:00:09. > :00:10.Hello, and welcome to the Look East late news.
:00:11. > :00:13.In the programme tonight, growing pressure on the Clacton MP
:00:14. > :00:15.to call a by-election after he leaves Ukip
:00:16. > :00:18.An inquest hears how this man struggled with mental illness,
:00:19. > :00:21.ran out of medication and died of a heart attack.
:00:22. > :00:24.And I'll be here with your local forecast and
:00:25. > :00:38.First tonight, growing calls for another by-election in Clacton.
:00:39. > :00:42.Over the weekend the local MP Douglas Carswell resigned from Ukip
:00:43. > :00:49.This is a critical time for a party which has in the past commanded
:00:50. > :00:54.Four years ago its tally of county councillors dramatically went
:00:55. > :00:59.from 2 to 33 across Norfolk, suffolk and Essex.
:01:00. > :01:02.In the last general election its share of the vote
:01:03. > :01:08.But over the last few months the party's been arguing
:01:09. > :01:11.about what its role should be now that we're leaving the EU,
:01:12. > :01:17.and to lose its only MP does nothing to help.
:01:18. > :01:21.When Douglas Carswell left the Conservatives in 2014 he thought
:01:22. > :01:23.it right to call a by-election, so now
:01:24. > :01:27.that he's moving again, should there be another one in Clacton?
:01:28. > :01:30.Know, as he is not standing for another party, I don't see why.
:01:31. > :01:34.He jumped ship to independent and says there's no need
:01:35. > :01:37.for a by-election - well, I'm sorry, you've got to have one.
:01:38. > :01:42.That's what many in the local party think
:01:43. > :01:45.which is why, over the weekend, clamour for a by-election has grown.
:01:46. > :01:47.Today it was taken up by the big guns.
:01:48. > :01:50.We put considerable resources into getting
:01:51. > :01:55.If he's decided he doesn't want to be Ukip any more, then he
:01:56. > :01:57.should put himself in front of his constituents -
:01:58. > :02:01.or his "bosses", as he calls them - to see if he's done the right thing.
:02:02. > :02:04.We will now write to every house in Clacton and ask them
:02:05. > :02:08.do you want a by-election or not, and if more than 20% say they do we
:02:09. > :02:11.will then find out just how honourable Mr Carswell is.
:02:12. > :02:13.But not everyone in the party is relishing
:02:14. > :02:20.Douglas Carswell has a very strong political brand in Clacton.
:02:21. > :02:22.I think if there was a by-election now, it
:02:23. > :02:25.would be interesting and lively and you'll excuse me
:02:26. > :02:27.from having put a lot of effort into the Stoke-on-Trent Central
:02:28. > :02:31.by-election recently if I don't regard such a prospect with
:02:32. > :02:36.It would be hard work and it would be a close 3-way race.
:02:37. > :02:40.By law, Mr Carswell doesn't have to call a by-election.
:02:41. > :02:42.He argues that this time things are different.
:02:43. > :02:46.I'm not saying that I'm going to submit
:02:47. > :02:49.myself to the authority, to the whip of a new party.
:02:50. > :02:51.If I was to make that transition, then quite rightly
:02:52. > :02:53.I would need the permission of the electorate.
:02:54. > :02:56.But in a sense I'm saying I don't have a whip.
:02:57. > :02:58.But was local elections getting underway all
:02:59. > :03:05.Hopefully now this will spark the people of Clacton to wake up and
:03:06. > :03:08.realise that Ukip are dead in the water.
:03:09. > :03:10.They've always really been a protest movement, and now they have
:03:11. > :03:13.no members of Parliament I think that just underlines the point.
:03:14. > :03:15.They're splitting, they're subdividing and subdividing.
:03:16. > :03:19.And who knows - it seems to be imploding, but
:03:20. > :03:22.it might get some cohesion somewhere.
:03:23. > :03:24.This isn't just happening in Clacton.
:03:25. > :03:27.Last week its leader on Norfolk County Council resigned.
:03:28. > :03:31.Its leader in Suffolk went a few months
:03:32. > :03:34.ago, and most of Ukip's County Councillors in Essex aren't planning
:03:35. > :03:37.Ukip has often surprised at elections and may do so
:03:38. > :03:40.again, but this has been a weekend it will want to forget.
:03:41. > :03:44.A short while ago I asked Andrew how much of a loss
:03:45. > :03:50.Well, Ukip are saying that having just one MP in Parliament meant
:03:51. > :03:55.that they never had much clout so this is no big loss.
:03:56. > :04:00.But think back to how excited they were in 2014 when
:04:01. > :04:02.Douglas Carswell was elected - I remember sitting next
:04:03. > :04:05.to Nigel Farage in the Commons as he watched his new MP
:04:06. > :04:10.Yes, they will still be the guard-dog of
:04:11. > :04:12.Brexit, as Patrick O'Flynn was calling them tonight, and Ukip will
:04:13. > :04:15.still be sought after for its views on how Brexit is going.
:04:16. > :04:18.And yes, whenever it rowed with Douglas Carswell that generated
:04:19. > :04:22.But remember, this is the party that once wanted to have
:04:23. > :04:26.40 MPs in Parliament - tonight it's got none.
:04:27. > :04:29.And, as you laid out in your report, Andrew, it has got more than
:04:30. > :04:32.its fair share of problems at the moment, hasn't it?
:04:33. > :04:35.Yes, I mean, some of that I think is down to a lack
:04:36. > :04:38.You always get personality clashes in politics,
:04:39. > :04:40.particularly at a local level, but there's no-one around
:04:41. > :04:43.at the moment to bang heads together and to nip it in the bud.
:04:44. > :04:46.But the other reason behind all this is that Ukip is
:04:47. > :04:49.looking for some sort of identity now that we're leaving the EU,
:04:50. > :04:54.Can it come up with a new set of distinctive policies, can it be more
:04:55. > :04:57.than just a party of Brexit, can it find something that makes it
:04:58. > :05:01.These local elections will show us what voters think.
:05:02. > :05:04.For Ukip the next few months are critical.
:05:05. > :05:10.An inquest has heard how a patient with schizophrenia ran out
:05:11. > :05:15.of medication while in the care of a local mental health trust.
:05:16. > :05:18.42-year-old Neil Jewell from Norwich died from a heart attack,
:05:19. > :05:20.at a psychiatric intensive care unit at Ipswich
:05:21. > :05:28.This from our chief reporter Kim Riley.
:05:29. > :05:30.The inquest jury held heard a detailed statement from
:05:31. > :05:34.Christine Welfare about her undomesticated and childlike younger
:05:35. > :05:37.brother Neil, and his struggles with mental illness.
:05:38. > :05:41.She told how, in early January 2014, he became frantic and agitated.
:05:42. > :05:44.It turned out he'd run out of his medication, the
:05:45. > :05:46.anti-psychotic drug Clozapine, and not been
:05:47. > :05:52.Despite attempts by staff at the trice trust to reintroduce
:05:53. > :05:55.the drug to his system, at a residential home in Norfolk, the
:05:56. > :05:57.jury heard that he'd become an reachable and tormented.
:05:58. > :06:01.He trashed his room, he tried to claw his way
:06:02. > :06:03.up the wall, there were grazes on his knuckles
:06:04. > :06:08.wall, bruises to his forehead where he'd head-butted the door.
:06:09. > :06:10.His sister said she'd been so distressed
:06:11. > :06:16.to see him in that state she'd had to leave.
:06:17. > :06:19.He was sectioned under the Mental Health Act and, in an
:06:20. > :06:21.ambulance, taken to the Southgate ward at Bury St Edmunds.
:06:22. > :06:23.The jury heard he'd been handcuffed jury that
:06:24. > :06:26.journey, belts restraining his legs and arms.
:06:27. > :06:30.Later that day, he was transferred again to a psychiatric
:06:31. > :06:33.intensive care unit at Ipswich Hospital.
:06:34. > :06:37.He was held in seclusion in an observation ward there.
:06:38. > :06:40.But after a cardiac arrest he never regained consciousness.
:06:41. > :06:47.With his sister stroking his head, he died on January the 17th, 2014.
:06:48. > :06:49.Well, his sister stressed his inability to
:06:50. > :06:52.cope with life and his need for intensive one-to-one
:06:53. > :06:55.nursing at the end and throughout his treatment.
:06:56. > :07:03.The inquest is expected to last four weeks.
:07:04. > :07:09.Next tonight, the remarkable story of Deryn Blackwell.
:07:10. > :07:12.As a young child he was told he had a disease that only affects
:07:13. > :07:15.five people in the world and there was nothing
:07:16. > :07:18.His mother, desperate to relieve her son's pain,
:07:19. > :07:24.She believes it was that decision that led to his recovery.
:07:25. > :07:33.This was Deryn Blackwell from Watton in 2013 -
:07:34. > :07:36.diagnosed with leukaemia and a rare cell cancer,
:07:37. > :07:41.admitted to an end of life hospice, he even planned his own funeral.
:07:42. > :07:45.Being so close to death, it calms people.
:07:46. > :07:52.After chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants he
:07:53. > :07:57.So his mother, Callie, turned to something in secret -
:07:58. > :08:04.His condition improved and his sores healed.
:08:05. > :08:08.She believes it helped, others aren't so sure.
:08:09. > :08:11.Whatever I did with the cannabis, it boosted his immune system and it
:08:12. > :08:13.triggered his bone marrow into working.
:08:14. > :08:17.That's what I firmly believe after what I saw with my own eyes.
:08:18. > :08:22.The story is inspiring, but for all these promising stories that
:08:23. > :08:27.are out there there are plenty where it didn't necessarily work or didn't
:08:28. > :08:34.Possession can mean five years in prison.
:08:35. > :08:36.The Conservative Government argues it
:08:37. > :08:42.There was nothing else that conventional medicine
:08:43. > :08:46.could give us, and at the point of administering it to him I was really
:08:47. > :08:48.at the point of, well, what have I got to lose?
:08:49. > :08:51.It was palliative, he was dying anyway.
:08:52. > :08:54.There was nothing worse that I could do to him that
:08:55. > :08:56.I am openly admitting that, three years
:08:57. > :09:02.ago, that I administered a class B illegal drug.
:09:03. > :09:06.Now Deryn's recovered his mother has written a book.
:09:07. > :09:09.She has no regrets about giving her son cannabis oil,
:09:10. > :09:22.That's all from me - coming up now, the weather with Julie.
:09:23. > :09:28.But, from the rest of the late team, goodnight.
:09:29. > :09:35.Denied is going to be dry, with areas of mist and fog and some clear
:09:36. > :09:39.skies at times. Under those clear skies we could have temperatures as
:09:40. > :09:44.low as two or three and with light winds that means patchy frost in
:09:45. > :09:47.places. Tomorrow the mist and fog should clear more readily than today
:09:48. > :09:52.and we should have dry weather for a time with some sunshine but then
:09:53. > :09:59.showers coming from the south-west. Some of those could be heavy all
:10:00. > :10:04.even thundery. In the best of any sunshine we could be up to about 20
:10:05. > :10:10.Celsius. And we finished the day with the chance of showers just
:10:11. > :10:16.about everywhere but fine weather as well. We keep the risk of thunder.
:10:17. > :10:21.On Wednesday a lot of cloud in the morning and patchy rain as well. On
:10:22. > :10:24.the whole window looks dry, a lot of cloud and temperatures not quite as
:10:25. > :10:29.high as the previous day. Towards the end of the week this system
:10:30. > :10:33.influencing the weather, the cold front moving through Friday. On
:10:34. > :10:39.Thursday it will be fine and dry with pleasant spells of warm
:10:40. > :10:45.sunshine, temperatures possibly higher than these at 20 or even 21.
:10:46. > :10:50.On Friday that cold front probably producing rain in the morning,
:10:51. > :10:54.eventually clearing giving way to sunshine and showers, with
:10:55. > :10:59.temperatures not quite as high. In a moment you'll have the National
:11:00. > :11:01.forecast but this is the outlook for next weekend. Sunny spells and heavy
:11:02. > :11:04.showers on Saturday showery on Saturday, dry and
:11:05. > :11:06.brighter on Sunday and if we go back to the temperatures in the next
:11:07. > :11:07.couple days, you see those highs on Thursday. He is John Hammond with
:11:08. > :11:26.the national this cyclone Debbie crashes onto the
:11:27. > :11:29.Queensland coast with violent winds and flooding rains, that will head
:11:30. > :11:34.southwards in the next few days in the direction of Brisbane. We will
:11:35. > :11:39.keep an eye on Debbie. Meanwhile back home, much more tranquil. This
:11:40. > :11:42.beautiful sunset taken from Stevenage and Hertfordshire earlier
:11:43. > :11:46.this evening. Clear skies for some though not for all of us. Quite a
:11:47. > :11:50.lot of low cloud across eastern areas drifting a little farther west
:11:51. > :11:54.as we go through the night. Areas of fog around, so watch out for those.
:11:55. > :11:58.Where the skies remain clear, it will be cold. It already is, and in
:11:59. > :12:00.some areas temperatures