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The children's trip to the seaside ended in a coach crash. Six people

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are in hospital. The accident closed the M5 four hours. It was really

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horrible to see all the blood, kids that got hurt so much.

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Also, 15 foreign nationals are found by police, German man is arrested.

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Quarrying firms in Somerset say they need help to continue to thrive.

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The Wiltshire town hall as it was for recruiting soldiers

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Good evening ` 6 people have been taken to hospital

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The coach had picked up dozens of children and their parents

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for a day`trip to the seaside in Weston`super`Mare.

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It came off the southbound carriageway and rolled several

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The motorway was closed for more than five hours `

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our reporter Andrew Plant has been at the scene of the crash.

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Pushchairs and prams in the storage area, Paul opened by the force of

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the crash. This coach was carrying young children and their parents

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from the Midlands to Weston`super`Mare when it came off

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the road. It ended up front first in a ditch after dumping several times

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with its passengers inside. The coach just started to shake and

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everyone started screaming, and then just rolled over two or three times.

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This woman was taking her children for a day at the seaside. Everywhere

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was broken glass, everybody got hurt, all the blood, both my kids

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were hanging from the top with their seat belts, one lady was sitting

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behind my seat, she got hurt in her head, it was all blood on her face

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and it was really scary. It was horrible. The coach left Stourbridge

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children's Centre at 8:30am with 54 people on board. Five passengers

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were taken to hospital, one small child with a broken ankle. None have

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injuries. The driver has serious back injuries. The air ambulance was

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flown in to help stop evil is driven to Southmead Hospital will stop the

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coach is missing most of it Windows. You can see the carriageway here has

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been closed for more than four hours. They need to get it shifted

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so they can get it open again. Many passengers were eventually picked up

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and driven back towards Birmingham by another coach from a farm beside

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the M5 but this woman's young boys were too terrified to get on another

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bus and they have other injuries from their ordeal which are harder

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to see. A Bristol doctor has been talking

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about her experience of working Rachael Craven, a consultant

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anaesthetist at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, has been treating wounded

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people in Gaza's Al`Sheifa Hospital Her colleagues say she is one

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of the most experienced medical aid At first glance it could be in the

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operating theatre in any part of the world. But this is the main hospital

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for the entire Gaza Strip. Conditions outside are far from

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normal. At present the cease`fire is holding but for nearly 40 days the

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conflict between the Israelis and Hamas has raged. Since Rachael

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Craven arrived a few weeks ago, her summer holiday has been spent

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working to save lives. The pressure to treat the injured has been

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constant. Everything we have been doing is emergencies, so everybody

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who has chewiness, other problems, all those problems don't go away

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just because there is a war going on. They are piling up as well. It's

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the emergency workload which is the difference. Her main job is at the

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Bristol Royal Infirmary but is working in her own time for the

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international medical organisation. She has been with them to Syria and

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Haiti and is one of the first people the charity called you to her

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expertise. It is a typical setting, we turn to people like her, she has

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immense compassion and clinical skill, maturity, she can bring that

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altogether and ignore the chaos and confusion all around, she's an

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absolute star. The conflict has left around two dozen people dead. Like

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all aid workers, she knows what she's doing is making a difference.

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People here are exhausted, they had been working flat out for 40 days,

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they haven't been able to go home survey have been sleeping at the

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hospital. Having staff from overseas come in has meant they can take a

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bit of a rest. It is a sign that people are aware in the outside

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world of what has been going on and what the situation is in Gaza.

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Whatever happens, the conflict will impact on people's lives for years

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to come and volunteers like Rachel know there's still so much more to

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be done. Fifteen people suspected

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of being illegal immigrants have been found in a lorry in Somerset

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which was bound for Exeter. One man has been arrested

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and is being held by police. The lorry was stopped by officers

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on the A303 at the Southfield Those inside have been treated

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for suspected dehydration. Hamish Marshall is there

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for us tonight. This service station this afternoon

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was the centre of a major operation. The lorry was parked over there, we

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were able to watch as one by one, the suspected illegal immigrants

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came off the lorry and were checked over by paramedics. It involved

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Ambulance Service, police and Home Office staff as they looked to try

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and get more detail about how these people had come to get into Britain.

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Please tell me it was a very big operation. Everyone was ported

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individually, they sat with Vic paramedics, they have a

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comprehensive health checks and placed into one of our vehicles and

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taken to a place of safety. Would they tell you about how they came to

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be here? They said they got on at Calais, how they got to Calais I

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don't know, but they were hoping to get into the UK. The people have

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been taken to what police described as a place of safety this evening.

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They will be fed and watered, the Home Office will take the lead on

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what happens next. The police are liaising with the lorry company. The

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driver has told officers that he didn't know they were on his vehicle

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at the time. People saw them and heard them and that is how the alarm

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was raised. Still many questions to be answered in this case, that one

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man charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigrants to come into this

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country. Joining me in the studio is

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Andrew Wallis ` the chief executive of the Bristol based charity called

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Unseen, which supports victims If it turns out that these people

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were trafficked, what help can you give them? Tonight, they will be

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given accommodation, food and water and tomorrow, they will be

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interviewed by police and immigration services to work at

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whether they have been trafficked or not. If they have, they would be put

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into the national referral mechanism and they can access the Surrey

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support. We had the incident at Tilbury docks, now this, and other

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suspected case of human trafficking, will it become more common? And

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fortunately they are. The number of victims being identified in this

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country is increasing. We know from reports that the number of people

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trying to come into the country. Is this a problem that's going to

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continue, because of the situation in the Middle East? It is. The

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problem you have got is you have large chunks of the world suffering

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violence or incredible poverty or conflict, like the Middle East, and

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if people say, we can get you out of this situation, get you to the west,

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you can earn good money, of course that's going to be a huge trawl to

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people, they want to come to Western Europe. Is the UK a particular

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magnet? No more than any other country in the West. In the West we

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have so much, people say, I want a piece of that. Do you think the

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authorities now have a grip on this situation? It's patchy. There is

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more training and awareness that needs to happen, to identify people

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correctly, also to begin to understand the level of criminality

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involved in moving people around the world. Yes, it's better that it was

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put there are still room for improvement. Charities like you can

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still help the police. We work regularly with the police, educating

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them toward the needs are, and also to treat these people as victims. I

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applaud what David and Somerset police have done, they recognise

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they have victims of a crime here. `` even and Somerset police. We are

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glad you can join us. Lots more to come. Including the audiotape tour

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of a Gloucestershire church, using some aimless voices from stage and

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screen. `` famous voices. The upturn in the economy has meant

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a pick up in business The limestone they dig up is in

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demand for building projects from Cross Rail in London ` to filling

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in potholes on our local roads. Scott Ellis has been to the UK's

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biggest limestone quarry ` Rocks that will be used to help

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build the economy. They have had tough times here. Demand for

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limestone dropped 40% during the recession. At Whatley, 20 staff were

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laid off. It's difficult, people here you have worked with for years

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have left, and you do miss them to stop but now, how would you sum the

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mood up? It is fitting better because the output of the quarry is

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increasing. Today, 4 million tonnes of rock are processed every year,

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most of it going to buildings in the South`East by rail. They are hoping

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to supply any bill that Hinkley point power station. Soaring demand

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brings with it calls for faster decisions. We are happy to go

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through all the hoops we have to, regarding environmental issues, but

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we have to look at the decision`making process, there isn't

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enough guidance to say, this looks good, let's go with it, we need

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that, otherwise we can't invest or plan for the future. In the 1990s

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protesters against expansion at Whatley took to direct action

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including cutting the rail line, it took ten years for the quarry

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company to get permission to expand and the managers don't want a repeat

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of that. Somerset County Council says every new application will be

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taken on a case`by`case basis. When all the limestone has been dug out,

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this enormous hole will be filled with water to make a lake or a

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reservoir. That's about 30 years away. The question in between times

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is where in Somerset will the next Corrie B. Stop `` the next quarry be

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dug. Today's announcement that train

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tickets will go up sharply again next year has prompted protests

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in Bristol, and calls for And the news comes just as hopes

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were raised that road tolls on the To help us make sense

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of the changing cost of transport, here's our business correspondent

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Dave Harvey. Nobody likes a price hike,

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especially when it's your journey to work. So today's news that real

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prices could rise by as much as 3.5% left commuters fuming and some

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campaigners calling for the railways to be renationalised. There are few

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things as political as a train ticket. Smiling doesn't always come

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naturally to commuters but today Bristol's travelling public had good

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reason to look glum. More fare rises are on the way. Workers wages are

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struggling to keep pace. I can't afford to keep paying more for a

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service that come the winter might not even run. It's ridiculous, we

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paid nearly ?2000 a year to get this pretty shoddy service. It's always

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late, it's cold, in its boiling, it's pulling on the train. It's not

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acceptable. ?193 return to London, it's extortionate. Even the guy who

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sells me the ticket shrugs his shoulders and says, glad I'm not

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paying it! It's no laughing matter for some transport unions. This

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morning determined few appeared at stations to call for privatisation

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to be reversed. The Devizes MP now in charge of rail insisted ticket

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prices were under control. Fares have gone up in real terms by only

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1% for the first three years and then I 0% in real terms last year

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but at a time when you have her family budget squeezed as we come

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out of the recession, we have to keep this intensity, this focus on

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helping people whether through tax reductions, freezing fuel duty and

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council tax or capping rail fares, that is what we are determined to

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do. Today's headlines assume that regulated fares will increase by

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3.5% in the New Year, the rate of inflation plus 1% on top. But none

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of this is set in stone. That 1% could yet disappear. After all,

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there is a general election round the corner and the cost of living

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and travelling is set to take centre stage. As if to prove that, the Lib

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Dems have announced a transport price cut of their own, this one on

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the Severn Bridge. Today it will cost you 6140 Two Drive across or

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?19 20 if you have a truck, and every day 80,000 vehicles fork out

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for it. In two years, the deal with the private company that collects

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tolls expires, the cost of the bridges will be virtually paid and

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the ministers will have to decide how much to charge us to go to

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Wales. If the Lib Dems are in power, they say it will cost nothing,

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benefiting not just commuters but everyone in Wales and the West

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Country. It is also a cost to tourism, a lot of people who might

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think, on a Sunday afternoon, let's go to Berkeley Castle, see the

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museums in Bristol or the harbour, but they think, it's going to cost

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me another ?6 40, so they don't do it. Likewise, people in Bristol make

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the same calculation so it's a major barrier to developing tourism. How

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much will that pledge cost a Lib Chancellor? ?50 million a year,

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there's the rub. The knitters can give us the freedom of the open road

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by axing bridge tolls will stop `` ministers can. Equally they can

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freeze rail prices but everything has two B pay for somewhere. Today

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business groups, who welcome cuts to tolls and tickets, said they would

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look carefully at any pre`election transport treats. If there is a

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fixed sum of money, it's always robbing Peter to pay Paul, so we

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would be interested to know if there are reductions in one scheme, would

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it mean that extra costs are placed elsewhere? Or in such a way would it

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benefit business? What do we know for sure? Next year train tickets

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will go up by at least 2.5%. In 2018 the Severn tolls will fall by at

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least 20% because VAT will come off. Beyond that, it is pure

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politics and if you look down at either road, you can see the outline

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of an election. And mini manifesto promises!

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The chairman of Bristol Rovers Nick Higgs says he

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would consider selling the club if the circumstances were right.

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Rovers have made a poor start to life in the Conference

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and are looking to attract new investment and a new director.

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A deal that would have brought significant finance into the club,

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On the pitch, after two wins from two league games

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We have to get everybody to make sure they are in a position where

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they can improve on what we have got and what we are providing at the

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moment, not just come in for one week and find we're back square one.

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On the pitch, after two wins from two league games

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Bristol City play Leyton Orient at Ashton Gate tonight.

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Swindon are away to Gillingham, while Yeovil head to Walsall still

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looking for their first point of the season.

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In League Two, Cheltenham, who have won both league games

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A town hall in Wiltshire has been transported back in time a hundred

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years as part of the commemorations of the start of World War One.

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In 1914 Corsham Town Hall was used as a recruitment post

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for men to sign up and go to fight as soldiers in the trenches.

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Today visitors were able to experience the process

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for themselves in what turned out to be a live

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history lesson, and our Wiltshire reporter Will Glennon joined them.

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Come on up, come on up. Britain at war with Germany. Are you going to

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analyst? I am. They queued, just as hundreds of men would have done a

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century ago. They beat this isn't the fighting force the king was

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looking for but even back in 1914, the rules were fixable. Manpower was

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needed from everywhere and quickly. Get them in, settle them down, put

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them through the process, give them a piece of paper and a day 's pay.

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They would feel part of the Army and expect papers arriving sane, report

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here for training, here is where the uniform is, get them sorted quickly,

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and then get them out of Flanders. He and his brother were joined in

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the same regiment. They fought in the battle of the Somme in the

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trenches. He and his brother both got gassed. But then he made it home

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alive, and he was given an army pension. You will be back for

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Christmas, you realise that? It is important that the war is not

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forgotten and people 100 years later, are still commemorating and

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respecting people did. That was the idea of this event, to transport

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people back in time to the First World War. I want them to get

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feeling of what it must have been like to be part of the anxiety, the

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excitement, of actually entering the war period. This was a war like no

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other before, and the general population has been signed up at a

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rate of knots because they needed men on the ground. It doesn't take

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much imagine yourself there, swept up in the excitement. What he would

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new recruits didn't know where the horrors of war that lay ahead, and

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harmony of them were leaving life in a country town to sign up to

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sacrifice. `` how many of them. It's a clever device.

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If you go to a particular Gloucestershire church

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there's a high chance you will hear the dulcet tones of such stars

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as Joanna Lumley, Bill Nighye and Alan Rickman.

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They've been drafted in to help tell the story of the 28 stained glass

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After a painstaking restoration taking more than 23 years, a new

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audio tape to explain the history behind the glass has been produced.

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Look at the fruit on the tree... You will recognise Joanna Lumley, but

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it's not her that is the star of the show. Nor is it Bill Nighy or even

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Alan Rickman. This is all about the glass. Made 500 years ago to tell

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biblical stories to a largely illiterate population. A subject

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worthy of the red`carpet treatment. A few years ago, Alan Rickman came

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to stay and I showed him round to his church, the magnificent stained

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glass and he fell in love with it. Out of his visit was born the idea

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of getting number of well`known actors to do a window each. It's

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fitting that some of the country's best`known voices guide you around

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the 20th Windows, because the collection here is special, being

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the country's only complete set of medieval stained glass within the

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church. It felt as if, knowing the voice, you knew the person and it

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sounded friendly and authoritative. When we heard about this system, we

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thought it was such a good idea, we had to come and try it out. As have

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many others. Visitor numbers have doubled in the last week.

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Daredevils may soon be able to whip down the Avon Gorge in Bristol at

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Tourism chiefs in the city are planning to build An

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800 metre zip wire to open in time for the city's European

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Destination Bristol is discussing its plans with

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Wales`based Zip World, which has already opened a zip wire

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This is proposed to go from somewhere around here, near the

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observatory, it will then set off and go towards the road, underneath

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the suspension bridge, and head across the water and land at a point

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yet to be defined. It will be agreed in advance but it will hadn't up on

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the other side of the Avon Gorge `` it will end up. Let's get the

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weather. Good evening. We have seen a fair

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few showers through today but they should ease off as we push into the

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evening. Tomorrow looks better, some sunny spells to be had, a few

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showers around but they should be fewer in number than today. It will

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feel cool, but with the winds tending to ease down, it should feel

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ashamed warmer. If we look at the satellite, you can see the lumpy

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nature in the cloud seeding down from the North, indicating the

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instability, allowing the showers to develop. We have these cold winds

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being driven down from the North, and it's much the same picture as we

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head into tomorrow although our breezes easing down and we should

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see fewer showers. By Thursday, lower pressure introducing a

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westerly wind, bringing more cloud across us and an increased risk of

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showers. You can see the showers developing across Wales, feeding

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their way across us, tending to ease down, so it will be a largely dry

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picture tonight, the breezes easing down as well. It will be quite a

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chilly one. Out in the countryside, we could see four degrees, the

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chilliest night in quite a while. A cold start tomorrow but quite a

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bright one, the showers should be fewer in number than today, some

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good sunny spells to be had. Temperatures just nudging a bit

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higher. You will find yourself some shelter from the wind in the

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sunshine, it should feel decent. Tomorrow brings some sunshine, a few

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showers but as the wind backs westerly, more cloud is introduced,

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more showers feed across us, we could do some more persistent rain

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later in the day. On Friday, we will see a few showers but they should

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die off and we should increasingly see some sunny spells.

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Unfortunately, the back of a weekend doesn't stay dry, by Sunday we see

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the return of wet and windy conditions.

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