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changes to grading and assessment. That is all from the BBC

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Good evening. Our headlines: The copper thieves taking extraordinary

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risks. They climb high voltage electricity pylons to strip the

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metal ` inches from 33,000 volts. The flat`hunters being conned out of

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?1000 on the promise of viewing exclusive properties that don't

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exist. Firefighters go on strike right now

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at the start of bonfire weekend And, 50 years ago, the Beatles

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concert in Cheltenham that officially launched Beatlemania

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Good evening. A seven`man gang will be going to jail after stealing live

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cables from electricity pylons in a Gloucestershire field. The men

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climbed up hundreds of feet near Frampton on Severn to cut down the

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wires. The body representing the energy companies says the thefts

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have become so extensive in recent years, it is adding pounds to our

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electricity bills. Uma Chohan on the left, and, in the

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middle, his brother Vijay. They d denied being scrap metal dealers or

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any involvment with the cable theft gang. Today, at Gloucester Crown

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Court, a jury decided otherwise The court heard that on the night 6 of

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September 2010 a police Sergeant spotted a van and car in a lay`by.

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The occupant said they had been out catching rabbits. When the cable

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threat was uncovered they were arrested. They have been making

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calls that night to a scrap metal ship in Cardiff. The judge has

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warned all seven defendants they will be going to prison. There were

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a series of cable thefts near Frampton on Severn in 2010.

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Nationally, repairing theft damage costs power companies ?60 million a

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year, a cost which is added to our electricity bills. In the last two

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years, 20 people have been killed by electrocution, trying to steal

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cables. But new laws regulating scrap metal dealers are deterring

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thieves. The scrap metal industry has begun to do what we said it

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would do, and that is clean its act up. We have seen as a result a

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considerable decline in the number of metal thefts across England and

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Wales. Tonight, Western Power Distribution says it's pleased with

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the guilty verdicts. The BBC has uncovered a scam where

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spacious and elegant flats are being advertised for rent in Bristol at

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knock down prices. The problem is, the deal is just too good to be

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true. Jack moved to Bristol to work at the

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BBC and thought he'd found his dream flat ` ?540 a month, bills included.

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Advertised on Gumtree, the landlady wouldn't give the exact address

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When she wanted more than ?1,00 up front, Jack got suspicious and

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pulled out. In a market like Bristol's, people could fall for

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this quite easily. It was quite clever. This flat is actually in

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Mayfair, for rent through legitimate agents at more than ?3,000 a month.

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The advert Jack had seen was a scam. It's not surprising he wanted this

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place. Despite an increase in the number of flats for rent in Bristol,

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demand still outstrips supply. It's very much a landlord's market, which

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brings its own problems. All these cost pressures on tenants are making

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it difficult for them to go to accredited agencies and some tenants

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may go on to online websites, where fees are lower, rents are there was

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the macro lower. The council does target rogue landlords through a

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licensing scheme, which they want to expand. They know that what Israeli

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needed in Bristol are new homes We have had a significant crash in the

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construction industry. Fewer properties are being built or

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converted. There will always be rogue landlords, sometimes rogue

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tenants. People need to be aware of these scams. All Jack can do is keep

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looking, and follow Gumtree's advice to always visit a flat before paying

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anything. The Government's controversial

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badger cull ended in Somerset today. The aim has been to kill 70% of the

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badger populations in the pilot areas as part of efforts to tackle

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bovine TB. The cull in Gloucestershire is due to continue

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into December. Firefighters across the West have

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just walked out on strike. Andrew Plant is in Bridgwater, where

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there's going to be a fireworks display later. This is a 20 foot

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effigy of Guy Fawkes. Setting this on fire will mark the start of the

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Carnival here. There have been recommendations here across the UK

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that people might have spoken their fireworks celebrations due to the

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strike going on until 11pm. They say they have been working on this for a

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year and they will not let it spoil their fun, and they have got their

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own precautions in place. When this bonfire and fireworks

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display begins to light up the skies around Downend later this evening,

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every fire station across the West will be closed and locked up. All

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our brigades have contingency plans. The appliances will be driven by

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nonunion and members of management. We will still be able to take 9 9

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calls and make a response, but that will be on a limited basis. This is

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not a dispute of our making. The overwhelming number of firefighters

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are union members and they're angry at the Government's decision to

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raise their retirement age to 6 , when many of them won't pass new

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fitness levels and so lose their pensions. The organisers of the

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Downend event say they have heeded the brigade's warning to take extra

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care. The strike is set to end at 11pm, and another one is planned for

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Monday morning. We have brought further precautions with regard to

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fire extinction is to stop. Rita is here from the Bridgwater

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Carnival committee. You won't put off today by the strike? No we have

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got a good rapport with the Fire Service and police. We have got a

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professional team doing the fireworks. Risk assessments have

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been done, and everything is under control. It is looking great, but

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this is just a taste of what is to come tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow we

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start at 10am. We have got samba bands, majorettes, and the big

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parade will start at 6:45pm. Tell us about the preparations that go into

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this Carnival. We meet on a monthly basis. As soon as this is over, we

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will have a debrief as to where we can improve, and it is just a

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rollover. So it starts at 10:30am. Yes, and the parade officially

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starts at 7pm. The fire strike goes on until 11pm.

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Still to come in the programme: Finder's keepers ` the free art

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people have been snapping up on the streets.

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And, a windy weekend on the way Those wins will be quite significant

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on Saturday. Hundreds of people gathered in

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Bristol today to pay tribute to the visionary co`founder of one of the

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West's best`known cancer charities. Pat Pilkington helped set up the

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Bristol Cancer Help Centre in 1 80, which later changed its name to the

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Penny Brohn Centre. Pat died at her home in Chew Magna in August after

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being diagnosed with the disease herself. Today, those she touched

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offered their thanks. Thanks from friends like actress

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Maureen Lipman who performed a sketch in tribute to Pat. Pat

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co`founded the Bristol Cancer Help Centre in 1980 and faced criticism

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of their revolutionary holistic approach. When I met her, she took

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one of my hands in both of hers look to be deep in the eyes, and

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just said, " I am so pleased to have met you" . She just made me feel

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that I was the only person. It was very moving, even now. She made me

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feel immensely special. But her persistence earned even Royal

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approval, and eventually an MBE She was absolutely in the heart of it

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all, and felt so passionately about helping people. That was everything

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that she offered. The work that she The service heard that Pat was

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giving motivational talks right up until her own death from cancer Did

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was absolutely her passion. She gave everything to that. Her prayer for

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others read; "May you be happy, may you be free from suffering, may you

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be healed, may you be at peace. A pioneering woman's legacy in words.

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Earlier, I popped down to St. She was very beautiful. Just to look at

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her was a treat. And her husband. I went to him originally for some

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healing, and I thought, my goodness, look at the bone structure on these

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two people. You don't see this outside of alabaster busts. She was

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good fun, you could have a laugh with her. What sort of legacy did

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you think she has left? She has left the legacy of someone who was ahead

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of her time. She was an early believer in alternative medicine,

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when it was matched scoffed at to believe that the mind had any

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bearing on the body. She was a very spiritual person. She believed in

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something holistic. That is what we often talked about. You could talk

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about God, the afterlife, coincidence with Pat. The kind of

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hands`on healing, talking about what faces you when you die, the book

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that is coming out. She prosaically said Christopher is writing a book

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through me, which is all about how you die. How you handle it. We never

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stopped talking. You are not quite, are you? No, I have my moments. It

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was strange to come to the Theatre Royal in Bath for my 13th visit and

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not to have dinner with her. Was that your regular meeting? Yes. She

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was an actress, she trained at the Central School. There was a lot of

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theatre in the church, and a lot of therapy in theatre. Thank you.

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It's been a year of upheaval on and off the pitch, involving sackings,

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cuts and near bankruptcy. Yet, against the odds, Swindon Town has

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made another good start in League One.

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What a year it's been ` they took over in February. They've seen two

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managers, including Paolo Di Canio leave, and to get the finances in

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line, many of the players that got them to the playoffs. But, whisper

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it quietly, things are going well and there's even talk of promotion.

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For Chairman Jed McCrory, every day of the last nine months has

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presented challenges. His consortium arrived in February, inheriting a

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club threatened by administration again, and spending beyond its

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means. They've managed to bring those costs down, but losing a large

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proportion of last year's successful squad wasn't popular. They with the

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hardest people to deal with. They were quite hard on me at times. But

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this club needed someone to roll their sleeves up, take some of the

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hatred that had been created over the years of the administration

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process that the club has been through. I think it just needed a

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genuine come on, we are in it together. The consortium has just

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finished its first audit, and there's light at the end of the

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tunnel. If you took away all the takeover costs, or the ridiculous

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deals, with the greatest of respect to our predecessors, we are motoring

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on in the black at a self`sustaining level. With a wage bill half the

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size of last season's, Mark Cooper's young side have surprised the

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critics. Their average age last weekend just 22. The older boys have

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had to look after the young ones. Now they are doing fine. A couple of

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bad results of late, but to the eighth in the league at this stage

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of the season is a long way in front of where we thought we would be

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This season's highlights already include a cup game with Chelsea and

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they're eighth in the league. Despite being more prudent, the goal

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remains the same. We want to get permitted. Why can't it happen? I

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don't see why everyone has a moan. The

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Gloucester's Billy Twelvetrees starts England's autumn

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international against Australia He wins his sixth cap in a new`look

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England midfield. And brothers Mako and Billy Vunipola, who grew up and

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went to school in Thornbury in South Gloucestershire, start a Twickenham

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international together for the first time.

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The club rugby starts tonight with Bath at Worcester. Tomorrow,

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Gloucester and Bristol are both in Premiership and Championship action

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respectively. Speedway, and the Somerset Rebels have been

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celebrating their Premier League title with an open top bus tour

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The mayor of Highbridge accompanied the team as they travelled through

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Highbridge and Burnham`on`Sea. I was thinking they should have gone

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on their bikes really, but they didn't If you were lucky, and quick,

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then you may have picked up one of 200 free pieces of art that were

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left out in Bristol today. Have any

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Called Free Art Friday the movement was started by an urban artist

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called My Dog Sighs. Once a schoolteacher, now the artist known

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as My Dog Sighs has shows around the world, opening today in Bristol New

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York and Chicago. I am loving every minute of it. I am making a living

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now, painting, which is a dream come true. Fame arrived after he kicked

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and old can, and decided to turn it into art, which he then gave away. I

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discovered street art, but I thought I was a bit old for wanting to go

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out and damage property. By painting things that I found and putting them

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back out on the street for people to find, I still have that link with

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the urban environment, but I wasn't doing any damage. His counts now

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sell for around ?500. Fans were queuing in Bedminster to buy them

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from 4am. ?2000 for the big ones. You are very lucky if you found a

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freebie. My Dog Sighs has left 100 stickered

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cans out today, one lucky finder will wind a real hand painted one.

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It took only minutes from a clue on social media to this fan grabbing

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her chance. It is really unique And, at the same time across

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Bristol, 200 other works of all shapes and sizes have been left out

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for people to hunt down. Free Art Friday has spread the world over but

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today Bristol may have something with your name on it, even if not

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your face. A gig in Cheltenham 50 years ago

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tonight has taken a famous place in musical history. After the Beatles

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concert in Cheltenham on the first November 1963, the term Beatlemania

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was first coined. Tonight, a tribute band is recreating the evening, but

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if they get anywhere near as many screaming fans... Well, it'll be

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quite a night. Half a century ago, the Beatles live

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in Cheltenham. The opening night of their first British opening tour.

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The stage was terribly badly let. Mike was one of a handful of press

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photographers at the gate. Not that he heard much of it. Every time you

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turned around to take another picture, the fans started screaming

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again. Such was the stampede of screaming fans at the end, he had to

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run into the wings to escape. I felt somebody grabbed my arm. I was

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pulled out of the back door, into a van that was blacked out, and then

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the van drove off. Five minute later, we got out at the Savoy

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hotel, and the Beatles were in the van with us. We didn't realise. The

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lights went up, and Paul launched into it. You didn't hear a word

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after the intro. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. It was just

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bliss. We asked to see the Beatles, and down they came. Paul gave me a

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cigarette, I didn't smoke but I took it anyway. It must have been

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amazing. It was incredible, they were so nice. It wasn't just the

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Beatles who played back in the 0s, but other big names. Today, the

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Odeon is a shadow of its former self. It closed as a cinema in

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2006, and 50 years on from that famous day, it is due to be

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demolished. The venue may be gone, but the music isn't. Tonight, this

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tribute act will be recreating the gig. It is magical to think about

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the history and the fact that the Beatles were here in Cheltenham all

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those years ago. We would like people who were at the original gig

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to come along tonight so we can meet them.

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gig. It Albeit a windy weekend right the way

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through, it will be markedly that weight through Saturday, so we have

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to be cautious of that at firework displays. Sunday will be somewhat

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less windy. There is the potential into the evening that there will be

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widespread rainfall from the south`west. Things will continue

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through this evening, but tomorrow, as these isobars tighten up, this

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denotes the much windier spell developing. It will not be on the

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scale of the winds we saw on Monday, but nonetheless, some quite

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meaningful gusts, particularly around the Bristol Channel. Some

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light Shari Raine about in central areas through the night. `` showery

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rain. Temperatures around seven or eight Celsius through the night

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Tomorrow morning, some brightness developing for a while as much of a

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cloud starts to break up towards the North. Some rain around lunchtime,

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some brighter spells through the afternoon. Quite heavy, blustery

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showers into the evening. 30 or 40 mph wind speed through the evening.

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Gusts of 50 or 60 mph around the Bristol Channel, so it won't be

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great for launching fireworks. The Bristol Channel could have some big

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waves, so do be cautious on the coastal fringes.

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A weekend for staying in and watching the telly. Sunday Politics

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is on at 11am. We will

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