15/02/2017 Look East (West)

A teenager stabbed to death on a Northampton street,

another teen suspected of murder, leaving a community in shock.

And I heard somebody was quite young, so when young lives,

like that, get involved in things like that, that's the most

disturbing thing for anybody, in any neighbourhood,

you don't want that kind of things to happen.

You don't want lives to be lost or lives to be damaged in that way.

The rise of leasehold-only sales and what it means for buyers.

A magnetic touch, a pioneering new treatment for hard

I meet Callum, an inspirational poet who is making people see things from

a different perspective. First tonight, a community in shock

after a teenager was murdered The stabbing took place

on St George's Street where the victim was found with neck

injuries and taken to hospital, Two teenagers are currently

being questioned. Our reporter, Kate Bradbrook,

is at the scene now. Yes. Late this afternoon the police

named the 17-year-old victim as Liam Hunt. His family had already been

told. Now, two teenagers, aged 17 and 15, are being questioned by

police in connection with this. People I've been speaking to here

today say they've been left saddened.

A large area cordoned off by police as a murder

Police say a 17-year-old was attacked here at around 5.00pm

The teenager suffered serious neck injuries.

People living nearby believe he was stabbed.

One eyewitness has told me the teenager was treated outside

He was then taken to hospital, but sadly died.

You could see that the police were there, the ambulance

was there and somebody was doing CPR, that's it.

People don't think, don't stop and think and it's the victim,

it's sad for the victim and their family.

I came home, just before 6.00pm, I literally came around

There was a bunch of people there, standing.

Police asked a few guys, basically, to stay behind because I believe

It's bad, and especially so close to where we live

And I heard somebody was quite young, so when young lives,

like that, get involved in things like that, that's the most

disturbing thing for anybody, in any neighbourhood,

you don't want that kind of things to happen.

You don't want lives to be lost or lives to be damaged in that way.

Forensic officers are now at work here looking for clues as police

search the surrounding streets and nearby industrial estate.

The area is also close to a school and local businesses.

Police say a separate area of the town, also cordoned off,

A 17-year-old boy, arrested on suspicion of murder,

Meanwhile, detectives have now also arrested a 15-year-old boy

Now, the police also say they are very keen to hear from anybody who

was around here yesterday afternoon and saw something. Perhaps, they

were coming back from work around 5.00pm. They also say that cases

like this are very rare indeed. They want to reassure the community that

they are working tirelessly on this case. Kate, thanks very much.

Next tonight, who owns the land your house is built on?

Normally, owners will buy freehold, but now some

new homes are being built which developers sell leasehold.

The problems can start when that lease is sold

on with new owners able to change the details and costs.

It's a growing issue, in 2015 almost 9,000 leaseholds

were created and over the past 10 years around 45,000 leasehold

Now there are calls for the law to be changed.

Mousumi Bakshi has been to see a family in Dunstable

When is your home not your home? It's a riddle the answer to which

Louise knows only too well. She is one of a growing number of people

who have bought a leasehold house from a developer. She thought she'd

be paying an affordable amount of ground rent to the freehold owner.

But since buying the house, it's emerged that freehold could be sold

on with ground rent potentially rising. I feel really tricked. I

feel stupid that I didn't spot it. I feel stupid that I believed what a

sales person was telling me and that I didn't investigate it further. But

I did trust that what they were telling me was correct because

obviously this is the biggest purchase you ever make. The practice

of reselling a freehold is perfectly legal. So how does it work? As the

leaseholder Louise owns the property for the length of the Lees, in her

case 499 years. The freeholder owns the ground out right. Louise says

she was led to believe the freehold would never be sold on because it

was owned by a local college. In fact, it's owned by Lindon Homes.

Louise isn't the only one who claims she is mislead. You pay ?200 per

year, I was told that you have to pay to the college. Louise has now

taken her concerns to the local MP. It seems to me that the developers

are trying to make extra money by selling the house and then also

collecting in ground rent and selling the leasehold back to the

people they have already sold the house to. I think that's an unfair

and wrong practice. Louise claims the developers duped her. In a

statement the company told us. That sum could run into the tens of

thousands. My main concern and certainly that of our members, is

that the people buying these properties are unaware of what it

means to them they find this information out too late in the

transaction to be able to make a decision. The bargaining power and

that competitive edge just isn't there. He was almost twice as tall

as a normal man. It was supposed to be a dream home, a first home for

Louise and her family, that dream is rapidly turning into a nightmare.

Well, there's a group that campaigns for leaseholders in the same

The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership sits on parliamentary

Sebastien O'Kelly joined me to explain why developers do it.

If you sell a house leasehold, rather than freehold,

an investment asset class at the expenses of the person

Sometimes a ground rent rises with retail price inflation,

That has a significant impact on the value of the property,

but it's an excellent investment if you happen to own the freehold.

A lot of these people are paying ?295 a year for ground rent.

What service do they receive for that?

Nobody has explained what ground rent is for.

It is nothing except for an artificial construct

which produces a significant revenue for the murky investors

We heard about it with flats quite a lot, but with homes, with houses,

Well, leasehold is an increasing form of tenure in this country,

mainly because we're building lots of flats, but developers have

quickly cottoned on to the notion that they can make considerably more

revenue if they build a leasehold house rather than a freehold house.

This is very much to the detrimental of their customers.

So over the last five years, 45,000 leasehold houses have been

That is an astronomic number and it signifies wealth erosion really

for the new generation of first-time buyers.

So what would you like to see happen then?

Well, I'd like to stop building leasehold tenure full stop,

including for flats, we could go on to commonhold

system which prevails in the rest of the world,

including Scotland and Ireland and North America and Australasia,

so other jurisdictions which had a significant influence

There's really no reason to perpetuate leasehold tenure,

forms of commonhold exist everywhere else.

But for people looking to buy now then, what's your advice to them?

What should they be watching out for?

If you are offered a leasehold house, you tell the developer

straight off that you're very interested in buying it, but you

The developer will say - Oh, no, but you can buy

You cut through that nonsense and say, you can sell the freehold

perfectly easily to me now and you should do so,

Pioneering new treatment for depression is now available

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Treatment is non-invasive

and requires no medication, sedation or surgery.

Emma Baugh has been to see what's involved and what patients think.

I was in a really bad place. I had very little speech because I

couldn't actually focus to make a sentence even. Jane has suffered

with depression since childhood and finally reached crisis point before

having the treatment. I wasn't living. I wasn't able to function as

a person, a wife, a mother, and now I feel I've got my life back. All

you require is putting the magnet resting on the side of your head. Is

that OK? Here at the Burywood Hospital they demonstrate how people

can be treated using magnetic pulses to stimulate parts of the brain. It

can be given without an anaesthetic. The patient can be awaking, watching

TV. There can be a sensation for the first session, people don't notice

it after the second or third. Some people fall asleep. They are seen as

pioneers as it's not available around the country. At the moment,

most patients are only offered either antidepressants or talking

therapies, but for a third of those treatment doesn't work. It's hoped

this could offer an extra treatment where all others have failed. Where

we've got alternatives available, where we have things to help people

who nothing else has been successful for, it's important we have that

available. It's important people who can be helped are given the right

help. I have had lost years, but, to be honest with you, they are right

at the back of my mind. At the forefront of my mind is making up

for lost time. I do as much as I possibly can and I just look forward

to every fresh day. Doctors are hoping to get more funding to help

more patients, but say it isn't a cure all for everyone. In other

news. Thousands of workers at Tata Steel

have voted to accept a deal to reform their pensions in order

to secure the future of the company. There are around 500 workers

at Tata's plant in Corby. Members of three trade unions

decided they would accept moving from a final salary pension

to a less generous scheme Good news for cycling fans

in Northamptonshire as this year's Last year the county

hosted the final stage of the five-day race,

with thousands of people lining the route to see the world's

top female cyclists. The 2017 edition will begin

with a 92-mile stage between Daventry and Kettering

on the 7th June and will finish Let's join Stewart and Susie

for the rest of Look East. happened before the accident is

still not known. Still to come, we got the sport with a round-up of the

football from last night and a pawn that Callum wrote about cerebral

palsy which turned his life around -- poem.

In 1998 one of the biggest Bronze Age discoveries we've ever

It was called Seahenge a huge timber circle which had been buried

Now more Bronze Age timbers have been found on the Essex coast and

experts think they could be part of an ancient causeway. The timbers and

there is to remove them was featured on the BBC's country file diaries

with presenter George husband. -- Hudson.

I'm on Mersey Island, rushing to meet a group

of archaeologists who have gathered to investigate what they believe

is a unique historic landscape that the winter storms have revealed

The conditions are perfect, but it is a race against time

and tide before the next storm can wash it away forever.

Oliver Hutchinson is from the Coastal and Intertidal Zone

Archaeological Network, or Citizan for short.

His team of experts and volunteers are battling to capture this piece

of history before it is gone for good

but as the site is only accessible when the tide is out,

From what Oliver and his team have discovered, they believe this

could have been home to an ancient settlement, complete

with timber structures, but they don't have long to find out

more before the sea that uncovered it will reclaim it.

This is probably as far out as the tide will let us get.

Today, yes, this is as far as I think we should venture.

To the untrained eye, this might just look like muddy

like muddy old wood, but to the archaeologist,

it's a vital clue left by those who once lived and worked year.

Normally in archaeology, you would slowly excavate a side

inch by inch to uncover the secrets, but with the tide on its way back

Luckily, the latest technology is helping to preserve this ancient

We're trying to create a 3-D model and that is done by basically

stitching a lot of photographs of the same object, the same

feature together with some very smart software.

The team are hoping to create a 3-D map of the whole site to help build

up a picture of what had once looked like before it is lost for good.

Thousands of years' worth of storms have eroded away the structures

and revealed an ancient land surface that could once have

We found the remains of a constructed raft.

Maybe it is a shepherd's hut, maybe it is a seaside villa.

Clearly there are still many questions that need to be answered

about this historic submerged landscape and the people who called

This is a story that could so easily have been forgotten,

lost in the midsts of time, but thanks to the team and their

efforts and their volunteers and their commitment to the past,

And you can see Countryfile Winter Diaries on BBC One at 9:15 tomorrow

morning and at the same time for the rest of the week.

Imagine a world in science fiction where nobody grows food but instead

Well, that's the goal of a hi-tech company in Cambridge.

They've still got some way to go but basically this

They will use a 3-D printer linked to a phone app

It could be on the market later this year.

How do you make a 3-D printed strawberry? Take a look inside this

laboratory in Cambridge. They take the information into a smartphone

app which is sent to a machine, add some intense strawberry flavour from

real strawberries, mix it with the magical solution, pop it into a 3-D

printer and you have a strawberry. We can recreate it by loading the

flavours and ships that people like and combine them in an interesting

way and have it ready in a matter of minutes. but before you change your

diet plan, here's a a simple fact. Scientists say they still don't know

what the nutritional value of 3-D food is and if you prefer

strawberries more ripe and crunchy, changing texture isn't possible. To

buy one of these printers, it will cost you as much as a high-end food

processor, but available to the end of the year, and it is not fast

food, the printing process is slow but faster than regular 3-D printing

but thinking outside the kitchen, it is hoped this technology could be a

solution to a shortage of vegetables. Bad weather in Southern

Europe meant farmers were not able to drove the normal amount of

vegetables, a problem expected to get much worse -- grow. As we see

changes in climate across Southern Europe we will see drier weather and

wetter summers which will have huge impact on agriculture and

production. But 3-D printed technology doesn't stop with food.

We already making parts for aircrafts and even body parts right

here in the East. In football, as we enter the final

third of the season, only one of our ten teams

is in the play-off zone It could have happened for Norwich

last night but they would have Ipswich also drew but Southend

and Peterborough have plenty Fans at Carrow Road certainly

got their money's worth last night. Leaders Newcastle were in front

after just 23 seconds, Ayose Perez giving Norwich keeper

John Ruddy no chance. Cameron Jerome, all muscle,

Jacob Murphy just too quick. End-to-end stuff with

the keepers heavily involved. Norwich stay seventh, now four

points off the play-off zone. Effort like that week

after week, I'll be happy. It's a team effort, it's not

like watching a pinball table Improving Ipswich faced a tough test

at second-place Brighton. Tom Lawrence's free kick

was bundled in by Chambers, He bravely carried on but

the Seagulls fought back. Bruno was on the canvas

and they scored a penalty. They'll be missing key

striker Tom Lawrence, suspended for the Leeds

and Norwich matches. In league one, Peterborough set just

outside the play-off places. The Blues were 2-0

winners at Oxford. Manager Phil Brown praised the fans

and offered to buy all 472 of them Peterborough had to use their heads

to get past Shrewsbury. I said that to the boys at

half-time, this is a big, big game. We talk about the process

and performance and winning, but I said to the boys,

this is it, this In league two, Luton

continued to catch the eye, a comfortable 3-0 win over

Hartlepool. Danny Hilton got the ball rolling,

18 for the season so far. Then it was two inside 15 minutes

then the long wait for the third, They stay fourth, three points off

the automatic promotion places. We don't win games easily,

not in this league. The other team celebrating

on the night was Stevenage, Cheltenham 2-1, winning a penalty

then doing the easy bit. 16 for the season now

to leave Borough on the A few months ago, Callum Burnham had

reached the lowest point in his life Callum is 16 years old

and has cerebral palsy. He had been bullied and thought

there was nothing for him Callum decided to make

a video and put it online. It's a poem he wrote himself

about living with cerebral palsy. Already it's been seen by thousands

of people and it's given him the confidence to look forward

to the future. For most teenagers,

their birthday is one of the happiest times of the year,

but for Callum Burnham, You look at him, you see

a chair, something tells But the funny thing is,

you don't even care about the small innocent kid that's just sitting

there, the same kid there doesn't want to be in a crowd,

just because he's too afraid He explained to me how he came

to be in this dark place. People were saying nasty

comments about the fact that I'm in a wheelchair,

about my condition with cerebral palsy, making references that it's

like cancer and that His unhappiness took its toll

on the whole family. It was like all the work that I'd

done up until that point was just for nothing,

because no matter what I said he wouldn't listen, he wouldn't

change and see that he can In the end, Callum turned

to poetry to try and explain The video was uploaded

to Facebook and has now reached I was blown away by how

quickly it took off! I hope that it does change the way

people see people with cerebral palsy and other disabilities and I'm

hoping I can change the world. I will not cry just

because you stare or just because I think life is slightly

unfair and even if you can't accept that it's me,

just as remember this is how God designed me to be, because this

is my sole and this is my face and this is what I want to chase,

to prove I have a heart and soul like you and tell

you that I'm human, too. And now he says that,

he feels like he has It's not just identity

he found through poetry, he has discovered a way to give

people hope and understanding regardless of mobility

or disability. Well done, what a great thing to

have done. A much milder forecast and it looks

like the mild weather will stay until next week. Fantastic

photographs to show you. In this day starred in Northamptonshire with

some beautiful sunshine and blue sky in Norfolk. Lots of rainbow

photographs. This is one of many taken in Essex. There has been an

area of rain spreading across the region and it has meant heavy bursts

of rain, but some parts of the region have escaped it. It is

centred on east and western and central parts of the region so if

you live in coastal parts, you may escape what is left of it and it

will be at the way fairly swiftly suffer many of us it is looking like

a largely dry night and it could be the odd mist and fog patches we go

through the night. A little bit colder at 56 Celsius. A cold start

tomorrow. A ridge of high pressure is building in so a lot of fine

weather but it may be mistaken for the first things were some low-level

cloud around to start the day but then it should brighten up with some

good spells of sunshine and with that milder temperature it should

feel really nice in the sunshine, up to 11 Celsius, a light, moderate

southwesterly wind. It is possible the thickness of the cloud could

produce one or two spots of light rain. A lot of dry and fine weather

for tomorrow. The high pressure builds on for Friday and it is

preventing these weather systems from bringing in rainbow by the time

we get to the end of the day on Saturday, we might succeed in

bringing a splash of rain to many parts of the region so fine days but

chilly nights under clear skies, perhaps just a few patches of mist

and fog on Thursday and Friday morning. It is looking generally

cloudier as that weather system approaches but it should stay dry

for the start of the weekend with the chance of some rain into the

start of the evening. Temperatures could be higher into next week.

We'll see you tomorrow night. Goodbye.

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