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Good evening. In the programme tonight, four men from Luton are | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
jailed for a total of more than 30 years after talking about blowing | :00:16. | :00:26. | |
up this Territorial Army base. The price of bread -- bed blocking. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
This is not about throwing people out of hospital before they are | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
ready. Nobody will leave hospital until they are absolutely ready to | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
go. Say no to new travellers sites. Campaigners gather to make their | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
voices heard. And the Essex man whose record is not broken by | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 604 seconds | :00:54. | :10:59. | |
Four men have been jailed for a Hello. First tonight, protesters | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
have turned out for a meeting in central Bedfordshire to voice their | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
anger over plans for seven new travellers' sites in the area. | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
Proposals for the sites will go before full council tonight for | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
approval but campaigners argue the locations have not been properly | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
assessed. Anna Todd is outside the meeting now. | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
Yes, as you can see, there are still a large handful of | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
enthusiastic young protesters. But most people have now gone into the | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
council chamber behind me for yet another meeting in this lengthy and | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
controversial process of finding new travellers' sites for | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
Bedfordshire. They are now seven sites on the shortlist, that has | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
been whittled down from 150 a couple of months ago. Earlier, I | :11:44. | :11:52. | |
spoke to one campaigner who lives near a proposed site. Obviously, we | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
have used on travellers and how they react with the local community | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
but if it is in the right place with the right family, why not have | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
a traveller in your community? But this is the wrong side, wrong | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
village, wrong place. What is the - - what has the council had to say | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
about this? It does have an obligation to provide sites. | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
council received more than 3,000 representations ahead of a meeting | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
in February. Tonight 22 people, members of the public, will speak | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
at the meeting for three minutes each. It will be quite a long | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
evening. The council does have a statutory obligation. They have to | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
provide 66 pitches for travellers in the next 10 years. And up to 180 | :12:35. | :12:45. | |
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by 2031. The fact is, in central Bedfordshire, we have a large gypsy | :12:49. | :12:57. | |
and traveller population. Than been the vast majority, there are no | :12:57. | :13:05. | |
problems. But there is a public perception that there might be. | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
the shortlist is given a Yes vote tonight, that will call to public | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
consultation in May. The Dalai Lama will pay his third visit to | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
Cambridge in 40 years. The Tibetan spiritual leader hasn't been to the | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
city since 1993. He'll give a talk at St John's College. Students | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
wrote to him asking him to come to the university. | :13:25. | :13:33. | |
It's just two weeks to go until the local elections. In | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
Northamptonshire the big election issue is of course, the cuts. The | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
Conservative run county council has started a four year programme to | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
slash �170 million from its budgets. Currently the Conservatives hold 54 | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
seats, the Lib Dems are in second place with 10 and Labour have just | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
six. But with the number of seats being slashed by 16, how will the | :13:53. | :14:01. | |
council chamber look after May the second? Stuart Ratcliffe reports. | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
Northamptonshire is a county of contrast, rolling countryside of | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
food -- dotted with large centres of population. Traditional | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
industries co-existing alongside motorsport and high-tech | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
Engineering. Like all councils, it has had to make cuts. Street lights | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
have been switched off and lollipop patrols axed and it is these issues | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
which Labour feel will deliver results. People are fed up with | :14:25. | :14:35. | |
this happening in Northamptonshire. If we cannot make gains and take | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
control now, then I don't think we can ever. The Liberal-Democrats | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
also feel that the axe has cut too deeply but they also feel under the | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
stewardship of the Conservatives, standards in the county's children | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
services have dropped to an acceptable levels. We have had | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
disastrous reports. The report into how they look after young children. | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
We have been warning for years that these were cut too far. And here we | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
are, we have the county council inadequate in all four categories. | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
That is disgraceful. But the Conservatives say overall they have | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
a record to be proud of. The county was recently voted the most | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
enterprising in England. And despite having to make cuts, they | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
say they have done all they can to limit the impact. As a result of | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
that, we have had for eight years the lowest council tax in England. | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
We have not increased the county council tax for the last four years | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
at all. Although certain -- sort of things weigh on people thinking | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
about their own livelihood and their own housekeeping. But this | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
year's elections will be very different because of boundary | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
changes, the number and it -- the number of councils Elek -- | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
councillors elected will be reduced. Predicting the outcome will be | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
harder than ever. To some extent, these changes are dictating the way | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
the parties are fighting these elections. Labour will be targeting | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
Northampton, Kettering and Corby. In the rural areas, both the | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats will be working hard to | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
maintain support as well as in some urban strongholds. But the real | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
challenge to all three parties is managing the potential impact of | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
the UK Independence Party. Voter apathy could also throw up some | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
surprising results. For more information on the local elections | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
and a full list of the candidates in your area: And a reminder that | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
this week's Sunday Politics featuring the leader of the Green | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
Party will be on at the later time of 2pm on BBC1. | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
Retail expert Mary Portas chose it as one of 12 towns to take part in | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
her high street revolution. Now almost a year on more money is | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
being ploughed into regenerating Bedford's High Street. The �3 | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
million investment by the council, lottery and local firms aims to | :16:59. | :17:08. | |
boost local business. Hidden behind scaffolding, this building dates | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
back to around 1,800. It used to be almshouses known as Duke's role. | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
Today the shopfront is damaged and in need of repair but it is being | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
restored with the help of an old photograph. When it is finished, it | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
will be very good. It will enhance the High Street as well. It will | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
bring in more customers. It will be better for the tenants. Upstairs, | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
the vacant first floor is also being transformed into a flat. It | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
is part of a �3 million heritage initiative funded jointly by the | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
council, the lottery and local businesses. That is good because | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
the town is dying. We do have retail parks. I think that has | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
taken away business. I suppose anything that can help with the | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
town is good. There are a lot more things they could be doing far | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
better than that, like something to draw tourists in. Not just make the | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
place look pretty. Recently, Bedford was picked as one of 12 | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
pilot errors in the Mary Portas project, a scheme to boost high | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
street trade. Shopkeepers are now lose -- using the internet to boost | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
sales. But so far, only �13,000 has been spent. It is important it has | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
been allocated correctly. We need the shopkeepers to undergo | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
retraining. That -- -- that has to be at a suitable time for them. | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
These things take longer than we want but I am pleased it has | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
started. A further nine properties will be refurbished. A spelling | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
mistake on a war memorial in Cambridgeshire is finally going to | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
be corrected, more than 90 years after it was made. When the | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
memorial was put up in the village of Shepreth, the name of George | :18:51. | :18:55. |