Lowestoft: Tributes Paid To Dead Mum And Kids

By Emma Birchley, East Of England Correspondent

The father of three children found dead in a Lowestoft flat wept in his mother's arms after returning to the scene.

Craig McLelland pored over the growing pile of cuddly toys and read the cards left in memory of Levina, aged three, Addy, two, and 11-month-old Kyden.

Levina

The police made the discovery on Monday morning, three hours after the children's heavily pregnant mother was found at the foot of a multi-storey car park in the town.

The air ambulance attended but the woman, named locally as Fiona Anderson, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Addy

Mr McLelland was too upset to comment. Earlier his mother Mandy spoke only to say that she had lost everything, her whole family.

Karleigh Burlingham had been good friends with Ms Anderson and she and the children used to stay overnight.

Kyden

She said: "I''m devastated. It still hasn't sunk in. She must have been the lowest of the low to do something like that because those children were her life.

"They were brilliant kids. They were so polite."

Just hours before her body was found, Ms Anderson had written desperate messages on Facebook.

Craig McLelland

"Levina, Addy, Kyden, Evalie. Mummy loves you so much and I'll always be there looking after you all."

It is believed she and Craig had recently split up. She wrote: "Craig was all we had. Now he's gone."

The final words she posted said simply: "I'll keep them safe."

Ms Anderson also added single pictures of each of her children as well as a scan of her unborn child. Ms Burlingham said she had not spotted the messages in time.

Flowers laid at the scene

She said: "I just wish I had seen them so that I could have gone round there and helped her and spoken to her."

Leon Cook, 18, said the pair had lived with his family after Levina was born.

He said: "I never thought she would do it. I wouldn't know what she was going through."

Messages of condolence have been left at the scene

He added that Mr McLelland had always been a good dad.

Post-mortem examinations are being carried out at James Paget Hospital in nearby Gorleston. Formal identification of the bodies will then follow.

Det Supt John Brocklebank, who is leading the investigation, said there is no definitive explanation of the circumstances surrounding the deaths.

Tributes paid to the children

He said: "We are developing a picture. There is the collection of witness statements, the collection of CCTV and house-to-house.

"We keep an open mind because we don't know exactly what has happened."

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Boston Marathon Bombs Prompt Twitter Ghouls

Best and Worst Of Social Media

Updated: 2:45pm UK, Tuesday 16 April 2013

By Niall Paterson, Media Correspondent

The explosions that shook the finish line of the Boston Marathon revealed the best and the worst of social media.

Even before the dust had settled, spectators and competitors had taken to social media to report the twin blasts - and the scenes of carnage they had caused.

Twitter came alive shortly before 8pm (British time), first with sketchy reports of loud bangs and clouds of smoke; later, with photos and video which clearly showed their tragic human cost.

It also became a useful communications tool for the police and marathon organisers, warning people to leave the area and not to gather in large groups.

Boston PD's twitter feed gave minute by minute updates. Followers could see in real time the advice from emergency services, and keep abreast of rumoured secondary devices.

Journalists on the ground, many of whom were only there to cover the marathon itself, could, without access to a broadcast camera or satellite truck, report live from the scene via their smartphones and social media apps.

In the moments after the explosions, these first-hand accounts were invaluable in alerting the world to the fact this was a terrorist attack, and not some freak accident.

One Boston Redditor created a page, "There was just an explosion at the Boston marathon" which compiled tweets, media reports and other useful links.

It was from there, for example, that many people were led to a webpage which allowed users to monitor emergency services radio frequencies, or the Massachusetts page of the American Red Cross website detailing blood banks across the city where donations could be made.

And, as with the earthquake in Japan, Google set up a People Finder to help users connect with family and loved ones in the aftermath.

Yet social media is, largely, unfiltered and unmediated. Graphic images of the injured flooded Twitter, as did inaccurate or downright false reports.

Mobile phone networks were said to have been shut down to prevent further remote detonations - yet Verizon, AT&T and Sprint Nextel denied this, claiming that the networks were simply experiencing "capacity issues".

A Twitter account, @bostonmarathon, promised to donate $1 to blast victims for every retweet they received. It was a fake.

As the blasts in Boston have shown, there are two sides to the social media coin.

The first, that its speed and ease of use can get information out to a wider audience practically in parallel with the events they describe.

The other, that everything one reads from an unconfirmed or unknown source needs to be checked for accuracy.

As Twitter user @rolldiggity said: "Twitter does its best work in the first five minutes after a disaster, and its worst in the twelve hours after that."

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Large Earthquake Felt Across The Middle East

A powerful earthquake has struck near the border of Iran and Pakistan, with at least 45 people reported to have been killed.

The US Geological Survey said the earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8 - strong enough to cause damage to buildings.

Tremors were felt across the Middle East and as far away as the Indian capital New Delhi.

Iran's state-run Press TV said at least 40 people were killed, while a local health official told the Fars news agency that at least 20 villages are likely to have been "severely damaged".

However, a government official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said he expected hundreds of deaths in what he described as "the biggest earthquake in Iran in 40 years".

Tremors were felt in Karachi, Pakistan, where office workers were evacuated

Meanwhile, a hospital spokesman in Pakistan said at least five people had been killed there, although national broadcaster Radio Pakistan put the death toll at 12.

The earthquake happened around 50 miles beneath the surface in an area prone to tectonic activity.

The remote, mountainous region is around 115 miles southeast of Zahedan, a city with a population of around 550,000.

Iran's Red Crescent Society, which has sent rescue teams to the area, said it was facing a "complicated emergency situation", with villages scattered over desolate hills and valleys.

High-rise buildings in Dubai were evacuated after the earthquake

Strong tremors were felt across the Gulf, where high-rise buildings swayed and officials ordered evacuations.

The National newspaper said buildings were cleared in Sharjah, Abu Dhabi and Dubai, which is home to the world's tallest tower, the 828m Burj Khalifa.

The earthquake was also felt in New Delhi, where witnesses said tall buildings shook, sending people running into the streets.

Local TV channel NDTV said lights and equipment in its south Delhi studio shook for nearly a minute.

Dr Brian Baptie, head of earthquake seismology at the British Geological Survey, said: "This earthquake occurred in the great belt of earthquakes that stretches through the Middle East into central Asia that results from the collision of the northwards-moving Arabian and Indian tectonic plates with Eurasian tectonic plate to the north.

"Given the depth, the earthquake was probably a result of normal faulting within the Arabian plate as it is subducted under the Eurasian plate along the Makran coast of Iran and Pakistan."

The tremors came a week after a deadly 6.1 magnitude earthquake was recorded 60 miles southeast of Bushehr, the site of Iran's nuclear reactor.

On Boxing Day 2003, more than 26,000 people were killed when a 6.6 magnitude quake struck Bam.

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Sally Bercow 'Not Some Kitchen Table Blogger'

Speaker's wife Sally Bercow, who is being sued by Tory peer Lord McAlpine over an allegedly libellous tweet she posted, was not "some kitchen table blogger", the High Court has heard.

The former Conservative party treasurer is seeking damages over a posting on Twitter which he claims named him as a paedophile who was guilty of sexually abusing boys living in care.

Mrs Bercow, a former Celebrity Big Brother contestant, has always denied that her November 4 tweet, "Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *Innocent face*", was defamatory.

It followed a Newsnight report that wrongly implicated Lord McAlpine in child sex abuse allegations.

Lord McAlpine's QC, Sir Edward Garnier, told Mr Justice Tugendhat that Mrs Bercow had 60,000 followers on the social media site so her readership was bigger than some local newspapers.

"We are not talking about some kitchen table blogger addressing perhaps herself and one other person," he said. "We are talking about a pretty widespread readership."

Lord McAlpine was wrongly implicated in child sex abuse allegations

Representing Mrs Bercow, William McCormick QC, said she had promptly tweeted her apologies, provided letters apologising for the distress caused and made clear that the underlying allegations were untrue, as well as an offer to settle the case which had not been withdrawn.

The last thing the litigation needed was a preliminary issue which would cause delay, he said, adding that what was required was a swift timetable to a single final hearing at the end of July.

Sir Edward told the court that in the context of the Newsnight broadcast - and given the media storm and frenzy going on at that time - it was Lord McAlpine's case that the tweet identified him as the subject of the allegations.

One would have to have been "a moron in a hurry" or an "anchorite in a sealed cave" not to have known the circumstances surrounding the tweet, he said.

Neither Lord McAlpine nor Mrs Bercow were in court for the peer's contested application for the trial to be split in two - a hearing to decide the meaning of the tweet and, if that goes in his favour, a second hearing on the appropriate level of damages.

Granting the application, the judge directed that there should be a preliminary hearing on what was the actual meaning of the words complained of - both a natural and ordinary meaning, and an innuendo meaning.

He said he would give his reasons at a later date.

Lord McAlpine was mistakenly implicated by Newsnight's November 2 broadcast about a paedophile ring that targeted children at a care home in Wrexham.

His name was then widely mentioned on the internet, including social networking site Twitter, by users including Mrs Bercow, wife of John Bewcow.

In February, Lord McAlpine, who has already received six-figure payouts from the BBC and ITV, announced he was dropping defamation claims against Twitter users with fewer than 500 followers and instead asked for a charitable donation to BBC Children In Need.

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IMF Inflicts 'Double Blow' On George Osborne

By Ed Conway, Economics Editor, in Washington

George Osborne has suffered a double-barrelled embarrassment as the International Monetary Fund slashed its forecasts for UK growth by more than any other major economy and called for the Chancellor to reconsider his austerity plan.

The IMF said that Britain's economy would grow by a mere 0.7% this year and by 1.5% in 2014 - a 0.3 percentage point cut for each year. The combined cut for the two years is greater than for any other leading economy, including the US, Italy and Spain.

Although the 2013 forecast is marginally stronger than that of the Office for Budget Responsibility's 0.6%, the 2014 forecast is markedly weaker than the OBR's 1.8%.

It came as the IMF warned in its closely-watched World Economic Outlook report that the world economy was in danger of moving from being a "two-speed economy" to a "three-speed economy" as the US picks up pace and Europe is left behind.

The report issued a specific rejoinder to the UK, saying that since "recovery is weak owing to lacklustre demand, consideration should be given to greater near-term flexibility in the fiscal adjustment path".

The IMF's Olivier Blanchard has downgraded expectations for world growth

The Fund also put pressure on the Bank of England to consider more radical action to kick-start the economy, pointing out that the impact of the Funding for Lending Scheme "has been limited, encouraging mortgage lending more than lending to small and medium-size businesses".

The report said: "In the United Kingdom, other forms of monetary easing could be considered, including the purchase of private sector assets and greater transparency on the likely future monetary stance.

"Greater near-term flexibility in the path of fiscal adjustment should be considered in the light of lacklustre private demand."

The Fund has been critical of the Chancellor's austerity plan in recent years, arguing that if economic growth disappointed he would need to lessen the pace at which he is cutting spending and raising taxes.

However, a Treasury source pointed out that the UK is actually reducing the size of its deficit at a slower pace than the US.

Britain is cutting its structural deficit by 1.1% this year and 1% next year, whereas the US is cutting it by 1.3% in each year. This is despite Britain starting from a position of having a bigger budget deficit in the first place.

However, the IMF report's language makes it clear that although at the Budget Mr Osborne raised his borrowing forecasts, it still believes he has not done enough to reduce the pain of austerity.

It said that in the UK "domestic rebalancing from the public to the private sector is being held back by deleveraging, tight credit conditions, and economic uncertainty, while declining productivity growth and high unit labour costs are holding back much-needed external rebalancing".

The report said that while economic conditions in much of the world were improving, the outlook for the eurozone remains poor, with the currency area projected to shrink by 0.3% this year, and France, Italy and Spain seeing contractions in GDP - the latter by 1.6%.

More worrying still was the fact that the so-called core area of stronger countries was displaying economic weakness, with Germany still generating less than 1% growth in 2013.

"This may call into question the ability of the core to help the periphery, if and when needed," the report said.

The Fund's chief economist, Olivier Blanchard, also warned that despite its relatively robust economic prospects the US needed to confront its own fiscal problems.

He said: "It is worrisome that after three years of deliberations, policymakers have not agreed on a credible plan for entitlement and tax reform and that improvement in near-term prospects seems to have come with a decreased sense of urgency for progress."

The Fund said that the world economy would grow by 3.3% this year - a 0.2 percentage point cut, and left its forecast of 4% growth next year unchanged.

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Boston Marathon Explosions: Child Victim

Eight-year-old Martin Richard was killed by the first of the explosions that rocked the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

He had been there waiting to watch his father, Bill, cross the line: a rite of passage for scores of Boston youngsters living in the city that hosts one of the world's oldest races.

According to the Boston Globe, Martin, was very nearly saved from the blast after running out to hug his father, but his father kept on going and Martin returned to his mother.

As Mr Richard carried on, his son, six-year-old daughter, and wife were hit by the first of the blasts that came just 10 seconds and 90m apart.

Martin was one of three killed by the twin blasts. His sister, Jane, has reportedly lost a leg and his mother, Denise, is understood to have undergone surgery for a serious head injury. They are among the 170 injured in the tragedy.

His older brother, 12-year-old Henry, is not thought to have been hurt in the explosion.

According to neighbours, Mr Richard, who runs an environmental testing company, returned to his home in the Dorchester suburb of Boston this morning still in hospital scrubs.

Martin was killed in the first blast

The family had lived in the area for 20 years and were a central part of the community.

Mr Richard had an active role in the local traders association, while his wife Denise works at the Neighborhood House Charter School.

Neighbours said the family were close and Martin, a keen baseball player, and his brother would often be seen outside playing together.

Dan Aguilar, who lives near the Richard family, told reporters: "They are just your average little boys. They are a good family. They are always together."

Another neighbour, Christina Keefe, told the Washington Post: "He was so polite, composed, older than his years really. I can see him now, holding his mom's arm as she took them on their walks around the neighbourhood."

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Measles: Thousands Of Children 'Still At Risk'

By Isabel Webster, West of England Correspondent

Five thousand children are still at risk of measles in Swansea as the outbreak in South Wales becomes one of the largest seen in Great Britain for a decade.

Public Health Wales have recorded 72 new cases of the virus over the past five days - 765 have now been affected since the start of the outbreak in November.

Seventeen of the most recently infected had to receive hospital treatment, bringing the total number of measles-related admissions to 77.

The Welsh Government remains "concerned" and warns that the number of children with measles in the Swansea area will continue to rise over coming weeks before the spread of the disease peaks.

Four schools in Swansea and one in Neath Port Talbot will be offering the MMR jab to 2,033 "at risk" children between Wednesday and Friday this week.

Neath Port Talbot Hospital will also be offering drop-in vaccinations on Saturday and the Abertawe Bro Morganwg University Health Board are expecting thousands of parents to bring their children.

"Vaccinations are being offered to parents in the Swansea area on a scale never seen before both to try to end the outbreak and to ensure that all children of all ages are equally protected against these three viral illnesses," a spokesperson for Public Health Wales said.

The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has also urged parents to come forward.

Speaking in the Commons, he reassured parents about a global scare, which was sparked by the claims of a doctor 15 years ago.

"What Andrew Wakefield said had absolutely no scientific basis and has caused huge damage and huge worry to many thousands of parents," he said.

"It is very important to reiterate that the scientific way to prevent measles, which can be a horrible, even fatal disease, is to make sure that you have had two doses of MMR.

"Parents of children who have not had those doses, parents of children of any age, should contact their GP if they have not had those two doses, particularly in the current circumstances."

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Thatcher Funeral: Body Moved To Westminster

The body of Baroness Thatcher has arrived at the Houses of Parliament for a private family service.

Draped in a Union flag, her coffin was brought by hearse to the Palace of Westminster, to be laid in the crypt chapel of St Mary Undercroft before her ceremonial funeral at St Paul's Cathedral tomorrow.

Topped by a large bouquet of white flowers, it was lifted from the hearse and carried into Parliament by four pall-bearers in black ties.

Lady Thatcher's son and daughter, Sir Mark and Carol Thatcher, arrived to pay their respects shortly after the coffin.

A short private service to receive the body into the chapel was being led by the Dean of Westminster and attended by close relatives and senior figures from both Houses of Parliament who worked closely with Britain's first and so far only woman Prime Minister.

After the service, the Chapel will remain open for MPs, peers and parliamentary staff to pay their respects to the woman who dominated Westminster as Prime Minister from 1979-90 and served as an MP and peer for more than half a century from 1959 until her death aged 87 last week.

The Speaker's Chaplain, the Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin, will then maintain a vigil through the night.

As her body lies in the chapel, MPs will later take part in a potentially bitter debate about her legacy - and the cancellation of Wednesday's PMQs to allow politicians to attend the funeral.

Respect MP George Galloway and Labour veteran Dennis Skinner have objected to move, which means the proposed change in sitting time will now be voted on after a debate lasting up to three hours.

MPs had the chance to pay tribute to Lady Thatcher when Parliament was recalled at the request of David Cameron last week.

But Bradford West MP Mr Galloway said he was prevented from making a "disrespectful" contribution and would relish the chance to give his verdict on her time in office.

"This was a wicked and divisive woman who was hated by half of the country and did great damage to a society she said didn't exist," he said.

George Galloway called Lady Thatcher a "wicked and divisive woman"

He also hit out at plans to silence the bells of Big Ben and the Great Clock at Westminster.

"The muffling of the chimes of Big Ben is a step too far and now Mr Cameron will miss Prime Minister's Questions for four weeks. It is unconscionable.

"It was indicated to me that no disrespectful contributions would be tolerated in the debate last week so ... I will have a lot to say."

The decision was taken to silence the famous London landmarks as a mark of respect to the UK's first and so far only female prime minister, who died last week aged 87.

The last time the chimes of Westminster's Great Clock were halted in this way was for the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965.

Ladt Thatcher's coffin will leave the Palace of Westminster by hearse tomorrow before being transferred to a gun carriage for the final leg of its journey to St Paul's during the ceremonial funeral service.

The international guestlist for the ceremony, particularly attendees from the United States, has been growing.

Former US vice president Dick Cheney and ex-secretary of state Henry Kissinger have confirmed their attendance.

Dick Cheney and Henry Kissinger said they will be attending the service

The two former top US politicians join an increasing congregation of former leaders, current politicians, Falklands veterans and a string of celebrities who will pay their respects to the former prime minister.

The pair do not form part of Barack Obama's official presidential delegation, which will be led by George Shultz and James Baker, who both served as secretary of states during the Thatcher era.

No members of the current White House administration are expected to attend.

Also on the increasing list of attendees were King Constantine and Queen Anne Marie of Greece, two-time US presidential candidate Ross Perot and Olympics supremo Lord Coe.

However, there will be no official representative from Argentina.

Its president Cristina Kirchner was not invited. But, in keeping with diplomatic protocol, an invitation was sent to the Argentine Ambassador to the UK, Alicia Castro, who declined.

Former South African president FW de Klerk is among the 2,000 guests attending the funeral.

In an interview with Sky News on Tuesday, he hailed Lady Thatcher's "honest, open and purposeful leadership" and her ability to convince the majority to "follow that lead and to embrace that vision".

"This she did for Britain, and she changed around the history of Britain," he said.

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Alps Coach Crash Kills One: Britons On Board

A coach carrying young Britons has crashed in the Alps killing one person and seriously injuring three, according to police.

Local paper Le dauphine said the bus was transporting 53 passengers - including youngsters - from the Alpe d'Huez resort after a week's holiday.

It is understood 26 people escaped injury, 22 had minor injuries, four were seriously injured and one died, the driver.

Alpe d'Huez is a popular ski resort

Media reports said the bus appeared to have hit a cliff and burst into flames after the "brakes failed" on bend 21 at around 1.30pm.

People were believed to have been trapped inside the vehicle, including the bus driver.

Some managed to get out themselves while others were helped out by emergency crews. A helicopter evacuated the seriously injured while those with minor injuries were treated on the road.

The route, which has been used in the Tour de France race, is infamous for its treacherous hairpin bends.

In a statement the Foreign & Commonwealth Office said: "We are aware of a tragic incident involving British nationals in the Isere region of southern France.

"We are in touch with the local authorities and are providing consular assistance."

British travel organisation Abta and the Ski Club of Great Britain were attempting to get more details on the incident.

A Ski Club of Great Britain spokeswoman said: "We don't know if they were travelling with a tour operator or not.

"Alpe d'Huez is one of the largest French ski resorts and welcomes quite a few British tourists."

Sir Peter Ricketts, the British Ambassador to France, was travelling to the scene of the crash this afternoon.

He wrote: "Our thoughts are with those involved in the coach crash in Isere.

"On my way with consular support."

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Boston Marathon Explosions: 'Nails In Bombs'

Nails and other shrapnel appear to have been packed into the bombs that killed three people and injured more than 170 others in Boston, doctors have said.

Several people have had to have limbs amputated and others are at risk of losing legs following the blasts that ripped through crowds during the city's marathon.

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, one of several hospitals where victims were taken, told reporters eight people were in a "severe" condition.

A total of 17 people remain in a critical condition.

Meanwhile, officials have confirmed there were no unexploded devices found, despite earlier reports of multiple bombs in the area.

Nails and other shrapnel have been removed from patients' bodies

The FBI said it was following a number of leads following the attacks but special agent Richard DesLauriers declined to say whether anyone was in custody.

"We will go to the ends of the Earth to identify the subject or subjects who are responsible for this despicable crime, and we will do everything we can to bring them to justice," he said.

Mr DesLauriers was speaking at a news conference in which Boston mayor Thomas Menino pledged the city would recover and said: "Yesterday, terror was brought to the city of Boston."

Speaking at a news conference, Barack Obama said the twin-bombing was an "act of terror".

Martin Richard, eight, was among three people killed

He said: "What we don't yet know, however, is who carried out this attack or why, whether it was planned and executed by a terrorist organisation, foreign or domestic, or was the act of a malevolent individual."

He added: "What I have indicated to you is what we now know. We know it was bombs that were set off. We know that obviously they did some severe damage. We do not know who did them.

"We don't have a sense of motive yet. So everything else at this point is speculation."

Mr Obama said the American people "refused to be terrorised" and that stories of "kindness" in the aftermath of the blasts had proved that.

He urged people to come forward if they knew anything that might help the authorities to bring to justice those responsible for what he called a "heinous and cowardly" act.

Bystanders rushed to the aid of victims

Among those killed in the blasts in the heart of the city was an eight-year-old boy, Martin Richard, who lived in Boston.

The Boston Globe newspaper reported that the boy had been waiting at the finish line for his father, who was running the race.

The bombs went off within seconds of each other and about 100m (330ft) apart on the same street, blowing out windows and sending smoke and debris into the air.

Emergency workers ripped down fencing and carried away seriously injured men and women amid scenes of panic and confusion.

Harrowing stories have emerged of victims whose limbs were torn off by blast forces.

Liz Norden, a mother of five, told the Boston Globe how two of her sons had each lost a leg in the blast.

Both had gone to Boylston Street to see a friend finish the race.

"Ma I'm hurt real bad," Ms Norden quoted one of her sons as telling her in a phone call from the ambulance.

The explosions happened four hours into the race and about two hours after the men's winner had crossed the line, as amateur runners were reaching the finish.

The FBI says it is following a number of leads

More than 17,000 competitors had completed the race by the time the blasts struck.

Police commissioner Ed Davis said the area around the blast areas is the most complex crime scene in history of the department.

Authorities are now looking for amateur video and photographs that can give clues to who set off the bombs. One Boston home has been searched as part of the investigation.

Security has been stepped up in Washington and New York, and Boston itself is a city on high alert, with armoured vehicles seen on the streets on Tuesday and random checks of backpacks on public transport.

Earlier, a plane was grounded at the city's Logan Airport over security concerns.

An injured man on the streets (Pic: Kenshin Okubo/Daily Free Press)

There have been no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack, the most serious in the US since the 9/11 World Trade Centre atrocity. Al Qaeda-linked groups and militant white extremists have attacked targets in America in the past.

The Pakistani Taliban, who have previously threatened attacks in the US, have denied any involvement.

More than 25,000 people were registered as taking part in the race, 374 of whom were British. There were also 108 Irish athletes.

One British runner, Abi Griffiths, 34, from London, told Sky News the scene was in a "state of chaos".

She said: "Police were everywhere, we were being evacuated out of the area and it was really eerie."

The British Foreign Office has said it is not aware of any British nationals who have been injured but that it will continue to monitor the situation.

Police in London are now reviewing security plans for this Sunday's London Marathon - the next major international marathon.

The London race's chief executive, Nick Bitel, said it was "a very sad day for athletics and for our friends in marathon running".

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