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have lost their jobs and been replaced by cheaper, migrant labour.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