29/08/2011 BBC Points West


29/08/2011

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Good evening. A group of West Country MPs, including Defence

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Secretary Liam Fox, is urging the Government to put a stop to the

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National Grid's plans for a network of new electricity pylons. A 37

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mile stretch is proposed to carry power from a new nuclear power

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station at Hinkley Point in Somerset to Avonmouth. But pressure

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is mounting for the power cables to go underground. Wells MP Tessa Munt

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lives on the edge of the Somerset Levels. If the new pylons are built

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she'll visible from her garden. But she says this isn't just an

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environmental argument. She's joined forces with Conservative MP

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and Defence Secretary Liam Fox to claim it's actually cheaper long

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At the moment we lose 7% of the energy taken from the source to its

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destination on overhead lines. If we put it underground we would save

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5% of the original figure. The costs are covered by putting them

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underground. It's long been National Grid contention that the

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cost of burying 37 miles of cables from Somerset to Avonmouth would be

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prohibitively high but in the face of public opposition it was

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prepared to consider other options. What's not helped the arguments on

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either side is that a study on the relative costs of underground

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versus overground has been dogged by problems and delays, even the

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company commissioned to do it pulling out. But National Grid said

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this afternoon it hoped to have study results to hand by the autumn

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then it would be in a position to Taxi drivers in Bath claim they're

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being harassed by local traffic wardens and are warning the city's

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Orange Grove taxi rank is too congested. One driver's put a

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protest video on the internet, claiming he and colleagues have

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been given tickets for stopping for just 30 seconds. Bath and North

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East Somerset Council says the number of traffic wardens at Orange

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Grove is proportional to the traffic and that some of the city's

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taxi ranks are left empty, while this one is often oversubscribed.

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Turning to sport now. And in cricket, there's been more bad news

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for Somerset just 48 hours after losing the final of the 2020 cup.

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In their CB 40 match against Essex, captain Marcus Trescothick was

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taken to hospital for a scan after injuring his ankle. Somerset made

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251 for 5. Essex are currently on 134 for five after 23 overs. Just

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one football result for you, Forest Green Rovers beat Bath City 3-0.

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Reece Styche scored twice as Forest Green secured their first home win

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of the season. Chris Stokes was also on target. It has been a

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poignant day at the Castle Combe motor racing circuit in Wiltshire

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as drivers returned to the track two weeks after one of their

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colleagues died there. Pete O'Shea suffered a heart attack while he

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was at the wheel. Today his team mates' cars carried Pete's name on

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the side as a tribute to him. Aside from the usual pre-race nerves and

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tension, for the Swift Cooper race team, this was to be an emotive day.

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On their three cars, the name of Pete O'Shea. He died of a heart

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attack while driving here at Castle Combe just a fortnight ago. He was

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53. It is the first meeting we have done without Peter being involved.

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It is a big shock to the team when Peter died. As a mark of respect,

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our teams are a running his name on the car and the shamrock as well

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because he is from Ireland. Also racing in the Formula Ford series

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today, a team run by students from Wiltshire College who are studying

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a motorsports engineering degree. We tried to make sure they go out

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into the world of motor sport and know about every side of the

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business. It gives them a general grounding. And the practical skills

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as well they will need. As well as the single seaters the crowd was

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entertained by an impressive line up of supercars old and new. Owning

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a Ferrari is one thing but being The weather has not been too bad

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for Bank Holiday. Hello. We continue through the rest of this

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evening on a dry and settled note. It is similar tomorrow with dry

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conditions throughout. The reason for the settled conditions is the

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high pressure building in from the West. It continues to do so tonight

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and tomorrow as well. Through this evening, player spells for Sam.

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Something of a mixture. -- clearer spells for sum. By dawn tomorrow

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morning, in the countryside go- getting down to eight Celsius.

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Tomorrow will start much like today with some areas favoured more for

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the sunshine. There will be more cloud developing in the afternoon.

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The winds will be lighter compared with today. We will continue with

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those conditions right the way through to the evening. Temperature

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rise a degree or so up on today. As we look beyond that, it will

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