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Sophie Hutchinson, BBC News. That's all from us.

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?4 million has been set aside to compensate communities living

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around the proposed site of a new nuclear power station in Solerset.

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Hinkley C is set to be the biggest construction site

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in Europe and it could take at least eight years to build.

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Here's our Somerset correspondent, Clinton Rogers.

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This vast project may yet bd scuppered by the

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European Commission, who are investigating whethdr the

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deal between EDF and the Government for new nuclear electricity amounts

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All of this really amounts to a gamble

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by EDF, a gamble that the Etropean Union decision will go their way.

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Because, if it doesn't, all this will have been a w`ste

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of time, and the land will have to be put back to the way it w`s.

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All payments are administerdd and governed by West Somerset Council...

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But civic leaders announcing the compensation package today know

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that whatever happens, their ?4 million is safe.

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

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Now it's up to the communitx now to apply for the cash.

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If people want to enhance the village hall either

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by building it on, building a new one, encompassing the youth

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So, in other words, it is whatever the village wants?

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It is whatever the village wants as a whole.

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More money will follow in the years to come ` up to ?20 million

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That is if Hinkley C actually becomes more than just

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Our political editor Paul B`rltrop joins me in the studio.

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Why is it taking so long for building work on the power

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It was always going to take a long time. The Competition Commission

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looked at this at the end of last year. He has described it as

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complex. It is without precddent. The focus is on what he calls

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subsidy, sometimes known as state aid. It is permissible wherd there

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has been something called a market failure with a few

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the Chief Executive was askdd about this. As far as they're concerned,

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it is up to the UK Government to make sure things run smoothly in

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Brussels. A motorcyclist from Stroud has been

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killed while competing in the world Bob Price came off his bike during

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the third lap of his race today An investigation

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into his death is now under way A mother from South Gloucestershire

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is launching a legal challenge against the ban on children being

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taken on holiday, during term`time. Karen Wilkinson has helped form a

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group called "Parents Want ` Say". 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. Reminiscing

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about a once`in`a`lifetime holiday. Phil Richards

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from Corsham took his familx to When he came back, he got a letter

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telling him he'd been fined ?24 . And if he wouldn't or couldn't pay,

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he'd have to go to court. The children were seven and nine at

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that time, and to go somewhdre like Canada in the middle of winter, and

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to have the sort of experiences they had, in my view, is no diffdrent

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than a school field trip . had, in my view, is no diffdrent

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than a school field trip. I think the educational

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value was phenomenal. Six`year`old Izak is

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a very good reader for his `ge. But while he's reading his book

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his dad's being read the riot act for going to Spain

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during term`time, taking Iz`k out Until the holiday companies and

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the airline companies have ` fixed price, a standard flat rate, I am

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not going to pay these extr` costs. Since last September,

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the Government's got a lot tougher with parents taking

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holidays in term`time. It used to be at the head tdacher's

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discretion to allow time off. Now it can only be in exceptional

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circumstances, like a bereavement. A new campaign group called

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Parents Want a Say has attr`cted nearly a quarter of a million people

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to its online petition to gdt We've got a case at the mintte where

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a child who is going in for an operation, which, at worst,

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will leave her in a wheelch`ir, has been refused a week's holiday

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before she goes for her operation to You know, so, silly cases lhke that,

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which you would just think `re You know,

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you would think it is a no`brainer, but somehow or other, they `re not

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being interpreted that way. According to Karen,

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the Department for Education is Few parents would disagree with

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this, but the Government's crackdown That is all from us tonight. We re

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back with you on Breakfast `t 6 30 a.m.. Now for the weather. Tomorrow

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will be a comparatively bright day, for some there will be showdrs,

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particularly in the afternoon and they could be moderately he`vy.

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Conversely tonight, most of the region is quite light in nature

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Drizzle until fork as well. A weak front is trundling slowly e`stwards.

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That is heading to parts of Gloucestershire, where tempdratures

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are 12`13dC. Many of us will get underway on a dry note tomorrow

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There will be spells of rain across the district is quite widelx. There

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is a scatter`gun distribution in selected areas. That will continue

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onto the week of weather. Peter Gibbs has

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more in the National forecast. The broad-scale weather patterns are

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reasonably clear. Tomorrow we are talking about showers and bake are

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always hit and miss. But lengthy dry spells in most places and some

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sunshine breaking through. Heavy showers this evening running up

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through the Midlands into northern England. They will move away but

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more showers popping up almost anywhere overnight. Cloudy skies and

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a mild and muggy night. Temperature no lower

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