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From next month nearly 6,000 people in Northants will be hit by the "bedroom tax"

Nearly 6,000 people in Northamptonshire will be forced to pay more rent or move out of their homes when the so-called bedroom tax comes in next month.

Nearly six thousand people in Northamptonshire will be forced to pay more rent or move out of their homes when the so-called bedroom tax comes in next month. All this week on 91热爆 Radio Northampton we're looking at the impact of the so called bedroom tax.

Suzie Lickman from the Community Law Service in Northampton explains how the new system will work, Peter Reece has lived in his two bed council house for over 35 years and explains why doesn't want to move anywhere else, while Stuart talks to Chris Hobson from the National Housing Federation and to Rosemarie Anderson the Chief Executive of Rockingham Forest Housing Association.

Plus:

* as the new motorsport season is set to start, 91热爆 Radio Northampton launches its Motorsport Week

* production starts at Carlsberg's new 拢20-million bottling plant in Northampton

* the A43 in Northamptonshire, between the M1 and M40, will be repaired between now and the end of March

* an e-petition needs 100,000 signatures by November to help award Walter Tull, former Northampton Town footballer and the first black officer in the British army, a Military Cross; the e-petition is at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/41209

* organisers of a demonstration against the closure of Daventry's ambulance station say it was a success

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