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prescription for addiction—Jersey's hidden drugs epidemic. The awareness

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is getting out there. You see them on programmes and television all the

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time. People concerned themselves. Hundreds of parents demand action to

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raise secondary school standards. And why fewer women will be tested

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less often the cervical cancer as health bosses target at risk groups.

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abuse. That is the view of bosses at Silkworth Lodge. They say they are

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seeing more and more people addicted to painkillers and tranquillisers,

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Islanders can be registered to more than one doctor at the moment and

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there is no restriction on the authorities have announced plans to

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change that. It has been branded for Armageddon —— it has been branded

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problem in the UK and America and it has been an issue for many years in

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Jersey. Our customs and police are very good at keeping street drugs

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out of the island like heroin and cocaine. It has created a market in

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substitutes and prescribed drugs like strong painkillers. Unlike

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England, patients in Jersey can potential for so—called doctor

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prescriber. To combat the problem, doctors prescribing patterns are

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procedure that was scrutinised at the deaths of people using this

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strong painkiller. Doctors say difficult problem to tackle. We

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strong painkiller. Doctors say certain protocols that we are to and

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we will not give drugs that are addictive for a great length of

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time. The other problem from our perspective is deceit. People will

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come in and say things and will either not need the drug or will

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have the drug but not the level either not need the drug or will

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say they need it. Health bosses falling. They hope the introduction

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of new database where separate GP practice records will be linked

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together on a central server to deter doctor shopping will stop

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together on a central server to trend. Jesse says there are checks

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in place to make sure it is harder for prescription drugs to be abused

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Jason Wyse is from the rehab centre. He says abuse could be close to

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epidemic levels. It depends on how much information we have at this

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current time. There is an epidemic in the USA, there is a potential

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epidemic in the UK. Jersey is no different. We have to be aware of

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these things to avoid an epidemic. As long as we are doing something

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about prescription drugs now and are aware of prescribing and being aware

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of why people are on them, we are condition. Do you welcome this move

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to track who is trying to get these drugs from where? 100%. It is a

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fantastic move and something we drugs from where? 100%. It is a

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to be doing. It is working towards avoiding potential and serious

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issues. Have you noticed an increase in the book to use your services?

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Yes. We have a mixture of people with alcohol and drug problems.

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knowledge that we have from people is they have struggled. Importantly,

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awareness of being addicted to prescription drugs is getting out

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there. You see it on soap programmes and people are concerned themselves.

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A man is in hospital in Guernsey after a road crash in Saint Peter

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Port. Police say the motorcyclist collided with a core on Queens Road

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at 5:15pm. —— collided with a car. The trial of the Condor Ferries

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captain and his first mate resumes tomorrow. Paul Le Romancer and Yves

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Tournon were arrested when there are very collided with a fishing boat.

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We will have the latest from that programme tomorrow at 6:30pm. Parent

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Guernsey's Education Department programme tomorrow at 6:30pm. Parent

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people have joined a group calling first things to change. It follows a

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fall in Guernsey's GCSE results first things to change. It follows a

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Walking home after a day at school but some parents in Guernsey have

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serious concerns over what kind but some parents in Guernsey have

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receiving. So much though —— so but some parents in Guernsey have

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so that one has started a group but some parents in Guernsey have

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social network website demanding that the dip apartment is more about

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falling results. The benchmark is 40% of children are pre——— achieving

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five GCSE's at grade C and above. We are nowhere near that. A failing

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school is a failing school and two of hours of failing. Guernsey's

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results have seen a fall compared to last year. This has prompted an

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investigation by the Education Department. It insists it is not

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making excuses for underperformance. The Education Minister says his

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concerns but also says it is not just the teachers who have a role to

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play when educating children. It is a triangle, a partnership between

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the school from the student and parent. It is great that parents

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care. There are children who have parents who seem to think you put

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your child into a school and they will get educated and walk away

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your child into a school and they that responsibility. The overall

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bailiwick figure was the second that responsibility. The overall

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since 2007. As these parents stand up to the status quo, the Education

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Department will continue to be under Starter pistols have been banned

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from Jersey schools after a pupil Education Minister told the States

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continuing. A teacher was fined Education Minister told the States

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Jersey's magistrates Court and deputy, Patrick Ryan, is saying

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there would be no risk to islanders. We are looking at whether they are

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necessary in schools and we have concluded that they are not. There

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is no need for them to be in schools with the associated health and

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safety risks. We have decided to withdraw them. Women and the age of

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25 will no longer be tested for cervical cancer under changes to

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Jersey's screening programme. At the moment, women can be screened from

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the age of 20 that people say it is rare for women to get cervical

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cancer. Earlier on I was joined rare for women to get cervical

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the studio by Doctor Fiona Nelson, a consultant at Jersey's General

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Hospital and she denied the move was about cost—cutting. It is definitely

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not a cost—cutting measure. We following best practice and we know

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it is better for women to start screaming when they are a bit older

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at the age of 25. That way they screaming when they are a bit older

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increasing the gap between tests for older ladies as well? Wants the

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women reach the age of 50, we will scale down the screening and test

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every five years rather than three between 25 and 50, they will still

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have screens carried out every three pleasant process. They might worry

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that they will not have access to the process. If women have any

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symptoms of irregular bleeding intercourse, unusual discharge,

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symptoms of irregular bleeding must get screened. They must go

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symptoms of irregular bleeding their GP to get checked over. If

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there is any problems, they will be referred to the gynaecology clinic.

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We are also doing HBV testing and it is a good thing that we will be

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picking up women that need to be treated. We will be screaming women

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for this condition in addition to doing so vital smear tests. —— these

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We have a fine start and it will generally be clouding over. We still

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have this ridge of high pressure and we are between weather systems at

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systems will get closer together over the next 24 hours. They will

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move southwards. By Thursday, we have rather more cloud. Until then,

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it is largely dry. There is a small chance of some early showers but

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they will disappear and later in the night, enough clear skies to let the

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temperatures get fairly low. The wind will be strong first but slowly

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easing. Tomorrow is a fine day. wind will be strong first but slowly

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will have patchy cloud around. It will thicken up with temperatures

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The forecast for Thursday and Friday is a lot of cloud. The cloud is

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thick enough to produce light and patchy rain on both days. The day

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persistent and whites red rain will Temperatures are up to 19 Celsius.

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Saturday into Sunday, we have a Temperatures are up to 19 Celsius.

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area of low pressure. Sunday could be quite windy with outbreaks of

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Congratulations to Jersey shoot Gareth Callen. He has become world

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champion shooter over 500 metres using a muzzle loaded gun like this

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one. He is currently captaining using a muzzle loaded gun like this

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GB at the competition in South Africa. That is it from me. Goodbye.

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the city on Saturday. Her condition has been described as critical but

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stable. Plans to turn a section of the A30

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near Bodmin into a dual carriageway have passed their latest planning

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hurdle. The Government has agreed to pay for half the cost of the £60

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million pound scheme, but Cornwall Council would still need to find

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funding for the rest. You are watching spotlight. Thanks

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for beginning your evening with us. Still to come: And insight into the

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desperate plight of refugees on the ground from a charity worker from

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Cornwall who was just returned from Syria and is appealing for help.

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We will have the latest weather forecast. If Dr Dolittle was looking

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for a drinking companion, then Star the duck might be just the animal to

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share a pint with — he's already causing quite a stir at his local.

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Just this summer, children in the South West were out campaigning for

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motorists to slow down to 20 miles an hour near their schools but their

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efforts may have been in vain. Today the police in Devon and Cornwall

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told BBC Spotlight they can't routinely check for speeding drivers

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even in areas where the limit's already 20. Now a number of

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councillors in Exeter say more needs to be done. Hamish Marshall reports.

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It doesn't take long to see how often the 20 miles per hour speed

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limit is ignored here. Yet organised surveys as well as random ones like

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ours show the limit in residential areas has support from drivers and

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non drivers. In a built—up area, I can't see the point of driving more

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than 20 miles an hour. You're not gay to get anywhere any faster. The

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police could do more, but that has to be funded by somebody.

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So what difference does the ten miles per hour make? To stop while

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at 20 miles per hour needs 12 metres — a combination of 6m each of

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thinking and braking time. If the speed rises to 30 miles per hour,

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the distance is 23 metres — with both thinking and braking time

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rising. When 20 zones were introduced in Portsmouth — casualty

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numbers dropped by 22%. But Devon and Cornwall Police doesn't

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routinely enforce 20 limits. It says it has to prioritise and targets

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areas with known problems and where there have been accidents in the

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past. The few resources we have, we dedicate to those areas. If we have

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complaints in 20 miles bra limit areas, we will undertake high

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visibility trolls —— 20 mph limit areas. The local council would like

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to see more police action, but first he wants Devon County Council to

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ensure the zones are signed properly so that action can be taken. It is a

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very small zone, and there are five areas that are not compliant, where

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the traffic calming measures or the required signs are more than 100

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metres apart. So every time I'm in this zone, you could get off on a

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technicality if the police stopped you. The County Council says it is

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aware of the concern over the zones, and is reviewing them.

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Within the last week, one council member has been talking about

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devastating cuts to come. As one budget squeeze follows another, the

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impact on people's lives will become more apparent. As council cuts in

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the region start to dig deep, one area of the South West could lose

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almost half its public toilets and its council run CCTV coverage. With

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39 sites, Teignbridge Council has the second highest number of public

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loos in Devon. Cuts to the budget are forcing the council to consider

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closing 17 of them, many in rural areas. Our South Devon reporter John

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Ayres has more. Teignmouth is a busy seaside town attracting thousands of

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visitors each year. It has a number of public loos, but the council

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feels it can't keep all of them. This one, near The Triangle in the

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town, is earmarked to be sold off or closed. The Central Fish Cafe is

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just around the corner and already has its fair share of people asking

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to use their toilet. I think people will just use the bushes in the

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future, as they do already when the toilets are shut. It is a tough

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economic climate, but they have posh offices. Children will need to go.

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There are not many restaurants where you can go and ask, and they are

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quite strict. And it is rude, it is like going into someone's house and

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asking to use the toilet. This cafe already has its fair share of people

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asking to use the toilet. They cafe pays its busiesses rates, so it

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feels it's not its job to provide toilets for the public. The current

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Teignbridge admistration promised the electorate they would freeze

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council tax. But the money recieved from Government is reducing rapidly,

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forcing them to make cuts. Closing public toilets is an emotive

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subject. They are having to make tough decisions, and it would appear

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that if the service being provided is not a statutory requirement, it

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is not sacred. If your budget falls by 10% every year, something has got

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to happen to make you make ends meet. You are not getting any more

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money because you are freezing council tax, and yet your budget is

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falling. The decision on the future of the

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toilets, and CCTV provision in Teignbridge will be made in a week's

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time. Many of us will have been moved by

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the pictures of the humanitarian crisis on the borders of Syria. The

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Cornish —based charity Shelter no —— Shelter box is trying to help. How

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big is the scale of the problem? I have just returned with a team from

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Iraqi Kurdistan. Over the last two years, huge amount of displacement,

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both within is area and externally. We work spurred to go back of weeks

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ago because an additional 45,000 poured across the border. There was

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a huge new influx in the Midsummer sun tried to find shelter, and we

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wanted to help those people. And some of those families have terrible

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stories to tell, don't they? Yes, young children, mothers, all sorts

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of stories involved, and what hit home to myself and the team is that

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you don't need to find a story, we would walk into one camp which had

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just been set up, originally for 10,000 people, but already looking

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at 20,000, and the UN were working there, and use big to people in

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different tents, and there was a lot of hospitality involved, which is

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amazing given what people have been through. There are schools where

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people are waiting to move into the camps. There was a young mother who

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rushed up and grabbed us and wanted to tell us is a link to the outside

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world what had happened to her family, and it was the chemical

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attacks in Damascus about four kilometres from where they lived.

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She was incredibly emotional, telling us that her children

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shouldn't have to see this. School has been disrupted, they have had to

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leave quickly, they couldn't afford to travel and had to borrow money,

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the buses were being bombed. She said they had seen mass graves being

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dug, and the things they had witnessed were horrific. And they

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have had to leave everything they own, and perhaps sometimes family

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members? Family members, friends, colleagues. People have very normal

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lives, and you really can't imagine, thinking back to here in

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the UK, back in Cornwall, Devon, imagine everyone from your town

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being uprooted and displaced hundreds or thousands of miles away.

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Some people were lucky and had their families. There was one man who had

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completely lost his two sons on the journey, and he still hadn't found

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them. He was talking about people who had died along the journey, and

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he had been there some days and hadn't found his sons. I to Mac and

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they find real comfort in the practical aid organisations like

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yourself were able to them? Definitely, and it is speed of

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response. In the context of a protracted disaster, , viewers have

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Dibley seen us following an earthquake or so one, we respond

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quickly and effectively. We have been working for 18 months on the

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crisis, and the emergency phase is still very much there. People still

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need that very quick response, and we have helped over 4500 families

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already by providing emergency items such as tents, blankets, and now

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with winter coming, we need to provide more to see families

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through. And that is what this £2 million will go towards funding.

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Thank you very much for joining us this evening.

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The work of one Cornish charity. A grade one listed church in Devon has

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had special solar slates fitted to its roof in order to generate

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renewable energy. It had an application for ordinary solar

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panels turned down because they looked to modern, but the vicar said

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the new slate enabled the look of the 19th—century building to be

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preserved. And the sun shone on Dartmoor today for the famous

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Widdicombe fair. The Dartmoor village is packed with thousands of

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visitors later for the popular country show. The event, which is

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always held on the second Tuesday of September, is believed to date all

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the way back to the early 19th century. Organisers said they

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expected it to be a bumper year for visitors.

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It has been reported in the past that pets can behave like their

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owners. A duck has followed his master's lead and started sipping

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beer, and if you thought that was a story only told in the pub, judge

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for yourself. A duck walks into a bar and orders a

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pint. Obviously. Starr is a regular at this hostelry in Cholmondeley.

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His owner discovered his liking for beer by accident. —— Chumleigh. Next

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thing I knew, I heard a lot of slurping, and he was helping

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himself. The RSPCA doesn't recommend giving a duck beer, but says it is

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unlikely to pursue the owner if the duck is happy. The landlord says he

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certainly seems content. He is just like a pet dog. He just wanders

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around the place. He is quite content in my company, because I

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serve his beer, I suppose! The duck and his owner go busking and collect

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money for children's hospices. They have a book coming out soon,

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although strangely, the dog doesn't tweet. And as far as we know, he

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hasn't yet tried skateboarding. And now I have met the duck who drinks

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in the pub, my reporting career is complete! You can put it on his

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bill. He doesn't tweet. I love it! From

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one duck to nice weather for ducks, because the rain is on the way.

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That is the new name for a social media site, quack quack.

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It has been quite a nice day, and tomorrow has a reasonable start, but

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as Rebecca mentioned, it will cloud over, and by the end of the day,

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most of us will have had some rain. There are couple of weather systems

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out to the west of us, thicker cloud across the eastern side of England.

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We have a ridge of high pressure for overnight tonight. Whilst there is a

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lot of cloud now, later tonight, it will turn quite chilly. The weather

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systems will be around again as we move into Thursday. Various that

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satellite picture, and a little more in the way of detail. In the last

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few hours, a little more cloud has developed. This was the scene

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earlier today in Plymouth, fine weather but chilly in a keen breeze.

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But some good visibility, blue skies and sunshine for most of us. With

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this amount of clear sky overnight tonight, it will turn quite cold.

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Still quite a lot of cloud around for the more western parts of

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Cornwall. Further east, East Devon and into Somerset and Dorset, with a

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lot of clear sky, it is going to turn quite chilly. We could get as

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low as five or six overnight tonight. Further west, in contrast

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to that, a fair amount of cloud, 13 or 14 for almost all. Tomorrow, a

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good start with some sunshine, patchy cloud, and then the cloud

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generally thickens throughout the day. Come the end of the afternoon,

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it turns out to be quite wet. Not quite as windy as today, and

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temperatures similar sort of figures. The forecast for the Isles

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of Scilly, briefly some brightness in the morning, but it doesn't last.

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Times of high water: Let's look at the forecast as we

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head towards the weekend. Not a great deal of brightness, it has to

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be said. Perhaps briefly some brighter spells before we return for

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some patchy rain in the evening. Similar conditions on Saturday, and

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Sunday into Monday, it becomes quite windy again and also turns quite a

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bit cooler. There is certainly ought the forecast. —— and or Tom nor

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forecast. We are off to take our pets out for

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a drink! Have a lovely evening. Goodbye.

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