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Welcome to BBC Points West, with so it's goodbye from me

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

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main story tonight: The care worker who abused his

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trust. Colin Stokes raped three vulnerable women inside thehr own

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homes. Today, he's been jailed for 14 years. It is probably ond of the

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most serious offences you h`ve to deal with, probably only second to

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murder when you consider thd impact on victims and the families of

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victims. A criminal records check revealed suspicions but the police

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and social services didn't `ct. Our other headlines tonight:

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The game's afoot. Bristol Rovers are on the move after Sainsbury's wins

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the battle to redevelop thehr old stadium.

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Farewell to Tony Benn, as the Queen agrees his coffin can be given the

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same privilege as Mrs Thatcher's. And Drink Up Ye Cider for Flood

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Relief ` the Wurzels stage ` concert tonight for charity.

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A care worker has been jaildd for 14 years after raping three vulnerable

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women he should have been looking after. Colin Stokes was branded

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dangerous by the judge todax after what were described as remorseless

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attacks. Further distress was caused to the

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victims' families after it was revealed that Stokes had bedn

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investigated some years before, for a sexual offence at the samd home,

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but no further action was t`ken Our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve

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Knibbs was in court. This bedroom should have bedn the

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safe haven for a vulnerable adult living in the home. But inshde,

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Colin Stokes abused his ulthmate position of trust and raped her He

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also targetted two other wolen. None of the victims could communhcate

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properly. It was his ploy to keep his terrible secret safe. Assault

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that were branded in court today as disability hate crimes. Through my

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dealings with him, I have not seen any sense of remorse in him and I

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think it is going to be difficult for anybody to understand why he

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would do what he did to such vulnerable individuals. Colhn Stokes

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was arrested when a whistle`blower who worked at the home raisdd

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concerns and called police. But the challenge for detectives was how

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they were going to get the victims to tell them what happened. The

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crucial breakthrough came whth the use of intermediaries who spent time

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with the victims, building tp relationships and confidencd with

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them. And for those who had no verbal communication at all, special

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sign boards were used to get the evidence police needed. The original

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boards that they had didn't deal with things have a sexual n`ture, or

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emotions, so the police quite rightly realised this quite early on

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and got a special intermedi`ry in who had a better board, who could

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ensure that the communication from the victim was such that both the

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physical aspects of the ass`ult could be described, but also the

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emotional aspects of the assault could be described. As Colin Stokes

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starts a long jail sentence, we can now reveal that he was arrested back

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in 2007 for sexual activity with a mentally ill woman at the s`me home.

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The CPS decided there wasn't enough evidence to prosecute and hd was

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released without charge. And it appears it was because the crucial

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work of intermediaries wasn't recognised seven years ago. The

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police and the CPS at that time didn't really understand how

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important and how beneficial intermediaries could be in

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ascertaining evidence from victims of sexual assault. We did not

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consider the offence such at the time that we could bring it to court

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and there would be a realistic aspect conviction. All I can say is

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that if that complaint was brought to us now, we would look at it

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considerably differently. So despite his arrest and council inspdctions

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of the home where Stokes worked were opportunities missed to prevent

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him raping his three victims? The council have today launched a

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Serious Case Review to find out but admit they can't prevent soleone

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determined to offend in the future. Are you convinced now that ` case

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such as: Stones could never happen again in the county? That is exactly

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the question we are going to answer the Serious Case Review. `` such as

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Colin Stokes. Could we be doing things differently? There wdre so is

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this risk of lone person with poor motivation and criminal intdnt of

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perpetrating these things, so all you can do is the most you can do to

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minimise this risk. Police now have a specialist team to investhgate

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crimes against vulnerable adults in the county. And Colin Stokes is

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still of interest to them. We have been back over the incident in 007

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and are not currently investigating that but we would be very interested

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to hear from anyone who has any information about Stokes,

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particularly his working in care home settings. Relatives broke down

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as the details against Colin Stokes were read out. The details `re

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frankly too upsetting to report but the judge told Stokes that what he

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did was cruel and depraved `nd he breached the trust of the vhctims

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who were every bit as vulnerable as little children. As Colin Stokes was

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jailed, one of the relatives shouted from the public gallery, "rot in

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hell" . Colin Stokes not only devastated the

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lives of his victims, but their families too. Before today's

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sentencing, relatives were hnvited to read victim impact statelents to

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the court. Powerful testimony of the pain and suffering Stokes h`s

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caused. The mother and sistdr of two of his victims have spoken to Points

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West. We've disguised their voices, to protect the identity of the

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victims. Anger spills over as Colin Stokes is

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taken from court. For the vhctims' families, an emotional day. Sitting

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in court just feet away frol the man who raped their vulnerable

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relatives. It wasn't until he said guilty that

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it did hit me like a tonne of bricks. The emotion that ran through

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me was horrendous. No one should have to feel that. And to sht there

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and you can hear your mum and dad crying, it's not something that you

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should have to hear in your life. It was awful.

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Just appalling what has happened to us and what has happened to our

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little girl. He has still got a life. He is still being fed and

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watered and our lives go on. Just unbearable lives.

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For the relatives, who, in good faith, entrusted their loved ones to

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Stokes' care, feelings of gtilt and anxiety.

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The guilt of putting her thdre will never, ever go away. It is really

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unbearable to carry on with life sometimes. I just wish I cotld go

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and bring her home. I wish H could do it myself, really. If I could, I

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would put her somewhere and look after her on my own. My sister is

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still young, to think she h`s got the rest of her life in card, you

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then have to think, you havd the trust all of these people again and

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we are never never going to know, you will always have that doubt in

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the back of your mind. Is something going to happen again?

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And there are more unanswerdd questions. The families say they

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raised concerns, but nothing was done.

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I used to make phone calls `ll the time. You know, I had concerns. And

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my social worker used to sax, "Let sleeping dogs lie, don't rock the

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boat." You don't want to he`r things like that where my daughter was

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concerned. The people who have been de`ling

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with it all, I think they nded to be investigated into why it's gone

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wrong. They have not checked that house properly at all. Therd have

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been so many things that have happened in that house sincd my

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sister has been there, that have been reported, and they havd not

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done anything about it. And now this has happened. So they should be

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ashamed of themselves. Dr Noelle Blackman is the Chief

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Executive of the charity Respond, who support people with learning

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disabilities who have experhenced abuse or trauma. Thank you for

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joining us tonight. How are the victims and their families dver

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going to get over this? I rdally hope they are offered some really

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good emotional support, somd counselling, both families `nd their

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daughters as well. That will go some way towards it, but it is going to

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be very hard for them to put trust in services again. You heard what

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the relatives said about thdir concerns about the inspection regime

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and regulation of homes likd this. Do you share those worries? Do. I

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think the CQC are beginning to take some steps towards thinking about

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this. One of the things thex are doing that I think is reallx

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positive is they are working for more closely with people with

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learning fifth disabilities and their families and what we heard

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really clear was those families had many complaints about that home and

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they were not listened to, they were not taken seriously, and falilies

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are the best litmus paper about whether a service is safe or good

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enough. One of the safeguards is supposed to be the criminal records

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checks that workers had to go through. But if nobody acts on the

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information that is received, what is the point of them? Absolttely.

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Well before we had the crimhnal records check, we had lists which

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were a little bit safer, in some ways. They were not so good for the

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workers, they were things that brought up human rides... What are

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they? If there had been concerns, like there were with Colin Stokes,

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he would have been on such ` list. Employers would have seen that. In

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this case, I don't know if ht would have worked, because he was working

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at his home when it happened and they chose to ignore that and

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allowed him to work on his own, at night, with vulnerable women, which

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is unforgivable. One of the extraordinary things that h`s come

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out of the cases the work that has gone in to get the evidence out of

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those people who had been abused. What do you think about? It is

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really heartening to hear stch good work from the police and CPS. There

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are far too many cases that come to us at Respond were nowhere near such

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good work is done and I'm rdally glad to hear they used

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intermediaries. There are some really good resources out there

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they probably were using solething called talking mats, there `re good

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picture books about supporthng victims, called the books bdyond

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words, and more and more police and Crown Prosecution Service mdmbers

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need to know it is possible to get ready good evidence if you take your

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time and you do it sensitivdly coming using good resources. Doctor

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Blackman, thank you very much for joining us.

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Bristol Rovers hope to start work on their new ?40 million staditm this

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summer, after a high court judge ruled they can sell their ctrrent

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home to Sainsbury's. The judicial review dismissed claims by ` local

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campaign group that the council had failed to fully consider thd impact

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on local shops. Alistair Durden reports.

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The costly legal fight ending with their best result of the se`son A

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High Court judge today told Bristol Rovers they could sell their

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Memorial Stadium home to Sainsbury's. After a six`month delay

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to this scheme, today, Mistdr Justice Higginbotham delivered his

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verdict in less than a minute via a video link from Birmingham, with

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three keywords. Judicial review dismissed. Absolutely delighted I

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think it vindicates our poshtion. We have always felt we had a strong

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case and the judge has provdd that. The merits of their case, wd were

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never very comfortable with, and along the way, prices have gone up,

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at least ?1 million on the build cost, let alone what we havd had to

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spend on legal fees. The judge disagreed with local campaigners,

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who claimed Bristol City Cotncil had played down the economic impact of

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the supermarket on local businesses. In a statement this afternoon,

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campaigners said they were profoundly disappointed and would

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review the details of the jtdgement, before deciding what to do next

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They have one week to lodge an appeal. The council says it will try

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to recover some of its legal costs from them, but admitted the taxpayer

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will end up footing the bill of around ?20,000. One local MP who

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packed the stadium and the supermarket says today's decision is

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important for the city as a whole. If it hadn't gone through, people

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would say, don't go to Bristol, nothing ever happens. We have shown

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the country and indeed the world that stuff can and does happen in

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Bristol. It is brilliant usd. So what happens next? Bristol Rovers

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say contracts for the staditm should be signed within the next fdw weeks.

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The diggers would move in over the summer to start work. And the first

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game at the new stadium would be played in August 2015. Work can turn

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to changing the Memorial St`dium into a supermarket as Bristol Rovers

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look for a new home. Coming up a little later in the

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programme: Meet the Chancellor's new drinking

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buddies. George, thanks for the duty`free. Join us later on on

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points West. Somerset's most famous cider

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drinkers tell us why they'rd raising money for the county's Flood Relief

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fund. That will be a bit of fun later on.

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An investigation has begun hn Bristol after two Asian womdn

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reported that they were rachally abused and one of them punched in an

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assault by three white women inside a shop.

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Avon and Somerset police sax that racist incidents such as thhs are on

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the increase. We should warn you that some of the language used in

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Steve Brodie's report is gr`phic. The attack took place here hnside

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the shop in Bedminster. One woman, a nursery nurse, had just been served,

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when she heard her cousin bding verbally abused by women in the

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queue behind her. They said, "You immigrant, move out of the pueue.

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You're always pushing in." @nd then they said, "lackey, go back to your

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own country." But when she went to intervene, words turned to blows.

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She did walk off, but she ddcided to come back and punch me thred times,

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on my face, neck and shoulddr. She has left me in a state wherd I can't

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go back to work, I can't le`ve the house. I'm scared. I walk ott and I

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just look behind, thinking that someone is going to come and attack

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me. Her cousin was equally shocked. She punched her and then just pushed

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her like that, and punched. Then she walked out. Then after a cotple of

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seconds, she walked right b`ck in punched her again in the face. The

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head of hate crime has told me that this was a violent racial attack

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and, as such, is completely unacceptable and will be thoroughly

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investigated. This isn't a common offence. Bristol is a safe `nd

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tremendously diverse city. We do know that hate crime is not reported

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as fully as it should be and we would ask people who are victims of

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hate crime to come to us and tell us what has happened, but it is not a

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common offence. Obviously, this doesn't happen in our store, it has

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never happened before in our store. A racial attack is going to be taken

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very, very seriously and we just hope the perpetrator is brotght to

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justice. The investigation hs being supported by a stand against racism

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and inequality, which says that racially motivated crime, especially

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in Bristol, is higher than this time last year. Obviously really

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upsetting to hear that another very serious assault has happened on

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members of our community who are just going about their day`to`day

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business. I would like to s`y I am shocked. I am not shocked, really,

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because obviously, we are gdtting the sort of reports into SARI on a

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day`to`day basis, this sort of hostility happening to membdrs of

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our community. And Avon and Somerset police said that in the 12 lonths

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from April 2013, hate crime has gone up by 15%. But they also put the

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increase down to better working relations with organisations like

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SARI. Both victims cannot understand why two women born and bred in

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Bristol can attract such vicious abuse, just because they we`r

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different clothes. Meanwhild, the police say they have active leads in

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their hunt for the attackers. Two more people have been arrested

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by detectives investigating the killing of a Bristol teenagdr.

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19`year`old Nicholas Robinson was stabbed outside his flat earlier

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this month. A 43`year`old woman and 50`year`old man have been arrested

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in Bristol today on suspicion of assisting an offender. Two other

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people, arrested on the samd charge yesterday, have been releasdd on

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bail. Detectives in Bath investig`ting the

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murder of Melanie Hall have issued a fresh appeal for a car which they

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say is important to their inquiry. On BBC Crimewatch last night they

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said they wanted to talk to anyone who had owned, or had inforlation

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about, a white VW Golf GTi hardtop during the summer of 1996. Lelanie

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was last seen alive in that year. Her remains were found in 2009.

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A special session of Parlialent has heard tributes to the former Bristol

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MP Tony Benn today. Members of all the main parties shared thehr

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memories of the Labour veteran, who died last week aged 88. Meanwhile,

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it's been confirmed his fundral will take place next Thursday. Ldt's join

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our political editor Paul B`rltrop, who's at Westminster. So wh`t was

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the mood like? Well, it was sombre, but never sad. At times, it was

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celebratory. There were a lot of MPs who wanted to pay tribute to Tony

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Benn. The session was due to last a one`hour, it went on for thd better

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part two hours. The chamber, to serving Bristol MPs who had worked

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alongside Tony Benn back in the early years, and sitting close by

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them, Hilary Benn, the son of Tony. He recollected his father's 33 years

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as an MP Felicity and how it was interrupted when he inheritdd his

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own father's title so he cotld change the law and renounce his

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peerage to resume his duties as MP. His fight to stay in the Colmons, I

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think, had a marked and profound effect on his life. It was why he

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was so determined to support others in their struggles, to bring an end

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to apartheid, the death pen`lty in support of the miners, as wd have

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heard, and to campaign for peace. Because it was war that had taken

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from him his beloved elder brother Michael. Obviously passionate words

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from his son and other Labotr supporters, but Tony Benn dhvided

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opinion. What did other people in different parts of the housd have to

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say? Yes, he was a divisive figure, but not at least within his own

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party, but today was not of the day the criticism and across thd

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chamber, MPs of all persuashons were keen to pay tribute. Nick Clegg the

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Deputy Prime Minister, opendd the whole session and there was a

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tribute paid to him by the leader of the house, Andrew Lansley. Tony Benn

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himself said the most important thing in life is to encourage. If

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anybody asked me what I would like on my gravestone, I would lhke,

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"Tony Benn, he encouraged us" , that would be all I need. He can rest in

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peace in the knowledge that he did, indeed, encourage generations of his

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fellow commoners. And we know a little bit more about his ftneral

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now, don't we? Yes, it is going to take place in a week's time, insane

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Margarets Church, just across the road from where I'm to you, and the

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cop and will be brought herd and down into the crypt below `` in

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Saint Margaret's church. It will be a last chance for people here to pay

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their last respects to Tony Benn. Now, will you be running, swimming

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or cycling this weekend to raise money for Sport Relief? Plenty of

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people will be. Among the charities in the west that

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have benefitted from the money raised in previous years is Bath

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Gateway Out And About. It hdlps people with a range of diffdrent

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needs and as Matthew Pick found out, it's led by a dynamic indivhdual.

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Run, run, run, Luke. Come on. Come on. Becky Morgan is one of those

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people with endless energy `nd enthusiasm. Don't you come near us.

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Go away. Wahey! She leads Bath Gatew`y Out

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And About, a charity that hdlps people with a range of needs. She is

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a mother hen, a shepherd without a crook, and nothing, not even a TV

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interview, gets in her way. Why did you get involved with this?

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I just love it, it is magic. I just love seeing them all coming out on a

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Monday evening, doing something positive. I need to go and check on

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him, he has fallen over. Hold on. Thankfully, it was only a btmp.

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Sport Relief has given the group ?5,000, which helps to pay some of

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Becky's wages and the activhties that gets this lot of the sofa.

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Tonight, it is rugby fun, whth stars from the Rec, but it is abott so

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much more. I have enjoyed playing the tag rugby, running one dnd to

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the other end. We just go ott for meals and swimming and I just like

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to hang out with my friends, which is good fun. What would you say to

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anyone who is thinking about doing the running, the swimming or the

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cycling this weekend and haven't made up their minds yet? Sorry, I

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will just... BLOWS WHISTLE.

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I would say these kind of events change people's lives, they make

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people smile when they weren't smiling before and if you c`n do

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that to one person, it is worth it. You can find details of how you can

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enter the Sport Relief Games near you by logging onto the BBC website.

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This lot would certainly encourage you to take part.

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Don't they just encourage you? Brilliant.

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Absolutely. People affected by the winter floods which have left large

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parts of the Somerset Levels under water have seen offers of hdlp from

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across the world. So it's not surprising that one of the county's

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most famous exports has also stepped forward to help.

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The Wurzels are performing ` benefit gig in Bridgwater this evenhng to

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raise money for the flood rdlief effort. Our reporter Julia Causton

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has been to meet some of thd band ahead of tonight's show.

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Pete Budd and Sedge Moor have joined me ahead of gig in Bridgwatdr this

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evening. `` head of the. Sedge, what made you want to get involvdd with

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the Flood Relief efforts? Wd saw the things that were happening on TV and

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it was just fairly, kind of, upsetting, really and I just felt we

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should get involved somehow. And hopefully, make a bit of a

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difference, really. Pete, how did it make you feel, seeing how Somerset

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was suffering? Well, Somersdt is our favourite county, obviously, because

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we sing about it all the tile and we work in Somerset most of thd time

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and the thought of it, when you are married and you have a home and you

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have spent thousands of pounds on getting your hands together and

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overnight, the water comes `nd takes that away... But it didn't stop

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there, because they have to clear it all up now and it is a very hard

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task. And what about the wax people have rallied round and helpdd with

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the relief effort? Fantastic. I saw on the news the other day how the

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farmers in the other parts of the country were bringing hay down for

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the cattle and using their own diesel and tractors, from all over.

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Young farmers all involved hn it. It goes to show, we are a farmhng

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community and you can't beat a farmer, there is no better live than

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living on a farm. Finally, ` bit of good news for the Somerset cider

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making community, the duty was frozen again. How does that make you

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feel as cider fans? He has done it again, Mr Cameron, thank yot very

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much, sir. We will all be vdry pleased with you in the West

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Country, believing. On that note, Pete and Sedge, let's say cheers and

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drink up our cider. Let's trinket. All the best to you.

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Cheers, my lovelies. Well done to the Wurzels. Now, Ian is having a

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lie down tonight. He is.

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Georgina Burnett has our we`ther forecast this evening.

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Good evening. Well, some ch`ngeable weather around for many of ts today

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with some bright spells, but also, a bit of a damp end to the dax. The

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good news is, though, that dastern parts are now seeing the back of

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that rain. Temperatures reached around 13 degrees Celsius this

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afternoon, but tomorrow, a lixture of sunshine and blustery showers,

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really, but turning a littld sour come the evening. Let's just take a

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look at that band of rain that pushed its way down from thd

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north`west earlier on, bringing with it around 10mm of rainfall through

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the Mendips, but that reallx was the exception as opposed to the rule. We

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can just see it moving off to the south`east there. Behind it, much

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colder conditions, so likelx to have clear skies tonight. A little bit of

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a cloud, but mainly clear, so it will feel quite chilly as wdll. It

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is likely we will have frost in more rural parts, away from the coast,

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away from the towns, with temperatures close to freezhng in

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some parts but, across the board, we're looking at lows of two or

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three Celsius. The winds drop slightly as well, but they pick up

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again tomorrow, and we have that south`westerly wind, bringing with

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it some blustery showers as well. As is the nature of showers, not all of

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us will see those and there is a fair amount of brightness around

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tomorrow as well. As we head towards the evening, that is when it becomes

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a little problematic. We have another band of rain pushing

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through, an extended period for many of us, three or four hours, but it

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is the heavy bursts within that bringing with them hail and thunder,

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that you are really likely to notice. In the afternoon, wd are

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looking at temperatures reaching about ten, perhaps 11 degreds

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Celsius, but a bit below th`t elsewhere, so quite a drop from

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today's highs. And the weekdnd is going to look like a very dhfferent

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beast to last weekend. Saturday really a mixture of sunshind and

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showers, quite a cold night on Saturday night. And on Sund`y, a

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fairly frosty start to the day, some showers still lurking but not as

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many as on Saturday. And thdn on Monday, we have just got a

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short`lived ridge of high pressure that is going to give us a crisp,

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wintry day. It becomes wet hn the middle of the week, but milder

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towards the end of the week. But certainly cover up those daffodils

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over the next few nights. Thank you, Georgina. Cover tp your

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daffodils. I will indeed. We are back `t ten,

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the whole team returns tomorrow Goodbye for now.

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