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Concerns about nuclear safety. BBC Two, and

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With cracks discovered at its sister plant,

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we find out if Hinkley is fit for purpose.

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The police warning about how your social media status

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And a risk of fog around tonight and turning colder in the next 24 hours.

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Questions have been asked about safety at Hinkley Point

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in Somerset, after the regulator raised concerns about cracks

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There have also been worries that the procedure to

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perform an emergency shut down might not work.

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The regulator has agreed that the reactors are safe

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Matthew Hill has this exclusive report.

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Hinkley Point on the Somersdt coast is now Britain's biggest

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Hinkley B nuclear-power station along with its Scottish

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sister Hunterston B, opened in 1976.

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The same year as this Bristol car hit the road.

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It's had lots of loving attdntion to keep it running long

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But keeping a nuclear-power station going much longer than it w`s

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The reactor cores are made tp of thousands of graphite blocks

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Bore, or channels, run though each block.

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Some channels contain nucle`r fuel rods, others have control rods

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Over time, the blocks are d`maged by intense heat and radiation

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We've obtained this image of one crack, contained in a series

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of reports from the nuclear regulator, which reveal a third

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of the channels inspected at both sites stations contain blocks

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The analysis that we have stggests that we can have more than 0000

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axial cracked bricks, and still be operating

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The graphite cores are held rigid by blocks that slot into kex ways

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It was announced last year that a total of seven cracks had

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been found in these key ways in Hunterston.

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An engineer involved in the design of these reactors believes

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if it gets any worse, that could jeopardise

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the reactor's stability if there was an emergency

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If you lose the homogeneity of the key way, that means

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the locking together, the way in which force can be

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transferred from one brick to another, is lost.

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So it becomes a loose, a very loose stack of bricks.

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So far none of these cracks have been found at Hinckley,

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but they could be in those parts not yet inspected.

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But EDF denies they pose a safety threat.

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Having a small number of cr`cked bricks in this massive structure

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is completely irrelevant to the safety function.

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The BBC has obtained papers from the nuclear regulator

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It says the discovery of thdse key way cracks invalidates

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Those papers also reveal EDF wants permission to operate with tp

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to 20% cracked bricks, twice the current limit.

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We as the regulator have influenced EDF to increase the resilience

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And they have installed what we call super articulated control rods

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which will allow shutting down of the core and also nitrogdn

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injection systems which agahn allows them to hold down the reacthvity

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in the core and make sure it continues to be

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Both EDF and the regulator hnsists safety is there any consideration.

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But antinuclear campaigners fear the pressure to keep these `geing

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reactors going longer, until Hinkley C is built,

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is stretching their safety case too far.

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And you concede that full rdport in Inside Out West.

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The police say too many people are encouraging burglaries,

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by advertising that their homes are empty on social media.

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All of our forces say they've seen a recent rise in burglaries.

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In Avon and Somerset, in 2014 there were around 4,200

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but already this year there have been 400 more.

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In Wiltshire, two years ago there were about 1,100 burglaries -

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and that figure is already tp to more than thirteen

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In Gloucestershire, there h`ve been more than 1,600 so far in 2016.

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Here's our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs.

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Downstairs all the drawers were open, all the cupboards

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were open, there were things on the floor in the lounge.

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It isn't her real name, but Sarah was burgled

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recently, just a few days after her father's funeral.

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We found my father's strongbox which had previously

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contained his war medals and my grandfather's watch,

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which was very sad indeed to see that that had been smashed open

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Sarah's house was secure but as she was away,

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the burglars had time and were determined to get hn.

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They took large amounts of sentimental jewellery.

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I think it is cruel beyond belief, in our circumstances,

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the room where the burglar had obviously been looking for things,

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to work out what to take, had an array of funeral

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There was my black funeral dress still lying on the bed upst`irs

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So everywhere he had been in the house, he would have seen

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this wasn't a family just doing normal things,

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this was a family that were grieving.

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So today a new police campahgn, with the clocks going back,

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they said they often see a spike in burglaries at this time

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According to the police survey here in Gloucestershire,

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half of us are still adverthsing that our homes are empty on social

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media such as Facebook, by posting pictures when we go

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on holiday, or checking into venues when we leave the house.

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More than a third of us are still leaving valuables on displax,

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which is a problem of coursd if burglars break-in.

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Three quarters of people apparently are still not putting their burglar

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alarms on even though they have them fitted.

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And one in five of us are still leaving the house and not

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It is really simple things like having timer switches on,

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making sure all your doors and windows are locked.

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Having sensor lights, just little practical things,

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making sure that if you are away, that you tell your neighbours

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so they can keep an eye on the premises.

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Police will also be targeting known burglars, one suspect was arrested

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early this morning, it is all part of efforts to stop

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I have no idea how people rdally ever get over this sort of thing.

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Because it does change you, it changes how

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The HSBC bank has announced more closures in Somerset today.

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Now a charity has accused the banking industry

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One local MP has also said lore needs to be done

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Here's our Somerset Correspondent Clinton Rogers.

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Terry and Shirley Western are, it's claimed, a dying breed.

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In a computer age they still want to do their banking face to face.

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But today they learned their branch in Shepton Mallet is closing.

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So will they be using a computer now?

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Can't do nothing on computer, nothing like that.

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Not online or nothing like that, either.

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Only line we've got is the clothesline!

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HSBC is closing this branch and another in Burnham on Sda -

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because they say customer numbers are falling.

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In a statment HSBC say that 93% of contact with the bank is made

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either through the telephond, on the internet, or on smartphones.

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On top of that, they say, 97% of cash withdrawals

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And so, according to HSBC, most of their customers are already

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managing to conduct their btsiness without the need for a branch.

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But the local MP says banks are deserting the high stredt

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11 in his constituency alond in the last 18 months.

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He says the banking industrx needs to have a social conscience.

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We also need to make sure that we leave on our high street

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an accessible banking facilhty, be it a post office,

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or a community bank hub, so that people who cannot travel,

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cannot use the intranet, or small businesses,

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have somewhere that they can do their banking.

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The charity AGE UK says that banks are ignoring a potentially

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profitable part of society by closing branches.

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They can still keep those branches open by being more age friendly

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If they do that, they're going to encourage more elddrly

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So at the end of the day, they remain a resource

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within a community and they remain able to make money, to make

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a profit, to be a commercial activity.

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In Glastonbury they fought ` very public campaign to save thehr

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The fear is many other commtnities may now go the same way.

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Clinton Rogers, BBC Points West Shepton Mallet.

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If you have spent today carving pumpkins for Hallowe'en -

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These are all carved by mushc teacher Andrew Cleaver.

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He has so far recreated landmarks like the Clifton suspension bridge.

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Until now he has been posting his work anonymouslx

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on social media, but he dechded to own up to his hobby

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That is all from us tonight. Now the forecast. It is the fog that

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will grab attention through the course of the night and indded is

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already doing so. That will clear tomorrow morning to be repl`ced by a

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lot of clout and some patchx rain and drizzle. Then turning colder as

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the day wears on. For the rdst of this evening and into tonight we

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have a warning out for the fog, visibility down to 50 metres in some

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places. It tends to focus ftrther south heading through to thd early

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hours of the morning. Tomorrow morning the fog clearing first from

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the North, from the south of linguists for quite a while. And as

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the crowd comes in, that in turn starts to give us a sprinklhng of

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some drizzly light rain. Colder air moves south, temperatures only about

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12 degrees by the end of tolorrow and a

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side. Strong northerly winds, some sunshine and also some rain for the

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