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That is all from the BBC News at 6.00pm. So goodbye

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Welcome to BBC Points West, with Will Glennon and Alex Lovell.

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Our main story tonight: the West's golden girl of gymnastics is back

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home and back to work. Not resting on four Commonwealth golds, Claudia

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Fragapane is already training for the World Championships.

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I think it's really going to boost her confidence, apart from anything

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else. We always knew she was good, but it has reaffirmed it to her that

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she can cope at that really tough, stressful, high`level competition.

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Heading in the right direction ` hundreds of cars use a private toll

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road near Bath but the operator says he's worried it won't break even.

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Lottery money for the lido ` one of Britain's oldest open air swimming

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pools gets funds for a makeover and riding the great western railway `

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our first stop on a tour of the region's engineering wonders.

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Good evening. Just over a week ago she was one of the stars of the

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Commonwealth Games winning four gold medals, but now Claudia Fragapane is

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already back in training for her next major challenge ` the World

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Championships. The 16`year`old's achievements have brought her

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international recognition, and in her home city of Bristol there was a

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big homecoming party last night to celebrate. Alistair Durden reports.

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The star attraction once again. After a week away with mum and dad,

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this was a chance for the rest of the family, friends and fellow

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gymnasts to say well done. I've had all my friends and family

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supporting me. But also, the people I need to thank the most are my mum

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and dad. Just forgetting me through every day, the hard work and

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everything. All these guys behind me 100 percent.

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COMMENTATOR: Now she just needs to be precise...

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Claudia is England's most sucessful female competitor at a Commonwealth

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Games in 84 years ` but her family say she won't have a problem keeping

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her feet on the ground. In our eyes, she has always been a

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superstar. She does deserve it because she has worked for it. With

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Claudia, everything just goes over her head. She takes each day as it

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comes. Which is good, to be like that. That's the innocence in her.

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And we love it. And we love her for that. You can just see the turnout.

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I mean all these young aspiring gymnasts, just like Claudia now.

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I've heard it so many times now. They say they want to carry on just

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because of her. It's just really nice to hear.

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Today it was back to work at the Bristol Hawks gym where Claudia has

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trained since she was 6. Her coach says there's still plenty she can

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improve on. Although she's shown she's got

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something extra special on the floor, we got ideas of what we are

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going to do for her floor for Rio already. So there's little things in

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our minds to make her shining stand out even more. Hopefully, those will

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come together. The World Championships are next in

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October. That will pit her against the Americans, Chinese and Russians.

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And if they didn't know it before, those gymnastic super`powers can

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expect more fireworks from the girl they call the pocket rocket.

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And say that Claudia and mum, Syriza, I hear in the studio. What

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was the party like? Absolutely amazing. They were so supportive of

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me 100%. My coaches were there. Unfortunately, my mail coach could

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not be here. He was in America. But he came to see me earlier. Hasn't

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sunk in, your incredible achievement? You seem surprised when

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you see the footage. I am definitely still surprised. It has not actually

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sunk in properly yet. I haven't had time to just sit down and chill the

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cause of all the interviews. This is footage of your friends and family.

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This was when you want your gold medal. How is she, Teresa? She is a

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very chilled out young lady. She takes each day as it comes. She

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says, mum, I will do my best. Everyone has been fabulous with her.

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I am quite like her, add it all over the place. When you are in the

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situations, breaking records, the first British woman to win for gold

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medals in, is 84 years? Yes. As part of your reaching, do you have two

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work constantly? Yes. I trained six days a week. When I came off my

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holiday I had to be focused straightaway. Because I need to get

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ready for the World Championships. And all the other girls have to get

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ready to. After the commonwealth it is a fresh start for everyone. You

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see a holiday, it was just one week and it was an activity holiday!

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Well, I didn't do anything. I went to the spa. That is good to know.

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And still only 16 years old. What is next for you? I am hopefully going

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to coach and work with children. I have always wanted to do that. I

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want to juggle the two things at hopefully get a qualification. And

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the Olympics? Hopefully. Showed the medals, please. Look at that! That

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is impressive. Where do they live? They will probably go with, well my

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coach, her husband is creative with lovely boxes. He has made me one.

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Well, congratulations. Thanks for coming in.

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A businessman from Bath, who decided to build a by`pass to avoid traffic

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delays near his home, says more motorists still need to use it, if

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he's to break even. Mike Watts has spent around a hundred and fifty

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thousand pounds on the road, which opened 10 days ago. So how busy is

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it this evening? Our reporter Laura Jones is there for us now ? Laura.

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It is looking quiet. But, this evening, there has been a steady

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stream of cars. This is what all the fuss is about. It is Britain's

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newest toll road. Although it may not be big, just 355 metres long, it

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simply is pretty clever, whisking motorists from the A41, which is

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closed beyond that junction, appear and over the hill. It saves people

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an awful lot of time. There is another car!

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Afternoon! That's ?2, please, sir. A price worth paying, seems to be

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the overriding opinion, for avoiding a long detour and up to one hour's

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extra journey time. When it opened at the beginning of the month, the

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toll road attracted attention from far and wide. And now, it is

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attracting drivers from all over too. 700 people a day are using it.

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But that needs to increase, says the man behind it.

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The road has cost ?150,000 to build. And it costs us ?1000 a day to run

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and operate. So, I am looking at a potential bill for building and

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running of ?300,000 by the end of the year. Fortunately, there are 150

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days to go. So, at ?2 a car, I've got to get 150,000 cars on this road

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to make sure that my wife and I are not out of pocket.

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7000 people a day would normally use this part of the A431, which has

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been closed since a landslip inventory. The only official way

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around is a 14 mile detour, which has been causing headache for

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motorists or months. The local council have always said that they

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would not have been able to do this themselves. Instead, they are

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concentrating on repairing the main road. But they do recognise the

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benefits to drivers. It is saving a lot of people a lot

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of time. In the end, we have to say the Mike Watts that he has taken a

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bold risk and only time will tell if that is a success or not for him,

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financially. But it is certainly one which has created a lot of interest.

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The council could not have built this road, because if we had done,

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it would need to be to highway standards and this is nowhere near

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highway standards. But that doesn't seem to concern

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motorists, who are happy just to have a way around `

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until the main route reopens at Christmas.

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As you heard, about 700 cars are using this road every day. But Mike

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Watts is hoping it will increase soon. That is partly because this

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road is now appearing on Google maps. This diversion could be coming

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to a sat navs near you soon. With the let you know how that gets on.

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That's interesting. Thank you for that, Laura.

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You're watching Points West with Will and Alex. Thanks for joining us

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this evening, still to come on tonight's programme. Splashing out `

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New money means plans to reopen a Georgian swimming pool in Bath take

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a step closer to becoming a reality.

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And this county has long been the subject of artists, but the King of

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pop writing a song about Gloucestershire? Surely not.

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The country's chief vet was in the West today to promote the

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Government's strategy for dealing with bovine TB. Better measures for

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keeping infected badgers off farms and away from livestock are among

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the actions to be introduced. Stricter testing of cattle, tighter

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controls, and a second pilot cull of badgers will also be carried out.

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The aim is eventually to eradicate the disease, which has led to the

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slaughter of 11,000 cattle in the first four months of this year.

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We're starting to see the epidemic level off. It has been increasing,

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doubling, increasing nine Fulton since the late 1990s. And we're

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seeing that steady. We have by no means got on top of that but it is

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starting to happen effect. There are fears the Wiltshire

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tourism industry could be damaged this year because of a lack of crop

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circles. So far this summer only fourteen circles have been

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identified ` that's half of last year's figure. It's thought farmers

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could be cutting them out to stop tourists trampling over their land.

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People come from all over the world Clevedon Pier in North Somerset is

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getting a new visitor centre. It's after a further 750,000 pound grant

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was awarded to the project. The pier's Trust says it now has 90 per

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cent of the money needed for the centre, which it hopes will create

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jobs and increase visitor numbers. And there's good news for another of

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the west's historic landmarks. The country's oldest open air swimming

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pool is set to reopen. The Cleveland Pools, just minutes away from the

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centre of Bath, have fallen into disrepair since they shut thirty

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years ago. But now the promise of funding means they're set to be

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restored to their Georgian glory. A shadow of its former self, built

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200 years ago, this is the only Georgian Lido left in the UK. But

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nobody has died into the waters in three decades. I swam here as a

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child. So many people did and are coming forward to tell their

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stories. It would be up to 1000 people on weekends sometimes. On a

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sunny day in summer. After a 10`year campaign, the news they have been

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waiting for. A grant of ?300,000 of lottery money with the promise of 4

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million to follow. It means a lot! Sorry. It would just be wonderful to

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see it back in action, full of people having a great time. Were

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they haven't had to pay a fortune and where they could swim in safety.

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Until the 1970s, there were around hundred and 50 of these outdoor

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swimming pools across the country. When the council is opened up heated

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indoor leisure centres, they started to close. There has recently been a

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resurgence. The fresh air, it feels like you are on holiday. A nice

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idea, not sure we have the weather for it! They are fantastic. We live

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in Cornwall and we have two open`air swimming pools there. We would love

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one in Bath as well. People of all ages can enjoy outdoor swimming. I

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think being able to swim somewhere special, like these Georgian pools,

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has been popular for hundreds of years. There are special places. In

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a city built around it maps, the prospect of an open nearly done here

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are no a step closer to reality. This year the Clifton Suspension

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Bridge celebrates the 150th anniversary of its opening. It may

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be famous around the world but we have many more engineering marvels

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here in the west. We asked science journalist Jheni Osman to choose her

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five favourites. She travels from Stonehenge to the Roman Baths, and

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from the Suspension Bridge to Wells Cathedral. But she begins tonight at

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Paddington station for a trip along The main concern of passengers at

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Paddington is whether their train is on time. Few consider the

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engineering achievement of Brunel's railway. Let's go on a swift

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journey... This is the driver view of the line today. They started

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building in 1836, just five years later, the line to Bristol was

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complete. The longest in the country it was known as Brunel's billiard

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table because it was so flat. The genius of this was that Brunel

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designed a wider track, known as broad gauge. It was twice the width

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of other railways. Let's stop at Swindon steam Museum. A wider track

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meant a lower centre of gravity. Allowing greater speed and

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stability. Broad gauge was good because if it had come to fruition

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across the network, you could have gone faster, carried more

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passengers, there is more stability. It was the way to go. You must

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remember that Brunel, surveyed the land from London to Bristol on

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horseback. Today it would be done by helicopter. No helicopters and now

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heavy machinery. This was a world of pickaxes, shovels, horses and many

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thousands of labourers. The next wonder want to show you is Boxcar

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tunnel, outside Bath. It is the longest tunnel of its kind. Some

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said it would be impossible to build. Brunel sank six vertical

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shafts to allow work to continue on 14 different faces. They used a

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tonne of gunpowder every week. This author says the fact that any tunnel

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was created at all is incredible. To prove how difficult that is, I have

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brought Kate to `` some cake to replicate. Let's see if we can get

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both to meet. Oh dear! We will not very successful. No matter nowhere

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near. We would've been sacked as contractors. From the outset, the

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railway was engineered to be as flat and level and above all, as fast as

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possible. It was a Victorian TGV line. This was the journey's end.

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The Bristol terminal. The GWR eventually had to adopt the standard

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gauge track. But few would argue that in engineering terms, Brunel's

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railway was the greatest of them all. I am pleased to say, Jheni

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joins us now. What particularly intrigued you about the Great

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Western Railway? I think just how straight and flat it was. It rose by

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1.2 metres every mile. That is incredibly level. Brunel surveyed on

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horseback. There was no GPS or anything. Is amazing. Where else

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have you been? Stonehenge, we're I was fascinated by how neolithic man

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had managed to transport these heavy storms from West Wales, 250, just. I

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want to tell you that we have. That will come later this week. I then

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went on to visit the Roman Baths and was intrigued as I did not know that

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a lot of the drainage and plumbing is actually still in use today. I

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think it is important to look at these things because they are in our

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own backyard and they forget to look at them and remember why we love

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them so much. Exactly. We often put these things. What do we have to

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look forward to tomorrow? Wells Cathedral. I look at how the tower

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was saved from collapse. The engineers had to use flying

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buttresses and other innovations. It was a scrabble to get it to stand

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up. They look fantastic. Which was your favourite? My favourite for

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filming was Clifton Suspension Bridge because I got to climb up it.

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That was an adventure! If you have the head for it. Exactly. It was

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really interesting for the bridge master to tell me how it was built.

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It was the biggest in the world at the time. It will be a good week.

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Thank you, Jheni. "Thriller", "Billie Jean", "Days in

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Gloucestershire"....Which feels like the odd one out? Well, it might not

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be any of them, because it seems they are all Michael Jackson songs.

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You've probably heard the first two but "Days in Gloucestershire" is

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claimed to be a previously unreleased Michael Jackson track

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which has now leaked on to the The King of pop wrote many songs

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about many things. From people he met, to saving the planet, to...

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Zombies. But now a previously undiscovered Michael Jackson song

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has come to light on the internet. It was written ten years ago. It is

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about... Gloucestershire. The story goes that whilst touring the UK with

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the Jackson five, Michael visited the county and apparently he liked

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the fish and chips. But here's the problem. I cannot play you the song.

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It has been removed from the internet by record companies. So,

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how best to get across what it sounds like? I wish to see you in

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Gloucester shire. I wish to see you in Gloucester shire. Again. Right,

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well, not a bad effort. It did not take long for it to catch on. We

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wish to see you in Gloucester shire! I will be honest that was

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nothing like the original. That is more gentle and in June! In fact,

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Michael Jackson actually pronounced the place as Gloucestershire. Has he

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ever been to Gloucester? The story as he visited when the Jackson five

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were on tour. We believe he is in our chippy. That sounds like rubbish

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to me. I'm not being funny, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer,

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but I think I could do a better job than that. Could you do the dance?

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Well, it is hardly a Thriller. It really does mispronounce Gloucester

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shire. How is the weather? It is looking

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decidedly showery. It will be a breezy and blustery day for many of

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you. We can see some heavy showers on the satellite image. You will

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note that they are starting to die off as we head into this evening.

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However, the wind will continue. You may want to check the Floodline or

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Environment Agency website if you live near the coast. We have some

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alerts and warnings in recognition of high tides tonight. Some fairly

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strong winds, courtesy of the remnants of Hurricane Bertha. Behind

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that, trails this blustery, showery story. That will continue tomorrow.

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The showers will increase in intensity. As they get into the

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night, they will die away inland. Temperatures tonight will be cool.

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11 degrees. Tomorrow, it picks up the theme of today. It will start on

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the dry and bright note. But a number of will increase as the day

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continues. We may see some thunder in places. The winds are strictly

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speaking not quite on the same level as today but we may see gusts of 25

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mph in exposed areas. Temperatures getting into the high teens. This

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week, temperatures will be at or below average for this time of year.

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Some further heavy showers on Thursday. Saturday looks a bit

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better. Don't forget to look out for the media showers! By the way, we

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have sped up the Great Western Railway journey for you. It is on

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our Facebook page. I'm back with the News At Ten PM. Let's leave you with

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a look at the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta.

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