12/11/2013 Look East - East

there are major concerns about the spread of disease. That is all from

us. Hello and welcome to Look East. In

tonight's programme, the news from Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk.

Our top story... The trial of two men in Chelmsford charged in

connection with a terrorism alert at Stansted Airport.

The region's house prices reach their highest peak since the crash

of 2008. We ask the experts if that's a good thing.

And the magical work by one of our most talented illustrators goes

under the hammer in Essex. Hello. Also in tonight's programme,

Stewart's latest report from China. I am at the Port of Shanghai, the

biggest container port in the world. We speak about Felixstowe as the

biggest one in the UK, but ten times as many containers are moved every

year here than they do at Felixstowe. The details later in the

programme. First night, a jury in Essex was

told today that fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a commercial

airliner after two passengers threatened to blow it up. `` first

tonight. The Boeing 777 was en route from Pakistan to Manchester when it

was diverted to Stansted. The incident triggered a full terrorism

alert. The two defendants are charged with endangering an

aircraft. Let's get the details now from our Essex reporter Gareth

George, who is at Chelmsford Crown Court.

At the very outset here, the jury were told that this is not a

terrorist trial, the men not political extremists, not having the

capacity to carry out their alleged threats, but the jury also told

that, if you are on the aircraft that day, you would have been

absolutely terrified. Pakistan Airlines, after making an emergency

landing at Dan Sclebin airport in May this year.

The flight was bound for Manchester. `` at Stansted Airport. But it was

diverted there. Among the 347 passengers were Mohammed Safdar and

Tayyab Subhani, flying back to England after attending a funeral.

The jury were told that some passengers said the men were

behaving in a rude and aggressive manner before the flight took off.

Mohammed Safdar in particular became angry when his offer to help an ill

passenger was turned down. The jury were told the threats included...

Mohammed Safdar and Tayyab Subhani both deny a charge of endangering

the safety of an aircraft. The trial continues. What did the pilot say?

The jury were told that the pilot described this as the most serious

incident of his career, he contacted UK air traffic control, and he was

instructed to go to emergency procedures, which included diverging

from Manchester to Stansted. The trial is expected to last five

weeks, hearing evidence from passengers and cabin crew. Brian

O'Neil QC also told the jury that what was said on that plane meant

that, as it was being diverted, the situation on that aircraft was life

threatening. The two men deny the charges. Gareth, thank you very

much. Some housing experts expressed

concern today over new reports which say house prices have soared to

their highest level for a decade. Some believe the Government's

help`to`buy scheme is in danger of driving up prices and creating a

house price bubble. Our chief reporter Kim Riley has been going

through the details. He is here now. According to the Office of National

Statistics, today house prices in the East are up 2% year on year.

Bringing the price of an average home in the East to ?255,000.

Compare that to London. Prices have risen by over 9% and more. And you

might think we are a long way from a bubble. The latest phase of the

help`to`buy scheme is designed to make it easier for first time buyers

to get on to the ladder, with the chance to buy a home with just a 5%

deposit. That is backed by a government guarantee. In its monthly

survey, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reports

"rocketing interest from buyers". And "dwarfing the number of

properties for sale" in the East at least. And in fact in most other

regions. Critics say the government scheme makes a damaging property

boom. One estate agents in Norwich one of those to contribute to the

latest RICS survey. The message here that the market in Norfolk remains

slow, with no signs of overheating. Sales are still not back to

pre`recession levels. But certainly a brightening picture. I have been

through several recessions in my time. I have been an estate agent

for 37 years and now that the property market always bounces back.

It can take longer sometimes, this time taking longer, because interest

rates have been artificially held down. We are bouncing back, the

economy picking up, a feel`good factor, and I am optimistic.

That's the picture in Norfolk. Kevin Burch has been to the Suffolk market

town of Saxmundham to assess the housing market there.

In this historic market town, it did not take long to find locals

struggling for a toehold on the housing ladder. Take Steve. I live

with mum and dad, I cannot afford to move out, and I am 41. You have

never had a place of your own? Impossible if you want to have a

family. Some struggling, but is Help to Buy the answer? Banks and

moneymaking organisations. Help to Buy? Helping themselves. I have no

understanding of the schemes. If it is viable, then yes, take it. Any

type of scheme that will get you a step on that ladder, once that is

achieved, more people will be happier. Just up the road is a

brand`new development of 90 properties being built by the

company David Wilson Homes. This is the four`bedroom home, the largest

property. Jason is the marketing director and that, after stagnation,

the activities market `` the market is active again, but he is wary of

talking about inflating a new bubble. There is a new amount of

inflation, but an increased of costs to the house`builders, and that is

offset with other costs associated with people's income, so a small

increase, but cleverly managed to ensure the customer is protected.

Suffix has demand, lotsa people want to live here, the first`time buyer

market has been difficult. `` Suffolk has demand. This development

only open sales last weekend, and two plots were reserved

straightaway, and Wales there would be foolhardy to draw too many

conclusions from one development, both reservations were made through

Help to Buy. Kim is still with me. What lessons

can we draw from this? Help`to`buy scheme is providing a welcome boost

for now. Most important, the need for more house building to bring

supply and demand for starter homes back into balance. Thank you.

Bidders in Essex paid more than ?40,000 today for a collection of

first edition books. They were illustrated by an Edwardian artist

whose work adorns classics such as Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan.

They were offered for sale at auction by his surviving relatives.

A Arthur Rackham. If you do not know his name, you will recognise his

work. And the reward being master illustrator. `` and Edwardian master

illustrator. Now, 26 books he gave to his sister`in`law each Christmas

are up for auction. His sinuous lines, his looming trees, his

unusual landscapes, this fantasy world he built, will be instantly

familiar to most viewers. This is my favourite picture. I just love that.

Just beautiful. I saw it as a greetings card years ago, but not

recently, which is a great shame. Jane Starkie is selling it, handed

down through her husband's side of the family. My husband died three

years ago, but not long before he died, one of my children was

diagnosed with MS, and he wanted to pay off her mortgage and that is

when he seriously thought of selling the collection. He never got around

to it, and I considered it, talked about it with my children, and we

thought it was sitting in a glass cabinet, we hardly ever look at

them, but we decided to do it. It was thought the books would fetch

?30,000. In the end, they sold for 43,000, Testament to the enduring

polarity of one of the century's finest illustrators.

Still to come on Look East this evening, high domestic violence

affects children, we hear one girl's story, and Alex will have the

weather. It will be a cold night, so wrapped up warm and wrap up your

plants, because there is a risk of Frost, but the weather is looking

fine for tomorrow. Join me at the end of the programme for all the

details. This week, Stewart is in Shanghai,

reporting on the growing trade links between our region and China. Last

night, we saw how Chinese tourists were boosting trade in Cambridge.

For tonight's report, Stewart has been to the dockside area of

Shanghai which has become the busiest container port in the world.

We are on the East China Sea, just a part of the Port of Shanghai, and it

is massive. At the 2 million containers coming through here every

year, making it the busiest container port. Seven of the top ten

container port southern China, Felixstowe is number 36. But there

are strong links with Felixstowe. Richard Daniel has been to see a

brand`new container ship about to leave Suffolk on its maiden voyage.

China's largest container ship. A statement of intent by china's

largest shipping line. This ship is 3.5 football pitches in length, it

can carry 13,000 containers, but the astonishing thing is the company

have built three vessels like this and plan five more and those will be

in service by the end of next year. We need to keep the fleet to be one

of the best choice for customers between the UK and China and we do

have so many customers, not only in China but the UK, to require weekly

services. This is home for months on end for the 26th globe trotting

crew. Down below, a huge galley for the ship's chef and accrue

recreation room. Near the stem, the cavernous engine room, the ship

running up to 160 tonnes of you will every day. It can cover nearly

20,000 nautical miles before refuelling. `` 160 tonnes of fuel.

It gives me leisure for myself, my wife, embassy staff, to attend this

celebration. The Chinese ambassador was guest of honour for the maiden

voyage from Felixstowe. The UK has a huge trade imbalance with China, but

little by little, that is changing. What is significant is increasing UK

exports to China, increased by 15%, so a large increase, so China now

becomes the fastest growing export market for the UK. The UK exports

more products like aviation equipment, medical equipment, cars,

China now is their number one importer of cards. The trend for

larger and larger ships continues. `` of cars. In Felixstowe, that will

mean more and more investment to accommodate them. We continue

investment in Felixstowe, East Anglia, and trade between the UK and

China has grown, probably about 50% of all containers nowadays relating

to Chinese and UK trade. Early evening and it slips out of

Felixstowe. It will take three weeks for the ship to arrive in the Far

East. Just before it left Suffolk, we put

a tiny time`lapse camera on board. Since then, it has called at

Hamburg, and work, and Suez, docking at Hong Kong just over a week ago.

`` Antwerp. It is due to .co after many Chinese ports on Sunday. It

will head back to Britain back with the kind of goods and many others

will find under Christmas trees in a few weeks time. Tomorrow night,

business and education, those of students coming to study in the

Easter thing than from China. Tonight, young man from Norwich who

come to Shanghai to carve out a new life. `` coming to study in the East

from China. When he was 11, this man came to

Shanghai with his family and stayed for two years. Last year, he moved

back to Shanghai after finishing a make up art course in Britain. His

parents now work in Beijing and Shanghai and he says this time one

of his mage is `` major tasks is to learn the language and adapt better

to local life. When I last lived here, and was at school here, we

would learn how to save hen, ruler, what was in your pencil case,

pointless things. Things she would never need to stay in the future,

but now learning things about how to get around the Metro, speak to taxi

drivers, going shopping, important things. As a make up artist, it is

not easy to start a career in the city, one thing finding potential

clients. He said one Chinese customer asked him to make her look

more like a foreigner. It is kind of a mixture between the two, you want

to tell them that you do not have to look, you know, foreign, Western, to

be beautiful. But what I can do is make their eyes look slightly

bigger. Even though he has only had two clients per week so far, he is

still looking forward to his job development. He says Shanghai is a

large modern city with more opportunities. I like that people

are not afraid to be themselves, I think it is, when you walk down the

street, you see the older generation, they just sing or

randomly start to dans, or something. He says he plans to stay

in Shanghai for at least four years and will try to develop his career

as a professional make`up artist working for shows in China.

Tomorrow night, Look East is live from the studios of international

channel Shanghai, we will hear from Weetabix, a company based in

Northamptonshire, but recently taken over by a company in China. And from

three British companies doing very well over here. That is Look East

tomorrow night at fixed 30p.m., 2:30am Shanghai town. `` tomorrow

night at the 30p.m.. ``6:30pm. Now, it's Children in Need this

Friday. Last year, the Look East region raised ?2 million. Some of

the money went to a charity called Leeway, which helps children

affected by domestic violence. I've been to meet one them, Ellie. To

hear her story. We have disguised the identities of those involved.

She saw her father abuse her mother since she was very small and, since

her mother died, she has lived with another family member, but struggled

emotionally. My dad would beat her up, and I would be in the other

room, but I would hear her crying and he would call her names. Because

of his anger, I would start to become angry. Choose a feeling and

tell me when you felt that way. Through the charity Leeway, she has

dealt with a care worker and been able to talk about her feelings,

making a huge difference. We had huge difficulties, my family at

breaking point many times, and I was at a loss how to help Ellie. It was

beyond my experience how to deal with it, so I am grateful. I would

urge anyone to deal with that help, if they can, it has done wonders for

our family. Leeway supports nearly 10,000 adults and children every

year across Norfolk and Suffolk, with three refugees and `` refuges.

Children in need support their outreach programme. It can take

several times before someone seeks advice. We need to get it right and

have trained professionals within the community who can help these

people. And actually seek the right path for them to help them out of

that abusive the duration. What would you say to someone else who

may be suffering this kind of thing, as a child? I would say, always try

to find someone nearby that you can't opt to and you are comfortable

with, `` you can talk to. That can help a lot. It can help you

understand how you are feeling and get through your life when you get

older. Ellie. Just one of the many children

who've been helped by Children in Need. This year's appeal is on

Friday. And on Look East, our live broadcast event is coming from

Wicksteed Park in Kettering. Do join us there if you can. The details are

on our Facebook page. As we've seen, the national news

continues to be dominated with the impact of typhoon in the

Phillipines. Earlier today, two friends from Norfolk returned from a

diving holiday in the Philippines. Nigel Walters is from Garvestone.

Mark Evans is from Horsford. Welcome to you both. Let us look at the map

and explain where you were. You were staying on the small island of

Malapascua at a diving resort. This is west of the island which bore the

brunt of the devastation. But you are in the eye of the storm? We were

near Malapascua, but took a direct hit. Let us look at some of your

pictures, how it looked when you arrived, which looks beautiful. Talk

us through the kind of place you were staying? It was the perfect,

the delegation. Trees and palm trees. `` it was a perfect

location. A tropical place, and you can see in the photographs, is

somewhere outstanding for a holiday. Mark, were you aware the storm was

coming? We were told earlier that there was some typhoon coming in,

but the locals get hit by these about five times per year, and no

one knew what was coming until later in the week. We can see you filming

during the storm, so Nigel, you are at the resort just filming from your

balcony? Yeah, the storm was staged, really, in terms of how it

came, slowly kicking in bit by bit, starting to eat away at the trees,

smaller ones asked, bigger ones next, and I was able to stay on the

balcony for some time, filming some of this. That was the dining room?

Yeah. Obviously devastating to see this happening, the before and

after? Totally, as Nigel said, it was paradise before. Crazy what

weather can do. And this footage is driving to the airport? This was one

of the areas most badly hit, no aid getting up there yet. Everyone is

hungry. Small children with signs looking for food and water. We did

not see any aid getting to them. We were isolated for a couple of days,

no information coming through. It was a total shock when we were on

the way there, which is when the news came about the amount of death

going on. What about the local people, what was their reaction? On

the island itself, they were very upbeat, a lot of teamwork and morale

boosting, dragging boats ashore, creating pathways. The general

belief they could get back to normal quickly. The holiday`makers were

getting stuck in as well, helping out wherever possible. Mark, you

only arrived back this morning, as it sunk in? Not really, straight off

the plane, just seeing the news what has happened in other places such as

Leyte. Lovely people, and a beautiful place, just really

devastated? Absolutely. It is not just the islands, it is going

straight up the airport, and spread across that part of the island.

Thank you very much for coming in, we are grateful.

The Disasters Emergency Committee launches its appeal campaign this

evening. You can ring them on 0370 60 60 900. Or visit their website `

dec.org.uk. Now for the weather. High pressure is our friend during

the day, but becomes our enemy overnight, which is what will happen

tonight. High pressure has been building, introducing light wind and

clear skies, sunshine this afternoon, but overnight, any heat

being lost, meaning a cold night with the risk of frost. Temperatures

just three Celsius in the last hour near Thetford, and many places,

particularly in the countryside, expected to drop below freezing, so

expect some ground frost. We start tomorrow really quite chilly, but it

will be a fine day, and the next weather system approaching from the

north`west, not spoiling things in the East, but will mean a

strengthening wind overnight and the introduction of cloud and rain,

Andrew tomorrow, despite a chilly start, it will be glorious. ``

through tomorrow. Good spells of sunshine through the morning.

Temperatures not high, but the sunshine making the difference, and

a light south`westerly wind, so not a bad autumn day. The western half

of the region developing more cloud in the afternoon, but staying dry,

and cloud developing across the region overnight which could bring

outbreaks of rain. This rain looks mainly light and patchy, but

gradually tracking eastwards overnight. We should be done with

most of it by Thursday morning, but quite different conditions or

Thursday morning and Friday, so you might look at those days being

similar, but factor in the strength of the wind, particularly on

Thursday, feeling quite cold with temperatures at nine Celsius.

Largely dry, sunny spells, but the chance of blustery showers. Most

places dry on Thursday. As well as Friday, with decent spells of

sunshine, but the wind still north`westerly, so quite cold. By

the weekend, some drier weather around, but overnight, more chilly

nights, temperatures lower than this. Clear skies, light wind,

meaning the introduction of mist and fog. That could linger through the

day on Saturday. Back to you. That is all from us this evening,

thank you very much for your company. Have a good evening,

goodbye.