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Disabled Facilities, Severn Trent & Leaving Children Home Alone

Mike McCarthy sits in alongside Jo to start your day with the latest news and updates.

A mum from Market Harborough has told 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio Leicester the changing facilities for disabled people at her local pool are 'unhygienic and undignified'. Kyra Williams' 11 year old daughter Molly has complex special needs, suffering from autism and cerebral palsy. One of Molly's favourite pastimes is swimming, and she is a regular at Harborurgh Leisure Centre. But Kyra says the limited facilities mean she has to lie Molly down either beside a drain to change her.

Also, Severn Trent is promising to compensate customers along the Leicestershire Derbyshire border, who were left without water this weekend. More than 3000 households were told not to use their mains supplies, after higher than normal levels of chlorine were found in a nearby reservoir. Everything was back to normal yesterday, but notbefoer local supermarkets had run out of bottled water supplies. 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio Leicester's Helen McCarthy is in Ashby this morning.

And, when is the right age to leave your child alone - at home or in the car? The law doesn't specify a minimum age a youngster can be left unattended. But if police deem a child is being put at risk, parents can be arrested and charged with neglect. Figures obtained by 麻豆官网首页入口 Breakfast have found more than five hundred people in England and Wales were arrested for neglect, in the twelve months to April last year - including 8 in Leicestershire. The youngest child concerned was just six weeks old, the oldest was 15.

Also in the show, we have a surprise for a Leicester City fan who's not been able to see his beloved Foxes as much as he used to because he's been living in hospital.

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Mon 14 Mar 2016 06:00

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  • Mon 14 Mar 2016 06:00