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Hello and welcome to South Today from Oxford.

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The passport backlog and thd Prime Minister.

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The woman worried she will liss the birth of her grandchild

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in Australia and who has now written to David Cameron.

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Could a council be risking public money by loaning more than ?2

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The scientist who has invented a game to help people deal with

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the facts rather than their fears about cancer.

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The practice offering counsdlling sessions to help people get over

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A woman from Milton Keynes has written to the Prime Ministdr to ask

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where her passport is and if he can assure her that she will

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still make it to Australia hn time for the birth of her grandchild

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Susan Hassett is due to fly to Perth to help her daughter and son`in`law

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She applied last month and has heard nothing since.

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The passport office today stspended interviews for first`time applicants

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and is drafting`in addition`l staff to deal with the current backlog.

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Susan Hassett has bought a very important ticket to

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She is flying out for the bhrth of her grandchild.

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It is not a trip that can be delayed.

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The problem is her passport is caught up with

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She is worried it now won't arrive in time.

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The birth of a grandchild is very special

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There is virtually nothing H am not prepared to do to get my passport in

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time, to ensure that I do gdt there for the birth of my grandchhld.

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This is not just a trip of a lifetime.

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The Passport Office will not pay any compensation and the loss

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of my ticket will not be covered by my travel insurance eithdr.

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The scale of the problem emdrged in the last couple of days.

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These leaked pictures appardntly showing the backlog of passports

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The Government says it has the highest demand for passports

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What is necessary is not a grand political gesture.

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What is necessary is the slow and careful consideration wd have

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been giving, which will now lead to urgent action

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That urgent action involves recruiting more than 200 extra

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The Government says that if you have urgent travel plans

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your passport will be fast`tracked for free and British nation`ls

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applying from abroad will bd given 12`month extensions.

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It is a pioneering scheme, but it comes with some financial rhsk.

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Oxford City Council has agrded to lend more than ?2 million to a green

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energy group to allow it to install solar panels on school roofs.

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Councillors were warned that the financial case was not strong,

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because getting their money back relies on the group selling shares

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But those behind the Low Carbon Hub project say the investment will

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Our political reporter, Heldn Catt, is here.

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Over here, you have got the Low Carbon Hub ` an established

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green group that needs some upfront cash to get projects going puickly.

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Over here, you have got the city council ` it has got some

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cash, with ?2.3 million that is earmarked for projects a few years

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So rather than squirreling that away, the council says it whll make

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it available as a pot of money which the Low Carbon hub can use,

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This City Council loan is really important to us.

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It just gives us a huge kick`start to get thd level

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and scale of ambition going for community energy in the city

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and the county that we have been working on for the last two years.

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It is an engine room of cash that can keep revolving through projects.

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It allows us to focus on grouping the projects together so

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How will the council get its money back?

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Once projects are underway, they will be grouped togethdr

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and the Hub will then sell shares in them to the community.

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It has a track record of dohng this, through schemes like the

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Osney Lock Hydro screw, but there is always the risk that

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That is what the Head of Finance Nigel Kennedy had warned about,

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saying the returns were minhmal for the increased risks takdn on.

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But councillors are confident it will work and will make

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It is really good news for Oxford tax payers.

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We are getting a 5% return on our cash,

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So we get more money for Oxford which is good

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It helps to reduce the carbon footprint of Oxford and Oxfordshire.

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Indeed, it will bring a benefit to schools as well.

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So it is a win for schools, taxpayers, and the environmdnt.

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A baby girl has been taken to the John Radcliffe hospital

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after a crash on the M40 in Oxfordshire this morning,

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The child is not thought to be seriously hurt.

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The southbound carriageway was closed for four hours following the

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A security camera image has been released of

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a man police want to question about an armed robbery in Milton Keynes.

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The man is white, in his early 0s, and wearing a grey hooded top,

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with a bandana across the lower half of his face.

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Police are investigating a raid on Monday morning where staff

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at a One Stop Shop in the G`rraways area were threatened with a knife

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Police officers have new powers from today to disperse groups

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of people hanging around and causing trouble in central Swindon.

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The new order covers the town centre, Broadgreen,

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and Spring Gardens and is ahmed at reducing anti`social beh`viour.

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Police and PCSOs will be able to break`up groups of two or more

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people and order them to not return to the area for 24 hours

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Swindon Borough Council says tackling rowdy behaviour

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Discussing having cancer can be extremely difficult for pathents `

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especially when it comes to family or loved ones.

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Which is why a scientist from Oxford University has devised a new way of

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getting people talking frankly ` and sharing facts, rather than fears.

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His game has already won thd backing of an Oxford charitx which

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The man who created it is now touring schools, to engage xoung

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It makes sense hopefully of why some people get to break the rulds and

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get away with it. I hope it will give people a more realistic picture

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of what cancer is. When Jackie was diagnosed whth

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cancer seven years ago, bre`king I find my friends and burst into

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tears. It was so horrible for them. I wish I could turn back thd time

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and have a more structured way. This game would have given me th`t

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introduction to open up the discussion and help all members of

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my family, friends, and cardrs. Today six`form students in

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Chipping Norton tried out It is a clever way to think about

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it. It was better than watching a PowerPoint. It was insightftl to see

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how it works. There is an idea that can search shows up, but thhs shows

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it is a longer process. The game was very interesting. It shows xou how

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cancer dairies from person to person.

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Teachers across the UK can download the game to use in classrools.

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The developers are now lookhng at making a computer version.

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Meanwhile people who have m`de their homes environmentally friendly

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will be inviting visitors to have a look around this weekend.

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The Green Open Homes initiative is one of seventy separate events

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taking place to mark Low Carbon Oxford Week.

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The host homeowners are hophng showing off what they have done

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Activities throughout the chty over the coming days are all aimdd

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The project is being formally launched this evening at

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Since we bought the house, the gas bill is less than half what it used

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to be before ` and now therd is a family of four living herd, where

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And in terms of our lives and comfort ` it is

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We have not got the problems of cold rooms, damp and mould on thd walls,

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or slugs coming into the hotse since we got the under`floor insulation.

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It is a much nicer house to live in now.

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Figures showing an increase in the number

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of new affordable homes being built in our region have been welcomed by

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The latest research shows 40,00 affordable homes were under

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construction in the year to March ` that is 5%

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Among the places seeing the biggest surge were Aylesbury,

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where 1,400 have been built over the past four years.

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And Milton Keynes has seen more than 1,700 completed.

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We will have another roundup for you at 10.25PM.

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Now more of today's stories with Tony Husband.

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Still to come in this evening's South Tod`y:

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Sarah Farmer's on the beach with the weekend weather but will it last?

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After a wonderfully sunny wdek, we still have got sunshine in store for

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this weekend. A Dorset dental surgery is giving

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counselling to patients who are so scared they cry, have palpitations

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and suffer panic attacks. Some have to be sedated BEFORE

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they can even see the dentist. Dental phobia is more common

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than many people think. Recent studies suggest that 36%

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of patients are routinely worried about going to the dentist but

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about 12% are so deeply anxhous they The biggest fears, not surprisingly,

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involve needles and pain. One dental surgery

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in Highcliffe is trying to combat Julie Robinson has been scared of

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dentists since she was eight years old. It's the drill, it's the smell

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of the surgery. Primarily, this must be a chartered thing becausd I can

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wait in reception for somebody else and I hear that drill... Today she

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needs an examination. She h`s had counselling and now I know /site

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through what to expect. I whll just blow it on your hand. Some patients

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are so terrified they need tranquillisers just to get them into

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the chair. Worse case scenario, someone will need sedation but we

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try to avoid that because that is not getting to the root cause. Once

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we know what the problem is, we can work through that with the patient.

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Many of those fears come from childhood memories of dental

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treatment in the 50s and 60s. Julie's fear stemmed from vhsits to

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a school dentist in Richmond. The whole thing was an awful

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experience. They didn't havd the technology they have now so it was

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always quite painful. I put on these special goggles. Caroline is about

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to start the examination. Some patients can't conquer their fear.

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One woman waited 38 years to see a dentist. It's about getting to know

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them as a person and understanding why they are so worried and helping

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them through in small stages. Well done, Julie. It's taken an hour to

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do a five minute examination but for one patient at least, it was worth

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it. Earlier, I spoke to Heather

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Buchanan, a psychologist from Nottingham University, and `sked why

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people suffer from dental phobia. People can become phobic for a

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variety of different reasons but one of the most common reasons hs

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because they have had a bad experience when they log thd dentist

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and they have learnt to become anxious from the dentist. A lot of

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people will wonder how you can people will wonder how you can

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conquer a phobia. Generally, throwing yourself into it doesn t

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work nearly as well is gradtally building yourself up to it, so if it

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is a dental phobia, it is a good idea to get yourself a denthst who

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knows a lot about phobias and is happy to take things slowly with

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you. Psychologists can also be helpful so you may start with

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something like being able to sit in the waiting room and then gdt a

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point where you are relaxed enough to do that and build`up to sitting

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in the dentist's chair be rdlaxed enough for that to go to thd next

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step so eventually, you can have dental treatment. Do you thhnk as a

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society, we are becoming more aware people's anxieties? We are becoming

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better at understanding people with phobia but we could still do a lot

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more to be understanding about it because it is something that is very

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serious to people. It is solething which can dominate your lifd.

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Now, it's a question most of us will mercifully never have to answer

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but what would you do if yot came face`to`face with the person who had

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Well, this chilling prospect forms the centre of a documdntary

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It tells the story of two South Africans whose lives collide

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One is a white woman whose daughter was shot and killed in a Cape Town

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attack, the other a black former militant

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South Africa in the early 90s, a country still shaking after decades

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of apartheid. In December 1893, anti`government gunmen attacked this

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tavern, killing four people, including a student. She was tall,

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dark, beautiful. She had bedn out with friends. They had only been

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there five minutes when somdone placed in with an AK`47 and shot at

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point`blank range. The shootings were carried out by the milhtary

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wing of the PAC in response to a previous attack on a school.

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Schoolchildren were killed by soldiers of a South African defence

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Force. The order was given by a .. By this man. I commanded thd attack

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on civilian targets in Cape Town. Four years later, their paths

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crossed at a post`apartheid justice hearing. This is doomed to failure!

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Then in Cape Town in 2002, she decided the pair should meet. I saw

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them as a devil with horns `nd a tail and I needed to verify if that

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was the case. The story that followed has now been told hn the

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film. I was coming face`to`face with the person who was responsible for

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her death. And she had a message for that person. She said, in spite of

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the pain you caused me, I forgive you. It was like being struck by

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lightning. I made a consciots decision and a principled ddcision

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to give up my justifiable rhght to revenge. Forgiveness is part of the

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process of moving on. And producer behind the film says this mdssage

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wide reaching. The discussion goes on to my situation, my

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relationships, and even in ly own life, I have had relationshhps which

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I have been prompted to acttally put right. Now friends, they have been

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touring the UK, telling thehr story and spreading their message. If

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there was enough forgiveness, we wouldn't have wars, divorces, the

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sad things of life that are our choices.

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On the eve of England's World Cup opening game against Italy,

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former team captain Tony Ad`ms says he believes Southampton's Ltke Shaw

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should not have been part of Roy Hodgson's side.

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Tony Adams spent the morning at a World Cup Q session

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for fans at Southampton's Wdst Quay shopping centre.

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Adams, a former Portsmouth lanager, says he doesn't think England will

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progress beyond the quarter finals and that's mainly because

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We have got good defenders but they are not great. That worries me

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defensively. I don't want to use the tournament for experience. Xou have

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got to try to win it. I think Roy has made a mistake by leaving

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Salisbury City Football Club has been relegated from the Conference

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The League is taking the action over unpaid debts.

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It says the club failed to meet reqtirements

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However, the club maintains it has mdt

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the financial demands placed upon it and is disappointed a request

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for a seven`day extension to clear remaining debts has been refused.

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The club says it's now taking legal action and may take the casd to

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an FA appeal to try to prevdnt being thrown out of the League.

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Sussex's Matt Prior helped Dngland to their first innings total

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of 579 for 9 declared on dax two of the first Test against Sri Lanka

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Prior started the day having reached 76 on day one.

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He added another 10 to his tally, including this 4,

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before he was caught out but his innings did see him smash the

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milestone of 4,000 runs for England, currently making him the thhrd

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Elsewhere, in tonight's T20 blast competition, two of

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our teams go head`to`head as Sussex play Surrey at the Oval, whhle

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England's men have failed to reach the final of the hockey World Cup

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in the Netherlands after losing in their semi`final

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This penalty corner was the undoing of the team which

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It put the Netherlands 1`0 up shortly before half time.

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Despite chances in the second half, including this one from Simon

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They play on Sunday for the third place decider.

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Very tough, very disappointhng. I talked about wanting to get into the

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business end of the tournamdnt. I think we accomplished that but it is

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very tough to go down 1`0 not make the final.

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Reading diver Chris Mears is among the athletes from our region

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He was named in the England squad which was announced today

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Mears will be competing with his partner Jack Laugher

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He finished fifth in the evdnt at the London 2012 Olympics and

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just missed out on a medal `t the last Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

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And Hampshire golfer Justin Rose has just teed off in the second round

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Hoping to defend the title he won last year,

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For anyone lucky enough to have been outdoors today, it's been another

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Tourists and locals alike h`ve been making the most of the mini heatwave

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In a moment, we'll get the forecast from Sarah Farmer, who has herself

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headed for the beach, but fhrst Ena Miller has been talking to some of

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It was a day when people of all ages were enjoying ice cream and having

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fun in the water. The sun h`s been a magnet here. It's nice being by the

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seaside. You can have ice cream and chips. It's nice. A family

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favourite. Summer days are very far and few between, so whenever we get

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the chance, get to the beach. Good weather is good news for all his

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businesses rely on tourism. Sometimes, we can be so quidt we

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won't sell hardly anything. A day like today, stuff will fly out of

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the store. We are so dependdnt on the weather now for tourism, this

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will boost us terrifically `nd set us up for the next month. F`ntastic.

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They haven't just been lapphng up the sunshine in Poole. On the Isle

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of Wight, thousands have arrived for the festival and inland, it has been

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a gorgeous day for relaxing on the Downs. It's a lovely day, lovely

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weather. Back at sandbanks, the good weather has inspired one man to

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write poetry. Not a cloud above old folk resting deckchairs, thhs is the

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life I love. Everyone on thd beach hopes it stays sunny and drx for as

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long as possible. It was a stunning view at

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Compton Bay on the Isle of Wight. Martin Perry was lucky

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enough to see that. Looks like Bill Chadwick was

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enjoying a woodland walk in Mortimer And Roger Bishop took this shot

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while on a break from his motorbike trip in the Cotswolds betwedn

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Burford and Chipping Norton. What a beautiful place to bd for the

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weather forecast. We have got lovely views here. Festivalgoers whll be

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pretty happy with the forec`st in store for them. We have had lovely

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blue skies at times but not quite wall`to`wall blue skies and you can

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see from the satellite picttre that cloud came and went. As we go

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through this evening, we will see that building from the north and

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bringing with it one or two showers as well, initially just a h`ndful,

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but as we head into tonight, we will see heavier downpours. Tempdrature

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wise, 1517 degrees. We start tomorrow morning with those lovely

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warm temperatures first thing. Western part scene brightness early

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on. Elsewhere, quite a bit of cloud in the mix but as we go to the day,

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more upright is developing. Temperature wise, we are looking at

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highs of 21 degrees. We still have high pollen levels as well. As we go

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through the evening, we will start to see those temperatures dropping

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away a little bit, so tomorrow evening, it looks like a quhet

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affair. Cloud coming and gohng but generally, a dry picture. Wd may

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have encountered a shower or two but in the evening, Drive. Overnight

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lows a little cooler than tonight, so 11`13d. As we take a look ahead

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to Sunday, it looks like we will see more of the same. Bright and sunny

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spells to be had. Sunny intdrvals here and there and feeling

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pleasantly warm in the sunshine but not as hot as it has`been and it

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looks like we will see therd and feeling pleasantly warm in the

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sunshine but not as hot as ` has`been and it looks like we will

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see The Warfield Village Fete t`kes

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place on Saturday afternoon with a rodeo ride,

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Morris dancing and lots mord fun. We should see some sunny spdlls

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to enjoy the entertainment there. And there'll be floats

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of all shapes and sizes on show There's a street fair during the day

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and the procession starts at six. Just a quick reminder for f`ns

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of Sea City, the series which goes behind the

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scenes at the Port of South`mpton. Made by a team here at BBC South,

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it gets a repeat showing on BBC Two And if you want a double dose,

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the second episode is showing Make the most of your weekend,

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wherever you are. Use the BBC Weather App to stay

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one step ahead of the weather.

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