:00:11. > :00:14.Hello and welcome to Look East. In the programme tonight. Apache
:00:14. > :00:21.down - a helicopter hits power lines leaving hundreds of homes
:00:21. > :00:27.without electricity. We saw an almighty blue flash in
:00:27. > :00:30.the distance and saw the light of a helicopter which descended very
:00:31. > :00:34.rapidly. Three men on trial for shooting two
:00:34. > :00:40.teenagers - a jury is told it was a turf war over drugs.
:00:40. > :00:50.Fast Eddie the fugitive - in court for the first time in the USA.
:00:50. > :01:02.
:01:02. > :01:04.The rise and rise of double Brit First tonight: How the army's
:01:04. > :01:06.newest hi-tech helicopter flew into high-voltage power lines leaving
:01:06. > :01:09.hundreds of homes without electricity. The Apache attack
:01:09. > :01:13.helicopter is one of the most fearsome weapons in the British
:01:13. > :01:15.Army, but it has spent the day sitting in a field near Ipswich.
:01:15. > :01:20.Last night it hit power lines carrying 132,000 volts and was
:01:20. > :01:30.forced to make an emergency landing. The helicopter is based at
:01:30. > :01:30.
:01:30. > :01:36.Wattisham Airfield in Suffolk. Richard Daniel is there now.
:01:36. > :01:43.Wattisham Airfield is home to the Apache helicopter. Around 60 of
:01:43. > :01:48.them. Last night they came perilously close to losing one of
:01:48. > :01:54.the aircraft and its crew. But they didn't was probably down to sheer
:01:54. > :01:59.good luck and the robust design of this formidable aircraft. This
:01:59. > :02:03.morning officers from the Military Air Accident Investigation Branch
:02:03. > :02:09.got to work. Their task was to find out why �45 million worth of
:02:09. > :02:14.helicopter ended up in a field. It seems this was a major navigational
:02:14. > :02:19.error. The high-voltage power lines is clearly marked on maps and the
:02:19. > :02:26.crew were extremely lucky to escape unharmed. No more than 300 yards
:02:26. > :02:31.away is the 132,000 volt cable the Apache severed shortly after 11
:02:31. > :02:37.o'clock last night. This man was at home when it happened. If we were
:02:37. > :02:41.watching television and electricity went off. We looked out the window
:02:41. > :02:46.and the whole close was extremely dark and we saw an almighty blue
:02:46. > :02:51.flash in the distance and saw the light of a helicopter which
:02:51. > :02:55.descended very rapidly. Nearly 400 homes had their electricity cut off
:02:55. > :03:04.of the most have now been reconnected. Repairs to the power
:03:04. > :03:11.lines will not be straightforward. It has come down on and 11,000 volt
:03:11. > :03:16.line, so two lines are affected. It runs adjacent to the network will
:03:16. > :03:25.track. A good two crew were on a routine low-flying training
:03:25. > :03:31.exercise. They regularly fly night- time sorties and dedication for a -
:03:31. > :03:36.- in preparation for a colour style. Detailed flight plans for training
:03:36. > :03:41.sorties usually avoid hazards such as power lines, but this time
:03:41. > :03:48.something clearly went wrong. These helicopters are fitted with
:03:48. > :03:52.wire cutting devices that can cuts trip through electrical cable. They
:03:52. > :03:59.might have happened in this instance. Prince Harry has been
:03:59. > :04:03.training here as an Apache pilots. The Ministry of Defence told us the
:04:03. > :04:07.day he had no involvement in this incident. As for the aircraft,
:04:07. > :04:11.engineers will return to the field tomorrow to check if it is
:04:11. > :04:15.airworthy. If it is, they hope to fly it back here tomorrow for
:04:15. > :04:18.repairs. Three men have gone on trial
:04:18. > :04:21.accused of murdering two teenagers in an alleyway in Milton Keynes.
:04:21. > :04:25.The pair, who came from Somali families, were shot on the
:04:25. > :04:33.Fishermead Estate last May. The court heard it was a turf war over
:04:33. > :04:38.drugs. Jo Black is in Milton Keynes now.
:04:38. > :04:43.This is the Ali way with the two teenagers were shot dead. It
:04:43. > :04:50.happened nine months ago around 10 o'clock at night. This is where
:04:51. > :04:56.people live, really close. Muhammad Farrah, he was 19, died instantly
:04:56. > :05:00.at the scene, but his friend he was 18 died the next day in hospital.
:05:00. > :05:05.He never regained consciousness and was never able to tell police what
:05:05. > :05:15.happened here. Two months later three men were arrested, so now in
:05:15. > :05:15.
:05:15. > :05:21.the dock we have these three men. The prosecutor in this case says
:05:21. > :05:26.the motor for the killing was likely to have been a drugs turf.
:05:26. > :05:30.He said the one of the defendants was a drug dealer, another defender
:05:30. > :05:34.had crowds at his house when arrested at the said the victim
:05:34. > :05:42.Muhammad Farrah was selling drugs on the day of the shooting. We also
:05:42. > :05:46.heard about a possible murder weapon. Yes, we heard that two of
:05:47. > :05:51.the defendants had been making inquiries on how to get a gun and
:05:51. > :05:56.she just laughed it off. Two of the defendants went to Holland to
:05:56. > :05:59.trying get a gun. This is a six- week trial, over 60 witnesses have
:05:59. > :06:06.been called and it is worth pointing out that the three men
:06:06. > :06:09.charged with murder denied those charges. A teenage girl is still
:06:09. > :06:12.unable to eat solid foods and her jaw is being held together by wire
:06:12. > :06:14.nearly four months after a random attack while she was walking home
:06:14. > :06:16.from school. 14-year-old Shannon Morgan was
:06:16. > :06:26.punched in the face in the churchyard at East Dereham in
:06:26. > :06:30.Norfolk. Her attacker still has not been found.
:06:30. > :06:35.Shannon at home this afternoon having her latest helping of a high
:06:35. > :06:38.calorie liquid food through a straw Mon-Sat to the UN could look -- the
:06:38. > :06:43.unprovoked attack a dislocated jaw is a long way from being healed.
:06:43. > :06:47.The attack happened in broad daylight in this churchyard. She
:06:47. > :06:51.walked past a pension there were four youths sitting on it. One of
:06:51. > :06:55.them followed her, grabbed her hair, pulled her backward and then
:06:55. > :07:00.punched her very hard in the side of the face. He then kicked her as
:07:00. > :07:04.she lay helpless on the ground. He and his three companions simply
:07:04. > :07:09.walked away. All that was going through my mind at the time was is
:07:09. > :07:15.it over yet, are they going to do any more? That was it, really. I
:07:15. > :07:23.have had seven operations since November. I had four in one wee
:07:23. > :07:30.country recently. They have fitted metal bars around their teeth, and
:07:30. > :07:34.then there was going straight down which hold it all in place. We do
:07:35. > :07:38.want this to happen to anybody else. They could have been an awful lot
:07:38. > :07:43.worse, but bear in mind what she is going through and still my have to
:07:43. > :07:52.go through. She is a credit to herself and her family. She has
:07:52. > :07:58.done really well. We owe it to her, as does the community, to find out
:07:58. > :08:03.who did this. A I of tissue wants him to suffer for what he has done
:08:03. > :08:08.for me, go to prison, but I don't want him to did anybody else. He
:08:08. > :08:16.could do to another teenager. is Shannon's main concern, about
:08:16. > :08:20.the individual who has cost her so much pain. -- caused her.
:08:20. > :08:22.Still to come on Look East: How one of the region's biggest, richest
:08:22. > :08:25.companies is prospering in the downturn. The boss tells us how
:08:25. > :08:33.they've done it. And Louise Holmes is down the pub,
:08:33. > :08:42.for a very good reason! I am at Ed Sheeran's local getting reaction
:08:42. > :08:46.from his success at the Brit Awards Eddie Maher, the security guard who
:08:46. > :08:49.went on the run after �1 million went missing from a security van in
:08:49. > :08:51.Felixstowe, has appeared in court in America. Fast Eddie, as he
:08:51. > :09:01.became known, appeared before a judge in Missouri charged with
:09:01. > :09:06.firearms offences. He has been on the run for almost 20 years and
:09:06. > :09:10.used a number of different names. Stephen King, Mike Mayer and Eddie
:09:10. > :09:14.Mayer, but today the Law finally caught up with fast Eddie. He
:09:14. > :09:19.appeared in this court wearing a prison jumpsuit and handcuffs.
:09:19. > :09:26.is in this country illegally, so the actual charges facing is
:09:26. > :09:32.illegal alien in possession of a firearm. Actually for firearms.
:09:32. > :09:37.one guard made a delivery, Eddie Mayer sped off. It was in 1993
:09:37. > :09:41.there more than a million pounds went missing from a security van in
:09:41. > :09:51.Felixstowe. Eddie May her disappeared from his house and went
:09:51. > :09:57.on to run. Last week his daughter in law, just kicking, Dept of the
:09:57. > :10:01.police and he was arrested in its Ozarks misery. The two months over
:10:01. > :10:06.-- it two months ago Jessica King married his son. There was a
:10:06. > :10:14.domestic involved. Lee was picked up by the police for domestic
:10:14. > :10:16.violence and immediately Jessica went to a police officer and
:10:16. > :10:21.reported that Eddie Maher was living in the country illegally and
:10:21. > :10:25.wanted by the United Kingdom. May her has been refused bail and
:10:25. > :10:30.will stay in prison in America while the process continues.
:10:30. > :10:33.Suffolk police have said they will review the case before deciding
:10:33. > :10:41.what the Crown Prosecution Service whether to start an attempt to
:10:41. > :10:44.A man has been charged with the murder of a clergyman from Essex.
:10:44. > :10:46.The Reverend John Suddards was stabbed to death last week.
:10:46. > :10:49.Formerly vicar of Witham, he had recently moved to Gloucestershire.
:10:49. > :10:53.47-year-old Stephen Farrow was tonight also charged with murdering
:10:53. > :10:56.Worcestershire pensioner Betty Yates.
:10:56. > :10:59.A man has been charged with murder after a 42-year-old man was stabbed
:10:59. > :11:05.to death in Bury St Edmunds. The victim, Robin Linnet, was found in
:11:05. > :11:09.Ashfield Road early yesterday. Mark Turner from Cockfield will appear
:11:09. > :11:12.in court tomorrow. A man accused of being in charge of
:11:12. > :11:15.a Rottweiler which badly mauled a seven-year-old boy has appeared in
:11:15. > :11:25.court in Southend. Magistrates were told the attack happened on a
:11:25. > :11:27.
:11:27. > :11:31.crowded beach last summer. The man covered his face when he left court.
:11:31. > :11:36.He is accused of being in charge of a rot phyla that was dangerously
:11:36. > :11:41.out of control and Malta a young boy. Magistrates heard how the boy
:11:41. > :11:46.was playing in this sea here at Southend last August when a
:11:46. > :11:48.rottweiler attacked him. The court heard that the dog as well done
:11:48. > :11:52.double underwater and his grandmother had to drag the dog off.
:11:52. > :11:57.In the weeks after the attack police released pictures of the
:11:57. > :12:03.boy's injuries. He needed 16 stitches and several operations. He
:12:03. > :12:07.will require treatment until he is 18. Mr Dietrich gave no indication
:12:07. > :12:13.of his plea today and was released on unconditional bail. The next
:12:13. > :12:16.hearing will be at Basildon Crown Court on 18th March.
:12:16. > :12:20.The case of a fisherman from Essex who is facing a huge penalty for
:12:20. > :12:22.breaching quotas has been raised in Parliament. Paul Gilson, who lives
:12:22. > :12:26.in Leigh-on-Sea, says he is facing ruin after being fined nearly
:12:27. > :12:35.�400,000 for catching too many fish. His MP raised the matter at
:12:35. > :12:42.Westminster Hall. He is an honest hard-working man
:12:42. > :12:50.and such a sentence I believe is an absolute outrage, especially given
:12:50. > :12:54.that the two other recent sales node of the -- offences received
:12:54. > :12:58.sentences of �3,500 and �6,000 respectively.
:12:58. > :13:01.The Essex Fire Service has had to pay an unexpected tax bill of more
:13:01. > :13:03.than �100,000, plus interest and a fine. It follows a Revenue and
:13:04. > :13:06.Customs inquiry which showed the service wasn't paying enough tax on
:13:06. > :13:14.cars it provides to officers and staff. Our political reporter Ben
:13:14. > :13:19.Bland has been investigating. How did they make this mistake? No one
:13:19. > :13:26.likes an unexpected bill and not one of this size. It is all to do
:13:26. > :13:31.with the cars that the Essex fire surface -- Essex fire service
:13:31. > :13:35.provider to some staff. Like any company car it counts as a benefit
:13:36. > :13:40.in kind. The fire service was not paying enough in National Insurance
:13:40. > :13:46.contributions on those cars, so as well as paying the outstanding
:13:46. > :13:52.�100,000, this mistake has cost Essex taxpayers more than �17,000
:13:52. > :13:57.in interest and a fine. The Essex fire service concluded this
:13:57. > :14:02.afternoon that they had not broken the rules, but that the Revenue and
:14:02. > :14:07.Customs had interpreted the rules differently to the way they had.
:14:07. > :14:09.don't necessarily think there we are wrong on the interpretation,
:14:10. > :14:13.however we accept that interpretation and will pave
:14:13. > :14:17.whatever it is you're asking and we will do this under able to do this
:14:17. > :14:23.without hitting our frontline services because of the way our
:14:23. > :14:28.finances are run. We have also discovered that amongst the cars in
:14:29. > :14:33.the service owned fleet there are five executive Audi's costing about
:14:33. > :14:38.�30,000 each, but they won't say he uses those vehicles. This is
:14:38. > :14:44.ringing alarm bells and Westminster. I am told by government sources
:14:44. > :14:47.that Eric Pickles has asked his most senior civil servant in the
:14:47. > :14:51.department at Whitehall to look into the use of cars at the Essex
:14:51. > :14:55.fire service. In football, Southend United are
:14:55. > :14:57.down to third in League Two after losing 2-0 at Aldershot. Manager
:14:57. > :15:07.Paul Sturrock called the team gutless and told reporters he will
:15:07. > :15:19.
:15:19. > :15:22.make changes. They have now lost Whitbread has been a big name in
:15:22. > :15:25.this part of the world for generations, a brewing giant owning
:15:25. > :15:28.hundreds of pubs in our towns and villages. But not any more.
:15:28. > :15:31.Whitbread got out of beer years ago and now it is a very successful
:15:31. > :15:41.company in the FTSE 100. As our business correspondent Richard Bond
:15:41. > :15:43.
:15:43. > :15:48.reports, it is carved out a huge new business. Think of Whitbread,
:15:48. > :15:53.and beer probably comes to mind. The company used to be one of her
:15:54. > :15:57.biggest brewers producing arrange of eels. Among to its breweries,
:15:57. > :16:06.this one and Luton. 12 years ago Whitbread did the unthinkable and
:16:06. > :16:13.got out of beer in order to expand into coffee. In Costa Coffee it
:16:13. > :16:19.owns the largest coffee chain in the UK with 1300 shots. Coffee
:16:19. > :16:24.shots have risen in popularity at the same time as the demise of the
:16:24. > :16:32.pub business. The coffee shot is the local pub. Communities meet.
:16:32. > :16:36.The business sector, it is the heart of the community. Another big
:16:36. > :16:40.part of the modern Whitbread is a business that has done no favours
:16:40. > :16:46.to independent hotels up and down the land, or that is what its
:16:46. > :16:51.critics might say. Premier in is the largest hotel brand in the UK
:16:51. > :16:55.with 600 hotels and 44,000 rooms. If you are coming a wave for a
:16:55. > :17:00.short break, do you really need to have a swimming pool? It is a nice
:17:00. > :17:06.extra, but it would cost you a lot more money to do it. We are about
:17:06. > :17:11.value. The modern Whitbread is one of Britain's top 100 companies and
:17:11. > :17:14.its headquarters and Dunstable employs 650 people. Whitbread has
:17:14. > :17:19.become one of her most successful companies because it spotted
:17:20. > :17:26.important trends. It got out of the low-growth business, brewing, and
:17:26. > :17:30.into high-growth ones, coffee shots and Budget hotels. In doing so it
:17:30. > :17:35.stole a march and its competitors, but it faces challenges. Consumers
:17:35. > :17:39.are under pressure. Whitbread is still growing, but not as fast as
:17:39. > :17:49.it was. The faltering recovery could yet take the froth of its
:17:49. > :17:52.prospects. -- although its In everything they do at Whitbread,
:17:52. > :17:55.they like to say they offer good value. When I spoke to the Chief
:17:55. > :17:59.Executive, Andy Harrison, I wanted to know if value is really another
:17:59. > :18:04.word for cheap. No, value means we offer you a great product at
:18:05. > :18:09.affordable prices. Delivered by a team members who really care.
:18:09. > :18:13.easy is it for you to get people with the right qualifications to
:18:13. > :18:19.come, because we have had a lot recently about the education system
:18:19. > :18:23.not producing the kind of young people that business needs.
:18:23. > :18:27.success is good that the dependent on her 30,000 people who serve are
:18:27. > :18:33.11 million customers a month. The most important things there are
:18:33. > :18:37.enthusiasm, aptitude, as smile, and we are prepared to do the training
:18:37. > :18:43.in. Over the last three years we have done 3000 apprenticeships and
:18:43. > :18:46.we have just opened three academies for our restaurant teams. Those
:18:46. > :18:50.academies, everybody who comes to work in one of your restaurants
:18:50. > :18:54.will be trained by you? To begin with we are pitting our chefs, the
:18:54. > :18:59.assistance through those academies, so we expect 5000 people to go
:18:59. > :19:03.through those academies. Doesn't that said that the education system
:19:03. > :19:07.doesn't fit you need? The education system doesn't teach you how to
:19:07. > :19:12.cook, so it provides some of the basic skills. What we're looking to
:19:12. > :19:16.do is to provide more business specific skills. Looking at the
:19:16. > :19:23.economy as a whole, what do you think is the main problem that
:19:23. > :19:28.British industry with its service industry or manufacturing has?
:19:28. > :19:33.Fundamentally, education and infrastructure are critical and all
:19:33. > :19:38.of the businesses that we have in this country, which has a
:19:38. > :19:42.relatively high rate company, depend on skills. We need to invest
:19:42. > :19:46.in training, technology and finding better ways of doing things because
:19:46. > :19:49.as you look across the world there is a lot of labour that is much
:19:49. > :19:53.cheaper than Labour in this country. Are you saying we haven't done
:19:53. > :19:57.that? Clearly we have because we live in a successful society.
:19:57. > :20:01.People are much wealthier now than they were 10 years ago, but if
:20:01. > :20:07.we're going to continue to compete we need to do more. It is a very
:20:07. > :20:11.competitive world. Is the way a business survives, but it grows in
:20:11. > :20:17.one area than it has to say, that is as much as I can do their and
:20:17. > :20:20.the need to look around? Definitely. But this is that standstill die.
:20:20. > :20:26.Consumer behaviour is changing and technology is changing, so
:20:26. > :20:30.companies need to move with or ahead of consumer trends. If if you
:20:30. > :20:38.had one message for anybody who is involved in maybe even a struggling
:20:38. > :20:41.business, what with a message be? think most businesses are about
:20:41. > :20:45.really understanding your customers, what they want and delivering what
:20:45. > :20:50.they want and get endured teams, you people, due until we really
:20:50. > :20:53.motivated to deliver it. Thank you very much.
:20:53. > :20:56.A few years ago he was playing in people's living rooms for free, now
:20:56. > :20:59.singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran from Suffolk is a double Brit award
:20:59. > :21:09.winner. Last night he won Best British Solo Artist and Best
:21:09. > :21:10.
:21:10. > :21:14.Breakthrough Act. As he arrived at the ceremony last night, Ed Sheeran
:21:14. > :21:18.was feeling quietly confident. never like to expect things to
:21:19. > :21:23.happen, but they do make plans, and this is one of them. He led the
:21:23. > :21:30.nominations with four in total but he said it was best male artist he
:21:30. > :21:36.really wanted to win, and she did. Ed Sheeran! It is the culmination
:21:36. > :21:39.of an amazing year for the 21-year- old. He is none for being one of
:21:39. > :21:45.the hardest-working musicians around and started by offering free
:21:45. > :21:51.gigs in people's houses. At bottom to the attention Elf BBC Radio
:21:51. > :21:55.Norfolk's new talent programme and they went to film him. There was
:21:55. > :22:05.something very special about his songwriting. There was only about
:22:05. > :22:10.20 people in a room at the said he had a new song. Back in his
:22:10. > :22:17.hometown everyone was celebrating. We had known him at school for ages.
:22:17. > :22:21.He did a thing at the main hall for �2. Since then he has really proven
:22:21. > :22:27.so often done very well. I saw him a couple of weeks ago. It was
:22:27. > :22:31.really good to see him. The local cafe where he spent hours writing
:22:31. > :22:35.and drinking milkshakes has a prominent momentum of his success
:22:35. > :22:41.and just last weekend he was back at his local celebrating his 21st
:22:41. > :22:48.birthday. Kim had his friends were quite polite, although slightly
:22:48. > :22:56.worse for wear to the end of the night. His family thoroughly
:22:56. > :23:01.enjoyed themselves. He has centred he is working on new material with
:23:01. > :23:11.two American rappers. As for the Brit Awards, he has described as
:23:11. > :23:13.
:23:13. > :23:23.the best night of his life. I am so pleased. He is so talented
:23:23. > :23:25.
:23:25. > :23:33.and a love his music. Most of them A disappointing day to day, cloudy
:23:33. > :23:40.and damp. You can see this band of rain the mood in this morning. Her
:23:40. > :23:43.it has left a lot of cloud around for tonight's. The last but the
:23:43. > :23:48.rain should be clearing away by about 11 o'clock tonight and the
:23:48. > :23:55.rest of the night should be set fair. Her there will be one or to
:23:55. > :24:05.missed patches, but there should stay dry. It will be very mild
:24:05. > :24:06.
:24:06. > :24:09.indeed. The wind will ease down as the night goes on. Looking at a
:24:09. > :24:15.press return for tomorrow, you can see we are between two pressure
:24:15. > :24:18.systems. There is some very nice warm air feeding up from the south-
:24:18. > :24:22.west, sold for all this ridge of high pressure should bring us a
:24:22. > :24:26.fair day tomorrow. There will be a fair amount of cloud around but it
:24:26. > :24:30.will be miles and it should stay dry. Let's take a look at the
:24:30. > :24:34.morning. It starts off on a grey notes with a fair amount of cloud
:24:34. > :24:39.and patchy missed, but the cloud will start to lift and thin. But
:24:39. > :24:43.the middle part of the day we will see sunny spells. With the help of
:24:43. > :24:52.the sunshine it is going to feel very mild with temperatures up to
:24:52. > :25:00.16 degrees. Another big difference tomorrow is the strength of the
:25:01. > :25:05.wind, but it will be alight and moderate breeze. There will be some
:25:05. > :25:10.more cloud coming in from the west near Tring the day, but there will
:25:11. > :25:14.still be some spells of sunshine. Into the weekend, on Friday we have
:25:14. > :25:18.got the call front slipping away to the south, then high pressure
:25:18. > :25:27.building back in so what should be fine and settled through the
:25:28. > :25:31.weekend. Looking at the next five days in more detail, you can see
:25:32. > :25:39.the rain on Friday that will go away but the end of the morning. It
:25:39. > :25:44.will be a touch cooler over the weekend. Although it turns or
:25:44. > :25:49.cloudy 3 Sunday and Monday, it will turn more mild as well. The average
:25:49. > :25:56.for this time of year is 89 degrees, so 14 degrees is very mild indeed.
:25:56. > :25:58.There could be a touch of frost on Friday night into Saturday, but as