28/08/2014 BBC Points West


28/08/2014

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One of the campaigners who overturned a ban on black bus

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drivers in Bristol in the 1860s says racism today is as bad if not

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worse. Paul Stephenson's warning came in a speech at the citx's bus

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station ` as he unveiled a plaque to commemorate the 1963 protest.

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They're smiling now ` and love the new plaque in their honour.

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But back in the '60s ` life was no smiling matter.

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If you were black and trying to earn a living in Bristol.

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We intend to go on engaging white labour, rather than coloured labour.

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The Bristol Omnibus Company refused to employ black drivers

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Guy Bailey remembers applying a job ` and turning up for the interview.

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What this receptionist said to the manager, "Your two o'clock

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appointment is here... And he's black." And I heard him tell her,

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"Tell him all the vacancies are filled."

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Yet an hour ago, there were plenty vacancies.

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I think that has destroyed my mind for at least 25 years.

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The discrimination led to a boycott of Bristol's buses.

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Within six months, the Bristol Omnibus Company changed its

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But today ` campaigners said racism is still a problem.

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All the time they ignore racism it builds up.

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As I said in my speech, we have a duty to

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the next generation to see that they have a fair and equal opportunity.

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We will fight to reduce the aggression that does exhst

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Bristol's elected mayor says the city's facing up to its problems.

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But racism is very nearly a daily problem for this ticket

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inspector ` who's grandfathdr was a bus boycott campaigner.

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Because a lot of it has gone underground now.

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I can walk into a room and the whole room goes quidt.

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I walk into a pub and the pub goes quiet.

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And that still happens, unfortunately.

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Some experts say the recent recession has trhggered

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intolerance ` an uncomfortable parallel with 1963.

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When white bus drivers and conductors feared they'd lose

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overtime or jobs to an infltx of workers from overseas.

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A 22`year`old woman from Gl`stonbury has been killed after being struck

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by a train in Merseyside. The woman, who hasn't been named, was killed at

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a level crossing near Freshfield station yesterday afternoon. Police

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are still trying to establish the circumstances surrounding the death,

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but the incident is not being treated as suspicious.

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to modernise Swindon's Oasis leisure centre to be torn up. Labour

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councillors say they would like to see the current deal to reftrbish

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the pool and build an indoor ski slope handed to another firl. The

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council has now given the company more time to submit a plannhng

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Brunel's SS Great Britain in Bristol has received a collection of more

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than a thousand personal possessions belonging to the famous enghneer.

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The donation to the Great Britain's Museum Trust includes Brunel's cigar

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case complete with a half sloked cigar and a well worn pen knife with

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his initials stamped on . The Trust says it plans to put as manx items

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as possible on show, but thd collection is so large it'll take

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two years just to build the display.

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One of the UK's rarest buttdrflies could be reintroduced into ` valley

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in the Cotswolds.The large blue butterfly became extinct in the UK

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in 1979 and is threatened across the world. Conservation work led to its

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re`introduction at a tiny ntmber of sites including the Polden Hills in

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Somerset. But now it's hoped the Rough Bank reserve in the Slad

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Valley could also become an important site for the speches.

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Bristol's stars of the Commonwealth Games have paraded through the city

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on an open top bus to mark their achievements. They were joined by

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the locally`based England rtgby players who won the women's world

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cup earlier this month. Alistair Durden reports.

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They set off from Bristol H`wks gym ` where gymnast Claudia Fragapane

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has trained for a decade. Mddal winners from shooting, bowls, judo

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and rugby joining her onboard. The teenager wowed the crowds in

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Glasgow, winning 4 golds at the Commonwealth Games. Today w`s a

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chance for Bristol to say congratulations.

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Credible. Such a great experience. `` incredible. It is a once in a

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lifetime thing. It is nice to celebrate the success of athletes.

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It is great. It wasn't all smooth progress ` the

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open top bus was Some were used to the bumpy ride `

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like David Luckman who'd bedn through this winners' procession in

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Glasgow. Sitting on the chair, I thotght they

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would take me out. It has bden the same ducking under trees here. A bit

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precarious. The four Bristol Ladies rugby

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players who helped England win the world cup earlier this month were on

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board too. It is not normal for us. Our parents

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are more excited than us. It is brilliant to be able to shedr

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occasions like this. At the journeys end ` hugs from the

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family. And a civic reception. A night to savour after a stmmer

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they'll never forget. You never expect to be paraded

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around your own city. It was amazing. I am speechless.

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A night to savour after a stmmer they'll never forget.

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That's it from us tonight. There's more on the BBC Website and your

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local BBC Radio stations. Wd're back tomorrow with Breakfast. But for now

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I'll leave you with the latdst weather.

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Thank you. Most areas are dry. A few showers lingering. A blustery day

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tomorrow. Some bright spells but also some showers. We may sde some

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assistant rain. Temperatures down to 13 Celsius. That Mac persons didn't

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rain. Some bright conditions. As these fronts move through, we will

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get some patchy rainfall. Temperatures up to 19 Celsits. Some

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dry weather on Saturday. High pressure building through Stnday

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into Monday. Hello! We had a touch of autumn in

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August, now we are hoping for a bit of summer in September, both as a

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result of former Hurricanes. It was Hurricane Bertha that brought cold

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air a week or two ago, now we have another later in the week moving

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into the Atlantic, but it is going to take a more northerly track,

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picking up this warm, subtropical air, pushing it across the Atlantic,

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hopefully arriving on our shores, something warmer, drier and sunnier

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for most of us for the first week of September. Tonight, actually, fairly

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mild for most, quite a breezy night, blustery across many north-western

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parts around this area of low pressure, touching near gale force

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through the Irish Sea. Heavy rain moving out of Northern Ireland

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N-word into a good part of northern Scotland. -- onwards. In clear

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spells, temperatures no lower than 13 or 14 degrees. Not a great start

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to Friday across Scotland, further outbreaks of rain likely, quite

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heavy

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