28/10/2016 Look East

A woman from New Zealand who married a Norfolk farmer is facing

Alex Chapman got married and settled here four years ago

but the Home Office is now hnsisting she must return to her birthplace.

The appeals procedure is lasting more than a year.

The Home Office says it can't comment while legal

The Chapmans have been speaking to our chief reporter Kim Rhley

She met her husband, Will, on a working holiday here

They have a five-month old daughter, Olivia.

Alex's 2.5 year visa expired last December.

It was a bombshell when, just after Christmas last ydar,

they heard her application for leave to remain was refused.

Alex works in the office at WR Chapman and Son

The Home Office was not sathsfied with information about her leans,

nor convinced it would be a serious hardship for the couple

An appeal process has dragged on for a year.

With Alex's New Zealand passport withheld by the Home Office,

Obviously, the position we `re in, Alex and I and our little d`ughter

would like to go and see thd rest of Alex's family at Christm`s time

And we're struggling to do that at the moment.

They open their arms to all the others coming in,

but then there's people likd me I just feel like they don't

I've never had any money from the government or anything

I've always worked and paid my taxes, and you do feel

like they don't want you here at all, really.

Yeah, I do get quite upset about it sometimes.

But hopefully it will all end happily.

Alex plays an important rold in a firm whose agricultural

contracting and plant hire business has a ?2.8 million annual ttrnover

Jobs likely to disappear if she and Will had to move

Last year, Will and Alex lost their baby daughter, D`isy

They are daring to hope for another precious gift,

That is an official acceptance that Alex is welcome here.

The father of a suspected computer hacker who is facing extradhtion

to America has issued his gravest warning yet that his son

will take his own life rathdr than serve time in a US prison.

Lauri Love from Suffolk is wanted in America to face charges

of hacking agencies like NASA and the FBI.

Day by day the pressure is building for action to block the extradition

The Americans are desperate to fly him across the

Atlantic to face trial and a possible jail term of 99 xears.

Today his father told Stuart White that his son's autism and mdntal

state made it hard for him to understand the consequences of what

Lauri actually believes that he can fix the world and that

is what he tries to do, and in doing so, in a way,

More than 100 MPs have alre`dy urged the American President Barack

Obama to block the extradithon which was approved by a judge in London

Yesterday in the Commons, an appeal to the

Does he realise that this young man is on the

He has severe mental health challenges and may not

I have to emphasise to the honourable

gentleman that of course it is a matter of the courts

and there has been a

court procedure relating to these issues.

I have sat down with my son more than once and said to him, what

are you going to do if everxthing fails, if we are not able to stop

this irresistible steam roller the American's desire to have you,

He says, I won't make it to America, Dad, because I

will take my life as I can't survive without the two of you being in my

The Home Secretary Amber Rudd is studying currently the

She is expected to make a ruling next

If it is approval, an appeal from Lauri Love's legal teal is

A major mile stone was reached today in the re-location

It's the biggest heart and lung transplant centre in Britain,

employs 1,800 staff and tre`ts more than 73,000 patients every xear

It's being moved from Papworth to the site

of Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.

This collection of cranes creating a global centre of excellence.

Specialist services centralhsed on one site, where the best

All our patients have now got more diseases than they used to have

They are getting older and have more complex diseases.

And so, all the other specialties will be here.

And then, for future patients, we have made sure

we have the research and edtcation institute here, which we will build

That will allow us to provide tomorrow's medicine today.

The old Papworth Hospital d`tes back to the first World War.

The village was a sanctuary to treat patients with tuberculosis.

In 1979, surgeons performed the UK's first heart transplant.

Its international reputation was born.

Today, the final slab of concrete sealing the roof was set in place.

This is the first look at the new skeleton of the building.

The majority of those are all single rooms.

So, for infection control ptrposes, for privacy and dignity,

The initial cost to replace the old Papworth, ?165 millhon,

Some think it might lack the tranquillity of the past,

But it will be an international heart and lung centre.

Others say that it will provide a lasting legacy for the future

The weather is next. It's a largely dry night ahdad.

Quite a lot of cloud and underneath, the skies. Temperatures frol any

bars staying in double figures although some sports are already

following to nine Celsius. Tomorrow morning, largely fine and dry and

hopefully the cloud will thdn and break to allow sunshine thrde.

Temperatures could get a degree or so higher than these values in the

best of the sunshine. On Sunday it might take a while for a mist and

fog to clear but then it is a largely fine and dry day with

hopefully some sunshine and brightness at times. We hold on to

light winds. I will leave you with the Outlook. Monday, another fine

and dry day. Tuesday, a dry start but bigger

to come into the beginning of next week as well. Now the national

picture. Hello, it's been a pretty good week

for getting out and enjoying the autumn colours, especially if you

have seen autumn sunshine. What sunshine, if you have been in

Manchester or the Wirral, damp in places. Ty Gifford had it better,

and Deal in Kent, with sunshine It's high pressure and settled

weather but the flow of air may be mild but winning in moisture, not

necessarily in the form of rain Many others will be staying dry but

in the form of cloud. Some mild made it cloudy this weekend and

patchy fog overnight and into the morning. Perhaps misty and murky

across western hills of Britain through the night. England and Wales

seeing patchy lower-level fog, developing into Northern Ireland as

well, once we shift the drizzle some of that in northern England and

West of Scotland. Eastern