26/05/2014 BBC Points West


26/05/2014

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Hello and welcome to BBC Points West.

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Euro election misery for Lib Dems in the South West.

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Sir Graham Watson, as the long`serving MEP, loses his seat.

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Real cheese is back rolling down Cooper's ill in Gloucestershire

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And restoring the 1920s Fry's chocolate factory steam enghne that

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The Liberal Democrats are rdflecting on a disastrous night in thd

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They were pushed into fifth place and lost their only Euro MP.

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The Conservatives also lost a seat, while Labour and

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For 20 years, Liberal Democrat Graham Watson has

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been going to Brussels on bdhalf of the South West.

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I believe that the loss of the seat for the Lib Dems

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and Conservatives reflects the fact we have been in goverment

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The coalition partners also saw their share of the vote fall but

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The smiles were broadest on UKIP faces, who topped the poll

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Five years ago, we got for first places and this time we got at least

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34. That gives us a marvellous platform to go forward.

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Labour made a return to Brussels, taking back the seat they'd lost

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And the Greens also had cause to raise a glass, picking up their

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This afternoon, the party leader swept into Stroud

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Here, there was a real mood for change. We are offering real

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political change, different ways of doing things and politics. The

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south`west was a little bit more open and prepared to considdr that.

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As they sift through the finer details, all the major parthes will

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be able to draw some positives. All except the Lib Dems, that is.

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A 28 year old man has appeared at Taunton Deane Magistrates Court

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today, charged with abduction of a child from Somerset.

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Davinder Singh, of Churchdown in Gloucestershire, was arrdsted

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He's been remanded in custody and is due to appear at

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Thousands of people turned out in Gloucestershire today

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for the annual cheese rolling competition down Cooper's Hhll.

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And this year, real cheese was back on the menu after it was banned last

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Our reporter, Laura Jones, went along to see how it all went.

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They came from all over the West and all over the world, all for this:

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To watch a cheese get thrown down a very steep hill,

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chased by a bunch of fearless, some would say reckless, runners.

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Coming down, you are, like, in a 50`man washing machine.

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You have a plan to go down and you just end up rolling.

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I think, if you look at the floor now, it's quite flat, but up there,

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the floor is that course th`t you're thinking, I can put my feet down.

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And you end up just sliding on your bum.

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On a day like today, where you've had some rain,

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You can land and sort of like bounce and everything.

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It's when you've had a lot of sun on the ground and it's totally dry,

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But in conditions like that, it's great.

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But it's still a pretty crazy thing to do, isn't it?

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Oh, yeah, it's a crazy thing to do, but that's Gloucester!

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Last year, local cheesemakers were warned not to supply the race

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for health and safety reasons so a plastic substitute was used instead.

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But this year, thanks in part to some dutch Gouda,

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So another year celebrating a great British tradition,

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one that looks set to continue for generations to come.

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A team from North Somerset are hophng to

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set a world record this week by running seven marathons hn seven

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Jason Smith from Weston`supdr`Mare, along with five of his friends,

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set off on the epic journey from the Grand Pier this morning.

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They headed up through Somerset and crossed Bristol mid aftdrnoon.

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The team have been training for nine months,

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All the runs will be local and all the money raised go to

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We hope to see everyone start and finish points and the support has

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amazing. In terms of the we`ther, we couldn't have asked for better

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weather. A steam engine used at Fry's

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Somerdale chocolate factory from the 1920s is being restored after it

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was found by a former emploxee. The Sentinal Shunter moved cocoa,

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sugar and chocolate around the factory but was retired in the 950s

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and narrowly escaped the scrap yard. In its heyday, it employed 4,00

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workers or chocolate welders, One of those was a young

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apprentice called Eric Miles. On his first day, he spotted

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the site's very own steam engine. I got caught a few times riding but

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I still manage to keep the job. That's where

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their tracks first crossed. And Little Engine continued her job,

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moving cocoa, sugar I kept on researching and fhve years

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later, found in Essex. An emotional jorney home to Bristol

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with a drive by Somerdale's Over the last four years,

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the shunter has been restordd by The boiler is the final part

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and then she'll be ready I was too young then but too old

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now. Many of us have escaped with a fair

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amount of dry weather today but others seeing showers starthng to

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appear. This setting the tone as we head on into tonight. We will see

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showers around. Some moderately heavy at times and generallx

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speaking, the further to thd west and south`west, the better chance of

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the brighter conditions. Through the course of this evening, showery rain

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out towards the east of us. Some of that is starting to move its way

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ever westwards. The net restlt is that by tomorrow morning, a fair

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amount of cloud around. Somd of these outbreaks of rain continuing.

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With time, they will fade away but still the odd moderately he`vy burst

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here or there. The better of the brighter conditions towards the

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south`west. Even here, alwaxs a fair amount of cloud around. It will be a

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moderately breezy day. Tempdratures should get up to the mid`tedns. One

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or two spots getting higher than that. As we look into the rdst of

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this week ahead, a similar pattern, so a case of take your pick. Always

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the threat of further showers or outbreaks of rain. There will be

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drier spells either side of that and it looks like an improving story.

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Good evening. If I were to conduct a straw poll about the weather events

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today, I suspect we would get a split decision. There were

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significant differences around, we have sunshine and some warmth, but

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also this cloud and rain coming up through the Channel into the north

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of England. On top of that, some showers in the north-west, some of

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them thundery from Northern Ireland and Scotland, so a real eclectic

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mix. This will drift away over the next few hours, we will keep the

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cloud overnight, and

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