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The scheme that takes unwanted supermarket items to charities

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And later on: The artist who lost her sight to meningitis

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but who's determined not to give up her passion.

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20mph zones have reduced the number of accidents by almost

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a quarter since they were widely introduced in Oxford in 2009,

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But the speed limit is not always adhered to `

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the police have issued more than 600 tickets since they began enforcing

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But is the lower limit working on the city's main roads?

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Driving slowly through Jericho in Oxford.

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Until 2009, scenes like this were rare.

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But that year, speed limits on many residential

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roads in the city were reduced from 30 to 20 miles per hour.

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And the county council says the restrictions

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Before 2009, there were an average of 183 accidents

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But in the years since, that average has fallen to 141.

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That's a reduction in accidents of almost a quarter.

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The stricter limits were brought in following campaigns by local people.

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To enforce them, police handed out more than 600 tickets in the last

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two years, but in places like St Giles in the centre of Oxford,

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it seems they're still being ignored.

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Most people here seem to be driving more quickly than 20 mph. It is

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supposed to be a 20 zone, because of the nature of this area. Traffic

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goes faster than that. They may subconsciously see 20, but they

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still do 30. I have seen people step out, look one nearly get run over.

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Experts say sometimes simply putting up signs doesn't do

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Drivers tends to get clues about the speed limit from the sort of roads

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on which they are driving, so narrow roads, they tend to drive more

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slowly, roads with lumpy services, they drive more slowly, but nice,

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white, straight roads, they will tend to drive more quickly, so a 20

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mile an hour zone needs to be reinforced.

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The government's carrying out a three`year study into 20mph

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zones, but it seems in Oxford, the goal of reducing the number

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Ed Morrow is Campaigns Officer for the road safety charity Brake.

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I asked him if he'd like to see the speed limit

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That's not quite the case, no. That is a bit of a myth who `` spread by

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people who are against his limits. We want to see it as the default

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limit in urban areas, so where there are main roads where it is

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appropriate and safe for them to stay at higher limits, there is no

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reason why that can't happen. Sometimes we see information films

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about the benefits of sticking to 30 in a 30 mile an hour zone in terms

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of the safety of a pedestrian. What are the benefits of doing 20? The

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key benefit is, we look at the basic physics of it, what is your stopping

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distance in a 20 compare to a 30? If you are doing 20, you're stopping

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distance is half what it is at 30 miles an hour. That gives you a much

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greater chance of seeing and reacting to any emergency, and

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avoiding a crash. In practice, we look at places where the 20 limits

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have been lamented, places like Portsmouth and Warrington. They have

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seen Casualty rates go down by about 20% as a result.

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I think some people might think that some 20 zones are a good idea, but

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some are more controversial. For example, there is a road in Oxford

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which is rewired with good visibility, cycle lanes and no,

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treasures, and a sign for 20. How effective do you think that limit is

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on that type of road? There is evidence from these places where

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they have been implement that even without traffic calming or

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enforcement, average speeds do go down and crashes go down as a

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result. Obviously, as I have said, some

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roads, it is more important than that limit to stay higher, but this

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is not just about reducing casualties. It is also about

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creating environments where people feel free to walk and cycle, so not

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just making less casualties, but making it more safe.

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Thank you. Another man has been arrested

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in Aylesbury on suspicion It follows raids on a number of

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properties in the town yesterday. 11 men are now being questioned

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after the police operation, which All the men arrested are

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being held in custody. The President of the United States,

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Barack Obama, is flying into RAF Fairford in the Cotswolds

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tonight on board Air Force One. The president is en route to

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the NATO conference in Wales. His arrival has led

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to tight security. 9,000 police officers are on duty,

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many of them armed. Important buildings are being

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guarded, including both of the River Severn crossings,

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with the terror alert across Britain It's been back to school

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for tens of thousands of children But for 75 teenagers in Banbury,

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it's been very different. They're the first pupils at the

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country's only 'space school', which opened its doors this morning.

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Helen Catt reports. You used to need a rocket to explore

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space, but now in Banbury, you just need a classroom. Every lesson at

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the town's newest school will be taught through space`based

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projects. It is something that not many people get to experience. I

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love Linney about new things, especially things that no one else

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has learned about. I think also, the fact is the final frontier, so we

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are kind of the first people to venture forth into the learning of

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space. The school day mirrors that of a workplace, 8:30am till five,

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with no set breaks and no homework. It is because it is a studio School,

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designed to make students more attractive to employers.

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Studio schools were set up by the Coalition Government, and 37 have

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opened since 2010. Oxfordshire is set to get a second one as well will

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stop it is being planned for this tour and will focus on technology.

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People start here at 14. Critics have said studio schools are pushing

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students in one direction too early. But the principle here believes his

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pupils will be well equipped for the future.

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The dream, the vision is, one third will go to university, one third

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will go into apprenticeships, high`level apprenticeships.

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Satellites have to be built, engines have to rebuild physically.

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There is a requirement for a skill set. Maybe one third will start

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their own businesses. The school expects to have 300

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pupils within three years, and maybe these teenagers starting today will

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be the space pioneers of tomorrow. Funding for dementia research

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in Oxford is being doubled by The Oxford Research Network Centre

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brings together scientists at both the city's universities

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and in Reading. It'll receive ?100,000 over

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the next two years as part of the charity's bid to raise

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?100 million to defeat dementia. The funding is provided, and it will

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allow us to fund a number of pilot studies. If two laboratories have

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another idea they will like to test out in six months, we will provide

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the pilot money. If that is successful, they can then go to

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government funding and get further research to do a bigger study.

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A new scheme to help divert surplus supermarket food from landfill has

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The South Oxfordshire Food and Education Alliance delivers it

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to charities in the region helping people in need.

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But it also has another purpose ` it provides valuable work

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experience and qualifications for young people, many who struggled

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in formal education. Brennan Nicholls explains.

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Helping others and helping themselves at the same time.

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Instead, it's been diverted to this warehouse

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This scheme follows a highly successful one set up

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A lot of food comes into supermarket strip vision centres that is surplus

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to their requirements. Rather than throwing it away, they deliver it

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here to pass, and we take it in bulk, as you can see, break that

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bulk up and supply that food out to local charities who cook for their

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clients. This scheme follows

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a highly successful one set up by a Didcot man in Australia.

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Now he's brought it to the UK. These young people,

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many who struggled at school, are getting training,

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qualifications and a foothold I left school without any GCSEs, so

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hopefully, doing GCSEs here will give me a better great than at

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school. I like the idea of helping people.

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That would be an achievement, and get some qualifications as well.

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Maths and English, my forklift license, food hygiene and my first

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aid training. You know all this food is going to

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people who need it. I have had times when I needed food, and it is good.

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The scheme is on the lookout for new charities and employees.

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Its aim is to deliver tonnes of fresh food to help more than 20,000

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It also wants to offer employment to around 150 people,

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many with disabilities, and give them a fresh start too.

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I'll have the headlines at 8 and a full bulletin at 10:25.

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Now, more of today's stories with Sally Taylor.

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The National Farmers Union says the action comes too late.

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Still to come in this evening's South Today:

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Determined to carry on ` the artist who can no longer see her

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Private companies and community groups are being invited to take

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on historic beach chalets and other seafront attractions in Weymouth.

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The council says it can't afford to do vital repairs to the buildings

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Interested parties have until October to tender for the lease.

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Some residents say they're concerned the charm of the area will be lost,

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This woman had a 20 year love affair with the chalets.

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The sunshine, the wind, wind howls, the rain and just sitting and

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listening to the sea, it is just so calming and I just love it. She pays

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?1000 a year to the Council in rent but there is trouble in paradise.

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The council can't afford the upkeep and she and other chalets holders

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are concerned about a possible private takeover. When you talk from

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from away, from outside here, they talk about Greenhill Gardens and the

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beach and how safe it is for children. It is a family place, it

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is a traditional place and I just feel that would be lost. The main

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chalets were built in the 1920s to create jobs. It is now listed and

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needs nearly ?1 million of structural work. The Council is

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inviting private companies and community groups to tender for a

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lease. People seem to not be able to change. The Council is having to

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change. A lot of councillors were not really keen to go this way, but

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it needs to happen. We need to look for partners and run this project.

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The Council says there is some scope for development. The main gardens

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will stay in Council control. The gardens are supported by a friends

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group, but it is not about to step in to take over the beach chalets.

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We have indicated that we are not participating as a leader for a bit.

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We don't have the funds. One community group said today it is in

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the stages of putting a bit together. The Council says there has

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been significant interest. Interested parties have until

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October to put in a bit. Charlie lovers like this woman hopes someone

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will be found. The future of hundreds of jobs

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in Wiltshire has been raised There's been uncertainty over the

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jobs of scientists working at Public Health England at Porton Down since

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2010, when it was suggested the It's the second time in

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as many years that the Salisbury MP A fracking company remains confident

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about its plans to look for oil or gas in West Sussex, despite being

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told that the application is Celtique Energie wants to search for

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oil or gas near Fernhurst through a temporary exploration well which

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the company says would only have The South Downs National Park

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will make a decision next week. South West Trains is to get 150 new

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carriages to ease overcrowding on services into Waterloo,

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Britain's busiest station. The ?210 million deal will see new

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trains arrive in three years' time. It will trigger

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a complex juggling of rolling stock which should mean every commuter

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service is ten carriages long. Our transport correspondent

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Paul Clifton explains. Since the railways were privatised

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in the 1990s, passenger numbers Serving commuters from the Thames

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Valley, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Surrey, Waterloo handles more people

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each day than Heathrow, Gatwick An extra 150 new carriages

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on 30 trains built in Germany. Actually, a really quick results

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in railway terms. We will see results immediately with

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these new trains and hopefully more passengers will

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be able to have a better commute. They will provide space for 24,000

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more rush`hour passengers each day. So our challenge for the next couple

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years is to do the physical changes to the track, to the signalling

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and the power supplies To achieve all that,

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whilst running the existing service on a very busy train mine,

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it's a very complex project. The new trains will work suburban

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roots, That will release other carriages to

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ease congestion Yes,

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they do need more carriages and more I got a train today, but I was late,

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I didn't catch it until 9:00am. The old Euro Star international

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platforms will be unlocked. Then, Waterloo's four platforms

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will be made longer. Four years from now,

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Southwest Trains promises almost one Passenger demand is

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growing that fast. For many pensioners,

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their bus passes have But for a growing number

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of bus companies, the English Concessionary Travel Scheme

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has become a financial millstone. Now passengers in part of

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a Berkshire village are being told their fares are going up as a direct

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result of the cost of giving their The bus through here provides a

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vital link from Reading to Newbury. The angry reaction to cuts

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in the availability of cheap fares for people here is

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then, perhaps, no surprise. I don't think it's very good cos

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it's going to be quite expensive just to go back and forth to go

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shopping and things like that. It's too much money,

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it's gone up too much. When you're on benefits,

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it's going to cost a fortune. An increasingly busy route that has

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had more than its share of road works means more buses are now

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needed to maintain the timetable. But the biggest problem

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for the company is who pays for The local authority

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in the area where the passengers What has happened is that

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the way that we are paying for those journeys has been altered

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and as a consequence, this summer we've lost something in the region

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of ?70,000 a year in revenue. West Berkshire Council has described

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as regrettable the decision by However, it says the blame

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for the fact that the amount of money it pays the company for those

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of its residents who travel on free passes has fallen doesn't rest with

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it but with central government. Here, people have been signing up to

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a campaign for a rethink If they spread it out more evenly

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along the routes, But just for this area to have

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their fares jacked up by such a But Reading Buses says it is

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unlikely to go back on the rise. The only alternative would be to cut

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services and that is not An artist left blind and almost deaf

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after a doctor failed to spot she had bacterial meningitis has spoken

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for the first time after winning Julie Coakley was just weeks away

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from finishing an art degree MECHANICAL VOICE:

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Transparent steel. When she lost her sight,

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Julie didn't know It does feel like you are

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drawing with the glass. The daisies are very personal to

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having gone blind, because when I first went blind, I used to

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hallucinate spiraling daisies. Her blindness was caused

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by bacterial meningitis into 2008, which her doctor completely missed.

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The impact has been devestating. I just have total black and lost

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most of my hearing as well. You put

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the two sensory losses together, Julie did managed to complete her

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art degree. This is her final piece. And she is still pursuing an

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art career. I have continued, I have run workshops, I've done lectures,

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I've made commissions. But I am much Despite struggling with the loss

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of her sight and hearing, Julie also fought a five`year

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medical negligence lawsuit. She won

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at the High Court this summer. One Hampshire solicitor says they

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are particularly challenging cases. In a case

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involving meningitis, place, what that treatment should

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have been and therefore There's a double edge to it.

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There's frustration. Sometimes I make something and

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if my husband helps me open I'm like, yup, OK.

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I wish I could see it. Julie Coakley speaking to our

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reporter Katy Austin there. challenge will be when I arrive at

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the end. It's going to be tough, it has been really hard to this point

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already. I'm sure there's going to be a lot more difficult periods and

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times, but I'm going to try to come through it. I hope the body comes

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the writ. What a man, he jumped right in his eyes back and then

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spoke to us. `` ice bath. Swansea is Franny's next calling

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point on Saturday morning. QPR on Wednesday, working his way

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through the rest of the London clubs The website to donate if you missed

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it is www.benalisbigrun.co.uk. Portsmouth returned to winning ways

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with a comfortable progression to the second round of the

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Johnstone's Paint Trophy. Pompey belied a One Division

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inferiority, Jed Wallace set them on their way

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in Somerset. The 20`year`old then made it

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2`0 just 17 minutes later. Craig Westcarr's lob ensured

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Pompey's passage through. Yeovil's late goal was

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a mere consolation. It was a bad night for Oxford

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though, Already one down,

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Oxford's Jon Meades picked up a red card and a three`game ban, before

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Cheltenham completed a 2`0 win. Hampshire's hopes

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of winning promotion from Division Two of the County Championship were

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given a big boost today. The county thrashed Leicestershire

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by an innings at the Ageas Bowl. Six wickets down at lunch,

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Matt Coles took the seventh The eighth was skied to Adam Wheater

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off Sean Ervine. A sharp slip catch by Liam Dawson

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made it nine down. And despite a last wicket stand

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of 42, James Tomlinson completed Thank you very much. Let's move onto

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the. Lovely at the moment, isn't it? Yes, a bit of a slow start today.

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Happy Feet ` a pair of dancing swans captured by Van Norris in Gosport.

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Pat Byrne took this photo of a happy sunflower at

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And John Davison took this shot of dahlias in the sunshine at

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After a murky start this morning, things did brighten up. Before then,

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misty fog. We will start to see cloud increasing, creeping its way

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into from the East. Increasing cloud for most places. Temperatures are

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falling to a mild 13 or 14 Celsius. These are the temperatures in the

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countryside, slightly lower. A dry start to tomorrow, similar to today.

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Today we saw a high of 26 Celsius, tomorrow will be similar. Possibly

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even 24 Celsius in some spots. After a dark starts tomorrow, things will

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brighten up across the board. The winds are fairly light and a similar

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scenario tomorrow night, although the fog could be quite dense in a

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few places, which will reduce visibility on the roads milder

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tomorrow night, with blows of 14 to 16 Celsius. The higher pressure is

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hanging on in there for the weekend, although Friday will be a

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slower start in terms of brightness. We will gradually see that the Sun

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break`up and peek through in the afternoon. `` see that cloud

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break`up. On the weekend, there will be some sunshine. More likely on a

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Sunday, with some fog on Saturday. Saturday night there will be a

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weather pressure arriving, with the air behind it slightly later. High

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of 21 to 20 two Celsius, gradually we will see things break`up in the

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afternoon to allow for some bright or sunny spells. A cloudy start on

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Saturday, but a decent day on Sunday.

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and we'll be back with a bulletin at 10:25pm.

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Tomorrow, we will meet this lady. We will be meeting the evil Queen. She

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will be talking about the show, Atlantis, she will be here on the

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red sofa with us tomorrow. Good night.

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