14/04/2017 Look East (West)

Good evening. for the news where you are.

Travellers parked illegally near the seafront at Walton-on-the-Naze

in Essex could face court action to force them to move.

Caravans have been on Bell House Meadow

on Eastern Esplanade since Tuesday - with more arriving yesterday.

A sunny start to the bank holiday at Walton-on-the-Naze;

businesses hope good weather will bring day-trippers flocking.

But not everyone here welcomes THESE visitors.

The first caravans arrived on Tuesday -

this morning there were 14, parked up on a council-owned

The council describes it as an authorised encampment.

I've just been on the site to speak to the travellers,

none of them wanted to be interviewed on camera,

but one of them told me the reason they're here is because it's close

to Harwich where you can catch the ferry over to Holland,

and he said six of the caravans will be leaving here today to catch

They're on land that's owned by the council,

They have been in there for showers, and paid for their showers

like anybody else, and it seems that they've kept the site fairly tidy.

We've been round this morning, handed out some black bags for them

to put their rubbish in, and we will collect

Also in Essex earlier this week, other travellers faced another

The family that owns these plots, near Basildon, put mobile homes

on them despite a court injunction banning it.

They'll be sentenced at the High Court next month,

after admitting being in contempt of court.

Meanwhile, back in Walton, the first travellers to arrive

here have already been served a direction to leave,

giving them 24 hours to move on, but they ignored it.

If they're still here next week, court action will be taken.

The former owners of Bernard Matthews have been

criticised for rejecting a buyout offer which would have

Letters released by the Work and Pensions Committee show that

Rutland Partners opted for a deal which gave them more money,

but offloaded its pension responsibilities onto taxpayers.

The pension scheme has 700 members, and a deficit of ?75 million.

Suffolk Police have released a video of a carer stealing war medals, cash

The incidents took place over a five-year period.

Sonia Maisonave, from Essex Road in Lowestoft, has been

Manor Court Homecare says she betrayed the trust of everyone.

A man has been charged with the rape, kidnapping

and imprisonment of a woman in Luton.

Police were called to a property in Putteridge Road on Wednesday,

after concerns were raised about a woman's safety.

Joel Nestor, who's 39 and from Tottenham,

Four derelict houses have been completely destroyed

Local councillors in the area are now calling for landowners

with empty properties to do more to secure them.

In the early hours of this morning, four derelict properties in Southend

An aerial platform was used by firefighters to put out

This morning, the full scale of the damage could be seen.

The cause is believed to have been a small deliberate fire in one

This isn't the first time these derelict

Filmed last year, locals tell me that these buildings were often

broken into by squatters in the area.

Local councillors say that property owners should do more

If necessary, boarding it up and charging the developer the cost

of making it secure - that way round, we get developers

taking proper action against their properties

and their planning permissions that they've got, rather than leaving

them in a derelict site and causing all sorts of problems.

Police are now investigating, to work out exactly what happened.

A new centre for creative businesses in Northampton has

The Vulcan Works was an iron foundry which manufactured equipment

Councillors have approved plans for it to be converted into a centre

to house new businesses linked to the arts and creative industries.

A fly-on-the wall documentary series which follows

Bedfordshire Police has been nominated for a Bafta award.

24 Hours In Police Custody has been nominated for the prestigious awards

The programme follows the work carried out by officers

and staff across a range of investigations and incidents.

On to football now, and there's been a full Good Friday programme

In the Championship, Norwich lost 3-1 at home to playoff

hopefuls Fulham despite them only having ten men, Cameron Jerome

In League One, Southend scored 4 away to Chesterfield,

leaving them just a point away from the play-off places.

Elsewhere, MK Dons failed to win against Scunthorpe,

and Peterborough stay mid-table after losing at home to Fleetwood.

Colchester did well to draw against top of the table Doncaster.

Grimsby got two past Cambridge, Brad Halliday grabbing a late

Luton Town remain fourth in the table after they drew

at home to Leyton Orient, and it was the second

defeat in a week for Stevenage against Morecambe.

Ipswich Town play later this evening; the Blues are

After today's other games they're just six points

They have a tough match against title-chasers

We still need points, I know it's a tough ask

for the teams below us, and they'll be playing

of course at three o'clock, some of them before us,

but we want to do it ourselves, not rely on anybody else.

And we've got an opportunity this weekend.

We'll bring you a full round-up of the goals in tomorrow's bulletin.

It's not been a bad start to the bank holiday weather-wise -

Sara is here with the weather for the Easter weekend.

Things are going slightly downhill at the moment, and we've had a lot

of dry weather around today but quite a lot of cloud as well. There

were some breaks at times when it doesn't fill -- didn't feel too bad,

but this rain add to the west and North West, heading our way at the

moment courtesy of a frontal system. So it turns more unsettled in the

coming hours, bits and pieces of rain thinning and breaking, and

behind it, they called north-westerly wind for tomorrow.

But it's through this evening that rain comes through, is largely

clearing away by breakfast tomorrow morning, the temperature is holding

up in high single figures. Any last bit of cloud clears away and we get

sunshine coming through, but that is tempered by this north-westerly

wind. If you can get away from the wind and shelter a bit in the

sunshine, not too bad at 13 or 14 degrees but it will be cool in that

win. It's the best day though of the weekend, a change for Easter itself.

-- Easter Sunday. It looks like we will start dry, but pretty chilly

for your Easter Sunday, and then we have got rain spreading in. So the

headlines for the coming day, we've got rain through this evening and

then a cool wind for tomorrow, but there will be bright weather and

rain further east -- rain for Sunday.

That's all for now - I'll be back with the late news

tonight at tweny past ten and our bulletin tomorrow

To think that this time last weekend, temperatures were in the

20s. They got up to 25.5. Much cooler across the country this

weekend. And this headline is true for the weather next week. That cool

air stream from the north will persist. The mild air tries to get

in, but never really wins. What have we got for the rest of today? The

rain we had across Wales earlier will move southwards, but once the

rain reaches you, it will be much