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A deadly recipe. his administration.

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The PHD student who accidentally made the same explosive chemical

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Little Britain's Matt Lucas gets an honourary degree

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Thank you for inviting me here today. Congratulations to all of you

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with actual degrees. And the cloud will vary wildly tomorrow, but it

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will be dry and mild. Details later. An investigation has found that

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a university student accidentally created an explosive chemical used

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in terror attacks in an experiment Buildings were evacuated last week

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and a controlled explosion was carried out after the PhD

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student mistakenly produced It is a simple white

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powder that has become notorious for its use

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in The compound is both

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highly unstable and highly It was an experiment under

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controlled conditions that suddenly took

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a very serious turn, as a PhD student worked in the labs

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at Bristol University. They accidentally created a chemical

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favoured by terrorists and used Triacetone triperoxide

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is highly explosive. Known as TATP, it was

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in the bomb vests used in the terrorist attacks in Paris

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and was discovered by Belgian police after arresting suspects

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in Brussels too. Professor Sidney Alford

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is an expert in chemistry. The three substances necessary

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for the creation of TATP need to be I can't imagine what chemical

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was intended to be produced The university hasn't said

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what the experiment two weeks ago The student, they say,

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was following a set procedure and that a full risk assessment

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had been done first. No-one was injured,

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although buildings were A controlled explosion was later

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carried out to safely A man has been charged with murder

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tonight after a woman's body was found at house

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in Bristol on Monday. Karina Batista's body was discovered

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in Kensington Park in Easton. Jaici Alfenas Rocha,

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who's 36, has been charged with her murder and is due before

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Bristol Magistrates' A 36-year-old driver who killed

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a cyclist in Stroud as he tried to flee from the police has been

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jailed for than five years. Gloucester Crown Court heard

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Daryl Ackland had no insurance and was travelling at twice

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the speed limit when he hit 71-year-old Joe Marchant

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in October last year. He admitted causing death

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by dangerous driving. The inaugural meeting of a new group

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aimed at tackling the issue of wild boar in the Forest of Dean has

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agreed to try and bring all parties In recent years, wild

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boar damage has been on the increase and there

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have been claims that not enough

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is being done. Our Gloucestershire reporter

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Steve Knibbs has just Welcome and the meeting has just

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finished. By to say was seated an understatement. There were calls to

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call all of the boar, calls to -- calls calls to manage them, to use

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contraception, claims that the Forestry Commission and District

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Council and local MP were not doing enough and also claims the damage in

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the Forest of Dean is affecting tourism and people do want to come.

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A lot of taking. This is the chairman. A lot of big views from

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the public. Yes, but we expected it is. We knew this was happening. We

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knew people had different views. We said quite clearly that people had

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different ideas and we respected them. This was the first step,

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what's the next step? One thing that will happen from now is we will

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probably look to having a sit down meeting with the MP, the Forest of

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murderers and the Forestry Commission. Trying get every one of

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the same room. Seek legal advice to see what the standing is all the

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while boar and try and sit everyone down and get to the bottom of where

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we go forward. But at the moment, there is no coordinated approach to

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get something done. And that is what we are looking to do. Baby steps for

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now, and it was a bit difficult in places, but we will under no

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illusions when we started. Sounds like quite a challenge. A small step

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to light to finding a solution to the issues regarding the while boar

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in the Forest of Dean and as I said, we will follow at every step of the

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way and I think it will be a long running issue.

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Now there's a pool with a new name in Wiltshire tonight -

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Corsham's pool was re-named after its local paralympic swimming star.

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And tomorrow another honour awaits the champion as Stephanie

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Stephanie Millward was just ten years old when she started swimming

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She could never have dreamt that one day, she would be

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I've been coming here at six o'clock in the morning for years and years.

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And it's not Springfield's pool anymore, it's

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She's been honoured not just because of her huge

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Paralympic success, two golds at Rio last year,

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but also to recognise the

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That is because at age 17 and showing huge

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promise in the pool, Stephanie was diagnosed

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Doctors said she would probably never swim

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again and would end up in

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And boy, was she determined to prove them wrong.

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Now, nearly 25 years later, she's a Paralympic champion

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I thought, yeah, I've still got that dream and

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I didn't think that 18 years later I would still be here

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Today, it's Corsham for the renaming

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Tomorrow, it's Buckingham Palace to receive an MBE.

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And Corsham's Golden girl is enjoying

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Now, there were two very familiar faces among the students

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receiving their degrees from Bristol University today.

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Don Cameron, Founder of Bristol Balloon Fiesta

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and the man behind Cameron Balloons now has an honorary

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And comedian Matt Lucas was honored, too.

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The Little Britain star studied drama at the university until 1995,

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and found fame in Shooting Stars and for playing Vicky Pollard.

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Well, David Garmston spoke to Matt earlier about being made

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Comedian Matt Lucas, a master of dressing up,

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donned yet another costume to become a Doctor of Letters,

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from a university he left without a degree.

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I've been made a Doctor of Letters by the Bristol

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But I didn't know that you hadn't finished your course

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when you were here at Bristol University.

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No, I did two years at Bristol University

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and then I left in 1995, because during my second year

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I was filming Shooting Stars and it all sort of blew up,

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really, so I left with the intention of just taking one year off.

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I left with the intention of taking just one year off,

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No, but yeah, but no, because what happened was, right,

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something you don't know nothing about.

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Shut up, I wasn't even supposed to be anywhere even near there.

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I always think of Vicky Pollard, who's now become almost...

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Yeah, it's always a surprise to me, but even today, when there's a story

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about someone with an ASBO or something like that in the paper,

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then you will see a picture of Vicky Pollard next to them,

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And on the stage here today we had some professor,

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a very learned man, saying yeah but no but.

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That is it for us tonight. And leave you with the weather. .

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Tomorrow looks try once again. It will be a mild day and they will be

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tricky to gauge the cloud. A lot of cloud around, but some areas may

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have something brighter. We currently have some patchy rain

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about across northern parts of the region, including a few spots here

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in Bristol. That will die away if you -- through the first half of the

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night. There may just be a bit off tomorrow, certainly some areas of

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low cloud and then there's a question of what degree of

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brightness we see through central areas of the region, North South.

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Toward the West, cloud increases in the afternoon. That introduces

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patchy, light rain into the evening. Further eastwards, it will stay dry.

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The winds-macro will be the lights tomorrow. My old, lower double

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figures across the region, nine Celsius. It will continue to be mild

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into the weekend. Apart from a bit of rain,

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forthcoming weekend. Here is Nick Miller with a resume of the National

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weather picture. Hello, rain for some of us today

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although it won't make much of a dent in the dry winter so far across

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much of the UK. A few threatening clouds in Cumbria but more than a

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threat of rain across the pond for Friday. The

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