:00:11. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to Look East with Susie and me.
:00:19. > :00:23.In the programme tonight: A year after a fire in Essex which killed a
:00:23. > :00:26.mother and five young children, their father tell us he needs to
:00:26. > :00:33.know who was responsible. I hope someone will come forward and
:00:33. > :00:38.help my family and the community to come to terms with this terrible
:00:38. > :00:41.episode. We do not want anything else to happen again.
:00:41. > :00:45.Hours of delays for hundreds of commuters as the Main Line to London
:00:45. > :00:49.closes during the morning rush hour. I have been on the station for two
:00:49. > :00:53.hours and I am going home because I cannot get into my work.
:00:53. > :00:57.Bikes stolen in broad daylight by police officers — they say nobody
:00:57. > :01:01.tried to stop them. And Prince Philip is on top form as
:01:01. > :01:14.he makes a solo outing in the region.
:01:14. > :01:18.Good evening. A father who's lost his entire family in a suspected
:01:18. > :01:20.arson attack on his home has today appealed for anybody with
:01:20. > :01:24.information to help bring the killers to justice. Tonight for the
:01:25. > :01:28.first time he has spoken personally to BBC Look East.
:01:28. > :01:33.The fire ripped through the downstairs of the terrace in Harlow
:01:33. > :01:36.last October. Dr Sabah Usmani and her five young children were killed.
:01:36. > :01:38.Their father, Dr Abdul Shakoor, was the only survivor. The police
:01:38. > :01:46.launched a murder investigation, their biggest to date. Nearly a year
:01:46. > :01:53.on, no—one has been charged. In a moment we'll hear from Dr Shakoor
:01:53. > :01:58.after this report from Jenny Kirk. It is the stuff of nightmares. To
:01:58. > :02:01.watch your house burn and find out that your wife and three of your
:02:02. > :02:05.children have died in that fire, but more tragedy was to follow. Dr
:02:05. > :02:12.Abdul Shakoor's remaining sons died soon after and his remaining
:02:12. > :02:17.daughter, days later. Another asked few minutes I have found out there
:02:17. > :02:23.have been more deaths. There is no easy way to break this news. Her
:02:23. > :02:29.burns were too extreme for her three—year—old body to cope with.
:02:29. > :02:34.The site of a burnt out house and the sex hearses carrying six Kovtun
:02:34. > :02:47.is brought the community to grieve. Friday prayers that evening was open
:02:47. > :02:52.to all. —— six hearses. How can that man cope with losing all of his
:02:52. > :02:57.family. Police believe the fire started after it was targeted by
:02:57. > :03:01.burglars. There were appeals on Crimewatch but despite the arrests
:03:01. > :03:06.and a £10,000 reward, no one has been charged with the murders. The
:03:06. > :03:13.friends remember them on benches on a local school. The children are
:03:13. > :03:16.known as Hira, Sohaib, Muneeb, Rayyan and Maheen and they are
:03:16. > :03:19.sheltered by the canopy of their mother.
:03:19. > :03:26.Earlier I went to see Dr Shakoor and I began by asking him what the past
:03:26. > :03:40.year had been like for him. The last year was very tough.
:03:40. > :03:44.Obviously one year has almost passed but the memories of that tragic
:03:44. > :03:53.night are still very fresh in my mind. That had separated my family
:03:53. > :04:02.from me. The bad because of the calamity was enormous. The strong
:04:02. > :04:12.belief and faith is that at and faith that I have an Abba has given
:04:12. > :04:16.me great solace. —— a la. The faith that I have in God has given me
:04:16. > :04:22.great strength but I still suffer from flashbacks. You mention the
:04:22. > :04:26.memories of the children, can you tell us more about the children, one
:04:26. > :04:43.of them would have been five this month. Yes, she was a beautiful
:04:43. > :04:54.daughter. Everyone loved her. She also used to bring a smile to
:04:54. > :05:05.everyone. She always had a smile. We were always thankful to God that he
:05:05. > :05:10.had blisters —— blessed us. How helpful has the support of the local
:05:10. > :05:17.community and the memorial for the children at the school been for you?
:05:17. > :05:21.The support has been amazing, especially the Princess Alexandra
:05:21. > :05:34.Hospital. They helped us right from the beginning. They have given
:05:34. > :05:38.ongoing support to me. It is such a beautiful memorial that has been
:05:38. > :05:44.installed in the school. Five beautiful benches. The names of my
:05:44. > :05:55.five beautiful children are engraved on them. The whole team stood beside
:05:55. > :06:03.me during this difficult time and they have helped me to stand up
:06:03. > :06:08.basically. The community has been fantastic and my recovery. How
:06:08. > :06:19.difficult has it been for you that no one has yet been charged in
:06:19. > :06:24.relation to this claim? —— crime? My family has suffered a lot from what
:06:24. > :06:29.has gone on. My mother, my grandmother and other relatives.
:06:29. > :06:43.Their lives have all changed totally. We are all anxiously
:06:43. > :06:47.waiting to see the killers of these innocent people be brought to
:06:47. > :06:50.justice as soon as possible. If there is anyone out there who is
:06:50. > :06:56.watching this and knows something that happened that night, what would
:06:56. > :07:02.you say to them? I hope and I believe that someone will definitely
:07:02. > :07:07.come forward. To help me, my family and the whole community so that we
:07:07. > :07:14.can get closure and can come to terms with this episode. We do not
:07:14. > :07:21.want anything like this to happen again. We want all families in that
:07:21. > :07:30.United to be safe. —— in the community. Justice must prevail.
:07:30. > :07:40.This is regardless of our relations. Regardless of any
:07:40. > :07:44.bindings and associations. It is important that children feel safe on
:07:44. > :07:49.the streets and in their homes. Thank you for talking to me, Dr
:07:49. > :07:52.Abdul Shakoor. The train company, Greater Anglia,
:07:52. > :07:55.has apologised today after one of our busiest lines into London was
:07:55. > :07:58.closed during the morning rush hour. Hundreds of passengers in Norfolk,
:07:58. > :08:07.Suffolk and Essex were left stranded. Gareth George is in
:08:07. > :08:12.Colchester now. Here at Colchester station commuters
:08:12. > :08:16.who struggled down to London this morning are now struggling back. It
:08:16. > :08:22.has been a very, very frustrating day for them. Signal problems very
:08:22. > :08:26.early this morning meant trains from Norwich to London could only get as
:08:26. > :08:33.far as Chelmsford. At one point, Greater Anglia, the rail operator
:08:33. > :08:38.advised passengers not to travel. A packed platform at Colchester
:08:38. > :08:42.station with commuters trying to get into London. Some gave up and went
:08:42. > :08:49.home. What will your work think about the fact you have had to take
:08:49. > :08:56.the day off? They probably won't be too impressed because I was meant to
:08:56. > :09:01.be at a meeting at 12 o'clock. We try to get on a train at 8:30am but
:09:01. > :09:11.it was totally packed. I have given up and I am going home. I cannot get
:09:11. > :09:16.into London, so I am going home. I am very restricted but it is one of
:09:16. > :09:20.those things that happens. This is the train station at what, a
:09:20. > :09:25.commuter town in Essex but at the height of the rush hour this morning
:09:25. > :09:28.passengers were advised not to travel and Greater Anglia said
:09:28. > :09:32.replacement buses were difficult to find because they were taking
:09:32. > :09:35.children to school. Network Rail said the delays were due to a
:09:35. > :09:39.problem with signals in the Chelmsford area but it was repaired
:09:39. > :09:44.at 1130 and the line was running back to normal at 1:30pm. Getting
:09:44. > :09:49.the branch line is fully open took longer. Greater Anglia apologise to
:09:49. > :09:53.passengers. For many commuters, what should have been a busy morning at
:09:53. > :10:00.work was spent standing on a platform. To be fair to Greater
:10:00. > :10:06.Anglia this would be frustrating to them. It is Network Rail who is
:10:06. > :10:11.responsible and they have apologised to passengers. For the latest
:10:11. > :10:15.information, tune into your local radio stations tomorrow morning.
:10:15. > :10:18.Norfolk County Council has decided to continue its contract with a home
:10:18. > :10:20.care provider, despite numerous complaints. Last month the BBC
:10:21. > :10:24.highlighted problems with Care UK after it took over services for
:10:24. > :10:27.vulnerable people in Broadland. The company has been told it could still
:10:27. > :10:36.lose the contract, but it insists its service is getting better.
:10:36. > :10:40.Roger Hadlee has cerebral palsy but has lived independently for the last
:10:40. > :10:46.15 years with the help of carers who visit him every day. He was one of
:10:46. > :10:50.100 people who complained about the service winnable council switch
:10:50. > :10:58.providers to kill UK. Last month the company was told it had to improve.
:10:58. > :11:05.First of all the hard on time and we have regular carers. —— carers UK.
:11:05. > :11:12.It now works superbly and that is great. I am able to maintain my
:11:12. > :11:17.lifestyle. Roger Israel bees that the care he gets is back to normal,
:11:17. > :11:20.but not all of the 100 people who complained to Broadland District
:11:21. > :11:26.Council are happy with the changes that have been made. Out of 270
:11:27. > :11:30.clients, nearly one quarter have opted not to continue using the
:11:30. > :11:36.services. The council is concerned about the company's reliance on
:11:36. > :11:41.agency staff. We have outlined in the areas upon which they must
:11:41. > :11:45.improve. Because the contract was provided that if we had to get a
:11:45. > :11:48.service from a more expensive swords, be to charge them the
:11:48. > :11:56.difference from what we would have paid to them and what we have had to
:11:56. > :12:05.be, so we have invoked that. In response Care UK said...
:12:05. > :12:13.Broadland District Council says it will continue to monitor the
:12:13. > :12:17.situation. A former world champion speedway
:12:17. > :12:19.rider has been charged with rape and other sexual offences.
:12:19. > :12:27.Michael Lee is co—promoter of the Mildenhall Fen Tigers speedway team.
:12:27. > :12:30.The charges relate to two women and are alleged to have taken place
:12:30. > :12:34.between June 2008 and December 2012. Michael Lee is due in court later
:12:34. > :12:37.this month. During his racing career he rode for King's Lynn and was
:12:37. > :12:41.individual world champion in 1980. He left the sport six years later
:12:41. > :12:42.and in 1997 was jailed for three years for possessing and supplying
:12:42. > :12:46.cannabis. Bosses at a factory in Suffolk say
:12:46. > :12:50.they'll decide whether it will close by the end of the month. More than
:12:50. > :12:53.600 people work at the 2 Sisters chicken plant at Haughley. Workers
:12:54. > :12:56.say they are being kept in the dark about their futures.
:12:56. > :12:58.Colin Webb has been implied by this factory for 28 years and worked his
:12:58. > :13:01.way up to becoming a maintenance engineer. He and his wife Karen had
:13:01. > :13:04.planned to get married next year but the uncertainty is getting to them.
:13:04. > :13:07.If you are doing a job well and you have a future, that is good. But
:13:07. > :13:12.when you do not know you have a future, it is difficult to stay
:13:12. > :13:17.motivated. How difficult will it be for both of you when you still work
:13:17. > :13:23.there? It will be difficult come Christmas. What will people do? The
:13:23. > :13:27.factory is one of the biggest producers of food in the country.
:13:27. > :13:31.The company says the building is ageing but it has five other sites
:13:31. > :13:36.in the East and it is hoped that some workers can be redeployed. If
:13:36. > :13:43.the redundancies go ahead, other tell the jobs, where they have sites
:13:43. > :13:48.in South Norfolk Council of luck, can they be rotated, that is the
:13:48. > :13:55.question? The Scottish Parliament has offered a firm Breivik sleigh ——
:13:55. > :14:05.recently bought over by the 2 Sisters company a good source to
:14:05. > :14:16.locate two. Why would you move the factory from Suffolk to Cambuslang?
:14:16. > :14:19.Any statement, the 2 Sisters Food Group told us the consultation here
:14:20. > :14:23.has nothing to do with acquisition of the site in Scotland and they
:14:23. > :14:28.will meet with unions in the coming weeks and update workers once that
:14:28. > :14:31.process has finished. Colin says he is concerned that after 50 years the
:14:31. > :14:45.factory is now being overlooked and the future of its workers ignored.
:14:45. > :14:49.Still to come on Look East tonight: Chris Bell will be here with your
:14:49. > :14:52.weather and news of a cold snap on the way.
:14:52. > :15:00.And who was the Duke so pleased to see on a visit to this region?
:15:00. > :15:04.One in ten of us get on a bike at least once a week and in some parts
:15:04. > :15:07.of the region it's almost half of us. So, of course, there are more
:15:07. > :15:11.bikes on the road and more opportunities for them to be stolen.
:15:11. > :15:21.The latest figures show that more than 26,000 bikes were stolen in
:15:21. > :15:23.this region over the last year. The biggest number were taken from
:15:23. > :15:27.Cambridgeshire, which is why the police have decided to try something
:15:27. > :15:31.a bit different. Cambridge city centre and a bike
:15:31. > :15:37.thief appears to be busy at work using a bolt cutter he breaks the
:15:37. > :15:41.lock. This is actually a lock—up stage by Cambridge police. The
:15:41. > :15:45.officer is wearing plain clothes and with a cutter in his hand he rides
:15:45. > :15:51.away through a busy street and not one person reported it. I think
:15:51. > :15:55.Google raleigh on others to do it for them. They watch the theft
:15:55. > :16:01.occurring and we think someone else will contact the police. We would
:16:01. > :16:06.contact —— we would urge people to contact the police and we will
:16:06. > :16:11.assist you. As part of a push to stop the thefts, they were at the
:16:11. > :16:20.student fair trying to help students to keep their bikes said. The
:16:20. > :16:25.campaign has been timed to coincide with Freshers' Week when hundreds of
:16:25. > :16:30.new students arrive in Cambridge and will be buying new bikes like
:16:30. > :16:35.these, in some cases spending more than £2500 on the bike itself but
:16:35. > :16:40.not buying a decent enough lock to keep it safe. Across East angler,
:16:40. > :16:46.Cambridgeshire was the worst area for bike theft.
:16:46. > :16:55.Here are this this this text... —— statistics...
:16:55. > :17:01.Some locks are said to be no better than using a piece of ribbon to
:17:01. > :17:12.secure your bike, but with no industry standard to gauge people,
:17:12. > :17:19.how do cyclists choose a lot? I suppose if it looked newer and
:17:20. > :17:23.stronger, I would take that one. Cambridgeshire Police said more
:17:23. > :17:25.bikes are stolen in October than any other month and we hope this
:17:25. > :17:30.campaign will make life more difficult for the thieves.
:17:30. > :17:34.There was a time when you had to go to a dusty museum or an art gallery
:17:34. > :17:43.if you wanted to see great paintings. Do they not have good
:17:43. > :17:46.cleaners? ! But now a BBC project is trying to change all that for
:17:46. > :17:50.children at schools across the country. It's called Your Paintings
:17:50. > :17:54.and means that instead of going to see art, the art goes to see the
:17:54. > :17:57.pupils. Today, one of them was at the Benjamin Britten High in
:17:57. > :18:05.Lowestoft. Kevin Burch was there too.
:18:05. > :18:10.There was a real buzz of Benjamin Britten High to the, so what could
:18:10. > :18:20.create such clamour? Grand Theft Auto IV? No, they all wanted to see
:18:20. > :18:23.this painting called That Conjurer. It is worth £14 million and is one
:18:23. > :18:32.of several that is being taken into schools. The students can get closer
:18:32. > :18:38.to it and see the detail rather than going to an old dusty gallery.
:18:38. > :18:44.Slowly a story builds and in this case it is about how people can be
:18:44. > :18:48.naive and be deceived. It is one of the early works by one of the
:18:48. > :18:57.founders of the Pre—Raphaelite brotherhood. In terms of security we
:18:57. > :19:06.have two members of staff here and we brought it over using a van
:19:06. > :19:12.driven by proper art transporters and the van is secure. It has
:19:12. > :19:21.environmental controls and all sorts of things. You know, it is pretty
:19:21. > :19:25.safe where it is for the day. Normally the painting is kept at the
:19:25. > :19:29.museum but this is every opportunity for the children and after studying
:19:29. > :19:41.at the start to sketch their own images on the theme of the Conjurer.
:19:41. > :19:49.I am not sure what I should be drawing. It is a good idea to
:19:49. > :19:59.inspire younger people to get into art. I will let you carry on. I have
:19:59. > :20:04.to say, it has been fantastic. I think a lot of people worry about
:20:04. > :20:12.going to art galleries and the fuel that art is not for them. By
:20:13. > :20:16.bringing a piece of really important art to a school where children are
:20:16. > :20:24.in their own environments, they are used to it, it will stimulate the
:20:25. > :20:28.curiosity without making them feel like they should be quiet, or they
:20:28. > :20:31.should not ask questions, or they are in a beard or unusual
:20:31. > :20:36.environment. This is one of a string of schools that will play host to
:20:36. > :20:46.great pieces of work. The idea seems to be clever and captivating.
:20:46. > :20:51.The headteacher is to blame, he thinks they are dusty!
:20:51. > :20:56.And you can find out more about the project online at bbc.co.uk/your
:20:56. > :20:59.paintings. It is just two months since the Duke
:20:59. > :21:02.of Edinburgh resumed his public engagements following his operation
:21:02. > :21:06.and spell in hospital in June. Today he was in Norfolk, touring a new
:21:06. > :21:10.care complex in the market town of Aylsham. The £14 million development
:21:10. > :21:19.has been described as a model for the future care of the elderly.
:21:19. > :21:25.He was clearly in good form at the age of 92. During his visit to the
:21:25. > :21:30.one with one of the people that the Duke met was older than him. He was
:21:30. > :21:34.escorted by a retired pharmacist who was the founder of the Aylsham care
:21:34. > :21:39.trust 22 years ago. The volunteers at its new centre are like a big
:21:39. > :21:49.society in action. The Duke liked what he saw. The Broadlands School
:21:49. > :21:54.Of Dance added to the festivities. They said Michael 's care complex
:21:54. > :22:02.also includes a care home and pharmacy. He visited Giving Lane
:22:02. > :22:13.View which has 30 apartments. It is promoting independent living backed
:22:13. > :22:18.up by 24 hour in his care. I told him that we were living in flats but
:22:18. > :22:26.we had our own sense of independence. It is the best of both
:22:26. > :22:39.worlds, really. Do you think he was impressed by what he saw? Yes, he
:22:39. > :22:43.was genuinely interested. Ted and Barbara presented the Duke with a
:22:43. > :22:48.patchwork wall hanging adorned with words of us from all the tenants.
:22:48. > :22:55.They are present to his new great—grandson Prince George. We
:22:55. > :23:02.have put the initials of Kate and William and George on to patchwork.
:23:02. > :23:06.Always tell them that you love them. The royal visit to mark the bringing
:23:06. > :23:16.together of so many different amenities made it an emotional day
:23:16. > :23:28.for rice. It was the highlight of my life. I have tried to make a few
:23:28. > :23:34.lives better. Quite a few lives, hopefully.
:23:34. > :23:39.He is now 87 and this centre has been his vision for almost 30 years.
:23:39. > :23:52.Today the visit of the Duke marked a dream fulfilled.
:23:52. > :24:00.The cold weather is set to return. A series of cold fronts are working
:24:00. > :24:09.their way towards us. The first came through to the —— today slowly, and
:24:10. > :24:14.some cloud with that cold front. Throughout this evening it will
:24:14. > :24:16.continue to make its journey southwards and eastwards. There
:24:16. > :24:24.could be some light patches of rain. Most of the night will be dry
:24:24. > :24:29.but there are cloudy skies. Temperatures were the cloud breaks
:24:29. > :24:35.will dip to nine or 10 Celsius. Mostly it will be 11 or 12 Celsius
:24:35. > :24:41.with a light breeze. A pretty mild night coming up and that will be the
:24:41. > :24:45.last mild night for a while. This cold front will move in and bring
:24:45. > :24:49.some of the colder here tomorrow. You can see the blue the chart
:24:49. > :24:56.indicating that colder here. It will start to feel colder as we get into
:24:56. > :25:00.the afternoon. Mainly dry but some sunny intervals to. Some scattered
:25:00. > :25:06.showers will move on from the North and West towards the late afternoon.
:25:06. > :25:14.Temperatures are still quite high at around 14 or 15 Celsius. Slightly
:25:14. > :25:17.lower than today. For the rest of the afternoon on Wednesday into the
:25:17. > :25:20.evening, some of those blustery showers will move through, there
:25:20. > :25:26.could be some heavy showers and places. On Wednesday night and two
:25:26. > :25:30.Thursday morning, a few showers coming down the North Sea for
:25:30. > :25:37.Norfolk and Suffolk. Some rumbles of thunder of of the North Norfolk
:25:37. > :25:45.coast. Quite unsettled weather. Gusts of 30 mph. That will continue
:25:45. > :25:50.to bring unsettled weather for Friday night into Saturday morning.
:25:50. > :26:02.Henry Rayment possible across Easter and Anglia. —— Easter and parts of
:26:02. > :26:10.Anglia. Temperatures made it up to 21 Celsius today and in those same
:26:10. > :26:16.sports it will be 11 or 12 Celsius on Thursday, so quite a big
:26:16. > :26:20.difference. For Thursday there is a high temperature of around 12
:26:20. > :26:26.Celsius. It will stay unsettled on Friday into Saturday. Drier in the
:26:26. > :26:31.West. Quite windy conditions for the East. Overnight lows of five or
:26:31. > :26:36.eight Celsius. Feeling chilly at night.
:26:36. > :26:40.Thank you, Chris. And just before we go, a reminder
:26:40. > :26:43.that we're looking for this year's Sporting Unsung Hero. It's for
:26:43. > :26:47.people who give up their own time to help others play sport. If you know
:26:47. > :26:50.someone who fits the bill then you can nominate them for the award. For
:26:50. > :26:54.all the details go to bbc.co.uk/unsunghero. Join us at
:26:54. > :26:58.10:30pm. Goodbye.