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00:00This is your morning update for Thursday the 1st of August 2024 brought to you by the Mansfield
00:07and Ashfield Chad.
00:11Strike action by private contract hospital workers in Mansfield and Ashfield called off.
00:17Strike action by nearly 300 workers employed by contracting giant Medarest had been due
00:22to downed tools at King's Mill, Mansfield Community and Newark Hospitals.
00:30Jail for Sutton man who fleeced employer out of pound 500k to pay off gambling debts.
00:36Lee Bird was employed at CDW UK as a senior account manager when he began placing false
00:42orders for IT equipment in January 2020 Nottingham Crown Court was told before a customer began
00:49querying invoices in December 2021 Bird had placed 30 orders for goods like smartphones
00:57totalling £483,523 to be delivered to his or linked addresses.
01:05The court also heard he and another man bought £160 of tobacco, alcohol, scratch cards and
01:11snacks from Eastfield service station with bank cards that had been stolen 40 minutes earlier
01:17in a burglary on March 23rd this year.
01:20He was arrested the next day with mobile phones that were also stolen in the raid.
01:25The court heard he has five previous convictions for 15 offences.
01:29Daniel Scoven mitigating said Bird presents as a bright and intelligent man which begs
01:36the question how he finds himself sat in the dock today.
01:40The reason is not an excuse but an explanation he said describing how the pandemic affected
01:46Bird in a severe way.
01:48Previously he had travelled around the world to meet new clients but struggled with the
01:52isolation and boredom of lockdown and became addicted to online gambling.
01:57He says he would stay up for days on end and he describes that he kind of went mad,
02:02said Mr Scoven.
02:06Jail for homeless Sutton thief who stole £20k car and sped away from police.
02:11The Audi e-tron was taken from outside an address on Ashfield Rise,
02:16Sutton after keys, bank cards and mobile phones were stolen in a burglary at 1.50am on March 23rd,
02:24Nottingham Crown Court was told.
02:26Jamie Hill accelerated away when police saw him driving the Audi on Hamilton Road, Sutton
02:32and he reached speeds of 70mph in a 30mph zone as he fled through an industrial estate.
02:39The court heard he crossed junctions blindly and without reducing his speed before bailing
02:45out on Leibrooks Avenue where he was found with the assistance of a police dog.
02:50He then told officers he was likely to collapse because of epilepsy.
02:54Within 40 minutes of the burglary two other men used the bank cards to buy £160 of tobacco,
03:01alcohol, scratch cards and snacks at Eastfield service station.
03:05The court heard Hill has 28 previous convictions for 60 offences.
03:12Mansfield parents pay tribute to Southport victims at Merseyside Vigil.
03:17Yvette Price-Muir, holder of the Order of the League of Mercy
03:21OLM award is the founder of Pet Bereavement Support
03:25and known to generations in the Mansfield area as Mrs Hooker Duck.
03:30Here's 20 Championship and League One free agent strikers who could still tempt stags.
03:36Stags have recently had two bids for a striker turned down,
03:39meaning they are now having to turn their attention to two loan targets.
03:45How online dating led to love and a kidney transplant for Mansfield man.
03:50Little did they know their relationship would not only lead to love
03:54but also to a life-saving kidney transplant.
03:57Gold medalist fighter from Sutton looks ahead to International Championship.
04:01Sutton's Millie Rae Vardy was chosen by the English Mixed Martial Arts Association
04:07to represent her country at the I'm MF MMA European Championships in 2022
04:13but she required funding for the trip.
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