Derbyshire Times news bulletin 15th August

Derbyshire Times

Derbyshire Times news bulletin with editor Phil Bramley

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00:00 Here's today's Derbyshire Times video bulletin.

00:02 Council planning chiefs are due to consider proposals for a large housing development

00:07 near a north Derbyshire village, despite dozens of objections from residents concerned about

00:12 traffic congestion, flooding and an increased strain on local services.

00:15 Chesterfield Borough Council's Planning Committee is due to meet on Monday to consider the application

00:21 for 270 farms at Duckmonton, along with a commercial zone and an area designated for

00:26 community use. A council spokesperson said "The development of such a large greenfield

00:31 site for housing will bring a change to the local area, which is an understandable concern

00:36 for local residents. However, planning decisions must be based on the development plan unless

00:41 material considerations indicate otherwise. The site is allocated for 275 homes, which

00:47 this application seeks permission for." Residents have raised concerns about overdevelopment of the

00:53 site, the loss of greenfield land, the potential harm to wildlife as well as flooding problems

00:58 and traffic and safety and congestion concerns. Some also fear the development will bring an

01:04 added strain to schools and existing services including GP surgeries and dental practices.

01:09 A Derbyshire boss has issued a warning after hackers shut down a vital social media account

01:16 for his business. Carlo Laurenti, who owns and runs Derbyshire Wedding and Events,

01:21 clicked a link after receiving a notification on Facebook saying his page had been impersonating

01:25 another. Within seconds his computer screen was filled with various images, including

01:30 indecent images of children, and Carlo lost access to the business account on Facebook.

01:34 Detective Sergeant Steve Judge, who leads the Cybercrime and Digital Investigations Unit,

01:40 which dealt with Carlo's case, said "Sadly we are seeing criminal hackers using indecent images

01:45 to cover their tracks after gaining access to business pages on social media. Once they have

01:50 gained access to an account through the victim clicking a link, they will look to take any

01:54 personal or financial details from the page, even buying advertising, before posting explicit images

02:00 to get the page shut down by Facebook. In Derbyshire we have worked with Facebook to

02:04 help victims of hacking to regain access to their accounts." Carlo added "All it takes is that moment

02:10 of distraction, being caught under pressure." He added "If in doubt, just don't click."

02:15 "On hindsight, I would have never, never imagined anything like this would happen to me. I mean,

02:20 I use online banking, I use all the IT services like everybody else does, you know, I've been

02:26 around computers for quite some time, I thought I was a lot more intelligent, a lot more savvy,

02:31 you know, all it takes is that just moment of distraction, you know, while being caught under

02:37 stress or under pressure, just clicking a mouse in the wrong place, and it can just happen and

02:41 I flick on my finger like that."

02:48 "I had one woman, out of the, I have no idea which was, out of the blue called me and she told me,

02:55 look, she told me I don't mind seeing your posts on Facebook and all that, but can you stop calling

03:00 me on unsociable hours and sending me messages and things like that, and I was shocked, I said like,

03:05 no, you're definitely a drunk person, and she told me this is coming from Derbyshire wedding events,

03:09 I know that's weird, I said can you send me a copy of whatever you've been seeing,

03:14 obviously it took me like about 10 minutes staring at this thing to finally realise that

03:19 wedding was spent with a triple D. Okay, I went back on my social media apologising,

03:25 pointed to everyone, this wasn't me but was somebody presenting himself as being me.

03:30 Come forward, what, just before Christmas I believe it was, where I got this message again

03:42 saying like, you're imposing to be somebody else, you've got 24 hours to make your case,

03:47 or as a Facebook page, your social media is going to be taken down, and it looked very legit,

03:52 logos and everything, so I stupidly clicked on this message, okay, because again instantly I

03:59 went like, oh god, I don't want to go back to all that hassle I had years ago, I thought it was over

04:03 and done with, and that's where my mind went, and that's why I got caught out, because usually I'm

04:08 a lot more savvy than that to be honest. I was having very very graphic images coming on,

04:14 worst of all even child porn coming on, you know, pictures, and I had absolutely, honestly I was

04:20 lost, I was like desperately trying to unplug things, but obviously the damage was already

04:25 done. I was suffering through anxiety like I had never never suffered before.

04:40 My team in India were really really good, I have to say, you know, respect to them, and then a

04:48 couple of days later I got a call from one of the detectives, you know, they started investigating

04:54 in all the links coming to, uh, sent to me through Facebook and all that. Now in the meantime,

04:59 thankfully everything got recovered, and yeah, the rest is history. Even now just don't click,

05:07 you know, even now just don't click. When I get clicks myself or links myself,

05:12 okay, on Facebook, the first thing I do is before accepting it, I open a different browser and try

05:19 and look at that profile. If you see that that profile has no followers, has no friends, has,

05:26 you know, one or two friends, or has some questionable content on their on their wall, or

05:32 doubtful images on their wall, just don't accept it, just absolutely just just refuse it, just

05:39 refuse it, you know, don't think you're too clever, don't think anything won't get past you,

05:45 you know, because it could happen to anyone, literally, no matter what business you're in,

05:50 no matter who you are, you know, and I always say my concerns go into the more vulnerable,

05:55 like the elderly or things like that, you know, where they might click out of fear or they feel

06:00 intimidated, they might have to click. Never say you'll never get caught out, because it's probably

06:05 a matter of when, not if, to be honest with you. So yes, high tech is a very good thing in life,

06:11 and you know, if there's anything I can do to help people avoid going through the problems I went

06:18 through, I'm happy to do it, you know, just again, my concern is enough, in doubt, don't click,

06:24 don't accept, end of story.

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