:00:11. > :00:13.Special events have been taking place across the region tod`y to
:00:14. > :00:19.70 years ago, the allied invasion of Europe began by landing thotsands of
:00:20. > :00:25.It's probably the last time a major anniversary is markdd by
:00:26. > :00:28.so many veterans, with most of them now in thdir 0s.
:00:29. > :00:43.The war memorial in the centre of Norwich and a service mirrored by
:00:44. > :00:47.that attended by the Queen. The former head of the Army Lord Dunnett
:00:48. > :00:52.was a guest of honour, as w`s 80`year`old Len Manly landed on the
:00:53. > :00:56.beach at Arromanches 7am on D`Day. A member of the Devonshire Regiment,
:00:57. > :01:04.he saw heavy fighting onlind. We made our way to what is now Pegasus
:01:05. > :01:10.Bridge, and it was not very nice there, because snipers were having a
:01:11. > :01:16.go at us. The German fighter planes were coming down stray fingdrs,
:01:17. > :01:21.shells were dropping, all around us. If it had not been a success, what
:01:22. > :01:24.would Europe look like todax? We have great gratitude in our heart
:01:25. > :01:29.and great thanks for all those people. It has been a busy few days
:01:30. > :01:36.the 16 aerosol Brigade, basdd in Colchester. They have been `t this
:01:37. > :01:40.drop zone for paratroopers on D`Day, and the first French villagd to be
:01:41. > :01:43.liberated. 200 paratroopers from the brigade were among 300 men from
:01:44. > :01:48.Britain, France, Canada and the United States who used the same drop
:01:49. > :01:53.zones yesterday to pay tribtte to the paratroopers who fought in
:01:54. > :02:05.Normandy 70 years ago. Back at the D`Day service in Norwich, primary
:02:06. > :02:08.school children were involvdd. LAN man read the odour remembrance. At
:02:09. > :02:17.the going down of the sun, `nd in the morning, we will remembdr them.
:02:18. > :02:24.Before a loan bugle played the Last Post.
:02:25. > :02:27.And earlier this evening we asked for your D`Day stories.
:02:28. > :02:29.Douglas Smith called from Corton near Lowestoft.
:02:30. > :02:33.He flew a Halifax bomber to soften up the German positions.
:02:34. > :02:36.He says "there's not many of us left".
:02:37. > :02:39.James in Norwich tweeted that his dad,
:02:40. > :02:42.Colour Sergeant Albert Marrhott was a Royal Marine on D`Day.
:02:43. > :02:45.James says he lost him a few years ago, but
:02:46. > :02:52.And this is William Hutchins on his wedding day.
:02:53. > :02:55.His daughter April called to say he was so badly hurt that
:02:56. > :03:00.He now lives in Norwich and has eight children.
:03:01. > :03:06.Thank you to everyone who contacted us.
:03:07. > :03:08.Norfolk Police have defended their decision to arrest
:03:09. > :03:12.the parents of an 11`year`old boy, who weighs 15 stone, on suspicion
:03:13. > :03:17.The mother and father from King's Lynn told the Sun newspaper
:03:18. > :03:23.Norfolk Constabulary has refused to comment directly on the casd,
:03:24. > :03:26.but in a statement insisted that "intervention at this level is very
:03:27. > :03:29."rare and will only occur where other attempts to protect
:03:30. > :03:36.Earlier I spoke to Tam Fry, an expert on childhood obeshty, and
:03:37. > :03:41.he told me he thought authorities should have intervened earlher.
:03:42. > :03:45.In my opinion, this boy could have been picked up as long ago
:03:46. > :03:55.as the age of three or four, because a lot of medical services and also
:03:56. > :03:59.teachers at school and nursdry school will have seen him and did
:04:00. > :04:04.nothing at all, and that colbined, I think, has caused a lot of grief.
:04:05. > :04:08.Had intervention happened at that stage,
:04:09. > :04:12.then I think we wouldn't have been in the situation that we ard now.
:04:13. > :04:15.In reality, what can a doctor, nurse or a teacher do if thdy
:04:16. > :04:20.Certainly, they can refer them upwards to paediatricians.
:04:21. > :04:23.Paediatricians are the people who are ultimately
:04:24. > :04:28.the child doctors, who know exactly how to deal with weight man`gement
:04:29. > :04:34.You have to be very careful what you do, and that would be
:04:35. > :04:40.Secondly, they then can takd the decision to, with Social Services,
:04:41. > :04:46.remove the child away from the family home whilst the family home
:04:47. > :04:49.is being straightened out, `nd then when everything is cleaned tp, then
:04:50. > :04:52.the child will go back, hopefully much thinner,
:04:53. > :04:55.and hopefully will stay thinner because Social Services and
:04:56. > :04:58.the medical professionals whll be keeping a watching brief on them.
:04:59. > :05:02.That seems quite an extreme course of action at such an early `ge.
:05:03. > :05:09.Unfortunately, for this child, it is extreme, because it has been left
:05:10. > :05:14.so late, but were he to havd been picked up much earlier, we wouldn't
:05:15. > :05:19.There would have been a weight management or weight loss course
:05:20. > :05:24.which would have been appropriate for his age and size, but it
:05:25. > :05:30.And that's what I'm getting at, is that if you pick these problems
:05:31. > :05:33.up early enough, you can do something about it sensibly, rather
:05:34. > :05:37.than waiting now at the 11th hour and having to take these me`sures.
:05:38. > :05:43.Tam Fry, from the National Obesity Forum, thank you.
:05:44. > :05:46.Managers at Southend University Hospital have told Look East
:05:47. > :05:49.they were quick to spot the signs of possible blood poisoning
:05:50. > :05:53.in a baby thought to have bden infected by a contaminated drip
:05:54. > :05:58.The Chief Executive at the hospital says they alwaxs keep a
:05:59. > :06:05.We always monitor babies particularly closely.
:06:06. > :06:08.We are assured by Public He`lth England that there shouldn't be any
:06:09. > :06:15.more cases of this, but we will always monitor babies as little
:06:16. > :06:20.as this, who do get infections easily, very, very closely.
:06:21. > :06:23.The head of the company which owns Southend Airport says it
:06:24. > :06:26.could have 5 million passengers a year by the end of the decade
:06:27. > :06:30.Julian Carr ` the managing director of Stobart Air ` says it'll create
:06:31. > :06:34.But there's ongoing legal action from people living
:06:35. > :06:43.nearby over fears airport growth could hit house pricds.
:06:44. > :06:56.That is it from us. And now, the weather. Good evening.
:06:57. > :06:58.As we go through the rest of tonight, the risk
:06:59. > :07:02.of one or two thunderstorms coming up from the south, particul`rly
:07:03. > :07:05.And temperatures not dropping too far, down to
:07:06. > :07:09.about 13 or 14 degrees for lany of us, so quite an uncomfortable
:07:10. > :07:12.Then tomorrow morning, some thunderstorms running their
:07:13. > :07:16.Not for everyone, still some uncertainty about how far
:07:17. > :07:20.They'll clear northwards, though, and then I think for the bulk
:07:21. > :07:24.of the afternoon across the East, it does look mainly dry.
:07:25. > :07:27.Any further storms tend to be further west of the M11,
:07:28. > :07:30.so the further east you go, the drier you'll tend to be.
:07:31. > :07:31.And a very muggy, humid sort of day, temperatures getting up to 23 or
:07:32. > :07:33.improve to some extent. The showers move away and a fresh appeal to
:07:34. > :07:42.things. Good evening. The good news is,
:07:43. > :07:45.there will be some decent dry on a sunny moment to come through the
:07:46. > :07:50.weekend. But over the next 24 hours, the threat of thunderstorms
:07:51. > :07:54.looms large. The ingredients have been coming together today - warm
:07:55. > :07:57.air pushing northwards out of Iberia, cooler air from the Atlantic
:07:58. > :08:02.trying to pushed away. In between the cloud has been building with a
:08:03. > :08:05.lot of energy in the atmosphere sparking off some nasty
:08:06. > :08:08.thunderstorms across parts of northern Spain and south-west
:08:09. > :08:13.France. They will produce most of the rainfall tomorrow. Ahead of it,
:08:14. > :08:17.the cloud is starting to produce thunderstorms itself. We've seen in
:08:18. > :08:21.Cornwall. A few sporadic thunderstorms across central and
:08:22. > :08:22.southern areas and towards Northern Ireland through the