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Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. Our headlines tonight:

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Another step to Somerset's nuclear reality.

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The Government strikes a deal to build Britain's first new plant

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since 1995. It'll be the UK's biggest construction project worth

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?16 billion. On the ground, while many have been talking about the

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boost to the economy, others have spoken about the misery this 10`year

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construction projects will bring to local communities.

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In other news tonight ` why these former soldiers are training with

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Bath Rugby. And find out why this is music to a

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lovestruck deer. Good evening.

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The government says it'll keep the lights on into the future ` but the

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construction of Hinkley C will also have a profound effect on the

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Somerset coastline. The project ` bigger than building the Olympic

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park ` will bring an estimated 25,000 jobs to the West. But it ll

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also bring disruption and some say a poor deal for consumers.

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Tonight we explore what it means for the West and our fuel bills, and how

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safe new nuclear is. But first we cross live to Clinton Rogers who's

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been at Hinkley Point since the announcement was made. I must say it

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is a fairly measurable night. It is in contrast to the positive mood

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that has been here all day. I have lost count of the number of times I

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have stood on this spot talking about the ups and downs of the

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Hinkley C project. Six months ago when they said they would not put

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their money on it but today, a definite shift in mood. It is still

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not a done deal, but I venture to suggest that Hinkley C is more

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certain to make than it ever has been.

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Nationally they were talking about a new nuclear dawn. But when the Prime

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Minister walked into the reactor hall at Hinkley B today and met the

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existing workforce, he was keen to talk local, to big up the boost to

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Somerset's economy. 25,000 new jobs, he said.

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Hand on heart, how many of those to you think will go to local people?

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From what I have seen this morning, a lot of those jobs. These companies

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are investing in local training and colleges to make sure the young

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Google of Somerset can do apprenticeships here and learn

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skills in engineering and construction, valuable jobs.

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200 people lost their jobs when EDF stopped work on Hinkley C six months

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ago ` amid seemingly endless wrangling over the price to be paid

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for new nuclear electricity. But at last a deal has been done. And now

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the on`off project seems on. And this company in Bridgwater will

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certainly be relieved. Elecisis Make electrical switching equipment and

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they hope that contracts could be worth millions. We are looking to

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double the size of our business We are looking to goal regardless #

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draw regardless. But against the benefits must be

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weighed the disruption the biggest build project in a generation will

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cause locally. Combwich a few miles from Hinkley will see a new wharf

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built to accommodate ships which will bring in building materials.

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These materials will then be stored and a depot the size of 20 football

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pitch is just behind those houses. It was bound to happen, it is a

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major project that will have benefits nationally. And in nearby

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Cannington ` on the main road to Hinkley they are bracing themselves

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for traffic chaos. They have been promised a bypass but the trouble is

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that will not be billed for and other year and in that process the

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traffic here will increase substantially, up to 700 extra lorry

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movements. The Prime Minister tells everyone today it is short`term pain

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for long`term gain. If everything goes to plan, when the sun sets on

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this reactor in 2023, the new ones should be up and running. There will

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always be those who are not convinced about the nuclear argument

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and the concerns revolve around the question of nuclear waste,

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specifically what to do with it Laura Jones reports.

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1965 and frankly A goes online. Nuclear technology was new and

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exciting and promised a cheap `` cheap, clean and plentiful supply of

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energy. But as the decades went on, high`profile accidents I care in

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Chernobyl and ongoing question of nuclear waste raised questions about

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its future. Each year our nuclear power stations produce large

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quantities of nuclear waste. Most of this is low`level waste but some of

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it as intermediate and high`level waste, the kind that will be

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dangerous in terms of radioactivity for tens of thousands of years.

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There's already enough of it in the UK to full ten Olympic sized

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swimming pools but at the moment there is no long`term plan and what

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to do it all. Waste produced that Hinkley C will be stored on site for

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at least the life of the plant. This was being protested about today in

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Bridgwater. After that it will need to be stored safely elsewhere.

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Potentially for hundreds of thousands of years and at present

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there is nowhere to do that. The problem with nuclear power is that

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it creates a waste product that must be kept isolated from the

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environment for up to 500 million years. We do not know how we will do

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that yet. All we know is that there is a lot of money being poured into

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this project. And Somerset we have an additional problem because of the

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design of the reactor which means we cannot move the waste from the site

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for over 100 years. Great grandchildren in this area will

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still be living with this problem. Some countries have already decided

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that's too high a price to pay. Following decades of protest,

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Germany has said no to nuclear. The last plant will shut in nine years

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time ` which means there will need to be massive investment in

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alternatives. But many there believe this is the only answer ` because

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the legacy of nuclear is just not worth it. Reaction has been coming

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and all afternoon. John Osman, leader of Somerset County Council

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has described it as a great opportunity. The leader of the local

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cancer, Tim Taylor, he said he is looking forward to working with EDF

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once they get this project up and running it `` again. The stop

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Hinkley group have described this as a reckless deal. The Green Party say

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it will lead to higher energy bills and the local MP has said it is a

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good deal for Somerset but also for Britain as well. The talking is well

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underway, all we need now is the work.

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For most of us, Hinkley's new reactor will just be another source

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of power for our kettles, fridges and TVs. As we've heard, today's

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deal guarantees a price for the French energy company running

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Hinkley that is TWICE the current rate. So what does that mean for our

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bills? Dave Harvey's been doing the maths ` Dave, is it a good deal It

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depends how much you like taking your chances to be honest Alex,

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playing the ups and downs of the free market. If you have a mortgage

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` do you like those variable deals that go up and down like a yo yo

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when interest rates change ` or have you gone for a fixed rate ` you can

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fix your energy bills too these days ` and you normally pay a bit more

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for the security. This is what the wholesale energy market looks like `

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these are the prices paid not by us, but by energy companies. It's pretty

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volatile, and getting a lot more so as more countries get hungrier for

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energy. And here's what the government have offered EDF and

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their Chinese backers ` ?89.50 guaranteed ` for 35 years. So what

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happens next? Well, if the free market stays down here ` electricity

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customers will pay over the odds for the power that comes from Hinkley C.

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And today's deal looks ` well, not brilliant. But if the energy market

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continues to climb, and goes above that ?90 mark ` Hinkley C's

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electricity will remain fixed, set at ?90 ` and today's ministers will

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say ` you're glad we fixed your prices now, aren't you? Of course,

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if all this happens it means all the energy we use has gone up twice the

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price we pay today, not just the 7% that comes from Hinkley, and if

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ministers think today is a good deal, obviously that is what they

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are being told. Either way, however, our bills are going up. Earlier I

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spoke to the Energy Minister Michael Fallon and asked him if fixing the

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energy price at double the current rate was a good deal for the

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country. It is a very good price, do not forget and return EDF are

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building as a ?16 billion nuclear power station, which otherwise we

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would have had to have found that 16 billion and taken away from schools

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and other public services. Consumers may be worried about what this means

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for them. At the moment they have just seen three of the big six

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energy, he's putting up their prices. We are presumably looking at

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the government giving us an impression that in 10`year's time

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the going rate will be what you have signed up to with Hinkley C. Yes,

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but it would be larger if we did nothing. We would have to pay more

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for our commitment to carbon and renewables and they would have to

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pay more for wind farms if we did not have nuclear and we would be

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more dependent on the wholesale gas price which would also increase we

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believe. It locks EDF and at eight fixed price that is cheaper that we

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are paying at the moment for onshore wind turbines. For the people of

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Somerset and the UK, in terms of the waste, what is the government's plan

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for that? We are consulting in terms of how waste should be properly

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handled in future. We have put out a consultation document and we are

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waiting for local authorities who have expressed an interest in this

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before, for example, Cumbria, to respond to the opportunity that is

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now the but we have also ensured that EDF, who are operating this

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plant and Hinkley, they must start setting aside some of the money each

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year to cope with the costs of decommissioning and also to cope

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with the costs of handling the waste. They will start to do that

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from day one of the operation of the new plant.

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Hinkley B was built by British engineers. Obviously Hinkley C has

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been designed by the French and paid for why the Chinese, you believe

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that as sad? We have several British companies, but `` and they will be

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involved in these contracts. Rolls`Royce, for example, they will

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play a part in these projects and I hope we will have one big British

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company that can take it on. But we are doing something unique that has

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never been done before in Britain or anywhere else in the world. We are

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getting someone else to pay for the construction of a nuclear power

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station and to take all of the construction risk, it is only

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reasonable if they do that that the Genk shell out ?16 billion and that

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they should have some reasonable security that when they do plug it

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into the system we will get some playback as well.

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But there's still plenty more news for you on Points West tonight. Yes

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stay with us ` we'll find out why police are cracking down on

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irresponsible horse owners and why these deer lovers are calling out to

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the stags on Exmoor... The government may be taken to court

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if its controversial badger cull resumes in Gloucestershire. A

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decision's expected tomorrow over whether to permit a further eight

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weeks of shooting. It's part of efforts to tackle the disease,

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bovine TB. But too few badgers were killed in the first six weeks of

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culling. Campaigners, who say the government is breaching its own

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policy, have launched a legal challenge.

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The Great Western hospital in Swindon says outpatients not turning

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up for appointments are costing the NHS ?4 million a year. Managers have

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revealed that 40,000 outpatients missed appointments last year. The

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hospital's introducing a reminder service via text messaging, which

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has already helped cut missed appointments by more than a third.

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The charity Horseworld says the number of people dumping horses on

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land they don't own is up by 21 . It's a practice called fly grazing.

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Last week two travellers were given the first ASBOs in England, banning

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them from keeping horses on land without prior permission. The BBC's

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Inside Out West programme has been investigating.

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It's late at night and the owner of this field near Frome in Somerset

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has paid a bailiff to remove some horses from his land. It's expensive

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but it's a lot simpler than doing it yourself.

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You can't just take them away. The process can cost thousands and if

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you're not careful you could end up being prosecuted.

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And that's led to an increase in the number of horses being fly grazed.

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It's estimated there are 4,000 nationwide. More and more of them

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are ending up at Horseworld just outside Bristol. The charity has 48

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on its books ` that's nearly half of all its animals ` a 21% increase on

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last year. It's about profits, it's like any

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industry, if you're spending money on fodder and renting ground on

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which to put animals then that's biting into your profits.

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One of the animals they rescued was left for dead on Severn Beach.

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Inside Out West understands it belonged to Eddie Mullane.

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This is Eddie and his brother Connie caught on CCTV in April cutting a

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fence to get another horse onto the beach area. The footage was used

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last week in a ground`breaking case brought by Avon and Somerset Police

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and South Gloucestershire Council. We caught up with Eddie after the

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hearing. Mr Mullane, Alastair McKee from the

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BBC. Why do you fly graze your animals on other people's land? Go

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BLEEP yourself. This finally caught up with Lehman Brothers. `` Eddie

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Mullane and Connie Mullane. There's a been a meeting of very

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different minds and bodies at Bath Rugby. Members of the Help for

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Heroes sporting programme from Tedworth House in Wiltshire have

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been learning how other elite athletes perform at the highest

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level. It's been an education for the rugby players too, as Damian

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Derrick's been finding out From front line to touchline ` it's been

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quite a journey for some of these athletes.

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Not least Staff Sergeant Micky Yule who had his legs blown off while

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serving in Afghanistan three years ago. I never went unconscious when I

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got injured. When I woke up I knew my legs were gone. I just thought

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how was I going to get on with it? He and his team`mates have come to

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Bath Rugby to inspire and be inspired. They're benefiting from a

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partnership between Help for Heroes and the British Paralympic

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Association. It fast`tracks wounded and injured servicemen and women

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towards representing their country in Paralympic sport. It gave me

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something to focus on. More than just trying to think about walking

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and learning to walk and having surgeries, I would look at my

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training as being the priority. I was trying to get surgery out of the

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way and get these new perspectives out of the way and get back into

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training. You need something else to think about. Which for Micky?has

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been powerlifting. The inspiring side of it is that it is an

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eye`opener when you meet these guys. It stays with you and you

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think about things whenever you feel like complaining.

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And the team from Tedworth House are making an even bigger impression on

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those that work with them day in day out. When you have seen someone

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through all of that pathway and that they can now achieve their goals,

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there is nothing more inspirational. If that is the effect it has on us,

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you can imagine how it makes them feel.

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Micky's goal is competing at the Paralympics in Rio. And given what

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he's already achieved expect to see him on a slightly bigger screen in

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2016. Forest Green Rovers are looking for

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a new manager. Dave Hockaday has left the club today after a seventh

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defeat in eight matches at the weekend. He'd been in charge at the

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New Lawn for the last four years. Many of us at some point in our

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lives may have had a huge clear out and given some of our unwanted bits

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and bobs to the local charity shop. But over the weekend, Weldmar

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Hospicecare Trust has been given a pretty special donation, as Fiona

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Lamdin reports. There's something pretty special

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inside here today, and it's got nothing to do with these, or these,

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but if you look over here, an extraordinary donation from Peter

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Wilson, the Olympic gold medallist. He has won gold for Great Britain!

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The very same trousers and shooting jacket Peter wore when firing the

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winning shot in the Olympic summer of 2012.

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It's first time I've heard of such a unique opportunity to support a

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local charity, once in a life time. And, of course, the London Olympics

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are a once`in`a`lifetime experience for all of us, especially Peter

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whose feet have hardly touched the ground since and he has been jetting

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around all over the world. And within it's opening hour, bidding

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was already underway, And so for the next five weeks, while the offers

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roll in, it will be this, not entirely accurate replica of Peter,

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wearing his kit. Fiona Lamdin, BBC Points West, in

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Sherborne. Now, the village of Dulverton on the

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edge of Exmoor was home to a world championship at the weekend. Bolving

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` yes, bolving ` is the art of imitating a stag during the mating

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season. This is what it should sound like: The idea is to trick the stag

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into answering your call, and this year, almost 50 competitors took

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part. Andrew Plant was there. Good evening and welcome to the 10th

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annual world bolving competition here on Exmoor. You are going to be

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judged on how well you imitate a stag.

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The start of this annual competition and a demonstration and the art of

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exactly how bolving should be done. Somewhere between Tarzan and the X

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and the role of pain, and imitation of the Exmoor stags and this, their

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mating season. Competitors need to call enough and loud enough to carry

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across the countryside and persuade a real stag to and back. It is the

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October rot, the mating season of the red Deer stags. They do this

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unique call and it sends out a challenge. It says that I am a big

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ruthless stag and high and testosterone. The bizarre world of

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the bolving has become increasingly popular and crowds come from miles

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around to test out their own calls and pick up some tips. Jane Coleman

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trained hard for her very first bolving championship. And as

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darkness begins to fall, the bolving finally begins. Quiet, quiet!

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Between each call, everyone listens for the sound of a response from the

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countryside below. The bolving is clearly open to interpretation. With

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some surprising variation in each attempt. It is the most resounding

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that seemed to be the most successful. Each account is marked

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by torchlight by a panel of judges. Jane did not take the title this

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time, but she says she will be back to do it all again next year. Andrew

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Plant, BBC Points West on Exmoor. That was brilliant! That was how I

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attracted my wife! It will be very wet this week. Some

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of the rain will be very heavy and it will also be windy, but still

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mild for this time of year. One of our weather warnings was set up in

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Gloucestershire and it is said to be still very mild there.

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There were one to drier spells about this afternoon. But at the moment

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there are heavy rainfall is moving across Somerset. Overnight it will

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get very wet indeed. It is moving not words over the middle of the

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night. There will still be some around for the rush hour tomorrow

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morning. Heavy rainfall tomorrow evening also. The Met Office has

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some yellow warnings out for part of Wiltshire. They will disappear this

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evening. Those for Somerset and Dorset will continue through tonight

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and tomorrow. There are some concerns about the amounts of rain

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that will be around. There will be a risk of flooding. As we approach

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rush hour tomorrow morning there will still be some wet weather

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about. It is a mild and eight. Temperatures are around 15 or 1

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Celsius. Tomorrow's rush hour is windy and wet. There will be some

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drier weather and the West. Particularly for the South East of

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Wiltshire. The dry weather continues and the sofa for a little while

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longer before that rain moves across. So it will be a bit like

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wet, dried, wet, dry. Friday is looking particularly wet.

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We return to our main story tonight ` news that a deal's been struck

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which will see a new nuclear power station built at Hinkley Point. Our

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Somerset Correspondent Clinton Rogers has been on site all day and

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joins us again. Clint ` the Prime Minister's given his seal of

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approval, but does this mean the power station will definitely be

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built? This is not yet a done deal. There could still be a few legal

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challenges in the High Court and that will take place in December.

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There is also the issue as to whether the European Union will see

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to the's deal as a government subsidy and if that happens that

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could be a problem. The Chinese have also not signed on the line and once

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we have done that then you can see it as a done deal. Watch this space.

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Tomorrow I will be chatting to and want to get and his partner and

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Strictly Come Dancing. Join us at ten o'clock tonight with more on the

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Hinckley news. Goodbye.

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