12/01/2012 Look East - East

Hello and welcome to Look East. In the programme tonight... This is

how an 87-year-old man was driving just seconds before he killed a 16-

year-old girl. A coroner rules that Cassie McCord was unlawfully killed.

Her mother wants to change the law to take unsafe drivers off the road.

They couldn't withhold Colin Horsfall's licence. Had they been

able to do that, he wouldn't have been driving. My daughter would

have been here and we would not be here today.

The Ipswich manager Paul Jewell under fire for sexist comments

after another defeat. And a new life here for the girl

who lost a leg in the Haiti Hello. First tonight, an inquest

rules a teenager was unlawfully killed by an 87-year-old man who

had been told he was not safe to drive. Cassie McCord was walking

through the centre of Colchester with a friend when the Vauxhall

Astra mounted the pavement and ploughed into a car. -- into her.

Her mother is campaigning for Cassie's Law to let the police take

away licences of unsafe drivers. Let us go live to Gareth George in

Colchester. This is Head Street in Colchester,

a busy one-way street brighten the middle of the town centre. One

Monday morning last February during rush-hour, 87-year-old Colin

Horsfall was trying to drive his Vauxhall Astra along the street. As

he came along this junction, a vehicle behind him slowed down, --

in front of him slowed down, and then said of using his break he

pressed his accelerator with the tragic consequences, as this CCTV

footage shows. A tragedy is about to take place. Bottom right, Colin

Horsfall swerves onto the pavement and back onto the road, hitting

Cassie McCord moments later. Watch it again slowed down. The vehicle

minds the pavement, two pedestrians jump clear, saving their lives, the

cards words onto the road, always been up, Cassie McCord is one of

the pedestrians at the top of the picture the vehicle is about a

career in two. Cassie suffered serious head injuries, highlight

support was switched off the following day. The tragedy touched

many in the town. The police said Colin Horsfall had already driven

erratically in the past and they try to convince him to stop driving.

We discussed all other areas of public transport, but unfortunately,

efforts were to no avail. Police have to also live with the

consequences. Three days later, he careered down Head Street. He told

police he had pressed the accelerator instead of the break.

He died of his injuries to be months later. This man was a

passenger in a car that morning and said Colin Horsfall was going so

fast, he thought it was a fugitive at making a getaway. Cassie's

mother wants police to be able to seize licences on the spot, some

pink they do not have the power or nowt. Put yourself in my shoes,

someone who has lost a daughter. A -- something they do not have the

power or night. It is a huge void. She was a vibrant, bubbly girl.'s

family is convinced Cassie's Law Woodstock tragedies like this

happening again. -- Cassie's family are convinced Cassie's Law would

stop tragedies like this happening again.

It was at this shop front that Cassie McCord was on the pavement.

Essex Police share the campaign for a change in the law. If a driver is

spoken to who police believe is unsafe, all that can be done is an

appeal made for them to surrender their licence. Often, the driver

themselves will not want to call it a day. Police want that to change.

Do the police believe that Cassie's life could have been saved if they

had extra powers? The police do so. They are quite categorical that, if

they had been able to take Colin Horsfall's licence of him, Cassie

would still be alive and Colin Horsfall would not have been on the

road. Thank you. Linda Gill from Age UK deals with

queries from older people about driving. I spoke to her just a few

minutes ago. I started by asking whether she thought there were a

lot of elderly people still on the roads who shouldn't be. We don't

have statistics on that. I do know that older people, as a group, do

not cause accidents significantly more than any other age group.

Certainly, they are not the worst category of people for causing or

having accidents. Those are young people? Exactly. But the kind of

accidents old people have tend to be to do with the reaction times

and concentration. That is right. We know that, as we get older,

those are the things we are all subject to. Older people do tend to

curtail their driving as they get older. They stop driving at night,

might stop going to the city or motorways, and stay in local areas.

There is a condensing of their driving. But we do get a lot of

calls from concerned relatives saying, my father is still driving

and we do not think he should. But it is a difficult decision for

somebody to finally give up their licence. In those instances where

relatives or, in this case, the police advise someone they

shouldn't be driving, do you believe it should be possible for

them to stop them? Even for their own safety, they are a risk. That

is right. When people call us, there is not a lot we can say. We

say to try gentle coercion, get their doctor or GP to put on some

pressure. But it really is difficult. At this point in time,

the police cannot just walk up to someone and take away their licence.

So it might be helpful if the police had those powers. It would

help concerned relatives who think their older parents or relatives

should not be driving. It would give the police some power to go

along, talk with them and make a judgement and perhaps make that

decision. Do you agree with Cassie McCord's parents that the law

should be changed? I think so, but I would like to add that would not

like to see this done on age. There are drivers in their twenties,

thirties and so on. This should not just be curtailed to older people.

We would like the police to take the bad 40-year-old driver's

licence away. That is what we would object to, if it was just based on

age. Linda Gill, thank you very much.

We have had some good news today. Riley Murray, the baby we featured

in Look East last night, has been moved out of intensive care at

Addenbrookes Hospital. Riley had been fighting for his life after

his mother had to wait nearly two hours for an ambulance when she

needed an emergency Caesarean. Our report prompted more of your

stories about slow response times We start with a paramedic who did

not want to be identified. He said, no doubt there will be an inquiry

into this case. And the only response will be the normal lessons

have been learned. This is rubbish, he says. There are not enough

paramedics available. Ambulance crews are being split up to provide

cars. The sole purpose is to achieve targets.

Another ambulance worker contacted us to say the response times and

distances are not uncommon. My partner suffered a heart-attack and

the ambulance took 45 minutes to reach him.

Shirley Hall says her husband broke his leg in a field in Essex. The

first responder arrived quickly. But the ambulance took 2.5 hours,

prompting concerns her husband was becoming hypothermic. The service

was appalling, she says. John Emberson contacted us about

his 91-year-old mother. She had a fall in her kitchen on Tuesday

evening and lay all night on the floor. When the ambulance was

finally called yesterday morning, it took nearly two hours, even

though it was only coming from The amazing thing is, one of the

ambulance men Kaimen and asked why I have waited so long. I did not

understand why as though -- I did not understand what he meant. I

said we did not wait too long and he was shocked. He said to me, we

have only come from Basildon, Thanks to all of you who got in

touch. We always like to hear what you have to say. You can contact us

Later in Look East, it is two years to the day since the Haiti

earthquake. We meet the girl who lost a leg in the disaster, but now

Paul Jewell, the manager of Ipswich Town, is under more pressure

tonight for sexist remarks he made about assistant referee Amy Fearn

after the defeat at Birmingham last night. Ipswich lost the game 2-1,

but Jewell was angry about a penalty appeal being turned down.

With 11 defeats in 14 games, Paul Jewell desperately needed a win

last night. Assistant referee Amy Fearn was part of the team in

charge. Ipswich got they should have had a penalty. -- Ipswich had

not. Lee Martin protested long and hard to E Amy Fearn. After the

match, adjourn was said to Paul Jewell, everyone thought it was a

He was given a chance to clarify his comments, but he dug deeper and

made a few more derogatory remarks about the assistant lines person.

He probably deserves some trouble today which she is getting.

lunchtime, Paul Jewell issued a statement in which he said, I

absolutely refute suggestions that my comments were made in assets

this way. But fans I spoke to in Ipswich Town were less than

impressed us. -- were made in a sexist way. The manager should not

be making those comments. It is appalling and wrong. He said the

remarks were not sexist. So why mentioning a woman? With Ipswich

just three points off the relegation zone, Paul Jewell's team

play Blackpool on Saturday. It is again he dare not lose. -- a game.

And don't forget, for all the latest football action and news in

this region, our football programme Late Kick Off is back on Monday.

Join Matt Holland and Perry Groves on Monday at 11:05pm on BBC One.

A 67-year-old man has been charged with a string of sexual offences

against boys at a private school. They are alleged to have happened

at the old St George's School which moved from Norfolk to Great

Finborough in Suffolk in the early 1980s. Alan Brigden appeared before

magistrates in Ipswich after being extradited from his home in

Amsterdam. The former teacher faces 14 charges.

Police have named a man found dead at a flat in Southend. Officers

discovered the body of Roy Sly at his home on Tuesday. A man and a

woman are being questioned on suspicion of murder. But more tests

are being carried out to confirm how he died after a post-mortem

proved inconclusive. A big windfarm off the coast of

Norfolk could be delayed after North Norfolk District Council

refused permission for the cables to be buried underground. The

developers of the Dudgeon windfarm need the link to get the power into

the National Grid. Onshore wind farms tend to be

unpopular, which is why most are built at say. -- At Sea. But

offshore wind farms are more important -- are more expensive and

part of the expense is bringing the power from out there to where we

are. Dudgeon windfarm would need to get power to as sub-station 30

miles inland, meaning marine cabling across the North Norfolk

countryside, with a corridor needed of 40 metres. Farmer William

Runciman would see 10% of his farm to stir. The land will be restored,

but never been at the same condition it is now. We will have

Askar 45 kilometres long, 45 metres wide, no trees growing along. This

she has to go. Every other she will go. North Norfolk council refused

permission today for the cabling, citing the impact on the landscape.

The windfarm company CAB will appeal. We have gone at great cost

to preserve the beautiful countryside. Yet we have been

refused on landscape grounds. Suffolk, other wind companies are

planning to build pilon is to bring their power assured. Ironically,

residents there are campaigning for underground cabling.

One of the main victims of council cutbacks has been youth services.

But as councils have withdrawn their funding, volunteers are

moving in. Part of David Cameron's Big Society. In Norfolk, the county

council claims it has actually improved what is on offer for young

people. It is Friday night at this youth

centre. What would you be doing if you were not here? I have no idea,

probably sitting at home with no opportunities. This centre was run

for years by the county council and is now only opened banks to

volunteers. Parents and former staff raise funds and had a small

fry and -- and had a small grant from the council to have the

building went free. Every week we can keep it going is a real benefit,

but is not close to what the youths need. There were cuts to the youth

budgets last year leading to fears services would disappear. But it

has not. Volunteers have moved in. The diocese of Norwich is now the

largest provider of you did services in the county. It is

somewhere they can come which is safe and where they can feel the

matter. And Norfolk County Council has all but stopped running youth

services, but it still oversees them and provides grants for those

wanting to take them over. It is an exciting time for youth provision

in Norfolk. What if money runs out? I do not think interest will be

lost. Councils have a legal duty to maintain roads and look after

vulnerable adults and children, but do not have to provide this, which

is why you'd services have been such an easy target when it comes

to saving money. -- which is why you did services. Other councils

are now planning to follow this example. It is precarious leaving

it to the Big Society, but it seems to be working.

And there will be more on the future of youth services on our new

politics programme. It is called Sunday Politics and is on Sunday at

midday here on BBC One. Some routine appointments for

surgery have been cancelled at a hospital in Norfolk, because of a

rise in the number of emergency admissions. Three wards at the

James Paget Hospital in Gorleston are closed, because of the winter

vomiting bug. A new breeding programme for red

squirrels is underway in Norfolk. The Countryside Restoration Trust

has set up two reading enclosures near faking him. -- Fakenham. Red

squirrels will be bred and then released into the wild. They are an

endangered species. The aim is to increase the number living in the

wild. The last working commercial

windmill in Norfolk has had its final sail removed. It comes after

29 school children narrowly escaped serious injury last year when

another sail from Denver Mill collapsed. The owners say they do

not have the money to restore it. Unlike the one which fell off, this

one took six hours of hard work to release. It was held by a crane and

gently lord to the ground. should be an easy job, and quick,

but there are always complications. Something always goes wrong. You

have to grin and bear it. It was in October when a party of

schoolchildren had a lucky escape. The following piece landed just

yards from where the children were sitting. The building had to be

made safer. The council says it does not have the money to restore

it. The last working windmill in Norfolk is no longer working.

Because of the circumstances, it does not look like there is any

likelihood of those being put back on. Mark Keable says he is still

open for business. But it just only You are watching Look East from the

BBC. Coming up, the table tennis challenge. The number one in

Britain against a former world champion in badminton.

Boris Johnson once called it whiff- whaff. Some people call it ping-

pong. But to most of us, it is table tennis. And the top player in

Britain is from this region. Andrew Baggaley from Milton Keynes is

hoping to compete at the Olympic Games this year. And when you are

number one, someone wants to knock you off the top.

Call it whiff-whaff or ping-pong, do not call it easy. Gail Emms

found that easy taking on table tennis number one Andrew Baggaley

When Gail and her co-presenter on 3CR challenged Andrew in Milton

Keynes, it was the mismatch of the day. It was great playing Gail at

Badminton. I had not played for so many years. It was great fun. And

playing table tennis was a chance for revenge. Surprisingly, andrew

took up the challenge, and I was grateful, and be played badminton

and table tennis. Let us say, we were good at our own sports. Andrew

started playing table tennis when he was four. He played his first

match at seven, turned professional at 13 and has been a national and

Commonwealth champion. Winning an Olympic medal is really champion

for him. It would be amazing, absolutely incredible, on home soil.

The preparations are key to being at my best possible shape. Gail was

not to be defeated, so bring on the Badminton. Revenge for the Olympic

silver medal-winner. Sean mentioned Gail's programme on

3CR. But she's busy on TV as well. In East Olympic Dreams, she will be

meeting athletes from this region getting ready for London 2012. It

is at 5pm on BBC One a week on Sunday.

A 13-year-old survivor of the earthquake in Haiti has been given

the chance of a new life in this region. Marie Dorvil had a leg

amputated in the disaster two years ago today. A school principal from

this region was so moved by what happened, she offered Marie a place

at her school in Cambridge. Alex Dunlop has been to meet them.

This is Harriet Sturdy, a school principal, and the sea article

about no reader of will. After reading it, Harriet knew she had to

help. A year ago, her sister welcome to marry into her home. --

welcomed married. It was to take up the offer of a lifetime. 40,000

miles from her family, Marie Dorvil is here with their blessing. She

was caught up in the earthquake in Haiti and her right leg had to be

amputated. She could not speak English then, just look at her now.

If you take 15... The best thing about school is

writing. I like writing. Do you love for mathematics? Yes.

parents have put together to help pay for her education and living

costs. There is no shred of self- pity. You have teenagers worrying

about their appearance or something not being fair, there just is not

bat. She is pleased to have the opportunity, but does not dwell on

it, this is just what she is doing null. She shrugs off her disability,

as do her friends. Those entrusted with her immediate future are

determined to help her realise her ambitions. What do you want to be

when you grow up? I want to be a doctor. When she heads home to

Haiti, she may become a doctor. With her determination, do not rule

it out. Goodbye. A smasher, a lovely smile. Now for

a look at the weather. And there will be no barometer, because the

It is rising so rapidly, it would not be reliable. There is going to

be a change in the temperatures. You might need the scrapers for

your cars tomorrow. We have had a cold front across the country. It

brought some light rain or drizzle. What it has done is to introduce

cooler air. We are seeing the mild air pushed to the South East and

cold air flooding the UK today. It means a frosty night and some mist

patches. Under clear skies will bring the low temperatures and

light winds. The winds staying north-westerly. Temperatures

potentially down to freezing. Widespread ground frost and local

air frost and some spare parts and light north-westerly winds. -- some

local air crossed in some spots. The weather will stay so mother and

chilly through the day and frosty nights. -- will stay similar. The

mist patches tomorrow will clear swiftly to bring a sunny morning.

Plenty of sunshine. Temperatures lower than they have been. We had

11 in some spots today, but seven at best tomorrow. Lower in other

locations. Winds generally liked. Staying dry tomorrow afternoon with

others sunshine. Getting colder tomorrow night with temperatures

potentially below freezing. Looking ahead, the high pressure does not

move much. Looking for Saturday, it is pretty much right over us. And

on Monday, it has not got much further. Here are the next five

days. It will be chilly by day, but temperatures about normal for this

time of year. Some good sunshine on Saturday, light winds, the risk of

fog patches. The real hazard are icy stretches and fog patches. The

bog it could linger into Sanday. -- the fault could linger. It is going

to be rather chilly. Some temperatures below freezing, so

watch out for conditions being brother AC one roads and rather