29/12/2016 Look East

Hundreds of people gathered at the beach in Leigh

on Sea in Essex tonight, to remember two teenagers who died

Reigan Knight and Liam Phillips were both 17-years-old.

Paper lanterns filling the sky above Bell Wharf,

marking the short lives of two teenagers who died in

One of my close mates is not here any more.

I can't speak to him, but I just want to give him

this lovely sendoff, so he knows there that we are looking out

For half an hour, friends and family ignited dozens of

Some with poems on them, balloons, too, baring messages of love

Both boys were passengers in a Ford Escort in the early hours

of Tuesday morning, about 500 metres away

from tonight's vigil, the car

hit another car before crashing into a wall.

Two other teenage boys were arrested at the scene and one has

since been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

The police were following the car at the

time, so the case has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints

Tonight at Bell wharf, fireworks and a growing shrine to

Those they've left behind trying to find ways to cope.

It makes it a little bit easier for them and were setting up

a donation for him and Liam's funerals as well,

And they will be remembered at Southend United's match

The club is asking supporters to clap during the 17th minute

The mother of the missing airman Corrie Mckeague

has thanked the public for their help in trying

to find her son over the last three months,

since he disappeared during a night out in Bury St Edmunds.

In a live internet chat last night, she also spoke candidly

One of the last images of Corrie on CCTV.

In her Facebook broadcast, his mother voiced frustration that

she hadn't been allowed to see all the pictures now police hands.

More than 75,000 people have followed the

developments on the Find Corrie site.

Questions last night about his lifestyle and sexuality.

Corrie is not so much of a social butterfly, more

He was on every dating site you could imagine.

Corrie will make choices and decisions that are

Would he go to a stranger's house that he's never met before?

This was her signing off after 90 minutes of answering questions.

Without getting emotional, I certainly can't do it without you.

The family are hoping their appeals on

social media can bring forward the day they finally get answers on

Several of the region's hospitals say their accident and emergencies

Both the Northampton General and the James Paget

near Great Yarmouth have appealed to patients only to go to A and E

The James Paget says a lot of people have been tuning up with coughs

and colds when they should be seeking help elsewhere.

The average cost of a home in the east now stands at more

The Nationwide says property prices across the region

increased by 10% in the last year - twice that of the national average.

Police in Peterborough say a local crack down on shop-lifting

While there have been big increases in high streets

across the country, in Peterborough, the number of incidents

On patrol with Paul Freeman in Peterborough, as shops recall one of

their easiest seasons ever, police step up their campaign.

You can't predict who a shoplifter is.

We get people coming in from London, Leicester,

Birmingham, to commit to

Professional gangs coming into Peterborough to commit

The key to train to crack retail crime is high visibility

They also work with the city's shop watch scheme, where

retailers pass on information, noticing new ways of people

A big thing for the moment for us is fraudulently funding.

Because remember, there are a lot of different types of theft.

It doesn't mean someone can come in the store

Someone can come store and damage the stock.

And then take it to the till for a cash refund.

Police here insist they are not complacent and will continue to

keep vigilant in the fight against retail crime.

We're back on BBC Breakfast tomorrow morning.

Another cold night across the region, with a widespread, sharp

frost. We held to have the hazard of widespread misanthrope developing

and are freezing bulk purchase out there. Not great condition certainly

rude and the risk of ice on untreated surfaces. Temperatures

could get down to minus five Celsius. Mr Vargas Llosa cleared

into low-level cloud. A lot of the into low-level cloud. A lot of the

region is expected to stay cloudy. A cold day with a light, southerly

went and highs of around four or 5 degrees. A quick look at New Year's

Eve. Expected to stay dry, not quite so-called. Another cloudy day, with

winds picking up a list about. Through the evening, it will stay

dry. The national weather is coming up. Here is the outlook. We start to

those in 17 with some Hello. Fold and frost has been a

feature of the weather in recent mornings in England and Wales,

producing a wintry scene with Frost in Oxfordshire this