06/02/2013 Look East - West


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A man is in custody after allegedly threatening police with what's

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thought to have been a gun. It follows dramatic scenes last night

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when armed officers were called to Bridge Street in Leighton Buzzard.

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And as Neil Bradford reports many people found themselves right in

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the centre of the police cordon. 10:30pm last night, and finally, a

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peaceful can flick -- conclusion to an stand-off that lasted five hours.

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Wearing a blood stained jumper, a 42-year-old man is taken away to be

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questioned. Armed officers sealed off much of late and borough --

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Leighton Buzzard town-centre. Police were called just as the

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shops was shouting. Many shopkeepers and their customers on

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Bridge Street found them -- found themselves in a does the caught up

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in the drama. This woman runs a bridal shop. She was pitting

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address when the drama unfold it forced -- unfolded. This picture

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was taken from her window. Her customers were eventually led to

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safety. I did not know what to think. There was an indication that

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someone was in there with a gun, because they would not have had

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armed police there. I was carrying on working. I had an appointment! I

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carried on. We kept an eye on what was going on, and it became

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apparent that both ends of the road had been cordoned off. But we were

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at the top of the building, so we won't really aware too much of what

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was going on. This hairdresser saw the situation developed. Initially,

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I did not think it much of it, but others aware, but that on my left

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the salon, that the police were anxious about gaining entry into

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the premises. As more police arrived. I thought there was more

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to it. Police found a replica firearm at the scene.

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Army bomb -- bonded but -- bomb disposal experts were called in but

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90% of people in Northamptonshire will have superfast broadband by

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the end of 2015. The promise came Council says as part of the same

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scheme, almost everyone will have at least basic internet capability.

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Urban areas, are quite well covered already, but rural areas have

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struggled. The government has given the county just over �4 million

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towards the project. The private company behind the heavily

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criticised Surgicentre in Stevenage says it has made changes in the

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last four months to improve patient care. It follows an independent

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report into the centre after the unexpected deaths of three patients.

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Carillion says it's reacted to concerns about the speed of

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response when patients need specialist care. One of two men

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found... 25-year-old Frankie Parker While some parts of the economy are

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still having problems, there is some good news. Latest figures show

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there's been an increase in the number of self-employed people in

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this region .. With the biggest increase in Northamptonshire where

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the number of people working for themselves went up by 15,000 in

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four years. Our business correspondent Richard Bond reports.

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This woman used work for a company in a Northamptonshire selling

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imported car accessories. But she and her colleagues decided to turn

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up -- take over the business of stop men are factoring in the UK.

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They were still stop making products like snow plough clubbers.

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When working for someone else, they picked a what you sell. They do not

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dictate what they bring in. We can try different things, and if they

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don't work, we can try something else. It gives us a much more open

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market to work with, and we are not restricted by what someone else

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says we can do or make. This man held start of to Northamptonshire.

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The reason that so many people are starting up his two reasons.

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Sometimes people need to have some support to their income. They can

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do it as a hobby. More importantly, we are doing it because they want

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to have their own business and they can have control of their finances.

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With cutbacks going on across the economy, it is a neat self-

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employment that has saved us a much higher unemployment. A head teacher

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from a school in Northampton says illegal parking outside her school

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is putting children's lives at risk. She's taken to doing her own

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patrols and is naming and shaming illegally parked drivers. It is

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quite clear. The road markings are the same found outside any school.

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No parking. But some parents and drivers are ignoring the role. This

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woman is the head teacher. After witnessing several it misses, she

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decided to take matters into her own hands. All of the road markings

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are clear. Double marking is unsafe. And against law. She is now outside

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I have tried to work with parents to stop when parking illegally, but

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it has reached the point where parents have been so rude to me and

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verbally abuses there I feel strongly now that the police need

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to take action. If a car is moving, I will ask them to move. -- parked.

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I don't think people can understand that they can't park there.

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police say they don't have the resources. They say that they are

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working you consider the school and the council say they are doing

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everything they can. They are repeating signed to make it as

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