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Tonight: at We3tminster.

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South West MPs give their backing to air strikes in Iraq.

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We'll be live at Westminster to gauge reaction and

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I'm grateful to the Prime Mhnister for allowing us to debate this today

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and calling us back here to debate. Nothing is as important for us,

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taking our country, regrett`bly to war.

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Hello, thanks for joining us this dvening.

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Awards for the heroes of thd M5 crash ` a formal thank you to the

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and women who helped at one of this country's worst motorway accidents.

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One of the most important fhnds ever ` the hoard of roman coins

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And how fetching ` the handsome hounds ready

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MPs from the South West havd been in the Commons today, voting to

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approve air strikes against Islamic State militants in Hraq

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As we've heard, Parliament was recalled tod`y

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and MPs voted by 524 votes to 4 to follow America and France.

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We're going in. MPs were recall to Parliament today and a huge majority

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voted to support British air strikes against Islamic State forces in

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Iraq. 524 votes to 43. On the streets of Plymouth today, there

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were mixed views. No. The f`ct that we're talking about air strhkes all

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the time now just proves th`t we've stopped talking properly. B`sically,

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you got to turn around and say, "right, this is it ` either you to

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the line or the United Nations come in and looked after these

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countries". I think Britain should stand on its own. I think wd should

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help out. We've been invited to join in. I think if it was just ` case of

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us going in there without the invitation, then it would bd wrong.

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I'm grateful to the Prime Mhnister for allowing us to debate this today

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and calling us back here to debate. Nothing really is as import`nt as

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us, taking our country, regrettably, once more to war. Currently, no

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troops based in the South Wdst will be involved. The Prime Minister says

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there will have to be anothdr Parliamentary debate if thex decide

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to go into Syria. Let's find out what some of our MPs

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have been saying about the vote Our political editor is at Westlinster.

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Unfortunately, I don't think Martin is able to hear us at the moment. We

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hope to go back to him a little bit later in the programme.

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The outstanding bravery of lembers of the public was recognised today,

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four years after one of Britain s worst motorway crashes.

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Awards were presented to those who risked their lives to save others

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Our Somerset correspondent Clinton Rogers was at the awards ceremony.

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There is one thing that binds these people together ` being in the wrong

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place at the wrong time. It left them with memories that will last

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for ever. Chaos, explosions, smoke, debris. Fireballs, explosions.

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Everything you could imagind, like the worst ever cinematic experience

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you could ever picture. The worst crash in British motorway hhstory

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left seven dead and 51 injured but it could have been much worse. He

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obtained a wheel brace which he used to smash the car. Much worsd, had

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these people not rest on thdir own lives to help others. `` risked

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their own lives. People likd Rebecca, and of duty noble ledic who

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was injured in the crash but still went to treat others.

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You crashed, you were injurdd that did it not just occurred to you to

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get out of the way? Yes, straightaway I wanted to get out of

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the car and ran but then I saw others injured are my initi`l

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instinct were just go and hdlp people. People were trapped and

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injured, crying for help, and you just can't let go and stand back and

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watch. Giving assistance to a badly injured man on a blanket. Every

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story was a remarkable one `nd yet, as one, these people said they

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didn't think of themselves `s brave. We weren't being brave, we were

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terrified. People were trapped in cars and what do you do? Yot can't

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just turn your back on people like that. There were awards for the

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emergency services, too, many of them saying it was that othdrs might

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of their lives. It was bound to be an emotional day. Families of the

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victims coming face`to`face with those who helped. A chance to say

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thank you, four years on. Back now to that vote in Westminster

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on air strikes on Iraq. Let's go back to our political editor.

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It's clear the Prime Ministdr wanted to be confident he could win this

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vote before recalling Parli`ment after last year when his pl`n for

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action in Syria was thrown out by a small Parliamentary majoritx.

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Negotiations with the Lido of Labour Ed Miliband were an important part

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of that process and there w`s no guarantee individual MPs wotld

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follow their leaders. One MP who was at 100% decided as he went hnto the

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debate was the former defence minister and North Devon MP Sir Nick

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Harvey. But he did, in the dvent, vote yes. The humanitarian

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atrocities that are being c`rried out by I sill in Iraq cannot be

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ignored. We must not make the same mistake we did with triple hn its

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and Rwanda and I don't think we can ignore the fact that what they've

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now got control over areas of ground bigger than Britain and thehr

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ambition is to go further and we know from Al`Qaeda being able to do

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that in Afghanistan, they c`n use that as headquarters for global

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terrorism, as we saw on 9/10. No doubt, though, in the mind of the

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shadow defence minister Alison C deck. Air strikes actually resolve a

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number of the current probldms we have with progress of ISIS hn Iraq

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and through Iraq. It has to be stemmed, that flow. The flow in

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front of it of desperate people refugees, and the only way to do

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that is through airpower. M`ny Conservative MPs voted against

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action in Syria last year, hncluding Newton Abbot's Annemarie Morris and

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Richard Drax. He was undecided until the end of the vote but he voted

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yes. I just anything we can set this out when, from what I've he`rd and

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read, the threat of ISIS, which is a barbaric group, is such that I think

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it could destabilise the Middle East, affect the United Kingdom and

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there is a likelihood of terrorists coming from Syria and Iraq back to

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the UK. As an ex`soldier, Rhchard Drax says he feels action in Syria

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is likely to follow this decision. It's all change at the top

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of the Royal Cornwall Hospital's trust again tonight

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after the chief executive, Lezli She was the fourth person to hold

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the post in just eight years. Her deputy will be

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in temporary charge until As Eleanor Parkinson reports,

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it comes as the trust faces Lezli Boswell's announcement that

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she would be retiring from her job as chief executive has

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taken many people by surprise. Lezli Boswell has declined to be

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interviewed about her decishon but she said she had communicatdd her

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intention to retire several months She said she felt it was

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the right time. Lezli Boswell has been imposed

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for just three years. She took over from Peter Colclough,

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who did the job for two years before resignhng to

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take up another post in Somdrset. He replaced John Watkinson,

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who was sacked from his job amid rumours he was unhappy about

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plans to move some cancer strgery to `` in Plymouth. Before that,

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Brian Milstead had the job. He resigned after

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the trust revealed an unprecedented We've got some tremendous stuff down

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there and the problem is th`t every time something like this happens

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at leadership level, the st`ff get disorientated, they wonder what

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going to happen and it isn't good But let's hope they can get a good,

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strong leader in, as strong as Lezli The trust has a deficit of ?1.8

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million and they say a dram`tic increase in emergency admissions has

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left them with a shortage Just a few weeks ago, Lezli Boswell

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said the answer was a merger between Cornwall's various health trusts to

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provide a more integrated sdrvice. I think the board yesterday

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at the AGM were very clear that they So I don't think

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the structure or the directhon is So after losing the Chief Executive,

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do you think they can still Lezli Boswell will leave her post

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in November. Her deputy, Andrew McCallum,

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will stand in as the The mayor of Torbay is coming under

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increased political pressurd this evening from both his oppondnts

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and his own party. At last night's full council

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meeting, he was defeated on four of the issues they were deb`ting,

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with many of his own party voting In some cases, he was forced to use

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his mayoral powers to push things through against the wishes

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of the full council. Our South Devon reporter John Ayres

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joins us now from Torquay. wishes, the mayor also pushdd

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through plans to put There have been further outbreaks

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of TB in cattle on farms at Killerton near Exeter, in spite

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of a trial vaccination of b`dgers. The National Trust, which owns

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the land, says it's not surprised. More than 500 badgers have been

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vaccinated on the estate since 011. The Killerton estate `

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20 square kilometres of land near Over the last four years,

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a large`scale vaccination programme Around 550 badgers have been

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vaccinated against bovine TB. The National Trust says it wants to

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show that such large`scale programmes are possible

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and that they can reduce thd overall We can never scientifically provide

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the evidence to say, "that has had this effect on bovine TB," because

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there are many other elements Just this week, tests have confirmed

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an outbreak of bovine TB here. We've taken part in something that

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a lot of people say is going to be It might be part of an answdr

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but it isn't the answer. The NFU says that vaccinnathon has

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a part to play among other leasures It was never thought to be ` silver

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bullet in areas of high infdction. Wildlife groups are keen to

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highlight the importance The Government was funding six

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projects for badger vaccination It cut them back to one to

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pursue the culling policy. Now, in terms of public opinion

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and the problems it's having with culling, it's accepted the need to

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expand badger vaccination and we're going to see ten new

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projects over the next few lonths. The National Trust says vaccination

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could be one of A hoard of 22,000 Roman coins has

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been found by a semi`retired builder Historians say the find is one

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of the most important ever And, as John Henderson has been

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finding out, the man who discovered them slept in his car

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for three nights to guard the site. That the find of his life. @ tiny

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fraction of the treasure discovered in East Devon by a semi rethred

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builder. They just spilled out all over. Just like hitting the

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jackpot? Just like hitting the jackpot, a fantastic feeling. It's

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the biggest kind of `` find of its kind in the country. Between 22 0

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and 23,000 coins. There is to tundra done hundreds of them. Smild. I m

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smiling all right! He made the find using trusty metal detector. The

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hoard weighed many kilos and bore images of Emperor Constantine, his

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family and other emperors. Dxperts say the Quins are the equiv`lent of

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a worker's pay the two years ` but who buried them and why. I dxpect it

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is to do with the farm office or something like a local Government

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office. These were the wages, maybe, of some of their employees `nd at

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some point, in the middle of the fourth century, things got ` bit

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tricky. It was not the safest of times. Whoever deposited thd money

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in the ground never came back to retrieve it. And when Lowrance found

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it last November, he wasn't leaving anything to chance. Between finding

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the coins and the archaeologist arriving, he slept in his c`r to

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guard the site. He and the landowner will share a reward when thd coins

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are sold. A campaign has bedn launched to keep the coins hn Exeter

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for stopper could be worth ` five figure sum for this find isn't just

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treasure. But of pieces of history. On to the sport now,

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and Plymouth Raiders have their sights set on winning trophies

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as the new basketball season gets Dave Gibbins has news of th`t,

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along with the rest of the sport. It is the eve of the new basketball

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season. More about the Plymouth Raiders in a moment. Exeter Chiefs

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has another Sunday blockbuster in the Premier League this weekend

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It's the turn of the Harleqtins to visit Sandy park, with only two

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bonus points separating the clubs in the Premier League this weekend

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It's the turn of the Harleqtins to visit Sandy park, with only two

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bonus points separating the club is a table.

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The Chiefs' international whng is back after a six`month absence

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through injury is. He's eagdr to show the form which led to his

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England call`up last debris. They said the most important thing were

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the Premiership games for the club and I need to be playing to put my

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hand up and take my position back because there are other people on

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the team who are playing very well. Plymouth Albion and the Cornish

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Pirates still await their fhrst championship wins of the se`son and

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they hope to get them at hole to Bedford and Mosley respectively

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Let's have a look at the wedkend's football.

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In cricket, Somerset have completed their County championship sdason by

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scrambling to a draw against the new champions, Yorkshire, at

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Headingley. They needed onlx 18 to win but clung on with one whcket

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remaining. Jamie Overton from North Devon was one of the survivors.

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We are up close and personal here at the city College in Plymouth with

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the Plymouth Raiders. We're on the eve of the new basketball sdason so

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I wonder what lies ahead. You don't get the long and the short

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of it in basketball. Mainly the long! Tall, lean and very mdan

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players. I play centre. I play the powerful. I play forward. I'm Dave

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Gibbons. I don't play basketball because I'm not tall enough.

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Plymouth Raiders have plentx of new talent at their disposal for the new

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season, which starts tomorrow with Bristol Flyers. When you look at the

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top teams and the lower tier teams, the top teams are really pl`y

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defence at a level that you expect them to be winning championships.

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I've made sure that I've got that message across, every singld time,

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to these boys. Eight new pl`yers have been brought in from all parts

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of the world ` America, Australia, Canada and, er, Birmingham. We've

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both played against Plymouth before in the past so we know what it's

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like to have the fans against us but now we're excited to have the fans

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with us. What's the court lhke? It's good. It sounds a lot different to

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what I'm used to in England but it's probably one of the best in the BB

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are so it's exciting to plax there every week. The players are spectre

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to go as high as they can and they've got the personnel to do just

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that. `` are expecting. Dave Gibbons a giant in sports

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broadcasting! A Plymouth yachtsman is gearing up

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to compete in one of the biggest single`handed races

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in the French sailing calendar. In a few weeks' time,

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Conrad Humphreys will be on the start line of the

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Route Du Rhum transatlantic race. Spotlight's Andy Breare

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has been to meet him. Ten years ago,

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Plymouth's Conrad Humphreys competes in a single`handed round

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the world yacht race. Fast forward ten years,

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he's in his early 40s and a father. He has a new boat and is

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about to go it alone once again The first challenge `

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the transatlantic Route Du Rhum a favourite on the French y`chting

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calendar and a race he once started I started the Route Du Rhum

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in 2002 and I didn't complete it. It's always been a bit

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of unfinished business for le. It was also the start

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of my solo career and we're here in arguably one of the toughest

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races, to be able to launch back into solo sailing and I think

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the Route Du Rhum is a great start. The Route Du Rhum is held every four

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years and sets off from a French Another familiar face lining up

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at the start this time round is Sir Robin Knox Johnston, agdd 7 ,

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the oldest skipper in the r`ce. But for Conrad, this marks the start

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of a new solo racing campaign which could see him competing in

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the next Vendee Globe in two years. That's an itch that is

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never really gone away. I always said that I would be back

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to do it with a really good campaign, a really good budget, and

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I think there's a real opportunity More than 40 yachts will be lining

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up alongside Conrad on Novelber 2nd on the French coast in

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a race he is hoping will mark a new Now, we've had a summer

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of music festivals ` Woodstock, Glastonbury, Beautiful Days,

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Chagstock ` to name but a fdw. Yes, move over, humans ` Devon's

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dogs are about to have some fun A ball is being held for our

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canine friends to raise mondy for a Well,

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our very own newshound Andrda Ormsby Piper is in for a pamper. Hd's off

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to Woofstock and wants to bd top dog. Absolutely. We're doing what we

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can to get Piper the king of the walk status so he's having `

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pampering session this mornhng. He's being spruced up by Lucy. Hd's got

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his bowtie already to go and it s fair to say he's quite excited.

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Piper is going to party to classic songs with dog related titlds. They

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will be hot under the collar if he misses a competition where he will

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get a judge his own treats. But it isn't just about fun for Piper, who

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was a rescue dog. Dogs like this only get seven days before they re

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put to sleep in the pound and we went to one at a rescue and picked

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up two hours before he was to be put to sleep. He has a home to go to but

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for everyone we take out of the pound, there are probably sdven

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eight, nine, ten others who don t make it out. There will be VIPs `

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very important pets ` but none more regal than these. We're going to

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have the king and queen turn up tomorrow in style, with our

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fantastic driver. He's laying down on the job! The driver is done in

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and Piper is pooped but between 10am and five BM tomorrow at Marwood Hill

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Gardens near Barnstaple, thdy'll be ready for Woofstock. `` 5pm.

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I've seen it all now! Let's go to our own top dog with the we`ther.

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We've got quite this weekend with nothing to give us much in the way

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of rain. Quite a lot of clotd around and a bit misty first thing in the

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morning but mainly dry. If `nything, we do need some rain and thdre is

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nothing that's going to appreciate over the next days. We've still got

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high pressure. It's weak but it is there nonetheless. All thesd weather

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fronts get pushed across to the north of Scotland. This week system

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is across us at the moment through the English Channel and will be

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stubborn to move out of the way tomorrow but it would eventtally get

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pushed out of the way and it's a brighter day on Sunday but for

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tomorrow, a lot of cloud around and a spot of drizzle in the wind.

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Briefly some sunshine. That was the satellite picture from earlher. The

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south coast certainly had bdst of the weather. There was some sunshine

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here and some lovely quiet conditions out at sea. The winds

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have been generally light over the last week or so so just the gentlest

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of waves and a good view. The sea temperature is still around 70

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degrees, still reasonably comfortable to stick your toe in and

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have a swim, and with quiet weather around this weekend, no big waves

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and nothing for surfers to appreciate. Enough clear skx later

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to let the temperature get hnto single figures. A bit misty with

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even some fog forming, which could be stubborn to move first thing

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tomorrow. Not everywhere, btt some of the Falkirk could be quite

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thick, with night`time tempdratures in the towns and cities arotnd 1 or

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12 but in the countryside dhpping into single figures. Tomorrow is a

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great, misty, murky start. The improvement is slow and

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