:00:11. > :00:15.On Look East tonight: It's a double blow for travellers - the scramble
:00:15. > :00:20.for fuel goes on at the pumps and now baggage handlers at Stansted
:00:20. > :00:26.Airport vote to go on strike over Easter. Hello from Stewart and me.
:00:26. > :00:29.Also tonight: These two men watched the man who murdered their friends
:00:29. > :00:34.given a life sentence, but say the American government should have
:00:34. > :00:40.done more. We would like to express a dissatisfaction at the lack of
:00:40. > :00:44.any public or private message of condolence from any Central
:00:44. > :00:47.American government body or President Obama himself.
:00:47. > :00:50.A husband from Suffolk describes his anguish at helping his wife to
:00:50. > :01:00.take her own life. And on target: the sharp-eyed
:01:00. > :01:03.
:01:04. > :01:07.For the third day running there have been queues and a sharp rise
:01:07. > :01:10.in demand at filling stations across the region. And, for the
:01:10. > :01:16.third day running, petrol retailers are insisting there is no need for
:01:16. > :01:18.panic-buying. The vast majority of the region's fuel stations are
:01:18. > :01:23.operating normally, but some, especially in rural areas, are
:01:23. > :01:25.struggling to keep up with the surge in demand. There is more bad
:01:26. > :01:32.news for travellers tonight after baggage handlers at Stansted
:01:32. > :01:39.Airport voted for strike action which could hit Easter services.
:01:39. > :01:45.Let's start in Suffolk and our reporter Richard Daniel.
:01:45. > :01:49.Chrissie, unbelievable, just a couple of the choice words used by
:01:49. > :01:54.petrol retailers today about this panic buying. Some retailers
:01:54. > :01:57.haven't been affected, but here there has been a real problem.
:01:58. > :02:03.Within a one-mile radius from here there are three petrol stations and
:02:03. > :02:07.last night to have those ran out. It is piled on the pressure here.
:02:07. > :02:16.The police had just turned up because cars have been filtering
:02:17. > :02:21.out onto the road. Pumps dry. Panic-buying sold three days stock
:02:21. > :02:26.of diesel sold out and under for hours at this petrol station.
:02:26. > :02:33.Queues build up across the region. At this pet crustacean in
:02:33. > :02:38.Colchester, police were called after a fight broke out. At the
:02:38. > :02:46.pumps and the other carriageway, a long queue. Drivers faced with no
:02:46. > :02:52.choice but to slog it out. People panic. It is ridiculous. I needed
:02:53. > :03:00.formwork. People here have to and three jerry cans. As far as I'm
:03:00. > :03:07.concerned, I feel - I felt when I need to and indeed to now. - fill
:03:07. > :03:17.up. I don't know why people are panicking. There is no strike.
:03:17. > :03:22.are being urged not to panic or stock up on petrol. This is what
:03:22. > :03:27.happened in the year 2000 as well, isn't it? People didn't keep can
:03:27. > :03:32.then either. People were queuing up until half past midnight. Panic-
:03:32. > :03:37.buying when there is no tanker strike. It is all reminiscent of
:03:37. > :03:43.the run on Northern Rock. As one Fuhrer said to us, it was like
:03:43. > :03:52.Northern Rock on wheels. So how did it come to this? People try to
:03:52. > :03:58.guess how other people will behave in this type of situation. Day may
:03:58. > :04:06.assume that people will not be rational, so it is rational for
:04:06. > :04:10.them to go out and try to fill up their petrol tank. I think it is
:04:10. > :04:14.another sign of incompetence, whether it is the pasty tax or the
:04:14. > :04:18.way they have responded to this situation with the fuel dispute.
:04:18. > :04:23.They just aren't listening under out of touch. This evening drivers
:04:23. > :04:27.were still queuing in Luton. With so many fuel tanks will double over
:04:27. > :04:35.the past two days, it could turn out to be a very quiet weekend at
:04:35. > :04:39.the pumps. The police had shot of the slip road here because they are
:04:39. > :04:44.worried about accidents with lorries and other vehicles.
:04:44. > :04:48.Deliveries have been made here, but they can't keep up with demand.
:04:48. > :04:53.Yesterday they sold 40,000 litres of fuel in the eight hours.
:04:53. > :04:58.Normally that volume of fuel at less than two days. Many petrol
:04:58. > :05:03.stations around you have shut in recent years. It piled on the
:05:03. > :05:07.pressure. When people see that these pubs are open, they want to
:05:07. > :05:11.get in here to top up. Let's talk to our business
:05:11. > :05:19.correspondent, Richard Bond. What is this tanker driver dispute
:05:19. > :05:24.about? According to the union it isn't. It is about health and
:05:24. > :05:31.safety issues. Other people think that it is about money and the
:05:31. > :05:36.unions want to push up payment. The thing could be resolved. Even if
:05:36. > :05:45.the strike is called, the union has to give seven days' notice and the
:05:45. > :05:50.government has contingency plans. People here seem to be panic buying.
:05:50. > :05:56.The forecourts have been busy today. In rural areas we have seen demand
:05:56. > :06:02.for petrol soared by as much as 100 %. Diesel is that they may be 60 %.
:06:02. > :06:06.Diesel is bought by commercial drivers predominantly, were as
:06:06. > :06:11.petrol is almost exclusively bought by the private motorist and people
:06:11. > :06:15.who are normally happy to run around with half empty tanks have
:06:15. > :06:25.got a bit spooked and have gone to fill up. Particularly elderly
:06:25. > :06:29.
:06:29. > :06:35.people. How secure are supplies? Deliveries are getting through.
:06:35. > :06:41.What about the Stansted baggage handlers' dispute? That involves
:06:41. > :06:48.union members at a company called Swissport. They handle Ryanair
:06:48. > :06:52.luggage. This could be a very serious strike over Easter. Ryanair
:06:52. > :06:57.says there will be no disruption at all because they will be operating
:06:57. > :07:04.with carry on baggage only. If you're going to travel with them
:07:04. > :07:07.from Stansted over Easter, travel The family of a man from
:07:07. > :07:09.Northampton who was murdered while on holiday in Florida have
:07:09. > :07:12.described his killer as evil. 24- year-old James Kouzaris was shot
:07:12. > :07:15.dead with a friend. They had walked into a run-down housing estate
:07:15. > :07:24.where they were confronted by teenage gunman Shawn Tyson. He was
:07:24. > :07:28.jailed for life. He escaped the death penalty because of his age.
:07:28. > :07:33.James Kouzaris and James Cooper were beautiful and irreplaceable do
:07:33. > :07:39.so many others. Their humanity and above like was infectious and
:07:39. > :07:43.inspirational. They have lost their best friends, but after a difficult
:07:43. > :07:48.year they managed to face the cameras to pay tribute to James
:07:48. > :07:53.Kouzaris and James Cooper. We would like to express that this is not a
:07:53. > :07:57.day for celebration. It is the need - merely another chapter in the
:07:57. > :08:04.most difficult year imaginable. The evil of the killer is one thing,
:08:04. > :08:09.but the fact is he would not have been on the streets should have
:08:09. > :08:15.instructions to keep him incarcerated had passed from one
:08:15. > :08:20.judged to another. Shawn Tyson had been in jail the day before the
:08:20. > :08:25.murder. When he was just 16 he killed James Kouzaris and James
:08:25. > :08:30.Cooper as they stumbled drunk into the wrong part of Saratoga. Tyson
:08:30. > :08:37.boasted to friends that the two men have begged him to let them go. I
:08:37. > :08:42.did that, he told someone. Those friends turned against him. There
:08:42. > :08:46.has been a lot of criticism in the neighbourhood that they walked into
:08:46. > :08:50.a high-crime neighbourhood. They walked into a low income
:08:50. > :08:55.residential neighbourhood. The arrest was made because neighbours
:08:55. > :09:02.came forward and testified against one of their own neighbours. As a
:09:02. > :09:12.result, Shawn Tyson was arrested. James Kouzaris work for love and
:09:12. > :09:22.nurture - and - Northamptonshire County Council. Speaking at his
:09:22. > :09:24.
:09:24. > :09:29.son's funeral, James Kouzaris's father had written to Barack Obama.
:09:29. > :09:33.We would like to mention that there was no offer of support or
:09:33. > :09:39.condolence from any central American body or President Obama
:09:39. > :09:47.himself. We are yet to receive the courtesy of reply. It seems that
:09:47. > :09:55.Barack Obama sees no political value in preceding this request.
:09:55. > :09:59.Sean Tyson will face two life Earlier I spoke to Jeannie
:09:59. > :10:02.Barcheska, who is a Kouzaris family friend. I started by asking why the
:10:02. > :10:10.families had decided not to travel to Florida for the case. It must
:10:10. > :10:14.have been a very difficult decision. They really didn't want to go
:10:14. > :10:19.because they didn't want to here all of the detail about the case.
:10:19. > :10:24.They wanted to remember James and James as they were. It felt it
:10:24. > :10:29.would be too painful. I know they are also gone through a difficult
:10:29. > :10:33.time at the moment with various members of the family not well.
:10:33. > :10:40.Absolutely. Things have compounded it. It was a hard enough time for
:10:40. > :10:44.them anyway. In that time, they have been remarkable. I have never
:10:44. > :10:49.known such resilient people who have really engaged with their
:10:49. > :10:55.friends and family and allowed that support to take place. They wanted
:10:55. > :11:05.to say thank you to everybody he has supported them. You were with
:11:05. > :11:10.the family when the verdict came in. All was the reaction? Initially, a
:11:10. > :11:14.combination of anger and elation. Elation that it was the end of the
:11:14. > :11:19.stage that has gone on for a long time, but they still feel very
:11:19. > :11:25.angry that they have had their son taken away by somebody that they
:11:25. > :11:30.feel is very evil than seemed emotionless to them. It was that
:11:30. > :11:36.combination of relief and anger. You must be very proud of Paul and
:11:36. > :11:42.Joe he represented the friends and family over in Florida. They
:11:42. > :11:47.handled themselves so well and spoke so movingly. They did. They
:11:47. > :11:51.really just have excelled themselves. As well as setting up a
:11:51. > :11:57.charity, going out there to represent the family and friends
:11:57. > :12:03.and carrying themselves through this with so much dignity. The
:12:03. > :12:09.words that this book was so well moving and prepared. K and you tell
:12:09. > :12:12.us more about the charity? It was set-up in memory of James Kouzaris
:12:12. > :12:17.and James Cooper because the parents of both the boys wanted
:12:17. > :12:23.their memories to live on. Joe and Paul have got together with a lot
:12:23. > :12:27.of their friends. So many of them decided that this was the right way
:12:27. > :12:32.to keep their memory alive and raise money that they could put to
:12:32. > :12:36.good use for supporting victims who have been through violent crime
:12:36. > :12:44.themselves, but also to get involved with projects that might
:12:44. > :12:50.help children who don't have a chance in life to always have a
:12:50. > :12:55.chance, finding other ways to conduct their lives that might
:12:55. > :12:58.otherwise have gone down a violent crime route.
:12:58. > :13:01.There is lots more to come on Look East, including the husband from
:13:01. > :13:04.Suffolk who has spoken for the first time about being a police
:13:04. > :13:06.suspect in his wife's assisted suicide.
:13:06. > :13:10.In our Olympic report tonight, the sharp-eyed couple with their sights
:13:10. > :13:20.on Olympic gold. That's after a closer look at the news where you
:13:20. > :13:20.
:13:20. > :13:25.Britain's so-called eye in the sky has been praised today for saving
:13:25. > :13:29.the lives of British soldiers. The technology is part of the Tactical
:13:29. > :13:32.Imagery Wing based at RAF Marham in Norfolk. Today, on the unit's tenth
:13:32. > :13:41.anniversary, the team demonstrated how it's being deployed in war
:13:41. > :13:46.zones. Armed with missiles but bristling with cameras, RAF
:13:46. > :13:54.Marham's tornadoes over the front line, and at 15,000 ft the photos
:13:54. > :13:59.they take are incredibly detailed. Analysts at the tactical imagery
:13:59. > :14:05.intelligence wing turned those images into him valuable
:14:05. > :14:10.information for soldiers on the ground. Irrigation ditches that
:14:10. > :14:17.they need to crossover and so on. Also to the helicopter crews so
:14:17. > :14:22.they know what the hazards are. This role has never been as crucial.
:14:22. > :14:29.This is in the skies over Libya. You can see a man walking towards a
:14:29. > :14:38.tank. That tank is targeted by a tornado. Seconds later this one is
:14:39. > :14:42.also targeted. Even TV news reporter used to help corporate
:14:42. > :14:48.images gathered by the military. will take footage from anything we
:14:48. > :14:54.can get hold of to get the bigger intelligence picture of the area.
:14:54. > :14:58.So this is from a news report? The Royal Flying Corps was born out
:14:58. > :15:08.of aerial reconnaissance as century ago when spotters would fly over
:15:08. > :15:12.
:15:12. > :15:19.the battlefield of France. In Afghanistan, clearly a crucial
:15:19. > :15:23.role? Absolutely. It is saving lives, without a doubt. Begets
:15:23. > :15:28.information to the commanders of the can make timely and accurate
:15:28. > :15:32.decisions. The teams will take a few hours to celebrate their 10th
:15:32. > :15:35.birthday this weekend. A bomb disposal team is working to
:15:35. > :15:44.remove a German V2 rocket which has been found on mudflats between
:15:44. > :15:47.Harwich and Felixstowe. When the tide comes in it disappears under
:15:47. > :15:50.the water, but it should reappear at about 9.00pm tonight. Engineers
:15:50. > :15:52.hope to get it out of the mud tomorrow. Shipping has not been
:15:52. > :15:55.affected. The widow of Sir Bobby Robson, the
:15:55. > :15:58.former Ipswich Town and England manager, has unveiled a state of
:15:58. > :16:00.the art breast screening unit at the West Suffolk Hospital. It has
:16:00. > :16:10.cost �1.2 million and replaces two analogue mammography machines with
:16:10. > :16:12.
:16:12. > :16:17.the latest digital technology. Lady Elsie Robson return to Suffolk to
:16:17. > :16:21.officially open the new unit. It is three years since Bobby Robson died.
:16:22. > :16:26.This week the foundation named after him announced it has raised
:16:26. > :16:33.�4 million. It focuses on the early detection of the disease, a subject
:16:33. > :16:38.close to the heart of his wife. have no doubt that this new
:16:38. > :16:43.facility will help to identify women with breast cancer and it
:16:43. > :16:46.gives me great pleasure to officially open the new the
:16:46. > :16:51.refurbished west Suffolk breast imaging department today. A few
:16:51. > :16:57.have ever had a mammogram you know how it can be a little
:16:57. > :17:00.uncomfortable. Unfortunately, this machine doesn't change that, but it
:17:00. > :17:06.does have other advantages. They depict it - digital technology
:17:07. > :17:14.provides instant results, and gives more detail. We used to have to use
:17:14. > :17:21.a magnifying glass to see the close the deal. Now we can use the
:17:21. > :17:26.technology. Again, it makes the image reading much quicker and more
:17:26. > :17:33.efficient. The unit also has an extra screening room enabling more
:17:33. > :17:36.women to be seen. It is hoped the new technology will encourage those
:17:36. > :17:39.invited to use it. Four towns bidding for money to
:17:39. > :17:41.rejuvenate their centres have won the support of the New Anglia Local
:17:41. > :17:44.Enterprise Partnership. Brandon, Halesworth, Ipswich and Hunstanton
:17:44. > :17:51.have entered a national competition devised by retail expert Mary
:17:51. > :17:53.Portas to win up to �100,000 to develop their High Streets. The
:17:53. > :17:57.local enterprise partnership received applications from 19 towns,
:17:57. > :18:04.but chose to give its backing to only four. 12 so-called Portas
:18:04. > :18:07.Towns will be selected across Now here is a surprising fact.
:18:07. > :18:11.Nearly 10% of people in this region have no qualifications. If you are
:18:11. > :18:13.looking for a job it can be a problem, which is why literacy
:18:13. > :18:16.classes for adults are becoming increasingly popular. Demand is so
:18:16. > :18:26.high in one college that they have doubled the number of places on
:18:26. > :18:27.
:18:27. > :18:31.offer. Unemployed for 18 months, Brian is back in the classroom. He
:18:31. > :18:38.hopes improving his reading and writing skills will boost his
:18:38. > :18:41.chances of getting a job. Everyone else is coming out of school and
:18:41. > :18:47.they are seeking employment and you're competing with them. You
:18:47. > :18:52.have got to be in the same places them, really. Kerry was a young mum
:18:52. > :18:58.who left school out qualifications. She is confident literacy classes
:18:58. > :19:06.will get her into the workplace. Had will help the with my spelling,
:19:06. > :19:10.reading and confident in writing letters and applying for jobs.
:19:10. > :19:16.at Great Yarmouth College demand for adult literacy is high. They
:19:16. > :19:24.had doubled the number of classes in recent months. People feel that
:19:24. > :19:31.the need to get more skills to move on. If you had an knock by being
:19:31. > :19:34.made redundant, you need that extra confidence. It is an issue which
:19:34. > :19:41.affects 5 million people across the UK and is being highlighted all
:19:41. > :19:51.week in a series of daytime dramas on BBC One. Details of how to get
:19:51. > :19:57.
:19:57. > :20:00.A man who admitted helping his terminally ill wife to die has
:20:00. > :20:02.broken his silence about his arrest, and the 15 months spent on police
:20:02. > :20:04.bail. Barrie Sheldon, from Worlingworth in Suffolk, was
:20:05. > :20:12.arrested by detectives after he admitted helping his wife,
:20:12. > :20:18.Elizabeth, prepare for a fatal overdose.
:20:18. > :20:23.Barrie Sheldon's wife Elizabeth died 30 years ago. This is a
:20:23. > :20:29.suitcase full of her possessions. Elizabeth was a district nurse,
:20:29. > :20:32.vivacious and caring. They travelled the world together. In
:20:32. > :20:36.1978 Elisabet was diagnosed with Huntington's disease. It affects
:20:36. > :20:42.mind and body and as a nurse she knew what the future held because
:20:42. > :20:52.she had seen it before. The worst she had ever had, she would talk
:20:52. > :20:53.
:20:53. > :20:59.about this patient who couldn't walk, could barely stand, had to be
:20:59. > :21:04.hand fed. Elizabeth made a living Will and the 1982 chose to take her
:21:04. > :21:07.own life. At the help of her husband, she kept pills, which she
:21:07. > :21:14.took. Elizabeth didn't die immediately and has taken to
:21:14. > :21:20.hospital. I was faced with the dreadful dilemma. Frankly I have a
:21:20. > :21:26.saying, die, die, die whenever sat by her bedside, writhing about, not
:21:26. > :21:32.being given any nursing care for a day. Elizabeth Sheldon died four
:21:32. > :21:36.days later. For many years he kept quiet about what had happened but
:21:36. > :21:41.in 2010 he appeared on the Newsnight programme. Did you have
:21:41. > :21:46.any worries that the parties might decide to come after you? I don't
:21:46. > :21:51.care a damp. Let them. He was arrested by the Metropolitan Police,
:21:51. > :22:01.but never charged. This week assisted suicide was debated in
:22:01. > :22:06.Parliament. Barry says that the politicians are fudging the issue.
:22:06. > :22:10.There must be thousands of people who have loved ones who are
:22:10. > :22:18.desperate, they don't know what to do, their loved ones have had
:22:18. > :22:23.enough. They're frightened of being prosecuted. Assisted suicide is
:22:23. > :22:27.opposed by many. People with fear, are those who work with the sick
:22:27. > :22:35.and dying who believe it is not the answer. Barrie Sheldon said there
:22:35. > :22:43.shouldn't be a choice, choice never given to his wife. That there
:22:43. > :22:45.And if you want more information about Huntington's disease, or help,
:22:45. > :22:52.there is a website for the Huntington's Disease Association.
:22:52. > :22:55.It is hda.org.uk. It's Thursday, and that means our
:22:55. > :22:58.weekly Olympic report. Tonight we are looking ahead to the weekend,
:22:58. > :23:01.when it will be crunch time for a couple from Ipswich trying to
:23:01. > :23:04.qualify for London 2012 in the archery. Nicky Hunt and Michael
:23:04. > :23:08.Peart are hoping they can make it an extra special Olympics when they
:23:08. > :23:18.both get the chance to qualify for Team GB this weekend. And time is
:23:18. > :23:33.
:23:33. > :23:40.running out. There are just 120 300 arrows a day, six days a week
:23:40. > :23:44.for 10 years, side by side. There is little time for Cupid to do his
:23:44. > :23:48.work with these two. Almost every waking minute is spent facing the
:23:48. > :23:55.target. It is great to be with someone who understands the level
:23:55. > :23:58.of commitments. To have someone outside of the sport, it makes it
:23:58. > :24:07.quite hard. You need an understanding partner because it is
:24:07. > :24:12.so demanding. We spend a lot of time waiting to each other as the
:24:12. > :24:20.girls practise at the start of the week and the boys at the end.
:24:20. > :24:27.Nikkei 12 gold medals in the Commonwealth Games. That was using
:24:27. > :24:33.a different type of bow. It is a big step up. The experience at
:24:33. > :24:43.Delhi was amazing. Am sure it will be tenfold. Whether I make good
:24:43. > :24:45.
:24:45. > :24:51.team, it is outside my control. The trials Ford - the trials for Team
:24:51. > :24:55.GB start this week. Can they do together? It is sticking to
:24:55. > :25:01.everything we can do, 100 % your best effort and what will be will
:25:01. > :25:05.be. If both of us can go, that would be incredible. It is the
:25:05. > :25:10.pinnacle of the sporting world. If one of us can go, the other will
:25:10. > :25:20.get behind the other. An eye for the target and an eye for each
:25:20. > :25:24.
:25:24. > :25:28.It has been another fine day of weather across the region, but it
:25:28. > :25:32.is pointed changed at the weekend. The high pressure that has kept
:25:32. > :25:36.things fine and dry is moving out into the Atlantic so it will allow
:25:36. > :25:43.one or two fronts to head down the North Sea but the weekend. This is
:25:43. > :25:49.a satellite image from a couple of hours ago. All clear skies. It will
:25:49. > :25:53.go cold tonight. The - there is the chance of an odd missed patch, but
:25:53. > :26:03.mostly cured overnight tonight. We will get down to about three
:26:03. > :26:03.
:26:03. > :26:08.degrees Celsius, so there is that risk of a touch of ground frost. So,
:26:08. > :26:14.a cold start tomorrow. On the whole tomorrow will be cloudier, so we
:26:14. > :26:19.will notice that change. It will also be slightly cooler, especially
:26:19. > :26:29.on the north Norfolk coast. Further west we can still get highs of
:26:29. > :26:29.
:26:29. > :26:33.about 18 Celsius. It will stay fine and dry through the afternoon. The
:26:33. > :26:38.change that will start on Saturday will all be because of the
:26:38. > :26:42.positioning of this high weather. How To Coast into the Atlantic,
:26:42. > :26:47.then you will see this cold front that will head steadily down the
:26:47. > :26:51.North Sea. It is not likely to produce any rain for us in the
:26:51. > :26:57.north-east, but it will introduce cooler air behind it. Having said
:26:57. > :27:03.that, temperatures will still be above average. Looking into the
:27:03. > :27:09.weekend, quite a change. More cloud generally for Saturday. The cloud
:27:09. > :27:15.might produce an odd spot of rain, but for most places it will be dry.
:27:15. > :27:22.Try for Sunday, cloud around the Times. For Monday, there is a new
:27:22. > :27:27.developments for Tuesday. But the moderate northerly breeze the