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Caravan park residents wait to return home after floods

With four flood warnings in place in Northants, including Billing Aquadrome and Cogenhoe Mill, residents of the caravan parks there have been evacuated and now wait to return home.

Residents of caravan parks at Billing Aquadrome and Cogenhoe Mill, evacuated overnight because of the threat of flooding, give Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Northampton their reaction to having to leave their homes and their belongings.

The show also maintains a watching brief in the developing flood conditions with reporter Rebecca Dickson at Billing Aquadrome while Stuart talks to Matt Hoy, emergency planning manager at Northamptonshire County Council, and to Peter Angelides from Pure Leisure, owners of Billing Aquadrome.

Stuart also talks to Wellingborough commmuter Claire Taylor whose journey to work in London was altered significantly because of the first in the series of one-day strikes by drivers on East Midlands Trains. The striking train drivers are members of the union Aslef who are in dispute with the company over pensions.

Political reporter Willy Gilder asks people in Daventry what issues are important to them ahead of Thursday's local elections, Kettering reporter Martin Borley takes a tour round the new Desborough Lesiure Centre a week ahead of its opening, and Northampton Borough councillor Mary Markham comments on Β£500,000 being made available by the government to help deal with homelessness in Northampton.

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  • Tue 1 May 2012 06:00

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