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Hello. Tonight, we are at the occupied Bristol protest camp right

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next to the city's Anglican cathedral. The protesters are into

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their fourth week of living in tents now. So, how long are they

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planning to stay? What do they hope to achieve?

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are not here to pack up and go home. We are here for the long haul and

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until we effect a change. Also, we meet the new homeowners near

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Swindon who say they're living in what amounts to a ghost town.

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Sometimes you feel a bit deserted, as though you're out in a field

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somewhere. I would like there to be a shop here now and a doctors.

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Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts uncovers the moving story

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behind a wartime recruitment song. # And when the seas are free again-

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# I'm Alastair McKey and this is Inside Out West.

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It started in New York. Now there are protests camps springing up

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across the world. Here in Bristol, they've been here since about mid-

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October. Protesters insist they won't be moving on any time soon.

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So what is it all about? And what can they really hope to achieve?

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It's breakfast time on College Green. I'm hoping I might be

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offered a cup of tea. But I'm in for a real treat. Smells very good.

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Gorgeous. I'll be honest. It's not bad. What is it? Eggs, tomatoes,

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garlic, chives. Does it have a # I'm not giving in

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# Today... # I've come here to see myself what the occupy movement

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looks like up close. I want to find out why they're here, what they

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hope to achieve and how long they plan to stay.

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But first, back to that breakfast. How do you decide who does the

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cooking and the cleaning? We have a cooking rota up over there. I'm on

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with one of the young ones on site at the moment exme and her's doing

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dinner tonight. What would you be doing if you weren't here? Probably

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chilling out at home watching TV. I would be now because one of my

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programmes are probably on about now. Are you recording them? Not at

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the moment. You weren't expecting to be here for quite so long?

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honest, no, it was more a case of find out what's going on and just

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ended up being here ever since. I'm just basically staying.

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It's been nearly two months since the occupy movement started in New

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York. Their message, we are 99%, refers to the proportion of people

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who aren't wealthy. The first protest in this country outside St

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Paul's Cathedral ignited a row within the Church of England.

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Bristol pitched its first tent on College Green on the 15th October

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and has been growing ever since. After breakfast, the mammoth job of

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washing up. Not easy when your work top is a snooker table and the

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nearest tap is 100 metres away. Why are you here, in your mind?

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There are signs up around the camp, but if there's an element of

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protest to it, what are you protesting against and what's the

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message that you are trying to tell? The thing is, it's not even

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about having to spread a message, it's unlocking people's heads, they

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know the message, they know it's a fundamental message. The Oxford

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figure of 13 billion to feed the entire world for a year was what

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was spent on military spending in eight days. There's something

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fundamentally backward about this system. Sitting around the camp

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fire, I meet the camp's youngest member, nine-year-old Tala. What

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would be your advice to your friends? What will you tell them

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when you go back to school on Tuesday about Occupy Bristol?

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should go there. Come along too? Yes. If you had a chance to bring

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your class along, for a class visit, would you go for that? Yes.

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would Tala's class mates really understand what this is all about?

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I'm still struggling. One of the criticisms that I've heard is that

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the message that you have doesn't have a clarity to it. It's a jumble

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of lots of different messages and that as a means to protest, it's

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not the best starting point? argue it's not a protest, it's a

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democracy installation. Or a social experiment. OK, but people see this

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occupation and it's a very visual thing and they look for a message

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behind it. They look for something that you are communicating? People

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are used to a protest being about like Trident, if you ban it we'll

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be happy but that's not what this is, but it doesn't mean it's not

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something interesting and real and useful. The situation about banking,

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corporate companies, government, people are fed up.

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While I'm on site, preparations are being made for an occupy Bristol

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open day, a small marquee is being erected to host a public debate and

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two truck loads of pal tlets have arrived in an effort to combat the

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growing mud problem -- pallets. While all that's happening, I leave

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the camp and talk to some of those walking past it.

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They have made their point and they've don it quietly, but I think

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it's time they moved on and let the Bristolians enjoy what belongs to

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them. I've already seen the people and can understand why they're

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fighting against capitalism because what really they should be doing is

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getting right at the top, you know,, right at the top of the world, put

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things in place here and help others be more civilised from

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bottom. I've no idea what they are trying to achieve. I don't know

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what their objectives are apart from making a mess and ruining a

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public space. Would you consider wandering in there and sitting down

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by the fire? No, I don't think so. That in a way gives support to the

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occupation and I wouldn't want to do that. I just don't have time to

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go to hear their talks and things. I would quite like to have time to

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go and sits in a field but I don't. At the heart of this protest is the

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very symbolic action of occupying land that isn't theirs. What do you

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think about the movement, officer, tueng it's just? At the end of the

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day, you're in the service industry and you are being affected, won't

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you -- do you think It's not really my place to have an opinion is it.

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It is because you are a person. while in uniform. Does it trouble

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you? I can speak for myself on that, it doesn't trouble me. It doesn't

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trouble me in the slightest, you know. We have issues that we need

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to deal with and we need to get those issues out to the public as

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quickly and as best as we can. If that means occupying, it means

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occupying. As things stand, the church has politely asked the

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protesters to leave, but is not planning any action to enforce this.

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I'm interested to know what the tipping point would be. I'm clear

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in my own mind that peaceful protest is very important. I'm

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clear that there would be certain events that would trigger a

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different response. It's been a peaceful protest, I'm sure it will

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stay that way. If it ceases to be that, we'd have to take a different

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view. Where would it lead? How far would you go? What action would you

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be prepared to take? Hard to answer that because it's a rather

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hypothetical case. We are not talking about eviction at the

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moment. If they damaged what is a stunningly beautiful and important

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building, if they threatened the cathedral staff, if they were at

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risk themselves or were putting the public at risk in Bristol, then we

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would have to think differently. They have said they don't want you

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to stay, they have said they want you to leave. They have, yes.

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Through the council they've asked us to leave. We've politely

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declined that offer, you know. Like I said, we are not here to pack up

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and go home, we are here for the long haul, until we effect a change.

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If they do come in heavy handed and move us on, we'll just move

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somewhere else, simple as that. the afternoon draws on, new faces

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appear on site, perhaps attracted by the warm fire and hot stew.

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are going to start the General Assembly over there under the arch

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the other side of the fountains right now basically. To round up

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the day's events, a small meeting takes place under the arches of the

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council building next door. Whatever you think about the rights

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or wrongs of this protest, it's clearly provoking a debate about

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social inequality and injustice. What's less clear is when the

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occupation will end. If you've got views on the protest camp, why not

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join the conversation on Twitter. Later in the programme: The men who

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never came home. Paul Potts remembers Bristol's own.

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Next, the homeowners who say they're living in what amounts to a

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ghost town. When developers published their glossy brochure, it

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promised to be a brand-new community with lots of facilities.

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But it didn't quite turn out that way. This is WitchEllestow on the

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edge of Swindon. By now, it was supposed to be a thriving new

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community. -- Wichel Stow. Things haven't gone to plan. There are

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roads, signs and street furniture, but none of it seems to go anywhere.

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It feels very strange here. It kind of seems like it's all just been

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abandoned. Today, less than a tenth of the 4,500 homes planned for this

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massive site have been built. generally quite quiet. Sometimes

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you feel a bit deserted, it's probably the only way you can say,

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you feel as though you are out in a field somewhere really. Sarah watts

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lives here with her children in east Witchell, the only part of the

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development which has houses. Hello, I'm Alastair. Come in.

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Thank you. So, two-and-a-half years after you've moved here, how normal

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is life here? It's normal as in it's a normal home, it's a lovely

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home to live in, probably if I could pick the home up and put it

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somewhere where there was more to do, you just feel, you know, it's

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normal within the house, but when you go out, there isn't anything

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for them to do because there's no play areas, no park, nothing where

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they can just burn energy. story of Sarah's home began back in

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2005 when planning permission was granted. The vision included

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schools, shops, bars and restaurants, all up and running by

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2015. It was all going so well, then Swindon, along with the rest

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of the West felt the bite of the recession. If people struggle to

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get mortgages, they are struggling to buy houses. How do you get

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things moving? We need to notice things have changed and the

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developers, the landowners, the borough council, it's all about

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people coming together and saying, if we can't do what we originally

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planned and if we can't extend things the way we wanted to, what

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can we do and working together is the way that people find solutions.

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 144 seconds

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Today, only 500 homes are complete Who is to blame for stagnation? To

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residents the water appears muddied. Who do you understand should be

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finding solutions? I wish I knew. It would be nice if the information

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was given to us in the first place. I am worried that the nice new town

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is going to be ruined before it is done. The original partners were

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Swindon council and the housebuilder Taylor Wimpey. In 2008

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the recession bit and the partnership faltered. Taylor Wimpey

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had to pay compensation to pull out of the deal. It agreed to continue

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building. Swindon council faced a decision. What should it do with

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the rest of the town and the pay- off. It is using the cash to pay

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interest on a loan for roads and drainage. It argues that this will

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make middle and West which will more attractive to buyers. None of

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this eases the concerns of the families now. You get a sense that

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some of them feel a bit stranded and forgotten. It is a question for

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the developers and the landowners. The council is neither of those. I

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cannot speak on their behalf. It is not the developers fault. You have

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to realise that because of the state of the economy and the

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downturn in the housing market, not as many houses are being sold. It

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is up to the developers and the landowners to provide the

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facilities, not the local authority. As I pressed the council over the

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role in helping residents, he asked for the interview to be halted by a

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be carried on filming. Do you know what councils do? I am not a

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councillor and I do not run councils. Why are you asking dumb

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ask questions? Queue. You are starting to offend me. You are

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banging on about something you know nothing about and which has nothing

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to do with the council. We did not stuff up the economy. Get it right.

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What I am doing is repeating some of the concerns that some of the

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people we have spoken to have about the estate there they moved into.

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Have you put that to Taylor Wimpey? What is their response? It is not

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the council's job to provide shops and doctors' surgeries. Get that

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into your head. The counsellor later risk -- apologised to his

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reaction. Taylor Wimpey later Development is now on hold. There

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are no dates for any building work. A supermarket has apparently shown

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interest. For residents, the progress cannot come soon enough.

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You could be in for a long wait. seems that way. The children will

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probably have left home by the time it is finished. Council leaders are

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convinced that the town will be a success. Even this road will

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eventually lead somewhere, even if that somewhere takes another

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If there is something you would like us to investigate then send us

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Do you remember the moment when Paul pops up 1 at the TV show,

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His performance turned him into an international superstar. Tonight he

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is back in his home city of Bristol to tell us the amazing story of a

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recently discovered piece of music. I am on my way to have a look at a

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remarkable discovery. Hidden away in the archives of the Bristol

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Record Office, they found a piece of music were there really are

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moving story behind it. I am meeting an author and social

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historian who stumbled across the music. It is a piece of sheet music

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written in 1914. It was written for fund raising and for recruiting a

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song for the new Bristol Battalion. The music was by Ivor Novello and

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Up to Fred Weatherly, the prolific son -- songwriter from Porter 8th -

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- Portishead. But here were Bristol's own? I want to find out

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more. Of course I want to know what How many were there in Bristol's

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own? How many people did it managed to recruit? It was formed in early

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September 1914, just a month after the war broke out. There were

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around 1,300 and the Italian. -- in the battalion. I am almost too

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scared to ask this question because I am aware that so many lives were

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lost in the First World War, but how many in the end returned?

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Regrettably very few. By the end of the war, Bristol's own had lost 800

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of its original members. What I find really poignant is that these

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men have stepped forward of their own free will. I decide to visit

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the spot near by. The recruits of Bristol's own were put through

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their paces here. Walking here along the banks of the River Avon,

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it is hard to imagine how nearly 100 years ago, more than 1000 young

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volunteers came here to Ashton Meadows in order to train before

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being sent to France to surf king and country. Brothers, cousins,

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friends and workmates -- surf king and country. They had all come here

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to form a special friend battalion. They spent eight months preparing

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for battle and the Western Front. They were physical drills, musket

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practice, trench digging. Then they moved up from a Temple Meads

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station, never to return again. The unit was disbanded just two weeks

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before the end of the war. I find it really sad that Bristol's own

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had no proper will come home and that their bravery and sacrifice

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appeared to have largely gone unsung. The song which spurred them

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into action has been surprisingly overlooked, especially considering

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it is by Ivor Novello. We team up on our next quest to find out about

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what could have been the last big public performance of the song. It

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was just after the war at a special ceremony held at Colston Hall to

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recognise Bristols its soldiers who had been recognised for gallantry.

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The performance starts at 2:30pm. You are requested to take your feet

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at 2:15pm. I had the privilege of performing here if you times, but

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it must have been quite an event all those years ago. This would

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have been absolutely packed. It would have been full of the great

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and good of Bristol. And there were all of the flags of the Allies. As

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far as we know, it was the last time Bravo Bristol was ever son to

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an audience of this size. To mark the end of the war, Fred Weatherly

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rewrote the words of the last chorus to one-all the Bristol men

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who had fought for their country. - - to honour all. Colston Hall could

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well have been when the revised Bravo Bristol was finely performed.

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Amazingly, it appears there are no recordings of Bardo -- Bravo

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Bristol, but we were about to put that right. In the area wearer was

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born, 50 members of St George sinners are ready to revise the

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song -- singers. We will remember Ladies and gentlemen, it is a real

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pleasure to welcome to Mike Paul Potts, who has been sat listening

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to a rehearsal and he has very kindly said he will sing this song

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with us. Paul Potts. Thank you very much indeed. Can we make a way

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 144 seconds

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PAUL SINGS. It is great that Bravo Bristol have been performed again.

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It is a fitting tribute to those brave men, and I can't help feeling

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a little emotional about it. I hope it goes some way to short --

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towards showing that the sacrifices of the boys of Bristol's own have

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That is where we end tonight's programme. If you'd like to see the

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