25/07/2011 BBC Points West


25/07/2011

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Good evening. More than a decade after a huge explosion and fire at

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a waste plant in a Gloucestershire village, people living there are

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being told it hasn't affected their health. The site in Sandhurst

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caught fire in October 2000. A toxic cloud of chemicals blew

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across the local area. Health officials have said today there is

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no significant evidence of any damage to people's well being. But

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some locals remain to be convinced. It is the explosion that spread

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toxic chemicals over Sandhurst and surrounding villages. A decade on

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4,000 are being monitored for patterns of illness and death. So

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far there are positive signs. has not then any increase in cancer

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registration and that is when we compare the South West region as a

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compare the South West region as a compare the South West region as a

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whole with Sandhurst. There are still those that are finding it

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hard to reconcile the official statement with their own personal

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experiences of the cancer and enormous. -- and sickness. People

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like Rachael Hyde who has had cancer of the thyroid. Her first

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husband died last year after suffering from cancer of the

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esophagus and she believes many others who lived in the village at

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the time of the explosion are also suffering because of exposure to

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toxic fumes. The people that have lived actually in Sandhurst, they

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are people who are having very unusual illnesses. Why? How can it

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be? The official findings have been independently verified and the

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study will continue for 10 years for some, though the worry is the

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Works of art in Cheltenham have been vandalised less than 24 hours

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after they were installed. Life- size horse sculptures were placed

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around the town. Two of them were damaged over the weekend. They were

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commissioned as part of the Town's marking of the National Hunt

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Festival's centenary. These horses are works of art out on public

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display and we had hoped that that respect would have been shown by

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the public. I think on the whole it is but it is just a small group of

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people who have decided to vandalise the horses in such a

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terrible way. Ten horses have been placed around the town. They are

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due to be there until October. Bristol's Harbour Festival might

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not be run again next year. The council estimates more than a

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quarter of a million people came to the city this weekend. But the cost

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to the public purse of putting the event on, and a potential clash

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next year with the Olympics in London, have cast some doubt over

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its future. And now a sneak preview of

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something coming up on Points West this week. We are inside the

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private world of the man behind one of the West's biggest sporting

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clubs. Here's our sports editor. I have come to southern France to

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talk to the owner of Bath Rugby Club. Few outside the business had

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ever heard of him a year ago and it has not really changed as he has

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kept a low profile. Well this is it. He lives in this spectacular house

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high in the hills above the city and he talks excuse some League Two

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as about his love of rugby and his dream of making Bath the top club

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in Europe. He explains why he loves all things French and rugby in

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equal measure and why he is investing so much money in the club

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that he supported as a boy. That is Bruce Gray be talking tomorrow

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Let's see what happening with the weather. Another mild and muggy

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night tonight. It will fluffy other -- cloud over and produce some

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heavy downpours would temperatures no lower than 16 or 17. Tomorrow

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morning should clear the rain away and then there will be a chance a

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shower throughout the day but it should be fine and dry with good

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spells of sunshine and temperatures of about 25 degrees. Warm and humid

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