31/03/2014 BBC Channel Islands News


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Good evening, and welcome to Monday's BBC Channel Islands news.

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After thousands of pounds was spent upgrading it, one of Guernsey's main

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community facilities is attacked by vandals. I believe it's a cry for

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help in some way. There is absolutely no excuse for this kind

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of stupidity. Also, the future of Jersey's

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Heritage Trust looks more stable after drastic job cuts and support

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from islanders. And after 100 incidents of Jersey's

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water being polluted last year, the surfers, sailors and swimmers taking

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on the fight to keep our seas clean. There could soon be CCTV cameras

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installed at Guernsey's new skate park after graffiti was daubed all

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over it at the weekend. The facility in St peter Port only opened last

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year, after years of campaigning and fund`raising by young people. The

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island's Culture and Leisure Minister, who oversaw the project,

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says he's furious at this attack. And as Mike Wilkins reports, it's

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not just case of scrubbing it off. Guernsey's new skate park, not even

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a year old, and already out of action. And this is the cause `

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graffiti sprawled all across the polished surface. It could take

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three days to remove it. It will take a long time to clean it up.

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They can't paint over it or use high`pressure water washer is

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because they need to maintain the surface. This has taken workers for

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hours and they still have not managed to shift it. The authorities

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are being forced to buy a special substance which, it's hoped, will be

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more successful at removing the paint. And it's not just the skate

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park that has been targeted. These photos show other areas of St Peter

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Port that have been attacked. The island's Culture and Leisure

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Minister says he won't tolerate such behaviour. I believe it's a cry for

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help in some way. I'm not quite sure but there is absolutely no excuse

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for this kind of stupidity and we are, they are just two bit people

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who do this. I have no time at all for this kind of behaviour, at all,

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and I think I share that with many people on this island. We don't want

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this kind of thing to happen. Guernsey Police are analysing CCTV

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footage images from the nearby Beau Sejour Leisure Centre. And the skate

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park is now considering getting cameras itself to prevent further

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attacks. A UK travel company that specialises

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in bringing holiday makers to the Channel Islands has bought Preston

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Travel, which collapsed last month. 3X Travel, based in Surrey, has

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bought the company and plans to re`launch as Preston Holidays.

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Preston Travel had been bringing around 20,000 visitors a year to

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Jersey. That's about 8% of the total number. 3X Travel, which specialises

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in short breaks, family and group holidays to the Channel Islands, has

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bought its entire assets, as well as its customer base.

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EasyJet bosses say they haven't ruled out further expansion in the

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Channel Islands, as the airline launched its Jersey to London

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Gatwick route this weekend. Here's the first aeroplane touching down to

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a water cannon welcome on Sunday morning. The low`cost carrier takes

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over the Gatwick route from Flybe, which stopped flying between

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Guernsey and Jersey to London due to rising costs. EasyJet says current

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conditions at Guernsey Airport prevent it from taking over the

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service there. We looked closely at Guernsey and it presented an

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attractive opportunity to us. Our problem is that the runway length

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resented some operational restrictions so for the moment it is

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not something we are able to consider, sadly, but we will see

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what happens in the future. More than 100 employees at the

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telecoms company Sure are facing major changes to their pension

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scheme. That's around half the workforce ` those employed when it

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was still run by the States as Guernsey Telecoms. Sure says the

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final salary scheme they signed up to is no longer sustainable, and

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plans to close it. Staff will still get the pension they accrued to

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date, but will be asked to join a new scheme moving forward. The

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defined enough scheme which is a salary `based scheme when you retire

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is clearly not sustainable and we have to find solutions to address

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that in a way that the pensioners and members are going to be, the

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value will reflect what they put into date.

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Financial support from islanders has secured the future of Jersey

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Heritage, which looks after sites including Elizabeth Castle, La

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Hougue Bie and the Maritime Museum. The organisation faced a funding

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crisis a few years ago, and was forced to cut jobs and reduce

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opening times. Since then it's completed a three`year deal with the

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States, where both parties match funding 50/50. Emma Chambers has

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been speaking to Heritage bosses about the future, ahead of the start

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of this year's summer season. The future looked bleak for Jersey's

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biggest tourist attractions when the group in charge of them suffered a

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severe funding crisis, which left it ?1 million a year short. Fast

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forward four years, and now the future is looking a lot brighter.

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Even though the castles and museums still have reduced opening hours,

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the number of people visiting them has increased by 13%. That's because

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the three`year agreement Jersey Heritage made with the Government to

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match public funding with self`generated income is providing

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stability. There has been some reduction in the level of service we

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are providing which in the future we will look to add a rest back up, but

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that change has produced a great deal of money and investment from

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the states which has allowed us to deliver more change on the sites,

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which was a long time coming. That in turn has delivered more use from

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tourists and locals. Over the last five years, the membership scheme

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has had the biggest boost, from 2000 to 9000. It's this support from

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locals that's enabled a number of investments in the service for this

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year, including a move into digital technology. We have created a

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virtual pocket museum and it is a 3`D up, actually an augmented

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reality app, which means we can upload parts of the collection in

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3`D files. From Celtic coins to an ongoing ice age project, Jersey's

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sites already span vast swathes of history. But the organisation is

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looking to the future, and a funding model based on much firmer ground.

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Three people have put themselves forward as candidates in an Alderney

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States by`election. It follows the death of States member Paul Arditti

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earlier this year. The three facing the public vote are Tony Barnes, Lin

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Maurice and Norma Paris. Voting takes place on Saturday the 12th of

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April. A Sark hotelier says bookings this

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spring are 71% up on the same period in 2013, and that's mainly due to

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the BBC series An Island Parish. Half of those who've booked at

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Stocks for a summer holiday this year told staff they're fans of the

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series. Sark Tourism says website hits increased a thousandfold in the

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24 hours after each show in the six`part series was aired.

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You're watching the BBC in the Channel Islands. Good to have you

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with us. Later in Spotlight with Justin and Natalie, the young

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engineers who built this radio`controlled four`by`four to win

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a national competition. Stay tuned for that, and a forecast

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in a few moments. Surfers, sailors and swimmers have been braving dirty

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waters in Jersey today as part of a new environmental campaign. Blue

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Fish is aimed at highlighting the risks of polluting island waters

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after more than 100 incidents were reported last year. Jen Smith

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reports Luckily, these were the worst. Luckily, not

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things you regularly find in Jersey's waters. And that's the

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point. Jersey's Environment Department hopes this unattractive

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lot will make you think about what you throw down the drain. People

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disposing, washing out their paint pots and you will suddenly get a

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blue or white coloured stream so that has an impact on water life. It

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also has an impact on our drinking water, so Jersey Water take the

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water, the rain that falls on the island to provide clean drinking

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water and we want to ensure it is protected. More than 100 incidents

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of water pollution were reported to Jersey's Environment Department last

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year. Surfers like Arlene Maltman say raising awareness is the best

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way to stop it getting worse. We don't want to end up like France,

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for example, where after a storm, the beaches can be closed and it

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becomes dangerous for swimming or surfing, you can catch things like

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hepatitis. The campaign's about keeping our island waters clean and

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ensuring we don't pollute what comes out of the tap. Howard Snowden from

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Jersey Water says with so many people on a small island, this is a

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challenge. It can, because we are living within catchment areas. They

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have bigger reservoir systems in the British Isles and are scarcely

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populated, things like the Pennines and Yorkshire moons. Jersey, we are

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pretty much inhabited across the island. So while Jersey's waters

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might not look like this, the message is, keep it clean if we want

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to keep it that way. Whether time now. A lovely day yesterday. It was

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some of the highest temperatures we have seen so far this year. 16, 17

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degrees. The thunderstorms in the last couple of hours have brought

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temperatures down but we are mostly an evening feature and will move out

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of the way later tonight and then we have a misty start to tomorrow. Then

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some sunny spells and feeling warm in the sunshine again. On the face

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of it, there is quite a lot going on. Lumps of cloud all around us,

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one moving through the Cherbourg peninsula at the moment is a line of

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showers and could come close to us in the next few hours. After that,

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the shower activity drives down. There is low pressure to the west of

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over Germany and Poland and that over Germany and Poland and that

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doesn't change much this week with low pressure moving up to the west

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of us and a threat of showers. These showers are quite lively. Don't be

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surprised if we don't get another rumble of thunder or lightning for a

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short while tonight, but then later the mist and fog will turn up, some

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of the fog quite thick tomorrow morning. Tomorrow a misty start,

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some of that in low cloud and mist reluctant to move out of the way but

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it will improve and by the end of the afternoon, the sunshine will be

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back out and it will feel warm. For coastal waters, it is mainly an East

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or south easterly force for misty and then becoming mainly fair. The

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times of high water, at St Helier it is 8:23am. Not much waste for

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surfers and quite clean. A warm day on Wednesday that there will always

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be a threat of showers in the next few days, but generally we will get

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away with it, quite an increasing risk of showers towards the weekend.

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Thank you, David. That it for now. I am back with the headlines at 8pm

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and again with the news at 10pm. From us, by for now.

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who built this winning car. And preparing for passengers again, the

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volunteers giving Dawlish station a make over.

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Drug and alcohol addicts are being encouraged to try abstaining instead

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of relying on substitutes such as methadone. The ?15 million project

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is being run by charities in Devon. Jenny Kumah has the details.

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What's new about this service in Devon is that it deals with both

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drug and drink problems. Before, drug and drink problems. Before,

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these issues were dealt with by two separate organisations. Former drug

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users and alcoholics have helped to shape the service so it can better

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meet people's needs. I've been speaking to one of the people

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involved in this project. He had been a heroin and methadone user for

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28 years. My brother gave me a definition. He said, "It's like when

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you started taking drugs, you shut down. And for 20 years, you were

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shut down and you just woke up again." And that is exactly what

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it's like. It's like I'm reborn, in a way. Seymour chose to come off the

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heroin substitute methadone but he says that many addicts have been

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left to linger on this prescribed medication for too long without

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enough help to come off drugs completely. And that's what this new

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service hopes to sort out. There will be a big emphasis on

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abstinence. There will be a great emphasis in the new service... That

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will continue to provide substitute medication for people... But as part

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of a plan. And part of that plan will be that it will be on a

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reducing basis over a period of time, dependent on their needs.

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Addiction is a growing problem. Around 15,000 people are dependent

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on drugs and around 26,000 have a drink problem. This is predicted to

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rise by 4% by 2030. The authorities also say the nature of addiction is

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changing, with dependency on over`the`counter prescription drugs

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rising as well as the number of professional women drinking harmful

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amounts of alcohol. Jenny there.

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As Justin mentioned, the new cricket season is just around the corner and

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today, Dave Gibbins has been to Somerset County Cricket Club. Here

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he is with their plans for this year and the highlights from the

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weekend's football and rugby action. This report contains some flash

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photography. Well, the cricket season starts in earnest in a couple

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of weeks' time for Somerset and this is part of their pre`season

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reparation, showing off their Championship attire in front of the

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press followed shortly by their press followed shortly by their

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Twenty20 kit. More about that in a moment. But first, the rest of the

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sport. Yeovil Town has slipped, I am

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afraid, to the bottom of football's Championship again.

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afraid, to the bottom of football's It was imperative that they got the

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better of relegation rivals Barnsley at the weekend. But they crashed to

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a 4`1 defeat. A mistake by Byron Webster late in the first, which was

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doubled by a tasty finish to leave them floundering in a game they

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could not afford to lose. This could not afford to lose. This

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player instilled some life into Town but that was quickly undone as

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Barnsley grabbed another two goals to end the contest.

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After two wins last week, Exeter City are back to square one

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following a one goal loss to Accrington Stanley.

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While Torquay United's life as a league club is nearing its end. City

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goalkeeper was left wanting from a corner kick, as Accrington scored

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the only goal. Despite the result, Exeter are still seven points away

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from danger. Torquay have only six games left to

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preserve their league status and a 1`0 setback, this time play`off

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content to Southend, leaves them seven points away from the clear.

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Exeter Chiefs's hopes of finishing in the top six of this year's Rugby

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Premiership and a place in the revamped European Cup are almost

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over. Meanwhile, the Cornish Pirates have

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needed ten straight wins in the league over south`west rivals

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Plymouth Albion. Here's Ben. `` Brent.

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Since Plymouth Albion last beat the Cornish Pirates in the league, there

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has been two Winter Olympics, a change of government and a Royal

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Wedding. And their wait to beat their Cornish neighbours is going to

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go into its fifth full year after Saturday's close loss. After Albion

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had taken an early lead with tries putting the visitors in front. ``

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lead, tries put the visitors in front. Iain Grace got Albion close

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before this late try from Tom Kettle sealed the win against his old club.

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We've come up here today, there is a great crowd. We really enjoyed being

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in front of it and I feel like it had a bit of a derby game feel, as

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well. It was coming and going, coming and going but thankfully we

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got the result. A bit frustrating. We crossed the line twice, got the

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ball rolling, put it down twice and the referee failed to see that

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twice, which frustrates me as well. That's potentially 10`14 points but

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somehow the officials have missed it but everyone else has seen it. So

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I'm not happy with that either but we made two mistakes. `` too many

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mistakes. Meanwhile, Exeter's hopes of a top six Premiership finish are

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all but over after losing 14`13 to Gloucester. This late try set up a

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kick to win it for Gary Steenson but it drifted just wide to leave the

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Chiefs in ninth place. Well, the press conference has just

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finished in the Long Room and we are on the balcony of that same

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building. Joining us is the county captain of Somerset. You've got two

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new coaches, David Hutton and also Jason Kerr, a familiar face to

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everybody at the County ground. What do you think they can add to the

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team? It has been quite an easy progression. Jason has been involved

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and been here for a long period of time. So that has been a natural

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progression in a way. The bowlers have been working with him closely

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during winter times. And then Dave has been a great asset for us. As

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soon as he became available after his time at Derby, it was a natural

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progression. We wanted somebody of his calibre, international

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experience, coaching experience around the world, and the fantastic

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batting coach that goes alongside that. Now, there has been a lot of

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speculation and talk a good positive talk, about the twins Jamie and

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Craig, from North Devon. Has that talk been premature of them perhaps

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earning their first England test caps question marks become a look, I

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think it is not in thoroughly premature. `` test caps? Look, I

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think it is not necessarily premature. All this with the England

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team have had a tough winter. It is natural people are going to start

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looking to the next group of players and the next use players on. They

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have every chance. There are good cricketers and I am sure somewhere

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along the line, whether this is in order season after, that both of

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them will match up and be good enough to make the next step. ``

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this season or the season after that. We wish the very best of

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luck. Their first County Championship game is at Taunton

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against Yorkshire, on Sunday April 13.

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Lovely, you know summer is on its way when Dave has his pink,

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short`sleeved shirt on. Is that the sign?

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Well, the clock did go forward. A group of budding engineers from a

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school in Devon who built a radio controlled 4x4 car has just won a

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national competition. The pupils from Clyst Vale Community College

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pitted their vehicle against 26 other teams and overcame them and

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some rather large obstacles. John Danks has the story.

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This radio controlled car can tackle almost any awkward surface. What

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might surprise you is that it was designed and built by these guys. It

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has two wheel steering and 4`wheel steering, that you can turn off

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remotely using the transmitter. That is the electronic side of things. We

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also have a carbon fibre body shell and also carbon fibre chassis. The

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car was built for an engineering challenge is run by Land Rover. The

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year nine pupils travelled up to the company's divine quarters in

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Warwickshire to take part in the national final. They were

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interviewed by expert engineers from across the engineering sectors,

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aerospace, money factoring, production. The level of answers

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they were given to their judges were phenomenal. The level of intensity

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that they were scrutinised and was massive. They not only had to handle

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the pressure but there were a few surprises. Especially on the course.

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We were not expecting it to be over a car. They were going inside and

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outside and on top of a car. After overcoming all of the obstacles, and

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competitions from 26th other teams, it was a man who claimed the trophy

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and the ?1000 rise. There were so many teams that I did not think

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there was much chance of winning and I am still wheezed that we actually

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won the whole competition. `` amazed. While success things and,

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they are already planning to engineer and other when next year.

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`` another win. We never did things like that while

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I was at school! I wish we had. Now as we heard earlier, Network

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Rail has confirmed that the rail line through Dawlish will open as

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planned on Friday. Work is now underway to get the

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station, which has also been closed, ready ahead of the big day. And a

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group of green`fingered local volunteers has been giving it a make

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over. Spotlight's Chloe Axford joined them this weekend.

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People here in Dawlish describe the town's train station as their

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lifeblood. That is why they want it to look as good as possible when the

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Spotlight is on it when it reopens later this week. I want these just

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to go over the edge. They need to be a bit higher. Local gardener and

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broadcaster Toby Butland is leading a team of volunteers, giving the

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platform is a floral make over. I grew up in Dawlish, live here in

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Dawlish, live your now and am very proud of that. It is just shocking

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to see it go down at heel and almost washed away on the seafront. It is

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important to me to bring it back. This is one thing that can make a

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please look like it is back on its feet, open for business. It is plant

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and colour. As well as a planting project, work is underway to spruce

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the station up ahead of its reopening. There are new canopies

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and the whole station has been newly painted. It is a very heavily used

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station. Even though it is, you know, just a seaside town. A lot of

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people commute, both southerly and northerly. The last two months have

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been quiet from attic to the town, with the evacuation that took place.

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`` quite traumatic. Let's get Dawlish going again. Network Rail

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has confirmed that the mainline through Dawlish will reopen on

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Friday, following weeks of round`the`clock work to repair it.

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It says work is progressing well, although there are still some

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challenges ahead. It is looking good. I am looking

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forward to seeing their handiwork on Friday because Spotlight will be

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coming live run Dawlish station. We will also hopefully be on one of the

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first passionate dreams. Passenger trains. You're also going

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engineering project that has been engineering project that has been

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going on has been taking place. We'll go behind the scenes there as

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well. That is coming up on Friday at well. That is coming up on Friday at

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six 30p. You're going to see those lovely

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views out of the train window. Let's have a look at the weather.

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views out of the train window. Let's The papers happens in that it is

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Mediterranean heard this week. Is Mediterranean heard this week. Is

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that right? No. Do not believe everything you

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read in the newspapers. We did have a warm day yesterday but I think

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14 degrees 15 degrees at best, and 14 degrees 15 degrees at best,

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that is nothing like the that is nothing like the

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temperatures in the Mediterranean. Not really true! Good evening. We

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have had some warmth and some sunshine through the weekend. It has

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been a very pleasant weekend. The highest temperatures have been

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across parts of Somerset but I will come to those in just a second.

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First, the forecast for this week. It is mild but I would not go

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overboard and call it warm. There is some rain in the forecast, mainly in

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the form of showers. We continue with the risk of those showers

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pretty much every day of this week. Hopefully some fine weather in

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between those showers. We certainly between those showers. We certainly

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The top temperatures was 18 degrees. The top temperatures was 18 degrees.

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so far from south`west England. Many so far from south`west England. Many

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other locations for 16 or 17. Lots of cloud. Areas of low pressure,

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be a feature of the week ahead. be a feature of the week

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Every now and again, we will get a Every now and again, we will get a

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strand of cloud thrown up by that area of low pressure, bringing the

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line of showers. We have one of the moment. That will move out of the

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way overnight tonight and before the next one arrives, coming through the

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English Channel in the afternoon tomorrow, there should be a lot of

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dry weather around. There is much in the way of wind, meaning it will

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turn a misty and even for the first thing tomorrow morning. Either time

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we get to the middle of the week, a weather system off the Atlantic will

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bring us some more persistent rain. A lot is happening. The next 24

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hours or so, I think there will be a lot of dry weather. The showers that

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we have now are quite lively. We have given some fairly torrential

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downpours are, even your flash of light. The whole lot is moving

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northwards and later on tonight, it becomes dry and then misty and then

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foggy by tomorrow morning. In fact, some of the fault could be quite

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thick for those travelling early in the day. Visibility is between 50

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and 100 metres. That really could cause some travel worries early in

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the day. Later tonight, it will be forming and around early tomorrow

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morning. Stay tuned to a local radio for

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updates on that. Overnight temperatures... For most of us, it

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will be a fine day tomorrow after that fog has gone. There is that

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next line of showers coming up from the south. Late in the day, coming

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into parts of Cornwall and so they can. Although there are a few

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showers dotted around and it is just a line of cloud, rather than any in

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Thames River Pageant winds are also coming around. They're becoming a

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bit more easterly on the strongest will be across West Cornwall and the

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Isles of Scilly. Temperatures getting up to 15, maybe 16 degrees.

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17 is possible across northern parts of Somerset but not quite as warm as

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yesterday. On to the forecast for the Isles of Scilly. Here, I think,

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mainly dry with cloudy skies. Breezy day with the threat of a few light

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showers. Those times are now of course in

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British summertime. For our suffers, the south coast is likely to have

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some of the biggest waves but not very clean. The strongest winds will

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be in the far west. There is a coastal waters forecast. Mainly fair

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but with the risk of showers later in the day. Also the possibility of

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some sea fog patches around line Bay and Corby. They could be slow to

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move out of the way. That is the forecast for the rest of this week.

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`` and sea fog patches around the coast. There will be some longer

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spells of rain possibly but hopefully a bit of sunshine in

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between. Have a good evening. Not quite Mediterranean. Thank you,

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David. BBC Radio Cornwall is broadcasting a

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special programme from Brussels tomorrow. James Churchfield and

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Debbie McRory will be live at the EU Parliament building, asking what

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Europe has done for Cornwall. That's live from 6am tomorrow morning.

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Parliament Sounds good. We are back at 6:30pm

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tomorrow. Have a lovely evening. Thank you for watching.

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Good night.

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