:00:08. > :00:12.On Look East tonight, how black market raiders targeted this museum
:00:12. > :00:17.in search of highly-prized rhino horn. It's an illegal trade that's
:00:17. > :00:20.worth millions. Tonight, we'll hear from the zoo forced to spend
:00:20. > :00:24.hundreds of thousands of pounds upgrading its security.
:00:24. > :00:27.Also in the programme... The striker jailed for six months for
:00:27. > :00:31.lying to the police over speeding offences.
:00:31. > :00:36.Adoption for all. How councils are encouraging same-sex couples to
:00:36. > :00:39.become parents. And I have been to meet one of the
:00:39. > :00:49.stars of last year's Women's World Cup, who is in Norfolk helping
:00:49. > :00:58.
:00:58. > :01:02.local girls keep fit and boost Hello. First tonight, how a booming
:01:02. > :01:09.trade across the world in rhino horn led to a daylight raid on a
:01:09. > :01:14.The commodity is now so valuable that animals are regularly killed
:01:14. > :01:18.just for their horns. 280 last year in South Africa alone. It's worth
:01:18. > :01:22.about �50,000 a kilo. That's more than gold and diamonds or heroin
:01:22. > :01:26.and cocaine. In part, that's because, in some parts of the world,
:01:26. > :01:32.it is believed to be a cure for cancer. In Asia, it is often
:01:32. > :01:35.powdered and used for medicinal In a moment, how the trade affects
:01:35. > :01:41.security at one of our busiest zoos. But first, how this latest raid was
:01:41. > :01:47.foiled. The four raiders have paid to enter
:01:47. > :01:53.the museum just after 12 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Then they were
:01:53. > :02:00.seen using a crowbar to break into a case. Carrying a stuffed rhino
:02:00. > :02:06.head, they were confronted by two curators. One of the staff kicked
:02:06. > :02:12.the man, who dropped their head, then a member of staff ran away
:02:12. > :02:20.with their head. The men ran away into a waiting car. I am pleased to
:02:20. > :02:24.say we are one of the only museums to have foiled these kinds of tests.
:02:24. > :02:34.Night time security is excellent, when these kinds of thefts are
:02:34. > :02:36.usually happen. The fact we are an ex prison helps. A year ago, this
:02:36. > :02:40.rhino head, valued at around �50,000, was stolen from an auction
:02:40. > :02:43.house at Stansted Mountfitchet in Essex. In July, Rosie the rhino, an
:02:43. > :02:47.attraction at Ipswich Museum for more than a century, lost her horn.
:02:47. > :02:50.Two other horns were stolen by two men who broke in soon after
:02:50. > :02:55.midnight and knew exactly what they were looking for. And in October
:02:55. > :03:00.2010, shock at Colchester Zoo. Zamba was the first white rhino to
:03:00. > :03:03.be born in the UK. When his father Simba, who'd lived at the zoo for
:03:03. > :03:07.30 years, died he was taken to an abbattoir near Braintree to be
:03:07. > :03:10.incinerated. But instead, his head was cut off. His horns fell into
:03:10. > :03:13.the hands of Donald Allison. After a tip-off, he was stopped at
:03:13. > :03:22.Manchester Airport preparing to fly to China. Inside a case, concealed
:03:22. > :03:30.in a sculpture, they found Simba's horns. An organisation in Edinburgh
:03:30. > :03:34.Zoo specialised in wildlife DNA and came back confirming that we knew
:03:34. > :03:37.it was from Colchester Zoo. Conservationists are warning that
:03:37. > :03:39.the world's rhino population is facing a poaching crisis.
:03:40. > :03:46.Increasingly, live animals are targeted for the value of their
:03:46. > :03:52.horns. The police have been studying CCTV footage today and
:03:52. > :03:59.studying forensic clues. All of the men were wearing dark clothing. We
:03:59. > :04:05.are in a secret location and under security, showing the rhino head
:04:05. > :04:13.the thieves tried to take. The plaster was broken when the thieves
:04:13. > :04:20.tried to take the Horn of. We are told these will be worth -- we are
:04:20. > :04:22.told these will be replaced with replicas.
:04:22. > :04:28.Anthony Tropeano is the zoological director at Colchester Zoo. He
:04:28. > :04:34.knows all about the threats to rhinos alive and dead. Starting
:04:34. > :04:40.with the zoos, how big a worry is this? It is as significant worry
:04:40. > :04:44.for us. If you look at the increase of poaching in South Africa over
:04:44. > :04:50.the past 12 months, and the activity in the UK, we believe it
:04:50. > :04:58.is a serious threat to live animals in British zoos. You have spent
:04:58. > :05:03.more money on security. What has that cost? Yes, we have. We were
:05:03. > :05:08.led to believe there could be a threat to the animals. We have
:05:08. > :05:12.degrees of security at the park, but felt we needed to increase that
:05:12. > :05:21.at have individual surveillance inside the rhino house. We have
:05:21. > :05:26.alarms, which once triggered will record movement inside. It will
:05:26. > :05:32.also old then telephone members of staff living on site. So if it is
:05:32. > :05:37.triggered, and number of staff can be down within minutes. We believe
:05:37. > :05:43.this is perhaps the best way of protecting the very valuable
:05:43. > :05:50.animals we have. We heard about the number of rhino was killed in South
:05:50. > :06:00.Africa alone. You are involved in a conservation project to save black
:06:00. > :06:01.
:06:01. > :06:05.and white rhinos, aren't you? we are. We have already introduced
:06:05. > :06:15.white rhino or want to apart in Africa. The threat is not just in
:06:15. > :06:17.
:06:17. > :06:24.the UK, but also South Africa. One close by two us had animals poached.
:06:24. > :06:30.We take this seriously. What else would you like to see done?
:06:30. > :06:34.terms of sentencing for people that are caught involved in this trade,
:06:35. > :06:39.certainly jail terms should be increased significantly to at least
:06:39. > :06:43.allowed there to be some sort of deterrent for people involved. We
:06:43. > :06:50.have to congratulate Customs and Excise who managed to track down
:06:50. > :06:54.the people responsible for removing Simba's warned. We hope that
:06:54. > :07:00.British zoos like us increase security and that, if people are
:07:00. > :07:06.caught, they are given stiff sentences and penalties. Bank you
:07:06. > :07:08.very much. A former footballer who played for
:07:08. > :07:12.Norwich City and Peterborough has been jailed for sending bogus
:07:12. > :07:14.letters to the police in an attempt to avoid a driving ban. Leon
:07:14. > :07:17.McKenzie, who also played for Northampton and Kettering, recently
:07:17. > :07:21.admitted that he tried to take his own life while he was suffering
:07:21. > :07:25.from depression. McKenzie's career has been one of
:07:25. > :07:28.great highs. And in later years, one punctuated by great lows. Since
:07:28. > :07:35.retiring from the game, he's even tried to reinvent himself as a pop
:07:35. > :07:37.star. But last month, McKenzie pleaded guilty to six counts of
:07:37. > :07:42.perverting the course of justice after repeatedly trying to dodge
:07:42. > :07:46.speeding tickets. Bogus letters were sent to the police from a
:07:46. > :07:51.garage stating his car was off the road at the time of the offences.
:07:51. > :07:54.But investigations later revealed that garage didn't exist. Today,
:07:54. > :07:57.the court heard from McKenzie's uncle, former world champion boxer
:07:57. > :08:00.Duke McKenzie. And Northampton Town defender Clarke Carlisle, who is
:08:00. > :08:03.also chairman of the Professional Footballers Association. Both told
:08:03. > :08:06.the court about McKenzie's battle with depression and how he's now
:08:06. > :08:13.working to help others sportsmen with mental health issues. Earlier
:08:13. > :08:19.this year, McKenzie himself spoke out about his depression. I tried
:08:19. > :08:24.to take my life. I tried to take my life to the point that I did not
:08:24. > :08:30.want to be here any more and I had everything. Beautiful children,
:08:30. > :08:36.everything, but the place I was that mentally, like I said, it felt
:08:36. > :08:41.like I was getting injury after injury and it was mentally draining.
:08:41. > :08:45.Sometimes, it can eat away. today, words of support from his
:08:45. > :08:52.family and friends about his condition weren't enough. The judge
:08:52. > :08:56.told him this was a repeated fraud done in a sophisticated manner. He
:08:56. > :09:00.said a case like this strikes at the heart of justice and to not
:09:00. > :09:05.give a custodial sentence would give out the wrong statement to
:09:05. > :09:15.others -- would give out the wrong message to others. In a pre-
:09:15. > :09:20.
:09:20. > :09:23.He also went on to say that, if anyone else has issues with
:09:23. > :09:26.depression, they should seek help immediately. And after his release
:09:26. > :09:28.from prison, he has pledged to continue his fight against mental
:09:28. > :09:31.illness. Later in the programme, Jim with
:09:31. > :09:34.the weather and the promise of soaring temperatures.
:09:34. > :09:44.Plus the FA on the road, with a festival for girls combining
:09:44. > :09:48.
:09:48. > :09:52.The Police Minister was in Ipswich today talking about plans to elect
:09:52. > :09:57.Police and Crime Commissioners later this year. Voters in each
:09:57. > :10:00.county outside London will go to the polls on November 15th. Among
:10:00. > :10:03.the jobs for the new commissioners are hiring and firing chief
:10:03. > :10:07.constables, setting the budget and agreeing the priorities for the
:10:07. > :10:13.police. But already, the plans are proving controversial.
:10:13. > :10:15.It was all smiles today for the minister. But plenty of people
:10:15. > :10:21.believe the introduction of Police and Crime Commissioners is no
:10:21. > :10:23.laughing matter. Joanna Spicer is one. A Conservative county
:10:23. > :10:33.councillor, she's served on the police authority for 23 years. It
:10:33. > :10:38.will be abolished. Putting such responsibility with one single
:10:38. > :10:44.person and almost inevitably a politician is taking really quite a
:10:45. > :10:47.risk with the traditional values that we place on policing. She's
:10:47. > :10:53.not alone. The Police Federation, which represents officers, fears
:10:54. > :10:58.political meddling. It presupposes that there's a level of expertise
:10:58. > :11:08.with the commissioner and who panders to the electorate. That is
:11:08. > :11:15.absent from everybody else. But all these accusations are firmly
:11:15. > :11:17.rejected by the minister. People need to realise that the chief
:11:17. > :11:25.constable is operationally independent and will remain
:11:25. > :11:29.unsolved. The commissioner could cause friction setting the agenda?
:11:29. > :11:35.No politician in the country can tell a police officer who to arrest
:11:35. > :11:40.or start an investigation... could be told which crimes to
:11:40. > :11:44.target. It will remain the case that the police will have the main
:11:44. > :11:48.power. Budget cuts, redundancies. These are testing times for all
:11:48. > :11:50.police forces. But yet more change lies ahead. In nine months' time,
:11:50. > :12:00.the newly-elected commissioners will decide what the police's
:12:00. > :12:04.A man has died after a street fight in Bury St Edmunds. He was found
:12:04. > :12:07.when police were called to the scene in Ashwell Road. The man was
:12:07. > :12:11.taken to the West Suffolk Hospital, but couldn't be saved. A 48-year-
:12:11. > :12:14.old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
:12:14. > :12:18.The police have arrested a 30-year- old man in connection with a break-
:12:18. > :12:21.in at a cannabis factory at South Woodham Ferrers in Essex. During
:12:21. > :12:25.the break-in, a Vietnamese man fell to his death. Eight people have
:12:25. > :12:30.already been charged. Memorial services have been held
:12:30. > :12:33.for a clergyman who was found murdered at his home last week. The
:12:33. > :12:36.Reverend John Suddards had served as the vicar of St Nicholas Church
:12:36. > :12:44.in Witham for 10 years before he moved to his new parish in
:12:44. > :12:48.Gloucestershire last summer. Merciful Father... The Bishop of
:12:48. > :12:56.Colchester speaking last night at the service for John Suddards.
:12:56. > :13:00.Hundreds turned out at his former church in with them. He had a real
:13:00. > :13:10.sense of Kumar, a twinkle in his IRA crooked smile and you wondered
:13:10. > :13:11.
:13:11. > :13:17.what was coming next. -- in his eye. He was a person of learning, but
:13:17. > :13:23.held that lightly and enjoy being with people. John Suddards moved to
:13:23. > :13:29.Thornbury last summer. His body was found on Tuesday by workers at his
:13:29. > :13:35.vicarage. He had been stabbed to death. There was also a ceremony
:13:36. > :13:41.last night at Thornaby. He had great vision for this town,
:13:41. > :13:46.especially as far as young people were concerned. He died a sudden,
:13:46. > :13:52.lonely and violent death. By being in here, quietly, reflectively, we
:13:52. > :14:00.can think of John and be with him. We have not known him for long, but
:14:00. > :14:04.he was special to us. He was just a lovely person. A 47-year-old man
:14:04. > :14:11.has been arrested on suspicion of the murder. Police have been given
:14:11. > :14:14.more time to question him. A campaign to save free bus travel
:14:14. > :14:21.for the elderly and disabled in Norfolk has been to Downing street
:14:21. > :14:24.today. 24,000 people have signed the petition. Government cuts mean
:14:24. > :14:27.there's a �4.5 million shortfall in funding for the service.
:14:27. > :14:30.Football, and Southend will be looking to maintain top spot in
:14:30. > :14:36.League Two when they play Aldershot tonight. The Blues lead the way,
:14:36. > :14:39.but only four points separate the top six. Commentary is on BBC Essex.
:14:39. > :14:43.Four months after an anti- capitalist protest camp was set up
:14:43. > :14:46.in the centre of Norwich, the site has been cleared. The Occupy
:14:46. > :14:49.Norwich protestors have moved out after the city council was granted
:14:49. > :14:53.an order to repossess the land on Hay Hill. The demonstrators say
:14:53. > :14:59.their point had been made. The protest began on October the 15th.
:14:59. > :15:03.It was an offshoot of the worldwide Occupy movement.
:15:03. > :15:07.The Southend Air Festival has a new sponsor. It is the budget airline
:15:07. > :15:10.Easyjet. Thousands pack the seafront each year to see the
:15:10. > :15:17.flying displays. The council hopes the 2012 festival, being held in
:15:17. > :15:26.May, will be even more spectacular. In the skies over the town, at
:15:26. > :15:31.taste of the air Festival. The pilot made it sound easy. It was
:15:31. > :15:38.fairly straightforward stuff, graceful manoeuvres in an older
:15:38. > :15:44.lady who is 70 years old. It is from 1942. The fighter of choice at
:15:44. > :15:50.that point in the Second World War. These were in places like Pearl
:15:50. > :15:59.Harbor. And it was rubbing wingtips with modern fighters. The
:15:59. > :16:05.sponsoring was announced. Deviation is exciting. You can see planes
:16:05. > :16:09.doing acrobatics and seeing what this is about will make it exciting.
:16:09. > :16:16.It is one of the largest free air shows. The new sponsors begin
:16:16. > :16:22.flights to Europe from Southend Airport, a key part of the town's
:16:22. > :16:28.economic regeneration. Even people who doubt things, those people can
:16:28. > :16:33.see Southend is reversing the trend seen in some seaside towns and
:16:33. > :16:43.improving. Underground crew were saying that perhaps these vehicles
:16:43. > :16:46.
:16:46. > :16:56.are easier to flight than to push. You're watching Look East from the
:16:56. > :16:56.
:16:56. > :17:00.BBC. Coming up, the power of radio Some facts. Across the country,
:17:00. > :17:05.more than 4,000 young children are in care desperate to find a loving
:17:05. > :17:09.home. Closer to home, in Suffolk, there are 50 children. The fact is
:17:09. > :17:11.there just aren't enough parents willing to take on another child.
:17:11. > :17:15.One solution is to encourage more same-sex and transgender couples to
:17:16. > :17:21.get involved. Felicity Simper has been to meet one couple who have
:17:21. > :17:27.been approved and who are now waiting for a child.
:17:27. > :17:32.Lorraine and Nicky have one son. He was born in 2006 after fertility
:17:32. > :17:38.treatment. Now it the couple have been approved to adopt and are
:17:38. > :17:43.waiting for another child. wanted to extend our family, we
:17:43. > :17:47.have one child and wanted him to have as the blink. We feel we have
:17:47. > :17:54.a family that can offer something. -- we wanted him to have a brother
:17:54. > :18:02.or sister. We have been lucky, not having any hostility towards our
:18:02. > :18:08.family. It is the opposite. People say it is great or brilliant.
:18:08. > :18:12.assessments showed that, actually, same-sex couples are able to bring
:18:12. > :18:19.up a child in a loving situation, which is the most important thing,
:18:19. > :18:23.a loving family background to take a child forward into adult life.
:18:23. > :18:27.One agency campaigning for more same-sex couples is Adoption Plus
:18:27. > :18:33.near Milton Keynes. Many children adopted have complex emotional
:18:33. > :18:38.needs. The group offers therapeutic support to those children and their
:18:38. > :18:43.families. These children did not ask to be born in to those families
:18:43. > :18:47.or suffer abuse and neglect. We feel adoption is a second chance
:18:47. > :18:54.and we want to do everything we can to learn from what works and
:18:54. > :18:59.provide families what is needed. Back in Suffolk, Nicky and Lorraine
:18:59. > :19:05.are getting everything ready for his new brother or sister. 61
:19:05. > :19:09.couple's adopted in the county last summer, more than the previous year.
:19:09. > :19:16.But with the numbers of same-sex couples in single figures, the hope
:19:16. > :19:18.is to encourage others to follow. And if you are interested in
:19:19. > :19:23.adoption, there is an event tomorrow in Ipswich at the Holiday
:19:23. > :19:33.Inn between 2 and 8pm. For more information, you can call 0800 328
:19:33. > :19:34.
:19:34. > :19:37.2148. Or you can visit the website suffolkadoption.com.
:19:37. > :19:41.A question for you. What's the country's third most popular team
:19:41. > :19:45.sport? Number one is football, of course. Number two is cricket.
:19:45. > :19:49.Number three is women's football. Almost 1.4 million girls and women
:19:49. > :19:52.play. And the next generation were being encouraged in Norfolk today
:19:52. > :19:56.in training sessions with members of the England squad. Kate Riley
:19:56. > :20:02.went along. She's risen through the ranks. From
:20:02. > :20:04.Millwall Lionesses to the Three Lions. Meet the Women's World Cup
:20:04. > :20:14.and Chelsea Ladies star, inspiring hundreds of Norfolk girls to get
:20:14. > :20:29.
:20:29. > :20:34.The closest his Chelsea, Birmingham, Lincoln. We want to attract as many
:20:34. > :20:39.girls to watch on television or come down and watch or even come
:20:39. > :20:44.down for a trial. How important is it to encourage the next
:20:44. > :20:50.generation? Very important, this is where the next Champions' Cup romp.
:20:50. > :20:55.I learned at grassroots. Getting into this basic level is so
:20:55. > :21:02.important. Claire's only 23 and pretty much done it all. Now, it's
:21:02. > :21:09.about giving something back. She's helping out at football festivals,
:21:09. > :21:18.like this one, run by The Football Association and Norfolk FA.
:21:18. > :21:25.helped me a lot and help me with dribbling. It makes me want to join
:21:25. > :21:30.the Football Club and do more. figures show a third of children in
:21:30. > :21:37.Norfolk are overweight. This is bought all levels. It is fantastic
:21:37. > :21:47.for the girls to see playing. The can see the football is there, it
:21:47. > :21:52.is a career, playing as well as administration or management.
:21:52. > :22:02.of these girls could be featuring in Heanor England photograph in the
:22:02. > :22:07.
:22:07. > :22:10.future. -- a Team England photograph.
:22:10. > :22:13.Did you know that keeping Britain in torches, toys and TV remotes
:22:13. > :22:17.means three quarters of a billion batteries go to landfill every
:22:18. > :22:23.year? If you want that in weight, it's about 30,000 tons. And some of
:22:23. > :22:25.the metal is highly toxic. Researchers at the University of
:22:25. > :22:30.Bedfordshire have been looking for an alternative. And they might just
:22:30. > :22:35.have found it. Listening to the BBC has always
:22:35. > :22:38.been applied cheer, but when scientists at the University of
:22:38. > :22:48.Bedfordshire tuned into local radio, that people find something that
:22:48. > :22:54.could also save the planet. When radio waves passes across air, it
:22:54. > :23:01.produces at current and voltage which can be changed and used to
:23:01. > :23:06.replace a battery. We have some power efficient electronics and a
:23:06. > :23:11.low powered device. It is a system for harvesting energy from radio
:23:11. > :23:15.waves to enable new applications, which we were not able to look at
:23:15. > :23:20.before and replace the end -- replace this and other devices,
:23:20. > :23:25.such as a kitchen clock. We are used to getting energy from heat or
:23:25. > :23:31.from the sun and wind. Radio frequencies are no deterrent. It is
:23:31. > :23:37.there even if we cannot see it or smell it. The question is
:23:37. > :23:45.harvesting and storing it. This will take the power from they and
:23:45. > :23:54.10 and heading into the bat today, like a normal battery. -- this will
:23:54. > :23:58.take the power from they and 10 at and it will go into the battery.
:23:58. > :24:04.This could stop billions of batteries going into landfill, but
:24:04. > :24:08.also give power to those harder to reach places. This could work in a
:24:08. > :24:16.setting without sufficient resources, such as developing
:24:16. > :24:22.countries. It will work fantastically for them. Low powered
:24:22. > :24:29.devices are used for many applications. The university has a
:24:29. > :24:36.patterned and now need investment to make it a commercial reality. --
:24:36. > :24:45.a patent. How great it would be not have to change batteries. Now for
:24:46. > :24:51.We could have some mild weather coming up. The strong winds will
:24:51. > :24:55.take active weather fronts to the North, where it will be wet. Most
:24:55. > :25:01.of the fronts will be relatively weak. We could get some rain, but
:25:01. > :25:06.not very much. Certainly not as much as we want. The cloud cover
:25:06. > :25:15.has been broken in the East, with an next morning. Some of the gaps
:25:15. > :25:20.have now been covered over, so we could see some rain later. The
:25:20. > :25:28.cloud will break later. Where it breaks, temperatures lower than
:25:28. > :25:34.elsewhere. Four or five Celsius at the lowest. Possibly up to six
:25:34. > :25:41.Celsius elsewhere. It is a moderate to fresh south-westerly wind that
:25:41. > :25:46.is affecting the weather. Hopefully, a troubled free journey to work
:25:46. > :25:50.tomorrow. Some outbreaks of rain towards the middle of the day to
:25:51. > :25:54.northern parts of Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Temperatures
:25:54. > :26:00.will have breached by reasonable nine or ten Celsius in the
:26:01. > :26:05.afternoon. So relatively mild. But the wind has increased. Some quite
:26:05. > :26:11.strong and lustily south westerlies, helping to keep the mild weather
:26:11. > :26:17.towards us, but quite gusty up to about 45 miles per other along the
:26:17. > :26:23.North Norfolk coast. A blustery but mild afternoon. Eventually becoming
:26:23. > :26:27.damp with rain settling in and becoming widespread. Perhaps not as
:26:27. > :26:34.widespread as the patch of blue suggests. That continues into the
:26:34. > :26:40.evening. The outlook is their money paid by a week Ridge on Thursday. -
:26:40. > :26:45.- the outlook is dominated by a week Ridge on Thursday. The weekend
:26:45. > :26:50.looks reasonably fine and settled for most of us. Lighter winds with
:26:50. > :27:00.sunshine, so that next could be colder. Dry at first for many
:27:00. > :27:01.
:27:01. > :27:04.tomorrow. Some outbreaks of rain. Nice and spring-like on Thursday.
:27:04. > :27:09.In to below six these barren height. All week for and making it cloudier
:27:09. > :27:16.on Friday. High pressure at the weekend means the risk of ground
:27:16. > :27:20.Before we go, there are plenty of names to look out for at tonight's
:27:20. > :27:23.Brit Awards at the O2. Ed Sheeran from Suffolk leads the way, with
:27:23. > :27:26.four nominations including best single and best album. Olly Murs
:27:26. > :27:30.from Essex is also up for best single. Blur will get an
:27:30. > :27:37.Outstanding Contribution to Music award. And they are from Essex as