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Welcome to BBC Points West with Sabet Choudhury and Alex Lovell

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The funds being made available for Somerset communities living

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in the shadow of a new nuclear power stathon.

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When you have got there vehhcles coming, that is going to have an

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impact. The West mother challenging

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the government's ban Recognition from the Queen

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for several voluntary groups And digging out stories frol

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the Great War here in the Wdst. It's the biggest construction

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site in the UK for a generation The new Hinkley Point power station

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will cost ?16 billion, and create an estimated 25,000 new

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jobs during construction. But it'll take at least eight years

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to build ` and that's nearlx a decade of disruption for people

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living anywhere near the site. So today,

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communities in its shadow ldarned ?20 million in all ` with the

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first ?4 million announced today. They've fired up the bulldozers

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again, and started new ground works for a power station they sthll

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aren't sure will finally be built. But the minute these machinds moved

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into action it triggered the release of millions of pounds to

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local communities ` in effect This is a contribution to the

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community to enable us to start over what.

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This vast project may yet bd scuppered by the European Commission

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who are investigating whethdr the deal between EDF and the government

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for new nuclear electricity amounts to an illegal subsidy.

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All of this is effectively ` gamble, a gamble that they `re

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confident will go the way. Hf it does not, this will have bedn a

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waste of time. But civic leaders announcing

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the compensation package today know that whatever happens

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their ?4 million is safe. We are trying to help communities,

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to say that if you are softdning the impact of this, for the sakd of the

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nation, to have more power, as compensation, here is the fhnance

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that will make you feel bitter about the project.

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The village of Stogursey, jtst a mile from Hinkley, is guaranteed at

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least ?500,000, and it's up to the community now to apply for the cash.

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If people want to enhance the village, either by building a new

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village hall or encompassing a youth club, it is what about the village

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once. More money will follow in

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the years to come, up to ?20 million That is, of course, if Hinkley C

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actually becomes more than just Well, as Clinton mentioned,

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European politicians will h`ve Our political editor Paul B`rltrop

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joins us now. The reality is that this was always

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going to take a very long thme. It is for this is a form of acceptable

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state aid. But that has to be something cold market failure, they

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are currently investigating whether that is the case. No other funds,

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cutting out the competition was fair according to the rule book. The

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Competition Commission say that this is without visiting and it hs very

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complex. It will take a long time. Why are EDF energy pressing ahead?

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They have spent a lot of money getting this point. It is also not

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the job to negotiate with Brussels. That is the UK government. Today,

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the Chief Executive said th`t a they deal. They have got to keep going

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and hope. A mum from south Gloucestershire is

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launching a legal challenge against the ban on children being

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taken on holiday during terl time. Karen Wilkinson has helped form

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a group called "Parents Want a Say" ` they're calling

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for a judicial review of thd rules. Already in the West,

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more than 700 fines have bedn issued to parents for taking

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their children out of school. Alice Bouverie's been to

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speak to some of them. Reminiscing about the holid`y, less

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than two cows family to Can`da. When he came back he was told th`t he had

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been fined ?240 and they wotld or could not pay he would have to go to

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court. It was the trip of the waste team. To go to some really Canada in

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the middle of the winter, and have those experiences, the educ`tional

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value is phenomenal. Has sexual old son is a very good reader. But while

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he is reading his book, his dad is being read the riot act. Until the

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holiday companies and the Alliance have a fixed place, a flat rate I

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am not willing to pay the cost. Since last September, the government

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has got it won't offer on p`tients taking holidays during term time.

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Before there was discretion but now only exceptional circumstances

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apply. A new campaign group has attracted nearly a quarter of a

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million people to its petithon. We have got a case where a trahn going

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and for an operation has bedn refused a holiday before thd

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operation. Silly cases like that. They are exceptional. It is a

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no`brainer. The Department of education is so far refusing to

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listen according to this wolan. He said...

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The crackdown on absenteeisl is meeting many people unhappy.

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We are just hearing that thd motorcyclist has been killed when

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competing in a race and that a will of man. The 65`year`old had been an

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experienced rider. An investigation is now under way.

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Police investigating an alldged bomb

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hoax in Bristol are appealing for more information from the

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public. Bomb disposal experts were called to Cassell Road in Fhshponds

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and hundreds of homes and businesses were evacuated after

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reports that a parked car h`d been doused in petrol. A 42`year`

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old man arrested on suspicion of causing a bomb hoax has been

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One of the Australian DJs who made a prank call to Bristol nurse

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Jacintha Saldana says she should have tried harder to make stre it

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Mel Greg and her co`host phoned the hospital

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where Miss Saldanha was tre`ting the Duchess of Cambridge, pretending

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Miss Greg says she feels guhlty that Miss Saldanha was found dead three

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days later, and that it's been like livhng

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My boyfriend Steven was going on Twitter and Facebook, just having a

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look as he normally does, and then he saw the Tweets coming through.

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They said I had blood on my hands and that I was

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I feel disgusted at myself, listening back to it.

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I remember laughing, thinking how funny it was.

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You're watching Points West, your local news from the BBC,

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We'll let you know where to see the Queen's baton relay tomorrow.

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And we meet the man who's rtn seven marathons in seven daxs.

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This week we're continuing our World War One at Home series on

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Points West ` a partnership between the BBC and Imperial War Museums.

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It tells stories about people and places on the home front

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Salisbury Plain was already established as a training b`se

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but the conflict saw thousands of soldiers from across

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And many of them left their mark, as I've been finding out.

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When you see millions of thd mouth less dead, across your dreals in

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pale battalions, say not soft thing as other men have said, that you'll

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A living hell, filled with the stench of ddath

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Nothing could have prepared them for this.

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But it's here in Salisbury Plain, hundreds of miles away

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from the battlefield, that lost of those soldiers had their first

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100 years on, if you look h`rd enough, this landscape is still

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From the sky down, a reminddr of how life in the trenches started

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These people, it would have been their first

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You've got replica shell`holes, tea that tastes like fuel

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One thing you can't have is an enemy shooting at you.

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Although you're using your own ammunition, there's no

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That's something you can't train for.

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Even to the extent the trenches are located.

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They're on what's called a reverse slope.

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Any enemy attacking you from the front line,

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you'd see them silhouetted beautifully on the skyline.

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That's the sort of thing thdy'll face on the Western Front.

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Thousands of new recruits came here to prepare

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for the front line ` amongst them, the Anzacs, the Australian `nd

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Also the Canadian forces, filmed here digging trenches.

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It must have been one of the strangest experiences ever,

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particularly when you think at that time, the start of the 20th century,

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many people might not even have left the county!

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All of a sudden, the whole of the Empire descends upon the cotnty

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It must have been so peculi`r to face the whole Empire in one

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Those soldiers are long gond ` some taken by time,

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Although this desolate landscape still stirs with their echods.

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You think about military landscape...

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A relatively short period of time in trenches, but also time

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100 years on, those markings are now a monument ` a time capsule to

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the memories of soldiers like Alexander Todd from Australia.

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He trained here, and became a hero by taking

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Imagine, he's whittling awax in a moment of boredom.

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All sorts of thoughts are rushing through his

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It's the same hopes and fears as the modern armies had,

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Hoping to get back, expecting to get back...

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But very poignantly, he never makes it.

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Killed one month before the end of the Great War.

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That makes this a powerful lonument ` a tangible trace

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In winter trenches, glum, whth crumps and lice, and lack of rum,

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Many who trained in these trenches died in the theatre of battle.

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But there are others who never left this Wiltshire countryside `

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No less are they the heroes than those who g`ve

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You can find more stories on the website. Tomorrow, I will bd

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investigating the letter was sent to the wife of a soldier back hn the

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West. They have been told into a beautiful song.

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And later tonight, there's a special programme looking

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at the role the West Countrx played in training hundreds of thotsands

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From rediscovering the country's largest horse depot in Shirdhampton

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to cavalry training in Wiltshire, it's the story of the real warhorses

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And you can see that progralme at 7.30pm here on BBC One.

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Eight voluntary groups from across the West are being honoured

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The Queen's Awards for Voluntary Service are given every

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year to groups up and down the country, which make an outstanding

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For many vulnerable women, a dangerous place to be.

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But thanks to One25 ` there is somewhere they can get help.

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This is the only organisation specifically for women trapped in

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these kind of situations. Wd deal with many people. We work whth

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around 300 women every year. This vehicle goes out five mates the

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week, women can do it clocks of tea and some advice. The people who

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volunteer do it because thex really want to. They are very passhonate.

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The Queen's Awards were cre`ted more than a decade ago, back in 2002

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They aim to recognise the contribution that groups

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of volunteers make to local communities.

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They have an equivalent status for voluntary groups as MBEs do

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Across the west, seven other charitable groups are

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One in Gloucestershire, one in Wiltshire and five across Somerset.

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One of those in Somerset, is based in Taunton.

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The Street Pastors there have been helping out

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We wanted to be ace is placd for young people, to go out and enjoy

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themselves. Us are universally well`received. We don't votd suites

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and it is amazing how that diffuses aggressive situations. They will be

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presented with the awards cdremonies of the summer.

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Some of the region's top rowers are celebrating a successful wedkend

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at the European Championships in Belgrade.

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Double Olympic Champion Petd Reed from Nailsworth had to be s`tisfied

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But former team mate Alex Gregory took gold as part

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There was also a first European title for Bath trained rower

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It felt really exciting. We are confident that we don't wear what we

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will have to ask our coach. Several medals too

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for our next guest ` and pldnty Jason Smith ran seven marathons

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in seven days, taking in sole of Somerset's greatest landlarks,

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and I'm pleased to say he joins us On a scale of one to ten, how much

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do you hop at the moment? I would like to thank you for having me on.

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We took this challenge, over seven days, and we are all in extreme

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pain. Was it worth it? It is slowly sinking in. We woke up this morning

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and realised the enormity of it You device of this yourself? Nine months

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ago, I visualised something to do. It is similar to a bucket lhst. I

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spoke to charity fundraisers, locally, and one of them mentioned

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trying seven marathons over seven days. I thought were better to do it

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than Somerset. What was your favourite landmark, and the topless?

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People are inspirations for technology. We ran a classy

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suspension blanch, leading tp to the finale, and looking down onto the

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view was fantastic. We were all emotional that that was our first

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marathon. It was fantastic. And the one closest to your heart, xou save

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that for your study? It was Saturday. Really from that xear and

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one of the people has the dhsease, host dream was to be Batman. We sent

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out an e`mail and we were vdry thankful that Batman was frde! There

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Seat on top. We have got thd middle Seat on top. We have got thd middle

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C. You will have noticed. Congratulations.

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This summer's Commonwealth Games are just 51 days away,

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and tomorrow the official b`ton will be passing through the area.

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We'll give you the route in a few minutes.

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Several West Country athletds will be there,

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including 20`year`old Kristhan Callaghan, who has been seldcted

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He's a student at the University of Bath, and as Alistair Durden has

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been finding out, Kristian is making quite a name

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Kristian Callaghan is aiming for the target, one centimetre in dhameter.

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He says that eating well and avoiding caffeine is fatal to having

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a steady arm. Then it is kedping your concentration. Most of shooting

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is in your mind. You have got to know what it says that you want to

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thank in order to work. He has already won medals at junior level

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and looking British records. But his natural aptitude for the sport has,

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as he backed office supplies. Nobody in our family shoots. It cale as a

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shock. He began winning competitions and he was getting very consistent.

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We began to think we should find him a proper shooting club. It can be an

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expensive sport. These glasses cost several hundred pounds. The gun as

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what over ?1500. He can eashly spend over ?80 on an commission every

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weekend. She also has to fit it weekend. She also has to fit it

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around his university race. He is doing an engineering degree in

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Bath. But he says the sacrifice will be what that. I am looking to get to

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the final. Anything can happen but it is an achievable goal. Whnning a

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medal is not impossible. It would be nice. Shooting has already taken

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Kristian Callaghan across the world. But debate destination and his

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saints as Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics.

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Many of you will remember the Olxmpic

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Torch relay back in 2012, which saw thousands of you turn out to line

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Well tomorrow, it's the turn of the Queen's baton to come to thd West.

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It will be in Bristol's harbourside at lunchtime, starting off

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at the Lloyd's Ampitheatre just after midday, before boarding

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a boat to the Watersports Cdntre and finally ending up at

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It is pretty much a continu`tion in terms of the showers. Many darly as

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well avoid them to the data extent. But there was perhaps, rathdr than

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sunshine even the cloud. Sole really decent weather. We have been seeing

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temperatures are on average, you will notice that the rainfall

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totals, certain places legal way. Thank you for sending the

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information in. Over the next 2 over us, we have some weakening

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weather fronts and that could cling some showers. Some medium ldvel

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clone will be around. Some showers as well. To the south, overnight, B

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can say for what is coming. It could be a very wet day. We have some

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showers owed to the west and the weather front is weakening, it is

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moving eastwards. By the te`m we are through to the end of the nhght

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temperatures should be around 1 , 12 Celsius. We will start with the few

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shovels but most areas. On ` dry note. Perhaps some broken fdel

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thanks to the disease. If you are either saved, you may see no showers

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at all. Went tomorrow that these. Temperatures to 16 or 17. W`it on

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Wednesday but the detail is yet to be confirmed.

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They've kept us enthralled over the past couple of months `

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and today, six barn owl chicks who became online stars thanks to

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It's so their progress can be monitored in the years to come.

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The chicks were born just over a month ago to mum Brenda

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Thousands of people around the world followed

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their journey online as thex hatched and were fed by their parents.

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Six out of a brood of seven survived.

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The Hawk and Owl Trust wants to set up more than 300 nest boxes

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across Somerset to try and tackle the decline in barn owls.

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They are long way. We will be back later tonight, but for now, goodbye.

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..then... ..he landed...

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..and in a flurry of feathers, they were gone.

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But that isn't quite the end of the story.

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Perhaps you'll dream of a great adventure.

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'I'm going on an adventure.' Wow.

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That is a long way. Quite a bit of it is on bikes.

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What are you going to do about your hair?

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