:00:00. > :00:00.Hello and welcome to the Look East late news.
:00:07. > :00:10.bodies of this couple are recovered from a house in Stowmarket.
:00:11. > :00:13.The hospital patient who blocked a bed for two years
:00:14. > :00:18.is still in limbo as the authorities decide what to do with him.
:00:19. > :00:20.And it's a cool and showery end to February
:00:21. > :00:25.Join me later in the programme for a full look at the weather
:00:26. > :00:37.In the last hour, detectives have said they do not believe anyone else
:00:38. > :00:41.was involved in the deaths of a couple from Suffolk.
:00:42. > :00:43.Richard and Sarah Pitkin were found yesterday at the home
:00:44. > :00:54.Alex Dunlop is live at the scene now.
:00:55. > :01:00.Are we any clearer about what happened?
:01:01. > :01:07.I think we clearly know that police are not looking for a double
:01:08. > :01:13.murderer and I think that will go some way to assure local residents.
:01:14. > :01:16.This is a very quiet little street, Stowupland Street, in the centre of
:01:17. > :01:21.snow basket. This is where the couple lived and you can see here on
:01:22. > :01:24.the doorstep, floral tributes left by friends and neighbours. Officers
:01:25. > :01:30.were first called to this address at two o'clock, just before two o'clock
:01:31. > :01:31.yesterday afternoon. Tonight, they are officially treating these deaths
:01:32. > :01:33.as unexplained. Forensic teams have been at the home
:01:34. > :01:36.of Richard and Sarah Pitkin The couple moved to Stowmarket
:01:37. > :01:39.from London ten years ago. 65-year-old Mr Pitkin, a carpenter,
:01:40. > :01:41.converted the building, creating a tearoom that used
:01:42. > :01:45.to be run by his wife. This, the couple at
:01:46. > :01:48.its opening in 2009. Their bodies were discovered
:01:49. > :01:50.when police arrived The owner of the nearby pub
:01:51. > :02:00.thought he had heard gunshots Sarah especially very,
:02:01. > :02:05.very polite lady. She was involved with the St
:02:06. > :02:08.Elisabeth's Hospice up in the town and her partner Richard was a very
:02:09. > :02:10.well respected carpenter, Straight down,
:02:11. > :02:19.normal couple, really. For the past four years,
:02:20. > :02:22.Sarah Pitkin has worked as an assistant manager at
:02:23. > :02:25.the local hospice shop. It was closed today
:02:26. > :02:27.following her death. The charity said she was
:02:28. > :02:29.a well loved member of She's made a huge difference
:02:30. > :02:35.and would be sadly missed. Flowers have been
:02:36. > :02:37.laid outside the house, The couple are believed
:02:38. > :02:54.to have four grown-up children, What about reports that there was
:02:55. > :02:58.gunshots heard? There was some confusion about that.
:02:59. > :03:04.Police are stressing tonight that no gun was discharged and that no far I
:03:05. > :03:11.was decided anywhere really in the area. -- firearm. Postmortems will
:03:12. > :03:15.be carried out on both bodies tomorrow. It could be something
:03:16. > :03:19.completely innocent yet tragic or something more sinister. We do not
:03:20. > :03:22.know. Local people here are very upset, buried the wilted and
:03:23. > :03:26.certainly mystified as to how this couple could have died. -- the
:03:27. > :03:33.wilted. Thank you, Alex. One of the longest staying
:03:34. > :03:35.bed blockers in Britain who went on hunger strike
:03:36. > :03:38.after he was evicted from a hospital Adriano Guedes who is paralysed
:03:39. > :03:42.from the chest down spent more Since his eviction from hospital,
:03:43. > :03:46.Adriano Guedes has refused to eat. For 24 days, he survived
:03:47. > :03:53.on just fruit juice. Deciding where I should live,
:03:54. > :03:57.what I should eat, where I should eat, how much
:03:58. > :04:00.I eat, how much I drink. News of the 64-year-old's
:04:01. > :04:09.eviction broke last month. This photo taken in
:04:10. > :04:11.hospital says it all. He was eventually moved to this
:04:12. > :04:15.temporary council flat. Exasperated at the care system
:04:16. > :04:17.and saying he said 2000 different carers in eight years,
:04:18. > :04:19.he's refused to cooperate Patrick Thompson who
:04:20. > :04:25.supported patients rights for decades is
:04:26. > :04:28.about to change that. We've now got to get you living
:04:29. > :04:36.with your dignity and And we are going
:04:37. > :04:40.to do it, aren't we? Mr Guedes came here from
:04:41. > :04:44.Portugal 15 years ago. He worked as a union rep
:04:45. > :04:47.but a stroke in 2008 left him If you hadn't persuaded him to go
:04:48. > :04:56.back to eating, how bad do you think We would've ended up
:04:57. > :04:59.with an inquest. And then the fingers
:05:00. > :05:01.would've been pointed. And the other people,
:05:02. > :05:06.at the end of the day, But I don't know if they have got
:05:07. > :05:16.the courage to do something. All the authorities insist
:05:17. > :05:23.it is Mr Guedes' refusal to cooperate which has prevented
:05:24. > :05:26.them from helping him. Debbie Tubby, BBC
:05:27. > :05:31.Look East, Suffolk. A short while ago I asked Debbie
:05:32. > :05:35.to explain what she felt the key I think what dawns on you when you
:05:36. > :05:40.see that meeting between Patrick Thompson and Adriano Guedes
:05:41. > :05:43.is that he's lost his dignity Adriano is, you know,
:05:44. > :05:46.he's exasperated by the health He's had all these carers over
:05:47. > :05:51.all these years, you know, dealing with his personal hygiene and this
:05:52. > :05:55.man is very independent. Although he's paralysed
:05:56. > :05:57.and he can only use his right arm, he still wants to work,
:05:58. > :06:01.he doesn't want to rely on benefits and he doesn't want to rely
:06:02. > :06:04.on the local authority either. I mean, he feels as though
:06:05. > :06:07.he has lost control of his life and I think Patrick is kind
:06:08. > :06:10.of giving that back to him and I said to him, "Why
:06:11. > :06:15.are you giving up your fight?" He said, "I'm not giving
:06:16. > :06:18.up my fight, the only way I can So what's going to
:06:19. > :06:21.happen to him now? I mean, potentially he goes back
:06:22. > :06:25.to square one, He needs a wheelchair to move
:06:26. > :06:31.around, he can't have a wheelchair He can't get his housing
:06:32. > :06:35.sorted until he's got his wheelchair so if he loses that trust
:06:36. > :06:38.in Patrick Thompson, he could go back to square one,
:06:39. > :06:40.he could go on hunger strike, he could end up back in hospital,
:06:41. > :06:43.he'll be bed blocking again. And Adriano Guedes said to me
:06:44. > :06:46.he realises he is not the only person bed blocking,
:06:47. > :06:50.we know it's a big thing for hospitals
:06:51. > :06:53.at the moment, especially in these
:06:54. > :06:55.tight financial times. The Suffolk County Council have
:06:56. > :06:57.said to me tonight that they're pleased he is eating again
:06:58. > :07:00.and they hope to engage with him further to try to allow
:07:01. > :07:03.the situation to move forward. A man has been arrested on suspicion
:07:04. > :07:11.of sending abusive messages Will Quince re-posted
:07:12. > :07:16.the comments online saying he was "genuinely shocked"
:07:17. > :07:20.and they were "absolutely vile." They referred to his son
:07:21. > :07:24.Robert who was stillborn. A man is being questioned
:07:25. > :07:28.on suspicion of malicious Millions of pounds are being spent
:07:29. > :07:32.on Hoveton Great Broad, near Norwich, to improve water
:07:33. > :07:34.quality and encourage wildlife. The work will take a couple
:07:35. > :07:37.of years, but at the end of it the hope is to have the water
:07:38. > :07:45.as clear as gin. For decades, Hoveton Great Broad had
:07:46. > :07:48.pollution coming into it from farms and sewage and that led to
:07:49. > :07:51.toxic algae blooms Local farmers and Anglian
:07:52. > :07:57.Water have worked to improve the quality
:07:58. > :08:00.of the water in the River Bure And it's got to the state
:08:01. > :08:05.now where it's so good that restoration work can begin
:08:06. > :08:08.on the broad and the water quality will get better
:08:09. > :08:12.and better, the fish will come back, the plants will come back and
:08:13. > :08:17.biodiversity will improve. The silt and sludge
:08:18. > :08:20.is now being dredged up from the floor of the broad
:08:21. > :08:22.and being transferred These will build up new banks
:08:23. > :08:29.creating better wildlife habitats. What's coming out now
:08:30. > :08:34.is decades of dead algae, very little can live in it,
:08:35. > :08:38.plants can't get established. The time is right now to do it
:08:39. > :08:42.because of the water quality We can shift it now, we can give it
:08:43. > :08:49.a kick and make it work. Get it back to what made
:08:50. > :08:52.the broads famous originally, Some boat owners have
:08:53. > :08:55.complained that the broad won't be open to them
:08:56. > :08:58.but Natural England say they want to preserve the tranquillity of this
:08:59. > :09:02.special place and a longer nature trail will be
:09:03. > :09:06.open for walkers seven days a week. We want to maintain
:09:07. > :09:08.the tranquillity that we offer. People really enjoy,
:09:09. > :09:10.the ability to stop on the edge of the river,
:09:11. > :09:13.go off into our wet woodland and really enjoy their place
:09:14. > :09:20.of peace and tranquillity. This unique place opens up seven
:09:21. > :09:24.days a week from April and it is hoped the legendary gin clear waters
:09:25. > :09:28.of the Broad will return by 2020. That's all from me, but I'll leave
:09:29. > :09:33.you tonight with the weather We've had some showers around
:09:34. > :09:36.through the course of the day. More tomorrow but things actually
:09:37. > :09:39.turning a little bit milder later on as we head
:09:40. > :09:41.deeper into March. Here's our jet stream tonight,
:09:42. > :09:43.big trough across the UK, a lot But as we go through
:09:44. > :09:48.the week, you'll notice that gets pushed away and the jet
:09:49. > :09:51.stream becomes much more mobile, this westerly pattern
:09:52. > :09:53.developing from the Atlantic. So, we have had some showers
:09:54. > :09:55.already this evening, they'll continue to run off
:09:56. > :09:57.to the north-east Some clear spells developing,
:09:58. > :10:01.still quite breezy but the winds will ease down and cold enough
:10:02. > :10:04.for a touch of frost tonight, some Temperatures getting close
:10:05. > :10:08.to freezing so maybe some ice A few showers, yes, at first
:10:09. > :10:13.but a good deal of dry weather, some good spells
:10:14. > :10:15.of sunshine around, less showers compared with Monday but later
:10:16. > :10:18.on perhaps an organised band of rain Temperatures a little bit
:10:19. > :10:22.down, seven or eight Celsius and out on the wind,
:10:23. > :10:25.it will feel quite chilly tomorrow. But hopefully a little bit more
:10:26. > :10:27.in the way of sunshine. Towards the middle of the week,
:10:28. > :10:30.high pressure building in, that means things settling down
:10:31. > :10:32.for Wednesday so a good deal A bit more cloud though
:10:33. > :10:36.pushing up from the south, eventually some rain reaching
:10:37. > :10:38.southern counties late in the day, but ahead of that, getting up
:10:39. > :10:41.to eight or nine Celsius. And for Thursday, that
:10:42. > :10:43.rain's slow to clear the far north of the region but it
:10:44. > :10:46.should brighten up through the day with some sunshine, temperatures
:10:47. > :10:49.getting up to ten or 11 Celsius. Low pressure in charge
:10:50. > :10:51.for the end of the week. So, for Friday, the risk of some
:10:52. > :10:54.rain spreading out from the south, some strong winds too
:10:55. > :10:57.and the same into the weekend. Rather changeable
:10:58. > :10:58.with some rain at times John Hammond has the weather for the
:10:59. > :11:13.rest of the country. According to one man-made
:11:14. > :11:18.definition, spring begins in a couple of days, but in reality
:11:19. > :11:25.weather does it own thing at its own pace. This was taken in Midlothian,
:11:26. > :11:29.a funny old day, some lovely rainbows, downpours, burst of
:11:30. > :11:34.sunshine, and out of the breeze it felt a little bit springlike. At the
:11:35. > :11:38.moment we have clusters of cloud crossing the country, generating
:11:39. > :11:42.wintry showers, clearer gaps in between allowing sunshine by day,
:11:43. > :11:48.but overnight that means dropping temperatures, already a frost in
:11:49. > :11:51.some places. Further wintry showers particularly out West, one or two
:11:52. > :11:55.making it further east, with some ice around first thing in the
:11:56. > :12:00.morning, temperatures falling away, close to freezing or just above in
:12:01. > :12:01.the larger towns and cities. There will be frost particularly through
:12:02. > :12:02.parts of Scotland