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Hello. Our top story: One of Europe's leading chemical companies | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
is fined up to one of the worst cases of river pollution in our | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
region. This was one of the biggest incidents we have had in this | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
region. It had quite a big impact on the ecology and the aquatic life | :00:32. | :00:42. | |
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in the river. That story and the A judge hits out as an interpreter | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
of players to turn up for this man's court hearing. And the | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
Canaries face up to their day of destiny, knowing the cost of | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
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A leading chemical company was ordered to pay �92,000 in fines and | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
costs today following a major pollution incident in our region. | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
It happened when vandals broke into the Safapac site outside | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
Peterborough last summer and opened the taps. 5,000 litres of chemicals | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
were released on to the floor, down a storm drain and out into the | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
River Nene. Two days later, the chemicals had reached Wisbech and | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
The Wash. In King's Lynn, it meant a 24-hour ban for Shellfish | :01:36. | :01:46. | |
fishermen, while the water was checked for contamination. Dead and | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
distressed fish. Plant and animal life bleached white after a | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
devastating release of chemicals from here. An insecticide, | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
pesticide, detergent. Around 5000 litres poured from taps by vandals. | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
The company MD's still pleaded guilty. Outside court, no comment. | :02:09. | :02:19. | |
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The judge said there is a heavy burden on firms not to cause | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
pollution. It is their responsibility to ensure premises | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
are not vulnerable to vandals, especially when there have been | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
previous incidents. On 18th June last year, workers saw that hangs | :02:33. | :02:42. | |
have been empty. The next year the chemicals had plain as far as the | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
speech. -- flown. Fishing stopped for the next two days. It cost the | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
industry �200,000. Recreational fishing in came the chair and | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
commercial fishing in Norfolk where bears badly affected. -- in | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
Cambridgeshire. It was devastating news. Particularly bad for the life | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
of the River Neva. I cannot see it coming back. It needs restocking | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
heavily to restore the confidence of the local fishermen and the | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
confidence of people coming back to Peter Barrar. It has affected the | :03:17. | :03:27. | |
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fishing industry drastically. -- Peter Barrett. -- Peterborough. | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
was the worst case of contaminated waterways this region has ever seen. | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
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A fine for this man's company and a warning to others. Mansir Tang is | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
from the Environment Agency. Hundreds of fish were seen on the | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
day dead. Thousands of fish were seen struggling and in distress. It | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
affected 50 kilometres of the river. It had a sick and begin to impact | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
on the ecology and life of a river. How should these chemicals have | :04:14. | :04:24. | |
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been stored? they should be safe, secure of and in a locked area. | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
They should not have any access to outside bodies. In this case, | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
vandalism. The company has said in all of this there was no risk to | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
human health and a pub there was no need to stop fishing in the Wash. - | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
- and they felt. The decision was taken by another partner | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
organisation as a precautionary measure. The Environment Agency | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
provided information to the palm of organisation and they acted | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
accordingly. -- ate part that organisation. The incident was | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
reported. They co-operated fully. The company itself was a victim of | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
crime. Vandals attacked their premises. We do not like to see | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
companies in this position. They need to make sure promises are safe | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
and secure and not accessible to any acts of vandalism. Although the | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
company has come forward and Dermot it can, they could have done much | :05:28. | :05:38. | |
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more before this incident occurred. -- done all it can. What are the | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
long-term effects? There was a fungus side, an insecticide and the | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
disinfectant. This has killed a lot of the insect life, which the fish | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
feed upon. They are affected by a drop in insect population. We do | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
not know how long these chemicals may persist within the environment. | :06:03. | :06:13. | |
The need to take a precaution reproach in this matter. -- we need. | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
A High Court judge hit out today after an interpreter failed to turn | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
up for a plea hearing in the case of a man accused of a quadruple | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
murder. Mr Justice Flaux said it was a complete disgrace that the | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
interpreter failed to turn up for the hearing of Chinese businessman | :06:26. | :06:34. | |
Anxiang Du. Jo Black was in court. To use a little bit of legal jargon, | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
today was a plea and case management hearing. He walked into | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
the court and was asked his name. He nodded. The case can go no | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
further. The judge said a Mandarin speaking interpreter was not coming | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
because the people who provided the service and it was not worth their | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
while. The judge was really unhappy about at and ordered one to turn up | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
at 2pm. The company said they could get one there for to 30 pm but the | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
judge said that was not good enough and it was an absolute disgrace. -- | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
2:30pm. Has there been a response from capita? They said the original | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
interpreter was not able to attend so they booked a replacement. They | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
communicated this to be caught up in good time. They could not get | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
back until 2:30pm. At no time did they refuse to attend court on the | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
grounds of cost. The judge now wants a written explanation about | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
this and the plea and case management hearing has been | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
adjourned until July. Peterborough City Council is having to borrow | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
�86 million to keep up with an unprecedented demand for new school | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
places. Over the next five years, it will have to cope with 8,000 new | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
pupils. The news comes just a day after we revealed that the city | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
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hospital's maternity services have It is clear Kneen Park academy has | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
seen better days. The school is showing its age. It should have | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
been rebuilt under the building schools for the future programme, | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
which the coalition axed at a stroke in 2010. We have one of the | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
two that got cancelled at the end of the chain. The school and the | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
community - I understand how long we have been waiting. It was a | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
massive frustration. Here, a new building is due to open in | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
September and existing buildings had been refurbished since the | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
school became an academy. They said they have got a lot of new | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
utilities for science, especially. I am really looking forward to that. | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
The arts department will be a big studio with massive windows. | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
new technology can help it you learn and achieve better grades. | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
The council has had to pick up the tab for the developments. We have | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
just been offered 22 million over the next couple of years. That is | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
very helpful. I need 108 million over the next five years. | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
Peterborough City Council is having to borrow it. It is as simple as | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
that. There is a cost to that. If you borrow 1 million, you need to | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
find money out of the rates to do it. It is very much focused on | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
those areas that need the most resources. What we have done in | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
Peterborough in particular is, the new figures coming through a much | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
more accurate about the growth in population. Peterborough will get | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
the funding it deserves. It's boring to build schools looks set | :10:00. | :10:09. | |
to continue. -- its borrowing. In the next five years, another 8000 | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
are needed. A task force has been set up in Luton to investigate why | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
the number of babies who die there is so high. These the latest | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
figures. Across the whole of England, out of every 1,000 | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
children born alive, 4.4 will die before they reach their first | :10:23. | :10:33. | |
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birthday. In Luton, that figure is higher. Five children in every | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
1,000 die under the age of one. The difference may seem small at just | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
0.6%. But it has worried the council and the NHS. What they want | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
to do is to look at what are the issues around infant mortality in | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
Luton, what can we be doing to try and tackle areas? Are we doing the | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
right things in the council - working with partners in the Luton | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
and Dunstable Hospital and the Luton clinical commissioning group | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
in order to try to tackle those things? What the council wants to | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
do is to identify all the issues and do we have the right actions | :11:12. | :11:22. | |
and services in place? Is there more we can be done to tackle this | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
issue. -- be doing. So, what could be causing this infant mortality? | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
Research has shown that there are a number of contributing factors, | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
including smoking, poverty, obesity and genetics. And it is this last | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
point that Dr Nasreen Ali from the University of Bedfordshire says is | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
particularly relevant to areas with a large Asian population, where | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
marriages between cousins are traditional. It is something the | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
task force wants to address. We are hoping to do this more formally | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
with Luton Borough Council. This is to find or what our local community | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
in Luton feels about cousin marriage - how much they understand | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
about the link between cousin marriage and genetic risk and what | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
sort of interventions they would like putting into place to support | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
them. Is it a case of the existing interventions being improved or is | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
there something else that we can do to support the community to make | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
informed decisions? A Peterborough woman has appeared in court charged | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
with the murders of three men, whose bodies were found in ditches | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
in the city. The body of Kevin Lee was discovered on 30th March. Four | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
days later, the bodies Lukas Slaboeski and John Chapman were | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
found at Thorney Dyke. 30-year-old Joanna Dennehey appeared at | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
Cambridge Crown court via video- link. She has been remanded in | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
custody. The loss of hundreds of jobs at a Tesco distribution centre | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
in Harlow has been raised in the House of Commons today. The town's | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
MP, Robert Halfon, secured a debate over the rights of workers. Many | :12:45. | :12:48. |