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28/12/2011

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Hello, I'm Allen Sinclair with the news in the south. Critics of a

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controversial waste incinerator plant for a Berkshire beauty spot

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claim those behind it are trying to sneak the scheme through while

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people's attention is elsewhere. A public consultation on the proposal

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began as most people were beginning Berkshire already has one waste

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incinerator. But now the company behind this plant wants to build

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another. While it will be close to a motorway, opposition figures

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argued that the similarity ends. The timing of it being made public

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is not an accident. This adventure is a completely commercial venture.

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It is not required in Berkshire. It is not in partnership with the

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district council. I am sure they are using every tactic they

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possibly can to get this approved, possibly by putting it in this time

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of year they are hoping it will take away from our ability to

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respond. The company denied trying to slip this out quietly. They said

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they did not expected to go public on the council website until the

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new year. People have got until the end of January to make their views

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known about the incinerator plans but that is not because of the

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Christmas holidays but simply because of the controversial nature

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of what is planned. Just beyond the A man in his forties has been

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stabbed to death at a house on Portland. Police say a 44 year-old

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woman has been arrested and remains in custody. They are not looking

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for anyone else in connection with the death. But they are urging

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anyone who may have seen unusual activity near the house on Park

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Road in the early hours of this morning to contact them. The

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Transport Secretary says the government is committed to reducing

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overcrowding on the south's railway lines. Justine Greening was

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speaking after it was announced that 130 new carriages are going to

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be built for Southern trains. It is the second big rail investment in

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Southern trains operates on the country's busiest services across

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Surrey, Sussex and parts of Hampshire. This announcement sees

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130 extra carriages introduced from the end of 2013. Able cost �188

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million. There will be longer trains on suburban services to

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London, Victoria. They did not have plans to make further improvements

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to services to places like Brighton. But the Transport Secretary

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signalled the possibility of more investment in future. We want to

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look at what more we can do to further improve capacity. We are

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looking at rolling-stock as he might be aware. Next year is the

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year when we do a long-term look about what we need in the next few

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years, not just months. This comes six days after South West Trains

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announced it will be introducing an extra 60 prefer bitched carriages

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on services to Waterloo. -- 60 Firefighters in south Oxfordshire

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have commended neighbours for raising the alarm about a fire at a

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house where 17 members of the same family were staying overnight.

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Three people at the property in Didcot were given precautionary

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checks by the ambulance service. The home was not fitted with smoke

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detectors. Neighbours also pitched in to help control the fire and

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care for evacuees. An Isle of Wight hospice stands to receive thousands

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of pounds from sales of a charity single. A group of singers calling

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themselves Isle of Wight Unite have recorded a version of the song, "We

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Are the World". Over the past few weeks they have sold hundreds of

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CDs of the track to raise money for the Earl Mountbatten Hospice. The

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song even made a brief appearance on the downloads chart. Organiser

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Simon Ledger chose to charity in memory of his father, who spent his

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We decided to use this charity because it was close to me because

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my father spent his final few days in the hospice. I put this together

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five years ago it. I got it planned and organised in three months. The

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recording went amazingly well. In about four hours it took the solo

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and choir part. CDs have gone on How is this for a takeaway? 1000

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curries plus side dishes and naan bread are being shipped out from

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Bournemouth to feed United Nations troops based in Sudan. The town's

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Eye of the Tiger restaurant is A hectic end to 2011. The chefs at

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this restaurant in Bournemouth are working particularly hard in the

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run up to the new year, making meals for UN troops spending

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Christmas in Sudan. Many of these dishes are very authentic. They do

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not want artificial things mixed with it. It is not exactly the same

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as my mum would make it in India but it is quite similar. The food

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will be frozen and flown to Sudan. A chef from the restaurant is

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travelling with the order to make sure everything gets there OK.

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will be taking extra spices and herbs and if anything goes wrong,

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he can replicate the food over there. They are used to dealing

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with unusual orders. They once sent an order to the United States and

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they are hoping this order goes down equally well. They are all

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from the air force and I know half of them and they will have a big

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grin on their faces. It will be flown out overnight on the 31st and

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get to Sudan in time for dinner on the year's day. -- New year's Day

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the year's day. -- New year's Day will stop --. Now the weather.

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could get some showers in the Far West and it is still very windy.

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That will stay with us tonight. It will be a colder night than recent

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times. Temperatures down to four degrees in times -- towns and

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cities. The best of the conditions will be on the south coast and a

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lot more cloud during the day it will stop strong wind and rain on

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and off. Feeling much colder and temperatures up to nine degrees and

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