MK News - 09/07/2008 digital edition

BY
JESSICA
CUNNIFFE
jessica.cun
niffe@mk-ne
ws.co.uk
ONE
year
on,
nothing
has
been
done
to
stop
the
fr
eak
floods
in
St
oke
Goldington
happening
again.
That
is
the
concer
n
of
re
sidents
of
the
50
homes
hit
by
two
deluges
in
one
month,
many
of
whom
ar
e
still
staying
in
hotels
and
re
nted
accommodati
on
or
have
only
just
mo
ve
d
back
to
the
village
.
Si
nce
a
16330,000
re
por
t
was
com-
pleted
in
Oc
tober
only
cleaning,
minor
re
-alignment
of
ditches
and
small-scale
measur
es
to
channel
water
away
hav
e
been
completed.
The
re
por
t8217
s
high
pr
ior
ity
re
com-
mendations
of
building
a
bund
(mound
of
ear
th)
and
impr
ov
ing
dr
ainage
8211
which
re
quir
e
163150,000
of
the
163650,000
needed
to
make
St
oke
Goldington
safe
fr
om
flood-
ing
8211
will
not
begin
until
Oc
tober
.
Me
anwhile
,
if
the
same
amount
of
ra
in
fell
tomorr
ow
that
fell
on
Ju
ne
4
and
Ju
ly
2,
2007,
re
sidents
fear
that,
just
as
their
homes
hav
e
been
re
stor
ed,
the
disaster
could
be
re
peated
for
a
thir
d
time
.
Ph
il
Gott
is
still
living
in
re
nted
accommodation
after
his
home
was
ru
ined
by
water
,
losing
ever
y-
thing
fr
om
his
son
8217s
A-level
wor
k
to
his
we
dding
photos
.
8220I
t
was
a
fr
eak
situation,
but
fr
eak
situations
ar
e
no
w
the
nor
m,
8221
he
said.
8220I
woke
up
this
mor
ning
with
the
ra
in
patter
ing
on
the
ro
of.
Ev
er
y
time
it
ra
ins
it
could
happen
again.
It
8217s
ver
y
unsettling.
We
8217v
e
had
talk
and
re
por
ts
but
what
8217s
physically
been
done
to
re
duce
the
ri
sk?
It
8217s
minimal.
8221
He
added:
8220T
he
council
has
got
a
re
sponsibility
to
do
this
.
We
kno
w
what
needs
to
be
done
but
they8217
ve
got
to
do
it
quickly
.
8220T
hr
ee
ye
ars
fr
om
no
w
this
will
be
a
flood-fr
ee
village
and
this
will
be
behind
us
.
If
it
8217s
going
to
be
done
then
why
not
do
it
no
w?
8220T
he
re
por
t
was
done
in
Oc
tober
,
it
8217s
no
w
Ju
ly
.
No
thing
has
been
done
to
re
duce
the
ri
sk
of
it
happening
again.
8221
Da
ve
De
nnis
has
been
back
in
his
home
since
Ap
ri
l
after
paying
16340,000
to
put
his
house
ri
ght.
In
his
new
home
insur
ance
re
newal
quote
he
has
seen
his
ex
cess
soar
fr
om
163100
to
1635,000,
while
Mr
Go
tt
says
his
pr
emiums
hav
e
gone
up
by
25
per
cent.
He
re
members
floods
in
the
1980s
,
when
a
re
por
t
suggested
that
culver
ts
should
be
installed.
This
did
not
happen
then,
nor
is
it
par
t
of
the
council
8217s
8216high
pr
ior
ity8217
plans
.
Ni
ck
Allen
was
living
on
a
far
m
for
11
months
with
his
two
small
childr
en,
both
of
whom
ar
e
deaf.
8220T
hey8217
re
elated
to
be
back
home
,8221
he
said.
8220T
hey
we
re
out
of
the
village
and
away
fr
om
their
fr
iends
.
We
we
re
on
a
far
m
but
it
8217s
not
home
.
8220W
e
ar
e
re
ally
lucky
in
that
we
live
in
a
terr
ific
village
.8221
How
ever
,
Mr
Allen
fears
that
the
re
pairs
8216c
ould
all
be
undone
8217
in
an
instant.
8220Fr
om
my
point
of
view
ther
e
ar
e
no
w
things
the
council
needs
to
be
encour
aged
to
do
.
Doing
noth-
ing
is
not
an
option.
8221
A
council
spokesman
said:
8220W
e
hav
e
wor
ked
ve
ry
har
d
to
help
the
St
oke
Goldington
villagers
,
even
though
in
most
cases
we
hav
e
no
legal
obligation
to
do
so
.
8220W
e
we
re
involv
ed
ri
ght
fr
om
the
outset,
for
example
we
pro
vided
mor
e
than
2,000
sandbags
to
re
si-
dents
,
and
helped
find
alter
native
accommodation
for
villagers
who
we
re
effectively
left
homeless
.
8220W
e
carr
ied
out
initial
re
medial
wor
k,
such
as
dr
ainage
wor
k,
later
in
the
ye
ar
,
and
mor
e
is
on
the
way
,
with
163150,000
being
made
av
ailable
to
implement
measur
es
such
as
intr
oducing
small
balanc-
ing
lakes
and
mor
e
bunds
,
or
8216m
ini
dams
8217,
in
the
ar
ea.
8221Villagers
still
live
in
fear
of
floodingA
fir
efighter
wa
des
thr
ough
the
wa
ter
during
the
July
2007
floodPREMA
TURE
babies
have
been
mo
ve
d
fr
om
Mi
lton
Ke
ynes
Ho
spital
as
staff
invest
igate
an
infect
ion.
The
Ne
onatal
Un
it
was
closed
on
Thursday
after
a
potentially
life-
thr
eatening
infection
was
re
por
ted.
Mo
thers
with
pr
ematur
e
babies
or
complications
wer
e
tr
ansferr
ed
to
other
local
mater
nity
units
while
an
inv
estigation
began
to
identify
and
contr
ol
the
infection.
Ye
ster
day
the
hospital
re
vealed
that
the
infection
is
Klebsiella,
a
bacter
ia
which
is
par
ticularly
dangerous
for
vulner
able
patients
and
can
cause
pneumonia.
Sy
mptoms
can
include
a
high
fev
er
,
chills
,
or
flu-like
symptoms
and
cases
of
the
pneumonia
can
attack
the
lungs
if
anti-biotics
ar
e
not
adminis-
ter
ed.
It
is
the
first
time
that
this
type
of
bacter
ia
has
been
found
on
the
Ne
onatal
Un
it
at
the
hospital.
The
He
alth
Pr
otection
Agency
(HP
A)
was
called
in
to
help
re
duce
the
ri
sk
of
the
infection
spr
eading.
A
hospital
spokesman
said:
8220I
t8217
s
essen-
tial
that
we
take
all
pr
ecautions
nec-
essar
y
to
ensur
e
that
patient
safety
is
not
compr
omised
in
any
way
.
8220W
e
ar
e
committed
to
putting
patient
safety
and
the
we
ll-being
of
all
mothers
and
babies
first.
8220T
he
HP
A
has
confir
med
that
all
action
s
to
pr
event
and
contro
l
the
bacter
ia
ar
e
being
carr
ied
out.
8221
The
neonatal
unit
car
es
for
mor
e
than
300
pr
ematur
e,
small
or
ill
babies
a
ye
ar
.
The
hospital
has
also
asked
that
all
childr
en
aged
nine
or
under
do
not
visit
the
Ne
onatal
Un
it,
in
or
der
to
meet
str
ict
hygien
e
proced
ur
es
.
A
MO
TO
RC
YC
LIST
was
killed
when
his
bike
mounted
a
ro
undabout
.
Tw
enty
-six-year
-old
De
an
Pa
ul
Richar
dson
was
ri
ding
a
yello
w
and
blue
Su
zuki
motor
cycle,
when
he
crashed
into
As
hland
ro
undabout
,n
ear
Ne
ther
field,
in
the
ear
ly
hours
of
Sa
tur
day
mor
n-
ing.
Mr
Richar
dson,
from
Wa
lnut
Tr
ee,
was
thr
ow
n
fr
om
the
motor
cycle.
He
was
pr
onounced
dead
at
the
scene.
Po
lice
hav
e
appealed
for
anyone
with
infor
mation
to
contact
Sgt
Fr
aser
Chamber
lain
on
08458
505505.Biker
dies
in
early
hours
island
crashBabies
moved
out
of
hospital
in
bug
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