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News was Sarah Foster police arrested and charged 26 year old man from Atlanta in with rape following a serious sexual assault in Northampton last month Adam does oh of catching road north has been remanded in custody and he's due to appear in Northampton Crown Court on Friday the 22nd of December its alleged incident took place in the early hours of Sunday morning on the 29th of October after a woman got into a car she thought was a taxi outside the Charles bridal pub in St a protest has been taking place outside a public consultation events this afternoon of a county council proposals to make cuts to services totalling 10000000 pounds eventis at the Oxford Street Resource Center in one granted 7 o'clock this evening John Clarke used to be a librarian until he was made redundant in 2014 as part of cost cutting measures he's been taking part in the protests and says the county council has achieved to provide and I think it's going Taleo acceptable the county council has a statutory requirement to provide a cup what's known as a comprehensive and efficient public library service under the terms of the public libraries and museums act and it is patently failing to provide a comprehensive if it closes trying to run or 20 or however many libraries it eventually closes it will it perfectly be failing to provide a comprehensive and efficient service more news coming up in the program with custom shortly works started on clearing a mound in a playing field and we don't wear an exploded grenades were found last year it's still to munitions came from the old wheat in barracks and the Ministry of Defense have agreed to pay the costs of clearing the site. And he says been to watch the work getting underway those you can hear behind me is 2 diggers balance precariously on top of the mound here in the jewelry field in the region and this operation is being supervised by experts because it's possible that under that mound of soil. And exploded. It's going to take round about 6 months for this operation to be completed on the site levelled again and then a little longer after that for the grass to grow before it can be used again as part of the playing field. New measures have been announced to try to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries during childbirth the u.k. Has some of the highest levels of stillbirth and early deaths among small babies in Western Europe Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says all unexplained cases of serious harm or death will now be independently investigate it I mean 10 is from Northampton and lost her baby and 2011 it was discovered the death of a child could have been avoided She then started a campaign calling for there to be inquests after all registered stillbirths I assumed we would get an inquest and I didn't realise he was even going to read the stillborn into a week of paperwork around weeknights are after his death which I didn't agree with because it was that 5 minutes after he'd been born he you know thought he died so I started looking into and current involvement with how we could have an inquest because it still wet registration found that no one was really a sort of campaigning for this or trying to change the law so for. The funniest denounce that Prince Harry and his fiance make an Markel or to marry in May in 2 George's Chapel at Windsor Castle the American actress who will acquire the title of her royal highness also intense to become a British citizen more details from our role correspondent Jonny diamond the wedding will be held in May and it will be held at St George's Chapel in Windsor a place the palace says is very special to both Prince Harry and was Mark all details of the ceremony and the guest list will emerge later with the palace says that the event will reflect the characters of the bride and groom and will involve members of the public in some way as Markel who is Protestant will be baptized and confirmed in the coming months and will also start the process of becoming a British citizen. Just whether it be cold with a mix of clay spells receiving an occasional showers. 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Traffic on the move again on the West Bank a 14 after a 3 vehicle accident early just out to junction 8 at the I 43 still slow going back from Junction 10 it Burton Latimer the eastbound a $43.00 securing from Cringely as a result and heading into Kettering North Hampton Road looking really busy now from the a 14 to the north will have any play 5 or 9 much busier than usual northbound from up to the a 14 elsewhere time ferry $45.00 the slow going in both directions at Chalons mill at Northampton the a $45.00 London Road heavy northbound from the wouldn't turn off to bright mills and checking the speed sensors I can see traffic is really slow on the southbound one about halfway between junctions 15 and 140 look at that and try and bring you more shortly in the next update at 20 past 5. Hugh. Wishart b.b.c. Radio and. Good evening. And welcome. It's gone dark. But I don't think it's officially even winter yet I know. The law I may. Be only to huggle out of a radio huggle. Leave behind friends don't get too close and. Ok. Right here we go in the shoes of the 28th of November. This is what we got for you our protest was planned in well Imbra today. With 10000000 pounds worth of cuts the county can. Be live at the scene as they say on the radio with our reporter in a few minutes. Find out if anyone turned up. And what they had to say we'll talk about that. Also this dodgy toy. Christmas is coming. Come the people selling dodgy toys there's a word for them or I can't say on the radio. Actually those 2 words. More than 500 toys are being seized from markets in well. We'll find out how to tell if your Christmas present for the kids is fighting. And possibly dangerous. And also they know it's almost see would time. Some of the 1st I'll say the full word until then I know I just said about the toy. Officially on the site. You know it's in the c. Word time when the 1st 2 shows make it in well we're going behind the scenes of the new Jungle Book spectacular. 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Welcome along levees have your company as always the County Council says it's received 3000 online responses so far to its consultation on 10000000 pounds worth of cuts that the authorities in financial trouble as we know and it's looking to cut looking at cutting services like libraries buses and trading standards all Robin Brown councillor Robin Brown is the council's cabinet member for finance He says the still calling for more money from central government we have not got the funding being provided to achieve the standard we wish for with our structure free services hence the reason. We are making cuts cuts I never wanted to see happen but the fact of the matter is we will provide those services to the most vulnerable and not only that we will want to ensure that we go and to banks they understand this cannot go ahead and we should another break for small in the Council of the Met very passionately about the state of finances the County Council there are a series of open events going on around the county for members of the public to go along to find out more this consultation that's going on One is happening today and well and brought people against the cuts we're planning a protest outside our reporter there is when he Gilder Let's speak to him now. Good evening to live in what is the scene there then at the moment Ok Well welcome to a rather damp and surely Willingboro outside the Oxford Street Resource Center there were till recently half a dozen or so people protesting against cuts inside the Oxford Street resource center there are lots of people talking to county councillors and county council officers about some of these cuts now the way this actually works is that inside this building are lots of different table was with displays in front of them laying out in some detail the proposals that go to make up these Tenafly 1000000 pound worth of cuts over a table for trading standards the table for highways as a table for libraries and people are circulating around and talking to county councillors and council officers in I have to say a considerable amount of detail about what is being proposed a tiny bit of love in the proceedings at the moment but there are about 30 people here until 5 minutes ago to load people of left perhaps more becoming this event is open until half past 7 reminder this is at the Oxford Street Oxford Road rather resorts and whatever not all that easy to find look for me most fish bar and it's opposite the Fish Bar Now as I said there were half a dozen or so people outside protesting earlier I spoke to some of them in particular I spoke to vision to man he used to work with library service his name is John Clarke John used to work for library services I did I was made redundant in I think it was 2014 with a group of other professional librarians we waited on in order to save money a cost cutting exercise rather similar to the $1.00 that we're witnessing again so how do you feel about what's being proposed as a restructuring of libraries I think it's going Taleo acceptable the county council has. A statutory requirement to provide a cop what's known as a comprehensive and efficient public library service under the terms of the public library museums act and it is patently failing to protect provide a comprehensive if it closes 21 or 20 or however many libraries it eventually closes it will probably be failing to provide a comprehensive and efficient service but many of those libraries are tiny I mean you look at libraries like St James in North Hampton Abington in North Hampton people who live there are really quite close to the town center No they're not if you look at the demographic if you look at the people who used to make most used of libraries it tends to be parents and carers with young children elderly people they're the most they're the least mobile up sector of the population and they find it they will find it very difficult in the if they rely on their depend on their local library remaining open if you look at the example of library we will be told the county council will say oh well it's not very far as the crow flies. It's not very far as the crow flies but that doesn't factor into the fact into account that there's a busy dual carriageway between the bridge with some rather unpleasant underpasses between them how are the elderly people with limited mobility how are the parents with children in buggies How are they going to get from one library to the other it's not as simple as they have been I think about 2700 online responses to the county council's constellation just about libraries it's a surprisingly large number and not not to me it's not know I mean this statistic nationally is that more people use the public service than for example that go to football matches like the libraries are hugely popular service and vitally important I think that's widely recognised most people even if they don't use libraries as adults have a positive memory been taken to the library as a child and they regard libraries as being a very important hallmarks of civilisation that's what they are you still in touch with former colleagues who now work for my yes I am I rather you reading groups are visually impaired people deliver books to people from from less than 5 alarm. So those folks who work their jobs now and under threat the I gather that the it's the library managers whose posts are most at risk and not only in the library friend with closure but across the board the library managers they do a vitally important job they organize the service from each of the library service points and it's critically important they have those people remain in their posts the quality of the service and we've seen this elsewhere in the country where libraries are being handed over to volunteers the quality of the service will plummet if those people lose their jobs and it's not just when I was made redundant many of the people I was are made and it's that this applied to me as well I was within a year or so of retirement age so in personal terms it didn't matter that much that I was made redundant but most of the staff are paying for redundancy now are younger people people in their twenty's thirty's thirty's and forty's many of them in family responsibilities they do an excellent job they don't get paid that much money they do an excellent job they take a huge satisfaction from the quality of the service that they provide to the public and they've done nothing wrong why should I be threatened with redundancy they're absolutely nothing wrong. Reportedly Gilder the speaker told the demonstrates the day John Clarke in one ability go back to Willie live there so I suppose well you know what the question is what happens next. Well what happens next is obviously this event will happen. Tonight there's another consultation on Thursday at the Patrick road Resource Center in Corby the key thing is that whilst the County Council have announced this 10 half 1000000 pounds worth package of cuts we know almost certainly there are more cuts to come because they're talking about another $27000000.00 pounds or so but they have to take out of the budget now that is all going to depend upon how much support they get from central government I was told by a county council earlier that council leader Heather Smith is today meeting with the junior minister responsible for local government so no doubt she is pleading what happens as case saying we need more cash but earth you know the county council are in a very very difficult position by our saying that unless they take money out now they will have to start cutting into stash the services like social care and Children's Services or them put them in fraud and all the difficult position so what's happening at the moment is they're gathering all the state or from these consultation events and from the on line consultation they will then take some decisions in December and January about what the next year's budget is going to look like but one way or another there's going to be I think quite a lot of pain for rate payers in Northamptonshire Ok thank you very much and they will build our report of the live in when Amber 27000000 pounds worth of cuts to add to the term 1000000 we know about on its way as Willie says difficult this is a very difficult situation for the council I know a lot of people are unhappy when it comes to cutting libraries could have potentially children centers but if you are in charge. They go promotion ahead of. Finance. Northamptonshire County Council where should the cuts come how would you balance the books and one of the kind of things the council should be streamlining on if anything and frontline services as Willie says they're in doubt Social Care adult social care children services all under threat but where should the cuts be made to be good to hear from you when 3 double 3 Start your checks with the word north want to be called want to come on the wireless and have a talk about if a bit of a chit chat about it and maybe discuss it with me 016-0423 double 4 double 5. The b.b.c. Radio north and 17 minutes past 5 now let's go the headlines approach has been taking place in well Imbra the south are known against the county council's proposals to make cuts to services terms and totaling 10000000 pounds as we've just been hearing we will elsewhere a large quantity of dangerous toys are being seized from Christmas markets in well Imbra by Northamptonshire trading standards they'll be on the program in a few minutes elsewhere Kensington Palace has announced the wedding of Prince Harry a Meghan Markle will take place at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in May and it's for both Alex Waller and Mikey Haywood have signed new contracts with Northampton Saints and in Snoop a catcher in the car and Wilson faces Sean O'Sullivan in round one of the u.k. Championship at the York Bana can tonight and then the headlines. Just trouble for you in a 2nd or 2 but let's take a look at the markets. So the Footsie 100 then Tuesday the 28th of November 27th. The Footsie closed up 76.75 at 7460.65. 7460.65. A pound will buy you one dollars one dollar 32 cents and it will get you one euro 11. So the markets Well we do that at this time every day so we also stay with the world of business as well if you've got a business store story for me by the way you're very welcome to get in touch with us here at b.b.c. Radio Northampton particularly story from the county always very interested in hearing from you if you want to email me it's Carson dot Wishart at b.b.c. Dot co dot u. K. Right let's talk about this then carry on with business you often hear now about the rise in apprenticeships and lots of companies now recruit apprentices and it seems a great alternative to university or college and a Northampton based builders merchants Travis Perkins is no different they currently employ more than 200 apprentices across the business world today some of them are being trained in a pit lane Silverstone sounds fun to me Well Louise power is the company's head of education and learning She's on the line now hello Louise Hello there love pit lane What's all this about sounds great it's been great fun actually so today with staying about 135 apprentices over the next 3 days will be coming in 50 of them today and we've got them really hands on with our products and also kind of being on the receiving end of cost base from some of our regional directors who will actually build merchants a kind of role playing what it's like because most Travis Perkins and what good services like m m or bad service is like as well as being hands on the product and what you have there been today. Tell a key learnings really are what it's like to be customer what the great service being given to these these guys can can really look like but also actually an opportunity to get some of the products because obviously when the selling point that you don't always get a guy to to to use the product like he would have been tiling with happen putting together a cabinet. When you don't experience where you think is going to see change by the way because we mentioned in the introduction university route kids you know they do their levels it seems almost a given right you must go to university in the olden days you know Apprenticeships are big things you think they're coming back Yeah absolutely so it's a guy thing 185 guys that we've got I didn't next few days are actually doing management qualifications an apprenticeship so they don't people that are fresh out of school already punch it still go do offer that but these guys are actually quite experienced in any place to work and some of them started packing some time to enjoy the opportunity to kind of build skills and take it as a cause and