14/04/2017 Look East

There's more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel.

An RAF veteran from the East has just become the first double

amputee to complete the Marathon des Sables in the Sahara.

Duncan Slater took part in the gruelling

but had to pull out just before the end.

This time round giving up was not an option.

The final few yards of what is dubbed the toughest

After 156 miles, in temperatures of up to 50 Celsius, this 38-year-old

gunner from Norfolk has just made history.

The first double leg amputee to cross the finish line.

Last year, just a day away from finishing

the Sahara, Duncan had to pull out in agony

because of an issue with

He told that he was determined to conquer it the

The only way I am going to get there is by doing it

every day as it comes and

Despite that, he walked alongside Prince Harry in the

The first double amputee to reach the south pole.

Today he has made it a double first, surpassing the coldest and warmest

Travellers parked illegally near the seafront at Walton-on-the-Naze

in Essex could face court action to force them to move.

Caravans have been on "Bell House Meadow"

on Eastern Esplanade since Tuesday with more arriving yesterday.

A sunny start of the bank holiday on Walton on the knees.

A sunny start of the bank holiday on Walton on the Naze.

Businesses hope good weather will bring day-trippers

Not everyone welcomes these visitors.

The first caravans arrived on Tuesday.

This morning there were 14 parked up on a council owned

The council describes it as an unauthorised encampment.

I have just been on the site to speak to the

Nobody wanted to be interviewed on camera.

But one to be the reason it is here is because it

is close to Harwich were you can catch the ferry to Holland.

They said six of the caravans will be

leaving today to catch this evening's ferry.

They are on land that is owned by the council.

They are next our leisure centre and they have been in

there for showers and they have paid further showers like anybody

It seems like they have kept the area very tidy.

We have handed out some black bags for them to put the

rubbish then and we will collect them when they leave.

The first travellers who have arrived have

already been served an direction to leave, giving them

If they are still here next week, court

The former owners of Bernard Matthews have been

criticised for rejecting a buyout offer which would have

Letters released by the Work and Pensions Committee

show that Rutland Partners opted for a deal which gave them more money.

But off-loaded its pension responsibilities onto taxpayers.

A man has been charged with the rape, kidnapping

and imprisonment of a woman in Luton.

Police were called to a property in Putteridge Road on Wednesday

after concerns were raised about a woman's safety.

Joel Nestor who's 39 and from Tottenham will

Four derelict houses have been completely destroyed

Local councillors in the area are now calling for land owners

with abandoned properties to do more to secure them.

In the early hours of this morning, four derelict properties in Southend

An aerial platform was used by firefighters to put out

This morning, the full scale of the damage could be seen.

The cause is believed to have been a small deliberate fire in one

This isn't the first time these derelict

Filmed last year, locals tell me that these buildings were often

broken into by squatters in the area.

Local councillors say that property owners should do more

If necessary, boarding it up and charging a developer the cost

of making it secure - that way round, we get developers

taking proper action against their properties

and their planning permissions that they've got, rather than leaving

them in a derelict site and causing all sorts of problems.

Police are now investigating, to work out exactly what happened.

Onto football now and in tonight's Championship

Ipswich won 2-1 away to Burton Albion.

In part thanks to a 52nd minute own goal by Burton's Luke Varney.

In the is going to learn. Heavy bursts of rain with us. It cool,

north-westerly wind for tomorrow. The temperatures are holding up. We

start tomorrow with overnight rain clearing and dry and sunny spells

for the bulk of the day. In the sunshine, not too bad. 14 Celsius. I

do want to show you this change for Sunday. We have this front moving

towards us. The date goes downhill. We will see rain after breakfast

time. -- the day. Monday will Good evening. I don't think

everybody was a happy bunny today with the weather. We had some rain.

Some of it was on the heavy side, particularly across northern parts

of Wales. All these things are true for the next few days. Even into

next week. We are going to stay with this chilly air coming in from the

North. Vermijl they're never quite