23/06/2014 BBC Points West


23/06/2014

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Good evening. Coventry teenagers who have

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The leaf khat, which acts as a stimulant when

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chewed, will be officially banned in an hour`and`a`half's timd.

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The move is said to be dividing Bristol's large Somali commtnity.

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The Government says the ban is supported by most Somalis.

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Others claim it is criminalhsing a harmless habit.

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Here's our political editor, Paul Barltrop.

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This warehouse near Heathrow is the hub for imports of khat.

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Grown in East Africa, bundlds travel onto Bristol to be sold for ?3.

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Traders say for many Somalis it s the equivalent of going to the pub.

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It is a social way of life for so many people, especially members of

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the Somali community who live in this country. These are hard`working

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people, they work, they go to school, they have children, so it is

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not true that khat is bringhng problems to the Somali commtnity.

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It's thought to be used by a minority of Bristol's Somalis

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The Government's own advisers studied this and concluded

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I don't want to see a lot of mothers suffering the consequences.

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But ministers decided inste`d to heed the calls

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of the many opponents who lhnk khat to many social problems.

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Police in Bristol have been talking to the community `

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First`time possession will get a verbal warning.

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But repeat offences and supplying khat will see stiffer

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I'm joined by Councillor Hibaq Jamma ` the first Somali woman cotncillor

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Thank you very much for comhng in ` is it dividing the Somali

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community? I think it certahnly is. There are pros and cons to the

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argument, and it is definitdly something which has two different

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camps. What about the pros, first of all? A lot of people would say it is

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responsible for the breakdown of families and it is causing ` lot of

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men not to go out and seek work and it is masking the underlying

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post`traumatic stress disorder that a lot of people suffer from. Surely

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that is enough for it to be banned? There are pros and cons, as I said.

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What I am really interested in is that the instrumentation has been

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too fast, and I am worried where it is going to lead to, which could be

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a car crash consequence for a vulnerable community. What can you

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do as a councillor? I will be writing to the Prime Ministdr, I

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will be writing to the mayor and I will be looking into an inqtiry into

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just how quickly this ban h`s been implemented, because I, along with

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both camps, have been very worried about the fermentation and how

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quickly it has been done. So, when it is banned, as from tomorrow, what

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do you see the problem being in the short`term? The problem is that time

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and time again, public servhces have not been given time to coordinate a

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plan to really look at the consequences and deal with the

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fallout of this. Unfortunatdly, this has not been taken into account .

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Letting agents have told thd BBC that

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the West Country property m`rket is moving so fast it's leaving many

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In Bristol, houses are often being rentdd out on

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the day they go on the markdt, but there are accusations that letting

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Our business correspondent Dave Harvey reports.

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Kieran Hart starts every dax like this ` scanning

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the websites for a home for him his partner and their young daughter.

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He has to move fast, as he discovered last week when they

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There is no chance you can leave three or four days in betwedn

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viewing a property and making a decision. It is absolutely frantic.

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The majority of the lets th`t we do, people will view it and thex can

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offer within half an hour of viewing it.

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This letting agency in north Bristol is typical.

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Don't book a viewing for next week, they say ` if it's on today,

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For economists searching for signs of recovery, this is one

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And there is a lot more to this than just a hot property market. We are

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seeing the two faces of Britain s economic recovery. On the one hand,

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business is booming. Sales `re moving, and people are making good

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money. On the other hand, pdople are struggling to find somewherd to

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live, and sometimes, they are being left at the mercy of exploitative

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landlords. In the centre of Easton, colmunity

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campaigners are out leafletting Their target ` huge so`calldd admin

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fees levied by letting agents Anything from ?200 upwards. The

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maximum we have found so far in these charges is ?500. It is not

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just a one`off, it happens dvery time someone wants to renew the

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tenancy, so it could be every six months. One of the organisers called

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around estate agents, pretending to be a landlord, and they acttally

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encouraged him to only give his tenants are six month contr`ct,

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because they said after that you can bump up the fees whenever you want,

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you can chuck them out if you do not like them.

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In the letting game then, there are winners, and so there are losers.

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An investigation has been l`unched into how an RAF parachutist crashed

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into an elderly woman at an air show in Weston`super`Mare.

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The parachutist was taking part in a display at the Weston @ir

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Festival, but crash`landed `way from the target drop zone.

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He hit a fast food van and the pensioner, who had to be

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Now, you may have heard the sad news at the weekend of the death of

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He was a much`loved regional presenter

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A book of condolence has bedn opened here at Broadcasting House,

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That's it from us tonight, I'll leave you now with Ian,

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Tomorrow will bring another fine and warm day, driver the majority. Just

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the chance of one or two showers in the evening. We have heard some

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showers in parts of Gloucestershire this evening. It should be ` dry

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night, and that is how things will start tomorrow. There should be a

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good deal of early sunshine. Coming further east, there will be a bit

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more in the way of cloud buhlding up in the afternoon. Light bredze, very

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high pollen count. Coming into the evening, more cloud coming down on a

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very weak cold front from the north`east, which could just

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introduce one or two showers. Tomorrow, temperatures will be a

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couple of degrees down. It will be followed by another dry and settled

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state on Wednesday, but it will be changing on Thursday and Frhday

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Good evening to you. Well, for many of us, another fine day, a nice

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start to The Week, but not such a great end to Monday because across

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East Anglia and the south-east we had thunderstorms. Some big

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downpours,

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