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Good evening, welcome to thd BBC sexual assault and rape.

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Good evening, welcome to thd BBC Channel Islands. Coming up.

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Guernsey's Commerce and Employment Minister defends the island's

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finance industry after fresh concerns in the national prdss.

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What we have to consistentlx demonstrate is how open and

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transparent Guernsey is as ` jurisdiction, and our willingness to

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cooperate. Plus, named and shamed ` whx

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restaurants will have to show customers their hygiene rathngs

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And how Alderney's beauty inspired this local author to the top of the

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bestsellers list. Guernsey's Commerce and Employment

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Minister has defended the island's finance industry after yet lore

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criticism in a national mag`zine. Private Eye has published fresh

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claims about the behaviour of the Channel Islands Stock Exchange. The

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company was restructered at the end of last year. `` restructurdd.

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Previous media coverage of the company saw Deputy Peter Harwood

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resign as Chief Minister. Edward Sault reports.

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It was following national mddia reports about his previous role as a

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director of the Channel Isl`nds Stock Exchange and Chairman of

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Guernsey's financial servicds regulator that Peter Harwood

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resigned. He said it was dud to the "risk to the reputation" of the

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office. The reason is as I stated. Now the company he was a director of

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is facing further criticisms in the latest edition of Private Exe.

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Private Eye's allegations, which the BBC has not been able to verify

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include claims that CISX... These currently unverified

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allegations are likely to c`use further difficulties at a thme when

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Guernsey and the islands' institutions would prefer not to be

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in the media Spotlight. Deptty Harwood wouldn't speak on c`mera

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today, but Guernsey's Minister for Commerce and Employment defdnded the

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island's place as a financi`l institution. I would not be honest

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if I didn't say it is unhelpful to Guernsey, and it is something that I

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keep a close eye on. I think what we have to consistently demonstrate is

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how open and transparent Gudrnsey is as a jurisdiction, and our

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willingness to cooperate with our international partners. The Channel

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Islands Stock Exchange is still under investigation by Guernsey s

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Financial Services Commission. The company was restructured towards the

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end of last year and is now called the Channel Islands Securithes

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Exchange. They wouldn't comlent today. This renewed national media

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attention, though, won't be welcome as Guernsey's politicians prepare to

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meet this week to vote in the island's next Chief Minister.

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Staying with the finance sector 18 people connected to Ukraine,

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including its ex`President, Viktor Yanukovych, have had financhal

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sanctions imposed on them bx the Channel Islands. The Europe`n Union

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agreed to freeze the assets of people suspected to have taken money

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from the country, or violatdd human rights laws. Jersey's Financial

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Services Commission asked fhnancial firms to examine their records. It

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aims to identify accounts connected to Viktor Yanukovych and others

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The trial of the man accused of murdering Guernsey woman Sarah

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Groves in India resumed tod`y. Dutch national Richard De Wit is standing

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trial in Kashmir. He denies all the charges. Today the court he`rd from

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a neighbour of the houseboat where Sarah had been staying. The case

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will resume at the end of the month. Kerbside recycling has begun in

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Guernsey. Householders are being asked to put paper and card out in

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clear bags on their normal collection nights this week, with

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tins, cans, plastic containdrs and drinks cartons collected in the blue

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bags from next week. During the interim scheme, islanders whll still

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have to take their glass to the bring banks.

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Unhygienic restaurants and food shops in Guernsey are being named

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and shamed. From today, any business that prepares food will havd their

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new hygiene rating displayed on the front door. Mike Wilkins reports.

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Consumers now have another tool in their decision box when it comes to

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deciding where they eat and shop for food. A new hygiene star system is

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being introduced. The best will be given five stars, and any whth fewer

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than three stars will be closely scrutinised. Once it is running it

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is only the cost of printing the stickers, we have the website

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already oral `` available, `nd the ratings will be done as part of

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routine inspections. So it hs basically a cost neutral scheme and

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it allows us to get the information to the public. For customers, it'll

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mean piece of mind that when a restaurant looks good on thd

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outside, it's doing a good job inside, too. Take this fish and chip

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shop, already awarded top m`rks with five out of five. Its owner says it

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should improve standards by increasing competition in the

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industry. I think people wotld be going to the same places anxway

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because they know they are clean and they get good food. But it hs going

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to make everybody else raisd the bar as well because it is more

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competitive, especially if ht is all printed out for someone to read

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they may choose where they `re going to eat based on the star rating more

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than anything else. People `re used to choosing from a menu, and now

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consumers in Guernsey will have even more information to help thdm decide

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where to eat. You're watching the BBC in the

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Channel Islands. Later in Spotlight with Justin and Natalie...

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Find out why these brave swhmmers have been taking a dip, inspired by

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Agatha Christie. David will be here with the weather

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in a moment. Good news this evening for Jersey's

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cricketers. The team are he`ding up the global rankings and havd been

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promoted to World Cricket Ldague Division Four. A 122`run win over

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the Cayman Islands this morning means Jersey are guaranteed one of

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the top two spots in Division Five, and automatic promotion. Gudrnsey,

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meanwhile, will be relegated after failing to win any of their opening

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matches. The Chief Executivd of the Jersey Cricket Board told R`dio

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Jersey earlier it's the restlt of a lot of hard work. We worked so hard

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in the planning and preparation With a new coach coming in late in

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the day, effectively, he had to take on a lot of work in preparing and

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getting to know the team. Prior to that, we spent years preparhng for

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moments like this and it has all come together this week, whdn they

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have played some fantastic cricket. And congratulations are also in

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order for Roland Gauvin frol Alderney Wildlife Trust. He

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successfully swam the Swingd today ` that's the strait between Alderney

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and Burhou, which has some of the strongest tidal movements in the

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world. Roland made it in ond hour and 26 minutes. He took to the water

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to raise awareness of the plight of sea birds killed by the winter

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storms. But there was disappointment for

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Jersey singer Jamie Lovatt, who went out of the BBC'S talent show The

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Voice at the weekend. Jamie lost his singing battle against fellow

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hopeful Chris Royal, perforling a version of Adele's Rolling Hn The

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Deep. Panellist Ricky Wilson described him as a great singer with

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undeniable power. Well, another Channel Islander

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celebrating success is Alderney`based author Rachel Abbott.

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Her latest book is currentlx top of online retail giant Amazon's crime

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e`book charts, and she shardd her success with islanders at its

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official launch on Friday. Louise Walter reports.

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The peace, the calm, the be`utiful scenerey. `` scenery. The rdasons

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why Alderney is the perfect place to plot murder. Well, for Rachdl

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Abbott, at least. The bestsdlling author moved here over a ye`r ago to

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help her writing. I needed somewhere quiet and atmospheric, we c`me here

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for a weekend and I thought, what an incredible place. I am motivated by

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the sea, I find it a very c`lming influence. That was it, I jtst found

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somewhere here and moved. It seems to be working for her. Rachdl's

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success has come through self`publishing e`books. For her, it

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was a fast way to get books on the market. But it does not guarantee

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success. It is very easy to be a self publisher, but anyone who is

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thinking of doing that is to ask themselves what they want to get out

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of it. If they just want to have the book published, that is verx easy.

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If they want the maximum nulber of readers, they can make the big

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three. If they want to actu`lly be commercially successful, it takes a

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huge amount of work. Rachel, known locally as Sheila Rogers, shared her

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success with islanders, launching her latest novel in Aldernex's

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library. She admits that despite her "e`success", she still prefdrs the

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real deal. I prefer books. H have my other home, it is packed with books.

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And I love physical books. But e`books are so convenient. Rachel is

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currently working on her fotrth novel. It's early days yet, but

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she's hoping to repeat the success of the first three.

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The Channel Islands have basked in glorious sunshine today, as events

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took place to mark Commonwe`lth Day. It's designed to encourage lembers

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of the Commonwealth to think about global issues. The Deputy B`iliff,

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Lieutenant Governor and States members raised the Commonwe`lth

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flag, the most southerly in the British Isles, at the Cenot`ph this

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morning. So, is there more sunshine to come?

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David has the weather forec`st. I think there will not be too much

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in the way of sunshine tomorrow but over the weekend, we have

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temperatures of 18. What a contrast! We have been unsettled for

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three months or so. More on the way of cloud through the English

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Channel, floating in overnight. It will be around tomorrow morning It

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could be on the cloudy side. As it will break up to sunny spells into

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the afternoon. Some mist early in the day. Not as warm as tod`y,

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perhaps 12 or 13. There is not a great deal of change in the weather

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over the next few days. High pressure well and truly in charge,

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across the UK at the moment. It moves around a little over the next

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24 hours, but not a great role of change in the pattern. Moving from

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tomorrow into Wednesday, sole subtle changes in the direction of the

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wind. Becoming more southeasterly, which for our spring is a bdtter

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chance of sunshine and highdr to bridges. " An yen overnight, brought

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in by the brisk breeze, so overnight temperatures not falling much below

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eight. Tomorrow, a cloudy start Throughout the morning, the cloud

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stubborn to break up, it will, however, the afternoon. Not as warm

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as today, 11 or 12 the top temperature. Here is the co`stal

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waters forecast. These are the times of high water. And for the servers,

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not much in the way of a swdll. A bit choppy on the North Coast of

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Alderney. Wednesday and Thursday, the sunshine comes back,

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temperatures back up to 14 or 1 . Lighter winds, but the cloud returns

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again as we move towards thd end of the week. But it is a dry spell of

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weather. That it from the sunniest place in

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the British Isles to know, let's join our friends in the South West.

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those who need to be there can be seen faster. More than ?300,000 a

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year is being made by Cornw`ll Council because their parking

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machines don't give change. The authority says stocking mord than

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250 pay`and`display stations with change would be too problem`tic and

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costly and says it reinvests the money overpaid by drivers in road

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maintenance and other transport projects. But, as Tamsin Melville's

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been finding out, not everyone's impressed. How often does it happen

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to you ` you find a car park space and you start scrabbling around

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because you can't find the right change? Well it seems in Cornwall

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Council's car parks this is happening a lot. The authorhty has

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more than 250 pay`and`displ`y machines in its car parks and new

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figures show people not getting any change from these is netting the

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council more than ?300,000 ` year. A bit disgusting really. Yeah, I mean

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not everybody can afford to lose money, can they? Well I might think

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it's OK if they spent that ?300 000 or something useful. They do

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reinvest it into transportation so for the roads. Into society. Yeah,

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well, I wouldn't really want it to be my money! Because I only had ?3,

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I think I should get another 40 pence of time. But I think their

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machine would be well capable of that. They cannot say that xou

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haven't been warned, but thd warning is so small compared with the very

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big thing saying "welcome". Clever. Unscrupulous. Thank you. Thd council

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says the logistical problems of stocking all machines would be too

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costly and points out there is a cashless mobile phone systel

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available. You just used thd mobile phone system, what was that like?

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Terrible. It was too long, luch too long`winded. There must be `n easier

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way of doing it. Wouldn't that just be bringing the right changd? Yes,

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it would. The council also says it would like to introduce a

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pay`as`you`go system where xou pay on exit. In Devon at the region s

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biggest hospital, staff are fighting plans to more than double their

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parking charges. They're dud to rise to ?2.50 a day, making Derrhford the

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most expensive of all the l`rger hospitals in the South West. Unions

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say it'll force people to look elsewhere for work, because they

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can't afford to pay more. There s now an online petition against the

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new prices which could come into force next month. Emma Thom`sson

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reports. Working out the monthly budget. Jenna is a health c`re

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assistant at Derriford and with a baby on the way, money is thght She

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said the increase will mean spending half a day's pay on parking every

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month. It's going to be verx difficult, because me and mx husband

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both work at the Trust. Therefore that's an extra ?40 to find every

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month, which we are going to go without, because I'm a shift worker,

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so I can't get to the hospital any other way or form, because H would

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have to get two buses and therefore leave really late or really early

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when buses don't run. But bosses at the hospitals say the chargds have

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been frozen for the last five years. We do understand that everybody has

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very specific things in thehr life and car parking needs to fit into

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that. So it's never going to be popular to increase charges. In

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fact, it's so unpopular that the unions have launched an onlhne

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petition. In the first day lore than 800 people signed it. We have heard

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from people who have just h`d just had their rents raised so they can't

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afford either that or these parking charges and said they will leave the

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Trust. For a Trust that strtggles to recruit anyway, that is a rhdiculous

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situation to be in. Most of the main hospitals in the South West have a

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sliding scale for charges. For staff like Jenna who earn around ?16, 00 a

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year, the monthly deduction from their salary at the Royal Ddvon and

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Exeter Hospital is ?15.40. The is halved for using the park and ride.

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It's ?6.50 at Torbay, ?6.20 in North Devon and ?15.15 at Treliskd. At

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Dorset County Hospital and `t Musgrove Park there are fixdd

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monthly fees regardless of what they earn. Charges could also go up for

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patients and visitors once the board has met at the end of the month

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Increases are always contentious, but with the strength of fedling

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among staff here, the hospital certainly has a fight on its hands.

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There's been a lot of reacthon to the parking stories tonight. On

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Derriford, Geraldine's been in touch via our Facebook page. She says

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hospital staff shouldn't have to pay anything to park! Another comment

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here asks why should nurses and doctors get reduced parking? Normal

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working people have to pay `t least ?2 a day and they earn loads more

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than normal people on minimtm wage. You've also had lots to say on

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Cornwall Council getting ?300,0 0 a year, because its parking m`chines

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don't give change. Leon asks why don't they use the money to repair

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all the pot holes? Ann says maybe they could cut the cost of parking

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now? Mark suggested donating the 300,000 to local charities. And

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Roger's been in touch via F`cebook. He says: "Make sure you havd change

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in the car! If you don't have change you have a choice ` pay a lhttle

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over the odds or go somewhere else to park!" Onto the sport now and

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history has been made by Exdter Chiefs over the weekend and Dave's

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been to Sandy Park to mark the occasion. Exeter Chiefs are

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celebrating their first appdarance in a cup time as a Premiership club.

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It is taking place at their home stadium against Northampton. Of

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course these will be just two of the shirts the players will be wearing

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in that special occasion. At the 12th time of asking, Exeter Chiefs

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managed to overcome a team they have never beaten in the Premiership In

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the last minute Bath had thd chance to level the score at 22`22. But

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they missed the penalty and the Devon club celebrated a rard triumph

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over them. Their first sips 197 . I live here and to me it is mx

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backyard. It is nice and I don't think for one minute when wd were

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asked if we would host it dhd anyone think we would be in the final. But

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it is for us to make the most of the opportunity. Two tries from the full

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back set the can have cheeps up for a `` Chiefs up for the final. When

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you think of where they havd come from the old ground and now being in

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the final, they deserve everything. We have been waiting a whild. Burr

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we can't wait. What does it mean as a fan watching your team here on

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your home ground? It is brilliant that we are actually at homd and in

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the actual final. It is really good. They will be underdogs against a

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team who have beaten them twice this season. But their record ag`inst

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Bath wasn't too good either. It has been a disappointing weekend for the

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South West's football sides, apart from Yeovil who beat Sheffidld

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Wednesday 2`0. Miller's two goals sent them on their way. But their

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relegation rivals all won and keeps Town two points o' away frol safety.

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Plymouth missed the chance to go into the play offs as they suffered

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a 2`1 defeat at Bristol Rovdrs. Rovers took the winning points to

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ensure Plymouth stay two pohnts off the top seven. Exeter City slipped

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to fourth from the bottom of League Two after they were held by Dagenham

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and Redbridge. Nichol gave City the lead, but that was undone in the

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second half. Six minutes into added time i Richards rescued a point

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Torquay United are heading for none league football after going down

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again. They're 12 points from survive. And the regional football

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programme tonight at 11. 20. It is called Late kickoff. Thank xou. It's

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been a gorgeous day for a dhp ` just the job for a group of wild swimmers

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who're recreated one of Agatha Christie's favourite swims, in

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Torbay. We sent our very own Alec Collyer along to test the w`ter

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Growing up in Torquay, Meadford Beach is where Agatha Christie used

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to go for a nice dip. Perhaps she and friends even had a small party

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there. Isn't it a superb dax for a swim? Yes, darling, let's go and

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join the waves. Lets! Three, two, one ` yeah! Devon Wild Swimlers did

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a half mile swim to Shag Rock and back to raise awareness for Sport

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Relief. Well everyone will `gree it's a good cause, but the

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camaraderie and fun you get instead of doing a sponsored walk or

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whatever, this gives you an opportunity to enjoy it as well

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whilst you're doing some good. Jackie swims in the sea every day.

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How is the water today then? Stunning. Stunningly cold or

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stunningly nice? It's perfect. It's beautiful. I don't know if Hercule

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Poirot ever went wild swimmhng. He probably had more sense! And as the

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swimmers returned a plot st`rted to form. Archie, darling, I have just

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had a superb idea for a new novel. It's called Murder on Meadford. What

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a wonderful idea! I can't s`y I actually remember the book. It

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looked beautiful. It was like the Mediterranean. But I bet it was

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chilly. Will the sunny weather continue? The sea temperature is

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about nine degrees. You would notice that. Yes. We have had tempdratures

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of 18 degrees through the wdekend. That is good for the first week in

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March. It is a little bit cooler for today and it is colder later this

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week. But the main story has to be one of fine and dry weather. That is

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the message to get across. Some sunshine around, but some chilly

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nights as well. When you look at the satellite you can see where all the

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weather is going. It is heading with this line of cloud straight up

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towards the Faroes and Icel`nd. That is where the low pressure is

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heading. The reason we are settled is because we have a big arda of

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high pressure. It doesn't change much for the next few days. It does

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draw in some cloud tomorrow. We will have more cloud to start with. But

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it should break up. This is the middle of the week, Wednesd`y, when

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we remain fine and dry with sunshine. This was the cloud picture

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from earlier, you can see there isn't a great deal of cloud for much

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of Devon and Cornwall. For Somerset and Dorset the cloud has bedn

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thicker and that is heading our way tonight and tomorrow. Tomorrow we

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could have a cloudy start. But let's take you back to last week. When we

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had a bit of a different scdne across Dartmoor. Something we don't

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see often. These picture were sent in pi Simon `` by Simon. Thdse are

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starlings, it is almost likd a cloud in the sky. Today we have h`d some

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sunshine and a large part of South West has had glorious weathdr today.

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The sun has been out. Some haze in the air. Just reducing the

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visibility. But it has been very pleasant and although the sda looks

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very inviting, the sea tempdrature at the moment is quite a bit down at

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around nine degrees. And thd forecast tonight, more cloud will

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come in from the east and blanket emost of the south`west by tomorrow

:25:42.:25:45.

morning. Temperatures down to three or four degrees. Tomorrow, the cloud

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will be reluctant to move. But it will break up and in the afternoon

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we will see some sunny spells with temperatures up to 12. A few places

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might get to 14 degrees. And for the forecast for the Isles of Scilly, a

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fine and bright day. Just a bit hazy with a brisk north`easterly breeze.

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There are the times of high water: For surfers the surf will bd clean,

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but not very big. But a remhnder of the tea temperatures of `` sea

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temperatures. The winds are from the east, force four or five. And a dry

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week. After quite a misty start on Wednesday, we will have sunshine

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again. More cloud though on Thursday and Friday. Thank you. Loving your

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work! Now just before we go we'd like to tell you about a new series

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on BBC South West starting tomorrow. It's almost eight weeks since we

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last had a through train to Plymouth or Cornwall. Yes, the repairs at

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Whiteball tunnel, followed by the collapse of the sea wall at Dawlish

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cut off much of the South Wdst. But was the region always so vulnerable?

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60 years ago we had alternatives to the coastal line. Now rail bosses

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have been told to look into possible inland railway routes. We'll explore

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the options starting tomorrow on your BBC local radio station and on

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Spotlight with our business correspondent Neil Gallacher. And a

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big thank you to everyone who got in touch in our search for the family

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of Herbert Algarve, the diary writer we featured. We have got an

:27:38.:27:40.

interesting lead that we ard following up. More to come through

:27:41.:27:43.

the week. Good night.

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