03/04/2012 Look East - East

Welcome to the programme. Tonight: It killed by a single

punch in an argument after a night out. The man who threw the punch is

jailed for manslaughter of. One mindless action has totally

destroyed our lives. It has taken an absolutely remarkable person

from us. Our lives will never be the same for us stop the roads

cracking in the drought. A father appeals for information 10

years after his daughter was murdered.

And I am with the Aldeburgh World Orchestra, in Suffolk for the 2012

A harmless man who was no threat to anyone, the words used by adjudged

to describe Kevin Harrison who was killed by a single punched during

an argument after a night out. Today the man who threw the punch

was jailed for five years for manslaughter.

Kevin Harrison had been celebrating a birthday with his son and other

friends in Bedford last September, and was punched once by a Ravi

Sandhu, and died eight days later in hospital from catastrophic head

injuries. After the verdict his widow said the family was lost

without him. He died after a single punch, after

a night out. Kevin Harrison, 48, was a father, stepfather and

husband. Today his widow, supported by family, gay for this reaction. -

- gave for this reaction. He goes for a night out, and we do not see

him again. We watched him die. We never got a chance to say goodbye.

I am having to sell my home because I cannot afford to run it any more.

Our lives have been totally turned upside-down. 24-year-old Ravi

Sandhu punched Kevin Harrison in the head from behind. This CCTV

moments after, somewhere in the distance Kevin Harrison is lying on

the pavement with brain-damaged, and highlighted now is Ravi Sandhu,

running away with his friends. It was 3 o'clock in the morning. Kevin

Harrison had been drinking and bumped into Ravi Sandhu and his

friends on the pavement. A punch was thrown. He was a harmless man

who was very drunk, no threat to anyone apart from himself, the

court was told. I would urge people out on the town to stop and think

before they take any action because as this incident has shown, it has

led to tragic consequence the. Something the family say no one

should have to go through. I just want people to think before they

get involved in fights, arguments, because all it takes is one punched

and everything is destroyed. -- 1 punched. His attacker was fuelled

by drink, the judge said. His death was another sad reminder of the

Four councils in the region are getting together to ask the

Government for extra money for a gym work to repair the roads. The

problems have been caused by months of below-average rainfall, which

has led to the ground drying out. So far the councils have asked for

nearly �20 million. Let us go life became richer.

-- wife became richer. We are on the B1050 at Earith. The marina is

just behind me, and the Rriver Great Ouse runs alongside.

This road is a classic victim of a prolonged drought. People will tell

you that the one thing they are guaranteed of is a bumpy ride.

A roller-coaster ride is the one where it has been described, and

that is the way it feels as you bump along the surface. The council

says on many roads and Fenland, the ground is causing significant

safety hazards, with risks increasing at night or in bad

weather. They have been strengthening the banks of the

River Ouse to prevent the roadway from sinking. But the drought is

making things far worse, and for safety reasons, they have law of

the speed limit from 60 to 40. The council wants to spend 100...

wrote to the Minister to ask for additional funding, and the answer

was not favourable. We have put a business case together that shows

how much damage there is to the roads, which is exceptional. It is

something we need to get to grips with, and the current budget would

not allow us to do that. Peterborough city council is asking

for �1.6 million to appear more than 156. This road is reckoned to

be one of the worst in the area. You have to drive on the other side

of the road, but then the oncoming traffic comes towards you, and you

have to move over. The potholes make it very uncomfortable. It is

worrying in many places, particularly if someone is coming

towards you ruse not aware of how bad they are. Roads are cracking up

even after they have been repaired. This is the high street, and

another road in Sutton. 250 miles of rural roads are needing urgent

treatment. Came Russia looking for 9.9 million, Peterborough looking

for 6.1 million, Norfolk 3.8 million, and we're waiting for the

official figure from Suffolk. That is a substantial amount. Norman

Baker said today that councils in the region are getting �320 million

for road maintenance over four years. He has said that last year

they also got extra money to repair damage caused by severe winter

weather. A man and a woman have been

arrested on suspicion of murdering a seven-week-old boy a in

Northampton. They were arrested following the death of Jamie

Kightley last month. Felicity Simper is in Northampton for us now.

These arrests were made nearly two weeks ago on 22nd March. But

details are only just emerging. They follow the death of a seven-

week-old baby boy, who has now been named as Jamie Kightley from London

wrote in the Far Cotton a rear of Northampton. He died on Saturday,

17th March. The two people who have been arrested a 23-year-old man and

a 20-year-old women, both from Northampton, arrested on suspicion

of murder. They have been bailed, pending further inquiries. Details

surrounding the death are still unclear at the moment, but initial

findings seem to suggest that they -- he died of a head injury. Police

have not gone into any great detail at this stage, but they have said

we can confirm that two arrests have been made by officers in the

East Midlands special operations unit for a major crime, a 23-year-

old man and a 20-year-old woman, both from Northampton were arrested

on suspicion of the murder of a seven-week-old baby. Tests are

still being carried out to establish why he died at the moment,

and an inquest is due to open tomorrow.

Thank you. 30 years ago this week, Argentina

invaded the Falkland Islands. Within days we put together a task

force, but one of the problems was the distance. None of the aircraft

could fly the 8,000 miles to the Falkland Islands. A solution was

found in this region, at Marshall Aerospace in Cambridge.

The 2nd Battalion of the parish address -- Regiment.

One man remembers a different battle, played out here in

Cambridge. I remember the Col coming in from the RAF. They asked

what can marshal do? Just weeks into the conflict, already supplies

were running sure it. I did not realise how much was going to be

involved, and what a big deal it would be. And you soon found out

exclamation mark we still found -- we soon found out. Howard still

works here. But nothing compares to the day that the RAF Aston to do

the impossible. -- asked him. Marshall Aerospace designed,

manufactured and installed a refuelling probe to the aircraft.

They Hercules was essential to resupply the trips food. -- food,

ammunition and medicine. But innate 1,000 mile journey required fuel

stops. But Marshall Aerospace solve that. The man in charge of the RAF

knows that without the company, things could have been different.

It is quite remarkable the way that engineers and everybody rallied

round and got on with it, work 24 hours a day, and the Hercules did a

tremendous job as well. Those sentiments were echoed by the Prime

Minister in a later visit to Marshall Aerospace. Did you enjoy

it? Very much. And I was very proud. Current events have led to

questions, could we once again be in the Falkland Islands have we had

to? Whether or not the military could stretch that far is a

question that is hard to answer. But one thing we know for sure is

that the work you done means the Hercules will have no problems

getting there whatsoever. Still to come: Top tips for a dry

garden, and Kevin Burch with a four-legged hero. This is the

rescue dog that helped locate one of the victims in the explosion

yesterday in Clacton. Today we have come behind the scenes to see what

Planned strike by ground staff at Stansted Airport over Easter have

been called off. Workers belonging to the GMB union had threatened to

walk out on Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday, over

pay. The action has been suspended after talks with employer Swissport.

A rolling roadblock has been set up in Suffolk after several drivers

told police their cars had been hit by rocks. A police helicopter has

been called in to join the search. The police say they are looking for

three or four young people. No one has the injured.

The father of a woman who was murdered 10 years ago today has

made a new appeal for help in finding her killer. Michelle

Bettles worked as a prostitute in Norwich, and was found strangled in

woodland near D them. The last sighting of Michelle

Bettles in Norwich. The 22-year-old was a sex worker in the city's red

light district. She had an appointment with a client, which

she never made. Her father John lives in Yorkshire, and made an

emotional trip to Norfolk to make one last plea for information.

- you cannot explain. It is like a story with no ending. Your daughter

had three young children at the time she died. How difficult has it

been explaining what happened to them? As they are getting older now,

they all have access to the internet, and it can be quite

difficult. Three days after she went missing, a local dog walker

spotted something in this area behind the country track. Police

were called, found her fully- clothed body in undergrowth, 20

miles from where she was last seen. Some of her personal items were

missing. Her black leather coat she was wearing, her purse and part of

a necklace. When two other sex workers went missing, there was

speculation their disappearances could be linked, but police found

no connection. We're making this appeal because we think that

people's allegiances may have changed after 10 years, and may

have new evidence we can work on. We do not wanted to look like no

one ever cared, because we do it. Her father thinks this is the last

chance he has to find out what happened to his daughter. Her

favourite subject at school was French. The translation, gone too

Two MPs from Suffolk have written to the Health Secretary asking for

a heliport to be built at the new trauma centre at Addenbrooke's

Hospital. The unit open yesterday but the air ambulance has to land

at a local golf club, and the patient is then transferred by road.

The regional trauma centre is one of 22 units being rolled out across

the country. Dealing with critical injuries and emergencies, and

launched only yesterday, Suffolk's MPs have wasted no time at been

demanding a heliport be built for the air ambulance.

We need to make sure that the air ambulance which saves lives on a

daily basis is able to be used as part of that from a service, and we

need to have a helipad at Addenbrooke's.

The East Anglian Air Ambulance operates in a mainly rural and

coastal area where it can be difficult for manned ambulances to

reach the injured. Flying patients to Addenbrooke's involves landing

at a nearby golf course with an 11.5 minute transfer by road.

of the patients we treat have time critical injuries or illness is,

and whilst we can do quite a lot for the patients at the scene,

getting them to their treatment as soon as possible is one of our

major object to us. Five years ago and Brooks borders

land to expand the hospital and build a heliport, but then the

recession kicked in. Today it said a helipad is part of its future

plans, but was confident any future transfer by road would not have any

adverse effect on patients being taken to the new trauma centre.

The Ministry of Defence says 450 jobs have been secured in Harlow

and Scotland by a �60 million contract for the weapons maker

Raytheon. The order is for the new Paveway IV

precision bomb, which is fired from Tornado jets. The bombs were used

Last year and in Afghanistan. Essex play Gloucestershire in the

County Championship on Thursday. Hopes are high - they have some new

players and are looking for one of last season's stars to shine again.

The back of his shirt says it all. Last season David Masters really

did muster his craft. Leading wicket-taker in the county

Championship, it tough act to follow. People have asked, are you

going to get 100 wickets this year? That is a long way away. I will try

my hardest, but if I can get 50 or 60 wickets in his season I have

done really well. He is probably the best bowler I have ever kept to.

He doesn't go for any runs. So while he is tasked with taking

wickets, this man is here to score runs. Alviro Petersen flew in this

morning from South Africa's Test series in New Zealand. He signed

from Glamorgan, scoring of a 200 runs for them last season. I always

believed can seek -- county cricket is a finishing school for Test

cricket. There is not a lot of time to prepare.

Essex today defender the Lord -- their role in the betting scandal.

Their former butler was sentenced to four months in prison for spot

fixing. -- bowler. If anything good comes out of this, I think it any

whispering happens again it will be reported very quickly. We do not

want to see this again in counted cricket.

The target this season his promotion. The rent...

Last that we told you how six people were rescued from a gas

explosion in Clacton. One was rescued by a search dog called

Kirby. He is four years old and had never

worked on a rescue before. He only qualified in fact last week.

It was a pretty impressive start for Kirby. First rescue, and it

took him less than one minute in the rubble to find the trapped

victim. When the house collapsed around him, he had fallen from top

to bottom, apparently still in bed. This is where Kirby wind his skills

in Sexton. Hand-picked when he was tiny, intense training, and now a

life saver. To actually get a job one day after he is graded, and get

a rescue. The rescue of -- the whole station was cheering for him,

and I think it is a tribute to him who had impact -- everyone who had

been packed into the dock. It is quite an experience. But it

is well worth it at the end of the day because you see the dogs get a

lot out of it, and it is a pleasure to help.

A but while Kirby is still -- just starting, his team-mate is a

veteran. Seven years old, she has been used overseas searching for

survivors. You spend so much time with the dogs, they are part of a

family. The fact that they come to work with you and you have them at

home, I see more of Harburn I do of my wife. It is very much a strong

bond. As the investigation into the

Clacton blast continues, two victims remain in hospital. One is

said to be stable and comfortable. The man pulled from the rubble is

said to be stable. For Kirby and his handler, there is

always yet more training to be done. Win the next rescue call goes out,

they will be ready. -- then the next rescue Calders at.

On Thursday lots of hospital will up our hosepipes and put them away

for the foreseeable future. If you'd love to do gardening, but

what could be a big problem. So let us get some advice from the

experts at RHS Hyde Hall in Essex. They have got a dry garden which

never gets extra water, but still looks amazing.

Our reservoirs on low. Hosepipe bans are in the offing. So what

plants can cope? This is the dry garden at RHS Hyde

Hall near Chelmsford in Essex. It is the bras county in the country.

All of the plants here, 700 species, survive on nothing more than

rainfall. We never water at the dry garden at all. It is only if we

planned one plant in the spring and it has not blame, it will get one

watering can to get it started. A lot of the plants we used here are

succulents, so they save water in their leaves. They are silvery

leaves, but helps with reflecting the Sun, hairy leaves also helps

with reflecting the Sun and retains water.

And if Hyde Hall can do it, Gordon manager Ian says you can do it too.

Dry gardens need not lack, cough. We have an acacia, a bright yellow

small tree, a fantastic small specimen for the garden. This time

of year, Euphorbia, the lime-green flowers and even some of the

pronoun yield -- perennial wallflower. There always is

something of interest cover bus macro, colour and texture.

Elsewhere though, Hyde Hall's rooms need a spot of rain. Even the

scarecrows are beginning to look thirsty for.

Think of famous orchestras and you might think of the London Symphony

of the Berlin Philharmonic. But now there is a new one - the Aldeburgh

World Orchestra. It has been created for the Olympic

Games, is made out of 120 young musicians from 30 different

countries, and is based at Snape They are regarded as some of the

best young musicians in the world. The cream of five continents, the

cello section alone has musicians from ten countries, including Egypt,

Israel, the Palestinian territories, Russia, South Africa and the USA.

In my section, the first time we went all the all the countries, we

had Sweden, Spain, Finland, Canada, The Aldeburgh World Orchestra is

the result of three years' planning. As well as concerts in Suffolk,

Germany and the Netherlands, they will play at the Proms at the while

Albert Hall as part of the London 2012 Festival. This has never been

attempted before, but it is happening here in this wonderful

place in Suffolk. 600 applied, some by loading their

skills on to YouTube. Now they are 30 different countries linked by

the language of music, although that in themselves -- itself is not

straightforward. The middle C in one country is not always middle C

in another. When you talk about languages, you talk about drinking,

I think it is just showing the passion and knowing what other

people like about music. People from other places like playing in

different ways, so it is nice to have a mix rather than playing from

your own country all the time. They will play in Ipswich when the

torch relay comes in July, and at Snape Maltings during the Games

went -- with a finale at the Proms. Just for a while, the world will be

The forecast has shifted. We are talking rain for tonight and

tomorrow. Much colder conditions for tomorrow. It has been steadily

moving down the country, this area of low pressure, bringing still

fall to the Highlands of Scotland and northern England. We have seen

some fairly punchy showers. The track of those showers, some people

have even reported help in the forecast. Those showers are merging

together to form a longer spell of rain, some heavier rainfall

expected overnight. You will see any snow fall held well to are not.

We should stay frost-free for tonight. The lowest is three

Celsius, many locations 45 Celsius. The winds will be light in strength,

but we will notice the wind speed particularly around the north

Norfolk coast increasing to a fresh north-easterly. That sets the scene

for tomorrow. It will be a cold, wet, and windy forecast for

tomorrow. It will feel like we have been plunged back into winter.

Outbreaks of rain, some on the heavy side, and you could see

perhaps in the north-west corner of the region that might well fall

asleep. But for most of us it is a story of rain. Did will be a bit of

a shock to the system because some places it may not get higher than

four Celsius all day. That is five to six -- 5-six Celsius elsewhere.

It will feel bitterly cold. Having been spoiled by that find macro

spring weather, it will be a change for tomorrow. Gradually in the

afternoon it will clear as we get the evening time. You will see the

temperatures recovered slightly by Thursday, brighter conditions by

Thursday, but the Easter weekend looks cloudy, fairly call, a chance