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27/03/2017

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Let's keep the brightest and best. for the news where you are.

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Out campaigner Sir James Dyson wants a special deal to tempt

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foreign students to stay after their studies.

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Thank you for letting me see my children grow up -

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from the lorry driver who was brought back to life.

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It's emotional, you know, and I can't thank her enough

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for what she actually done, you know, giving me a second chance.

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If and spring has certainly arrived but we do have some wet weather in

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the forecast. I will tell you when you are likely to see it

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Sir James Dyson has asked the Government to exclude overseas

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students from the official immigration figures,

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to encourage more to stay here when they finish their studies.

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His comments came on the day the Wiltshire based manufacturing

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Sir James - who backed Brexit - says more needs to be done to keep

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the brightest and the best working in the UK.

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Here's our political editor Paul Barltrop.

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All looks good at company headquarters in Malmesbury.

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Rising sales have pushed profits up sharply.

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Sir James Dyson backs Brexit, and thinks it

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But he is anxious that overseas student numbers don't fall.

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I think it is most important that students who come here,

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particularly to study science and engineering, know that

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when they have booked the course and paid for the course,

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that they can stay afterwards and contribute to British society.

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If we can keep those, we'd be much richer and better off as a nation.

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He's echoing concerns raised by universities like Bristol.

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These are some of its 1,000 EU students.

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I know for my parents it was a big investment in money.

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It is quite a big investment but so far it is worth it.

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The problem for the Government is that all overseas students that

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come to places like Bristol are officially immigrants.

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And with ministers aiming to dramatically cut net migration

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over the next few years, there are fears that our

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They are huge contributors to the finances of universities

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because they pay their ?9,000 in fees just as UK students do.

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But of course the money that they spend on taxis,

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rent, food, restaurants within the community,

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they are huge contributors to the economy of Bristol

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The Government are trying to sound reassuring.

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This Government welcomes strongly the contribution EU

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and international students make to our higher education

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There is no plan to introduce a cap on a number of

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But ministers haven't yet decided whether to exempt students

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Some of the west's best-known businesses and universities will be

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Paul Barltrop, BBC Points West, Bristol.

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Although there was a general decline

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in university applications last year,

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official figures have shown the number of students

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applying to study in the UK fell by 41,000

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The number of non-EU students wanting to study

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Earlier, I asked Verity O'Keefe, from the organisation

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that represents manufacturers, if she echoed Mr Dyson's concerns.

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So in the engineering sector, we face a massive,

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We need around 265,000 skilled entrants every year

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between now and 2024, yet so many of the employers

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we speak to say they are struggling to attract the right skilled people

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they need, firstly because the applicants lacked the right

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technical skills and secondly, industry experience and thirdly,

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But increasingly, what we are seeing is employers saying they are not

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getting enough candidates applying for their roles.

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So any restrictions that were placed on students really shrinks

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the talent pool available to employers, when actually,

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we really want to be expanding talent pool.

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So from an employer's perspective, what needs to happen?

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Well, firstly, we need to make sure that, post-Brexit,

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that we really treat students, to make sure they are

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What we absolutely would not want to see is the Government

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replicate the system that we have for non-EU students to EU students.

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So at the moment, while we allow non-EU students to come and study

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at our universities, it is really difficult for them

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They've pretty much got a three to four month window to secure

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employment and to get the visas that they need to stay in the UK.

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We'd also really chime and echo Mr Dyson's comments

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about removing students from the net migration figures.

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We've always called for this for non-EU students and, again,

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I think in a post-Brexit world, we would like to see EU students

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It's very well-known that the industry of engineering

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and so on, sciences and maths so on, need for students and need more

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input, but the trouble is, post Brexit, they are going to be

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lots of different groups saying, "Can you exempt us?"

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For example, the construction industry, the catering

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So how is this really going to work in this post-Brexit world?

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I think we really need to look at where the skills shortages are.

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So when we look at the non-EU, we have a shortage occupation list

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and that actually just lists all of the job roles that really

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hard to fill and over a third of those are in engineering

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and I really think that that speaks volumes.

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So, again, we want to look at the post Brexit,

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And we do find them in engineering and we need to make sure actually,

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employers can recruit from the global talent pool,

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otherwise this skills ticking time bomb will surely explode.

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And is it a time bomb that can't be filled

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Employers are already investing in their domestic workforce.

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Over 70% of our members offer apprenticeships,

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66% are recruiting engineering UK graduates, but unfortunately that's

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not enough and I refer to those figures earlier,

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we need over 265,000 skilled people into the engineering sector every

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we don't even scratch the surface those numbers.

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we don't even scratch the surface on those numbers.

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OK, Verity O'Keefe, thank you very much for joining us.

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The inquest into the death of a man in supported accommodation

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Robert Cox died in 2013 after being stabbed at flats for people

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Derek Hancock pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds

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After today's legal argument, the jury is expected

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A company which runs rail services across parts of the west has been

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stripped of its franchise by the Government.

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The South Western franchise is currently operated

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The service will be taken over, in August, by a joint

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venture between First Group and the Chinese company MTR.

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New footage has been released following a fire

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The pictures appear to show people approaching the farm

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in Lawrence Weston carrying boxes, moments before the flames take hold.

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It's caused thousands of pounds' damage but no animals were hurt.

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A lorry driver from Bristol has been reunited with the woman

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who saved his life, after he had a cardiac arrest.

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Stuart James has been back to Cirencester to thank the woman

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Without you, I wouldn't be here today.

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Holding hands with the woman who saved his life, lorry driver

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and father-of-two young children Stuart James is back

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Stuart was delivering a sofa with his colleague Craig

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when he collapsed on the pavement and had a cardiac arrest.

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I looked round and thought, he's gone.

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That's when I noticed Stuart on the floor.

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And he wasn't breathing, he was purple, not responsive.

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At that moment, an eye witness ran into the dog groomers opposite,

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knowing that Dawn who worked there had been in the Army.

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Dawn came straight outside to help Stuart and at that point,

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I made sure his airway was clear, checked his pulse,

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I started two rescue breaths, then the chest compressions.

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Dawn's quick actions kept the blood pumping around Stuart's body,

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Stuart was airlifted to the Great Western Hospital in Swindon.

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When he woke up a few hours later, he had no idea what had happened.

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I just thought I might have passed out and banged my head.

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I realised I had a massive lump on my head.

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Then to be told I'd died and been brought back,

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it's quite mindblowing, to be honest.

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Knowing I can still see my kids grow up.

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Dawn is now raising money for a defribrillator to be placed

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outside her dog grooming shop so that others can be saved

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a nice note to finish on on a Monday evening. That is it from the,

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however, I have a picture of spring with me to bring the forecast, it is

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Sara. Spring can sometimes bring spring

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showers and I have to put some on the globe to start the forecast.

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Something a little bit more unsettled heading our way, little

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occlusion sneaking into the south-western we lose the benefits

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of higher fresher. I think we are drive generally through the

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Leicester tonight, clear skies and light winds, not just as cool as I

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just gone, around five or 6 degrees, but you probably noticed that

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and then they skirt off -- there are Arsenal

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and then they skirt off -- there are some showers. Gloucester and Bristol

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in the firing line that it could stay dry towards Somerset. Top

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temperature in the best of the weather, there will be some

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sunshine, 15 Celsius and then it becomes ever more unsettled as we go

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through the middle part of the week, low pressure taking control but then

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there will be some really mild weather with us, so, yes, if you

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have got outdoor plans, stay across the forecast because it was turned

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unsettled. But it will be mild, I will

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showery on Saturday, dry and brighter on Sunday and if we go back

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to the temperatures in the next couple days, you see those highs on

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Thursday. He is John Hammond with the national

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this cyclone Debbie crashes onto the Queensland coast with violent winds

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and flooding rains, that will head southwards in the next few days in

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the direction of Brisbane. We will keep an eye on Debbie. Meanwhile

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back home, much more tranquil. This beautiful sunset taken from

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Stevenage and Hertfordshire earlier this evening.

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