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:00:09. > :00:12.Hello and welcome to the programme. The headlines: six months after she

:00:12. > :00:15.went missing from Peterborough, the body of this woman is finally found,

:00:15. > :00:20.but in Poland. Hello and welcome to Look East.

:00:20. > :00:24.Also tonight, and asbestos scandal at Cambridge University. Why wasn't

:00:24. > :00:28.this work carried out safely? Off the ground but going nowhere,

:00:28. > :00:35.they still do not have this Apache out of a field in support.

:00:35. > :00:45.And the companies taking a punt one winter planting.

:00:45. > :00:49.-- a punt on winter hunting. First, a breakthrough at last in

:00:49. > :00:53.the case of a woman from Lithuania who went missing more than six

:00:53. > :00:57.months ago. Vitalia Baliutaviciene was last

:00:57. > :01:01.seen in the new England area of Peterborough one of this 12. Later

:01:01. > :01:06.that month, her 46-year-old ex- husband Rimas Venclovas was

:01:06. > :01:11.arrested in Lithuania. In October, he appeared in court in this

:01:11. > :01:16.country charged with both kidnap and murder. Vitalia's body had

:01:16. > :01:26.never been found until now. Our reporter has covered this case

:01:26. > :01:32.

:01:32. > :01:37.since last August and she joins us We seem to have a problem getting

:01:37. > :01:42.hold of enough. She cannot hear us. I think we can go to her report.

:01:42. > :01:46.The last known pictures of women Mach captured on CCTV shortly

:01:46. > :01:52.before she disappeared. -- last known pictures of Vitalia

:01:52. > :02:00.Baliutaviciene. It has become one of the most complex search --

:02:00. > :02:02.complex searches for the Cambridge police force.

:02:02. > :02:06.We have someone in prison about to stand trial. We have had to engage

:02:06. > :02:10.very quickly with judiciary to make sure that appropriate measures are

:02:11. > :02:15.in place to allow Lloyds to fully investigate these new circumstances.

:02:15. > :02:19.Her body, identified by DNA, has now been discovered by police in

:02:19. > :02:24.the west of Poland. Officers here say details are still sketchy as to

:02:24. > :02:28.exactly where she was found. Vitalia was last seen alive by

:02:28. > :02:33.neighbours back in August. She was heading to work less than one mile

:02:33. > :02:38.away, but never arrived. As officers continued their searching,

:02:38. > :02:41.the man was extradited from Lithuania on suspicion of murder.

:02:41. > :02:45.Police say they will now head to Eastern Europe to work with their

:02:45. > :02:50.officers. I need to go to Poland with a team of officers next week

:02:50. > :02:54.to start to pick to the circumstances of her death, that

:02:54. > :02:58.the Poles are treating as homicide. I will be taking specialist

:02:58. > :03:03.officers with me to try and work out exactly what sort of material

:03:03. > :03:07.there is to assess their investigation in the UK. While the

:03:07. > :03:12.search for Vitalia's body may have ended, it marks a new phase of the

:03:12. > :03:15.investigation into her kidnap and murder.

:03:15. > :03:20.Cambridge University has paid thousands of pounds in compensation

:03:20. > :03:23.to a carpenter who has contracted a lung cancer related to asbestos.

:03:23. > :03:27.The university, one of the richest landowners in the country, has

:03:27. > :03:35.denied it was negligent. A BBC investigation has found other

:03:35. > :03:38.beaches in the handling of its best. This is the first lot that we take

:03:38. > :03:42.during the day he and the morning. These ones are for pain, this is

:03:42. > :03:47.more thing. You take that four times per day.

:03:47. > :03:52.A cocktail of medication controls Bob Murphy's pain. Is mesothelioma,

:03:52. > :03:55.a cancer of the lung lining caused by inhaling asbestos dust. He

:03:55. > :04:01.worked as a carpenter at the University of Cambridge for 15

:04:01. > :04:07.years. I was a steelworker, at the end of the day you're given a job

:04:07. > :04:13.and get on with it. And now, and hindsight, I what she does nothing.

:04:13. > :04:16.-- I wasn't just a worker. In hindsight, we were given a special

:04:16. > :04:20.Hoover, which we thought was an asbestos one, but I have since

:04:20. > :04:26.learned it was a lot of rubbish. That is a truly, I was not told

:04:26. > :04:31.anyone about it. But this is asbestos. There are three types,

:04:31. > :04:35.light blue and brown. It was widely used in the 50s, widely thought to

:04:35. > :04:40.be a wonder building material. Favoured for lightness and strength,

:04:40. > :04:45.and often used in situations where heat resistance is not they use at

:04:45. > :04:48.all. It is they thought to be fatal. The

:04:48. > :04:53.University of Cambridge, not just a major institution but a major

:04:53. > :04:59.landowner. Like many colleges and institutions, it is working to

:04:59. > :05:02.remove asbestos. But look at this, filmed secretly by someone at the

:05:02. > :05:09.University, concerned about the way that this barn made of asbestos

:05:09. > :05:12.cement was demolished. It was part of a �4 million project in 2008 to

:05:12. > :05:18.build an institute for cosmology. The work then break up the sheets

:05:18. > :05:23.with scaffolding poles, potentially releasing fibres into the air.

:05:23. > :05:28.was horrified, because these sheets were crashing to the ground, and

:05:28. > :05:33.the dust police, I could see it in the wind just going across. -- and

:05:33. > :05:37.the dust released. There were two days of this. We could not believe

:05:37. > :05:42.that the university was not protecting us as employees. It was

:05:42. > :05:48.even broken up outside of the door where we walked into. It is not the

:05:48. > :05:55.only incident. The same month, King's College was fined �16,000

:05:55. > :05:58.for exposing employees to asbestos. The scaffolding again, that is it.

:05:58. > :06:08.Presuming No 1 Court the sheep, that has probably raise a fair bit

:06:08. > :06:10.

:06:10. > :06:14.of dust. -- presuming at No 1 Court the sheet these are supposed to be

:06:14. > :06:19.cut with water cutters. I would not like the idea to get

:06:19. > :06:26.out because it is white asbestos that it is it safe. It is a known

:06:26. > :06:30.human carcinogen. Everything we sell the practical as the

:06:30. > :06:34.regulations say should be done to avoid exposure to it.

:06:34. > :06:39.university were told that the company used to dismantle the bar

:06:39. > :06:43.were negligent. The company is no longer on the University supply a

:06:43. > :06:47.list. Since then, at university procedures have been revised. Sure,

:06:47. > :06:51.Sabin identified in the wake the work was done, but they say that

:06:51. > :06:55.asbestos cement is one of the lowest risk asbestos materials.

:06:55. > :06:58.They claim that Bourke finds hard to believe. He left before the bar

:06:58. > :07:06.and demolition, but says he was exposed to white asbestos many

:07:06. > :07:10.times throughout his career. -- I crime that Bob disagrees with.

:07:10. > :07:15.have a terminal illness. They gave me eight to 18 months. That is my

:07:15. > :07:21.argument. How can it not be dangers? When you are told that you

:07:21. > :07:26.have eight to 18 months? It is not good, is that?

:07:26. > :07:29.Bob Murphy. There is a helpline for people with asbestos related

:07:29. > :07:36.problems. The organisation as mesothelioma UK.

:07:36. > :07:40.The number is 0800 169 2409. The parents of a toddler who died

:07:40. > :07:44.after she was accidentally hanged by a court on a window blind have

:07:44. > :07:47.lodged a safety campaign to stop a similar tragedy happening to any

:07:47. > :07:52.other family. Last year, two-year- old Emily Warner was left with

:07:52. > :07:56.brain damage after being found with the cord around her neck at a home

:07:56. > :08:01.in a Royston. She died in December. Today a coroner recorded a verdict

:08:01. > :08:04.of accidental death. Two-year-old Emily Warner. Our

:08:04. > :08:09.parents say she was a wonderful little girl, the light of their

:08:09. > :08:12.lives. Today, the distraught couple arrive at the coroners court for an

:08:12. > :08:18.inquest into their daughter's horrific death. The court heard

:08:18. > :08:20.that Emily went to bed as normal at her home in Royston in

:08:20. > :08:25.Hertfordshire one day last August. Soon afterwards, her father found

:08:25. > :08:28.her unconscious with a blind cord around her neck. She was standing

:08:28. > :08:33.at the window with the curtains behind her, and it appeared that

:08:33. > :08:36.she was looking out. I told her to get down and she did not answer. I

:08:36. > :08:39.went to grab her to put her back in bed and that is when I saw the

:08:39. > :08:44.court was around her neck, and there were no signs of life. Just

:08:44. > :08:48.last month, two-year-old Arthur Whinfield also died at his home in

:08:48. > :08:53.Hertfordshire after a similar accident with a blind cord. On

:08:53. > :08:56.average, two children died this way the UK every year. Today, both

:08:56. > :09:01.families have continue campaign to help -- to warn parents and carers

:09:01. > :09:05.of the dangers. All sorts of planes have words like this, either 18 or

:09:05. > :09:08.piece of cord, and a child can get its head caught in these courts,

:09:08. > :09:14.twists round their neck and it could strangle them. Make sure that

:09:14. > :09:17.if you have a was hanging court that it is tied up high, and do not

:09:17. > :09:23.allow a court Spencer furniture to be near to the window where there

:09:23. > :09:27.is a blind cord. -- courts, beds or furniture. We want people to talk

:09:27. > :09:32.about this, will be what people to know.

:09:32. > :09:36.This is the safety pack being given to parents by the Royal Society for

:09:36. > :09:42.the Prevention of accidents. It includes this faster there to

:09:42. > :09:47.ensure that all lines have these nearby and corns and tinsel but the

:09:48. > :09:51.-- are bound firmly around them. Emily's mother wept in court today

:09:51. > :09:56.as he heard the details of her little girl's debt. The couple hope

:09:56. > :10:02.that others will learn from the tragedy. -- little-girl posmac

:10:02. > :10:06.death. Army engineers have spent a second

:10:06. > :10:10.date working out how to retrieve an Apache helicopter from a field and

:10:10. > :10:17.support. The helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing after

:10:17. > :10:22.it flew into power lines on the its -- on the outskirts of an Ipswich.

:10:22. > :10:25.I am afraid we are on our meeting tonight. I had told to be standing

:10:25. > :10:30.in front of the Apache helicopter by the roadside, but they have had

:10:30. > :10:38.a bit of a hedge. He cannot see it, but the helicopter is behind me.

:10:38. > :10:42.When it crashed on Tuesday, they had hoped to drag it up to the

:10:42. > :10:47.roadside, but the trouble is this, if you have a look down there, the

:10:47. > :10:53.engineers have managed to contact the earth but it is very soft. What

:10:53. > :10:56.you are talking about is a heady, armour-plated helicopter. The nose

:10:56. > :10:59.wheel has sunk into the ground so they have to crane it up and put

:10:59. > :11:03.matting underneath it. The army engineers are determined to get

:11:03. > :11:10.this helicopter to the roadside even if it takes all night.

:11:10. > :11:15.By sunset, the Apache was on the move. It was a forlorn sight, track

:11:15. > :11:22.by its tail across the farm. As engineers repaired the power lines

:11:22. > :11:25.which had crashed -- what it had crashed into, the army started

:11:25. > :11:29.dismantling the 45 million-pound mission. First the daughter plates,

:11:29. > :11:36.then the wing stubs copper for a train left the helicopter out. Its

:11:36. > :11:39.wheels embedded in the mud, it must have been a hard landing. After

:11:39. > :11:43.this, they bowled the ploughed field to make sure the earth was

:11:43. > :11:46.compact enough to take the weight of the helicopter. Quite a

:11:46. > :11:51.straightforward operation. Their role is to increase access to the

:11:51. > :11:57.Apache. We should be done before last Lights tonight. Our role in

:11:58. > :12:05.this task, and then it will be up to other agencies. Tomorrow

:12:05. > :12:09.morning? A distinct possibility. I understand that the Apache suffered

:12:09. > :12:13.a major political failure after hitting the power lead, but the MoD

:12:13. > :12:18.will not confirm this. It is thanks to the aircraft's robust design and

:12:18. > :12:21.the pilot's skill in landing at that no one was hurt.

:12:21. > :12:25.You can see the engineers going up and down the field compacting the

:12:25. > :12:29.earth so that they can somehow get this helicopter to the roadside,

:12:29. > :12:32.hopefully to be lifted on to a roller tomorrow morning. The

:12:32. > :12:37.investigation into how this helicopter could have crashed into

:12:37. > :12:42.power lines is still ongoing. That is one of the crisis, how could it

:12:42. > :12:48.have crashed into power lines, knowing that the power lines are

:12:48. > :12:51.clearly of Mark -- clearly marked on maps?

:12:51. > :12:58.Still to come, what will happen to the most famous record collection

:12:58. > :13:02.in the world? And Alex with news about winning February.

:13:02. > :13:05.It has been the mildest day of the year so far, but I wonder did get?

:13:05. > :13:12.-- flaming of February. I'll be back with a full weather forecast

:13:12. > :13:16.after more news from your part of the region.

:13:16. > :13:20.An inquest has heard how a soldier was killed by a Taliban bomb hidden

:13:20. > :13:23.on a farm track in Afghanistan. The coroner ruled that Colour Sergeant

:13:23. > :13:33.Kevin Fortuna from Colchester was unlawfully killed while on active

:13:33. > :13:37.

:13:37. > :13:44.service. His family are now raising Kevin Fortuna's wife and family

:13:44. > :13:50.leaving their hearing today. He was an ultimate professional. He was a

:13:50. > :13:57.great friend. He was commanding a patrol in a Helmand province when

:13:57. > :14:01.he stepped on a home-made bomb. Both his legs had been blown off.

:14:01. > :14:09.The inquest underlined the extent of the dangers a word servicemen

:14:09. > :14:17.face. A soldier who was on patrol with a colour sergeant Kevin

:14:17. > :14:23.Fortuna it said that bombs are everywhere. The funeral took place

:14:23. > :14:28.in a cold Chester, the town where he lived with his wife. His family

:14:28. > :14:36.have responded to his loss by raising as much money they -- as

:14:36. > :14:41.they can for the charity Help for Heroes. The least I can do is give

:14:42. > :14:46.a year of my life to raise as much money as I can. There money they

:14:46. > :14:53.have raised will help to pay for this - a recovery centre for

:14:53. > :14:57.injured soldiers, opening in Colchester in the future. There

:14:57. > :15:06.will be accommodation for families and there will be everything there

:15:06. > :15:16.that they need. The coroner urged Kevin Fortuna's family and friends

:15:16. > :15:29.

:15:29. > :15:36.to cherish his memory. A man has been jailed indefinitely for a

:15:36. > :15:42.series of brutal attacks. You may find some of these pictures

:15:42. > :15:47.disturbing. And man falls on to the line. The

:15:47. > :15:54.attacker climbs down, robs him and then leaves. The victim then

:15:54. > :16:02.manages to drag himself off the tracks. This is one of three brutal

:16:02. > :16:06.late-night attacks on lone men. They had all been drinking and had

:16:06. > :16:16.missed their last trains. They were serious attacks. Each victim was

:16:16. > :16:22.

:16:22. > :16:29.hit with a heavy object on the back of their hair. -- head. The last

:16:29. > :16:34.victim were Cup in hospital with a fractured skull. This CCTV footage

:16:34. > :16:40.taken at a petrol station shortly after the attack was published in a

:16:40. > :16:44.local newspaper and helped League Two Ian Tomlinson's a rest. 24-

:16:44. > :16:48.year-old Ian Tomlinson of no fixed abode pleaded guilty to three

:16:48. > :16:54.counts of robbery and one of theft. The judge said he was a serial

:16:54. > :16:58.offender who preyed on his victims. He passed an indeterminate sentence

:16:58. > :17:07.for public protection and he said Tomlinson cannot apply for parole

:17:07. > :17:11.for at least five years. Eight Rolex watch found by a street

:17:11. > :17:19.cleaner in Essex has been returned to its owner. It was stolen during

:17:19. > :17:28.a burglary last September. The worker has been at rewarded for his

:17:28. > :17:31.honesty. An Army bomb disposal unit carried

:17:31. > :17:34.out a controlled explosion on two Second World Qar shells in Norwich

:17:34. > :17:36.this lunchtime. The shells were discovered in Bowers Avenue on the

:17:36. > :17:39.Mile Cross estate by workmen yesterday. Around 100 homes were

:17:39. > :17:42.evacuated. Residents were moved to the nearby Norman Centre. A small

:17:42. > :17:45.truck load of sand was brought in to cover the shells before the

:17:45. > :17:46.explosion. Roads around the area, including the ring road, were

:17:46. > :17:50.closed while the shells were detonated.

:17:50. > :17:53.Farmers in the region have been told it's time for a new debate on

:17:53. > :17:56.genetically modified food. It was a controversial subject ten years ago

:17:56. > :18:01.and the last government thought it wasn't worth the trouble. But a

:18:01. > :18:07.growing number of MPs believe it's time to bite the bullet.

:18:07. > :18:12.GM trials are under way again, albeit very quietly. The Centre in

:18:12. > :18:16.Norwich has been developing these blight resistant potatoes. Today,

:18:16. > :18:22.just a couple of hundred metres away, farmers were holding their

:18:22. > :18:28.annual conference. The drought and the pressure to produce more food

:18:28. > :18:34.was the main talking point. resilience will be delivered by

:18:34. > :18:44.smart breeding. Unfortunately, GM has got a bad name. It is a view

:18:44. > :18:46.

:18:46. > :18:50.shared by another of MPs. GM is been widely adopted around the

:18:50. > :18:56.world and whether we like it or not, these technologies are developing

:18:56. > :19:06.and our choice is whether we are a bystander, a spectator, or we take

:19:06. > :19:06.

:19:06. > :19:11.part in it. As the European Community, we need to do our bit.

:19:11. > :19:16.There is a sign that opinion in government is shifting, but there

:19:16. > :19:20.are critics. What really worries us in the Green Party is that GM food

:19:20. > :19:26.is not about feeding the world or anything like that, it is about

:19:26. > :19:30.making a lot of money for a few rapacious organisations. It was his

:19:30. > :19:33.protests 13 years ago that should be Ben government how toxic and

:19:33. > :19:38.issued this had become. Research was scaled back until a few years

:19:38. > :19:42.ago. This government is more in favour of GM, but there is some

:19:43. > :19:46.reluctance within Downing Street to give the go-ahead to its 4th goal

:19:46. > :19:56.use. Nevertheless, there is a growing feeling amongst farmers and

:19:56. > :20:00.

:20:00. > :20:10.MPs that this argument is moving You are watching Look East. Coming

:20:10. > :20:13.up - keeping the punters happy all It's arguably the most famous

:20:13. > :20:16.record collection in the world - the 25,000 albums and 40,000

:20:16. > :20:19.singles which belonged to the Radio One DJ John Peel. Now, eight years

:20:19. > :20:23.after his death, the entire collection is to be opened to the

:20:23. > :20:33.public online. Look East has been given exclusive access to an

:20:33. > :20:49.

:20:49. > :20:54.T Rex, one of their many bans over the decades who can thank John Peel

:20:54. > :21:01.for their success. Now his entire record collection is being made

:21:01. > :21:06.into an online interactive museum. 25,000 albums, 40,000 singles and

:21:06. > :21:14.thousands of CDs. It is a shame for all of this information to be here

:21:14. > :21:20.and nobody sees them. Nobody really listens to them very much and it

:21:20. > :21:25.would just be nice for the public to have some insight into it.

:21:25. > :21:31.the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts, children learn about solar

:21:31. > :21:36.energy. A team of engineers -- volunteers from the organisation

:21:36. > :21:43.and had been awarded �3.5 million from the Arts Council. People will

:21:43. > :21:48.be able to virtually walking to the studio which is in his home and

:21:48. > :21:53.bought a record off the shelf. in this enormous collection online

:21:53. > :22:01.is no easy feat. It could take years. Sheila says it will be great

:22:01. > :22:04.to share memories of bands playing at their house. But one point, the

:22:04. > :22:08.keyboard player had to play in the bathroom because there were so many

:22:08. > :22:12.people. It started with a few records in a cottage in Suffolk.

:22:12. > :22:16.Now it could be one of the most important record collections in the

:22:16. > :22:20.world and soon we will be able to share it as well.

:22:20. > :22:23.Imagine the scene. You're on the banks of the River Cam, the sun is

:22:23. > :22:27.shining, a champagne cork is popping, and a couple of young

:22:27. > :22:31.people are drifting by in a punt. But if you think punting is just a

:22:31. > :22:35.summer thing, think again. These days the companies in Cambridge say

:22:35. > :22:45.they are as busy in the winter as they are in the summer. Jozef Hall

:22:45. > :22:58.

:22:58. > :23:02.has been finding out what goes on Punting is quintessentially

:23:02. > :23:12.Cambridge. When you think of it, you think of champagne, picnics and

:23:12. > :23:12.

:23:12. > :23:19.a straw hat. But it is not quite as jaunty as you would think. In the

:23:20. > :23:29.height of summer there are over 300 word macros on the river. What the

:23:30. > :23:33.

:23:33. > :23:40.public don't see is where they go for some TRC. -- 300 punts on the

:23:40. > :23:46.river. We patch them up, make sure they do not leak and then they go

:23:46. > :23:56.back on the river. A how many can you get to a week? We get to about

:23:56. > :24:00.three or four singles and a couple of fairies. Worth about �5,000 each,

:24:00. > :24:06.keeping this money it boats on the river is not cheap, but in an

:24:06. > :24:12.industry estimated at �6 million a year, the operators are not

:24:12. > :24:20.bothered. As long as there are people around, we will be here.

:24:20. > :24:26.There are workshops dotted around Cambridge and be surrounded -- and

:24:26. > :24:33.the surrounding villages. Some companies even make their own.

:24:33. > :24:38.build them to a certain standard. We use very good materials and I

:24:38. > :24:43.like to have a good Webb at the end of the day. So next time you go

:24:43. > :24:47.punting, be kind to a what mahogany friends and spare a thought for

:24:47. > :24:52.those behind the scenes, those who do not get to enjoy their moment in

:24:52. > :25:00.the sun. If you thought Joseph looked eight

:25:00. > :25:08.natural, that is because he used to do it.

:25:08. > :25:12.And now for the weather. Thank you for sending in your

:25:12. > :25:22.photographs. It looked more like spring or early summer. This one

:25:22. > :25:29.was sent in by Evelyn, who was helping to water her parents's

:25:29. > :25:33.garden. These other temperatures today. We

:25:33. > :25:43.got to 17 and 18 Celsius. The reason for that is the pressure at

:25:43. > :25:44.

:25:44. > :25:50.the moment. We have an area of high pressure over the Bay of Biscay. He

:25:50. > :25:54.-- it has brought some very mild conditions. In the east we got the

:25:54. > :26:01.lion's share of the sunshine. Mild and dry tonight. Some clear

:26:01. > :26:08.intervals, but some cloud begin through. We are expecting

:26:08. > :26:13.temperatures to get no lower than about eight Celsius. Winds will be

:26:13. > :26:23.light and moderate. Tomorrow, a subtle change. That is because of

:26:23. > :26:27.this area here. It is a cold front and although it will be dry and

:26:27. > :26:34.bright to start, it will turn increasingly cloudy from the north.

:26:34. > :26:39.That clouds might produce the odd spot of light rain or drizzle. It

:26:39. > :26:48.stays quite mild, but with cloud and sunshine. Temperatures no

:26:49. > :26:53.higher than at 15 degrees. Through the afternoon it will turn cloudier

:26:53. > :26:58.in the south. They could be some light rain or drizzle. Most of the

:26:58. > :27:08.day should be dry. Looking ahead into the weekend, high pressure

:27:08. > :27:15.building and that will build -- and that will bring up find -- and that

:27:15. > :27:22.will bring a fine conditions. Winds will stay like. Monday, perhaps