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Hello and welcome to South Today from Oxford.

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17 years after an arson att`ck, a woman goes on trial accusdd

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Bridge to the future ` the renovations

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on the railway that are key to a long`awaited upgrade that could

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And a plea for so`called hidden carers to come forward

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A new bike scheme is being "pedalled" ` but cycling groups put

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17 years after an arson att`ck on a house which left two young children

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dead in East Oxford, a woman's gone on trial accused of their mtrder.

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Fiaz Munshi is accused of bding involved in the firebomb attack

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which took the lives of Majhd Khan and his younger sister Anum Khan.

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Magdalen Road in Oxford ` August 1997.

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A house fire which claimed the lives of two young

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children ` 15`year`old Majid Khan and his eight`year`old sistdr Anum.

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It's claimed this was the fatal conclusion

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of an ongoing dispute betwedn the Khan family and the acctsed

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She'd been involved in a secret romance with Antm

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But his family disapproved `nd told her family about the relationship.

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Amjad then broke it off and Fiaz, who ` the court heard `

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angry at his family's interfering, travelled to the Khan house

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from Stevenage with seven others and conspired to set the fire

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When the group arrived, two of them squirted petrol from

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drink bottles ` like these ` through the letterbox and set it alhght

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Seven people were in the hotse ` five had to jump

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But Anum was trapped and didd of smoke inhalation.

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Majid suffered over 50% burns and died a few days later.

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In November 1998, five men were convicted of killing the chhldren.

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A year later, Fiaz's sister Riaz Munshi w`s

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The jury were also told about an error by Thames Valley

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Police in 2005 ` which meant information about Fiaz being back in

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That meant plans to arrest her were delayed by eight years.

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Today Prosecutor Neil Moore said Fiaz Munshi was exceptionally close

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to the plan and it was inconceivable she wasn't part of it.

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He went on to say that Fiaz held a grudge

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against the Khan family and she was hostile on the night of the attack.

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38`year`old Fiaz Munshi denhes two counts of murder

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It's work which promises a faster, cleaner rail network `

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electrification of the Great Western Line into London.

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As part of the upgrade, work is due to start

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on 29 bridges across Oxfordshire, to make way for the new lind.

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In some cases, it means roads will be closed for months `

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By 2017 this line will be c`rrying electrified planes from London to

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Wales. First, though, overhdad cables need to go under herd. ``

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electrified trains. 100 bridges will be altered. 29 are in Oxfordshire,

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including three bitches on busy routes. Work is due to start in

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September, meaning this road, the A417, will be shut for four mums,

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which is bad news for some. I rely on this road for my business. Let me

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keep my business. He isn't the only business nervous about the closure.

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People commuting from smalldr villages to Stanford in the Vale

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have got the villages that they can cut through. We need to find a

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different route for the HEV is. The circumstances at this p`rticular

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bridge are that we do some of the land but we don't own all of it We

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would have to acquire a significant amount of land in order to `void

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closing the road, which would severely disrupt local residents and

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local businesses and is therefore not a viable option. Ted and other

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business owners are still hoping Network Rail might change their

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mind. A petition to keep thd A4 7 open has got many signatures.

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The number of people with type 2 diabetes in

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our region has risen dramathcally over the last two years.

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In Oxfordshire alone, there were nearly 24,000 people

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Last year the number stood at more than 26,000.

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Nationally, researchers tod`y warned that more than a third of adults

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in England are on the verge of developing type 2 diabetds

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Within the last hour, Campaigners in Goring opposdd to a

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new Tesco store opening in the town have staged a protest to delonstrate

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how dangerous and unsuitabld the area is for a supermarkdt.

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Earlier this year, hundreds of people turned ott to

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a public meeting to oppose the plans ` but the supermarket

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giant insists the area is stitable and will provide local jobs.

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Meanwhile, others in the town have expressed

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Victoria Cook has just sent this report.

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More than 50 people have turned up here this afternoon to protdst

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against Tesco being built their old local pub kind me. They say that if

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it is built, the local shopkeepers will close down and they sax the

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roads around here are too d`ngerous for pedestrians to walk to ` local

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supermarket. I am with one of the campaigners for the group. This is

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already got planning permission from the council as a supermarket so what

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are you hoping to achieve? Ht's still got to go through one more

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step. They have put in minor works applications for the signagd is the

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cool rooms around the back, and they have to pass through south

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Oxfordshire district Council. Our hope is that we will persuade the

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council to reject those applications on the grounds of safety at the

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site. The parish council has already signalled that they consider the

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site on safe and they have recommended to the county council

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that the plans be rejected on the grounds of safety. Tesco sax that it

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could bring business to the area and will bring 20 new local jobs stop

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what do you say to that? We have enough shops here already. We have

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everything that Tesco are going to sell already. All they will do is

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drive away some of that custom from the shops that will gradually slow

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down and close and those shops are in the middle of the villagd. This

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is quarter of a mile out of the village. Once they've closed,

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everyone will have to walk down here, down this narrow, dangerous

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footpath, to get to the shop. Today in a statement, Tesco said that they

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hope the shop will be very popular locally and reiterated that they

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hope it will bring more jobs to the area but they are now seeking the

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This week is National Carers Week ` and a charity

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in Milton Keynes is urging thousands of so`called "hidden carers"

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Many of those looking after a family member don't see

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themselves as a carer ` but now a campaign is highlighting the need

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Dave Hunt, a former policem`n, had a stroke three years ago as hd walked

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his dog. His wife Sue took darly retirement to care for him.

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Overnight, our lives have ttrned upside down. I was a teacher and

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divide gone into a classrool and I wasn't trained in at first ht's

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dreadful because I haven't had any training but I am my husband's nurse

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and his counsellor and his physiotherapist and there is an

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awful lot of pressure. But then Sue found an independent charitx in

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Milton Keynes that support tnpaid carers in the area. Their mdetings

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are an opportunity to have ` chat and sometimes a cry. David has also

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found his own support network. We learned a lot by talking to other

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people and learning from thdir experiences. That's what got us

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through a lot of it, learning by other people's experiences. It is

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estimated there are 21,000 carers in Milton Keynes alone. Many are

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looking after a child or parent so don't think of themselves as carers.

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Being a carer can often be very isolating. You find that yotr life

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shrinks down to the size of the person you care for and all the

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things you did previously lhke work and social life can fall aw`y. One

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of the things carers need is emotional support so they c`n stay

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emotionally well. Sue believes that getting support transformed her

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life. A survey's underway in Banbtry to

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find out how many species of fish Experts from the Environment Agency

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have been using specialist dlectric equipment to temporarily sttn

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the fish ` before catching them The check`up is to find out what

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state the river is in, and how The fish populations are probably

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moderate and could be better. Things like water quality we look `t and

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also things like Habitat works. We can get in there and do thel so the

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little bits of things we can do might provide habitat for the fish

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and other wildlife and improve the water through bamboo itself. ``

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through Banbury. A giant statue of Olympic mddal

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winner Greg Rutherford has gone up The Leaping Man statue has been

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built in honour of Greg Rutherford's A campaign to erect it began

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in November 2012, with The final touches

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of landscaping are due to bd The long jumper,

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who lives in Woburn Sands, leapt to I'll have the headlines at 8pm

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and a full bulletin at 10.24pm. the last four years.

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Robert Donovan was jailed in 19 4 for stabbing a man to death in

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London. He absconded from Ford Open Prison, near Arundel, in June 2 10.

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Donovan may have family livhng in Portsmouth, and could be ushng the

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alias David Green. It comes weeks after Ford admitted two simhlar

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cases of inmates walking out of Still to come in this evening's

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South Today... An inquest has heard how a lan died

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after setting fire to himself in a dentist's surgery in Chichester

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Witnesses said Anthony Chasd, who was 66, argued with staff bdfore

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dousing himself in flammabld liquid. His family told a coroner's court he

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had a history of mental health The receptionist and went to get the

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manager after an argument. But another receptionist saw hilself

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pulling a flammable liquid over himself and setting light to

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himself. Staff moved quicklx to douse the flames and he was taken to

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hospital where he died of extensive burns a few days later. Her sister

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said her brother had had a long history of mental health problems.

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She said he had been diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenha and

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had refused in recent years to take his medication. She said th`t he did

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not think there was anything wrong with them. He had cut off I'll

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contact with his family. . The coroner said that the man h`d died

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of his own deliberate actions when the balance of his mind was

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disturbed. Now I welcome thhs paper has come up with an eye`catching way

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to highlight the issue of trading cards. The subject of his c`rds are

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Cabinet members of Sussex County Council. Country`mac in Portsmouth

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``Surrey County Council. We ordinary people do not understand wh`t is

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going on. It is good. I shotld apply for a job there. In a an independent

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panel recommended cutting some salaries. They ignore this `nd

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decided to increase the sal`ry. And this is only a few months after the

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Conservative group on a County Council decided they would not pay a

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living wage to Novell emploxees In a statement, Surrey County Council

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said they have not raised allowances for four years and while th`t was

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the right thing to do for the time they feel it is important that

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adjustments are made to reflect this increased realism responsibhlities.

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The Paper presented `` Antarctica. It's often a quicker ` and healthier

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` way to get to work so why aren't more people getting on their bike?

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Fewer than one in 30 workers cycle and in the South the rate is

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falling. Bucking the trend is Southalpton,

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Portsmouth and Bournemouth where the numbers cycling to work has gone up

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44% in a decade. But in Rushmoor it's fallen by 0%

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in a decade ` one of the largest falls in England.

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Today a new bike hire schemd launched in Reading and Wokhngham.

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200 are being made availabld to try to encourage drivers out of their

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cars ` but cycling groups s`y it's the wrong approach to getting more

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people back on the saddle as Joe Showing off our stores on a bank has

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become something of a right of passage for politicians to deal with

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the turn of the transport bts and leading to hit road. It is only

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achieved the and a maximum dffluent at anchor for the day is as ?4. It

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is an internal to try out for the short hops scene might otherwise

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have done in your car. This was the first day of the scheme to try and

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win people over. Are you telpted to use them? Yes, definitely. Why not.

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When, arrogant. I have not seen many people use them. From 2002 2011

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there was no increase in thd amount of people using bikes to around

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Reading. I think the main problems are a lack of cycling infrastructure

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and agile in that cycle network Even regular cyclist like this man

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heard not always feel safe on the roads in the town. How can between

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those buses and get home safely If you have a child or in shaphng it is

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impossible. This man is waiting for surgery after Barry hit by ` van and

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what she regards as badly ddsigned cycling looked acknowledges the role

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played by fears about safetx. I am settling campaigner and Eddhe not

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want this kind of thing to put people off. Then when I had to the

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prayers of this nail could cost up to ?2 million.

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The main sporting story of the day has been Sir Ben Ainslie's plans to

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mount a challenge to win thd America's Cup. It's the olddst

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trophy in sport but Britain has never won it, 163 years aftdr the

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first race staged off the Isle of Wight. Few journalists know more

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about the past and the presdnt of the event than journalist Bob Fisher

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How big a challenge is this? It is like and clear in our Seo? H suppose

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it is and we have never clahmed it but we have never really done it

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justice and the potential of challenges for it it has not worked.

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So how can be done now? He could win it. There is no finer sailor in the

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mail. He has trained with the New Zealand team were runners`up last

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time and with the Americans so he has that as well as for growing

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medals and a silver medal in the Olympic campaign. He is funding and

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a great team behind them. C`n bring those brought together? There was a

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lot of power and a lot of money and the defendants and they havd one of

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the richest men in the world behind them. He could not get much more

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than Larry Ellison as to his name that they have a lot of people

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behind them and airing the start of it. But talking now of having 2 % of

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that in Leeds and typing a nightmare, he was looking for ? 8

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million and I think it will probably overrun that but that is a lot of

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money to start thinking abott and if he gets that, surely you must be on

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their way. That's about a ldgacy from Sir Ben Ainslie? Is thdre a

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risk that if this does not go collect, people think this hs one

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area when it did not providd for them? I don't think so. It did not

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know it will affect previously greatest sailor before Sir Ben

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Ainslie came along. To do it for Great Britain is the man who has to

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do. I think there's every chance of winning this one. There will be

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accepted as being back from defeat. They have to look at that and

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Samantha. Some other sport, Reading's academy

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boss Eamonn Dolan is the favourite to succeed former Royals boss Brian

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McDermott at Leeds United. Dolan's earned a glowing reputration

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for his work with the youth set up at reading in a decade at the

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Madejski stadium, last season the Under 21 a side won the Prelier

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League Cup. Reading have refused to Southampton's sought`after captain

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Adam Lallana says his experhences in Brazil so far have put things in

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perspective. As he prepares for Saturday's opener

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against Italy, Lallana and other England players visited a ndw sports

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complex built with World Cup money, on the outskirts of Brazil's largest

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favela. The complex provides sport and medical facilities for people

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living in poor conditions. It?s great. You know, we?re not

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bored. No excuses, it?s gre`t to come to places like this today and

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give back to the kids and you?re starting to get a real buzz about it

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now and you really feel that the nation?s a massive football nation

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and everyone?s got a real btzz for Portsmouth Football Club has

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launched a crowd`funding calpaign to pay for two new football pitches.

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The club hopes to raise a qtarter of a million pounds to build additional

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pitches for the Pompey Acaddmy at their new training facility. It s

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the first time a Football Ldague club has undertaken such a campaign

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and relies on lots of fans giving Cricket, and Sussex's top order was

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blown away by a sensational over from

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Alfonso Thomas as the Somerset quickie took four wickets in four

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balls. James Anyon was bowldd, Rory Hamilton B?rown trapped LBW and Ed

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Joyce was caught behind for the hat`trick, before Matt Mach`n was

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bowled on the first ball of his next Somerset needed just 20 overs to

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chase down their target ` a six from Craig Kieswetter clinched the

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six`wicket win. In their top`of`the table clash

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against Worcetershire, Hampshire were forced to follow on.

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Surrey meanwhile racked up ` huge score against Gloucestershire.

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Solanki and Burns with nearly 3 0 They lead

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by 460 with five wickets relaining. Art has been used as a form a

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therapy for years. Now it's being used to help unlock the memories of

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soldiers who are sick, wounded or are suffering emotional tratma.

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Later this week some of the images and textiles created by vetdrans

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will go on display in Hampshire Nikki Mitchell reports. When he left

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the Royal Highland Fusilers, Michael Crossan suffered from mental health

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problems. Today, after taking part in a series of veterans' art

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workshops, one of his screenprints is the focal point of artist Susan

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Stockwell's exhibition piecd. I couldn't believe it when shd

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actually told me she was ushng my piece as a sort of centre point for

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the project and now, when I see it, it still gives me goosebumps to look

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at it. It's absolutely amazhng! For me, it encapsulates the

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brothers`in`arms theme of the military from the beginning of time.

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It just shows me and other guys there is life after the milhtary and

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there is help out there so for me from coming from living two years

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homeless to having a piece of artwork that will tour the country

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really gives me inspiration. The artwork's made out of discarded Army

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blankets. Veterans have been encouraged to try their hands at

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sewing and quilting to exprdss So the to have a tanker. Thhnk that

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is really reflective of the ways in which to practice can be usdd.

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Eleanor McBay captured this view looking east today from above Durdle

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door. Mary Hopcraft took this photo of the

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purple poppies in West Wittdring. And Bill Law captured Faringdon

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We are looking at sunshine hn varying amounts. There is the risk

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that by the weekend we could have they honour translated showdr. Quiet

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conditions overnight and mild with clear spells are there not `

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shimmered as recent notes so more comfortable night for sleephng.

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Street Sheraton parts of thd Wiltshire and temperatures will fall

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to around ten degrees 11 Celsius. Throughout tomorrow we will see

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cloud above up in a few places turning the sunshine hazy and that

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will be some decent amounts of sunshine and the San temper`tures

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will rise nicely to a high of 2 Celsius. There will be a

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south`westerly breeze along degrees are 12 Celsius which is verx similar

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to the temperatures tonight. There may be if Arafat patches first thing

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in the morning but other th`n that it may be pleasant on Thursday with

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high`pressure pressure firmly in charge of our weather. High pressure

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firmly in charge of our weather I purchased outstripping rest`urants

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but otherwise it will stay settled right through until the weekend

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about the weekend brings thd risk of a shower with the women's changing

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direction. ``the wind changhng. Fergie could be the warmest day of

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the year so far and it will feel all warm with the year so far and it

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will feel all warm weather northerly breeze. The best conditions this

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weekend will be along the south coast.

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There'll be a news summary `t 8pm and we'll be back with

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