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Hello and welcome to Look East. Coming up in Wednesday's programme:

Calls for action on financial abuse -

after a couple conned their elderly neighbour out of her life savings.

We just knew that they were no good but without proof

As the election draws closer - what issues will get our Polish

Because I'm feeling like it's my home and I'm growing a future

with this country, and I want the best for this country,

and I want the best for my business as well.

She lost 18 stone to be named slimmer of the year -

stay tuned to find out Tracy's dieting tips.

And after a day of rain will the dilution continue? All the details

later. First tonight - the vulnerable

dementia sufferer. Marjorie Webster from

Peterborough had given power meaning she could make decisions

about the pensioner's finances. But little did she know that

the woman she trusted to help her, was actually stealing thousands

of pounds from her account. Remembering her friend of 40 years

almost a year on from her death. Marcia knew Marjorie had made

a mistake giving her and describes Kim Riley as a very

cunning and intelligent woman. She saw the vulnerability of

Marjorie, and as Marjorie's health declined she became closer

to her but was always borrowing money from Marjorie,

and Marjorie was so kind to them because of that

personal circumstance, We just knew that they were no good

but without proof there The financial abuse began

here in Peterborough. With no family of her own,

Marjorie befriended her neighbours over

a period of 12 years, to the point

where she trusted Kim Riley enough to legally look after her financial

affairs she lived in this house in

Peterborough, and she put all her faith in Kim

and believed that Kim Kim played the daughter

Marjorie never had, she showered her with affection

and love, but it was fake. Only when she died, did

the executor to her will discover that her neighbours

had cleared out Marjorie's bank The care home that

she'd been living in got in touch fairly

quickly after she died to say that the care

home fees hadn't been

paid for six months. Now, we knew at that time

there should have been enough funds in the estate to have paid

those care home fees, The firm of lawyers then

reported their suspicions Funds were being used

for all sorts of things, family holidays, pubs, restaurants,

concert tickets, supermarkets transactions, anything and

everything, holidays in Egypt, and over a period of three years it came

to about ?150,000 which equates to Kim and husband Neil

Riley were found guilty earlier this month,

and are tonight behind bars, for living the high life

at Marjorie's expense. However, Marcia believes

the financial abuse could have been avoided had Marjorie

instructed two people instead of one Charities who campaign for older

people are now calling for measures to stop this kind

of thing happening again. I asked Stephen McCarthy,

from Action On Elder Abuse, Firstly, we're were

looking for additional criminal charges to make

an aggravated crime of elder abuse,

so that's regardless of whether it's financial in this situation, or

physical, or psychological, We think that as a starting

point we think there is a real lack of deterrent

at the moment. What about the lawyers, or financial

sector, could they do more to prevent that happening

in the first place? Banks should be able to keep an eye

on this sort of thing. You would have thought they know

when someone has made an attorney, they know what that relationship

is and you would expect banks to be able to pick up on large sums of

money transferring from the actual rightful owner of that money

through to that attorney, and to then raise those concerns

with the police or social services, but most importantly

it is about raising that concern. So what sort of thing should people

be watching out for, then, whether they work

in a bank or perhaps work and social services

and have some contact People pick up often

on the disparity between the living conditions that the person might be

in and their supposed financial situation.

That's one. As well, people are not

often able to pay bills all of a sudden

when that shouldn't really be the case,

and I believe that was a factor

in this case as well. With older people needing help

with their finances, If you are going to set up

a power of attorney for yourself, to maybe look at more

than one person to be attorneys. That way, one person

can keep an eye on It's all about setting

power of attorney up correctly, but even within that there

are limitations to power of attorney, and how safe someone

can keep themselves financially. And are there a lot

of people that come into contact with an older,

vulnerable person who might be able Is it a question of them

communicating more? Yes, absolutely, it

could be friends or family, as I say, but it

could be a social worker, it could be a doctor or a nurse or,

you know, the sort of people that older people are likely

to come into regular contact with should be looking out

for those signs, look to have those sorts

of conversations. And then, if they are in any doubt,

as to whether there might be some abuse financially

or otherwise going on, to get in touch with the police

or to get in touch with social services, social

services do have an obligation to look into these situations

when there is David Brickwood was a 74-year-old

grandfather who was attacked That was over 20 months ago, and his

killer or killers still haven't Today, an inquest in Northampton

heard how Mr Brickwood had 35 wounds on his body,

including multiple stab wounds. The coroner ruled that he had

been unlawfully killed. In the early hours of 26th September

2015, David Brickwood was attacked in his own bed,

and repeatedly stabbed. At the inquest today, police

and paramedics described arriving at the house to find Mr Brickwood

covered in blood, and also how they desperately tried

to save his life. It was abundantly clear

from the evidence that we heard here in court today that

David Brickwood was a well-known and well liked

and well loved man. He had lived in the area for over

40 years, and he was described as being a pivotal part of

Abingdon, and his son described him as being the absolute

backbone of the family. Mr Brickwood's family and friends

sat and listened to the horrific details of his last moments,

and today spoke of the effect of his It's damaged us, and obviously

we're never going to get You've took our father,

you know, mum's husband... Everyone is suffering

in one way or another, whether it's depression, not

sleeping right, not eating right, And I get asked all

the time, you know, You know, what do

you say to children? But despite a substantial reward,

an appeal on Crimewatch, and a recent search of a local lake,

the police say they're I can't stress the importance

enough of people coming forward, but people that have got

evidence, there's been a lot of rumour and a lot of

speculation, but somebody out there must know

what happened, and it's those people

that we want to come forward. So why do you think

they haven't come forward I think people sometimes think

that we will crack it Well, we haven't, we are 20 months

down the line, and those people with that key

evidence are really, really important, they

are even more important

now, and we need them. The coroner today ruled

David Brickwood has been unlawfully killed, and also told the family

he hoped the assailant or assailants And that need for justice and

closure is something that the Brickwood family said they were

desperate to have. The police told me here today in Northamptonshire

that they are incredibly frustrated that the lack of progress here in

this case, but they told me they just need that one key piece of

evidence which could lead to a conviction.

The search for the body of missing airman Corrie Mckeague at a landfill

site near Cambridge will continue for another three weeks.

Mr McKeague went missing after a night out in Bury St Edmunds

Police believe he may have climbed into a commercial waste bin

that was then emptied at the Milton landfill site.

Kim Riley is outside the site tonight with the latest.

Terrible conditions here today, pouring rain and there have been

weeks of delays before the search he was actually begun because police

were originally given the wrong information, told the bin lorry

wasn't Harry enough to have been containing a body so the search

began in February. A specialist search officers have been searching

for 11 weeks and haven't had a single link with Corrie McKeague,

not a single item of personal clothing or a keepsake, nothing like

that but there is a positive side to that, throughout the search there

have been finding items relating to the time and date he went missing

and also to the key location in recent Edmunds where he was last

seen. When the hunt began police identified a cell on which they

would focus, a quarter of an acre is across. To a deep depth, a depth of

eight metres. In a tips like this, they move, apparently, the rubbish

moves around, it is not clumsily bare and police have been noticing

that and what is happened is that waste relating to this key dates,

relating to Bury St Edmunds, the waste coming from that, they have

been found outside that central area they first identified. So in week 11

based on the advice from people here research is being expanded so the

painstaking work likely to go on as you said for another three or four

weeks continuing, progress constantly reviewed here.

As you may have seen on the national news,

the Liberal Democrats launched their manifesto today -

the second of the three main parties to do so.

Our political reporter Mousumi Bakshi has been assessing

how their pledges might affect our region.

Lunchtime in the city known as the heart of silicon. More than 4000

people work in Trinity area in Cambridgeshire. I am the father of

two young children so the future is something that is important to me

because I had to consider some of their well-being and welfare and

what they are actually really don't you do when they grow up and really

the rate of change within technology is so great that we really don't

know what sort of jobs in the world and Britain is going to look like in

another 20 years' time. The Lib Dems are also promising to protect the

science budget but in such a narrow focus on a specific sector the right

cause of action for voters? They are right to focus on science and

technology. If you look at where the income and all the value and the

jobs come from, it is very uniquely around Cambridge, from deep

technology. Science is both critical for Cambridge but essential for the

broader UK economy so I ink they are very right to focus on that. Taywood

voted -- Cambridge voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU.

A measure of success for the Liberal Democrats is if this manifesto will

win back tightly contested like Cambridge. As well as focusing on

Brexit they revealed it would build up to half a million a affordable

homes over the next five years but will it be enough in places like

Cambridge where the average cost of a home is over ?400,000? As well as

the affordable homes building programme, the party also announced

it would create a new start-up allowance which could play well in

parts of this county. Last year, over two and a half thousand new

companies began trading. And while it may go against the rest of the

country reversing Brexit plays well for this start-up company. We have

80% of our employees non-British citizens. Over 50% are -- of our

users. It isn't so much that we are hiring followers that are

foreigners, but we have had a hard time finding horrified employees. --

qualified employees. Staying with the election,

but now to the views of people who've moved to this country

and made it their home. Polish migrants make up the largest

foreign-born group across the East. In Peterborough more

than 6,500 Poles have moved Some have become British

citizens, giving So Emma Baugh went to ask about

the issues that matter to them. Gosia Prohal in her

Peterborough radio studio. She's been in the country

three and half years, But she says many of her listeners

have applied for a British passport. Polish people in the UK,

they are now waiting They don't know what to

expect and that's why much more people apply

for the British citizenship. Listnener Robert Szatkowski

has been here 14 years, a citizen for four.

His vote is for the economy. As a sole trader I would

like to be concerned only about the business, so economic

aspects of political parties' programmes, this is

the most important part. Latest census figures show

that in ten years more than 6,500 people moved

from Poland to Peterborough. We don't know how many of those have

stayed, how many have become citizens, and of those how many

have registered to vote. One of those who's registered

is shop owner Annie Igeemorrow. She's lived in the UK 15 years,

a citizen for four. For her - she's voting

for a soft brexit. To stay in single market,

actually to grow the I want the economy to

grow to be good for my business because most

of my grosses come from Europe. Because I'm feeling

like it's my home, and I'm growing a future with this country

and I know I want the best for this country, and I want the best

for my business as well. So what are we going to do,

muffins, you said? Lukasz Moorafski has lived

in the UK for more ten years. but his five-year-old son,

Xavier, has. Now he's looking to get

more of a say himself, and a number of issues

are important to him. Everybody is talking

about the NHS these days, Some people say that even

people from European countries, their children might be paying for

the education, which is I don't know,

it's a big question, but I really don't know whether it's

actually going to take place. And immigrants as well,

like, people coming to this country

and living in this country, Whether people have a vote or not,

this election will have a great impact on those who live and work

here, and how much their And don't forget we'd like to hear

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using the hashtag 'getsmyvote'. Onto other news and unemployment

has fallen in the East, Figures out today show the total

at one hundred and twenty two Figures out today show

the total at 122,000 a drop of 17,000 on the previous

three months. The region's unemployment

rate fell to 3.9%, well below the national

average of 4.6%. The dilemma over who should restore

one of Northampton's most famous The Eleanor Cross was erected

by King Edward the first in the 13th century

as a tribute to his And after a wrangle over

who actually owns it, Northampton Borough Council says it

has now applied for permission to carry out maintenance work,

and is considering quotes You're watching looked east, with

the weather shortly. And this super slimmer has lost an incredible 18

stone. Tonight, museums and galleries

across the region are opening their doors to try and attract

new visitors by offering something Museums at Night is a national

campaign to offer an interactive, social evening and to get people

to engage in the arts. The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge

is offering a full sensory viewing of their successful

Renaissance exhibition. This whole exhibition has been

designed to look like an Italian Renaissance home, and tonight it

really is like stepping back We've got the sounds, you can hear

the bell tolling there, Renaissance Italy was probably

quite a stinky place but Irini is here to tell us how

they made it smell a Yes, when they came

home from church or the workplaces, Renaissance men and

women would have had something like this, a rosary, in their hands

at home, to perform some of their devotional prayers, and in order

to distract them from the stench outside, they would have sprayed

the beads with rose water. The name rosary comes from the...

word roses, that would have been given from

devotees to the version, and so The same scent Renaissance men

and women would have had while saying

their prayers at home. Wonderful, I shall keep this

with me while I'll have a look around, and tonight is all

about evoking the past, and who better to do that than a writer

of historical fiction? Sarah, you manage to create

the past so convincingly. Well, I use all my senses so I talk

about smells, the nasty ones And I also talk about sound,

it is very evocative, but I also want to get

you in the mind of what it is like because 500 years ago the world

was a very different place and

so I look at the art as they might have looked

that it, and women of the Renaissance

with have seen pictures like this, this is a religion that

is based on the birth of a baby,

something they It also contains

within it the idea this baby grows up and dies,

and the mother has Both of these things might have

been experience that women had 500 So it is my job to try and bring

you in not only to the sounds and noses and ears but also

to their feelings and their minds, and I think an exhibition like this

does it really brilliantly. Fascinating stuff, Sarah,

thank you very much. Wonderful rose scent

really is doing the trick If you like what you've seen

tonight, this is part of a chain of national events and there will be

events running across the region during the evening right

up until Saturday. Imagine losing over

half your body weight. That's exactly what's

happened to Tracey Topping Tracey started putting on weight

after having children. And in 2014 tipped the scales

at almost 30 stone. But her weight stopped her living

a normal life and made her miserable And do you know, I think

we could possibly both fit inside it,

we could actually make Tracy Topping is half

the woman she was. 30 stone and size 36,

she piled on the pounds aged 16 Three decades later, she could

hardly walk and rarely went out. I just couldn't do anything

with my kids or my grandchildren, and I loved

doing things with them. And it was like when my

grandkids were born, I struggled to even hold them

because it was just... Because I was quite big and trying

to put them on my lap because I had a big belly,

and I just couldn't The turning point came

on a family holiday. Tracy nursing swollen ankles

while the family had fun. As soon as she got back,

she joined a slimming club When was the point in your weight

loss that you really noticed it? It was quite a long time, even

sometimes now I think gosh, you're big, but everybody kept saying I can

see the difference in you. And it is, well, I can't see it. It

must have been about five or six or seven stone that I had lost before I

went into a shop and stood there in front of a mirror and thought oh, my

God. Over two years Tracey lost 18 stone. She has just been named

slimming world the greatest loser of the year. I am just so proud, I am

incredible to see the difference. She is a total different person, a

quiet person, yes she smiled, she was happy when she was losing the

weight. But she wasn't really the real person and she has progressed,

she has lost the weight, she has really come out of her shell. Tracey

now has two jobs, two dogs, and three grandchildren. She can keep up

with them all. There is no way I would ever go back. This is me, this

is the new me and is going to be the staging me. What an achievement,

well done, Tracey. Rain has been the main theme

of the day weather-wise hasn't it - which is good news for farmers

of course - but for many And there could be a deluge

on the way tonight. Let's get all the details

now, here Alex. Hello there. Today some much-needed

rainfall across the region. Up to 25 millimetres of rain has already

fallen with scope for more as we go through the evening and the night.

It is all associated with this low pressure, and the associated weather

system and it has picked up speed and headed eastward more gradually

clearing through the evening and overnight. Big trouble is he on the

ground in Cambridgeshire, and a wet start to the day here in Norwich.

This whole weather system is gradually tracking eastwards, some

heavy and possibly thundery rain before it clears. The second half of

the night looks as it will become largely dry with some clear spells

developing. A much cooler that Micro cooler and fresher regime that --

sets in. Lows of around nine Celsius, and a light north-westerly

wind. Starting the day tomorrow on a much drier and brighter note, that

weather system well out of the way. A largely dry picture, perhaps just

an isolated showers somewhere but once any cloud has broken up in the

morning we will likely see some good spells of sunshine through the day.

It will feel a little cooler and fresher, still with that

north-westerly wind, a light wind, and stamp it is perhaps in the

sunshine in some parts of the region not getting higher than around 18

degrees but an overall higher expected of a Dean Celsius. For the

afternoon it looks like it could be largely dry with spells of sunshine.

Looking ahead, low pressure back on the scene, so before Friday and

looking ahead to the weekend it will look a little unsettled. We are

likely to have quite a cool and fresh Fields youth things. Some dry

weather around, some sunshine but also the potential for showers, any

of them could be heavy and possibly thundery. For tomorrow, sought

answers of isolated showers most dry, but cool and fresh. Friday,

outbreaks of rain start the day, brightening up with some sunshine

but then also some showers likely in the east, potentially thundery, and

heavy, and the risk of those showers continues to the weekend although a

little on the cooler side with highs of 15-17 degrees. Dry weather around

with some sunshine but also some showers, and right through the

weekend any of the showers could be heavily, possibly thundery, even

with hail mixed in and some chilly nights on the way.

Not looking that's bad for the weekend. That is as from the team.

Thank you for watching, goodbye. The choice you now face

is all about the future. Whoever wins on the 8th of June

will face one overriding task - to get the best possible deal

for this United Kingdom from Brexit, because making Brexit a success

is central to our national interest and it is central

to your own security and prosperity. Because, while there is enormous

opportunity for Britain if we do not get this right,

the consequences will be serious and they will be felt by ordinary

working people across the country.