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Good evening. Coventry teenagers who have | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
The leaf khat, which acts as a stimulant when | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
chewed, will be officially banned in an hour`and`a`half's timd. | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
The move is said to be dividing Bristol's large Somali commtnity. | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
The Government says the ban is supported by most Somalis. | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
Others claim it is criminalhsing a harmless habit. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
Here's our political editor, Paul Barltrop. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
This warehouse near Heathrow is the hub for imports of khat. | :00:30. | :00:38. | |
Grown in East Africa, bundlds travel onto Bristol to be sold for ?3. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Traders say for many Somalis it s the equivalent of going to the pub. | :00:44. | :00:53. | |
It is a social way of life for so many people, especially members of | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
the Somali community who live in this country. These are hard`working | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
people, they work, they go to school, they have children, so it is | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
not true that khat is bringhng problems to the Somali commtnity. | :01:08. | :01:29. | |
It's thought to be used by a minority of Bristol's Somalis | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
The Government's own advisers studied this and concluded | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
I don't want to see a lot of mothers suffering the consequences. | :01:36. | :01:50. | |
But ministers decided inste`d to heed the calls | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
of the many opponents who lhnk khat to many social problems. | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
Police in Bristol have been talking to the community ` | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
First`time possession will get a verbal warning. | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
But repeat offences and supplying khat will see stiffer | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
I'm joined by Councillor Hibaq Jamma ` the first Somali woman cotncillor | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
Thank you very much for comhng in ` is it dividing the Somali | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
community? I think it certahnly is. There are pros and cons to the | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
argument, and it is definitdly something which has two different | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
camps. What about the pros, first of all? A lot of people would say it is | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
responsible for the breakdown of families and it is causing ` lot of | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
men not to go out and seek work and it is masking the underlying | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
post`traumatic stress disorder that a lot of people suffer from. Surely | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
that is enough for it to be banned? There are pros and cons, as I said. | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
What I am really interested in is that the instrumentation has been | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
too fast, and I am worried where it is going to lead to, which could be | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
a car crash consequence for a vulnerable community. What can you | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
do as a councillor? I will be writing to the Prime Ministdr, I | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
will be writing to the mayor and I will be looking into an inqtiry into | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
just how quickly this ban h`s been implemented, because I, along with | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
both camps, have been very worried about the fermentation and how | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
quickly it has been done. So, when it is banned, as from tomorrow, what | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
do you see the problem being in the short`term? The problem is that time | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
and time again, public servhces have not been given time to coordinate a | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
plan to really look at the consequences and deal with the | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
fallout of this. Unfortunatdly, this has not been taken into account . | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
Letting agents have told thd BBC that | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
the West Country property m`rket is moving so fast it's leaving many | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
In Bristol, houses are often being rentdd out on | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
the day they go on the markdt, but there are accusations that letting | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
Our business correspondent Dave Harvey reports. | :03:52. | :04:02. | |
Kieran Hart starts every dax like this ` scanning | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
the websites for a home for him his partner and their young daughter. | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
He has to move fast, as he discovered last week when they | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
There is no chance you can leave three or four days in betwedn | :04:13. | :04:24. | |
viewing a property and making a decision. It is absolutely frantic. | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
The majority of the lets th`t we do, people will view it and thex can | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
offer within half an hour of viewing it. | :04:34. | :04:33. | |
This letting agency in north Bristol is typical. | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
Don't book a viewing for next week, they say ` if it's on today, | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
For economists searching for signs of recovery, this is one | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
And there is a lot more to this than just a hot property market. We are | :04:43. | :04:52. | |
seeing the two faces of Britain s economic recovery. On the one hand, | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
business is booming. Sales `re moving, and people are making good | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
money. On the other hand, pdople are struggling to find somewherd to | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
live, and sometimes, they are being left at the mercy of exploitative | :05:06. | :05:06. | |
landlords. In the centre of Easton, colmunity | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
campaigners are out leafletting Their target ` huge so`calldd admin | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
fees levied by letting agents Anything from ?200 upwards. The | :05:13. | :05:26. | |
maximum we have found so far in these charges is ?500. It is not | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
just a one`off, it happens dvery time someone wants to renew the | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
tenancy, so it could be every six months. One of the organisers called | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
around estate agents, pretending to be a landlord, and they acttally | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
encouraged him to only give his tenants are six month contr`ct, | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
because they said after that you can bump up the fees whenever you want, | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
you can chuck them out if you do not like them. | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
In the letting game then, there are winners, and so there are losers. | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
An investigation has been l`unched into how an RAF parachutist crashed | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
into an elderly woman at an air show in Weston`super`Mare. | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
The parachutist was taking part in a display at the Weston @ir | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
Festival, but crash`landed `way from the target drop zone. | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
He hit a fast food van and the pensioner, who had to be | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
Now, you may have heard the sad news at the weekend of the death of | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
He was a much`loved regional presenter | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
A book of condolence has bedn opened here at Broadcasting House, | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
That's it from us tonight, I'll leave you now with Ian, | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
Tomorrow will bring another fine and warm day, driver the majority. Just | :06:32. | :06:47. | |
the chance of one or two showers in the evening. We have heard some | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
showers in parts of Gloucestershire this evening. It should be ` dry | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
night, and that is how things will start tomorrow. There should be a | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
good deal of early sunshine. Coming further east, there will be a bit | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
more in the way of cloud buhlding up in the afternoon. Light bredze, very | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
high pollen count. Coming into the evening, more cloud coming down on a | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
very weak cold front from the north`east, which could just | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
introduce one or two showers. Tomorrow, temperatures will be a | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
couple of degrees down. It will be followed by another dry and settled | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
state on Wednesday, but it will be changing on Thursday and Frhday | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
Good evening to you. Well, for many of us, another fine day, a nice | :07:35. | :07:45. | |
start to The Week, but not such a great end to Monday because across | :07:46. | :07:54. | |
East Anglia and the south-east we had thunderstorms. Some big | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
downpours, | :07:57. | :07:58. |