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Wollaston, the MP who first brought to the attention of parliamentary

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Wollaston, the MP who first brought Good evening. Communities ddvastated

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by flooding in Somerset werd told today how millions of pounds will be

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spent to reduce the risk of it happening again. Some of thd high

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priority schemes could be completed before the end of the year. Our

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Somerset Correspondent Clinton Rogers has more.

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After months of misery Spring sunshine is rather welcome hn

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Somerset. It is fitting that we are here this morning...

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But not as welcome as today's announcement on flood prevention

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schemes. ?20 million promisdd. In the shattered battered commtnity of

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Moorland they just hope it works. There was three feet of watdr in the

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house for almost a month. They said it.

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That this time. That cross our fingers and hope so.

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The worst flooding ever flooding ` no`one wants to see a repeat of

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this. So the county council is spending ?4 million here, ilproving

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an artificial drainage channel called the Sowey built in the early

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'70s, but overwhelmed by thhs year's floods. One of the problems this

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year is that the road behind me actually acted as a damn, trapping

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water on the Moorland over on the other side, so what they pl`n to do

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is raise the level of the road, increase the size of the Culbert so

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that the water flows a lot puicker. They say that. Flooding in the

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village of Moorland. There's good news too for the village of

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Muchelney which became a national icon of the Somerset floods `

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marooned for months, every road underwater. Now a million pounds is

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to be spent raising the levdl of one of those roads. So hopefullx

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villagers won't be completely cut off again. Happy today?

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Content. Why not happy? Because we don't know if it is going

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to work. I will be happy if it works.

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I don't control the elements, but we do control a significant amount of

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money to help reduce flooding as much as we can. We have takdn a big

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step. And a relatively quick step. The council says the two mahn

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schemes will be completed bx the end of the year, which is about the time

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it will take to dry out the houses in Moorland and people back into

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their homes. Tonight on the Somerset Levels there is some critichsm that

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of the ?20 million announced today, 12 million is actually going on road

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repairs and improvements. How, say the critics, is that flood

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prevention? The council say that much of a government grant they have

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been given is ring fenced and it has to be spent on roads.

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A man who drowned after falling into the River Avon in Bath has been

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named as Donovan Weale. The 42`year`old was pulled from the

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water on Friday night close to his home on Norfolk Crescent. L`st year

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fencing was installed along part of the river to improve safety after

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several deaths. Avon and Somerset Police is to be

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the first force in the country to have a drug referral servicd for

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addicts brought into police stations. The idea is to reduce the

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cycle of re`offending. But will it work? Our Home Affairs

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Correspondent, Steve Brodie reports. Garry Brandrick was a heroin addict

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for 25 years. He's now drug free and works to help others fight their

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addiction problems. He says being an addict is a terrible ordeal.

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You lose all your friends, relatives. I lost my first wife

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through suicide. It is a colplete mess, and it is driven by a chaotic

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lifestyle where all you want and all you think about is where yotr next

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hit is coming from. At the loment, when drug users are arrested they

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are brought to five custody suites where separate organisations carry

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out tests. From next month just one not`for`profit charity, Swanswell,

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will offer immediate help if a suspect is tested positive for a

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Class A drug. The police sax new service will also save monex and

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reduce crime. If we can engage them about why they

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are there and get them to accept that maybe they are there bdcause of

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that substance misuse probldm and that we can do something about that

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together with them, then we're going to prevent crime.

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Swanswell staff will be working at this new custody centre at Filton `

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one of three such centres now being built in the region. Crime

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Commissioner Sue Mountstevens is funding the new service.

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A typical heroin user spends over ?1400 per month. Most peopld haven't

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got access to that sort of loney, so they are the ones who will be

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committing crime. If we can break that cycle, we can reduce crime But

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Garry Brandrick isn't sure there's an easy solution.

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Relapse rates are still verx high. Drug`related crime in prison is

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still very high. That has not changed for many years, and I don't

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see how this system will ch`nge any of that. What everyone agreds is

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that breaking the addiction habit the only way to win the battle

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against drug`related crime. The South West's six MEPs are in

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Strasbourg for the final medting of the European Parliament before

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elections. At the end of Max 40 million people across Europd will be

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entitled to vote for who thdy want to represent them. Much of the

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debate for our MEPs is expected to focus on whether Britain should

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leave the EU. Now, just before we go to the

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weather a beach warden at Brean in Somerset made a rescue with a

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difference at the weekend. @ couple parked and left their car btt forgot

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the tide was coming in. Warden Kevin Williams rescued the Vauxhall Tigra

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and returned it to the owners before the sea`water caused any dalage

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Well that's about it from us. There's more news on the BBC

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Website. We'll be back with you tomorrow. But for now I'll leave you

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with Ian who has the latest weather for us.

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tomorrow. But for now I'll leave you Tomorrow will bring similar

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conditions to today. Once again it will be a chilly start button will

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turn into a dry, sunny and pretty warm day. Tonight, by contr`st,

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under clear skies it will ttrn chilly. Temperatures could be down

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to two or three Celsius. Thd likelihood of ground frost hn some

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spots and missed as well. It should be a glorious start tomorrow

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morning. Clear blue sky, a little cloud in the afternoon. No threat of

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showers. One difference to today is the wind direction. It is coming in

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from the south south`east. That means that the fresher condhtions

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will be towards the south coast Towards North Devon will have warmer

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temperatures benefiting frol their coming off the top of the l`nd.

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Temperatures 15 or 16 Celsits Pleasant and warm. Similar for

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Wednesday. More cloud on Thtrsday and Friday but still dry.

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will be fresher than today. 12 degrees along the vestry and 16 in

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London. More sunshine for Wednesday and clouding over towards the end of

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the week. Your regional forecast will have offered you another fine

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day tomorrow. That is the story nationwide. High

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pressure is plonked on top of us. This evening it has been turning

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quite chilly quite quickly and it will be cold for the middle of April

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overnight. In larger towns and cities it will be down to single

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figures and rural areas by Dawn will be close to and below

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