:00:00. > :00:00.and Thursday. That's
:00:00. > :00:07.Hello and welcome to Look E`st. In the programme tonight.
:00:08. > :00:12.Rising numbers of forced marriages in this region. With a new law about
:00:13. > :00:15.to come into force, we speak to one of the victims.
:00:16. > :00:19.Banning super`strength alcohol. After success in Ipswich, now
:00:20. > :00:21.Lowestoft joins in. Another demoralising defeat for
:00:22. > :00:27.Norwich City, as the pressure builds on Hughton ` again.
:00:28. > :00:29.And the First World War ..from the point of view of those who refused
:00:30. > :00:44.to fight. First tonight, new figures show that
:00:45. > :00:47.the number of forced marriages in this region is rising, whild the
:00:48. > :00:52.figures for the rest of country are levelling off. Believe it or not,
:00:53. > :00:55.forcing someone to marry soleone they don't want to, will only become
:00:56. > :00:59.a criminal offence next month. At the moment it's only a civil offence
:01:00. > :01:04.` meaning the police don't get involved. So how does it happen and
:01:05. > :01:14.what can others do to help? Mariam Issimdar has been talking to one of
:01:15. > :01:17.the victims. They allowed themselves to be
:01:18. > :01:25.influenced by the community instead of listening to their own d`ughter.
:01:26. > :01:32.At 17, Parveen's parents trhed to force her to marry a man shd didn't
:01:33. > :01:36.know and didnt love. It was that very moment I looked at my lother
:01:37. > :01:49.and made her promise me when we met the groom she wouldn't leavd me
:01:50. > :01:56.Before I knew it I was in a room strangers, asking me questions,
:01:57. > :01:59.trying to touch me inappropriately. Parveen decided she couldn't go
:02:00. > :02:02.through with the marriage. But that meant quitting her job, leaving East
:02:03. > :02:06.Anglia where she'd lived all her life, and going into hiding. I went
:02:07. > :02:16.to the police and said I'd be reported missing. Please don't look
:02:17. > :02:22.at me. I got myself a job, with somewhere to stay and that was it.
:02:23. > :02:28.Bal Howard investigates forced marriage cases and so called honour
:02:29. > :02:33.crimes for Suffolk Police. Ht is becoming more prevalent and I think
:02:34. > :02:42.we are scrapping the top of the iceberg. We have 50 cases a year of
:02:43. > :02:55.so`called honour abuse, 50% of them forced marriages. I would s`y 3 % of
:02:56. > :03:00.them are under the age of 18. In 2012 there are almost 1500 cases
:03:01. > :03:08.investigated, but last year the regional figure rose to 45. Don t
:03:09. > :03:20.think it is a problem with people in a distant country. That is happening
:03:21. > :03:25.to people in the UK. That is why a charity has come to this school
:03:26. > :03:44.Civic has had a number of forced marriage coming through. `` so She
:03:45. > :03:53.is still in hiding. I don't feel I have lost much, but I've gahned so
:03:54. > :04:03.much more. I now have a lifd. They don't know where I live. Thdy don't
:04:04. > :04:10.know if I am with anyone. I am surviving and I'm loving thd light.
:04:11. > :04:13.Aneeta Prem is the founder of the Freedom Charity, which is b`sed in
:04:14. > :04:24.Norwich and campaigns against forced marriage. Forced and arrangdd. There
:04:25. > :04:30.is a difference? Yes. It dodsn't always mean you're being dr`gged
:04:31. > :04:38.onto a plane. It is mental. Arranged marriages where you have thd options
:04:39. > :04:44.to say no. Why other number of forced marriages going up hdre, when
:04:45. > :04:51.the levelling off in the cotntry? As we have been based here, ond of the
:04:52. > :04:58.things that has happened is raising awareness. More schools are talking
:04:59. > :05:01.about it. This has always bden there. People have been too
:05:02. > :05:07.politically correct to bring this up. Now we are saying that when we
:05:08. > :05:11.talk about young people, forced marriage is child abuse. It can lead
:05:12. > :05:18.to rape and murder. There whll be some people who will say thhs is
:05:19. > :05:23.part of our heritage. There isn t any religion which says you should
:05:24. > :05:30.allow your son or daughter to be raped, married against their will,
:05:31. > :05:42.taking their human rights away. We know local people want to stpport
:05:43. > :05:48.our work. We heard a 1300 c`ses were reported last year. How manx cases
:05:49. > :05:58.do you think there are everx week? I think you could be looking `t 1 ,000
:05:59. > :06:08.cases a year. Maybe from 14 to 5. The youngest has been two, the all
:06:09. > :06:15.this has the 87 years old. We have a 24 hour helpline. People ard using
:06:16. > :06:21.different methods of communhcating. We work closely with forced marriage
:06:22. > :06:25.unit. If you live close to ` family who you think may have forcdd
:06:26. > :06:34.someone into a marriage, can you knock on their door? Phone the
:06:35. > :06:45.police. You don't sit and w`tch it happen. Often it is a brothdr, not a
:06:46. > :06:51.parent. That is what is so shocking. It is a younger generation, the male
:06:52. > :06:59.members, who take on this b`rbaric crime. Coming after school holidays,
:07:00. > :07:09.that is when it is happening, because the girl thinks she is going
:07:10. > :07:12.on holiday? Yes. Thank you. A woman has appeared in court
:07:13. > :07:15.charged with causing death by careless driving, after a blind
:07:16. > :07:17.pedestrian was hit by a car in Lowestoft. 28`year`old Samantha
:07:18. > :07:21.Pitcher, who lives in Lowestoft denies the charge. Kevin Burch was
:07:22. > :07:25.at Ipswich Crown Court. The court heard today how D`vid
:07:26. > :07:31.White had been crossing the road arm in arm with Pauline when thdy were
:07:32. > :07:35.struck. It was before 9pm on February 18. Blind, he didn't have
:07:36. > :07:42.his guide dog and had his whfe by his side. His injuries provdd fatal.
:07:43. > :07:50.She now uses a walking framd because of the injuries. The car drhver was
:07:51. > :07:55.a man for picture and her trial began. The prosecution told the
:07:56. > :08:01.jury, this is a psych case, involving the tragic loss of life, a
:08:02. > :08:08.case which but a young woman in the dark `` sad case. He said there was
:08:09. > :08:13.a hazard which the driver should have seen. If she had been driving
:08:14. > :08:17.carefully she would have. P`uline White said she could remembdr
:08:18. > :08:25.little, and said they had crossed at that spot many times. They had been
:08:26. > :08:31.with a family meal with thehr son. He told the court they had crossed
:08:32. > :08:40.moments before their parents were hit. The jury heard the defdndant
:08:41. > :08:44.had seen one person at the last minute, adding I didn't see them.
:08:45. > :08:49.The jury was told she been travelling at around the 30 mph
:08:50. > :08:55.limit, and while her phone was seized, there was no evidence it had
:08:56. > :08:59.been used at the time of thd crash. The defendant was distressed
:09:00. > :09:04.throughout today's hearing. She denies the charge. The trial is
:09:05. > :09:08.expected to last of the thrde days. 18 months ago, Ipswich becale the
:09:09. > :09:12.first town in Britain to cr`ck down on the sale of super strength beers
:09:13. > :09:15.and ciders. This was the idda. If you could persuade shops to remove
:09:16. > :09:18.cheap, strong booze from thd shelves, you could also remove a
:09:19. > :09:23.fair amount of anti`social behaviour as well. The authorities sax it is
:09:24. > :09:32.working, and today the schele was extended to Lowestoft.
:09:33. > :09:36.This is the first independent retailer in Lowestoft to sign up to
:09:37. > :09:43.the scheme and remove cheap alcohol, but he is not convinced. I had to
:09:44. > :09:49.support the community for a couple of months. I don't know whether I
:09:50. > :09:55.will lose the business. I don't think I will gain anything. The road
:09:56. > :10:00.show came to town. This is the place to try it out. It is a venttre
:10:01. > :10:10.between the council and polhce. A third of off`licences have been
:10:11. > :10:15.involved. It is something wd are working to do. Not trying to make
:10:16. > :10:23.sure that the Hall of Lowestoft will sign up to get rid of this problem.
:10:24. > :10:30.Super`strength is lager of ` percentage of 4.5 or more. Some cans
:10:31. > :10:34.contain 9%, and even higher. Unable to find jobs, Jason and John drink
:10:35. > :10:41.on the street and say the c`mpaign won't stop them. They will love
:10:42. > :10:49.elsewhere. All you have to do is go round out of the town and round the
:10:50. > :10:58.corner. It won't work, becatse people go somewhere else. 18 months
:10:59. > :11:01.after the scheme was launchdd, police say drink related anti`social
:11:02. > :11:07.behaviour is down by more than a fifth. All agree it cannot recognise
:11:08. > :11:13.the association. Groups are closely involved. These people have problems
:11:14. > :11:18.which have been ongoing for years and it is very much about t`king an
:11:19. > :11:21.Balti agency approach and sympathetic approach, by addressing
:11:22. > :11:25.those needs. There are thosd who will drink on the street, btt those
:11:26. > :11:33.behind the scheme say a simple idea is going some way to solve ` complex
:11:34. > :11:37.problem. A man who died in a crash in Essex
:11:38. > :11:40.this weekend has been named. He was 20`year`old Kailen Spreadbury from
:11:41. > :11:44.Chelmsford. He died at the scene, after the Ford Fiesta he was in
:11:45. > :11:48.collided with a Vectra on the A 1`14 near Great Baddow.
:11:49. > :11:50.At what age do you think yot should have to re`apply for your driving
:11:51. > :11:54.licence? At the moment the government makes you reapplx at 70.
:11:55. > :11:58.But there are suggestions that as we live longer it should go up to 0.
:11:59. > :12:01.Jackie McCord's daughter was killed by an elderly driver in Colchester.
:12:02. > :12:04.She successfully campaigned for a change in the law, to allow the
:12:05. > :12:07.police to stop somebody driving if they believe it is necessarx. But
:12:08. > :12:10.she is worried about what could happen now.
:12:11. > :12:17.Jackie McCord with a preciots photo of her daughter Cassie. She finds it
:12:18. > :12:22.difficult to describe her loss. If you lose a member of your f`mily you
:12:23. > :12:27.missed them every day. You never get over it. This CCTV taken in
:12:28. > :12:36.Colchester Town Centre 2011 shows the momet Cassie death. Cassie was
:12:37. > :12:44.further up the street walking to college. She was his moments later.
:12:45. > :12:49.The car was driven by a man in his 80s. Jackie went to Westminster to
:12:50. > :12:55.help campaign for Cassie's law, which would allow police to seize
:12:56. > :13:03.the licence of drivers. It has taken hundreds of potentially dangerous
:13:04. > :13:05.drivers off the roads. According to the RSC, there are now 4 million
:13:06. > :13:11.drivers aged 70 or over, and that means the driver and vehicld is
:13:12. > :13:18.agency has to deal with mord and more renewal applications. @
:13:19. > :13:26.Department for Transport review of the DLA has suggested raising the
:13:27. > :13:31.age of drivers, from 70 to 80. The car has an MOT every year, while of
:13:32. > :13:37.the driver. They have to st`rt looking at things they can do to
:13:38. > :13:43.make sure when people are rdapplying that they are fairly assessdd. After
:13:44. > :13:48.campaigning, Jackie McCord fears raising the age would make the roads
:13:49. > :14:01.more dangerous. A spokesman said no decisions have been made.
:14:02. > :14:09.Still to come. Another heavx defeat for Norwich City. A different take
:14:10. > :14:15.on the First World War. We speak to the relatives of one man who refused
:14:16. > :14:18.to fight. Cycling now, and 11 of the world's
:14:19. > :14:22.top 14 women's teams have shgned up to the first Women's Tour of Britain
:14:23. > :14:25.later this year. The details of the tour were announced today. Ht's
:14:26. > :14:28.going to start at Oundle in Northamptonshire on May sevdnth and
:14:29. > :14:38.finish in Bury St Edmunds four days later. Simon Newton is an bhke shop
:14:39. > :14:43.in Bury now, Simon. This is one of the biggest bike
:14:44. > :14:48.shops. They sell about 500 bikes every single year, and about a
:14:49. > :14:52.quarter of those now go to women. Those women on the binaries leisure
:14:53. > :14:59.buys, they are turning to these more sportier machines. It is grown in
:15:00. > :15:04.stature. There are big races across the continent. There is a bhg race
:15:05. > :15:15.in Britain. The two Britain was launched today. It will finhsh in
:15:16. > :15:18.Bury Saint Edmunds. It's billed as a clash of cxcling
:15:19. > :15:21.titans. The world's elite vdrsus Britain's Olympic heroines. The
:15:22. > :15:27.first ever Women's Tour beghns on May seventh. Five gruelling stages.
:15:28. > :15:32.100 riders. 11 pro teams. And nearly all of it in our region. Big`name
:15:33. > :15:37.British riders include double Olympic champion Laura Trott. Silver
:15:38. > :15:45.medalist Lizzie Armistead is also competing, as is the woman who beat
:15:46. > :15:47.her to road race gold, Mari`nne Vos. Today, organisers were in
:15:48. > :15:55.Northamptonshire unveiling the route of Stage One from Oundle to
:15:56. > :15:59.Northampton. It'll be a hugd experience. Every get nothing out of
:16:00. > :16:06.it, at least we can say we completed. We wanted to go to the
:16:07. > :16:11.east Midlands because of thd good roads. It is easy to get to. We
:16:12. > :16:16.organised the men's tour and wanted to create the same thing for women.
:16:17. > :16:20.Stage two of the race on Max the 8th will take the peloton from Hinkley
:16:21. > :16:23.to Bedford. The next day thd women ride from Felixstowe to Clacton on
:16:24. > :16:26.the Essex coast. Stage Four goes from Cheshunt in Hertfordshhre to
:16:27. > :16:27.Welwyn Garden City. The fin`l stage, on Sunday May 11th, starts hn
:16:28. > :16:43.Harwich and ends in Bury St Edmunds. The Giro d'Italia and the Tour de
:16:44. > :16:46.France now have women's events. The launch of the Women's Tour here `
:16:47. > :16:57.say organisers ` proof that the sport's appeal not only continues to
:16:58. > :17:04.grow, but also spans the sexes. With me is Sarah who runs this bhke shop.
:17:05. > :17:12.How big a deal is it for wolen's cycling to have those big n`mes It
:17:13. > :17:19.is a big deal. It will help the image of the sport. It is great it
:17:20. > :17:29.is coming to our region. For women's cycling have more popular
:17:30. > :17:36.has gained in terms of women buying bikes? The Olympics helped. Women
:17:37. > :17:44.are out there cycling. Several years ago it was mainly seen as a sport
:17:45. > :17:48.for the older gentleman, but now there is more female specifhc kit
:17:49. > :18:03.which looks better. Women are there in China is. `` enjoining it. We
:18:04. > :18:08.will know where these routes will take us later on.
:18:09. > :18:10.The Norwich City manager Chris Hughton is under more presstre
:18:11. > :18:14.tonight, after yesterday's four`one defeat at Aston Villa. After the
:18:15. > :18:17.game he admitted there had been a 'mad 15 minutes'. Norwich are now
:18:18. > :18:20.15th in the Premier League `nd just four points above the releg`tion
:18:21. > :18:24.zone. It started well enough for Norwich
:18:25. > :18:31.when Wes Hoolahan put them hn front after just three minutes.
:18:32. > :18:36.Hoolahan wanted to sign for Villa in the transfer window, but Norwich
:18:37. > :18:41.wouldn't let him and the City fans were not best pleased to sed his
:18:42. > :18:44.lack of celebration at the goal And then came the mad 15 minutes.
:18:45. > :18:51.Christian Benteke scored a contender for goal of the season. Two minutes
:18:52. > :18:57.later he scored again to make it 2`1. Chris Hughton must havd been
:18:58. > :19:00.hoping for a fight back, but it went from bad to worse as Leandro Bacuna
:19:01. > :19:12.finished off a brilliant cotnter attack. Sebastian Bassong scored an
:19:13. > :19:21.own goal and the Canaries wdre beaten before half time. It feels
:19:22. > :19:28.like a major setback, because of the manner of defeat. We came hdre with
:19:29. > :19:33.intentions of continuing thd form we have been showing, and the first 25
:19:34. > :19:39.minutes showed that. We had a mad 15 minutes. The Norwich City chief
:19:40. > :19:43.executive David McNally has said if Chris Hughton keeps the club out of
:19:44. > :19:50.the bottom three ` he keeps his job. The Canaries play Stoke at home on
:19:51. > :19:54.Saturday. Staying with football, and Late Kick
:19:55. > :19:58.Off is back tonight on BBC One. And the new series has a new line up
:19:59. > :20:01.too. Our own James Burridge is playing up front with Paul LcVeigh a
:20:02. > :20:11.former striker with both Norwich and Luton of course. Just tell ts how it
:20:12. > :20:16.will work. We are taking it day by day. We could be in the divorce
:20:17. > :20:24.court later. We will see wh`t happens. James, it is a gre`t time
:20:25. > :20:31.for the programme. A lot of our teams have a lot to play Evdry team
:20:32. > :20:40.in the region is playing for something. Every team we ard
:20:41. > :20:49.covering for the next nine weeks has something to play for. In lot to
:20:50. > :20:55.talk about including safe standing? It is something Peterborough have
:20:56. > :21:02.been championing. You have to look at the Hillsborough tragedy. Is it
:21:03. > :21:06.saved the first or the fans? I was at a game on Saturday and 50% of the
:21:07. > :21:11.Colchester fans were standing up. Because I was at the back that meant
:21:12. > :21:15.I had to stand up. It depends on whether you go for the safety aspect
:21:16. > :21:24.or the enjoyment. I think the has to be a happy medium. James, you are
:21:25. > :21:28.the presenter and Paul will be reviewed and other guests? We will
:21:29. > :21:40.have all the managers from the region. We have called Robinson
:21:41. > :21:49.coming in. `` Carl Robinson. It is on at 11:20pm tonight. Bank you ``
:21:50. > :21:53.thank you. Last week we heard a lot about the
:21:54. > :21:57.men who served in the First World War. But what about those who
:21:58. > :22:00.refused to fight ` the conscientious objectors? They were often shunned
:22:01. > :22:03.by society and sent white fdathers in the post, a symbol of cowardice.
:22:04. > :22:07.Have a look at these. They `re campaign medals. Percy Boddx got
:22:08. > :22:10.them for his work with the Friends Ambulance Unit. But they were never
:22:11. > :22:14.worn, and Percy was actuallx sent to prison for refusing to servd later
:22:15. > :22:22.in the war. His family say his objection to the horrors of war was
:22:23. > :22:30.a different kind of bravery. A call to arms in 19 14,000 of men
:22:31. > :22:40.and listened in a wave of p`triotic fervour. This man was a pachfist. He
:22:41. > :22:50.joined the friends Amber Liz unit serving in France in 1916 `` Friends
:22:51. > :22:56.Ambulance Unit. He was given medals at the end of the war. His family
:22:57. > :23:00.have been researching the story and discovered from letters to their
:23:01. > :23:08.grandmother that he was worried about the military nature of the
:23:09. > :23:16.unit. It seems to grow more military than otherwise. I almost thhnk that
:23:17. > :23:21.I should not have joined. Pdrcy was one of 16,000 men who refusd to
:23:22. > :23:26.fight when conscription was introduced. He had already left the
:23:27. > :23:30.unit, feeling it was part of the British Army. He was tried by a
:23:31. > :23:35.local tribunal and jailed three times as a conscientious objector.
:23:36. > :23:41.He spent around two and a h`lf years in prison. My grandmother s`id the
:23:42. > :23:48.years in prison probably aided his early death. I know she was sent a
:23:49. > :23:54.white feather, as a lot of people were, who were conscientious
:23:55. > :24:01.objectors. Some prison sentdnces were harsh, and useless. Thdy were
:24:02. > :24:10.given work to do which was pointless. I think at that time the
:24:11. > :24:16.idea you weren't a real man was a hard one to stand against. Percy's
:24:17. > :24:24.stands when him support. He was elected a Labour councillor after
:24:25. > :24:27.the war, and in 1946 he bec`me sheriff of knowledge. I'm stre
:24:28. > :24:32.they'll will be many who will say people like him and the othdrs who
:24:33. > :24:37.were objectors, were in fact powers, but I don't believe that is the case
:24:38. > :24:47.and I believe what they did took courage. Percy Boddy died in 19 9
:24:48. > :24:58.following a stroke, aged just 1 . `` 60. Time for the weather. The best
:24:59. > :25:14.of the sunshine was in the north of the region today. We have got if you
:25:15. > :25:25.to move into tonight. `` a few. A loss of the showers will cldar away
:25:26. > :25:31.and much of the night will be dry. We get the lowest temperatures under
:25:32. > :25:36.the clear skies, down to frdezing. That means a bit of surface water
:25:37. > :25:42.will be out, and you can't rule out icy patches. With light winds we are
:25:43. > :25:48.looking at some patchy mist and fog. Tomorrow, this low and rain stays to
:25:49. > :25:52.the south`west, so for us it is not a bad day. I think the mist and fog
:25:53. > :25:57.should clear and, apart frol a few showers, we're looking at fhne and
:25:58. > :26:02.dry conditions with sunshind coming through at times. Temperatures will
:26:03. > :26:09.be around eight or nine Celsius The best of the sunshine will sde double
:26:10. > :26:14.figures. In the sunshine, it shouldn't feel too bad at all.
:26:15. > :26:18.Through the afternoon, therd will be some showers but they will be few
:26:19. > :26:23.and far between. For most of us dry enter the day. As we head into the
:26:24. > :26:28.rest of the week, Wednesday, after a cold start, it looks fine and,
:26:29. > :26:32.high`pressure building and some decent spells of sunshine. Then a
:26:33. > :26:39.lot of uncertainty from Thursday onwards. It depends on wherd the
:26:40. > :26:43.weather friend goes to. It looks like the rain should stay to the
:26:44. > :26:48.north of us on Thursday, so after a bright start it will cloud over but
:26:49. > :26:55.it will stay dry. Depending on Thursday, Friday is looking a cloud
:26:56. > :27:00.free day. It will be breezy towards the end of the week but much milder
:27:01. > :27:06.too. After some pretty cold and frosty wind, we should have a mild
:27:07. > :27:10.night. Just a reminder, Inside Out is on at
:27:11. > :27:13.7.30pm on BBC One tonight. @mong the stories David Whiteley is b`ck at
:27:14. > :27:20.Hemsby, three months after the tidal surge caused so much damage. Have a
:27:21. > :27:24.very good evening.