11/02/2017 Look East

I'm Tom Williams. the late news at 10.15pm.

The mother of missing airman Corrie McKeague has told Look East

she's been pleading with police to search a landfill site

near Cambridge since early in the investigation.

Suffolk Police have announced they'll begin excavating

the site later this month, five months after the RAF gunner

Corrie McKeague's mother Nicola has mixed emotions that the search

for her beloved son is now focusing on a landfill site near Cambridge.

She wonders if this could've been done sooner.

The tip being searched is a massive line of enquiry and common

If his phone has pinged in a bin in an area it is common sense.

Could this have been done in week four?

Hindsight is a wonderful thing and let's not go there,

We are where we are and they are doing the search now

The last sighting of Corrie in Bury St Edmunds.

CCTV picked him up walking into a loading bay behind some shops.

A dead end full of bins, which were collected soon after.

The lorry was forensically tested but no evidence was found.

There has been on the possibility of a search at Milton landfill

ever since the bin lorry deposited its waste here

soon after Corrie went missing last September.

Specialist search officers will spend around ten weeks

searching 1000 square metres of landfill to a depth

Police say they are aware that this could cause extra noise and odour

problems from local residents, particularly those in

They hope they understand this is a vital part

Hundreds of police officers and volunteers have helped

look for Corrie McKeague since he disappeared five months

ago, and police say searching the landfill is the next logical

A convicted criminal who had been released from prison is back behind

bars after being arrested on suspicion of a murder in Ipswich.

Dean Stansby died after being found stabbed in the Ancaster Road area

A 39-year-old man from Ipswich was arrested on suspicion of murder.

He has now been bailed but returned to prison because he had been wanted

for breaching the terms of his licence.

A 16-year-old boy has also been arrested.

Norwich's Labour MP Clive Lewis has dismissed claims he's planning a bid

Mr Lewis quit as shadow business secretary last week

in order to vote against the bill which will set Brexit in motion.

But he told today's Eastern Daily Press that any talk

he's set to challenge Jeremy Corbyn is nothing but speculation.

The second halves are just getting underway in this

In the Championship: Norwich have gone goal crazy in the first

3-0 up inside the first 20 minutes against Nottingham Forest.

Jonny Howson, Josh Murphy and Wes Hoolahan on target.

It's still goalless at Villa Park between Aston Villa and Ipswich.

In League One, no goals between Millwall and Southend

but the Blues are down to ten men following Will Atkinson's

John-Joe O'Toole has scored both of Northampton's goals

No goals so far in the games involving MK Dons and Peterborough.

In League Two, Guthrie and Dickenson have put Colchester

Goalless between Morecambe and Cambridge.

Northampton director of rugby Jim Mallinder felt his side played

well despite losing a thriller at Bath last night.

but Saints fought back and Jamie Gibson thought he'd won it

But Rhys Priestland kicked a last-minute penalty to earn Bath

leaving Northampton 6th in the Premiership.

Now, it's been a chilly weekend so far.

Let's get the weather from Georgina Burnett.

It has not exactly been tobogganing weather but there have been some

snow showers and there may be some more.

The Met Office has a yellow warning for snow until 7pm

for Suffolk and Essex, and we could see more,

but also some sleet, too, through the night.

A fair amount of cloud and also some rain.

Less of the wintry showers and more of the wet stuff.

Into the afternoon and it gradually breaks up a little but still not

Over the next few days there is change on the horizon,

and it looks like we could reach double figures by

We'll be back with another update at 10 to 6 tomorrow night.

Good afternoon. An afternoon to snuggle up in front of the telly and

watch some rugby. It's been a cold winter's day. Not just for humans.