:00:00. > :00:00.Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.
:00:00. > :00:09.Two teenagers questioned by police after a seventeen
:00:10. > :00:11.year old was stabbed to death in Northampton...
:00:12. > :00:13.When you don't own the land your house is built on -
:00:14. > :00:19.And lighting up the city - some of Cambridge's most iconic
:00:20. > :00:31.buildings become works of art for the night...
:00:32. > :00:36.Two teenagers are being questioned by police, after a seventeen year
:00:37. > :00:39.old was stabbed to death in Northampton last night.
:00:40. > :00:42.The attack happened on St George's Street -
:00:43. > :00:45.where the victim was found with neck injuries, and taken to hospital
:00:46. > :00:47.He's been named tonight as Liam Hunt.
:00:48. > :00:55.A large area cordoned off by police as a murder
:00:56. > :01:00.Police say a 17-year-old was attacked here at around 5.00pm
:01:01. > :01:06.The teenager suffered serious neck injuries.
:01:07. > :01:09.People living nearby believe he was stabbed.
:01:10. > :01:12.One eyewitness has told me the teenager was treated outside
:01:13. > :01:16.He was then taken to hospital, but sadly died.
:01:17. > :01:21.You could see that the police were there, the ambulance
:01:22. > :01:24.was there and somebody was doing CPR, that's it.
:01:25. > :01:32.People don't think, don't stop and think and it's the victim,
:01:33. > :01:34.it's sad for the victim and their family.
:01:35. > :01:36.I came home, just before 6.00pm, I literally came around
:01:37. > :01:43.There was a bunch of people there, standing.
:01:44. > :01:46.Police asked a few guys, basically, to stay behind because I believe
:01:47. > :01:51.It's bad, and especially so close to where we live
:01:52. > :01:56.And I heard somebody was quite young, so when young lives,
:01:57. > :01:59.like that, get involved in things like that, that's the most
:02:00. > :02:01.disturbing thing for anybody, in any neighbourhood,
:02:02. > :02:03.you don't want that kind of things to happen.
:02:04. > :02:06.You don't want lives to be lost or lives to be damaged in that way.
:02:07. > :02:09.Forensic officers are now at work here looking for clues as police
:02:10. > :02:11.search the surrounding streets and nearby industrial estate.
:02:12. > :02:15.The area is also close to a school and local businesses.
:02:16. > :02:18.Police say a separate area of the town, also cordoned off,
:02:19. > :02:24.A 17-year-old boy, arrested on suspicion of murder,
:02:25. > :02:31.Meanwhile, detectives have now also arrested a 15-year-old boy
:02:32. > :02:44.Police say they are keen to hear from anyone who was around here
:02:45. > :02:49.yesterday. Perhaps they were returning from work around five
:02:50. > :02:53.o'clock and saw something. They are also keen to stress that cases like
:02:54. > :02:58.this are very rare, and they say they want to reassure the community
:02:59. > :03:00.that they are working tirelessly to solve this case.
:03:01. > :03:03.Next - the increasing trend for selling new homes
:03:04. > :03:05.on a leasehold basis - without the freehold.
:03:06. > :03:07.It means the buyer's lease can be sold on,
:03:08. > :03:09.with new owners able to change the details and costs.
:03:10. > :03:11.In 2015, almost 9,000 leaseholds were created.
:03:12. > :03:13.And over the past 10 years, around 45,000 leasehold
:03:14. > :03:23.Now there are calls for the law to be changed.
:03:24. > :03:36.It's a riddle the answer to which Louise O'Reardon
:03:37. > :03:40.She is one of a growing number of people who have bought
:03:41. > :03:44.She thought she'd be paying an affordable amount of ground rent
:03:45. > :03:47.But since buying the house, it's emerged that freehold
:03:48. > :03:50.could be sold on with ground rent potentially rising.
:03:51. > :03:57.I feel stupid that I believed what a sales person was telling
:03:58. > :04:00.me and that I didn't investigate it further.
:04:01. > :04:02.But I did trust that what they were telling me
:04:03. > :04:05.was correct because obviously this is the biggest purchase
:04:06. > :04:08.The practice of reselling a freehold is perfectly legal.
:04:09. > :04:15.As the leaseholder, Louise owns the property for the length
:04:16. > :04:22.The freeholder owns the ground outright.
:04:23. > :04:25.Louise says she was led to believe the freehold would never be sold
:04:26. > :04:27.on because it was owned by a local college.
:04:28. > :04:41.Louise isn't the only one who claims she was mislead.
:04:42. > :04:44.You pay ?200 per year, for 499 years, I was told that you have
:04:45. > :04:48.Louise has now taken her concerns to the local MP.
:04:49. > :04:51.It seems to me that the developers are trying to make extra money
:04:52. > :04:54.by selling the house and then also collecting in ground rent
:04:55. > :04:57.and selling the leasehold back to the people they have already sold
:04:58. > :05:04.I think that's an unfair and wrong practice.
:05:05. > :05:08.Louise claims the developers duped her.
:05:09. > :05:15.In a statement the company told us...
:05:16. > :05:32.But that sum could run into the tens of thousands.
:05:33. > :05:43.It was supposed to be a dream home, a first term for Louise and her
:05:44. > :05:46.family. That dream is rapidly turning into a nightmare.
:05:47. > :05:49.Well, there's a group that campaigns for leaseholders in the same
:05:50. > :05:52.Sebastien O'Kelly from the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership
:05:53. > :05:54.joined me to explain why developers do it.
:05:55. > :05:59.If you sell a house leasehold, rather than freehold,
:06:00. > :06:03.you are creating an investment asset class at the expense of the person
:06:04. > :06:07.Sometimes a ground rent rises with retail price inflation,
:06:08. > :06:11.That has a significant impact on the value of the property,
:06:12. > :06:14.but it's an excellent investment, if you happen to own the freehold.
:06:15. > :06:24.A lot of these people are paying ?295 a year for ground rent.
:06:25. > :06:26.What service do they receive for that?
:06:27. > :06:33.Nobody has explained what ground rent is for.
:06:34. > :06:35.It is nothing, except for an artificial construct
:06:36. > :06:37.which produces a significant revenue for the murky investors
:06:38. > :06:46.So what would you like to see happen then?
:06:47. > :06:48.Well, I'd like to stop building leasehold tenure full stop,
:06:49. > :06:50.including for flats, we could go on to commonhold
:06:51. > :06:53.system, which prevails in the rest of the world,
:06:54. > :06:55.including Scotland and Ireland and North America and Australasia,
:06:56. > :06:57.so other jurisdictions, which had a significant influence
:06:58. > :07:00.There's really no reason to perpetuate leasehold tenure,
:07:01. > :07:05.forms of commonhold exist everywhere else.
:07:06. > :07:08.But for people looking to buy now, then, what's your advice to them?
:07:09. > :07:09.What should they be watching out for?
:07:10. > :07:13.If you are offered a leasehold house, you tell the developer
:07:14. > :07:16.straight off that you're very interested in buying it, but you
:07:17. > :07:20.The developer will say - Oh, no, but you can buy
:07:21. > :07:24.You cut through that nonsense and say, you can sell the freehold
:07:25. > :07:27.perfectly easily to me now, and you should do so,
:07:28. > :07:31.For the last few nights, landmarks in Cambridge have been lit up
:07:32. > :07:33.with a dazzling display to encourage passers-by to see them
:07:34. > :07:44.The Eluminate festival highlights the city's place at the forefront
:07:45. > :07:45.of technological research while celebrating its heritage.
:07:46. > :08:02.I am here at the Senate house, which tonight has been transformed into a
:08:03. > :08:06.giant canvas polite, this one celebrating the life of Robert Cross
:08:07. > :08:10.test, was a pioneering theologian, philosopher and scientist during
:08:11. > :08:14.medieval times. Caron, the artist, is with me. What goes on to creating
:08:15. > :08:19.these incredible effects? The whole effect is created by taking medieval
:08:20. > :08:23.imagery and images generated by computers within modern cosmology.
:08:24. > :08:27.We have tried to bring the two together to show the medieval
:08:28. > :08:32.worldview and the modern worldview within one piece, in order to
:08:33. > :08:37.celebrate gross test 's amazing visions of how the universe was
:08:38. > :08:44.potentially created. This is just one of 24 buildings being lit up the
:08:45. > :08:49.night, all with lots of different designs, and people here have been
:08:50. > :08:56.really enjoying themselves. It's lovely, amazing lasers. Use it here
:08:57. > :09:03.mesmerised with history, it is really fascinating. It exit look
:09:04. > :09:07.beautiful. A of gorgeous colours and imagery but what is the point of it
:09:08. > :09:13.all? David, the organiser of the is here. Eluminate Cambridge Festival
:09:14. > :09:17.heritage. The festival itself is not heritage. The festival itself is not
:09:18. > :09:21.just about installations in the evening, we have had conferences,
:09:22. > :09:27.concerts became rich corn exchange, all using the theme of play, which
:09:28. > :09:31.has been the overall theme of the. David, thank you. This unfortunately
:09:32. > :09:33.is the last night of the festival, but it will be back, I am told, next
:09:34. > :09:36.year. Thousands of workers at Tata Steel
:09:37. > :09:38.have voted to accept a deal to reform their pensions in order
:09:39. > :09:41.to secure the future There are around 500 workers at
:09:42. > :09:51.Tata's plant in Corby. Good news for cycling fans
:09:52. > :09:54.in Northamptonshire - as this year's Women's Tour
:09:55. > :10:02.will start in Daventry. The five-day race will begin
:10:03. > :10:05.with a 92-mile stage between Daventry and Kettering
:10:06. > :10:07.on the 7th of June. That's the late news from Look East
:10:08. > :10:18.- let's get the weather with Alex. A mild forecast for the rest this
:10:19. > :10:21.week and dry. Early rain has just about cleared away and we're left
:10:22. > :10:23.with a dry night and some clear spells out there. They will be a
:10:24. > :10:26.little chillier than last night but temperatures not lower than five or
:10:27. > :10:30.6 degrees for many of us. We start the day on a slightly chillier now
:10:31. > :10:34.done today but we have high-pressure building in from the south that will
:10:35. > :10:37.bring us lots of fine weather. Maybe just the odd mist and fog patch
:10:38. > :10:41.first thing, lifting the lower level cloud, and then by the spells of
:10:42. > :10:45.sunshine into the afternoon. Temperatures will be mild, well into
:10:46. > :10:48.double figures, 11 or 12 degrees with the wind is coming from a
:10:49. > :10:51.westerly direction, picking up a little through the day. It will turn
:10:52. > :10:55.a little bit cloudier towards the end of the afternoon but it should
:10:56. > :10:59.stay dry. The National weather is coming up, here is the outlook. A
:11:00. > :11:02.mild forecast with some fine sunshine on Friday. By Saturday
:11:03. > :11:04.telling a little cloudier by day with a chance of rain arriving
:11:05. > :11:07.the weekend. Wouldn't promise you two dry days but you never know,
:11:08. > :11:11.here is Nick with the national picture.
:11:12. > :11:15.Hello. We put that cold weekend well behind us now. Temperatures edging
:11:16. > :11:18.upwards and our weather watchers are seeing plenty of signs of spring.
:11:19. > :11:23.Spending more time looking down than looking up at the skies, we see
:11:24. > :11:27.these early blooms. They are set to continue as we are set to stay mild
:11:28. > :11:29.for several more days to come. Average daytime temperature this
:11:30. > :11:32.time of year around eight, but getting into double figures all the
:11:33. > :11:40.way through the weekend. The start of next week into the mid-teens
:11:41. > :11:44.potentially, very mild indeed. It was 14 in Lincolnshire today. A lot
:11:45. > :11:47.of heavy rain to end the day. That clearing from Yorkshire to the North
:11:48. > :11:55.Sea. A few showers in the west and the odd one may continue into the
:11:56. > :11:57.night. Many becoming dry, just this rain still into western parts of