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If you do not invest in infrastructure and you put of the

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problems for future generathons Meet Rafferty ` the dog who?s

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been brought in to school to He is nice and friendly. I `m happy

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because I love dogs a lot. Blooming lovely `

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we explore the Guernsey garden And no audience for the gardens this

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weekend but all the details later in the programme.

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A new hotel, a sky walk and lifts from the town centre, just

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some of the plans published today that could see Jersey's Fort Regent

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The idea is set to cost between ?50 and ?60 million and those bdhind

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Fort Regent in its hey day, a landmark that attracted thousands

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Nestled high above Jersey overlooking St Helier.

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Today though it's too often quiet, unloved and a shadow

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that's all set to change if Jersey's government get their way.

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Where I am standing is wherd cable cars would go connecting town to

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the Fort now the plan is for two 24`person express lifts takhng you

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And here at Pier Road these uninviting steps

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set to be replaced with a ghant escalator giving better accdss.

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But perhaps one of the biggest announcements is

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The former swimming pool now left derelict is set to be turned

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Who will pay for that? We h`ve 100,000 people living as a community

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and at the end of the day wd pay for it. There is no free money so what

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is a combination of tax and private companies.

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And those plans for transformation don't stop there

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The gym would be moved into a purpose`built building.

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An activity zone for extremd sports would be developed outside

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and plans for another swimmhng pool haven't been ruled out.

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How long has it taking you to come up with these plans? We havd been

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working on the project sincd May and at the moment we have been working

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on the project since May and at the moment we're looking at and we're

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trying to enhance the current facility and maximise its potential.

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But what do those who use the site want? Just more things for the

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kids, perhaps reopen the swhmming pool or a football pitch. Jtst

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excellent sports facilities all round for all different sports on

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the island, it is a perfect location. A swimming pool. General

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sports activities. More sport would be great and attract a lot of

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attention. If they got a pool and a sauna and steam room, that would

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attract a lot more attention. If these plans are approved,

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building work will start in 201 enabling future generations to enjoy

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a new chapter in the life of this historic site that dominates the

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landscape. Guernsey's government say they have

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nearly made all the financi`l savings they set out to achheve

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in their Transformation Programme. They had planned to reduce spending

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by ?31 million by the end To date they are making savhngs

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of ?28 million. Today, the Chief Minister ddfended

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a ?2 million bonus that would be paid to UK Consultants

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for helping make the cuts. The cause of a fire at a workshop

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in Jersey this morning is under The alarm was raised

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at half past six A 100`metre evacuation zone was

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initially put in place as the No one was hurt and people

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have been allowed back home. An aircraft flying between Guernsey

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and Jersey was hit Passengers were delayed

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by almost an hour as this 28`year`old Blue Islands aircraft

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was checked and passed fit to fly. It comes just two weeks

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after Guernsey's new jet was knocked out of action by a similar bird

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strike at Guernsey Airport. La Moye school in Jersey is

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the first to have a resident dog. Rafferty was brought in

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by the school's headmaster to help children who'll benefit

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from having him around. A five`month`old cockerpoodle who

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has gone down a storm with Dozens flock around him

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to say hello and give him a pat But dogs

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in schools are usually unhe`rd of. I visit schools in the UK qtite

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regularly and I inspect schools and I have seen dogs are in a ntmber of

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schools being used successftlly particularly with vulnerabld

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children, and with struggling readers, and I thought it would be a

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fantastic thing. It is hoped that Rafferty whll bring

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out the confidence and concentration some children need

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to help them with their work. La Moye is also developing

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its outdoor area, Now, not everyone like dogs,

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some allergic, others fearftl. But Rafferty has already turned

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a few hearts. For people who have not been raised

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any home with pets, it is nhce to come to school and have pet. It

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makes school better because it makes it happier for children and makes it

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happier for children to learn. Everyone likes him. He is nhce and

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friendly and not a dog who would bite and bark.

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Rafferty is still a pup, and he has some busy months ahead.

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In about January, he will h`ve a pet therapy assessment, and that will

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make sure he is fit to work in close proximity with children.

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When not at school, Rafferty lives with the headmaster.

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For now, La Moye?s new black, curly, furry friend will continue to bring

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smiles to faces and make a big difference to school life

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We had a chicken that primary school. How time has moved on!

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You're watching the BBC in the Channel Islands.

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Later in Spotlight with Simon and Natalie, the Cornish Amdrican

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Football team within touching distance of national glory.

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We have weather forecast in the next few moments.

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With the weather still beautifully sunny you might be

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considering spending some thme in your garden this weekend,

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and one family in Guernsey have an extra reason to enjoy thdirs

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The Morgan family's been shortlisted for a prestigiots

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High summer may be over but this garden is still looking beattiful.

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With views like this there hs little surprise that has caught thd

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attention. The Society of g`rden designers has recognised in its

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international category. We have planted a lot of daisies, wonderful

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daisies that self feed, which is wonderful. The garden has bden a

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two`year project designed to complement the house, full of

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lavender and Roses and whold class. It has been described as relaxing,

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enticing and lush. She says it never gets boring. Waking up in the

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morning and looking out of the window, going from one to the next,

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it is breathtaking. The deshgner baby Roberts is based in thd UK but

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says she is delighted to be nominated as the awards are the

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industry standard. They will find out in January if it has ond.

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Looks good and we will let xou know how they got on. A good weekend for

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going in the garden? Lots of fine weather to enjoy and we

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will not see the autumn colours just yet because there is plenty of warm

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spell around so perhaps the growing season extended. Fine and and I with

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sunny spells, a bit breezy. This will not stop being a fine dvening

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in Guernsey tomorrow evening. Temperatures dropping slightly down

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to 16 Celsius and a keen wind so wrap up warmly. Compared to other

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times we have been there, the weather will be pretty kind. Lots of

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clouds swirling around out to the west so that has hardly changed

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Strands of high`level clouds ahead of that, but this does not love very

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far through the weekend and the area of high pressure still tenacious and

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keeping fine and keeping fine and dry. Warmer into next week.

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Overnight tonight, the winds our easterly or north`easterly, strong

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up towards Alderney and Guernsey. For tomorrow, not a great ddal of

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change. A lovely and warm d`y and I think the pleas will make the coast

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crueller. Some cloud floating around. `` cooler. This is the

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coastal waters forecast. Moderate visibility. And again, not huge

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waves but slightly better conditions. Here is the outlook

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through to next week. On Sunday more in the way of clouds btt

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getting warmer through next week. Patchy cloud and sunny spells.

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That is it for now. We will hand you over now. Have a good weekend.

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Thanks for your company this evening.

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And coming to a riverbank near you, a watdry

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Pubs and clubs in Weymouth open into the small hours have agreed to

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permanently shut a little e`rlier to create a gap between night`time

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Licensed premises will closd at five on Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays

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It follows a trial scheme l`st year to reduce trading hours

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after an increase in anti`social behaviour and violent crime.

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The price of parking at Torbay Hospital's going to more th`n double

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From next spring, it'll cost ?1.80 an hour.

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There'll be 400 new spaces with double the number of disabldd bays.

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The Trust's board's approved the plans, it now has to get

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the go ahead from Torbay Cotncil's planning committee.

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Researchers at Plymouth University are joining scientists from around

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the world to find more effective ways of treating multiple sclerosis.

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The work is part of the largest global effort to find treatlents

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There are currently more th`n 100,000 people living with

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As arguments rage on both shdes of the badger cull debate, questions

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are being asked about why does the public care so much about b`dgers?

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The National Farmers Union has claimed that

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if rats were being culled to prevent the spread of TB in cattle,

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Clinton Rogers has been tryhng to get to the heart of what

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Please, don't give up on me now Badger!

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Generations of children havd grown up with stories like this

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Over many years, fiction has done much to improve

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You only have to look at books like this one, Wind in the Willows,

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and this particular passage that caught my eye.

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"Mole had long wanted to make the acquaintance of Badger.

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"After all, by all accounts, he seemed to be such

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He says, I can claim this h`s caused the extermination

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But factual literature, going back 100 years, reveals an altogdther

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different tale of an animal being hunted almost to extinction.

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I think there was a feeling that badgers were becoming rarer

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and read and, at the same thme, there was a love for cuddly badgers

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And the two came together, essentially?

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So, in 1973, the government reacted by

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the even tougher Protection of Badgers Act 1892,

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which essentially gave immunity to the animal.

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But has that led to the badger population is

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Well, a government survey this year put the number of family groups

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at 64,000, compared to 50,000 in the mid`1990s.

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And if roadkill is any meastre of population, another survdy saw

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an increase of 24% in badger road deaths in the six years to 2011

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Whether or not a population explosion is to blame,

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people living on a housing dstate in Wellington in Somerset h`ve seen

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badgers invading their garddns. The damage all too obvious.

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There is nothing we can do, except sit indoors at night

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and watch the badgers come hn and dig, root, destroy everxthing

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Supporters of the badger sax it is probably only because

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This is one of four resident badgers being cared for

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I think it is the closest we have got to a teddy bear.

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All animals get blamed when they are causing problems to hum`ns.

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At the end of the day, it is us doing the damage.

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There is no security. Nor peace and tranquillity.

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Sport. An American Football team from Cornwall is within

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touching distance of becoming the national champions.

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The Cornish Sharks academy side is made up of 14 to 17`year`olds

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This season, for the first time they've qualified for finals day,

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where the best eight teams come together.

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Andy Birkett assess their chances of success.

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These young Cornish Sharks `re by no means peddlers and are now getting

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ready to venture into uncharted waters. The top eight teams will

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battle out next weekend to be number one. A special bunch, 13 or 14, the

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rate coaches right meant allergy, and they are good youngsters, people

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have said, kids up trouble hn Cornwall, they are not, it hs giving

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them the opportunities, get them focused and you can see what these

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kids can do. Ryan set up thd Sharks in 2006. He has a former ac`demy

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player back to lend him a h`nd. It is nice to see it progressing in

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Cornwall and how much difference it is too when I was there, it is

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phenomenal. The coach startdd out winning a scholarship to pl`y

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America had their chances for more to cross the Atlantic. They are

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going on in ability and taldnt and willing to work and get up to train.

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But the big question is can they go all the way? Probably the bhggest

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game Cornwall has had for Alerican football and the youth. We think we

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have a good chance. We can beat anyone, we have worked hard for it.

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Heading off to Doncaster next weekend and just three games away

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from being national champion. LAUGHTER. He did not see th`t

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coming. I think it knocked some sense into him. Well done, @ndy and

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good luck to the Sharks. Exeter Chiefs will be hoping to

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continue the great form they showed hn their

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opening fixture when they rdturn to But they'll face a much sterner test

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with Premiership heavyweights Leicester the first visitors to

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the upgraded Sandy Park. After a busy summer, Sandy Park is

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almost ready for action, and the club is expecting a huge

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crowd for the visit of Leicdster. Exeter Chiefs against Leicester at

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Sandy Park, and redeveloped Sandy Park at that, is something that

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should be exciting and should be something that is very prechous and

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that is how you should play with it, and I am kind of not wanting to

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bring them down to earth too much. I want them to come out herd

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and be excited about the gale and I want them to come out here

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and play in a manner that ghves us the opportunity to win,

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rather than perhaps play in a manner where we look a little afrahd of

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losing. Last week,

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they certainly backed up th`t statement of intent, handing out a

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drubbing to new boys London Welsh. But this week's opposition hs

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a very different animal. We really want to make this

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a place that is uncomfortable We want to go out

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and put our game on opposithon and, if we can do that, hopefullx more

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results will come our way. One of the shining lights against

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Welsh was Thomas Waldrom, a summer I knew when I was going to leave

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Leicester I was going to face them, but I did not think it was going to

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be this early in the compethtion. The first home game

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at the new stadium. I definitely know how they play and

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watching some of the clips, they are definitely doing the same things

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from last year and hopefullx I can add some knowledge to our tdam about

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what they are trying to do `nd hopefully come out on

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the right side of the scoresheet. And in the weekend's other fixtures,

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all of our Championship sidds are at home, looking

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for their first wins of the season. Football. In League One,

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Yeovil Town will be looking to stretch their unbeaten run to five

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games when they face Coventry. In League Two, Plymouth Argxle

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travel to high`flying Morec`mbe and there's a big game for

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Exeter City, who are still searching They take on Oxford,

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who are just one place abovd them, Torquay travel to Grimsby

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in the Conference. We have our own film festiv`l

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by the water. And with a riverbank setting for

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some classics of the silver screen, we might just have found thd perfect

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combination for a Friday evdning. But the Tamar is not just

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a beautiful location from which to sit and watch, it `lso

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features on screen. The events starts this evenhng

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in Calstock with a spectacular outdoor screening before flowing

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downriver to Bere Alston, C`rgreen, Saltash, Barne Barton,

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Devonport and Plymouth from where It is all about the river, that is

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the name of the the River T`mar the focus of this movie extravaganza,

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organised by Plymouth University as part of our public art projdct. An

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exciting programme of classhc cinema, but also archive and

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documentary films, and commhssions made about the specific context of

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the River Tamar. The films will be shown on previous occasions, some

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open ear Cinema on big scredns, late tonight's film, a classic from

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Buster Keaton. And also in the arts Centre, at 360 degrees pop`tps on a

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showing a commissioned art film We have believed film in the mtd of the

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River Tamar, saw the film is made by the river itself. `` we havd buried

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the film. The sea water, coling rushing up the river, and it is

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called Reach because it is the reach of the tide. And it is not just

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restricted to land, there are some on the River Tamar itself, such as

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on the ferry. On the 9th of October, this will be a cinema, 200 seats

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instead of vehicles to watch the award`winning film Apocalypse now,

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with the backdrop of Devonport. Staying on the water, this theory

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has been converted into a shmmer for tonight river trip `` into ` cinema,

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showing some animation. Anilation means making drawings appear to be

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moving, so I make them move into a nine minute film, various tricks to

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make it, make the drawings `ppear to be moving, add the plan is to record

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this in different ways, so lany different things to see. Quhte a

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challenge. Our film Festival all about the river runs until the 2th

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of October. Quite a production in itself. Now

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for the weather forecast. It has been all right to date?

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It has been lovely. Look at some of the cameras of some of the beaches,

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and lots of people going back to school, the beaches looking like the

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Caribbean. The clear blue skies for most have been superb to dax. The

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cloud coming and going and some more coming this weekend. Fine and dry

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still, some sunshine, but cloudy at times, but not stopping it being

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quite warm. The same high pressure dominating weather, some close

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rather close, high`level cloak, just spoiling the sunshine, but the

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message still the same, easterly winds, we drag in warm tempdratures

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from the continent, through the weekend and into next next week

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Some share is possible throtgh the English Channel with an easterly

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breeze. `` some share is possible. Temperatures held down, so coastal

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locations doing well. And the cloud we have seen to date, not mtch, and

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it should be a fine and cle`r evening. That has been talk of the

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possibility of seeing the Northern lights, a solar cleared yesterday,

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but may be too far south, I read about mid`late, look to the north,

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you make the lucky. `` around about midnight. Quite a chilly st`rt

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tomorrow. But another fine day, with sunshine, patchy cloud coming and

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going, thickest through the English Channel, and greater sunnier spots

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getting temperatures back to what we have been used to. Kino wind for the

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west. Not feeling quite as warm For the Isles of Scilly, the cloud

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coming and going, but mainlx dry. Feeling cooler because of the

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breeze. And the times of high water...

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To date, there was some surf, and perhaps bigger tomorrow. For the

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coastal waters forecast, thd wind from the east, forced four,

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occasionally five, with moddrate visibility. Not bad temperatures for

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swimming this weekend. The cloudy conditions moving into next week,

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but hardly any change in thd weather pattern, such a long prolonged spell

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of weather, the other noticdable feature is, with all the recent

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clear skies, low overnight temperatures. As cloud amounts

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increase from Sunday, it max not be quite as cold overnight, and this

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time last year, we were verx unsettled with low pressure and wind

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and rain, so make the most of it this weekend and enjoy the weather

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whilst at last. Happen aced weekend `` have a good weekend.

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David, thank you, thank you for your comments on the cycling story. That

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is Spotlight, we have bulletins through the weekend, have a lovely

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evening. more than

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400 international competitors. No strangers to battle,

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all have served their country. Prince Harry has challenged them -

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now they will challenge each other, pushing their bodies to the limit

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in the quest for glory.

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