08/05/2017 Look East

Hello and welcome to the Look East late news.

The Prime Minister in Norwich to kickstart her campaign.

the Chief Constable calling for internet companies to help

And after a fairly miserable Monday, I will be here

with your weather for the week ahead.

The Prime Minister Theresa May came to Norwich today on what's

being seen as the first day of proper campaigning

It's the only place in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk

and a city without a single Conservative councillor.

It's also the only place in the region

which voted Remain in the EU referendum last year.

Our political correspondent Andrew Sinclair reports.

The Prime Minister at the Norwich Aviation Academy this afternoon.

Just opened, it's a new type of training facility,

teaching young people how to be aviation mechanics.

So, James, what can we see about the lift formula with this?

In a classroom, she sat in on a lesson

about aerodynamics and appeared to follow what they were talking about.

Mrs May said this sort of place shows that we can

make a success of Brexit because we're developing our own

The enthusiasm of the young people shows

that this, I think, is going to be great both in ensuring they have

got the skills needed for the jobs of the future but also

we're developing the economy of the future.

Creating the jobs for the future is one thing but Norwich was

a Remain city and there are a lot of people at this airport and in

businesses in this part of the world who are worried

that Brexit and leaving the single market will

What we want to do is to ensure that we get the best possible

deal on our Brexit negotiations, the best possible deal of our

relationship of the future with the European Union.

I want that to be a deep and special partnership.

We're looking for a comprehensive free trade agreement.

I want to ensure that their jobs here and across the

This is not the easiest of all places for a

Conservative Prime Minister to campaign.

Norfolk itself is very Conservative and Brexit-supporting

but Norwich recorded a big Remain vote and there are no Conservative

Norwich North is held by the Tories with a small majority.

While the other seat, Norwich South, is

comfortably held by Labour and there they are concerns about Brexit.

Lots of our residents from the European Union

and elsewhere in Norwich who are making a tremendous contribution to

the local economy, bringing with them their skills and those

are the sorts of things which I am a bit worried

about because if the Prime Minister is going for a hard Brexit,

I think that jeopardises our growing economy.

The Prime Minister was in the Conservative and Brexit friendly

But she knows that if she wants to show that

she can unite the country post-Brexit, she needs

to start winning support from the whole of Norwich.

So day one of the campaign proper, but why choose Norwich?

The Conservatives have very large majorities across all of East Anglia

but there are some exceptions and Norwich North is one of them.

Chloe Smith holds the seat at the moment

And I am told the Prime Minister has a bit of a soft spot

for Norwich North because she ran the Conservative's successful

by-election campaign there back in 2009.

Chloe Smith has been on maternity leave

for much of last year and hasn't been seen much and she wanted

The other reason I am told is that the Tories

have got their eyes on the next door seat of Norwich South.

Yes, it's got a large Labour majority.

Clive Lewis holds it with the majority of

more than 7500 but the Conservatives have said to me that they believe

with a fair wind, they reckon they could take that seat and in doing

so, take out a big beast of Labour, Clive Lewis is seen as a future

leadership contender, but also take a Remain city

and to be able to take a Remain seat in this so-called Brexit election,

they think would send a very powerful signal.

So, Jeremy Corbyn has been to the region.

We've had the Prime Minister here today.

Party strategists in both the main parties are saying to

me that actually in this election, the main battle grounds are the

Midlands and the north of England, that's where all

That is where most of the visits are being planned.

Yes, we do have our own battle grounds, the two

Norwich seats, North Norfolk as well is on many people's list,

But on the whole, most of the attention in this election

It's going to be in other parts of the country.

And throughout the general election campaign,

we want to hear from you, whether it's a question for a candidate

or a strong opinion on what's important to you.

We're calling it hashtag "getsmyvote".

You can contact us on email, Facebook

Next tonight: Why the Chief Constable of Norfolk

says internet companies like Facebook and Google hold

the key to stopping people from viewing images of child

on the day the region's police forces came together

I always thought that, one day, I would get that knock on the door.

The words as said by actors, originally spoken by offenders.

I didn't consider the full effect this had had on my wife.

This is a video made by The Lucy Faithfull Foundation to help

Simon Bailey, the Chief Constable of Norfolk Police, is in charge of

He has launched Operation Net Safe to tackle what he describes

The police service across the United Kingdom is

We are safeguarding over 500 children every month.

Whilst we are doing more than any other country

in the world within this field,

we simply cannot arrest our way out of it.

Police forces across our region are dealing with an

unprecedented number of reports about child sexual abuse

This is the Norfolk Police control room where

they take calls from those who've been abused.

Interestingly, in the last year, The Lucy Faithfull Foundation

has taken more than 1800 calls from those living in the east

who are concerned about their own behaviour online.

Chief Constable Simon Bailey believes this crime

will only be stopped if the internet companies make it impossible

The police service alone simply cannot deal with this.

But the tech companies hold the key here.

Tonight, a spokesman for Facebook says...

Google hasn't yet been available for comment.

The police search for the missing airman Corrie Mckeague is now

And so far there has been no sign of him.

Teams began searching a landfill site near Cambridge back in March

where it's thought his body may have been deposited there

after vanishing during a night out in Bury St Edmunds last September.

Let's get the latest from the search site now

standing on this landfill by me with standing on this landfill by me with

the police and the showed me that they were confident they were

looking in the right place. Here we are into the last scheduled week of

the ten week search. What have the police got to show Fred? They have

found artefacts, small things that beat to the time that Corrie

directly links it to Corrie Mckeague directly links it to Corrie Mckeague

or the bin that he reportedly ended up in. Of course every investigation

is only good as the information that is only good as the information that

is fed into it and that is why a few days ago Corrie Mckeague's mother

Nicola was worried, she told me the police were not searching in the

right place. I do believe Corrie

is in the landfill. That is my concern,

that he might not be in that cell. I know the police are rechecking

and rechecking constantly. I keep trying to think,

we're talking about it constantly, Police say we should take this on a

day by day basis. They finished the search of the cell itself. They are

now searching the outer edges, the entrants in case about vital waste

may have drifted out of the cell. As for the time frame, that could take

several more days. It could end at the end of this week or it may

extend into next week. Let's bear in extend into next week. Let's bear in

mind that this investigation has so far, all through the seven months,

cost ?1 million. So far, there is precious little to show Fred.

Thank you very much, Alex. Finally tonight an author

from Essex has won Book of the Year at this evening's

British Book Awards. Sarah Perry's

book, The Essex Serpent, is a gothic tale set in the 1890s

and inspired by a local legend. It also won the Fiction Book

of the Year award in an event that That's all from me,

the weather now with Julie. But from the rest of

the late team, goodnight. Thank you. Overnight tonight, I

think most of us will be fine and dry. A little bit of light rain and

drizzle. We can have some clear spells. That will affect the

temperature. These are the expected lows. Under the clear skies, three

Celsius. A touch of frost perhaps. Most of us, a frost free night.

Cloud seeding down from the north. Perhaps a little bit patchy rain but

a dry day for most of us. a dry day for most of us.

Temperatures slightly higher than today under the Bekaa, 12 or 13

through, around 15 Celsius. That is through, around 15 Celsius. That is

Tuesday. Joy into the day. Tuesday. Joy into the day.

Wednesday, high pressure in charge Wednesday, high pressure in charge

and a much better chance of because breaking up allowing some decent

sunny spells. That will have an effect on the temperatures. I think

possibly up to 70,000 in the best of possibly up to 70,000 in the best of

the sunshine. Then towards the end of the week, the weather dependent

on the movement of this weather front. Now, at the moment it looks

like Thursday will be largely fine and dry with some spells of

sunshine. Although eventually cloud thickening from the start with

outbreaks of rain. Friday is when we are expecting the main band of rain

to move on through. In a moment, the national focus but here's the

outlook for next weekend. Sunny with some sunshine and showers, it

will become drier and feel warm. Now the National forecast.

Good evening. A quiet day on the weather front but we still managed

to have some huge contrasts in the weather. This was a beautiful

picture from Cumbria, blue skies and crystal clear blue skies in Argyll

and Bute but closer to the north coast, it sends shivers down your

spine! Chilly and cloudy all along that cost this bank of cloud that

sliced the country in half, cool and cloudy to the east and to the West

had sunshine. But it still been dry and it will stay that way for most

of the week. As we get into Friday, there is some rain on the way. In

the short-term, not much happening in the next few hours, quite a bit

of cloud in most of England and Wales but many northern and western

parts, the stars are out. Temperatures not