:01:13. > :01:17.the man standing trial for a second time, accused of murdering a
:01:18. > :01:21.teenager from Milton Keynes. Rachel Manning disappeared 13 years ago.
:01:21. > :01:25.The discovery of her body at Woburn Golf Course began a pursuit of
:01:25. > :01:28.justice that has already lasted more than a decade and seen an innocent
:01:28. > :01:31.man jailed. 41-year-old Shahidul Ahmed now stands charged with her
:01:31. > :01:41.death. Who Today he was back in court to face a retrial. Killed
:01:41. > :01:50.
:01:50. > :02:00.Rachel Manning Tesco under fire. Claims that local workers in Harlow
:02:00. > :02:01.
:02:01. > :02:11.have lost their jobs and been replaced by cheaper, migrant labour.
:02:11. > :02:32.
:02:32. > :02:42.Tesco need to stop being a company is the man who killed Rachel that
:02:42. > :02:45.
:02:45. > :02:50.night and they say there is new scientific evidence to prove it.
:02:50. > :02:53.matched DNA on the car steering lock, alleged to have been used to
:02:53. > :02:58.smack Rachel in the face. The prosecution allege that a hair found
:02:58. > :03:04.on her clothing also belongs to the defendant. Mr Ahmed denies murder
:03:04. > :03:06.but the case is expected to go on for six weeks. Joe Black was in
:03:06. > :03:11.court today. She joins us now. What more can you
:03:11. > :03:15.tell us? This was an horrific case with a 13
:03:15. > :03:20.year history. This will now be the fourth trial that Rachel Manning 's
:03:20. > :03:26.family have had to sit through. As you heard in my report, her
:03:26. > :03:30.boyfriend at the time, Barry White, was convicted of her murder. That
:03:30. > :03:37.took place in 2002. Then, that was overturned at the court of appeal.
:03:37. > :03:42.At a retrial, he was acquitted. Earlier on this year, the man who
:03:42. > :03:52.stands in the dock today faced a trial. The jury was unable to reach
:03:52. > :03:55.a verdict. The prosecution continues tomorrow. Mr Ahmed denies murder.
:03:55. > :03:58.Bedfordshire police have charged a man in connection with the death of
:03:58. > :04:01.a grandfather after a fight over a disabled parking space. 65-year-old
:04:01. > :04:08.Alan Watts is accused of killing Brian Holmes, during the row in the
:04:08. > :04:12.car park at Asda in Biggleswade ten days ago. Mr Holmes died from a head
:04:12. > :04:16.injury, just days after he had been given the all clear from cancer.
:04:16. > :04:21.Workers in Harlow may have lost their jobs, only to be replaced by
:04:21. > :04:24.cheaper migrant labour. The claim from Labour's Shadow Immigration
:04:24. > :04:29.minister today. It follows the closure of the Tesco distribution
:04:29. > :04:34.depot in the town which employed 800 people. The workers were offered
:04:34. > :04:38.jobs at a new centre in Dagenham. But on lower wages and most refused
:04:38. > :04:43.the offer. In a moment we'll hear from the Harlow MP Robert Halfon.
:04:43. > :04:48.First this report from Deborah McGurran.
:04:48. > :04:52.The row over the closure of Tesco's distribution plant in Harlow
:04:52. > :04:55.reignited by Labour 's shadow immigration minister. Today, he
:04:55. > :04:59.claimed Tesco may have hired staff who have come from Eastern Europe,
:04:59. > :05:04.rather than using British workers. When a distribution centre was moved
:05:04. > :05:07.to a new location, existing staff said they would have lost out by
:05:07. > :05:13.transferring and the result was a higher proportion of staff at the
:05:13. > :05:16.new site from other countries taking the jobs. Two weeks ago, the
:05:16. > :05:20.distribution centre in Harlow finally closed with the loss of
:05:20. > :05:26.hundreds of jobs. Tesco says it needed to close the depot as part of
:05:26. > :05:30.a restructuring plan. Of the 800 people who worked here, 500 were
:05:30. > :05:40.from Harlow. Only around 100 have taken a job at the new distribution
:05:40. > :05:56.
:05:56. > :06:00.centre in Dagenham, on lower pay. should tackle the problem of
:06:00. > :06:08.corporate juggernauts. He is calling for Tesco to reveal how many of the
:06:08. > :06:12.Dagenham workers have been hired from agencies.
:06:12. > :06:14.So what does the MP Robert Halfon mean when he says the government
:06:14. > :06:22.needs to tackle corporate juggernauts? I asked him late this
:06:22. > :06:26.afternoon. I think that Tesco have behaved ruthlessly in Harlow. They
:06:26. > :06:30.closed a productive distribution centre. They damaged our community,
:06:30. > :06:33.they damaged the lives of hundreds of Harlow workers. What I am saying
:06:33. > :06:40.to the government is that we should ensure that these kind of companies
:06:40. > :06:42.who behave in this way should get no grants from the centre at all in
:06:42. > :06:47.terms of subsidies, help with relocation. The government should
:06:47. > :06:55.also look at rules regarding agency workers and ensure that agency
:06:56. > :06:58.workers are not employed on lower wages because it is the -- unfair on
:06:58. > :07:05.local people. The criticism seems to be that these workers have lost out
:07:05. > :07:09.to migrant workers. Do you feel that is the case? I don't know of that
:07:09. > :07:11.for sure but what I do know is that Harlow Tesco workers were told that
:07:11. > :07:14.they would get jobs in the Dagenham plant but with significantly reduced
:07:15. > :07:21.pay. This was an affordable to those individuals who have families to
:07:21. > :07:24.feed and mortgages to pay. What is wrong is companies like Tesco are
:07:24. > :07:28.using agency workers, who are often doing the same work but for cheaper
:07:28. > :07:33.money, and that is what the government needs to look at. That is
:07:33. > :07:38.what I am urging today. Tesco need to stop being a company that is just
:07:38. > :07:42.about piling the money high and selling the work is cheap. What
:07:42. > :07:50.Tesco is doing in cutting costs isn't illegal. Is it time that the
:07:50. > :07:54.government pushed for a living wage, rather than a element wage? --
:07:54. > :07:59.minimum wage. I believe in a living wage but there are arguments about
:07:59. > :08:03.the best way to achieve that. One of the best ways is to cut taxes for
:08:03. > :08:11.low earners. I am glad the government have done that. They've
:08:11. > :08:15.raised the tax threshold. I would like to go further and introduce a
:08:15. > :08:20.10p income tax rate. Keeping in close contact with a lot of the
:08:20. > :08:24.workers. Do you know how many of them have found jobs elsewhere? I
:08:24. > :08:28.think it is very hard. I've met a few who have found jobs but many
:08:28. > :08:31.hundreds have had to take redundancy and it is very difficult for them,
:08:32. > :08:36.especially in the current climate. It is going to take them some time
:08:36. > :08:46.to get back on their feet. I know local councillors are doing all they
:08:46. > :08:49.can and other agencies. It will take a long time to heal our community.
:08:49. > :08:52.Millions of pounds of Government money is coming to Cambridge to
:08:52. > :08:55.boost cycling in the city. Cambridge will get �4.1 million with another
:08:55. > :08:59.�4 million coming from local funding. 40,000 people already cycle
:08:59. > :09:07.in the city, which means about 22% of journeys are made by bike. It's
:09:07. > :09:11.hoped however this will increase to 40% in the next ten years.
:09:11. > :09:17.It is a city planning on going Dutch. Special cycle lanes, away
:09:17. > :09:23.from the cars and pedestrians. Safer, quicker. For Zoe Chambers, it
:09:23. > :09:29.is a far cry from Cambridge. That is the UK's cycling capital. She cycles
:09:29. > :09:34.six miles every day. It is busy. It's an incredibly busy city.
:09:34. > :09:38.have to be vigilant and try and be safe, be alert all the time as a
:09:38. > :09:41.road user if you are a cyclist. There are plans for separate
:09:41. > :09:47.cycleways on three major routes. Better bike connections to the
:09:47. > :09:51.research parks. Around 5000 bikes cross this bridge every day. It's
:09:51. > :09:56.one of the busiest stretches for cyclists in the country, say
:09:56. > :10:02.campaigners, but in a city with so many bikes, is �4.1 million going to
:10:02. > :10:07.be enough? When you look at how much it is going to cause to upgrade a
:10:07. > :10:13.local road for instance, it wouldn't get you much of road, but it's a
:10:13. > :10:18.start. It might get matched by Cambridge county council. They have
:10:18. > :10:25.been spending millions over the years. Congestion, the downside of
:10:25. > :10:28.Cambridge expansion. One solution, more cycleways, they say. I think it
:10:28. > :10:32.is rightly put that investment into Cambridge. We went to see more
:10:32. > :10:35.people cycling because it is it -- it is good for them, it's a healthy
:10:35. > :10:39.way of getting around and doesn't cause pollution. It also makes life
:10:39. > :10:43.easier for those who use their cars, if fewer people are on the
:10:43. > :10:47.roads in cars. That means those that do need to use them can get around
:10:47. > :10:56.more easily as well. In less than a year, the biggest bike race in the
:10:56. > :10:59.world is coming to the county. Tour de France will be another boost
:10:59. > :11:02.for spiking here. Facilities are getting better but there are still
:11:02. > :11:05.some way to go to catch our European neighbours.
:11:05. > :11:08.A ground-breaking new treatment for skin cancer is going to be available
:11:08. > :11:12.across the country, following medical trials here in the East. The
:11:12. > :11:14.drug is taken as a daily pill and was developed and tested at
:11:14. > :11:20.Addenbrooke's Hospital. It means mean patients can avoid surgery
:11:20. > :11:26.which could have scarred them for life.
:11:26. > :11:32.Ian has had carcinoma since the 70s. Before, he had radiotherapy and
:11:32. > :11:35.had left his skin damaged. He has been taking a daily pill which has
:11:35. > :11:43.made the tumours disappear. Even though it had side-effects for him
:11:43. > :11:48.joining the trial wasn't difficult. The options I had were too
:11:48. > :11:58.horrendous to anticipate. There were possibly going to be operate on my
:11:58. > :11:59.
:11:59. > :12:02.nose but it would have meant just about removing the whole of it and
:12:02. > :12:05.reconstructing it. The option to go on the trial was a far better option
:12:05. > :12:07.than that. During the trial, his skin cancer started to shrink and
:12:07. > :12:13.tests showed more than half of those using the drug noticed a difference.
:12:13. > :12:17.It is described as a landmark treatment. Its gene therapy,
:12:17. > :12:20.targeting molecules inside cells. Thousands of hours are spent
:12:20. > :12:26.researching drugs at Addenbrooke's but not many treatments make the
:12:27. > :12:30.grade. At the cancer centre alone, 160 open studies are taking place
:12:30. > :12:35.for which 3000 patients have signed up for. It's not all about testing
:12:35. > :12:41.new drugs that of those that are tested, only a handful will come to
:12:41. > :12:45.market. There are lots of hurdles before you can bring a drug to a
:12:45. > :12:49.patient. They include having a really well-designed clinical trial
:12:49. > :12:54.programme. Then it has to get approved by the European medicines
:12:54. > :12:58.authority. It has to be approved within the country. Then it has to
:12:58. > :13:02.be approved for funding and then it has to be approved for use within a
:13:02. > :13:08.hospital. There are lots of hurdles and it takes a long time. Those
:13:08. > :13:13.taking part in trials had more treatments will come online. Many in
:13:13. > :13:16.my family have died through cancer of various thoughts -- sorts.
:13:16. > :13:23.law research they can do and the more drugs they can bring onto the
:13:23. > :13:29.market, the better for everybody. For now, she continues to take the
:13:29. > :13:32.drug but hopefully he will be lucky enough to be cleared of cancer.
:13:32. > :13:35.The Accident and Emergency department at the general hospital
:13:35. > :13:38.in Northampton has had it's busiest month ever. It dealt with nearly
:13:38. > :13:42.10,000 people during July. That's one person every five minutes and