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The most recent statistics show that in the first few months of new fortnightly bin collections being introduced, the first residents to receive the new service recycled 42 per cent more waste. The new bin service was introduced to 56,000 homes on the 29th April 2013. An additional 561 tonnes of waste has been recycled in the first twelve weeks of the more frequent green bin collections – significantly more than the weight of a full jumbo jet. Over the same period, 23 per cent less waste was sent to landfill. Councillors will hear that if the remainder of the bin rollout is as successful as the first phase, the council will be on track to save £2.5 million a year; money that can be spent on providing other vital council services. It also means that ambitious recycling targets will be met, making Leeds cleaner and greener.
Open for business
A hugely-anticipated new £28m wellbeing centre for Leeds will open its doors to the public this weekend. Holt Park Active will open to residents on Saturday 12th October and will be the first centre of its kind in the city. The fantastic new wellbeing centre, based on Holtdale Approach, offers a range of flexible spaces for activities and support services that will suit people of all ages. It features a 70-station Bodyline gym, 25-metre pool, hydrotherapy and learning pools, dance studio, café, garden, sports hall, multi-activity rooms, Changing Places facility and meeting / training areas. Aiming to encourage residents of all ages to lead an active lifestyle, the centre will also host a range of activities for older people and those with physical or learning disabilities. The centre will open at 9am with the first 100 customers through the doors being entered into a draw to win a £50 hamper.
Road Safety
Pedestrian safety is to be improved at the junction of Hamme Strasse and Valley Road in Bradford. Work is due to start on 14th October to replace the signal equipment, which is worn out, and to introduce more button controls at the pedestrian crossings. The work is expected to take around five weeks and may lead to some minor traffic disruption during off-peak periods only. Coun Val Slater, Bradford Council’s Executive Member for Planning, Transportation and Highways, said: “We would like to apologise in advance for any delays to traffic but I am sure these will be a very small price to pay for a major improvement in road safety at the junction.”
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October 2013 - 2nd Edition
Asian Express
Amanda Hutton jailed but...
Is 15 years What they say: the correct sentence? Adeeba Malik:
“In terms of the legal angle I think we could debate all day whether 15 years is enough but the thing which is really distressing for me is that nobody noticed that this young child was missing. “I don’t know whether it the services should have picked up on it or some family members but it seems this poor child just slipped under the radar and was eventually rejected on all fronts. “It really was a very upsetting story when I first heard about it. How can a mother, who knows her child’s body is dead in her house, just continue living life as normal?”
By Ashley Grint
ashley@asianexpress.co.uk
The shocking story of a Bradford mother, jailed for 15 years last week on charges of manslaughter by gross negligence, has sparked a huge debate across all sectors of society. 43-year-old Amanda Hutton was sentenced at Bradford Crown Court after the body of her youngest four-yearold child was found ‘mummified’ in her home, two years after the infant had died. Hamzah Khan’s corpse was found in a cot in Hutton's Bradford bedroom in September 2011, and showed signs of being severely malnourished when he died. Judge Roger Thomas QC told the alcoholic mother of eight that the disregard she had shown towards her children was ‘breathtakingly awful’
Nadeem Malik:
He said: “The details of your wicked conduct have been displayed in such awful detail over the past three weeks in the trial. “[These offences] demonstrate a most fundamental and serious breach of any duty that an individual in decent society can owe to others - namely the duty that a parent owes to her or his young children to take proper care of them". Hutton was sentenced on the 4th October, guilty of manslaughter, child neglect to five other children, and preventing the burial of Hamzah’s body.
“15 years is nowhere near enough for the crime she has committed. She’s not only taken a life but also kept it a secret for almost two years. It is wrong in every sense. How she could hide it away, I do not know. She should have got a life sentence. “She has no right to do what she did; it is absolutely appalling and disgusting. I feel sorry for all her children who have been abused by her in the past but hopefully they’ll see the end of it now.”
Adil Hussain:
“It’s absolutely disgusting that a human being can do something like that. Why do people have children if they are not then going to look after them? I believe every child is a blessing from God and has to be loved and cared for. “To give the woman just 15 years is not enough. She has taken the life away from her child and it is not like she didn’t have ways to get help. This country provides child benefits to ensure every infant is catered for, yet she just ignored it so I would like to see her spend the rest of her life behind bars.”
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