20/05/2014 BBC Points West


20/05/2014

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Good evening. Families of the four On BBC Two in a few moments, the

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Good evening. Families of the four missing sailors in the Atlantic

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Ocean are waiting anxiously at home tonight for news of their loved

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ones. The US Coast Guard's resumed the search today after an online

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petition and mounting presstre from the UK government. Among those

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missing are Paul Goslin and Stephen Warren from Somerset. Stephdn's

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sister, Kay Coombes, joins ts now from her home in Bridgwater. How are

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you feeling at the moment? Ht's been a very long day today. However, we

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have achieved something tod`y so it has all been worthwhile. It started

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very early this morning with interviews and things. The petition

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numbers have gone up enormotsly so we have done our job today, but I am

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exhausted now. Is there angdr that valuable time has been wastdd? To

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some extent, however, we can't change what is in the past, we can

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only look to the future and what is happening now. Have you had any

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indication of how long the TS Coast Guards are prepared to search this

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time? No. However, they havd got a further meeting planned in London

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with the ministers on Thursday, so we are hoping to hear more then I

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think at the meeting, they were confirming the US have started

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searching again and they were talking a bit about logistics and

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who else is involved and thd Canadians I think I've got ` plane

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up there helping asked. There are various boats out in the se` as

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well. It was very positive, what came out of that meeting thhs

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afternoon. I know you're yot're hopeful of a positive outcole but

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are you prepared of the prospect of bad news? We are very realistic

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about the chances, however, we haven't given up hope yet and the

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public have not given up hope either. We are all rooting for them

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and people out there are looking for them, so there is a small chance.

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Labour's campaign in one of the West's crucial electoral battle

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grounds has been dealt a blow by their own leader. Ed Miliband was

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interviewed by Ben Prater on BBC Wiltshire's breakfast show this

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morning but twice he wronglx suggested that Labour ran Swindon

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Borough Council and didn't `ppear to know his party's local leaddr.

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What do you make of Jim Grant? I beg your pardon? Jim Grant. Do xou think

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he's done a good job? I think that lots of Labour representatives are

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doing a good job right across the country and... You do know who Jim

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Grant is, Mr Miliband? Well, you will enlighten me, I am surd.

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Swindon Labour leader. Yeah, I think he's doing a good job and I think...

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Do you feel like you support him enough if you don't even know his

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name? Well, he's doing a good job as leader of the council, Jim hs, and I

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think that's the case. I me`n, it's Swindon Labour leader. Do you think,

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by your comments now, peopld might be a bit perplexed by why you

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wouldn't know who Jim Grant is? No, I'd know that Jim is doing ` good

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job for Swindon and I think he's doing a good job as leader of the

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council. But he's not the ldader of the council, is he, Mr Miliband

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It's a Conservative`led council I think he's doing a good job for

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Labour on the council. OK. He's doing a good job for Labour on the

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council. Our political editor, Paul Barltrop,

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joins us in the studio. Mr Liliband has apologised but how damaging is

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this for the party ahead of the elections. It's difficult bdcause of

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the place it has happened. Swindon is a key contest between Labour and

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Conservatives. It is only a majority of one in it. It wasn't good. Having

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said that, I talked to the other parties today. No one will lake

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great political capital out of this. The man himself, Jim Grant, is

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remaining philosophical abott it. I have spoken to Ed this morning. He

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apologised for the, obviously, lack of briefing that he had, but I think

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these things happen and I don't think it's going to affect the

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elections in any way, shape or form on Thursday.

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Two days before voting starts. Has campaigning stepped up a ge`r? It is

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at full throttle. Council elections, people out on the streets. But the

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real challenge is for the c`ndidates in the European elections. We are in

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this big South West constittency and six MEPs get elected. It is really

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hard. They are trying to get the public infused but it is not

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surprising that the public `re not too enamoured with politics at the

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moment. I am doing a protest vote. Too much interference in thhs

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country by outsiders. It dods interest me. I have looked `ll the

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television broadcasts. It doesn t matter who it is they are all the

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same. It is all a bit higgledy`piggledy. Everybodx who

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says they will do this and that never does what they say thdy will

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do. And Ben Prater will be back with the

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Breakfast Show on BBC Wiltshire tomorrow as will we here on BBC One

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from 6:30. Wednesday will bring a good deal of

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dry weather a bar and blue skies. Conversely, if you showers will

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develop. Tonight, a pretty puiet affair but cooler than of l`te. Mist

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and fog patches around. That won't last very long. Good deal of

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sunshine around first thing in the morning and then steadily through

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the course of the asked anile, clouds will increase from the

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south`east. That will start to usher in one or two showers. Many areas

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remained dry. Temperatures tomorrow, 18 or 19 Celsius. Thursday, on the

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other hand, will start on a wet note. First light, heavy, thundery

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rain. Heavy, thundery showers as well. I'm settled through the

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weekend and looking a heavy showers but also sunny spells.

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Maybe some showers for the weekend. Good evening, yet again we are

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finishing the day with some thunderstorms clustered across parts

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of Cumbria, some torrential downpours at the moment, and flashes

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of lightning. Along the front of this weather system, showers have

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developed. They are pushing their way northwards, and will continue to

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do

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