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Grosvenor Centre "Options Open" + Torch Relay Highlights

The Leader of Northampton Borough Council says the council are in regular dialogue with Legal & General, the owners of the Grosvenor Centre, over its redevelopment and will consider all options.

Councillor David Mackintosh, the Leader of Northampton Borough Council, tells Stuart that the Council is in regular dialogue with Legal & General, the owners of the town's Grosvenor shopping centre, about its redevelopment. He says that the Council will consider all options for a way forward.

Stuart also talks to the leader of the opposition Labour group, Councillor Terry Wire, who says that there are still a lot of questions to be answered about the Grosvenor centre's future.

Reporter Tom Percival looks ahead to the funeral in Corby of Corporal James Ashworth, who was killed in June while on patrol with the Reconnaissance Platoon of 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards in the Nahre Saraj district of Helmand province in Afghanistan.

As the All Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia says conditions like Alzheimer's can take anything from a few weeks to a year or more to properly diagnose, Stuart talks to Mike French from Paulerspury whose wife Elizabeth has Alzheimer's. Lynsey Roberts from the Alzheimer's Society tells Stuart about its call for greater awareness of the condition.

Councillor Rob McKellar from Corby Borough Council tells Stuart that some of his fellow councillors have settled on a location for a new pedestrian crossing in the old village part of Corby, & Sheila Bumerl from Northampton talks to Stuart about her excitement at winning Β£100,000 on the PostCode Lottery.

Alongside highlights of yesterday's Olympic Torch Relay through Northamptonshire, reporter Rebecca Dickson visits Duston Primary School for the latest on Northampton's School Torch Relay, & Rebecca also goes to St Crispin's Retirement Village in Northampton to hear about the Retiremant Torch Relay.

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Tue 3 Jul 2012 06:00

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