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Smoking to be banned in cars with children ` Jersey could be the first

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in the British Isles to takd the plunge, but is it a sensibld step or

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a breach of freedom? Also tonight, fighting animal cruelty and rising

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costs, why this animal shelter needs to modernise. And a landmark

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birthday for an island icon, celebrating 140 years of Corbiere

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lighthouse. Jersey could be the first place in the British Hsles to

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ban smoking in cars when chhldren are on board, that's if proposals

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put forward by the Health Mhnister today get the go ahead. Arotnd 0%

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of people smoke in Jersey, `nd there is already a ban on lighting up in

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virtually all enclosed publhc places and workplaces. But a health

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department survey last year suggested islanders support extra

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measures to protect children from second`hand smoke. Sophie Stlheria

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reports. The dangers of second hand smoke are well documented. @nd in

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England the campaign to encourage people to stop smoking when they

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have children in the car has been hard hitting and high profile. But

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Jersey will go one step further than simply warning people of thd

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dangers. Drivers may in futtre be banned from lighting up when they

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have passengers under the age of 18. I am here to protect not only this

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generation but also future generations because we know the

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effects of tobacco and the damage it can have on people pause my Celts.

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There's some support for thhs legislation. A health department

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consultation found that 76% percent would support a ban. But can you

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really tell people what to do in their own car? They are

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organisations or child protdction so you can protect the rights of the

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Child from smoking in the c`r. Whether they can enforce it is a

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different matter. It is likd the mobile phone, everybody knows what

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the rules are but it is difficult to enforce. I am sure if the police

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came across somebody who was smoking with children in the car thdir first

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words would be words of advhce. If given States approval, the law could

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be changed in as little as two months. No ifs, no butts... Well

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tonight the pro`smoking grotp Forest told BBC Channel Islands News that

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it doesn't condone smoking hn cars with children ` which it regards as

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inconsiderate. But as so few people do it, bringing in a law is heavy

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handed, patronising and gesture politics. It also claims it could

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stigmatise smokers as potentially unfit parents. Jersey's Medhcal

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Officer for Health Dr Susan Turnbull joins me now. What is the point of

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this band? We are responding to islanders who say it should not

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happen. In terms of enforce`bility, it is not different relief from seat

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belts and mobile phones. Tobacco lobbyists are trying to takd the

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line it is not enforceable but it is about opportunistic detection by the

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police on duty and they are supportive of ours going down this

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line. Is oblique children are exposed to second`hand smokd in

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their own homes? That was p`rt of the consultation. A similar

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proportion said people who smoke in the home with children should be

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encouraged to create smoke`free homes. We want to highlight the

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practical harm that can happen to children exposed in this wax. It is

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not considered at all practhcal to try to enforce non`smoking hn

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private homes but cars are different because it is more identifi`ble and

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no different from seat belts and mobile phones for detection. Some

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say it is not a problem anyway, should you be demonising people when

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many think it does not happdn anyway? One in six babies born in

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hospital return to homes whdre people are smoking so they `re

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almost certainly carried around in cars were dealers smoking, too. If

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nobody is smoking in cars that is the great thing but this gives the

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signal it is the wrong thing to do and the majority of the public will

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fall in line, like phones and seat belts. Three men have appeared

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together in Jersey Magistrates' Court accused of dangerous driving

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following a fatal crash. 22`year`old Vitor Fernandes was killed hn a car

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crash on Victoria Avenue at First Tower last December. 21`year`old

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Jose Joao Santos Silva is charged with causing death by dangerous

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driving ` while Jeronimo Vidira Santos, who's 29, and Luis Carlos

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Alves Cardoso, who's 19, ard charged with dangerous driving. All three

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were referred to the Royal Court but will appear again at Jersey

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Magistrates' Court on May the 2 rd. Alderney is seeking expresshons of

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interest from companies to run a regular ferry service betwedn the

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island and the UK and Guernsey. The island's Transport Group recognises

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there may be a need to subshdise the service, although its not bden

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established how much that mhght be. Guernsey's animal shelter is in a

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race to improve its facilithes before new animal welfare l`ws are

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introduced later this year. Under the new legislation, the GSPCA,

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which runs the shelter, will be given more powers to act ag`inst

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animal cruelty. However, it also needs to make changes to its

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premises to ensure it meets increasing care standards. Like

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Wilkins went to see why the shelter needs to change. Over the ydars this

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building has housed lions, lonkeys and plenty of cats. Soon thhs

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building will have to go as the charity aims to meet tough new

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animal welfare legislation. This is one of the buildings that ndeds to

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go and the manager who knows a lot more about it is the manager of the

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charity. We have been looking at a 15 year redevelopment plan for the

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whole site but immediately we need to look at five areas around the

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shelter that need rebuilding and replacing. The building kind ours is

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one of those. It is to help thousands of animals who cole

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through our doors each year. This legislation will also give xou more

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powers to prosecute people who are causing cruelty? Yes, at thd moment

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we are able to but only aftdrwards what we want to be able to do is

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prevent suffering which is what this new legislation will enable us to

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do. Have you got enough mondy? We are fund`raising and have a big

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fundraiser coming up which will help with this project and other projects

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which we will need to raise funds for around the site. Almost ?1.

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million needs to be raised within the next year if this place is to

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meet legislation. Up to 200 job`seekers in Jersey could be

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trained to work in the building industry through a States project.

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The government's working with the Jersey Construction Council to help

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unemployed people gain the skills they need to get entry`level jobs in

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the sector. A similar trainhng scheme has already helped younger

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people like Kyle, who now h`s an apprenticeship with a construction

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firm. It just helps raise your confidence, moving around and

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working, doing every part of the job you want to do. For example, I have

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been doing specialist roofing, carpentry, everything, it is great.

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You're watching the BBC in the Channel Islands. Still to come we

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meet this man celebrating 50 years of music, if you can call it that!

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Beaches in the Channel Islands are the cleanest in the British Isles,

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according to the Marine Conservation Society. Its latest report shows the

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amount of rubbish on Channel Islands beaches fell by nearly a tenth last

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year. They had less litter per square kilometre than the coasts in

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England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Island. And overlooking

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that beautiful beach at St Ouens you just saw, is Corbiere lighthouse.

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Widely considered the most photographed building in Jersey the

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island landmark celebrates ` special anniversary this year. It's 140

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years old and it was on this day in 1874 the light was first tested A

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light that shines 18 miles out to sea. Jen Smith went to find out

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more. There aren't many in Jersey that won't recognise this. The

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world's first concrete lighthouse guides ships at sea and draws in

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visitors. For the many thousands of people who visit Jersey every year,

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nearly all will come here. H am absolutely amazed, the dram`tic

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scenery, the Lighthouse is spectacular the way it sits there in

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all its glory. It is beautiful. We have seen some lighthouses `round

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our holidays but it is lovely, it is great. We used to see a lot of

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shipwrecked here, years ago, but I think it has been an excelldnt

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investment. The lighthouse hs considered so beautiful, it's been

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recognised in the top ten of the world's best. Guide Sue Hardy has

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been leading walking tours here for nearly a decade. It is an excellent

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building, it is still doing its duty as the Lighthouse keepers wdre told

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to do 140 years ago. There hasn t been a lighthouse keeper at Corbiere

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since the 1970s. But next wdek dozens will gather from all over the

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world to celebrate it's 140th anniversary. The Association of

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Lighthouse keepers are coming here, 40 of them have booked to stay in

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Saint Elia and so we have arranged events for them. And so likd a moth

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to the flame, the lighthousd keeps drawing in visitors. The Lighthouse

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and BBA looking particularlx beautiful and sunny today. Now let's

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get the forecast. `` the bax. We need more pictures of the wdather so

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please send them into us on our website. It will be shabbilx at

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first this evening with mord rain overnight and into tomorrow. It will

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BBC into the weekend. We have lost that area of high pressure. It will

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change over the next 24 hours or so. This low`pressure down here will

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gradually trickled past as overnight tonight. There will be enough cloud

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to generate rain in the second half of the night. Generally unsdttled

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and if we are lucky tomorrow afternoon might have some

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brightness. A fine end to this evening though. Overnight tonight

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more cloud will come in. By the early hours we will have rahn

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setting in which will becomd more widespread as we move towards the

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end of the night. Temperatures as low as nine degrees. Temper`tures

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will lift as we move into the day tomorrow but not so high as today.

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The cloud will keep temperatures down, a high of 13 Celsius. It will

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be dry in the second half of Sunday but brighter for the start of

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next week. Thank you. Do kedp your weather photos coming in. Now let's

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join Spotlight. And you can see more on John's

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report on our Spotlight Facdbook page.

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The personal belongings of ` Cornish engineer, killed alongside other

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Cornish miners in the First World World War, have gone on display for

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the very first time. It was Lieutenant Llwellyn Twite's job to

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dig tunnels so explosives could be planted under the German trdnches.

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Among the possessions are hhs watch, which stopped at the exact time he

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was killed. Spotlight's Ele`nor Parkinson has the story.

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Lieutenant Llwellyn Twite w`s working as a mining engineer when he

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volunteered as a soldier in the First World War. He and othdr miners

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from Cornwall helped dig tunnels and plant mines under the German

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trenches. This is a map of some of the tunnels they built on the front

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in France. On December first, 1 15, they had just retreated aftdr

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setting a number of charges when there was an explosion.

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Unfortunately, the Germans were similarly tunnelling, and they

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detonated a very large explosive charge. And Lieutenant Twitd and

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four, I think, of his men, were killed instantly, all Cornish

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miners. Lieutenant Twite's widow was so distraught when his canv`s kitbag

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was sent back, she couldn't open it. Now, almost 100 years later, his

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grandson has not only opened it but has loaned its contents to the St

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Agnes Museum. Among the possessions is his watch, a poignant relinder of

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when and how he died. The fhnal objects that they revealed was the

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poor man's watch, that he w`s wearing on that awful day. @nd as

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you can see, it's still cakdd with mud from the trenches. And ht

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stopped at 8pm, which was the time when the Germans detonated their

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bomb. So really, really sad. Other items from bag are equally loving.

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This is a letter from his children. Dear daddy, my best day I got 3

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marks. Auntie Clark has brotght us some sweets. He never got this

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letter because he had been killed two days earlier. This exhibition

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also features sketches by an unknown soldier, capturing life on the front

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and on leave. But it's Lieutenant Twite's final hours, sealed in a

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kitbag, that make this exhibition so special.

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Very poignant stuff. Now back to our main story that the

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Cornish have been given nathonal minority status. Spotlight's David

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George, a proud Cornishman himself, has been talking to people hn

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Cornwall about what it might mean to them.

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So, the Scotsman, a Welshman and an Irishman walking into a pub. Soon

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they will be joined by a Cornish man. The covenant has deciddd that

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the Cornish should have the same status as other Celtic people under

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the European framework Convdntion for the protection of national

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minorities. If it means we can fill out passport applications and put

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Cornish instead of English, I am all for it but I am not sure wh`t it is.

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Many who visit and most who live here know it is a unique pl`ce.

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Today's announcement has surprised some. National minority status? No

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clue. Does that mean that Cornish would be a minority? It seels like

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an icing to do. We can wave our flock `` and nice thing to do, we

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can wave our flag and be Cornish. You could do that before. Yds, is it

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making any difference? Let's ask the Scotsman, they have been a national

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minority the years. I cannot see anything that has happened hn

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Scotland. If we have been treated as a national minority, I don't see any

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advantage that that has givdn Scotland. People will be able to

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call themselves Cornish without being told, no, you're actu`lly

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English. We have got differdnt surnames, I am Cornish, she said, ``

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she said I wasn't Cornish, H said, why not? She said, I am too tall. So

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a Scotsman, Welshman, Irishlan and Cornishman walk into a pub `nd the

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landlord says, is that some kind of joke?

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We have had hundreds of comlents on this story. Linda has been hn charge

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to say `` in touch to say, ht is bringing news. Stuart from Genesis,

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it is nice to see Cornish fhnally recognised in law. And says, it

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seems like a huge waste of time and money than me. It seems people are

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desperate to segregate themselves rather than join together. Phillips

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says, it is interesting but no one in the county speaks Cornish as a

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first language. So what is the point com he asks? Just another... And

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Phil commented in proper Cornish extracts blended, my dear!

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Not many bands still play together after fifty years but one stch group

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is taking to the stage in B`rnstaple tonight. The Bonzo Dog Doo`Dah Band

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have been around for decades and one of them lives in Fremington in North

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Devon. Haven't heard of thel? Well, they play metal, just not the sort

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of metal you might expect. Carole Madge reports.

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It starts with a simple tapping but quickly becomes performance art At

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the age of 12 in North Devon, he started playing the spoons. And then

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as a student, he brought his talents to Plymouth. The sailors usdd to

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love it. Because they all h`d party pieces, they used to stand on their

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heads, eating champagne glasses and stuff, I used to get up and play the

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spoons, they would go, wow! That was something they could practice when

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they would be bored on ship. Called the fastest spoon player in the

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world, his fame spread as p`rt of a cult group. They're called the Bonzo

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Dog Doo`Dah Band. I would hold the spoons back`to`back

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with very firmly with my thtmb in between, so I can maintain ` very

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slight gap between the bowls of the spoons, so that whenever I touch

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anything, I get a click. So I can make a little roll. Get a shngle

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click, double click. So what's the thrill of playing the culin`ry

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percussion? Getting so much out of such a simple implement. Evdryone's

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got spoons. You can always join in. Wherever I go anywhere in the world,

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with any kind of music, I c`n join in. Three Bonzos And A Piano are

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playing tonight in Barnstable and tomorrow in Ilminster. And hf you're

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passing a garden in Fremington, you might just catch Sam warming up

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He is brilliant! Very livelx. We have got to have a go. They have

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given us the spoons, here is a good lesson. Faster, do it faster! I

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think I might stick to the garden. How! She is quite vicious of these.

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Look at the size of that. Why have I only got little spoons? I whll give

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it a quick go. I will stick to the weather. Good

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evening. Get rid of that, ldt's talk about something a bit more serious.

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There is some wet weather hdading our way and this weekend is not look

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too good. Low pressure is going to take charge of the weather, not just

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for us but the whole of the United Kingdom. Tomorrow is an East`West

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split, Dorset and Somerset season outbreak of rain, and the bdst of

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the sunshine will be in Cornwall and West Devon. More wind and r`in

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overnight and into Saturday morning. There are some blue sky patches on

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the big satellite picture, sadly they are not into staying whth us.

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This is a new area of low pressure moving in, as well as a lot of cloud

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developing across the Bay of Biscay and western France. That prdssure

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will trickle up across the dastern side of the region overnight and

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tomorrow. Then in the area of low pressure takes shape, it moves right

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across and brings as windy weather and wet weather as we go into the

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start of the weekend. We have had temperatures are 17 degrees today.

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By Saturday, we are back down to 11 or 12. A into Sunday, even though

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the low pressure is beginning to move away from us, plenty of cloud

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wrapped around it to keep the shower is going. There is the satellite

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picture from earlier today, a beautiful afternoon, many of us have

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got away with a lovely day, and warm as well. This was earlier, blue sky,

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some clouds developed but this part of Devon had been fine and dry. The

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breezes freshening little bht. There has been some lumpy cloud ddveloping

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through the back end of the afternoon. That is giving a few

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showers. For many of us, a fine spring day. Enjoying the sunshine

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and the views. Overnight tonight, any shower activity we have across

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the North Devon will tend to fade away and for a large part of the

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night, we will have a good deal of clear skies. Mr Foreman, a few fog

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patches and then pick a clotd will start to creep in from the dast ``

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misinforming. `` mist forming. Cornwall, down to five or shx

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degrees, most of us will have seven or eight. Tomorrow, we hold onto the

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sunshine but the further east we are, the thick of the cloud and it

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will give outbreaks of rain. That'll peter out in the second half of the

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day and for most of us it whll be another fine and dry day. A small

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chance of a few showers devdloping and temperatures back up to 15 or 16

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degrees. There could be a fdw places that get to 17 if we get an

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sunshine, particularly across northern Cornwall. The answdr silly

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should remain fine and dry, thick cloud approaching from the West ``

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the Isles of Scilly. The high water times...

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The winds aren't overly strong tomorrow so most of the beaches will

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be clean. The outlook is definitely unsettled.

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It might be that we improve conditions into Sunday and Londay

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but Saturday is the day where we have quite a breeze. It is from the

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south`west but it will change to action all day as the low pressure

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moves in, eventually becoming a northerly. We will see outbreaks of

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rain replaced by showers. It will be a cold day. Lighter winds on Sunday,

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with a mixed sunshine and showers. Mainly bright and dry into Londay.

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Have your spoons back, we whll play out. Thank you for watching tonight.

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The national anthem? Shall we have a go? Three, two, one! I don't think

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it's working! We will say goodbye! All across the country,

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millions of families are waking up to a Britain in which they

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find it harder to get on. Whilst the Government keeps

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telling people everything is fixed, no longer stops the pound

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in their pocket getting smaller or the bills getting

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harder to afford. gas and electricity bills have

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increased by more than ?300 whilst the energy companies

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are making huge profits. not a luxury but an essential

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for millions of working families - gets harder to find

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and more expensive.

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