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The Health Service Commissioning Groups have started consulting on the future of respite care, and are suggesting that all eligible patients should have a personal budget.

It's created uncertainty about the future of Favell House respite centre in Northampton. Nene Commissioning Group says Favell House won't close, but Northampton North Conservative MP Michael Ellis says he thinks it will.

Reporter Willy Gilder meets Maureen Jennings who uses Favell House, while Stuart talks to Dr Matthew Davies from NHS Nene Clinical Commissioning Group, and to Michael Ellis.

Plus:

* residents in Kettering are invited to look at plans for potential traveller sites in and around the town

* the Borough Council of Wellingborough has used compulsory purchase orders to bring 40 empty properties brought back into use

* socialist campaigner from Northamptonshire says the G8 summit will achieve nothing for the ordinary man or woman

* local recipients of Queen's Birthday Honours include a firefighter, a caravan enthusiast and a former President of the East Midlands Rugby Union

* Wren School in Wellingborough launch "stitch up cancer" to raise tens of thousands of pounds for the fight against cancer involving community groups, businesses and schools in creating a tapestry which people make a donation to add to

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