :21:39.silver medal-winner. Sean mentioned Gail's programme on
:21:39. > :21:42.3CR. But she's busy on TV as well. In East Olympic Dreams, she will be
:21:42. > :21:48.meeting athletes from this region getting ready for London 2012. It
:21:48. > :21:51.is at 5pm on BBC One a week on Sunday.
:21:51. > :21:56.A 13-year-old survivor of the earthquake in Haiti has been given
:21:56. > :21:59.the chance of a new life in this region. Marie Dorvil had a leg
:21:59. > :22:02.amputated in the disaster two years ago today. A school principal from
:22:02. > :22:08.this region was so moved by what happened, she offered Marie a place
:22:08. > :22:13.at her school in Cambridge. Alex Dunlop has been to meet them.
:22:13. > :22:18.This is Harriet Sturdy, a school principal, and the sea article
:22:18. > :22:27.about no reader of will. After reading it, Harriet knew she had to
:22:27. > :22:33.help. A year ago, her sister welcome to marry into her home. --
:22:33. > :22:37.welcomed married. It was to take up the offer of a lifetime. 40,000
:22:37. > :22:42.miles from her family, Marie Dorvil is here with their blessing. She
:22:42. > :22:48.was caught up in the earthquake in Haiti and her right leg had to be
:22:49. > :22:58.amputated. She could not speak English then, just look at her now.
:22:59. > :23:00.
:23:00. > :23:09.If you take 15... The best thing about school is
:23:09. > :23:15.writing. I like writing. Do you love for mathematics? Yes.
:23:15. > :23:22.parents have put together to help pay for her education and living
:23:22. > :23:27.costs. There is no shred of self- pity. You have teenagers worrying
:23:27. > :23:31.about their appearance or something not being fair, there just is not
:23:32. > :23:39.bat. She is pleased to have the opportunity, but does not dwell on
:23:39. > :23:46.it, this is just what she is doing null. She shrugs off her disability,
:23:46. > :23:50.as do her friends. Those entrusted with her immediate future are
:23:50. > :23:59.determined to help her realise her ambitions. What do you want to be
:23:59. > :24:03.when you grow up? I want to be a doctor. When she heads home to
:24:03. > :24:12.Haiti, she may become a doctor. With her determination, do not rule
:24:12. > :24:18.it out. Goodbye. A smasher, a lovely smile. Now for
:24:18. > :24:28.a look at the weather. And there will be no barometer, because the
:24:28. > :24:29.
:24:29. > :24:33.It is rising so rapidly, it would not be reliable. There is going to
:24:33. > :24:38.be a change in the temperatures. You might need the scrapers for
:24:38. > :24:43.your cars tomorrow. We have had a cold front across the country. It
:24:43. > :24:48.brought some light rain or drizzle. What it has done is to introduce
:24:48. > :24:53.cooler air. We are seeing the mild air pushed to the South East and
:24:54. > :24:59.cold air flooding the UK today. It means a frosty night and some mist
:24:59. > :25:05.patches. Under clear skies will bring the low temperatures and
:25:05. > :25:09.light winds. The winds staying north-westerly. Temperatures
:25:09. > :25:16.potentially down to freezing. Widespread ground frost and local
:25:16. > :25:22.air frost and some spare parts and light north-westerly winds. -- some
:25:22. > :25:27.local air crossed in some spots. The weather will stay so mother and
:25:27. > :25:32.chilly through the day and frosty nights. -- will stay similar. The
:25:32. > :25:38.mist patches tomorrow will clear swiftly to bring a sunny morning.
:25:38. > :25:44.Plenty of sunshine. Temperatures lower than they have been. We had
:25:44. > :25:50.11 in some spots today, but seven at best tomorrow. Lower in other
:25:50. > :25:55.locations. Winds generally liked. Staying dry tomorrow afternoon with
:25:55. > :25:59.others sunshine. Getting colder tomorrow night with temperatures
:25:59. > :26:05.potentially below freezing. Looking ahead, the high pressure does not
:26:05. > :26:13.move much. Looking for Saturday, it is pretty much right over us. And
:26:13. > :26:18.on Monday, it has not got much further. Here are the next five
:26:18. > :26:24.days. It will be chilly by day, but temperatures about normal for this
:26:24. > :26:29.time of year. Some good sunshine on Saturday, light winds, the risk of
:26:29. > :26:39.fog patches. The real hazard are icy stretches and fog patches. The
:26:39. > :26:39.
:26:39. > :26:46.bog it could linger into Sanday. -- the fault could linger. It is going
:26:46. > :26:51.to be rather chilly. Some temperatures below freezing, so
:26:51. > :26:57.watch out for conditions being brother AC one roads and rather