11/05/2017 Look East

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the families of the missing who never give up hope.

A dramatic twist in the battle for North Norfolk -

the Green Party says it won't field a candidate

in order to help the Lib Dem Norman Lamb.

And I will be here with the latest on the weather into the weekend.

Join me later. First tonight, the hidden anguish

of families who've had a loved one Thousands of people disappear

across the region and while most are found, Look East has discovered

there are 313 cases where the missing person

has not been traced. Some hit the headlines,

like the search for the airman Corrie McKeague,

but many more don't. Musician Anthony Stammers was 27

when he left the family home Today, his parents Rob and Julie

told us they'll never give up It has had a horrendous

effect on us all. There are a few incidents

where I have looked at people The problem is you want it

to be him, you want these people to be him and you have got

to rationalise it and I often say to somebody,

"I thought you were my son, The impact you were talking about,

you cannot imagine how it When he left the house,

he had every intention of going He had suffered from some

depression but we felt I often shout, "Hello,

Anthony, I'm home." It is a habit just in the hope

that he will reply, "Hello, Mum." You never stop searching,

you never give up hope that Even now we sit down regularly

and plan the next thing. We have been to North Wales,

you go into a church, We rarely go out without a leaflet

or two in case we bump into people. Anthony, we love you so very much

and miss you so very much, We just love you and want you back

in our lives and hope And just to make contact and let us

know you are safe and well. Rob and Julie Stammers,

talking to Kevin Burch If you want help or advice you can

go to missingpeople.org.uk Well, Steve Gaskin is a former

detective chief inspector with the Metropolitan Police and has

worked on numerous I asked him how easy

it was for someone to go missing. Last year, over 300,000 people

went missing in England, Scotland and Wales and that has been

measured by the charity Two thirds of those people actually

go missing because they want to, Often these people are suffering

from some form of mental illness or mental disorder,

or for financial reasons, they want to go missing,

but that leaves a third of people that are missing and that is a huge

problem these days, especially with cuts in public service

for the police force. How, as a detective,

do you decide which cases of missing A lot of it is to do

with supervision, making sure that when somebody goes missing

that those leads are followed The Police Service in general

are very, very good at doing that. Say, for instance, the first person

that reports a missing person, a police officer, often

they will spend hours, days and nights personally trying

to find these people, but the hardest thing

is if you can't find them, Oddly, in some ways,

it's better to have a murder enquiry because at least you've got a body

and you know what has gone on. It is really very

difficult to investigate. And is there a point

when you are investigating, say a missing person's case,

where the chances of finding that I mean, is it after

a certain amount of time? All criminal investigations,

including a missing persons, are to do with fresh evidence

and hot leads and once those leads have been exhausted

and the trail goes cold, it is very difficult

to know when to stop. The whole experience

is very emotional. It's very emotional for the person

that has gone missing, it's very emotional for parents,

friends, particularly if it's a young person,

and it's very frustrating and emotional for the police

that are investigating. In the general election campaign

there's been another dramatic twist Tonight, the Green Party said it

wouldn't field a candidate in order to help the Liberal Democrat health

spokesman Norman Lamb. Mr Lamb, who held the seat

with a majority of 4,000, is under pressure after Ukip -

which polled 8,000 votes last time - told its supporters to vote

Conservative to try to unseat him. The Greens came fouth

in 2015 with 1,400 votes. They say that won't endorse Mr Lamb,

but they are encouraging their supporters to vote for him

to try and keep out With nominations now closed,

it means that the battle in North Norfolk will be

between Mr Lamb, the Conservative James Wild

and Labour's Stephen Burke. Earlier I spoke to the Green Party's

regional organiser Martin Schmierer and asked him if it was desperate

times, desperate measures. Well, it's a case certainly

of politics being in flux. It's a case where the Green party

has to look at its resources, it has to look at the constituencies

in which it is fighting. It has to think about where it can

best make an impact. We are trying our best to make sure

that we have got the very best kind of Parliament on June 9th,

making sure that environmental protection and action on climate

change is not forgotten. This is going to be the shortest

ballot paper in history, Yes, but it's important

that the result is right Britain needs an opposition

to the Conservatives. We cannot have a massive

landslide to the Tories. We need to have other

voices in there. You are denying your

supporters, Green supporters, Well, it's up to the local party

to make that decision. They decided not

to stand a candidate. What do the Greens get

back from the Lib Dems? This isn't some sort

of cloak and dagger, What we get out of it is

the assurance, hopefully, that we will get some kind

of proportional representation if we see that large

number of MPs elected. The last election we got

a million votes and that We really need to change

the voting system. That is what is fundamentally

unfair, that is what is fundamentally undemocratic

and that is what the voters, whether that be across Norfolk

or whether that be across Britain, And you, as a member

of the Green Party, will be very happy to see Norman Lamb

retain his seat June 9th? I mean, our decision

there was not an endorsement of Norman Lamb per se,

it was not an endorsement What this was was a direct

condemnation and criticism of this hardline Tory

and Ukip almost alliance. That is something that we in

the Green Party cannot stomach. Labour will also be standing

in North Norfolk and for a full list of candidates in that

seat and all the others, Finally tonight, imagine

watching this whilst It's called a VR Playground

and there are eight of them dotted around Norwich as part

of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival Among the highlights is a seven-hour

long theatre performance this weekend called Summer,

Autumn, Winter, Spring. We are trying to make something

where the audience can really imagine themselves in and in fact,

in Autumn, they are invited onto the stage to be part of Autumn,

so it's about not presenting a performer as a kind of hero,

if you like, not a heroic figure, but as people like us and that

raises questions about how we function in the world,

how we are with each other. And the festival runs

until the 28th May. Coming up now the weather

with Alex, but from the rest Some changes are underway with the

weather over the next 24 hours or so. More cloud coming from the south

and that could bring outbreaks of rain. It will stay very mild

compared with last night, temperatures of eight Celsius. We

start tomorrow with this area of low pressure moving slowly to the north.

We may see outbreaks of rain first thing, a bit of a cloudy start, but

brighter skies and some sunshine. Some showers could be heavy,

possibly thundery. Temperatures of possibly thundery. Temperatures of

18 or 19 degrees with a brisk breeze. Into the afternoon, although

some showers are around and the odd thundery one, they will fade away

towards the end of the day. Here is the outlook: Into the weekend a

slightly cooler field to things. We will see good spells of sunshine on

Saturday. The chance of an isolated shower and into Sunday, some

scattered We want to see the economy

work for everybody, not Now the weather.

, yes a humid dead. We have had photographs of the

Now, humid air is coming in hyped. This cloud will