10/04/2017 Look East (West)

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Police officers here fall silent

to remember PC Keith Palmer as Luton faces new questions

?10 an hour - why the Labour leader came to our region

And I will have the forecast for the weather for the week ahead.

Police officers from across our region today joined colleagues

around the country in commemorating PC Keith Palmer, the officer

killed in the Westminster attack last month.

But as police stations fell silent, questions about the attacker's links

Khalid Masood spent a number of years in the town.

At police headquarters in Bedford, they gathered.

The flag at half-mast, a tribute to PC Keith Palmer.

In Northampton, like many places across the region,

they stood silent, remembering one of their own.

It's a great opportunity today for British policing

to come together as a family and show our respects

You know, we have thousands of officers and staff every day that

come to work to do a brilliant job keeping people safe and PC Palmer

Khalid Masood, who murdered PC Palmer, along with four others.

Now come newspaper claims he was radicalised in Luton, here.

His name, it says, found stuck to leaflets

inside the mosque naming him as their website contact.

A website, the article says, that called Muslims to pick up arms

Qadeet Baksh, the chairman here, strongly refutes the allegations.

If you look at the events from the 22nd of March,

when the events at Westminster took place, two days later,

I stood here on the pulpit giving a sermon condemning that act

completely and calling the Muslims to condemn it generally.

Why on earth would, a week later, you find a leaflet

with a sticker with Khalid Masood's name on it?

And then, also, five years later, after he'd left Luton.

This Qadeet sermon condemning what Masood did...

"And jumping out of his car, rushing at the Parliament,

Masood never came to this mosque, he told us.

But others claim this is where he worshipped

The problem is that the very creed of what the people at the helm

of the mosque believe in is extreme, is fundamental and will drive

Living in Luton for three years, Masood taught English

A director of the school was Qadeet Baksh.

But it and the mosque were separate, he told us.

There is no link between the school and this mosque except that myself

and Mr Latif were actually directors of a school.

In terms of policies, procedures, there is no link.

It was not an Islamist school, it was an English-language school

and we had Muslims teaching there, non-Muslims teaching there.

It is completely separate, had nothing to do with this mosque.

Masood didn't come here, they told us.

Its form of Islam is conservative, they say, but not extreme.

This story is now being picked up by a number of other national

newspapers and that image of the leaflet with Khalid

Masood's contact details is all over social media.

This town once again under the glare of the media.

The newspaper says it has the evidence,

the mosque says it is now considering a legal reaction.

A drunk driver who flipped her vehicle over while trying

to negotiate a roundabout near Peterborough has been

This extraordinary dash-cam footage captured the moment Tania Chikwature

tried to illegally overtake a lorry on the A605.

Peterborough Magistrates heard she had her 20-month-old son in the car.

Chikwature was more than three times over the drink-drive limit.

The national minimum wage would rise to at least ?10 an hour if Labour

gets elected in 2020 - that was the message

The Labour leader chose to launch his pledge

at Luton Town Football Club, as it was the first club

in England to give employees the so-called "living wage".

The nightmare of getting grass to grow in December.

From the pitch outside to politics inside.

The Labour leader here to talk to workers at Luton Town.

This was the first football club in the country to give

It's over and above what is required by law.

Today, Jeremy Corbyn outlined his party's pledge to raise

the national minimum wage to at least ?10 an hour.

The east of England, it is an area of low wages,

of many working in food processing and agriculture sectors

Many people all over the country working in care homes, care workers,

are very low paid indeed, so we think it will be a massive

boost to many of the worst off in this country,

more than 5 million people earn less than the existing living wage.

One of our viewers has actually tweeted this morning calling this

idea admirable but saying it is usually at the expense

It actually will benefit the taxpayer, because it will cut

the tax credit bill, but it will also mean there's more

There are worries from some small businesses about the costs involved,

but according to the club's chief executive, the sums do add up.

It goes up to ?8.45 this month, so they get a slight

increase this month, so that is about ?1.20

So all of those people, you know, we retain longer,

so there is a little bit more loyalty.

So from a business perspective, it's actually a case of how can

We have a problem with zero contracts, zero hours

contracts and things, so if we can improve

people's living standards, then it improves their whole life

and I think that is really fantastic.

For workers like Holly, the living wage was just the ticket,

allowing her to plan and save for the future.

It made a really big difference and last year,

me and my partner were able to buy a house and get a mortgage,

so it has made a really big difference with that.

And this year, we are now starting to save for a wedding as well,

so it is a big benefit, a really positive thing to happen.

A change like this won't come quickly and is by

The party's first goal - to win the next election

Airlander - the world's longest aircraft -

is back outside for the first time since its heavy landing in August.

After months of repairs behind closed doors in Cardington,

it's hoped the airship could be airborne by the end of the week.

After seven long months Airlander is back outside.

At almost 92 metres long, containing enough helium to fill

15 Olympic swimming pools, it's an impressive sight.

Well, for safety reasons today, this is as close as we can

get to the Airlander because although it is tethered,

it is now floating and moving around its moorings circle.

This is the reason why it has been repaired.

That nosedive landing on its second test flight back in August.

Last week, I revealed these new inflatable landing feet,

have been fitted to stop that happening again.

Technology the pilots are keen to test.

So the visible stuff like the auxiliary landing system,

the inflatable feet forward at the main skids,

and they will allow us to test and push the boundaries

Airlander could be back in the skies as early as the end of the week

and the company has big plans beyond that.

During the summer, we hope to become a familiar sight throughout

We'll look for some big events to visit so people can see us,

and by the end of the summer hopefully look to go abroad,

perhaps down to Germany or even over the North Sea.

Fast forward to 2020 and the firm hopes to be building

For now, all eyes will be on the viability

of this latest round of test flights.

And finally, there's good news for poultry-keepers

after the Government's chief veterinary officer announced

bird flu restrictions are set to be lifted.

The rules introduced late last year meant poultry in high-risk areas,

including parts of our region, had to be housed indoors to reduce

the risk of them catching the disease from wild birds.

Now Defra says the restrictions will end on Thursday

Free range egg producers warned the move could put

Now the weather for the week ahead with Julie.

Well, apart from an isolated shower, tonight should be fine and dry

with some clear spells and a fairly chilly night for some of us.

Generally, temperatures down to around six or seven Celsius

but some spots could actually drop closer to freezing, around one

or two degrees and that could lead to a ground frost in some places

So a bit of a chilly start to the day but tomorrow is looking

fine and dry with variable amounts of cloud and some

Temperatures tomorrow around 14 Celsius, 57 Fahrenheit,

but the winds pick up in the afternoon to mainly moderate

west to south-westerly, so quite a blustery end to the day

and probably as we head towards tomorrow evening,

we may well see in increase in cloud too.

And then Wednesday, this weak front pushing down from the north,

so after a fine and dry start, eventually that front will introduce

thicker cloud and some outbreaks of mainly light and patchy rain,

so perhaps that rain not for everybody and quite

And then towards the end of the week, our weather influenced

by this weather front that is going to be moving rather

erratically towards us, and that is making it quite

difficult to pinpoint the detail when it comes

to the Easter weekend, but at the moment, Thursday

is looking largely dry, quite a lot of cloud around

with perhaps an isolated shower and then Good Friday for many of us

Some rain to the north at the moment is not set to move

through until quite late on in the day.

Now, in a moment, Matt will have the national

forecast but I will leave you with the outlook

We could have some rain early Saturday but that should clear

to leave a weekend of scattered showers but hopefully some

Good evening. Let's cut to the chase the first big holiday weekend of the

year is on the horizon and if you consider last weekend as a taster

for the summer, this weekend is not looking too bad. It will be a bit

cooler, temperatures this week and closer to where they should be at

this time of the year thanks to the north-west breed and the reason for

that, if we look at the jet stream, coming across the Atlantic pushing

from north to south -- north-west breeze. It separates the high

pressure and low price and it allows the northerly airflow to develop. It

means there will be some showers going into Easter weekend but they

will only be a small portion of the weekend wherever you are and there

will be some dry weather and when the sun is out, it is getting

stronger so it will negate some of the