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Are agency workers being exploited? That's the allegation being levelled at some employment agencies in Corby.

Some agency workers in Corby have spoken to 麻豆约拍 Radio Northampton making a number of allegations:

- one said he'd been asked to turn up early in the morning. He'd wait for hours and then no work would materialise.
- another said she was dismissed after becoming pregnant.
- and one agency worker told us he was still waiting to be paid for work he had done seven weeks ago.

Corby's Labour MP Andy Sawford organised an Employment Agency Summit in the town.

Corby reporter Martin Borley speaks to people in the town about their experiences, while Stuart talks to Andy Sawford, to agency worker Eamonn McGinley from Corby, and to Liza Laurence who runs Laurence Recruitment in Corby.

Plus:

* the Campaign to Protect Rural England in Northamptonshire launches its annual 'Stop the Drop' anti-litter campaign

* Stuart talks to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander about tax and benefits changes

* a group of MPs is calling on the Government to make farmers suspend the use of pesticides which they say leads to the decline of pollinating insects

* the Chief Executive of the Northamptonshire NHS Foundation Healthcare Trust explains why he is leaving his job

* the 200-year old tree in Thornton Park that fell over

* the Sprattion racehorse trainer whose late father won the Grand National in 1982

* a preview of the weekend's local sport

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