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The Welcome to BBC Points West with Alex Lovell and David Garmston. Our

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main story tonight: Just how well do we look after older people?

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Bristol says all care homes should be as good as this one and promise

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vigilance to find the ones not up to scratch. In a word, do you think the

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council does enough? Yes, but we're not complacent. We'll be talking to

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an MP who wants elderly care to face tougher regulation.

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The other stories in the news tonight: The little girl living in

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hope ` a bone marrow match is found for Ellie who's suffering from

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leukaemia. I heard, "A match". Then, after that, I don't think to what

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was said. The Polar Express ` the 16`year`old

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schoolboy hoping to be the youngest to reach the South Pole.

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And, why Les Dennis's wife wants to kill him. But don't worry, it's only

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a play. We meet the stars in Bath. Good evening.

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Bristol City Council has tonight stressed its commitment to improving

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troubled care homes in the city following revelations on last

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night's Points West. Our investigation showed a catalogue of

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failures at Holmwood House in Westbury.

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We've now learned that around 1 % of care homes in the west need to

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improve and 3% have needed to improve for more than six months. In

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a minute, we'll hear from a Bristol MP who has concerns about the way

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care homes in this country are regulated. But first, Martin Jones

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has been to find out what good care looks like.

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Saffron Gardens in Whitehall, Bristol. I like it because I have

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lots of friends and lots of people to look after me. Lots of company.

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It's held up by the City Council as an example of what good care should

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be. She has access to all sorts of

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activity. The council funds half the residents

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here at an average of ?750 a week. But can a care home just be judged

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by how much it charges? One of the things we look for is kindness. When

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we recruit people, we ask them all sorts of questions, but if they

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haven't got an essential kindness, they shouldn't be in care.

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There are around 160 care homes in Bristol. The majority, like this

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one, are problem free. But homes where things do go wrong continue to

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cause serious concerns. Carol Worlock was watching Points West

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yesterday and saw our report about Holmwood House in Westbury. She

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placed her mother there for respite care last September, having been

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told it was secure. But her mother walked out after two days, prompting

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a major police search. She said we can't find your mum. I said, have

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you looked around? They said they couldn't find her. They looked

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outside as well so they rang the police. So I asked, issue missing?

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They said, I think so. Holmwood's owner told us they don't

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and "can't just lock people in" that Carol's mother came to no harm

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and "the incident was dealt with according to proper procedures" But

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can the council make care homes improve? It has no powers to close a

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home, but it can withdraw its custom. And in Bristol, it has a

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team of specialists who work with the most worrying homes to improve

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standards. We have a robust approach in terms of failing care homes. We

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do a lot of work that isn't seen by the public in terms of improving

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standards. Maybe there is something about how to share that more widely

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because what we want people to have is confidence in care services.

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The council's keen to stress that the majority of the 10,000 people in

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residential care in the city are well looked after, like those at

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Saffron Gardens. But it also wants to make clear that it can take

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action where things go wrong. Charlotte Leslie is the Conservative

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MP for Bristol North West and House is in her considered `` constituency

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what further regulation would you like to see? One of the things we

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have seen with failings is that what front`line staff can be held to

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account, the people responsible like managers and owners get away

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scot`free. David Nicholson was moved onto a promotion and it is not clear

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what the owners have in terms of penalties. If they provide a rotten

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service, they fail and close. In private ones, yes, but in this

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case, allegations are that problems have been going on for some time but

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there is no mechanism taken against the owner. Why are we allowing

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failure to drag on and on? These are people whose lives are sometimes

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being put at risk on a daily basis and we need to move to a system

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where we are more robust in tackling failure. But we have the Care

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Quality Commission which inspects and then local councils who often

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pay the bills. Then relatives keeping an eye on elderly people.

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Shouldn't that be enough? It should be, but as we see, it isn't and you

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have to face reality. These organisations can take their boxes

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and no one is ultimately responsible. Your interviewee

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earlier made the point that if you don't care and you are not kind you

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have no place in care. You can't legislate for that kind of emotion

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but we need to hold people to account more clearly. The other

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issue is money. The better home was 750 a week and others 600. With

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government grants to local councils being cut and local authorities will

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then use the cheap one if they can, won't they and that will have an

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impact on care? I think what you see clearly is that you can have an

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expensive home with people who aren't kind running it and you get

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bad care. A home which isn't costing as much but the staff may deliver

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excellent care. Thank you. A six`year`old girl from Wiltshire

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is starting hospital treatment ahead of a life`saving transplant after a

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rare bone marrow donor match was found. Ellie Davidson is fighting

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leukaemia for the second time. Just a few weeks ago she received

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the news that there is a suitable donor. Madeleine Ware reports.

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Clutching her favourite teddy, Ellie Davidson arrives at Bristol

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Children's Hospital. Here for a bone marrow transplant, which it's hoped

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will save her life. Really nervous but excited at the same time. Mixed

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emotions today. Ellie, from Collingbourne Ducis, was first

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diagnosed with leukaemia when she was three. After years of

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chemotherapy, she was given the all clear. But the cancer returned last

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year and doctors said she needed a bone marrow transplant. None of her

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family were a match. Mum Hannah shaving her head in support of her

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daughter's battle. But just before Christmas came news that a suitable

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donor had been found in Germany through the Anthony Nolan register.

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I dropped to the floor, I think After I heard that there was a match

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I don't think I listen to what was said afterwards. It was surreal I

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was shaking. Excitement and nerves at the same time. It is always

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amazing to us when we see a patient find a donor match and the one

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person who can help to save their life. We hope it will inspire others

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to join and save more like Ellie. Ellie's about to start treatment

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ahead of the transplant next week. She'll stay in hospital for three

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months in isolation while she recovers. We make the best of it,

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don't we, when we're in hospital? Not that much! Well, you'd rather be

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playing out with your friends but... And playing with friends is exactly

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what Ellie's family hope she'll be doing later this year. With any

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luck, having beaten leukaemia for good. Our best wishes.

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Councils across the West are in the middle of finalising their budgets

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for the next year and it means difficult decisions in many cases.

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Children's centres are amongst the services facing cuts and it means

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difficult decisions in many cases. Children's centres are amongst the

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services they think at sounding Buffett has provoked an angry

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response with a thousand people signing a petition against the

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plans. That has triggered a public debate. Our political correspondent

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is at Bath 's Guildhall where the meeting is being held.

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Here, the council is talking about cutting the budget by about a third

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for children's centres. 11 centres diet `` out of 11 centres three or

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four may be... The rest will be handed over to other centres or

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organisations. It has upset some local parents and other political

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parties. Let us chat with one of them. A petition has been put

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together. Your children used to good to one of the centres. What sort of

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a facility was it for you? I was on my own at the time because my

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partner had the job far away. I was destitute and I wandered down there

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with my little girl. The friendships and network and advice I got on how

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to cope on freezing `` feeding the children. The Lib Dems say they will

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make sure all 11 will stay open and they have found money to offset the

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worst of the cuts. Is that enough? No, because we will still lose staff

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and that is what it is all about. Their ability to help you. We spoke

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to the Lib Dems a few moments ago and they said the money has to come

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from somewhere. We have had our funding cut significantly and we

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have had to find an additional 30 million across all of our services.

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It is not something we would do if we had unlimited resources, but as

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it is, we cut our cloth according to our means. There will be growing

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political pressure on the Lib Dems tonight. Labour and the Tories know

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the Lib Dems have minority control here so they need votes from other

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councillors to get their budgets through at a crucial meeting next

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month. We could see further changes on this issue, as we did with public

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toilets closing in Bath a few months ago. A Gloucester man has been

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charged after two men were stabbed in the city leaving one of them in a

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critical condition. Tony Poole was charged last night with two counts

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of causing grievous bodily harm by wounding with intent. Police found

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the victims with stab wounds in a flat in Nettleton Road in Gloucester

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on Monday night. One of them, a 30`year`old man, is in a critical

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but stable condition in Frenchay hospital.

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The lead matron at Bristol Children's Hospital has spoken of

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the deficiencies in care of a four`year`old. The boy died and

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there were major problems in the quality of care on the cardiac ward

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because of the lack of staff. Shaun Turner developed complications

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after a heart operation in 2012 He had been transferred to cardiac Ward

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32 after only a day in intensive care where he started to lose up to

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three and a half litres of fluid on his chest a day. Six weeks after his

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operation, he died of a bleed on the brain. Today, the matron in charge

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of the nurses gave evidence. William Booth spoke about improvements made

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on the ward since his death, which included introducing five high

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dependency beds. He said the improvements were not directly

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related to Shaun Turner's death He also said they would not have

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discharged a child to Ward 32 if it was thought to be unsafe. Under

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cross`examination, Mr Bruce admitted that patients were not kept save on

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Ward 32 `` Mr Booth, and that improvements were introduced in part

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as a result of Shaun Turner 's death. We had a meeting with William

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Booth shortly after Shaun 's death. What did he say to you? He said to

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us that this shouldn't have... It was misleading to the parent so we

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were quite upset. The inquest also heard from this consultant who said

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that when Short was moved to Ward 32 he improved. More hospital staff are

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expected to give evidence and the inquest is likely to last another

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week. It's another wet night so stay in

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the warm with us. Will the rain ever stop? Still to

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come: By Bristol is more likely to say no and Cardiff is more likely to

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say yes, we can. We catch up with Les Dennis on stage tonight in Bath.

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The funeral has been held in Wells Cathedral today for a World War II

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hero who went on to serve as they MP for more than 20 years. Robert

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Boscawen who died last month that the age of 90 was awarded the

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military Cross for his efforts as a tank Amada in the war. He retired as

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an MP in 1992 `` a tank commander. A decidedly wet but fond farewell in

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the cathedral city he represented in Parliament. Past and present

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politicians and military colleagues came to pay their respects. For 22

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years, Robert Boscawen served as an MP for Somerset and when he retired

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he spent time studying the history of his predecessors. Apart from

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building, drink, gambling and speculation, the two causes were

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really expenses. That doesn't happen today. How things change! He was

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first elected Conservative MP for Wales in 1970 and when boundaries

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changed, he became MP for Somerton and Frome until he retired in 1 92.

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He was left terribly scarred by injuries he received during the

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Second World War. He served as a tank commander in the Battle of our

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number and was later to receive a military Cross for his efforts

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there. The former Defence Secretary was among the mourners at the

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service and he spoke of his friend 's courage in adversity. He was

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blind for months. They eventually restored his site and then they

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gradually hatched his face together over three years. Playing his part

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in public life was not an easy thing to do and that showed his courage.

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He always said his life was shaped by war and in death he will be

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remembered for his courage during conflict and after it.

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A 16`year`old from Bristol is hoping to beat the youngest to reach the

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South Pole. He is raising thousands for charity along the way and hopes

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to break a world record that has stood for ten years. These pictures

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show Lewis Clarke training for his trek to the poll. Skiing through

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SNCC `` thick snow for almost 5 days. Today, his classmates got to

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talk to him via a satellite phone while he freezes in windshields of

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`40. They asked them burning questions what food do you eat?

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Freeze`dried stuff. I am not sure if I could do it. It's incredible how

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enormous `` normal he sounds. It's an incredible achievement for any

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one of any age. Only a few have done what he has done in the last 30

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years. It is a 702 mile journey He has just 36 more miles to go. He is

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no stranger to record`breaking. He appeared on our programme as a

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12`year`old as part of a group slimming the channel. The current

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record belongs to an `` a Canadian. If he makes it, there will be a

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break from the record`breaking as his next challenge, says his dad, it

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on his GCSE exams. I am sure he will walk it! It looks

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like he might reach the South Pole on Saturday and we will bring you

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the news when he does. We all know Bristol has a long and

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proud heritage, the Clifton Suspension Bridge is testament to

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the forward`thinking of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Visitors to the city

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could be forgiving `` forgiven that a great building is just that,

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history. With recent schemes stuck in limbo

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we decided to see well `` by Bristol City can't get some projects off the

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ground. The capital of Wales and a city of

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historic buildings and innovative architecture. The iconic Millenium

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Centre opened in 2004 and is already host to international shows, culture

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and conferences. The millennium Stadium was built in 1999 and has

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put Cardiff on the sporting Matt `` map. FA Cup finals had been played

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here and next year it will host World Cup rugby. This stadium took

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just three years from planets to opening and now hosts international

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cricket. The first match it hosted was against Gloucestershire but the

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home in Bristol had to fight to get anything past the planners. What is

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it about our planning inertia? Bristol City have been trying for

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years to get a new stadium and it is constantly kicked off side by

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judicial reviews and campaigns. Bristol Rovers have permission now

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but there is still a legal challenge to get through before anything is

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built. And the arena, this won't attract international acts any time

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soon. Bristol has the reputation externally as more difficult to do

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business in so we have to educate our clients who are looking into

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Bristol. Is it simply nimbyism? Poor leadership or the fact that Cardiff

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is a capital city with access to more money than we could hope for?

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It is a discussion that is moving faster than the planning system

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here. There is plenty more on our website.

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Two very familiar faces are performing at Bath's Theatre Royal.

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Actors Les Dennis and Claire Goose starring the production which is a

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world first. The author has sold 50 million books but never had his work

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on stage. Our Bath reporter caught up with Les and player on the set

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earlier this week and asked what it is like to be the very first people

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to ever play those roles. It is scary but also liberating to be able

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to be the first actor to do it. And to create the characters. Has he got

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irritating habits? Terrible habits. What does he do? He hands. It drives

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me up the wall. It goes on and on. Yes, he has lots of irritating

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habits. He snores and general things.

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After the interval, Abu, we are allowed to laugh! There is a point

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at the end of the first act that it is evident. What is it like in Bath?

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I lived in Bristol for years and I don't think I came to Bath. I

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probably came briefly for a day Even being here, I will want to do

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the Roman baths, I've been in the Abbey. It is lovely. It is a lovely

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day today to see it as well. In your real lives, you have young children.

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How tricky is it being on tour and away from them or is it nice to have

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a breather? I'm getting quite a lot of sleep. That's definitely a perk.

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As the tour goes on, as you see young kids around, you just want to

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see them. What a change from starting off in comedy and then a

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game show host and now an actor What do you feel you are or can you

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be all of them? I wanted to pursue acting but I was told to leave it

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alone. Now I think you can do more. My first telly was in 1971 at 1

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doing opportunity knocks. I'm still around so that is an achievement. We

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have seen your face so much on the telly. What is it like being in the

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theatre? This is your first tour, isn't it? I haven't done theatre in

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about nine years and it was quite a scary thought. I felt I really

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wanted to do some theatre. You are stretched in a different way. A

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different way of working to tell a story from beginning to end. I guess

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you are one big family at the end. With a master chef in your

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presence, you could do well? We expect less to cook for us for the

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whole week. And we will be about a stone heavier. I hope it goes well

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and very nice to see you and enjoy the city. Thank you. Thank you. We

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hope it goes well. Our survey says? And you may

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remember this day last year. We had snow lying across many districts.

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We are keeping an eye on the tail end of next week as there is any

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hint that a cold snap will come our way. Between now and then it is more

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of the same in terms of showers We will see more of these

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cumulonimbus clouds and the martyrs clouds tomorrow.

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It looks like a better finish to Friday compared to the start of it.

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For this evening, a number of heavy showers around and a band of those

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is showing well on our model. Further showers coming in behind the

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ones moving into Gloucestershire and Wiltshire at the moment.

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Temperatures tonight are broadly down to four or seven Celsius.

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Wherever you look on the horizon, those cumulonimbus clouds will never

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be too far away. Appreciable amounts of rain coming again. Not helping

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some of the local flooding issues I dare say. A temporary bridging of

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high pressure in the evening should kill those showers.

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For the end of the week, the threat of some pretty heavy and disruptive

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rain on Saturday from the south and we will keep a `` an eye on that.

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In my village, I saw a man walking his dog in shorts a couple of days

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ago! Like my postman. We are back at ten.

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Otherwise, the whole team returns tomorrow.

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