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against superbugs. Good evening and welcome to Spotlight. The news has

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been warmly welcomed. Fewer people could die from. If you can catch

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people right from day one and decide how they are, that will have a real

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impact on their illness and mortality. The Royal Marines get a

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royal visitor and a new �30 million huge ancient woodland on Dartmoor.

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The number of people dying from the superbug C-difficile could be

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reduced as a result of research in Devon. For a decade, C-diff has

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posed major problems in hospitals. Now, after a four year project,

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scientists at Exeter University have discovered which tests will predict

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who is most at risk. As Hamish Marshall reports, experts say this

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is a major breakthrough and its hoped the tests can be rolled out

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nationwide. C difficile can be a killer. It cost in the Miller his

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life. His daughter saw the symptoms first hand. They welcome anything

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that can reduce the number of people to suffer from it.

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He went down and down and down. He used to like his whiskey, that he

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would not even have that. He could not eat or speak. He just went down

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and down. It was awful. Scientists at Exeter University

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analysed... They found a testing plan which finds out whether a

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patient is likely to suffer the worst symptoms. This test can then

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be applied to them. It can give an indicator of how it will progress.

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On the back of that, they can decide the treatment of regiment for that

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patient. There were nearly 17.5 thousand reported cases in 2011 in

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England. It was related to 1.1% of all deaths in England and Wales

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between 2006 and 2010. Patients over the age of 65 are at particular

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risk. It is hoped the new testing plan will reduce this especially as

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there is no vaccine as of yet. The beauty of the research done here

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is that the test that they have discovered is simple. It can be

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carried out quickly by a junior doctor and the results come

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quickly, so somebody who needs treatment can get it as soon as

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possible. I think it is something that can be

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widely and easily used by doctors. The something to be taken up and be

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practical is a good thing. number of C-diff cases has been

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reducing. There are still around 20 a month in the East Devon area

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alone, so this is a major breakthrough. If you can catch

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people on day one and start treatment early, that could have a

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very real impact on their mortality. It is a bit like a food poisoning

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type of bug, but ten times worse. Research continues and a vaccine

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would be an even bigger breakthrough.

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Prince Harry has officially opened a new �30 million amphibious centre of

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excellence for the Royal Navy in Plymouth. The centre, at Devonport,

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will be known as Royal Marines Tamar. It will be home to the crews

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of landing vessels, hovercraft and fast boats formerly based at

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Turnchapel and Poole. Andy Breare's report contains some flash

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Taking the salute, his Royal high and so at Devonport Naval base today

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to officially open the Royal Navy's �30 million centre of amphibious

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excellence. This morning's parade was attended by family and friends

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of personnel here. This is a seminal moment. The Royal Navy at has put a

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lot of investment into us to build this centre in Devonport. Bringing

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together all of the amphibious assets in one place. It is

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fantastic. A brilliance day. -- a brilliant. The new headquarters

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of the dockyard brings together two units. They were until you recently

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based in Poole. It will be the first time that the Royal Navy has all of

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its amphibious capability in one place. There will be 300 military

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personnel here. This is the first time that...

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Putting all of this research is together and bringing them alongside

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the ships. It means that we can produce a more effective end

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result, but it also means that the guys on the training can see the

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units and the kind of things we do. The reason why it is so good is that

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the two engineering teams have come together and not only have they

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located here, we have also co-located where the amphibious

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ships are. It is important that everything is kept together.

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focuses our teams. Following the ceremony, Prince Harry

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attended a lunch with naval personnel and their families. It was

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a chance for him to find out first-hand more about how the

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facility aims to consolidate and improve the Royal Navy's amphibious

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Our political editor Martyn Oates is with us now. So, at a time of cuts

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to the Armed Forces this is a case where the Government is actually

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investing in Devonport? Yes, this plan was drawn up by the last Labour

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Government, when it had a big review. They look at how resources

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should be shared out. The coalition, when it came to power, had its own

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review but decided to stick with this particular project which is

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bringing more Marines to Plymouth. It had bigger plan for the Marines,

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didn't it? It's dead. It had aspirations to bring all of the

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Marines together. -- it did. It was heavily hinted that they could be

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moved from Scotland into Cornwall. To a point that is now a training

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base. Then the defence secretary announced that the Marines at

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Arbroath will be staying there for the, quote, foreseeable future. It

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is not sure whether the plan has scrapped or whether it is just a

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longer term project. There is still uncertainty about the new generation

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of frigates, isn't there? Yes, this decision is a long way off, not

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least because they have not been built yet. But that is not stopping

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the lobbying to get the base there. The Portsmouth MPs are saying,

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Plymouth has all of this amphibious stuff, Portsmouth should be home of

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the surface fleet. Since some changes have been brought in by the

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coalition, this decision will be taken by the head of the Navy not

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politicians. Nearly six months ago, Axminster was

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going through the most testing of economic times. The carpet

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manufacturer it was so famous for, and relied on so heavily, was

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calling in the administrators. Hundreds of jobs were lost, but then

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a deal was done to save the company. The firm is now taking on new staff

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again but not everyone is back in work. Spotlight's Andrea Ormsby has

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been following the town's progress and looks now at how the community

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Axminster, like everywhere, is struggling through tough economic

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times. No one was ready for the news on Fabry the 20th.

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400 jobs at risk at the world-famous carpet factory. How could a company

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in business for nearly 260 years fall now? The town's employer.

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Hundreds of jobs were on the line. 13 days later, confirmation, 300

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people lose their jobs. It was a major blow. Most of the

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staff there had joined when they were 16 and worked there for many

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many years and they understood that they would be working there for the

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rest of their working lives. A deal has been done to save the

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company and it is taking on new staff, but after 12 years, Julie

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Ford was one of the people who lost her job. When I found out I was

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going to be made redundant, I was devastated and upset. You take it

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personally. You don't understand why you've not been kept and other

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people have. You wonder what was wrong with me? It is soul

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destroying, as you wonder what you did wrong. It is especially hard

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Julie to move on. This is my house, this is where I live. I live so

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close to the factory. Just down there is the gate that I used to

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use. I have to walk past every day and see everybody who still has a

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job that going to work. It is hard. My garden backs onto the factory, so

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I have to look at it every day. 30th of May and two months since the

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jobs were lost and Axminster is doing all it can to help. Julie is

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here at a jobs fair. Thank you. Since March, she has been able to

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find a job at the local school for two days a week. I have been around

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and seemed quite a few people. The donkey Sanctuary was very

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interesting. They can try and take part-time people and that seemed a

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very good. I felt quite positive about that one. I have applications

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to fill out. She is excited about the possibility that of working at

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the sanctuary. When she gets home, she fills in the application and

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puts it in the post. And we'll find out if Julie was

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lucky with her job search on Monday, when we're back in Axminster for the

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second of our special reports. Still ahead in tonight's programme.

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Upset and outrage - Mount Edgcumbe's historic statue of Venus is

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destroyed - vandals are blamed. And despite the recent dry weather,

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record entries for the South West's Vandals have been blamed for

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destroying an historic statue at one of Cornwall's famous country houses.

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The remains of the statue of Venus were found by gardeners at Mount

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Edgcumbe. Local people have been so upset that one has even offered a

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reward to catch the culprits. Eleanor Parkinson reports.

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Apollo stands out over the gardens at Mount Edgcumbe and next to him is

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the god of wine. Next to them is an empty plinth. There's a statue

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missing, the third. It was destroyed by vandals. Police believe it

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happened on Wednesday night. Today, they were examining what is left of

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her. The statue has stood here for 200

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years since these gardens were established in the 19th century.

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Staff say a bit of history has been lost. She survived the Blitz, she

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survived that. She has seen the restoration of the gardens over the

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last 40 years and now she has been destroyed. People visiting our

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shocked and disappointed. I think it is terrible. I don't know why

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someone would do that. It has so much history. It is pointless.

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people knew a bit more about the history, they may appreciate it a

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bit more. Police are hoping that something may

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have been left behind by the vandals. They will be examining the

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stonework for fingerprints. It is not clear if it can be repaired. She

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may have to be replaced by a modern replica.

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Time for the sport now and here's Dave on the eve of the new football

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season. In the Championship, for the first

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time in their history, are Yeovil Town after winning promotion at

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Wembley in May. Many are wondering how they'll cope in one of the

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richest divisions in the world. Many sceptics will be saying, enjoy

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it while you can. Pundits forecast that they will go straight back

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down, the Somerset club could have the last laugh. After all, they were

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favourites to go down this time last year. Then they won promotion in the

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play-off final against Brentford. We can make sure we are ambitious.

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We can make sure we pay attention to the detail and that we are the

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fittest and make sure that we have more desire than everyone else. They

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don't cost money. We will hold our hands up on quality, but I think we

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will be fine. Yeovil has been a leak of the ten years and the thought of

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pitting their wits against the opulence of Queens Park Rangers,

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Redding and Wigan athletic does not worry the Glovers at all. There have

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been congratulations from many people in the football circles. We

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got congratulations on the way we progressed the club since our

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non-league days. We run it as a business and we don't spend more

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than we can earn. Basically, that won't change. There will be many a

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sell-out as they begin to convert their stadium into an all-seater

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arena. How can they afford to keep up with the Joneses? People laughed

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when I first joined the club to say that we will take the football club

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into the Football League. We have achieved that. It has been referred

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to it as our premiership, I think we can achieve more if we get the

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support from the local council. Yeovil hopefully good start against

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Millwall, while Torquay United are also going for an opening day win.

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What are the chances for all of our sides this season? We featured

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Exeter City and Torquay and Plymouth Argyle yesterday. The common theme

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is money. The club's need money. The telling point will be Christmas and

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New Year when the going gets a bit tough and the managers wants to

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strengthen their squad. You have to have money to do that. If the clubs

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operate astutely then they could make a push for promotion. It

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depends on how well the business model is run. I think Exeter City,

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Torquay United and Plymouth Argyle have learnt their lessons.

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BBC Somerset will follow the Glovers for every match, home and away. Over

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on BBC Radio Devon now, David Fitzgerald is discussing the

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prospects for the three Devon teams in a phone-in up to seven o'clock.

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Plymouth schoolgirl Ruta Meilutyte aims for a second gold medal at the

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World Swimming Championships in Barcelona this weekend. After

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winning the 100m breaststroke final on Tuesday, the 16-year-old now

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targets the 50m version and she's favourite to make it a double

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success. The heats and semi-finals are tomorrow, with the final on

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Truro's Sarah-Jane Boyd looks like missing out on the cut after the

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first two rounds at the Womens' Open at St Andrews. The 21-year-old, seen

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here practising at her own Truro Golf Club, was five over par going

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into today's second round - 11 shots off the leader. She is currently

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eight over par, that is nine shots behind the cut in her debut at the

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Open as an amateur player. Finally, BBC local radio and BBC

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online will be across every minute and every goal of the new football

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season from tomorrow until May third next year. If you love football, it

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will go quickly, but if you don't... Described as one of the largest

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woodlands to come on to the market in the last 20 years - Fingle Woods

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in Devon are tonight under new ownership. Earlier today two

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conservation charities took the site out of private hands to be opened up

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to the public. The valley on the edge of Dartmoor near Drewsteignton

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stretches to more than eight hundred acres. The Woodland Trust and the

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National Trust want to allow English Oak to dominate the landscape once

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more and say it was a huge opportunity not to be missed as I've

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pleasant land and the view is, well, Judge for yourself. This could

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be just as much North America as Blake's England. So many of these

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trees are not native. The first step is being taken towards putting down

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a fume or original roots on 100 acres of Dartmoor.

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You rip out the plasterboard, like a house, . In this case, it is the

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North American conifers that are coming out, allowing the English oak

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to re-establish itself. In fact, it could take 70 years for

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the Fingle Woods to get back to their former life. We cannot wander

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in just yet as the purchase has not formally gone through, but we can

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take a look at the approaching tracks. The team is almost certainly

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won't be around to see it finished, but they don't live in a world of

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instant answers. The landscape of the next century needs to be slowly

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nurtured, starting with small pockets of what has survived from

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the past. How do you restore an ancient

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woodland? We cannot replant a 400-year-old tree, but what we have

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got here is the remnants of the old forest. We can work with the

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remnants of the old forest to create a new one. We begin by introducing

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more light, just like we can see here. As the acorns fall off the oak

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trees, they start to germinate in these pools of sunshine and the

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ground floor will start to spread by seeding and flowering and as we

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remove the conifer, these things will spread into the wider woodland.

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At this point, you may be feeling sorry for the conifer. No one is

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really suggesting wholesale removal across the UK, but ancient woodland

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is rare and there is a feeling it should have a greater presence,

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increasing the amount of cover increases the range of animals, too.

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It is important because the wildlife is used to the original woodland and

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by removing the conifers, we can bring that back. It will be open to

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the public and the charities argue that a valuable supply of timber is

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not being lost. They say the slopes do not lend themselves to commercial

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production. This is simply about making given a bit more like Devon

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always was. Now, while most of us have been

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celebrating the recent heatwave, many gardeners have been less than

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happy. But the West Country's biggest flower show is still

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managing to attract record entries in some areas. Taunton Flower Show

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opened its gates this morning and around 15,000 people will walk

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through them over the next two days. Our Somerset reporter Clinton Rogers

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was among the first in. This is the bit that the public

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don't get to see, where the decisions are made. Who has won and

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resilient. A record 500 exhibitors here prove that point, but it has

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been a battle this year, especially for the flower growers. It has been

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too dry. It is not good for all of the plants. I just hope that they

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still have smiles on their faces when they come into this marquee and

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that we judges that have two make sure that we have done our job

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right. You will never please every gardener. It is the biggest flower

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show in the region. I am feeling quite comfortable here. There is a

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real pride attached to Taunton Flower Show and that is a pride in

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history as they say they are the oldest and longest running flower

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show in the country. This show has been running since 1831. This woman

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has researched its history and says it is almost the oldest in the

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world. The Guinness book of records tells

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us that we are the second oldest and longest flower show in the world.

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Philadelphia beat us by two years. In total, nearly 2000 individual

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entries are to be judged. From the amateurs to the professional growers

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and garden designers. Just in case all of this hot weather makes you

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yearn for what was, how about this? You get the feeling that the snowman

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will arrive at any time. A long time since we saw snow. It is

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time for the weather and I don't think there will be any snow in the

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sunshine around this weekend. We also have some showers to watch out

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for. And unsettled picture overall and by the time we get to the end of

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Sunday, it could be very wet. We have had some wet weather around

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today, but a lot of sunshine as well. It is this line of showers, at

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the moment, that has been making its way across Cornwall and into Devon.

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Do take care, as there could be some fairly torrential downpours with the

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some thunder. This is how it looked around text of Canal. -- Exeter

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Canal. It is warm enough in the sun for a bit of cooling beer. If you

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are really warm, have a dip. The temperature at the airport reached

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21 Celsius, proof that it is still warm in the sunshine. It is still

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looking unsettled though. You can see a line of showers with us

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through this evening and you can see that the wet weather will stay

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around with us for a while. Tomorrow, there is a risk of some

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heavy, thundery downpours. On Sunday, we have this low pressure

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area that is set to develop some uncertainty. It looks like we will

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see some wet weather by the end of the weekend. This evening, with

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those heavy showers around. There will be some clear spells

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overnight, but some of these showers will continue into the early hours.

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Temperatures overnight will be staying up to 15, 16 Celsius. From

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the word go tomorrow, we still have some of these showers around. There

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is always a risk of locally heavy downpours and a risk of thunder. In

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central part of the region, these showers could develop into a line

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and you could catch a few. There will be some warm sunshine in

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between those showers. The Isles of Scilly, we have some sunny spells,

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but also chances of showers. The times of high water at Plymouth,

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0354 and at Bideford, 0416. You may so find some clear waves in the

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shelter, but generally messy conditions. The winds from the South

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West are at a force for, up to a force five. It is a mixture of a

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weekend. We have some sunny spells tomorrow. On Sunday, we could have

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