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Good evening. A year since the Government | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
introduced changes to housing benefit, figures obtained bx the BBC | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
suggest thousands in our region are going into rent arrears for the | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
first time, and few have actually moved. The policy reduces bdnefit | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
payments for social housing tenants if they have more rooms than they | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
need. Of 529,000 social housing tenants in this region, just under | :00:38. | :00:38. | |
10%, around 50,000 have been affected by the changes. And out of | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
that figure, around 1.5% have actually moved. Just 873 tenants. | :00:47. | :00:56. | |
I hope there is enough, bec`use I have so much stuff. Packing up and | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
preparing to leave. June and moved to this three`bedroom house after a | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
brain operation three years ago but her sons have since moved ott, and | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
now her Housing Benefit is being cut. She can't afford the extra ?52 | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
a week. I understand that pdople need houses, but I am so mad that | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
they are making us all move. The idea is to free up your properties | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
to help people like Emma Bennett and her family. She was in a two bed | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
property with two children, and now has a three bed house. My children | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
are far happier. They have ` room each. I remember having to share a | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
room, and it is not fun, especially with a boy. I daughter is vdry | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
happy, and so is my son. So is it working? Research by the BBC | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
suggests that in the east, just 873 social tenants have moved ott or | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
downsized, yet it has pushed more than 11,000 into rent arrears for | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
the first time since last April That is despite almost ?5.5 million | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
being spent here to tide thdm over until they move out. That is why | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
critics call it the bedroom tax The Government says the old system was | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
subsidising spare rooms. If you are the tax payer, paying for pdople to | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
be on Housing Benefit, many of those cannot have spare bedrooms hn their | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
house, so how can they be p`ying for other people do have that? H think | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
about 20% of our tenants were not in arrears. | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
Some councils have evicted tenants for getting behind on their rent. | :02:40. | :02:48. | |
Nearly 200 have moved. We h`ve circuits of people moving, `nd they | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
have all been beneficial moves, so we haven't conjured up lots of extra | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
properties. We have a limitdd stock, and we make the best use of the | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
stocks that we have. The Government says the changes are saving money, | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
but Labour says it would scrap the policy, one that remains as | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
controversial as well it was introduced year ago. | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
Two people have been arrestdd in Luton on suspicion of human | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
trafficking. Officers went to a property in Farley Hill following a | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
tip`off from the public. Earlier I spoke to our reporter Stuart | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
Ratcliffe and asked him for the details. | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
Today, Bedfordshire police released information about a raid thdy | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
carried out yesterday in crossways, which is in the Farley Hill area of | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
Luton. They found two women in their late teens, and it is thought they | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
are handy Aryan, possible vhctims of trafficking scam. `` Hund `` | :03:42. | :03:59. | |
Hungarian women. Men have bden arrested and are now being | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
questioned. The serious criles investigation unit said that they | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
would urge anyone with any information about this type of crime | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
or anyone who has any concerns about someone they know all lives near to | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
them to contact the force so that they can take action. | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
Stuart Ratcliffe reporting there. A Northampton bar has been closed | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
down after police said it h`d been used as a money`laundering front by | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
a drug trafficking gang. Thd lease for the Ice Lounge on Bridgd Street | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
has been returned to the buhlding's owners. The council's licensing | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
committee heard the previous licensees included a drug ddaler now | :04:32. | :04:41. | |
serving a 20`year sentence. Game over. The nightclub business shut | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
down. After its true links to the criminal underworld were revealed. | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
On the face of it, the Icec`p looks like any other bar, btt it was | :04:49. | :05:03. | |
revealed that it was part of a drug trafficking and money`launddring | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
ring. A covert police operation revealed that the atmospherd inside | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
could be hostile and intimidating. Last month, the director, Joseph | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
O'Neill, was jailed for 20 xears for supplying cocaine. His right`hand | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
man was given ten years, and Michael Wilson, 7.5, for an operation | :05:24. | :05:32. | |
involving 150 traffickers. The money`laundering happened at the | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
bar. Instead of saying they took ?10,000, they took ?12,500, and they | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
would put ?2500 into the business android out. So what was dirty money | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
from the drugs money was now clean money because it went through | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
illegitimate business. Todax, the license was given over to the bar's | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
landlords on condition of strict texts on new tenants, and bdtter | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
CCTV coverage, after violence at the club went unrecorded. If yot are | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
going to have CCTV, we want to have it so that we can see the entire | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
premises and not have dark `reas where people can't be seen. The club | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
will stay closed until new management can be found. | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
The first clinic in Europe which can treat a rare form of cancer opened | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge today. The new centre | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
treats PAWS`GIST ` a cancer which starts in the stomach and mostly | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
affects young women. Just 100 people a year are diagnosed with this | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
cancer. That's all from the late te`m. Let's | :06:40. | :06:53. | |
get the weather now with Aldx Dolan. Good evening. Tonight will stay dry | :06:54. | :07:04. | |
with some long clear spells. Tomorrow looks like a fine day, the | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
sunshine will be hazy at tiles, and lots of high`level cloud around but | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
the southeasterly wind will bring us milder air from the continent. In a | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
moment, the National forecast, and it stays warm for Sunday, btt by the | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
time we get to next week, lhttle unsettled with a chance of rain | :07:30. | :07:30. | |
showers, but still warm. forward on Saturday night. Now here | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
is Nick Miller with the national forecast. | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
Hello. The clocks go forward this weekend, marking the beginning of | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
British summertime, BST. It has nothing to do with the weather. As | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
the clocks changed last year we were coming out of the March freeze. | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
This year, though, as the clucks change, the weather is warming up. | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
Not clear blue sky, the sun will be hazy but the thunder storms will be | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
gone. It will be mainly dry. And the weather is lively out there | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
this evening. There are bands of rain with hail over western parts of | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
the UK. A bit of rain for parts of the north | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
of England and south-west of Scotland. And lots of hill fog into | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
the Pennines. Mist and fog in the central and eastern areas of | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
England. It is a slow | :08:31. | :08:31. |