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Adebowale show nod remorse. That is all from us. Now we join our news

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teams where And some of your Christmas lights in

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all their splendour. Good evening. First tonight ` he was

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a hit`and`run driver who tried to cover his tracks. But tonight, Adam

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Reeve is starting a 12`year prison sentence. The 22`year`old from

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Wisbech deliberately targeted a pedestrian, and in the days after

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driving into him, he disguised his car. His victim spent six days in

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hospital. Louise Hubball reports. Fire has ripped though a restaurant

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on a leisure park in Northampton, damaging a gas main. June last year,

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and three men aimlessly kick a can in a Wisbech Street. Just before

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this, one had greeted 22`year`old Adam Reeves, mistakenly thinking he

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knew him. Matt `` Adam Reeve takes objection, getting his car and

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liberally ploughing into his victim. The 25`year`old listen when you

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victim survived, but spent six days in hospital. Adam Reeve initially

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denied being there. He tried to cover his tracks by changing the

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look of his car. He later claimed an innocent friend had been driving.

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Sentencing Adam Reeve to 12 years, half of which to be served in

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prison, the judge told him that he had got himself extremely drunk

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When the victim hailed him, you noted he was foreign. He used his

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car as a weapon, a potentially lethal one. Due to the injury is the

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victim sustained, he has lost all confidence in relationships. There

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were no brake lights prior to the impact. Eyewitness accounts, the

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vehicle was accelerating towards the victim and hit him head on, so it

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could easily have killed the victim. I think the sentence befits the

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crime. It was very serious. Hopefully, that sentence should give

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the victim a bit of closure. Tonight, Adam Reeve will begin his

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prison sentence. His victim, only guilty of being in the wrong place

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at the wrong time, remains in constant pain and may face further

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operations. Fire has ripped though a restaurant

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on a leisure park in Northampton, damaging a gas main. Firefighters

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spent more than 12 hours trying to put out the flames, but the Red Hot

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World Buffet has been reduced to ash and cinders. Hundreds of people had

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already booked in for Christmas meals. We can go live now to our

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reporter Neil Bradford in Northampton. Yes, this is a busy

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leisure complex in Northampton. There are many other pubs and

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restaurants here too. Last night it was very busy, with people enjoying

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the final week before Christmas Thankfully, the Red Hot World Buffet

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was closed at the time of the fire, but for those at the neighbouring

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cinema that had to be evacuated the reality outside was more dramatic

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than anything they had seen on the screen. When they named this

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restaurant the Red Hot World Buffet, this isn't what anyone would have

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had in mind. Last night it was completely destroyed in a fire. By

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daylight, the scale of the damage is breathtaking. Chris Datsun works at

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another restaurant nearby. He couldn't believe what he had

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witnessed. I came out and had a look. Originally, it was black

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smoke, and then the flames built and built until it was sky`high. And

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neighbouring cinema was evacuated, as 60 firefighters spent the night

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bringing the flames under control. It is almost 12 hours since the

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start of the fire, and the roads surrounding the restaurant remained

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closed. Gas engineers here are working to cut the supply, because,

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as you can see, there are still flames coming from the building The

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fire alarm was activated just before 11pm as Claire `` as staff were

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closing up. No customers were inside. There were 11 staff in the

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building. Everyone was evacuated with no injuries to report. We had

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eight fire engines and specialist support, and about 60 firefighters.

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Robert was part of a party of 1 0 guests who were planning a Christmas

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meal at the restaurant last week. He is now looking for an alternative

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venue. We don't want to have to let all those people down at the last

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minute. Today police and firefighters began an investigation

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into what caused the fire. The restaurant's owners are yet to

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assess what this will cost them financially. Everyone here is

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thankful that no one was hurt. Some good news tonight ` the Hilton

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hotel in Northampton are able to accommodate Robert and his 100

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diners, who were supposed to be having their Christmas meal here on

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December the 27th. Thank you. The Police and Crime Commissioner

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for Bedfordshire says the county is being held to ransom, after learning

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its police force will have to find an extra ?1 million of savings in

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the next two years. Olly Martins told me earlier tonight he was

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expecting to have to save ?7.5 million pounds, but discovered

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yesterday that it's been upped to ?8.5 million. We had anticipated

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that there would be what is called a top slice for the IPCC and also for

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the innovation fund. But when it came, the cut was actually double

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what we were expecting, so that was a bit of a surprise, and it is going

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to be difficult for us to deal with. Forces are inspected by the

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HMI sea, and they say you are financially vulnerable force. Where

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is this extra money going to come from? It is the impact it will have

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on our long`term plans. In the short to medium term, we are actually

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recruiting officers, so we are putting more officers into the front

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line. We are still able to do that. It is the longer term impact, in

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terms of the collaboration, in terms of the transformation work that we

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were going to do by investing in IT. The government still haven't

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told us whether we are going to get any flexibility in terms of

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increasing the precept, which is what people play the Dutch people

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pay for their policing through the council tax locally. We are not so

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sure if we are going to be able to increase that locally. If you can

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increase it through council tax is that the way you want to go? I don't

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particularly relish increasing people's council tax, but it is

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about the only option that there is if the government keeps cutting our

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budget. Knife crime is an issue in the region, with a spate of recent

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stabbings. Do you think the force is being treated unfairly? We don't get

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a share that reflects the needs we have. We are a small, rural leave

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funded force that faces urban challenges, challenges that are only

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seen elsewhere in the country in the large metropolitan forces, who are

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clearly in a better position to deal with them. We do suffer from that.

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You do have to decide your budget by the end of January. You don't have

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much time, do you? No, it is going to be difficult. We are going to

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have to be burning the midnight oil to make sure that the budget

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balances. For our postmen and women, it's the

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busiest time of the year. Nationally, Royal Mail are

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delivering 1.2 million items a day. But as emails and texts replace

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cards, parcels make up a larger share ` a bit under a third of the

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total. They all go to 29 million addresses. Emma Baugh has been to

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the Peterborough sorting office Alan Gudgeon is a workplace coach.

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You are putting it in the right place? He has been at the Royal Mail

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for 19 years, and has seen its business change. The parcels have

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actually increased, and the floor space has expanded, where we need

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space for parcels. Before, this was an area we sorted letters in and

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packets. We still need more space. This is the intelligent letters

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sorter which handles 45,000 letters an hour. It is part of

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modernisation, but the company still relies on a large labour force. Here

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at Peterborough, they employ more than 400 people throughout the year,

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taking on an extra 150 to cope with seasonal demand, adding up to the

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24,000 people employed throughout the region in a year. With recent

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price hikes for stamps, will there be fewer cards are sent this

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Christmas? We haven't seen that Customers next choices based on

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value. We have not seen a decline, which I think shows that the pricing

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is right and people still see it as relevant. Online shopping is

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growing, and we enjoy the lion's share of that growth. Out on the

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streets of Peterborough, are people still sending cards? I won't be

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posting them this year. I will be sending them electronically, because

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it is cheaper. I am sending cards. I posted them today, but there were

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definitely less than in previous years. I write them out but never

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send them! Do you prefer electronic or not at all? Not at all. I do

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still send them, but mostly I take them personally. I tried to deliver

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as many as I can myself. Whether to send or not to send, no matter how

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you address it, it is up to these people to get it delivered in time.

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A camera capable of capturing something as small as a button on

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the surface of the moon has blasted into space, cheered on by the

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Hertfordshire scientists who designed it. It's called Gaia ` and

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is the most advanced camera of its kind ever made. Its mission ` to

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photograph more than a billion stars, and create a 3D map of the

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Milky Way. Mike Cartwright watched the launch.

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Five, four, three, two, one! Decollage. Physicists, designers,

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technicians ` scientists in Stevenage whose work could help

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uncover the secrets of our universe. The successful launch an emotional

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moment. How often and how many people get to say that something

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that they have worked on has been to space? I can see you welling up

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there. It's that emotional? It really is. It's fantastic. You must

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feel really proud today? Really proud. Of everything that our team

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has accomplished. Gaia's mission ` produced the most detailed map of

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our galaxy ever. On board, a one billion pixel camera. From Earth, it

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could pinpoint a penny on the moon. Mind`boggling technology developed

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right here in the East. For science, this is hugely significant

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` Gaia carrying the largest ever camera into space. But for

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economics, it's massive too. This is a ?19 million project for our

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region, with hundreds of people here working on it in the last seven

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years. It's international. It's a European project. But about a

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quarter of the engineering, the manufacturing and testing was

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actually done here in the UK. The spacecraft work here in Stevenage,

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and the camera itself, the CCD array, built in Chelmsford. Whatever

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passes in front of the lens will be tracked. Comets, asteroids, planets

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beyond our system. What is found will then be studied at the

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University of Cambridge. You can effectively redo a lot of astronomy

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this way. It is much higher accuracy. You can learn more about

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the charter of the stars. You can learn about stars that are much

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further away. It will remap the Milky Way. Our understanding of what

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is out there will change forever, thanks to ground`breaking work

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carried out right here. Amazing. Cambridgeshire Fire service

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says it has plans in place to ensure the public remains stays during

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three planned strike days. Members of the Fire Brigades Union will walk

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out between 7pm on Christmas Eve and again on New Year's Eve. They are

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taking action on pay

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