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00:00This is your morning update for Wednesday the 31st of July 2024.
00:06Brought to you by the Northampton Chronicle and Echo.
00:11Healthcare assistants at Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals have announced a month-long strike during August.
00:19Healthcare support workers at hospitals across Kettering, Northampton and Leicester are set for industrial action,
00:26citing their employers' intransigence and failure to address their claims for back pay.
00:34The Winter Light Trail at Northampton's Delapre Abbey will return for Christmas 2024.
00:41The Winter Light Trail, which was first introduced to the town in 2021, will return for its fourth year this Christmas.
00:50It's all smiles as the 43rd Northampton Scout Group celebrates 50 years of making a difference.
00:57A family fun day was held at Overstone Camping Ground on Sunday to mark the milestone, which the group hit back in February.
01:07A Northampton coach encourages young people to give engaging CrossFit sessions a go this summer.
01:14Cattle Dog CrossFit, located in Rothersthorpe Road, is offering a kids' programme and family exercise sessions to keep pupils active during the holidays.
01:26Figures show West Northamptonshire has the highest number of syphilis since records began.
01:32Figures from the UK Health Security Agency show there were 32 syphilis diagnoses in West Northamptonshire in 2023.
01:41Syphilis was up from 28 the year before and the highest since local records began in 2012.
01:47Meanwhile, there were 207 gonorrhoea diagnoses in West Northamptonshire in 2023, up from 175 the year before.
02:00A traveller family have now moved on from a quiet village green in Northampton.
02:05The travellers set up camp on The Green in Hunsbury Meadows on Friday afternoon at around 2pm.
02:11They left the site on Tuesday afternoon.
02:16An amazing new splash park at Popular Holiday Park in Northampton has received rave reviews from visitors.
02:23Billing Aquadrome has officially opened its highly anticipated splash park just in time for the summer holidays.
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