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the programme tonight: It was revenge and it was murder.

The prosecution opens its case against a man accused of killing a

family of four. But that the rest of today's top now.

Angry scenes in Luton as a family confronts a Chief Constable over a

death in police custody. Surviving the typhoon ` the tourists

back from a trip to the Philippines. I'm at the port of Shanghai, the

busiest container port in the world. It is the biggest container port in

the UK at Felixstowe but they move ten times as many containers here

every year as they do at Felixstowe. We will have the details

later in the programme. Good evening. First tonight, it was

cold`blooded murder and revenge for a business deal gone bad. This is

what a jury was told today about the death of a family from Northampton.

Anxiang Du is accused of stabbing a couple and their children to death

almost three years ago. Today his trial began and Neil Bradford was in

court. The prosecution says Anxiang Du was

a man on a mission. A man seeking revenge. His victims, the big`name

family, described in court today as hard`working, decent people. They

were stabbed to death in their own home as the nation celebrated the

marriage of William and Kate. The husband and his wife Helen were

found in the kitchen. Their daughters were found in a bedroom.

For more than a decade, the family were involved in a bitter financial

dispute with Anxiang Du, a former business partner. The jury heard

that less than 24 hours before the murders, Anxiang Du had learned that

the court had ruled against him By now, he had exhausted all legal

options and was facing financial ruin. It is the prosecution's case

that he travelled from his home in Coventry to the Ding family home

here in Northampton to exact revenge. The Crown Court heard there

was no doubt from Ernests was the man responsible for the prosecution

do not accept this was anything less than murder. `` no doubt that

Anxiang Du was the man responsible. They say the killing was carried out

with ruthless efficiency. He planned to kill, he intended to kill, he did

kill, four times. This is murder, nothing less. The jury also heard

how he had travelled with his passport and fled to Morocco

directly after the killings, where he remained for more than a year.

The 54`year`old is this man from Coventry denies four counts of

murder. The trial has begun of two men

accused of endangering the safety of an aircraft which had to be diverted

to Stansted Airport. The plane was on its way from Pakistan to

Manchester when RAF Typhoon jets were scrambled to escort it. The

court's been told Tayyab Subbhani and Mohammed Safdar, who are both

from Lancashire, threatened to blow up the plane. They deny the charges.

"If there was any wrongdoing, I d make sure I'd deal with it". The

words of the Bedfordshire Chief Constable following the death of a

man in custody. Last night in Luton, she was heckled at a community

meeting after the death of Leon Briggs, who had been detained under

the Mental Health Act, as Louise Hubball reports.

I'd do not know why he died! We do not know anything! I need to know!

This was the moment Leon Briggs s partner confronted the Chief

Constable over his death in custody. Chief Constable Colette Paul was

wooed last night as she appeared at a heated community meeting. ``

booed. This was her response today. We know it would be hostile but I'm

not judging any outcome of this investigation. We have suspended the

officers and staff involved. If there was any wrongdoing done, I

would make sure I've dealt with it and that is my standards. Today

there were concerns in Luton that tensions over the death may

escalate. We don't want any more trouble. There has been enough. I

would be very concerned because my son has a mental health illness so I

would worry if he were taken into custody. If we don't get answers, if

the family doesn't get answers fast, it will get worse, really. The death

is being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints

Commission. But a campaign group is questioning how effective that will

be. The IPCC has been described as wholly inadequately resourced, so

people don't have any confidence or faith that it will do a proper

investigation. Also at the meeting was a pastor who is now appealing

for calm. People are really in shock about what happened and some people

are apprehensive about it, but it has happened already and so we just

need to come together and console the people who have lost their loved

one. People are worried violence could escalate. Sticky yellow I

don't think it is the way forward but there is or was that fear that

it can happen and I think there s a probability it happen if answers are

not brought forward. Tonight, Leon Briggs's family field he has been

let down by the authorities at a time when he should have been

provided with specialist care. `` family feel.

The Wellingborough MP Peter bone has hit out at the decision by the

Ministry of Justice to sell the town's former prison. The Government

says it does not form part of a long`term plan for prison capacity

but the MP disagreed. He is completely and utterly wrong and

Wellingborough prison is on a brown field site and has massive room for

expansion. People want to expand the prison there. Millions of pounds

have been invested in the prison. Would the Minister meet with me to

look at this again before finally making a disastrous mistake?

Meanwhile, Bedfordshire Police today launched a new campaign to recruit

80 new full`time officers. The force says that although budgets are

tight, the front line is spread too thinly, as Mike Cartwright reports.

Responding to a call for back`up. This PC searching for a man who fled

on foot from officers. Moments later, he is found and arrested

suspected of supplying drugs. Several officers are here but there

are not enough on the force, says this PC. I've been in the police for

five years and eye think, especially this year, because of numbers, I do

feel vulnerable at times. Because of the numbers. At the University of

Bedford today, a police recruitment drive. For a force that will have

had to share more than 24 million `` shed more than ?24 million from its

budget and lose hundreds of officers. In recent years, Bedford

police had more than 1200 lease officers but now they number just

over 1000. Those in charge say it is a big shortfall. We have been

seriously overstretched at the front line. The officers going out was

funding to calls and so on have been run ragged and so this is about

Ulster in that part of the organisation. `` this is about

Ulster ring. My dad was on the force and hear a lot of stories. It sounds

like he really got a lot of it. I am 36 so I feel I'm in that age group

where I can bring something to the force. Too dangerous. It is the

first recruitment drive for three years. Those in charge say the

public have no idea how thin the front. Are asked a lady how many

officers she thought were covering Bedford and she said, 100. I said,

you would be surprised if there were ten of us covering this area. Many

say recruits are long overdue. Bedfordshire police is now hoping

for hundreds of applicants. Plans to sell off centre used by

young people in Corby have been approved today by the council. The

council says repairing the centre would cost up to ?700,000. It is

promising the proceeds of the sale will be used to provide new services

in the town. He illustrated classics such as A

Christmas Carol, Wind In The Willows and Gulliver's Travels. Today the

work of 20th`century artist Arthur Rackham has been auctioned in

Stansted Mountfichet. The collection of first`edition books are all

signed and inscribed with drawings by the artist. He was widely

considered as one of the leading illustrators of the early 1900s The

books were given as presents to his wife's sister and her husband, who

lived on the Essex`Hertfordshire border.

Those are tonight's top stories Now we can

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.