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even at lower levels of light dusting to come as well.

Questioned by police over their toy guns,

the little boys targeted under counter-terror measures.

Their mother says it's racial discrimination.

The whole experience was utterly humiliating,

that parents saw uniformed police officers coming into the school

Helen was visited by menacing strangers before her death.

The man accused of killing his fiancee tells

We meet the children's illustrator whose very first book is offer a

national award. The 5-year-old and 7-year-old

questioned by police under The pair had told their teacher

they had toy guns, so were taken out of class,

and the police were called. Central Bedfordshire Council,

which runs the school, has apologised and agreed to pay

compensation to the Asian family. But the children's mother says it's

racial discrimination She spoke to our reporter Usman Azad

and we agreed to hide her identity. The whole experience

was utterly humiliating, that parents saw uniformed police

officers coming into the school The 23rd of March last

year was the worst day The day her two children

were identified as being The mother bought these guns

as a gift for her boys. They were on special for two

for ?10, but she never thought that this would be the reason that

police would be called Her seven-year-old son

told his classmates For the school, it added to a range

of concerns they had about the boys, but the mum says there was nothing

to worry about. The school said to me that he had

been speaking Arabic in class and scaring the other children

and that he'd been talking about going to Friday

prayers, to a mosque. He couldn't possibly have

been speaking Arabic, because we don't speak it

as a family, in fact we speak English at home and he wouldn't have

been talking about going to prayers with his father because he's never

set foot in a mosque. The boys were reported to the police

the day after the bombing The school raised its concerns

under a Government's anti-radicalisation scheme,

Prevent. The human rights group Liberty argue

the duty to report suspected What it is doing is turning

teachers and doctors, who have themselves said

that they don't want this duty in place, is trying to turn them

into counterterrorist police. That is not their role

and they don't have these skills or the information

with which to make those We think that the duty needs to be

be repealed and their certainly needs to be an independent review

of whether it is in Central Bedfordshire Council has

apologised, and said: They often have

nightmares about this. My elder son, particularly,

often gets scared at school and has told me himself that he doesn't

want to talk about anything to do He wants to fit in now

and that's heartbreaking, for me, as the mother,

that my child feels he needs to hide The boys are already

at a new school, but the emotional The mum says she wishes she left

the toy on the shelf. Our political reporter

Tom Barton is with me. Tom, the school was acting

on a Government strategy called Prevent was set up at the bombings

in London in July 2000 five. Its aim was simple, to stop people becoming

terrorists or supporters of terrorism. Under the skin, all

public bodies, including schools have a duty to prevent people from

being drawn into terrorism. There has been criticism from

organisations over the requirement for teachers and others to be

involved in this sort of counterterrorism activity. In fact,

the case was brought up in Parliament last week, these two boys

and the toy gun. A Conservative MP argues that prevent is doing more

harm than good and is alienating Muslim communities. The government

says the scheme is working. It has had some successes and it is saving

lives. There is no doubt that those with concerns will see this case as

an example of the sort of difficulties that the strategy

faces. Next tonight, the man accused

of murdering the children's author Helen Bailey has told a court

she was visited by menacing strangers in the weeks

before her disappearance. Helen's fiance Ian Stewart

denies drugging her, killing her and hiding her body

in the cesspit under Today he said business associates

of Helen's late husband had come to the house demanding

to see paperwork. Kate Bradbrook is at

St Albans Crown Court now. This was day two of the defence case

in week five of this murder trial. Ian Stewart broke down several times

today as he described his relationship with Helen Bailey and

how he had proposed to her. He denied drugging and killing his

fiancee and, for the first time, we heard his own account on what

happened on the 11th of April last year.

Ian Stewart told the court that in the weeks before Helen

disappeared, they received several visits from two former business

He said on one occasion Joe appeared rude and aggressive

The court heard on the day Helen disappeared, she returned, asking,

"Have you remembered anything or found anything

He then whispered, "Just think about it".

Ian Stewart said Nick later returned and said,

Ian Stewart said he believed if he told the authorities,

The judges said Helen Stewart and Ian Bailey had

They never had an argument and in 2012 secretly got engaged.

They heard that in early 2016, Ian Stewart had been

having trouble sleeping and was prescribed a sedative.

The prosecution claimed that he drugged his fiancee

Asked today if he took the tablets, she said, no.

-- Asked today if he took the tablets, he said, no.

He said Helen had searched the Internet and found

that they should not be taken by someone with his condition.

He said she took the pills on several occasions as she too

Asking if he had secretly poisoned his fiancee, he replied, "No."

Helen Bailey's body was found three months after she disappeared,

Ian Stewart had recently undergone surgery following a cancer scare.

Asking if he could have picked up a dead body or dragged

"Any pushing or pulling was intensely painful.

Asked if he had killed harder for financial reasons, he replied, no.

He said he had more money than he could spend. He denies all the

charges against him and his defence case will continue here tomorrow.

Now, how to persuade more young doctors to train to become GPs.

A quarter of our GPs are over 55 and approaching retirement,

with surgeries across the East already struggling to cope

A new scheme in Bedford is aiming to entice medics into the profession

by giving them the chance to do some work as a specialist.

Doctor Jazmine Ali, one of the first to sign up.

She is able to split her time between the GP rota and building up

With this scheme, it gives you a bit of balance between not

being expected to be in a GP practice for five days.

It gives you that leeway, if you like, to balance out the way

that you would want your profession to progress.

Here at this surgery, they do have enough GPs.

But they hope that the project will help with general recruitment.

The question is whether it's worth the trade-off of GPs not working

to clinics all week to try and help with recruitments.

If, say, 30% stay and really get into it, and become good at it,

and then have an interest which they can then develop

and become a specialist, that might solve the problem.

There are lots of part-time doctors and I'm quite happy to see,

particularly the lady part-time doctors, and if they have

While there are national GP shortages, it's even worse

They've got 250 GPs now, but still need another 30.

I think there will always be a gap, there will always be a tension

within general practice because of the way, the way

It is no longer attractive to GPs and I think we have a wider,

you're quite right, a wider, transformative change in how

we deliver our general practice and primary care operations.

It is hoped the new scheme will not only help to attract new GPs,

Emma Baugh, BBC Look East, Bedfordshire.

So why don't more people want to be GPs?

An expert in primary health care from Cambridge University,

Professor Martin Roland, joined me earlier to explain

Not just this region, there's a shortage of GPs throughout

the country and it's a combination of two things.

There have been fewer people, fewer young doctors wanting to go

into general practice but also a real problem of GPs

retiring earlier, around 60 or even their late 50s,

because they find their job very stressful.

And will this idea of specialisms help to attract young medics

The Government is committed to trying to provide

There is a range of things they are doing.

Giving GPs an opportunity to have a special interest is one

of the things that could help, because doctors often have a lot

of experience in a particular specialty when they been training

and to have an opportunity to do that for part of the time

when they are being a GP for the rest of the time can

If we look at the specialism of mental health care, say,

GP appointments are quite short, aren't they?

So how can you really get a picture or a diagnosis of a mental health

I think if you had a practice and one of the GPs was taking

a special interest in mental health problems and perhaps seeing patients

that had been referred by one of the other GPs,

I think that practice would arrange for that doctor to have more time

Will streamlining the service in this way eventually

Potentially some patients who might otherwise be referred to hospital

specialists could be seen in general practice and there have been

a number of trials, for example, of GPs with a special interest

in skin problems, so minor skin problems could be seen in general

practice that some GPs might feel they need to refer to a specialist.

So there is potential for fewer patients to be referred to hospital.

In general, what could attract more people to the profession?

It needs to be attractive to medical students,

more incentives to young doctors to come and train in general

practice and a raft of things too - make the job more doable,

less administration, less regulation and more time

"Spit hoods" are being handed out to every Thames Valley Police

The hood is put over the heads of offenders to prevent them

spitting at police and the public or biting them.

Critics have described them as cruel and degrading.

They've been rejected by other forces because

But the force says it's taken advice at the highest level and is trying

A man who was arrested after a passenger flight

was escorted to Stansted Airport by RAF fighter jets yesterday has

The Pakistan International Airlines plane was on its way from Lahore

to Heathrow when it was diverted, after an anonymous phone call

Khalid Baqa from Barking was due to be arrested

on arrival at Heathrow, but was instead

It's not believed he had any involvement in the cause

Let's join Stewart and Amelia for the rest of Look East.

place to access services they need and gives them time to consider

whether or not to pursue a criminal case.

Still to come tonight: Alex will be here with the weather including

And the children's illustrator who followed his dream

and has now been shortlisted for a major book award.

It's the bill that will begin the process of us leaving

Nearly all of our MPs are expected to support the move

And tonight there's growing speculation about the actions

of one MP in particular - the Labour MP for Norwich

Let's get the latest from our Political Correspondent

Clive Lewis once again finds himself in the spotlight. Senior

frontbencher, close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, talked about as a future

leader of the party, he has been hinting he will vote against Article

50 tonight. They does that he could lose his place in the Shadow

Cabinet. Today could be a key in his career. Will this be your last day

in the Shadow Cabinet? Clive Lewis and walk this morning to find the

media outside his front door. A lot of people are very interested in how

he will vote tonight. It is my intention to do what is right by my

at by my conscience and whatever that takes. Also, I have to think

about the wider Labour Party. It is a tough call. Lots of MPs are having

a tough time at the moment with this. A key member of the Labour in

campaign, he represents a constituency where 66% of people

voted to remain, but he is also a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, one of

those who persuaded him to stand for a leader. He is torn between loyalty

to the party and representing his constituents, who did date were

divided over what he should do. I think he has got to go with what he

believes is right. If he did what he thought was right he should stick

with that. I think he should stand by the original vote. Why have a

sport at all they are then go to try and change it? You must go with the

majority. I am against it. My constituents and against it and I

will not be moved by that. Other Labour MPs might the MP for

Cambridge have orally decided to vote against article 50. The Liberal

Democrat MP for North Norfolk will abstain. Last night one conservative

voted against the Government to remind ministers that not everyone

is happy. People of Cambridgeshire understand, they are worried, a lot

of psychedelic organisations rely heavily on EU blames coming here,

the care sector, the agricultural sector, they want to understand what

the deal will look like. But the type of debate is just about over.

Then the next hour or so Brexit will move that little bit closer.

Are we any dealer about how Clive Lewis will vote tonight?

We are not. He said last week if the Government did not make major

changes to this bill he will vote against it. It has not sought should

be a straightforward decision but I am told he is still agonising about

what to do, partly because it does not want to fall out with Jeremy

Corbyn, but partly because he feels that there is a senior frontbencher

is seen to vote against Brexit it's crude harm with's chances into

forthcoming by-elections and Brexit supporting areas. That would Jeremy

Corbyn really get rid of him? I ran into the Labour leader today and

said, what will you do about Clive Lewis? Jeremy Corbyn said, Clive is

a lovely man, I would not want to destroy him. Does that mean a minor

punishment or no punishment at all? We do not know. The science

community of the region has been at Westminster today talking about

Brexit. Yes, one of the things we're good at

in Cambridge is research into gene norms, and an institute was telling

MPs about their work. One of the directors said we are world class at

the moment but that is under threat because many foreign staff do not

want come here anymore. I would say this is the Manchester United, we

attract talent globally. We attract and recruit them. Brexit has changed

that. We have 30% non-UK staff on the wider campus. We are hoping to

achieve 40% of staff who are from the EU and they no longer feel

welcome. But as a threat. The Government says it understands those

concerns and hopes to be able to attract the brightest and the best

sites we have left the EU but all that has to be negotiated. What we

have seen down here today is another reminder to ministers that there is

a lot of concern about Brexit. MPs have just started to vote, by the

way. Football now and Norwich manager

Alex Neil said his team made it difficult for themselves

after failing to beat strugglers Wigan in

the Championship last night. The Canaries were held

to a 2-2 draw and missed out on the chance to move

into the play-off positions. Elsewhere a wonder goal won the game

for MK Dons against Oldham who continue to improve

under their new manager Norwich went into the match at Wigan

on the back of city street wins. V BBC then returned to Championship

play-off positions. This looping position gave Norwich a deserved

lead at half-time. Wigan, FA Cup winners only four years ago,

struggling now, battled back after the break, thanks to one of the

country's hottest strikers. He left densely for Wigan in January, this

is his 20th goal of the season. That became 21, curling a fine free kick

past the goalkeeper. 2-1 after 68 minutes. The Canaries were not done.

They won a corner, they levelled the match 2-2. Both sides search for a

late winner. Knowledge making do with eight points. They are seventh

in the championship. Boss Alex Neil was frustrated. We should have won

it. MK dons were aiming to make it six games unbeaten at Stadium MK

under their new manager Robbie Neilson. Oldham were visitors. 7500

fans in the stadium will want to forget a game short on quality with

both sides struggling to create clear-cut chances but they will

remember the goal which won the match. 6% bits into stoppage time a

hoped-for ball, and a volley of sheer beauty was hammered into the

net to give MK dons all three points. The manager said scoring

which gave everyone a massive list. MK dons move up to 14th.

Next tonight, an illustrator from Suffolk who studied

at the Cambridge School of Art has been shortlisted for

is one of three recent graduates to be nominated.

and he's been recognised for his creation of Super Stan,

I wanted to put something up that personal in their because my parents

passed away within the last few years. There is a picture of my dad,

for example. Matt Robertson's father never got to see his son achieve his

dream. For ten years he worked in various jobs but always knew he

wanted to do something else. At the back of my mind there was always

this illustration work, and love, I suppose you could see. It has always

been there. Thanks to my wife who encouraged me to go back to

university and to do a masters. After finishing that course that

received -- after finishing that cause he released his first book,

Super Stan, about a young boy who is jealous of his brother's

superpowers. No matter how different you are, brothers and sisters,

though there's always something that gets you to work together and play

together and at the end of the day to love each other. That is the

moral of the story. Super Stan has now been nominated for Waterstone 's

children's book prize 2017. And the School of arts is no

stranger to having people nominated for an award. More people want to

join the course. People who come to do a qualification in terms of

illustration have to be passionate about the subject. They all inspire

each other. Back in the studio he was putting pen to paper preparing

Super Stan for his first television interview with me.

More importantly he can inspire a generation of children into wanting

to read and that really is a superpower.

Spot the difference. He has been kind to us.

Somebody said I looked quite young. Taken years of both of us. I do not

tell how I can look any younger, but there we are.

Very good. Possibly some snow flurries over the

next few days. We are in a transitional stage, into something

much colder over the next few days. The weather set that has not changed

a lot of the last few days. You will be familiar with this weather fronts

about. It parked itself down across the north sea and it has continued

to sit there reading as a lot of cloud and has been some light

drizzle. Also an easterly drizzle which will establish itself over the

next 24 hours bringing in letter and cold fuel to things. It has been

overcast and gloomy today that there has been spectacular Weather

Watchers photographs, as ever. Look at this one. The sea birds just

off the coast. Even further rest in Northamptonshire, gloomy, overcast,

but it's made for an atmospheric photographs. Into the evening, there

is a lot of cloud. Some spots of light rain and drizzle. We could see

some wintry flurries, perhaps a little bit of sleet or snow. Not

expected to amount to much but there may be a light dusting. Places at

risk are part of Norfolk where there is a warning for ice because there

could be some problems of ice if you are out on the roads lead to night

and early tomorrow morning because temperatures are expected to drop

down to freezing, if not the law. This is an optimistic spread of our

temperatures but out in the countryside we could be down to

minus one Celsius I first thing tomorrow morning. The call start to

the day. Factor in the easterly wind. This colder here that is

moving across the British Isles will make it your quite bitter. But wind

is expected to freshen it during the day. There will be some showers

around and these have an increasing chance of turning wintry in places,

particularly across coastal areas. As that wind freshens that could

move further inland. Nothing prolonged expected that there could

be a light dusting in place is particularly across Eastern

counties. We get the daytime highs, two Celsius as high as it is likely

to get. In the afternoon and increasing risk of showers moving

further West. Look ahead, not a lot of change, that huge area of high

pressure preventing Atlantic weather systems from bringing as anything

milder. Friday, a risk of snow flurries alone. Nothing prolonged

expected that there could be a dusting. There could be a dusting of

snow, those showers continuing into the evening and overnight. Ice risk,

widespread frost, a little less cold at the weekend, but not much.

Thank you. That thought all the lottery out to sea.

That is all from us. Good night.