29/03/2012 Look East - East

On Look East tonight: It's a double blow for travellers - the scramble

for fuel goes on at the pumps and now baggage handlers at Stansted

Airport vote to go on strike over Easter. Hello from Stewart and me.

Also tonight: These two men watched the man who murdered their friends

given a life sentence, but say the American government should have

done more. We would like to express a dissatisfaction at the lack of

any public or private message of condolence from any Central

American government body or President Obama himself.

A husband from Suffolk describes his anguish at helping his wife to

take her own life. And on target: the sharp-eyed

For the third day running there have been queues and a sharp rise

in demand at filling stations across the region. And, for the

third day running, petrol retailers are insisting there is no need for

panic-buying. The vast majority of the region's fuel stations are

operating normally, but some, especially in rural areas, are

struggling to keep up with the surge in demand. There is more bad

news for travellers tonight after baggage handlers at Stansted

Airport voted for strike action which could hit Easter services.

Let's start in Suffolk and our reporter Richard Daniel.

Chrissie, unbelievable, just a couple of the choice words used by

petrol retailers today about this panic buying. Some retailers

haven't been affected, but here there has been a real problem.

Within a one-mile radius from here there are three petrol stations and

last night to have those ran out. It is piled on the pressure here.

The police had just turned up because cars have been filtering

out onto the road. Pumps dry. Panic-buying sold three days stock

of diesel sold out and under for hours at this petrol station.

Queues build up across the region. At this pet crustacean in

Colchester, police were called after a fight broke out. At the

pumps and the other carriageway, a long queue. Drivers faced with no

choice but to slog it out. People panic. It is ridiculous. I needed

formwork. People here have to and three jerry cans. As far as I'm

concerned, I feel - I felt when I need to and indeed to now. - fill

up. I don't know why people are panicking. There is no strike.

are being urged not to panic or stock up on petrol. This is what

happened in the year 2000 as well, isn't it? People didn't keep can

then either. People were queuing up until half past midnight. Panic-

buying when there is no tanker strike. It is all reminiscent of

the run on Northern Rock. As one Fuhrer said to us, it was like

Northern Rock on wheels. So how did it come to this? People try to

guess how other people will behave in this type of situation. Day may

assume that people will not be rational, so it is rational for

them to go out and try to fill up their petrol tank. I think it is

another sign of incompetence, whether it is the pasty tax or the

way they have responded to this situation with the fuel dispute.

They just aren't listening under out of touch. This evening drivers

were still queuing in Luton. With so many fuel tanks will double over

the past two days, it could turn out to be a very quiet weekend at

the pumps. The police had shot of the slip road here because they are

worried about accidents with lorries and other vehicles.

Deliveries have been made here, but they can't keep up with demand.

Yesterday they sold 40,000 litres of fuel in the eight hours.

Normally that volume of fuel at less than two days. Many petrol

stations around you have shut in recent years. It piled on the

pressure. When people see that these pubs are open, they want to

get in here to top up. Let's talk to our business

correspondent, Richard Bond. What is this tanker driver dispute

about? According to the union it isn't. It is about health and

safety issues. Other people think that it is about money and the

unions want to push up payment. The thing could be resolved. Even if

the strike is called, the union has to give seven days' notice and the

government has contingency plans. People here seem to be panic buying.

The forecourts have been busy today. In rural areas we have seen demand

for petrol soared by as much as 100 %. Diesel is that they may be 60 %.

Diesel is bought by commercial drivers predominantly, were as

petrol is almost exclusively bought by the private motorist and people

who are normally happy to run around with half empty tanks have

got a bit spooked and have gone to fill up. Particularly elderly

people. How secure are supplies? Deliveries are getting through.

What about the Stansted baggage handlers' dispute? That involves

union members at a company called Swissport. They handle Ryanair

luggage. This could be a very serious strike over Easter. Ryanair

says there will be no disruption at all because they will be operating

with carry on baggage only. If you're going to travel with them

from Stansted over Easter, travel The family of a man from

Northampton who was murdered while on holiday in Florida have

described his killer as evil. 24- year-old James Kouzaris was shot

dead with a friend. They had walked into a run-down housing estate

where they were confronted by teenage gunman Shawn Tyson. He was

jailed for life. He escaped the death penalty because of his age.

James Kouzaris and James Cooper were beautiful and irreplaceable do

so many others. Their humanity and above like was infectious and

inspirational. They have lost their best friends, but after a difficult

year they managed to face the cameras to pay tribute to James

Kouzaris and James Cooper. We would like to express that this is not a

day for celebration. It is the need - merely another chapter in the

most difficult year imaginable. The evil of the killer is one thing,

but the fact is he would not have been on the streets should have

instructions to keep him incarcerated had passed from one

judged to another. Shawn Tyson had been in jail the day before the

murder. When he was just 16 he killed James Kouzaris and James

Cooper as they stumbled drunk into the wrong part of Saratoga. Tyson

boasted to friends that the two men have begged him to let them go. I

did that, he told someone. Those friends turned against him. There

has been a lot of criticism in the neighbourhood that they walked into

a high-crime neighbourhood. They walked into a low income

residential neighbourhood. The arrest was made because neighbours

came forward and testified against one of their own neighbours. As a

result, Shawn Tyson was arrested. James Kouzaris work for love and

nurture - and - Northamptonshire County Council. Speaking at his

son's funeral, James Kouzaris's father had written to Barack Obama.

We would like to mention that there was no offer of support or

condolence from any central American body or President Obama

himself. We are yet to receive the courtesy of reply. It seems that

Barack Obama sees no political value in preceding this request.

Sean Tyson will face two life Earlier I spoke to Jeannie

Barcheska, who is a Kouzaris family friend. I started by asking why the

families had decided not to travel to Florida for the case. It must

have been a very difficult decision. They really didn't want to go

because they didn't want to here all of the detail about the case.

They wanted to remember James and James as they were. It felt it

would be too painful. I know they are also gone through a difficult

time at the moment with various members of the family not well.

Absolutely. Things have compounded it. It was a hard enough time for

them anyway. In that time, they have been remarkable. I have never

known such resilient people who have really engaged with their

friends and family and allowed that support to take place. They wanted

to say thank you to everybody he has supported them. You were with

the family when the verdict came in. All was the reaction? Initially, a

combination of anger and elation. Elation that it was the end of the

stage that has gone on for a long time, but they still feel very

angry that they have had their son taken away by somebody that they

feel is very evil than seemed emotionless to them. It was that

combination of relief and anger. You must be very proud of Paul and

Joe he represented the friends and family over in Florida. They

handled themselves so well and spoke so movingly. They did. They

really just have excelled themselves. As well as setting up a

charity, going out there to represent the family and friends

and carrying themselves through this with so much dignity. The

words that this book was so well moving and prepared. K and you tell

us more about the charity? It was set-up in memory of James Kouzaris

and James Cooper because the parents of both the boys wanted

their memories to live on. Joe and Paul have got together with a lot

of their friends. So many of them decided that this was the right way

to keep their memory alive and raise money that they could put to

good use for supporting victims who have been through violent crime

themselves, but also to get involved with projects that might

help children who don't have a chance in life to always have a

chance, finding other ways to conduct their lives that might

otherwise have gone down a violent crime route.

There is lots more to come on Look East, including the husband from

Suffolk who has spoken for the first time about being a police

suspect in his wife's assisted suicide.

In our Olympic report tonight, the sharp-eyed couple with their sights

on Olympic gold. That's after a closer look at the news where you

Britain's so-called eye in the sky has been praised today for saving

the lives of British soldiers. The technology is part of the Tactical

Imagery Wing based at RAF Marham in Norfolk. Today, on the unit's tenth

anniversary, the team demonstrated how it's being deployed in war

zones. Armed with missiles but bristling with cameras, RAF

Marham's tornadoes over the front line, and at 15,000 ft the photos

they take are incredibly detailed. Analysts at the tactical imagery

intelligence wing turned those images into him valuable

information for soldiers on the ground. Irrigation ditches that

they need to crossover and so on. Also to the helicopter crews so

they know what the hazards are. This role has never been as crucial.

This is in the skies over Libya. You can see a man walking towards a

tank. That tank is targeted by a tornado. Seconds later this one is

also targeted. Even TV news reporter used to help corporate

images gathered by the military. will take footage from anything we

can get hold of to get the bigger intelligence picture of the area.

So this is from a news report? The Royal Flying Corps was born out

of aerial reconnaissance as century ago when spotters would fly over

the battlefield of France. In Afghanistan, clearly a crucial

role? Absolutely. It is saving lives, without a doubt. Begets

information to the commanders of the can make timely and accurate

decisions. The teams will take a few hours to celebrate their 10th

birthday this weekend. A bomb disposal team is working to

remove a German V2 rocket which has been found on mudflats between

Harwich and Felixstowe. When the tide comes in it disappears under

the water, but it should reappear at about 9.00pm tonight. Engineers

hope to get it out of the mud tomorrow. Shipping has not been

affected. The widow of Sir Bobby Robson, the

former Ipswich Town and England manager, has unveiled a state of

the art breast screening unit at the West Suffolk Hospital. It has

cost �1.2 million and replaces two analogue mammography machines with

the latest digital technology. Lady Elsie Robson return to Suffolk to

officially open the new unit. It is three years since Bobby Robson died.

This week the foundation named after him announced it has raised

�4 million. It focuses on the early detection of the disease, a subject

close to the heart of his wife. have no doubt that this new

facility will help to identify women with breast cancer and it

gives me great pleasure to officially open the new the

refurbished west Suffolk breast imaging department today. A few

have ever had a mammogram you know how it can be a little

uncomfortable. Unfortunately, this machine doesn't change that, but it

does have other advantages. They depict it - digital technology

provides instant results, and gives more detail. We used to have to use

a magnifying glass to see the close the deal. Now we can use the

technology. Again, it makes the image reading much quicker and more

efficient. The unit also has an extra screening room enabling more

women to be seen. It is hoped the new technology will encourage those

invited to use it. Four towns bidding for money to

rejuvenate their centres have won the support of the New Anglia Local

Enterprise Partnership. Brandon, Halesworth, Ipswich and Hunstanton

have entered a national competition devised by retail expert Mary

Portas to win up to �100,000 to develop their High Streets. The

local enterprise partnership received applications from 19 towns,

but chose to give its backing to only four. 12 so-called Portas

Towns will be selected across Now here is a surprising fact.

Nearly 10% of people in this region have no qualifications. If you are

looking for a job it can be a problem, which is why literacy

classes for adults are becoming increasingly popular. Demand is so

high in one college that they have doubled the number of places on

offer. Unemployed for 18 months, Brian is back in the classroom. He

hopes improving his reading and writing skills will boost his

chances of getting a job. Everyone else is coming out of school and

they are seeking employment and you're competing with them. You

have got to be in the same places them, really. Kerry was a young mum

who left school out qualifications. She is confident literacy classes

will get her into the workplace. Had will help the with my spelling,

reading and confident in writing letters and applying for jobs.

at Great Yarmouth College demand for adult literacy is high. They

had doubled the number of classes in recent months. People feel that

the need to get more skills to move on. If you had an knock by being

made redundant, you need that extra confidence. It is an issue which

affects 5 million people across the UK and is being highlighted all

week in a series of daytime dramas on BBC One. Details of how to get

A man who admitted helping his terminally ill wife to die has

broken his silence about his arrest, and the 15 months spent on police

bail. Barrie Sheldon, from Worlingworth in Suffolk, was

arrested by detectives after he admitted helping his wife,

Elizabeth, prepare for a fatal overdose.

Barrie Sheldon's wife Elizabeth died 30 years ago. This is a

suitcase full of her possessions. Elizabeth was a district nurse,

vivacious and caring. They travelled the world together. In

1978 Elisabet was diagnosed with Huntington's disease. It affects

mind and body and as a nurse she knew what the future held because

she had seen it before. The worst she had ever had, she would talk

about this patient who couldn't walk, could barely stand, had to be

hand fed. Elizabeth made a living Will and the 1982 chose to take her

own life. At the help of her husband, she kept pills, which she

took. Elizabeth didn't die immediately and has taken to

hospital. I was faced with the dreadful dilemma. Frankly I have a

saying, die, die, die whenever sat by her bedside, writhing about, not

being given any nursing care for a day. Elizabeth Sheldon died four

days later. For many years he kept quiet about what had happened but

in 2010 he appeared on the Newsnight programme. Did you have

any worries that the parties might decide to come after you? I don't

care a damp. Let them. He was arrested by the Metropolitan Police,

but never charged. This week assisted suicide was debated in

Parliament. Barry says that the politicians are fudging the issue.

There must be thousands of people who have loved ones who are

desperate, they don't know what to do, their loved ones have had

enough. They're frightened of being prosecuted. Assisted suicide is

opposed by many. People with fear, are those who work with the sick

and dying who believe it is not the answer. Barrie Sheldon said there

shouldn't be a choice, choice never given to his wife. That there

And if you want more information about Huntington's disease, or help,

there is a website for the Huntington's Disease Association.

It is hda.org.uk. It's Thursday, and that means our

weekly Olympic report. Tonight we are looking ahead to the weekend,

when it will be crunch time for a couple from Ipswich trying to

qualify for London 2012 in the archery. Nicky Hunt and Michael

Peart are hoping they can make it an extra special Olympics when they

both get the chance to qualify for Team GB this weekend. And time is

running out. There are just 120 300 arrows a day, six days a week

for 10 years, side by side. There is little time for Cupid to do his

work with these two. Almost every waking minute is spent facing the

target. It is great to be with someone who understands the level

of commitments. To have someone outside of the sport, it makes it

quite hard. You need an understanding partner because it is

so demanding. We spend a lot of time waiting to each other as the

girls practise at the start of the week and the boys at the end.

Nikkei 12 gold medals in the Commonwealth Games. That was using

a different type of bow. It is a big step up. The experience at

Delhi was amazing. Am sure it will be tenfold. Whether I make good

team, it is outside my control. The trials Ford - the trials for Team

GB start this week. Can they do together? It is sticking to

everything we can do, 100 % your best effort and what will be will

be. If both of us can go, that would be incredible. It is the

pinnacle of the sporting world. If one of us can go, the other will

get behind the other. An eye for the target and an eye for each

It has been another fine day of weather across the region, but it

is pointed changed at the weekend. The high pressure that has kept

things fine and dry is moving out into the Atlantic so it will allow

one or two fronts to head down the North Sea but the weekend. This is

a satellite image from a couple of hours ago. All clear skies. It will

go cold tonight. The - there is the chance of an odd missed patch, but

mostly cured overnight tonight. We will get down to about three

degrees Celsius, so there is that risk of a touch of ground frost. So,

a cold start tomorrow. On the whole tomorrow will be cloudier, so we

will notice that change. It will also be slightly cooler, especially

on the north Norfolk coast. Further west we can still get highs of

about 18 Celsius. It will stay fine and dry through the afternoon. The

change that will start on Saturday will all be because of the

positioning of this high weather. How To Coast into the Atlantic,

then you will see this cold front that will head steadily down the

North Sea. It is not likely to produce any rain for us in the

north-east, but it will introduce cooler air behind it. Having said

that, temperatures will still be above average. Looking into the

weekend, quite a change. More cloud generally for Saturday. The cloud

might produce an odd spot of rain, but for most places it will be dry.

Try for Sunday, cloud around the Times. For Monday, there is a new

developments for Tuesday. But the moderate northerly breeze the