27/02/2017 Look East

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week on Look East

The headlines tonight, from Essex, Suffolk and

Norfolk: The husband and wife from Suffolk

Police say they cannot comment on whether they are treating the death

as suspicious or not suspicious. The hospital patient

who blocked a bed for two years is still in limbo as the authorities

decide what to do with him. I am sick. They are deciding what I

should eat and when I should leave. It's all square as the

region's top sides drawn I am at the award winning Safran

Hall where people who have dementia are performing alongside

professional musicians. Detectives in Suffolk have spent

the day investigating the deaths They were found dead at their home

yesterday afternoon. The bodies of Richard

and Sarah Pitkin were found in the home they shared

in Stowupland Street. The police were called

yesterday lunchtime. But so far

we still don't know the details Let's get the latest

from the scene now. There has been a lot of activity

throughout the day. A series of flashes going off inside the house

as they take a load of photographs of the scene. The police have not

updated their assessment of these deaths as unexplained.

A forensic team at work at the house this afternoon.

The home of Richard and Sarah Pitkin, who moved

to Stowmarket from London 10 years ago.

65-year-old Mr Pitkin, a carpenter, converted

the building, creating a

tearoom that used to be run by his wife.

This, the couple at the opening in 2009.

Their bodies were discovered when the police

The owner of the nearby pub thought he

They were very nice people, Sarah especially.

She was involved with the Hospice up in the

Her partner was a very well-respected carpenter.

For the past four years, Sarah Pitkin has worked as a

assistant manager of the Hospice shop.

It was closed today following her death.

The charity said she was a well loved member of the team,

She'd made a huge difference and would be sadly

Flowers have been laid outside the house and messages

The couple are believed to have four grown-up

We have heard some stories about people hearing the noise of a shot

gun. Had you been told any more about that? The police have been

very clear on that point. They say there is nothing to indicate that a

firearm was involved in this incident, as they are calling it, or

a firearm was discharged in the area at all yesterday afternoon. The

police have not updated that description as unexplained, these

deaths. The enquiries are continuing and talking to family members and

keeping them informed and trying to piece together the sequence of

events that led to this. They are hoping to give us an update this

evening. When we do not know. Postmortems are due to be carried

out tomorrow and then we will find out because of deaths. Basically,

the whole area and hope unity are very shocked by this and there is a

lot of doubt hanging over what went on. -- community.

There's been a disagreement today between a charity and GPs over

the care provided for people with eating disorders.

Beat, which is based in Norwich, claims that doctors need better

training as there are more deaths from eating disorders

An estimated one in ten sufferers will die.

Today, GPs said they were trained to deal with such cases,

but there was a shortage of specialist services.

Dancing and keeping fit have always played a huge role in Julia's life.

When this 22-year-old started at a specialist performing arts college,

she received comments about her weight. When I was exercising, it

was comments like that that got into my consciousness about what I was

eating and then I started making sure I was exercising after I ate, I

counted the calories. After a few months, friends took her to a doctor

after she passed out during a lesson. I went to the doctor and I

said I am having all these problems. I explained to the doctor and he

listened to me and then the pygmy on the scale and said you're still a

healthy weight. -- put me on the scale. That was it. That was another

justification for my illness, the doctor says I am fine, so I should

keep going as I am. Julia kept on refusing to eat until she became

dangerously underweight. She was taken back to the doctors when she

was referred to an eating disorder unit. The charity that raises

awareness, says her story is not unique. Their research shows that

three out of ten people with eating disorders do not receive a referral

to the GP to a mental health service for treatment. We're not blaming or

targeting the GP profession. We know we have -- they have the difficult

job. When they are training to be a GP have training so that they can

spot those symptoms early. That referral saved Julia's life. Now at

university and studying history she is still a keen dancer, hoping her

story will highlight the dangers of eating disorders and the benefits of

diagnosing them early. Let's hear from Doctor Matthew

Piccaver, a GP from Suffolk. How easy is it for a GP to get

someone referred if they think they have a problem with eating? I think

many of us find it quite a challenge to get our patients seen, especially

in the early stages. You have to reach a certain rest hold of disease

and it may be in the early stages people are not sick enough to get

seen. -- threshold. Do you think GPs know enough to recognise an eating

disorder when some deep presents with it? I think we have a broad

range of skills that cover a range of areas across mental illness. I

think the important things are we generate a relationship with our

patients over a period of time. In the early stages it is difficult to

spot but as time goes by, I think once you make that rapport with the

patient and get to know them when things become more apparent. It is

not always the first thing to time we meet someone we can provide a

diagnosis. If someone comes two years as they are worried about

their child, what can you do? Can you go to that and see, people are

worried about you? It is difficult because people are adults and can

make their own decisions, even if they are bad decisions. It is

difficult for us to break that confidentiality. I would encourage

family members to push people in the right direction and encourage them

to come and see us. It is difficult sometimes for us to pounce into

people's lives uninvited. We have to gently encourage them to want that

help in the first place. The claim is you put somebody on skills and

the colour body Max index and that is it. If they do not reach criteria

then they are sent home. -- body mass index. We struggled to get

people seen by services, especially in the early stage. Weather is a gap

is the difference between the early stage and the warning signs and when

people are seriously unwell. What I liken it to is people being only ill

enough to be in intensive care or not at all. I am the gap in between.

For eating disorders, it does not seem like the service is better.

Thank you very much. -- service is they are.

One of the longest staying bed blockers in Britain,

who went on hunger strike after he was evicted

who is paralysed from the chest down,

Spent more than two years at the James Paget.

He's protesting over what he says is a broken health and care system.

The authorities say they have done everything possible to help him.

Since his eviction from hospital, Adriano Guedes has refused to eat.

For 24 days he survived on just fruit juice. I am sick. I am sick of

them deciding when I should leave, what I should eat, how much I drink.

Enough. News of the 64-year-old's eviction broke last month. This

photo taken in hospital says it all. He only needed bed rest. He was

moved to the temporary council factss flat. He says he has had 2000

different carers in two years. He has refused to cooperate with the

authorities. How can they stalemate be broken? It is this man's job to

try again. He is a council housing try again. He is a council housing

officer and he wants to show me what he is up against. Good morning. How

are you today? Adriano Guedes is not keen to talk about

accommodation. He wants is an accommodation. He wants is an

electric wheelchair back. Housing is not my priority at the moment. It

never was sent you to my wheelchair away from me. The wheelchair is my

priority. The wheelchair is one of the reasons I am on hunger strike.

How does that fit into your housing situation? I would like to find out.

Without my wheelchair, I don't even want to think about housing. Adriano

Guedes is venting his anger against the ruling authority. The Council

officer can only help him with housing. It is my life. I control my

life. Nobody else. Nobody else. It is now early February, more three

weeks than his last meal. There is not much left of him. Why are you

giving up's I am not giving up. I am fighting. You have not eaten now

24 days. What is going to make you 24 days. What is going to make you

start eating again? The wheelchair. Patrick Thompson has supported

patient's rights for four decades. He is about to make a breakthrough.

We now have to get you living with your dignity and you respect back to

normal. Yes? We are going to do it, aren't we? Between us. If you had

not persuaded him to go back to eating, how bad with this I've got?

He would have ended up depressed and the fingers would have been pointed.

I thought I was fighting the system and other people had their heads in

the sand, but I do not know if they got the courage to do something and

this has to change. All the authorities insist it is Adriano

Guedes's refusal to cooperate that has prevented them from helping him.

You can see the full exclusive story and the moment Adriano Guedes agrees

to end his hunger strike an inside out tonight at 7:30pm.

on suspicion of sending abusive messages

Will Quince re-posted the comments online

Saying he was 'genuinely shocked' and they were 'absolutely vile'.

They referred to his son Robert who was stillborn.

A man is being questioned on suspicion

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We've got the highlights from the weekend's

And, messing about on the river in a top of the range pedalo.

Anybody who cares for people with dementia

will tell you music can be very important.

It can unlock memories and start a conversation.

A familiar song or piece of music can be a source of joy and comfort.

Today, in Essex, that was demonstrated when musicians

and people with dementia came together for a musical event.

It was the culmination of weeks of workshops in Saffron Walden

The project is called Music For Thought.

It's the music is created and celebrated.

Today, the venue for a unique community project where

people who have dementia team up with top musicians from the Royal

It is a way to bring out something positive.

To take part in something meaningful.

Really Music For Thought is a creative music project

as we all come together as

We compose, we create and we perform music.

Dementia can be isolating and despairing

for people affected by the condition.

Music helps unlock memories whilst also being a source

I think that for people with dementia having

the opportunity to experience live music and make life music allows

people to access emotional states and express themselves creatively,

regardless of all the other circumstances in their life.

For the last six weeks, Brian and his wife Kay have been

It has been a rewarding experience for the

couple, especially for Brian who has lived with dementia for the last

Watching the enthusiasm that young people bring into the meeting.

Their personalities and the way they shine

Projects like this are vital because in the

future more of us will have dementia year.

In Essex, it is predicted to increase over ten years by one third

People caring really appreciate the opportunity to take

the person they are caring for someone to make somewhere

With precious few resources out there, people can

We really support and hope there can be many more as well.

Saffron Hall Trust plan to roll out this project

people can benefit from having music in their lives.

If you ever spend any time on the broads in

You will know the water used to be very clear.

especially at Hoveton Great Broad near Norwich.

Which is why millions of pounds will be spent over the next

couple of years to improve the water quality.

And make it, as they say up there, as clear as gin.

Unusually, the Broad has excluded boats

That has given it an added feel of tranquility,

For decades, Hoveton Great Broad had pollution coming into it from farms

That led to a toxic algal blooms and the silting up of the broad.

Local farmers and Anglian Water have worked to improve the

quality of the water in the River Bure,

It has got to state now where it is so good that

restoration work can begin on the broad and the water quality

will get better and better, the fish will come

back, the plants will come back and biodiversity will improve.

The silt and sludge is now being dredged up

from the floor of the broad and being transferred to

These will build up new banks, creating better wildlife habitats.

What's coming out now is decades of dead algae.

The time is right now to do it because the water

quality improvements that have taken place.

We can give it a kick and make it work and

get it back to what made the Broads famous originally,

Some boat owners have complained the Broad

Natural England say they want to preserve

the natural tranquillity of this special place and a longer nuture

trail will be open to walkers seven days a week, away

It is one of the very few places in the Broads were you can walk

Otherwise, it is very difficult to get through.

Boats have not been allowed on this Broad for

more than a century and we will maintain that.

The reason being is that this offer something different.

We want to maintain the tranquillity we offer.

People really enjoy the ability to stop on the edge of the river, go

off into our wet woodland and really enjoy peace and tranquillity.

This unique place opens up seven days a week from April and does

-- is hoped the gin clear waters of the broad will return by 2020.

In the football this weekend the East Anglian derby:

Fans of Ipswich Town went home happier than Norwich fans

because Norwich desperately need the points to get

But the Norwich boss hasn't given up on a top six finish.

Ipswich 15th after another dramatic derby day.

Derby day - always tense, always emotional.

Tensions at times running even higher. Ipswich desperate to stop

them and get a win over their rivals in eight years.

Pound took the lead with only on target. Celebrations did not last

long as Jacob Murphy soon cancelled it out. Despite Ipswich lead, they

will be happy with a point as Norwich carry greater threat. It

leaves them six points of the play-offs and 12 to play. It is a

game we had to win. There has to be something miraculous from now if we

are going to go up. We have not won it for years now. We will take the

we could not hang on. It was a good we could not hang on. It was a good

derby. I enjoyed it. You said you would be happy with a point. You got

a point but are you happy? Yes. I think we have to be resolute and

organised and hard-working. I have not seen it, the penalty. It doesn't

upset me greatly, to be honest. The fans are frustrated. They feel flat

because... There are still positive noises coming from you. There are

still six points. I think we have four of the top six till to play. It

does in our hands. How much do you think it dents Norwich's play-off

hopes? It is quite clear the gap is six points to Sheffield Wednesday

and they go to Sheffield Wednesday this weekend. It is win or bust,

really. He is not too frustrated with the point? It is another solid

point. You go back three or four weeks ago and we were feeling the

worst. For Norwich fans, the think another challenge season is ahead.

Consolation for some but for others, the season is not over just yet.

As a region, we're spoilt for choice when it comes

You can cruise the canals, go sailing on the broads.

Now, there's another option - a pedal boat.

It's the brainchild of an engineer from Norfolk.

Think seaside pedalo, but with knobs on.

Is it a boat? Is it a bike's no, this is a pedal boat. We have a

lovely day for it. Glorious, isn't it? The weather is lousy and if this

is Hollyrood, we would wait. This is look east, so we get wet. Sit on the

seat. You will be able to adjust it forward and backwards or stop we go

backwards and one of the unique things about this boat is if you

pedal backwards, you go backwards. You have brakes on the water.

Nothing new about pedal boats exactly, but comfort and quality can

sometimes be an issue. No such problems for Stephen. He has a

background in motor engineering, unsurprisingly, the boat has a

clever design. When you are facing me and we are both peddling

forwards, when the chains get to the bottom, the fourth going in

different directions. The Cure box has to cope with that and drive a

single shelf to a propeller. The company here is called dad's boat.

The dad in question is Stephen's father-in-law, David. He came up

with the original design more than 50 years ago. My hobby was making

toy sailing boats and I experimented with various things. It wasn't very

scientific but it worked. We have clocked about six miles per hour on

our GPS. You can do that for about our GPS. You can do that for about

30 metres and you are exhausted, so there is not much point. Take it

gently and you can go for hours. The pedal boat costs a cool ?10,000. Not

cheap. What a lovely thing. I do not think I have ever seen Michael

look so uncomfortable. Let's get the weather now. A fairly cool and

showery start to the week. Turning left cold as we head into March.

Here is our jet stream. A lot of cold air in that. The perfect recipe

of sunshine and showers. As we go through the rest of the week, it

becomes more westerly of the Atlantic and much more mobile.

Occasional outbreaks of rain. Here is the radar picture for today. The

bands of shower working northwards and eastwards. A lot of clouds and

in between brightness and sunshine. Some of these showers have been

quite heavy and he'll mixed in as well. Some of the scenes from our

Weather Watchers, reminiscent of April showers and downpours in

places. We continue with the trend this evening and tonight. A mixture

of clear spells and showers. Some could be quite heavy and sleet mixed

in and heal as well. A chilly zero in and heal as well. A chilly zero

or one Celsius. Ice perhaps an untreated surfaces. The wind easing

down a touch. Wind around on Tuesday and a lot of dry weather tomorrow.

Less showers compared with Monday. Sunshine as well. The cloud

thickening and more organised in terms of showery rain from the west.

Seven or eight Celsius. It will feel quite chilly tomorrow with the wind.

Hopefully more sunshine than on Monday. Wednesday, settling down

temporarily but we will see this weather front washing up from the

south west. A lot of dry weather and some hazy sunshine around for much

of the day. Cloud increasing from the north and rain feeding into

southern parts of the region late on in the afternoon. Temperatures up to

nine Celsius. Here is that front bringing rain on Wednesday evening

and pushing north. Its style somewhere to the north of the

region. Uncertainty about how quickly the rain clears. A lot of

dry weather and spells of sunshine. The wind picking up. A blustery day.

Ten or 11 Celsius. As we head towards Friday and the weekend, low

pressure in charge. The areas rain. At this stage, levels of uncertainty

about how quickly those bands of rain will work their way in. Wetter

for the end of the week. Friday looking wet at times and quite

windy. Temperatures lower at eight or nine or 10 Celsius. That is the

story into the weekend, changeable, wet at times and dry spells. Take a

look at the windy weather as well. That is it. We will see you tomorrow

night. Goodbye. To be in the Lords,

you have to be punctual...