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of a series of measures being taken to fund a ?15 million shortfall in

the town's budget for next year. The council says, if it saves on waste

collection, it will reduce the cuts in other front line services. Angela

Walker reports. 12,000 tonnes of recycling waste

every year are processed at Swindon's household raised and

recycling `` waste and recycling centre. At the moment, recycling is

collected once a make here tonight to shave ?1

million off waste services means that less money needs saving from

other front`line services. Meanwhile, in Gloucestershire, the

county council faces a shortfall of almost ?8 million next year. It's

published its draft budget, which will see less money being spent on

older people, vulnerable adults, children and families. But more will

be allocated to infrastructure and public health. Council tax will be

frozen. Hospital. There was a lack of bed

space and long waits for patients at A a the hospital struggled with

the sheer number of people needing emergency treatment. Now Swindon's

Clinical Commissioning group's been told it has got an extra ?1 million

of Government funding. The money's now going to be spent on extra

resources at A and services which help prevent people needing to go

into hospital in the first place. Our staff have been

site. They would produce enough power for 12,000 homes. The project

includes a community benefit fund which could generate around ?40,000

a year for local projects. It has the fastest`growing

population of any town in the country and now the number of

businesses moving to Milton Keynes is also increasing. Latest figures

show almost 400 companies have moved to the town in the last year. Some

have set up their European headquarters there, as Jessica

Cooper has been finding out. businesses have come to the town.

That is due to good transport links and office space being available.

Growth is not unique to Milton Keynes and towns elsewhere in the

county can compete. I think the evidence shows that we have a large

number of head offices here in the county. We have Stoke Mandeville,

the birthplace in the conversation on our Facebook

and Twitter pages. That is all for me for the moment. I will have the

headlines at 8pm and the main bulletin at 10:25pm.

around Farnham, which is very clear from the addresses and locations in

which people have supported and signed our petition.

Still to come in this evening's South Today: Felling a piece of

history ` the end of an ancient tree planted by the

to Basingstoke at the bottom of the picture. 250 people are working on

this project. Over Christmas, that number will increase to 1,000. This

will make an enormous difference. We are standing on the bottleneck to

the west of Reading which causes considerable difficulties at the

moment and we're going to end at separating our mainline trains from

freight trains and from those trains running from the north to south.

That gives us the chance to Picking up the keys to your student

pad should be an exciting moment, but not for Eva. She felt pressured

by a letting agent into making a decision, and was stung for a high

fee. I wouldn't one anyone to go through that, really, I do not think

it is rate for students. People talk about the hosting lifestyle but you

have got enough going on with your degree. You already have to choose

your housemates that you want to live with for a year and actors

quite a difficult decision. If everyone is pressuring you to do

that by November, it is ridiculous. Now estate agents are being

the South to try to intercept some of those who end up there after

overindulging at the weekend. It's launching a bus`based treatment

centre backed by a range of organisations including the Council,

NHS and police. Joe Campbell reports.

Many weekend revellers are familiar with the Knight bus. This one will

not get you home after an evening of excess in Reading, but for some it

could be an equally welcome sight. The pilot scheme won with St John's

ambulance last year saw 26 patients who would otherwise have

Saturday night. On to sport, and we've got lots of

news. Kris, interesting developments in

the future of London Irish? London Irish have called a press

conference for tomorrow morning, where they'll announce that the club

have been taken over by a group of Irish businessmen. One of the key

decisions for the new owners will be whether to move away from their

current home at Reading's Madejski Stadium. The Exiles have shared the

venue with Reading Football Club since 2000, and have an agreement in

place to play there until 2026. In football, Swindon Town are just one

round from good deal better than the men's team

are managing at present! Dorset taekwondo star Aaron Cook is

preparing for a potential encounter, against the man who denied him a

place at the London Olympics last year. Dorchester's Cook could face

Lutaylo Muhammed, in this weekend's inaugural World Grand Prix event in

Manchester. The pair haven't spoken since Muhammed was chosen for the

Olympic team ahead of Cook, who then ditched his GB funding and chose to

compete for the Isle of Man instead. Here's Ed Sherry.

winner and it will be me. Georgia Barnes is also competing. I am also

very excited to get the wild card. It is an honour, a great

opportunity. Georgia Barnes content two share the common goal of the

2016 Olympics. The challenges they face to get there are very

different. Round`the`world sailor

first YouGov Wellington on the grounds of Kingston Lacy is being

felled. Lott has set into the tree and the National Trust says that the

work that was begun today is sad but necessary.

It is a view that has changed very little in 200 years, a view that the

Duke of Wellington knew very well. William Banks honoured the iron Duke

five planting a cedar tree on the grounds. A rule

have to come down, but they have had their time, unfortunately. Though

this is the end for the Duke's cedar, the link will survive.

Saplings taken from seeds will soon be planted.

Onto the weather forecast now. Many people had to scrape their

windscreens