02/04/2014 Look East - West

Good evening. A court's been hearing of the final fatal journey of a

teenager who lost her life `t a notorious accident blackspot in

Peterborough. Hannah Yates, who was 19, lost control of her car on

Northbank, near Whittlesey, and it plunged into the water. Hannah's

death was one in a series of accidents last winter. Desphte

safety barriers being put up, today campaigners said the measurds still

didn't go far enough. A beautiful girl who we miss so

much. Our hearts are broken. The words of Hannah Yates's famhly after

the inquest today into her death. She died after her car went into the

river one night last winter. Hannah Yates was happy in herself `nd was

on her way to see her voice friend. After she crashed, a witness heard

her shouting. She said that she was trapped and it sounded as if she was

banging on the glass. It was one of a series of accidents starthng with

her death. Today the coroner said that

Hannah's death was accident`l. After her death, her family joined

campaigners, calling the better safety measures. Temporarilx speed

limits were brought in and safety barriers put up on the end where

Hannah Yates died. It is a shame that it took Hannah's death to make

the council finally realised the need for a safety barrier on this

road. Her family said today they were disappointed the corondr did

not ask for more safety measures, but they had to accept what had

happened and move on with their lives.

In less than 24 hours a votd in Brussels could mean online hmages of

child sexual abuse become more difficult to block. The

Cambridgeshire based charitx The Internet Watch Foundation is

concerned that a decision tomorrow by the European Parliament will lead

to images remaining accessible on the internet for longer. Ben Bland

has the details. Last year the foundation received reports of more

than 13,000 websites that wdre hosting images of children being

sexually abused. At the momdnt they share the web address with the

service provider Hugh Block it almost immediately. The new law

could make it illegal for the Internet providers to do th`t in the

future. Instead they might have to get a court order and that hs

opposed by one of the members of the European Parliament. This is

irresponsible and dangerous and that amendment must not be allowdd to go

through. And this matters bdcause removing and deleting the ilages and

take up to a couple of weeks, so the ability to temporarily block access

to the web address almost immediately is very important.

So why are they doing this? To make it easier for legitimate businesses

to trade across Europe without worrying that their websites are

slow down of locked. Someone in Cambridge be abld to live

from someone trading in Belgium as easily as buying from a company

based in this country. Our region's Conservative and Labour MPs want

assurances that Internet providers will be able to log websites hosting

illegal images. `` block websites. Next, more on the record levels of

air pollution affecting our region. Government experts say todax in

parts of East Anglia and thd East Midlands levels have peaked. It s

partly caused by dust from the Sahara. Joining me now is Dr Alison

Greig from Anglia Ruskin Unhversity. Why has this region been so badly

affected? This part of the country is being effected because it is in

the path of the airstream which has come up from the Sahara, crossed

over Europe and ended up in this part of the world. So do yot think

these high levels we have bden experiencing today are a ond off or

will we see these conditions again? Generally, we get this sort of

airstream about five or six times every year. This is the first time

this year we have seen it. Ht does happen occasionally. We havd seen

extreme rainfall over the l`st few months. Part of that has bedn put

down to climate change. Do xou think these high levels of elution are

down to the same thing? It hs very difficult to in any particular event

on climate change, but the dxperts have said, and they are quite

possibility that we are seehng possibility that we are seehng

changes in our weather pattdrns due to climate change and so whhlst we

cannot pin this particular dpisode on climate change, it is possible

that in the future we are lhkely to see different weather patterns, this

sort of thing happening mord, or even less because of climatd change.

Thank you very much for joining us. Football, and just one result to

tell you about from tonight. In League One Peterborough plaxed at

home to Colchester. Posh won the match ` final score 2`0. Th`t is all

from the late team, but don't forget from the late team, but don't forget

our breakfast bulletins beghn from 6:25am. Time now for the we`ther.

It is quite cloudy across the region at the moment and there has been

rain and drizzle, but the rdst of the night look mainly dry. There

could be some fog patches developing, but it won't be a cold

night. We start with some mhst and fog, but that will lift and there

will be hazy sunshine. It whll feel warmer with temperatures around 18

degrees Celsius. For the afternoon, cloud might produce rain across

western counties. On Friday we will get a fresh air mass. In a loment,

the National forecast, but here is the outlook.

be dry. The air pollution has been hitting the headlines today. For

more information on that, here is my colleague.

Good evening. Very hazy skies in London today and many other towns

and cities across the UK. On Thursday there is the chance of some

pretty high pollution in the south-east and East Anglia but by

the time we get towards the end of the week, we will see clearer

Atlantique air coming in and we should get rid of the Saharan dust

which has been making services grubby in the last few days. You can

see the pattern across the Atlantic. We also have a weather