09/03/2017 Look East (West)


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Now, time for the news where you are.

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Foul play - the Peterborough men convicted of selling

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Short-changed by the Budget - why little will have to go

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a long way for Luton, Bedford and Northampton.

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The four year old boy stuck under ultra-violet

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Two men from Peterborough have been found

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guilty of conspiring to commit fraud by telling businesses

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they were selling them halal lamb meat when it was actually turkey.

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Mahmudur Rohman and Kamal Rahman imported

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They sold it to dozens of customers for almost double the price,

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making a profit of hundreds of thousands of pounds.

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Mahmudur Rohman and Kamal Rahman today found guilty of committing

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They pocketed up to half a million pounds.

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It was in a flat above this parade of shops that

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Mahmudur Rohman ran his business.

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Throughout 2013 until the end of October 2014, he bought

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hundreds of tonnes of Turkey then resold

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it to outlets across the country as lamb.

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Not only was it not lamb, it was also not halal.

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Meaning it was not slaughtered according to the Islamic faith.

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So eating it was deeply offensive for Muslims.

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For people, they felt angry, they know, it is not my fault.

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We supply to restaurants, they are still with us,

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they still buy from us but they even felt, how can somebody do this?

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The company imported the turkey from Germany.

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As it was vacuum packed it was not easy to tell the difference,

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especially as the company used fake certificates to con customers into

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believing it was a certified halal meat business when it was not.

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This scam only came to light after extra

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checks were carried out following the horse meat scandal.

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It started when a courier was sampled and to everyone's amazement

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the analyst said it was nothing but Turkey.

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The reaction was to say check again, it cannot be turkey but it was.

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It started from there and a referral from the Food Trading

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This butcher shop sells both halal and non-halal meat

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and says this case highlights the importance of knowing where your

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We are very strict on traceability here.

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We know exactly where the meat comes from.

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All our beef is traceable back to the farm.

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The halal meat is all traceable back to the source.

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In total, 116,000 kg of Turkey was falsely sold.

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Today the judge told the men their crime was a serious one.

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They will be sentenced at Leicester Crown Court later this month.

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Next the government pledge to invest millions of pounds

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to boost our region's economy following yesterday's Budget.

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It's part of a ?392 million package for the so-called

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'Midlands Engine' - an attempt to improve connectivity,

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Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire will get

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?59 million of that over the next four years.

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It'll be spent on improving roads, creating jobs and developing skills.

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But some say the money is simply not enough.

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The venue, Silverstone Racing Circuit, the subject - roads and

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As council and business leaders met to discuss

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improvements, the Chancellor Philip Hammond announced ?59 million in

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funding for Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Bucks as part of

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8 million will go towards completing the Northhampton, north-west relief

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The bid we needed was considerably more than 59

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I appreciate the situation the government is in, they can

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only give us a certain amount of money and the money announced today

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It will allow us to get on with the planning

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of the route but when it comes to actually constructing the northern

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ring road around Northampton, we will need multimillions to be

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The funding will set the wheels in motion for the M1-A6

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link road north of Luton which will receive ?22 million.

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The town will also benefit from a ?4 million

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If you look round the whole area, they have

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done up the station, the area around the cultural

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entire area and make it a cultural quarter for the town.

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While some argue our share of the cash could

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be greater, others say it will make a big difference.

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This comes on top of ?206 million of investment into the

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A further 59 million will enable us to work on

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the infrastructure which is needed to benefit communities and it is of

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According to the Chancellor there will be more government investment

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This is not a one-off, this is part of a programme

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to galvanise this economy to allow it to achieve its full potential and

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make the greatest possible contribution to Britain's future.

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That is what council leaders here are hoping for.

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Earlier I spoke to our political reporter Tom Barton who explained

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why parts of this region are affected by growth

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Of course, Luton is practically in London.

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People who live there do not look towards Birmingham.

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Because of local enterprise partnerships, government

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funding for the Midlands is spread over a huge area.

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All the way over to the Welsh border in the West and

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all the way to the Lincolnshire coast in the opposite direction.

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Just as from the previous Chancellor we heard about the 'northern

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powerhouse', it seems that Philip Hammond's priority

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Those parts of our region which find themselves in that area

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could well find more money coming their way.

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But on the day after a budget which has seen very little

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other money for the rest of the East of England,

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themselves feeling a little short-changed tonight.

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It's been a day of chaos for rail passengers using

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the Virgin East Coast services through Stevenage and Peterborough.

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Overhead power line problems between Retford and Newark meant

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many services were either severely delayed or cancelled.

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Network Rail says it's working to repair the cables and a normal

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service will be in place in time for tomorrow morning's rush hour.

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Cereal farmers in our region say they have been badly hit

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after a major grain merchant went into administration.

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Cambridgeshire Wellgrain stopped trading at the end of last month.

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Many farmers are still owed thousands of pounds

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and have no idea if they'll get any of it back.

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Now four year old boys can rarely sit still -

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still for 20 hours every day in an area the size of a single bed?

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That's what life's like for Ishmail Ali from Luton.

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He's one of only a hundred people across the world who has a liver

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disease called "lifetime jaundice" and needs to stay under ultra-violet

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Four-year-old Ishmail has spent almost his entire life like this.

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A rare liver condition called Crigler-Najjar means he eats,

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phototherapy lights for a minimum of 20 hours a day.

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Because he's missing an enzyme in his liver to

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break down what we call jaundice, he hasn't got that at all, so

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unfortunately because it builds up, it's like a toxin in the blood and

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as a toxin, if it goes to the brain, first thing they've said is it

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will go past the ears etc, he will become deaf,

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he will get some sort of brain damage, maybe permanent.

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He has to be cooped up in his medical phototherapy bed.

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because we have a seven-year-old sister, so he just wants to run

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around like a normal four-year-old boy and just run around the house

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and play around with her, but it is almost like a prison for him.

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The family have a carer that comes for six hours a

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week, but they're hoping to raise money through a crowdfunding page

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Our little sister, the seven-year-old, she's

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not getting any quality of life either because she says, you know,

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we're basically spending all the time with him, in and out of

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hospital, so we don't ever get to play with her so if

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someone can be with him, we can at least get a bit of a break,

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a little bit of a rest and then be able to

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concentrate on caring for him even more.

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It is very likely that Ishmail will spend the rest of his life

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Frustrating for an energetic and cheeky little boy, but his family

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say they will do everything they can to make sure he has the best quality

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Just time to leave you with the weather and Alex.

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After plenty of fine weather today, a cold night

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Through the evening and night temperatures

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could go down to two or three degrees.

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More cloud coming in from the West so the temperature should recover.

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Tomorrow, we have this weather system coming in from the West.

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High-pressure holding on so looks like fine weather in the morning.

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A bit of a fresh start after the chilly night, we should

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see good spells of sunshine in the morning.

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Into the afternoon, more cloud coming from the West.

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Remaining dry but the odd spot of light drizzle and colder because

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National weather coming up and here is the outlook.

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Turning unettled for the weekend, cooler and

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day. On Sunday, cloudier, maybe spots of rain.

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Good evening, in the spring sunshine we saw temperatures as high as 17.5

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Celsius. Not as warm or Sonning on Friday. Still a lot of dry, settled

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weather in the forecast for the next few days. This was the sunset

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captured by one of our Weather Watchers. Clear skies there. We have

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had increasing amounts of cloud moving in from the West. Through the

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remainder of tonight we will continue to see that cloud across

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the south-west of England, the Channel Isles, weaving in across

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Wales, Northern Ireland and western Scotland. Bringing with it some

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outbreaks of drizzly rain, particularly around the coast and

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the hills. Further east, clear skies and the coldest temperatures. We are

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likely to see frost across eastern

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