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The battle is not over ` unions vow me.

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The battle is not over ` unions vow to fight on in their dispute with

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Condor after two weeks of strike action by sailors in France. But

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will Condor listen? We don't recognise the advice they had from

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the union. We don't recognise that organisation and therefore any point

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they have, we would suggest they provide to our company.

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Also, Jersey experiences a record fall in house prices, but can

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Islanders really afford to buy? Find out how you can knit your way into a

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piece of art. This battle is not over. That's the

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message from unions tonight about the dispute with Condor Ferries over

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workers rights. A two`week strike, which halted services between the

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Channel Islands and St Malo, was called off yesterday, after Condor

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said it had agreed to offer the French sailors a better insurance

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package. But the International Transport Workers Federation, who

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organised the industrial action said today that they were taking

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legal action as Condor was 'impossible to negotiate with'.

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Well, as the war of words intensifies, passengers have finally

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been arriving back in the Islands. Penny Elderfield reports: A short

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wait at St Malo harbour this morning is nothing for these passengers

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who've been waiting for two weeks to get to Jersey.

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I haven't been able to get the jersey for the past two weeks. First

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it was the weather and then the strikes. It was a forced holiday. We

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had a trip planned for St Valentine's Day. We are a bit

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unhappy and not best pleased. And finally, at around 10am French time,

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the Condor Rapide bid au revoir to France, and bonjour to St Helier,

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meaning the ferry link to France is back in time for the school

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holidays. And in one case, a family emergency. I have come over

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particularly for the birth of my first grandchild. My daughter`in`law

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will have her baby at lunchtime I was desperately hoping it would be

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back on and somebody is looking after me. Relief for passengers to

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get back on board here, and relief for Condor that the striking crew

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that have been on here for 14 days are no longer commandeering it. This

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was where the dozen or so crew members lived whilst on board,

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creating sleeping quarters here and even having a TV to watch the

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Olympics. But now it's back to normality. And back in Guernsey

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albeit a bit too late for those who had their half term plans disrupted.

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And in fact many arriving today were simply day`trippers taking advantage

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of the offer of a free trip. The boat may be moving again, but it

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looks like relations between Condor and the union still have some way to

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go. We have two look at some legal beings, because they are not in

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compliance with the law, so it is not possible to access that. We need

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to fight against the company to get what we want. It is important to put

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this behind us and work together. We need to learn from the issues and we

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have learned a few things already. We should mention that we don't

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recognise the advice they had from the ITF union. We don't recognise

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that organisation and therefore any comments they have not recognised.

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ITF is ruling out further strike action at the moment, as it says

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passengers have suffered enough And as the dispute moves on to the next

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level, Condors' customers will be hoping they're left out of it.

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Smoking in cars carrying children in Jersey should be banned, according

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to the results of a public consultation. Almost eight out of

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ten people who responded said they'd support a law banning it. There was

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also support for making children's playgrounds smoke`free. The health

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authorities have welcomed the findings, which will be used to form

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the States' next Tobacco Strategy. Electricity prices in Jersey are

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going up by 1.5% from April. It s to cover the costs of generating power

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on the island. Jersey Electricity has been using the power station at

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La Colette since last April, when an undersea cable from France was lost.

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Hundreds of people gathered in Jersey this morning for a memorial

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service for the former Lieutenant Governor Sir Michael Wilkes. Sir

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Michael, who was the Queen's representative in the island between

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1995 and 2000, died from cancer last autumn. The current LG, Sir John

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McColl, was among the congregation at St Thomas' church.

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Jersey is experiencing a record period of falling house prices,

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according to new official figures. Since the last peak in 2009, average

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prices have dropped about 6%. The average price of ?375,000 for a two

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bedroom house last year was the lowest recorded since 2007. It's the

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longest sustained fall in 30 years. A little earlier I spoke to Roger

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Trower from Broadlands Estate Agents to find out who are the winners and

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losers from this situation. That purchases are the winners. Not all

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part of the markets have fallen back, but there are parts where they

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were overcooked and they have come back to us, but not to the extent

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that has been said with regard to the statistics. I beat you can prove

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different things with the numbers. We have seen a falling off prices.

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Can people afford to buy? We have had a lot of supply into the

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market. Young people are looking to come into that level and should be

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able to buy providing their family members help with deposits. The

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banks are proven to be helpful. The States Housing Deposit Scheme gave

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some people interest free loans to help them. What impact has that had?

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It has had some, but the criteria for people to take up that deposit

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scheme is quite tough. What we have always said is that when you're

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buying a low price house, you want to buy it for the right money. If

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people can get help to get on the ladder, all very well. You should

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buy a home for a long time, not just for that reason to not make money.

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Hopefully more and more people are looking at that lower price and

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saying that is the house for the next ten years. What more needs to

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be done? More help from the state. I would like to see the lower end of

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duty for first time buyers, which would help enormously.

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You're watching the BBC in the Channel Islands. Later in Spotlight

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with Justin and Clare, find out why more than 1000 pasties have been

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sent from Cornwall to flood hit Somerset Next.

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Say hello to my little friend! Can you see him? We have not thought of

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a name yet. This little prawn has been knitted for us by volunteers at

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Jersey's Arts Centre. They're hoping to make thousands of knitted sea

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creatures like this to form a soft sculpture at the Maritime Museum.

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And they're calling on knitters and crocheters across the island to

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help! Louise Walter went, needles in hand, to find out more.

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It's a hobby enjoying a resurgence, and groups get together across

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Jersey to chat, needles in hand But this is no ordinary knit and natter.

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People here are making things to go into a permanent exhibition at the

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maritime museum. And they're knitting all sea creatures great and

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small. It is a fish as you can see, but I think it may grow into a

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mackerel. You have two knitted from the side and you make it eventually.

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But they need thousands of creatures to complete the knitted and

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crotcheted reef. And with the museum opening at the start of April, the

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Arts Centre needs as many hands on deck as possible, regardless of

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skill level. We have been trying to contact as many knitters and people

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who would like to be involved. We have ideas which are easy and some

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abysmal, located. This lobster has been made by one of our knitters ``

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some more complicated. I will feel happier when we are showered with

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fish. If you fancy creating a creature to add to this scene,

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there's free patterns and wool available at the arts centre. And if

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you want to learn knitting and crotchet there's even a free event

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to learn the skills. We had much fun with the knitters. When you knitting

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one? I am not at admitting. `` knitting. We have had a bit of

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sunshine today. It will be similar tomorrow. There is a bit of a

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breeze. There will be showers and sunshine. Low pressure is in charge.

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It is a long way from us. It is in the north of the island. One little

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weather system we are keeping a close eye on. This is midday

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tomorrow and it trickles past is overnight into the early hours of

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Saturday morning. It could give some heavy rain with the risk of thunder.

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The Rossum quite heavy showers this evening. This will die down. ``

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there are. Every now and then we will get some sunshine. It is a

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breezy day. Winds from the South West and cold a date than today Top

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temperature of eight degrees. Let's look at the coastal waters. Force

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five or six, and a drop in the second part of the day. These are

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the times of high water. The surfers, the waves are not too

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big `` for. For most of Saturday it is a reasonable day. Winds from the

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South West and temperatures of 10 degrees. Rain overnight on Sunday.

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That is it from now. support the North Devon Hospice

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The annual sale of Dartmoor ponies at Tavistock has been a traditional

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event for centuries. Now though, it's coming to an end. The town's

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livestock market has taken the decision not to hold the sale in

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October because it's no longer financially viable. A tradition

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which has been taking place on Dartmoor for hundreds of years but

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in recent times, the annual pony sale has been losing money rather

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than making it. Lastly, only 14 goals were sold out of nearly 100.

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It is a big decision, and it is not what we have come to easily. It is

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said that history is finished in terms of ponies in the market.

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Farmers like Phil are allowed to keep a certain number of ponies.

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Those that can't be returned are sold at Tavistock. His family have

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done this for generations but with this news, he feels it might be time

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to stop keeping them altogether. There is no money in them at all.

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The reason we're keeping them, my dad had them and his dad had a few,

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as soon as these are gone, we have to seriously think about getting

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them to a more manageable number or losing them altogether. Eight years

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ago, farmers like Phil were getting around ?75 each for false like this.

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Lastly, he only got ?10 each for the two resold. Charlotte has spent her

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lifetime trying to save the Dartmoor fuel pony. Every year hundreds are

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slaughtered because there is no market for them. She fears the loss

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of the sale will be to fewer ponies on the moor. It is devastating. I

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think pony herders themselves are wondering, where will it go from

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here? It is part of our heritage. We used to be a marketing virtually

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every big town, we were down to two and now we are down to one. This

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side of the moor is no way of getting those ponies any more. She

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is still waiting to see if the last remaining sale will take place this

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year. The Hospice in North Devon says it

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couldn't survive without its volunteers. There are around 130

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paid staff, but more than 500 volunteers who do a wide range of

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jobs. The North Devon Hospice is celebrating its 30th birthday and

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one of its major themes for the year is thanking the people who do so

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much to help make it work. In the fourth of her series, our North

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Devon reporter, Andrea Ormsby, looks at the work of one volunteer. This

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man retired ten years ago. He had been the lorry driver and now he is

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driving again, as a volunteer for North Devon Hospice. It certainly

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helps me with my retirement. He drives patients to and from home for

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outpatient visits. I spend a lot of time with the patients in the car,

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and also in the hospice. There is no end of subjects that we talk about.

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Whether it is to do with politics, the weather, or our own families,

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really. We really become a part of their families. To begin with, he

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was worried they wouldn't cope. Occasionally it is depressing but

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you must accept that as part of the job. It's just great pleasure to be

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able to help somebody through their illness and one of the greatest joys

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I find doing this job is just hearing that people laugh when they

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are in the daycare unit. When you hear them laughing so much, you know

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that what you're doing is right. Meeting people who have honed their

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skills of what quality`of`life they have left, it teaches you a lot. I

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can see the change in philosophy of life. Cyril doesn't just drive for

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the hospice, he is one available in tears who do gardening. I know the

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gardening gives a lot of fish to our patients, on a nice sunny day like

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today, they can seal the flowers `` see all the flowers. Smell the

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pollen. Sometimes we get bees, butterflies. It also gives them a

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great pleasure. The pleasure I get in gardening obviously gives the

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patient is much pleasure as I get. In this 30th birthday year, there is

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a big thank you to everyone who does so much to help. Our theme for 30th

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anniversary is thanks to you. A plethora of our community, the

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staff, it is a big chance to say thanks to all our volunteers.

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Without them, we wouldn't be able to operate. Sometimes I feel a bit

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selfish mind doing it because it's helping me as much as it's helping

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the patients. Because I often say to my self, what would I be doing? I

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would be set at home, bored to tears. Of all the jobs I have done,

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to find the best job I have done, I don't get paid for, what can you

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say? It's great. The Cyril, the fear of retirement has been replaced by

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the fulfilment of volunteering. And tomorrow in the final part of

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her series, Andrea's been to meet a family who were helped through the

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loss of a loved one, by the North Devon Hospice.

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It was a big night for the south`west at the BBC Radio two Folk

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Awards at the Royal Albert Hall last night. Folk superband, The Full

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English, which features Seth Lakeman, won Best Group and Best

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Album, while Devon's Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin scooped the Award

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for best duo. Phillip Henry, Hannah Martin and

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Seth Lakeman have all been regular guests on John Govier's Saturday

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Show on BBC Radio Devon. Join him for more live performances from

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local musicians this Saturday from 9am ` 1pm. Or listen on the BBC

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iPlayer. Meanwhile, Plymouth musician Chris

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Wood has been amongst the winners at the BRIT Awards last Night. His band

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Bastille won best UK breakthrough act at the annual award ceremony.

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And you can catch up with him on Saturday when he drums home his

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support for Plymouth Argyle by making his debut as a guest in the

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commentary box, that's alongside BBC Radio Devon's Gordon Sparks.

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Now our reporter John Henderson is spending this week travelling the

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Spotlight region to see the impact of the recent storms. Coastal

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communities from the far west of Cornwall through to Dorset suffered

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major damage following weeks of extreme weather. John's journey

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started on Monday in Lamorna Cove. Today he's moved from South Devon up

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to the village of Bucks Mills in North Devon. It feels like a long

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way from anywhere but there moments where this is the reason 40,000

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people visit every year. This is lovely. I understand you are going

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to show me something that isn't so nice. Indeed. Now they would have a

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job getting onto the beach. The grade two listed slipway has gone.

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Perfectly safe? The people in this tiny community e`mail the BBC about

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the need to nominate the slipway and the historic lime kilns after they

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were destroyed by storms. It has been unprecedented in terms of the

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storm damage, but of course, it has happened before and the community

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comes together as it has now and it will get rebuilt. This is the

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beginning of the slipway commie conceive of the storm damage has

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done over my shoulder. That wall is looking pretty precarious. From the

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Heritage site to a holiday resort, one equally affected by wild

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weather. Crazy golf at West Westwood home is a crazy assault course. John

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Martin's nephew runs a tourist attraction, quite when it will

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welcome back punters and putters St Clair. John has got enough to do

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pull string the differences outside his own business, hammered by last

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week's wave. It will be back up and running, it is a mammoth task to get

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it ready. Easter we could probably get the go`karts ready but the

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extreme crazy golf, as you call it, we don't know about that. For many

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communities in North Devon and across the south`west, the race is

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on to bolster their damaged sea defences before the next high tides

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in March. A hundred years ago the humble pasty

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kept Cornish tin miners going underground. These day they are a

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handy lunchtime feast and now they are being used the feed the hundreds

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of people trying to fight the flood waters in Somerset. More than 1,000

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pasties have been sent from Cornwall to Somerset ` branded as' Pasty

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Aid'. The idea was the brainwave of a Cornish woman who now lives on the

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Somerset levels. At this bakery, they are queueing for their lunch.

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The pasties here are popular with the local people and visitors. But

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not all these pasties are being bought and sold locally. Some of

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them are going up to Somerset as Pasty Aid. This family run bakery is

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one of the number who have sent pasties to the Somerset Levels, an

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area that has been under floodwater four weeks. Not meals on wheels but

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breakfast in a basket. Do you want your hot pasty? You are most

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welcome! Compliments of Sarah, bless her heart! Thanks very much! Lovely

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job! Well done. Take care. This is the woman who has made it all

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happen. Sarah comes from Cornwall but now lives in Somerset. She rang

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pasty makers in Cornwall who are more than happy to help. There is

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not much I can do out here, I am a mum at home. I can make pasties and

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my friends are happy to make them. It's really nice just to help

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people. Plus, we have had lots of our own customers go on the strength

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of this, people phoning up and saying, can I donate ?50 for as many

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pasties as that will buy? So we ascended up more than the original

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120. For the flood victims and those trying to help them, these are more

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than much`needed warm food, they are a gesture of goodwill from Cornwall.

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Time for the weather. Before I give it a forecast, I'm

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just going to go back over how wet the winter has been so far. This is

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more official statistics, it is now officially the wettest winter ever,

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683 millimetres of rain, the average we have seen. The previous wet

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year, wet winter, I should say, was 1990. It's not as stormy as it has

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been, we have some sunshine every now and then. Tomorrow is a day when

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we are going to get a mixture of both, some showers, it'll be breezy

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and every now and then, the sunshine will shine. For the weekend, more

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uncertainty and more unsettled, more persistent rain, but most of the

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activity is towards the North`West of us. One line of showers, perhaps

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more persistent rain, will trickle through the English Channel

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overnight tomorrow and into Saturday. Then it is the next area

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of low pressure, which will arrive on Sunday, although its eastward

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progress will be erratic. Notice the ice bars are starting to get more

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tightly packed. Gale force winds on Sunday. The breeze is blowing in a

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pew showers, that will continue overnight, forming lines for a time.

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But they do become more isolated and hopefully we will get some clear

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spells. When that happens, we'll see temperatures tumble away. The

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showers we have now have been quite lively. Once they died down, lengthy

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clear spells will develop and turning quite cold overnight.

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Temperatures cold enough for a touch of Frost. Most likely in sheltered

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inland areas. For tomorrow, showers are always not far away, but they

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will be some sunny spells in between those showers, even though they come

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along every now and then, there is a chance of some dry weather for all

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of us. Breezy and colder of today. `` than today. For the Isles of

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Scilly: the wind direction, West or

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south`westerly. Should be a fine day on Saturday, clouding over, more wet

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weather, becoming increasingly windy on Sunday.

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I am back in the late news at 10:25pm. Good evening.

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