27/02/2017 Look East (West)

Predators lurking online - a big rise in the number

of people caught looking at child pornography.

cutting edge genetic research being done in Cambridge

thanks to a multi million pound funding boost.

And it's a cool and shall read and to very wary but what will march

have installed? Joining me later in the programme for weather in the

week ahead. First tonight, the dramatic rise

in the number of people suspected of downloading

and distributing child pornography. A BBC investigation has shown most

of our police forces In Cambridgeshire, there were 81

suspected offenders in 2014 - that's gone up to

almost 200 last year. In the same period in Hertfordshire,

the number more than doubled. And Northamptonshire's seen

a six-fold increase. At present, we don't

believe there are any children at the address

but This is the usual briefing

for the paedophile investigation team

in Northamptonshire as they prepare

to make yet another arrest. In the last four months,

the team has caught 25 suspects. DI Andy Rogers and his

team don't only look for what has been downloaded,

they also see who the images From that information,

they are able to build a map of They are like small

organised crime groups. Such a risk to our

children in today's society because everyone has got

a tablet, a mobile phone device. We've got online

games, chat rooms out there today and you can go on there

as yourself, you can pretend yourself that you are 14 or

15-year-old person and in reality, you are a 40-year-old male or 30

or 40-year-old female. They will start engaging

with the individuals, getting their trust,

and that's where the problems occur How many suspects are

we looking at in this case? Despite doubling the size

of their team and arresting more suspects,

the police say they are still only getting to a fraction

of these offenders. Parents are letting

children go onto the Internet from the age of four, five,

six years old where, probably ten years ago, they wouldn't have been

allowed to have a phone. I don't think we'll ever

be able to reflect how bad it is in terms of what people

are willing to do to the most vulnerable people in

society - children. One person who was made aware

of this danger is Sarah, who decided to meet a man

she first met online We changed her name

to protect her anonymity. I went on this app and

we started messaging. Basically, we agreed to meet,

I lied to my mum, and we ended He must have known

you were underage. He would send me explicit

photos of, like... He was getting me

to send photos back. I thought that he actually

cared about me, but obviously he didn't, he just wanted

to use me like a rag doll. Today, the police have arrested

another suspected paedophile and are From arrests like this over

the last four months, police in Northamptonshire have

protected nearly 60 children from Well, Northamptonshire's Police

and Crime Commissioner has made this I asked Stephen Mold how

damage viewing images There's a market for it

and they are directly responsible. There are extreme ends,

people who might think they are looking at still images but

that is a child that been terribly I think we are doing

a better job of detecting it and, of course, your traditional

Bobby walking down the street isn't It's new skills we need

and we are working with the College of policing

and other industries to make sure Are the police doing enough,

or do you need to get resources from I think one of the things is,

as you know, we have allocated I don't think we can ever be doing

enough, but the first thing is making sure there is absolutely

a very serious deterrent to make sure if people are going

to do those things, they will know we

will come for them. We need to make sure we educate

children to make sure that actually they protect

themselves in the first place. What can they do to make sure

children are less vulnerable? Monitor their Internet

activity. It is not simply letting

them go about with those You would not let your child

walked down a darkly by themselves, why let them do it

metaphorically in the digital world? A prison officer is being charged

with manslaughter over the death of an inmate in Woodhill prison

in Milton Keynes. It's thought to be the first time

it's happened in the UK. Let's get more from our

reporter Waseem Mirza. Waseem, what more do

we know about this case? This case revolves around

23-year-old Ryan Harvey who was found hanged in his cell

at HMP Woodhill on Today, we learn that

after an investigation the Prison Officer Joseph

Travers will be charged in relation to the death

of Ryan Harvey. He was one of five prisoners

to have been found hanged The prison had the worst record

in England and Wales Joseph Travers was

suspended from work today. He'll be formally charged

with gross negligence, manslaughter and misconduct

in public office and he'll have to appear at Westminster Magistrates

on the 20th of April. A Cambridge company has raised more

than eight million pounds to fund research into the diagnosis

and treatment of rare diseases. Over three million people in the UK

are affected by genetic conditions like Cystic Fibrosis -

but many illnesses are difficult to treat, because doctors simply

don't know what causes them. A bouncing ball of energy whose

infectious smile hides a Born just over three years

ago, she soon developed cerebral palsy and

a severe form of epilepsy. She has delayed speech, no sense

of danger, can't brace herself She is very cheerful for a young

girl but is limited for Time will only tell

what she can do, which is It's whether Imogen

inherited the condition and this is where Congenica's

software comes in. It can pinpoint changes

in the body's technical guide in a The data is then

analysed by researchers. What we do then is look

through that data for the patient to try and find

anywhere changes occur that might be the case

the patient's disease. We generally would takemum

and dad's sample do they ever they are inherited and that's

something they can think about for There are estimated to be around

7000 known red diseases Simply by identifying

and illness, it has said Even if there is no cure

known, it can give hope because they can plan everyone

to have future children and easy The firm was founded

in Cambridge three years ago. Taking advantage of

the city's reputation We have probably the best

sector in the world. It's a real asset to Cambridge

and the rest of the UK as well. It's very easy to be swallowed up in

the what ifs, what could have been, but we have a wonderful little girl

and she is my inspiration. She is the inspiration for my career full

they expand their family. They know they expand their family. They know

the hopes of men and many like them to depend on research.

Demolition work has begun today of the former Rushden and Diamonds

It only opened in 1998 but, after a chequered history,

Rushden and Diamonds left the ground after the club went bust in 2011.

It was then briefly used by Kettering Town

but they also left in 2012 - and since then it's been empty.

The stadium's owners say the ground is now a safety risk.

I'll leave you with the weather from Dan Holly.

Cold air as well. You'll the jet stream gets a bit more mobile with

this part in developing through the Atlantic. Chalice to the evening,

continuing to run through tonight. They're still developing. In the end

will eat now and it's cold enough for a touch of frost tonight.

Temperatures close to freezing. Some nice first thing. Not a bad day

tomorrow, showers at birth, some dry weather, good sunshine, less

showers. A less organised than a rain coming from the web.

Temperatures a bit down, eight Celsius. At the wind and it is a bit

sunshine. High pressure building in sunshine. High pressure building in

for Wednesday. A good deal of dry weather expected. Crowd pleasing up

from the south. Rain reaching something can deflate any day, nine

Celsius. For Thursday, that rain clears, brightening up with some

sunshine. Temperatures getting up to 10 Celsius. No pressure in charge

for the rest of the week. Friday, some rain from the south, strong

winds and the same into the weekend. Some dry

John Hammond has the weather for the rest of the country.

According to one man-made definition, spring begins in a

couple of days, but in reality weather does it own thing at its own

pace. This was taken in Midlothian, a funny old day, some lovely

rainbows, downpours, burst of sunshine, and out of the breeze it

felt a little bit springlike. At the moment we have clusters of cloud

crossing the country, generating wintry showers, clearer gaps in

between allowing sunshine by day, but overnight that means dropping

temperatures, already a frost in some places. Further wintry showers

particularly out West, one or two making it further east, with some

ice around first thing in the morning, temperatures falling away,

close to freezing or just above in the larger towns and cities.