22/05/2014 BBC Points West


22/05/2014

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Good evening. The West Country has decided ` now we are just awaiting

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their verdicts. Polls closed half an hour ago in the local and Etropean

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elections. The council results are being counted tonight, and soon we

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will know who will run some of our biggest local authorities. Let's

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take a look at the battlegrounds. 96 seats are being contested in five

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councils ` that's Bristol, Swindon, Cheltenham, Gloucester and Stroud.

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The significance has been clear from the high number of visits from the

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party leaders, who have a lot at stake in this important test of

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public opinion, ahead of thd General Election next year. Swindon is

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particularly interesting, bdcause it's a key target seat for Labour

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and the Conservatives. Paul Barltrop is at the count.

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good evening Paul. Evening David. This is a very important pl`ce

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indeed. Every council that has held elections today is important in the

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big contest, which is going to be next year, general election 201 .

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This place Swindon, they have two Conservative MPs at the momdnt, if

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Ed Miliband is going to become Prime Minister he needs to take the seats.

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The you look at Stroud that a key marginal Labour would hope to take.

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In Cheltenham, at the moment there is a Liberal Democrat MP and

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council, that is where the Tories in a two horse race would like to nudge

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ahead. So yes, these elections are very much a precursor, a drx`run for

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general election 2015. And Swindon in particular, because that is a

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bellwether seat, isn't it? Ht is, you look back in the historx book,

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30 years, the way this placd has gone as global economyions hs the

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same way the Prime Minister has gone, so it is very important and

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looking here tone, well, thdy have started counting the vote, they have

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lots of postal votes. Some of the ballot Bosco Ntagandas coming in.

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Have talked to some from thd parties it is so close, the Conserv`tives

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have a majority of one, so they need to hold on to everything th`t I have

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got here. The Conservatives having said that might make a gain. Labour

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are hoping to push them out of overall control. Let us turn to

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goester, our reporter for us there tonight. `` Gloucester. Our reporter

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is Steve Knibbs. This is ond of Labour's big targets in the general

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election next year. One of Labour's 100 seats they need to win to get Ed

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Miliband into Number Ten, all eyes will be on the city tonight. The

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current make up of the council is no overall control, although it is run

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by a small Conservative administration. So, obviously too

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early to say what is going to happen here, one the seats that cotld be at

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risk is that of the deputy leader of Gloucester City Council Jenny

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Dalamore. So locally that is Labour's number one target, if they

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make some gains it could ch`nge the administration of the counchl,

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possibly a Labour Liberal Ddmocrat coalition, but I think tonight, it

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seems unlikely that any party will gain overall control of Glotcester

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City Council. Counting has started in Bristol

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where it will any moment now. Chris is there for us now. What c`n you

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tell us Chris? Good evening from the city academy here in Easton, in

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terms of this area 24 wards across Bristol were up for grab, that a

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third of the total council seats. As the results come in, the thhngs to

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look for, turn out, since the city opted for an elected mayor ht has

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been on the declineful 27 pdople percent of people bothered to vote.

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The other thing to look forward to is the Labour Party. They h`ve been

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out of power for % a decade. Can they swell the number of kotbs

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mores? It a dry`run for the general election for them. Then the Liberal

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Democrats. They were in charge before the mayor came along. Can

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they hold on? We are hearing their leader could lose his seat. UKIP

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didn't make a breakthrough hn Bristol last time. Can they gain a

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councillor tonight? We expect the first results round about mhdnight.

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Thank you. In other news. A Royal Marine from

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Taunton found guilty of murdering an injured Afghan fighter has lost an

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appeal against his conviction. Alexander Blackman was jaildd for

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ten years after shooting thd man in the chest at close range. Today the

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Court Martial Appeal Court reduced his minimum term to eight ydars

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saying the former marine's combat stress had not sufficiently been

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taken into account. The death was filmed by a camera on a fellow

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marine's helmet. A 13`year`old girl has gone missing in Froome. Phoebe

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Lock was last seen at her home .00 last night. She has links whth

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Bridgwater and family in thd Bath area, police say they are growing

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concerned for her welfare. A bride`to`be from Bristol has found

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a stem cell donor for her fhance after launching a successful social

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media campaign which could save his life. Kate Roberton had just 60 days

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to find a match for Mike Br`ndon, who found out he had cancer in

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March. Sarah`Jane Bungay reports. 60 days to find a match. Mike

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Brandon and his fiancee Katd Robertson were told that after his

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current course of chemother`py he desperately needed a transplant The

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Shake4Mike appeal was Kate's answer. All of our friends quite liked doing

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shaky faces and take silly pictures of each other. Within the fhrst

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48`hours of the campaign behng launched, we had 2,136 people

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register to be a donor. Mikd's best chance of a match was anothdr man

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under the age of 30. Here hhs friends were encouraging people to

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sign up at a Premier League football game. Word of the campaign spread

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fast. Soon people were shakhng their faces and sharing the message. Less

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than a month since it began, a donor has now been found. In the Bristol

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area alone the increase in potential donors has been dramatic. In a

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normal week in May the Anthony Nolan Trust would expect around 165 people

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to join the register of potdntial donors. This year that jumpdd to

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4,120 ` an increase the charity directly relates to Kate's campaign.

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We've been really, really encouraged by the number of people who've come

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forward from the Bristol arda, and also around the whole country. We've

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had more than 7,000 applications for people to join the register within

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the first week of this camp`ign and we're just so delighted now that

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Mike has his opportunity for a transplant. Shake4Mike has provided

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many amusing pictures ` a tonic for the patient himself who has laughed

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out loud at many of them. Btt more importantly, Kate's campaign has

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found the person who could potentially save the life of her

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future husband. Local electhon coverage here and on your local BBC

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Radio stations through the night but now the weather. The radar has been

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showing further showers movhng northwards understanding we will

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continue with more showers, temperatures will be somewhdre round

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ten or 11 Celsius, tomorrow we can expect further showers from the word

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go, particularly in western and northern district, they will tend to

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become more confine. Generally speaking the further east you are it

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will brighten up. Still one were to showers in the afternoon but many

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areas enjoying a bit of dry weather before more showers from thd east.

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Temperatures tomorrow, about 14 to 16. There will be a number of

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showers on Saturday, less through the bank holiday weekend, hdre

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afternoon. Feeling cool. I leave you with

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afternoon. Feeling cool. I leave you through the bank holiday weekend.

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Hello again. The atmosphere through the bank holiday weekend.

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torrential downpours and an area of thunderstorms worked northwards

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across many thunderstorms worked northwards

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is going out of things now. More showers spiralling in around an area

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of low pressure. Many places showers spiralling in around an area

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see further rain at times showers spiralling in around an area

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tonight. The rain showers spiralling in around an area

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Ireland, fairly patchy hair. A chill in

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air here, potential for snow across the tops of the Grampians. A cold

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day here the tops of the Grampians. A cold

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take a closer look at 8am tomorrow morning, into

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