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Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. The headlines

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tonight... Patience runs out. The church gives its marching orders to

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the protesters outside the cathedral. A police hunt after a 79

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year-old woman is sexually assaulted on New Year's Day.

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Farewell to a hero. Senior officers and even the French attend the

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funeral of a World War Two para. remember him of being very stead

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fast, very robust. Very nice sense of humour which helped us all

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because we had difficult times. Setting the world record long jump.

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And 50 years on, a campaign to give Court proceedings have started to

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evict protesters from Bristol's College Green. The Dean of Bristol

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Cathedral met with members of Occupy Bristol today. He issued

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what he described as his final play for them to clear the site. They

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have been there since October last year. Here is our correspondent.

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The weather has been murky in the past week or so and conditions

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cannot be good. We did not have much greener left on College Green

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after this protest, which has lasted two months. The cathedral

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and council had decided action must be taken to clear the site of this

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campaign. What protesters thought would be a routine meeting with the

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Dean and earlier this morning resulted in them being told that

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proceedings had begun to get them evicted. It started two months ago

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and soon became a sizable protest camp. Tonight, the Dean of the

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cathedral warned campaigners court proceedings have been issued to

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move them. In his final plea to the protesters, he said while he

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respected their right to protest peacefully, it was time for College

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Green to be restored for the people of the city. We have been saying

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for weeks that the Big Issue is about the use of College Green. It

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is a space people love to use and we have events booked for the

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spring. To be sure it is ready for these things, we have to start this

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process now. He thinks public sympathy is running out as the

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muddy site became more of an eyesore. The council had joined

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with the cathedral to start the legal process and have estimated

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the cost of the damage could reach �100,000. This is a figure disputed

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by protesters. Occupy is here to make changes. We will not go

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anywhere until these changes are made. Even if we get evicted, we

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are not going away. We are moving into offices shortly as well in

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order to make the movement in Bristol much more concise and

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assertive. Talks between the cathedral had campaigners are said

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to have gone well. But how long it is until the site is returns to

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normal is not clear. The Church do still sympathise with many of the

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issues, social and economic, occupying the minds of the

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protesters. But they think it is time for this stage of the protest

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to come to an end. Do the protesters angry? We will see to

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that in the coming weeks. Police in Bristol are searching for a man

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that sexually assaulted an elderly pensioner in broad daylight on New

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Year's Day. The attack on the 79- year-old happened in the centre of

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bed Minster. This report from Steve Brodie. She was walking at East

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Street in bed minster at 10am on the year's day. She had passed Asda

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when she realised a man was behind her. He sexually assaulted her and

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ran off and turned down Philip Street, leaving her shaken and

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distressed. Police say although the attack on the woman is a shocking

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event, let alone in broad daylight, such attacks are rare. I am very

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surprised and very shocked and concerned. As I said, it is a very

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rare incident indeed. We are doing everything we can to identify the

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suspect. We will deal with him appropriately. I did not really

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come down here very often. Usually just once a month to come to the

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bank. I did not feel that save coming this way. She was not able

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to protect herself and nobody helped her. It can happen during

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the day and that is shocking. scary. I must be aware of people

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around me. Detectives say they are sure the local community will help

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them track down the attackers -- attacker. He is described as a

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white male. Approximately 60 years old with a round, clean shaven face

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and wearing a bow Age ring cake. -- beige raincoat. I would urge people

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to contact us with information or it anonymously, Crimestoppers.

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victim is recovering with a family You are watching Points West. If

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you have got the decorations up, time to take them down. Stay with

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us. Coming up, we are on the trail of the stolen lectern taken from a

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church in Gloucestershire and spotted in Romania. A bird's-eye

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view. We find out some of the secrets behind the filming of a new

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That is coming up. Mourners from France joined serving soldiers at

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the funeral of a decorated second world war veteran from Bristol.

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Peter Matthews joined the army had just 16 and saw action in Africa

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and Italy before helping to liberate southern France in 1944.

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He was later given a top French A fitting goodbye for a brave and

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gallant soldier. Peter Matthews is served with a parachute regiment.

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Current members of his battalion where his pallbearers. In August,

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1944, he had been dropped behind enemy lines in southern France as

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part of Operation Dragoon. He helped to liberate fringe villages,

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ahead of the seaborne invasion by American forces. If -- fringe

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villages. We had a bridge which was critical to capture. If the Germans

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had destroyed the bridge it would have been very difficult for the

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people coming up from the beaches. He was a very Stead fast chap. Very

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robust and a very nice sense of humour which help us because we had

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difficult times. Former comrades and top rating officers attended

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the service. Also the founders of a liberation Museum, charting the

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progress of Operation Dragoon in France. They recorded his reaction

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on his first visit. He said, wow. He was impressed and he was

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impressed by the new generation which was very interested about

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what he did. His affinity with the area he liberated lasted long after

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his military career ended. He visited every August. Despite the

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war, he held happy memories of his time in France, once bribing a

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French boy with chocolate, to stop him alerting German troops to his

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presence. He eventually met him again decades later. He was

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remembered not just as a brave and gallant soldier but as a remarkable

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father. The regiment told his family they owed them a debt of

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gratitude and that his bravery The family of a severely disabled

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man from Wiltshire have been giving their reaction to a report which

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recommends some terminally ill people be allowed to end their

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lives with medical help. Tony Nicklinson has got "locked in"

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syndrome and can only move his head and eyes. He is asking the court

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for a doctor to help him die without fear of prosecution. His

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wife says she is disappointed at today's recommendations will not

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help people like her husband, who have just a year to lead. We want

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it to become a lawful for him to have a lethal injection when he

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decides his life is not bearable. He does not want to die tomorrow.

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But when it becomes too much he wants a get-out clause. She has yet

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to be given a date for the case to be heard in the High Court. A

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Wiltshire charity which has helped hundreds of people kick addictions

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has been given the support of one of the most famous people in the

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world. The Duchess of Cambridge has chosen to become the patron of

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Action On Addiction. We have been to one of the therapy centres,

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Clouds House, to meet a former addict whose life has been

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transformed. I came here in 2006. My life was not going anywhere at

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all and I was drinking. He is tried to start his career again after a

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long break caused by alcoholism. He said he owes his life to the six

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weeks he spent at Clouds House, after an addiction and

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Rehabilitation programme will stop I found by --. I found myself

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drinking around the clock. I was unemployable. I could not work. I

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found myself in the enormous debt. I was pretty depressed. Major

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League depressed. What would have happened if you had not come here?

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I would have carried on. I would probably have been evicted from

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where I was living or wilfully left. I would probably be on a park bench

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or not here. This charity has been given the price to support of a

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sort after member of the royalty. Ever since the Duchess of Cambridge

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married Prince William, she has been deliberating about which

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charities to cheese. That support can be vital. -- select. She is

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holding the hand of a man dying from Aids. That changed attitudes

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and raised the profile of HIV charities to stratospheric levels.

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Action On Addiction is one of five organisations announced by St

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James's Palace to be given her support. The price cannot be put on

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her patronage, experts say. To have the patronage on the level that she

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will bring, it will raise the profile of that organisation. The

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issues around addiction they are tackling, which are in some ways a

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difficult subject, which will be household issues. I think that is

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why it is at report that she has chosen to support us. Addiction

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still carries a long stick there. What is it -- difficult it. What is

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it about the attraction to the charity? She might have looked at

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independent research indicating that out of 120 people treated here

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after two and a half years, 60 % The valuable brass lectern stolen

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from a church in Wiltshire has been spotted at an antique fair in

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Romania. It was taken from Holy Cross Church in Ashton Keynes last

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year. Interpol are trying to bring it back to the West. The lectern

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stood next to the altar in the church for several years. It took

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on audacious gang to steal it. They must have tried it out some time

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during the day. Parishioners thought it would have been sold for

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scrap but the plot thickened when he Romanian man contacted police to

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say he had seen it at an antiques fair in his country. I thought it

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was a spoof e-mail. I have been in the police for years and nothing

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like that had happened before but there was a telephone number and I

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called. I spoke to this Romanian man. Wiltshire police contacted

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Interpol, who are investigating and they have given the parish hope.

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But there is some way to go to track it down. What would it mean

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to get it back? It is part of the history. It has been there the

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whole time. Suddenly, when you have an empty space by the altar, you

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think, why would anyone walk into a church and take an artefact like

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that? Ecclesiastical Insurance in Shaw's 95 % of Anglican churches.

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They say theft is a growing problem. -- insurers. Stealing heart attacks

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is a cause for concern. They are often exported and they leave the

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country very quickly. Particularly if they are metal objects, they can

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have significant value. We have got demand for them outside of Britain.

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They have visited the man in Romania who saw the item and a half

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on the trail. Would it not be incredible if it was found and

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The it would be incredible. This weekend is an important one for

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football, it is the third round of the FA Cup.

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This is when the big guns get involved. Three of our clubs have

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been drawn against Premier League opposition. Let's get the low-down

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now. Big gains, a big competition and

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maybe the chance to topple one of those big clubs. League Two

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Cheltenham have the glamour tie of the round, a way at Tottenham.

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Swindon have a chance against Premier League strugglers Wycombe,

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Bristol City had a chance to be killed in their tie against Crawley.

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They may be two divisions below them, but they are top of the table.

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Bristol Rovers host Aston Villa. They sacked their manager on

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Tuesday, had hoped to have a new man in charge next week. That means

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Shaun North could be in charge for just one match, one of the club's

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most important for a decade. I went to see him this afternoon.

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Manager for a day. The Shaun North joint Bristol Rovers with Paul

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Buckle, and his letter to hold the fort after his departure.

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You have been number two, and they are often in the background.

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Suddenly you are centre stage possibly for one match only against

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a side from the Premier League. It has been very strange. Like you

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say, normally in the background you are just carrying on doing what you

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have to do, but today has been different. I have had interviews

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and the like. It is different. The things were different when the

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sides last met. As the short were shorter. The

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Bristol Rovers almost produced an upset when Marcus Browning

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equalised in the 1993 third round. The pundits looked very different

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as well. You would have scored that one!

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De replay produced a packed house and a defeat for Rovers, but they

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exited the Cup with their dignity intact. Saturday will be quite an

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occasion. -- occasion. For a man who spent 16 years at Portsmouth

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alongside the likes of Alan Ball, Tony Pulis and Henry that that, he

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is confident of taking it in his stride. -- Harry Redknapp.

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Make sure you work hard. Make sure you are organised and to do the

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right things. Give a good account of yourself.

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For Rovers and Shaun North, it will be a special day away from the

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worries about a new managers and league form, and a chance of

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causing a Cup upset. Tomorrow we will be taking a closer

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look at Cheltenham as they prepare for their trip to Spurs. We have

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gone behind the scenes and will reveal the routine that has become

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the secret of their recent success. It is a very exciting time.

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In the Sixties she was the golden girl of British athletics. When

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Mary Rand won an Olympic gold and broke the long jump world record in

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Tokyo in 1964, she became the first British woman to win a medal in a

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track and field events. Almost half a century later, a

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campaign has been launched to get her the freedom of her home city of

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Wells in Somerset. When you see it like this, you

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realise what an astonishing distanced this is. This physical

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representation of Mary Rand's world record herein the market place was

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actually put here by a local television company, but according

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to some, that is just not attribute enough.

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Mary Rand, setting the world record for long jump.

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She returned from Tokyo in 1964 with not just a gold medal, but a

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silver and bronze as well. She was Britain's golden girl.

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Tony Williams was a junior athlete at the time, and now he is at the

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centre of the campaign to get Mary Rand made a Freeman of Wells in the

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year of the guns and -- London Olympics.

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The council let her down in 1964. She should have been given the

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freedom of the city then. You will never get another Mary Rand in this

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area. The last person to get the freedom

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of Wells was World War One veteran Harry patch. -- Harry Patch. But

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there is support for Mary to be given the same honour.

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I think it will be very positive for the city. Now is the time to

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recognise that achievement to the new generation of people in the

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city. The some of whom have no idea who Mary Rand his.

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No, no idea. Does the name of Mary Rand mean

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anything to you? Know, I lived in California for 37

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years. The soda she now! Whispered to her earlier over the

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internet. It would mean everything to me,

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having been born in Wells. 48 years ago, she was the toast of

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Wells. Thousands turned out to welcome her home. Maybe one day, a

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repeat performance? It is the city council who will

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decide whether or not Mary Rand is granted the freedom of Wells. This

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afternoon, I spoke to the mayor, and he told me they had received

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the application as they were considering it. Watch this space.

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It has been described as simply breathtaking. Earthflight, the

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latest BBC wildlife series, made in Bristol, captures some of the

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world's most extraordinary natural wonders through the eyes of birds.

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The they use cameras attached to their backs.

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It is narrated by David Tennant. In a moment we will be talking to the

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series producer, but first, here is New York is a busy crossroads for

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During has now is John Downer, series producer. Has this been done

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before? It has. I first to did something

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like this many years ago, over 20 years ago. But what we have done

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here is taken a much broader canvas, the whole world. We have a lot of

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new techniques and technology at our disposal, so it is completely

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up-to-date, and an incredible journey.

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It must have been something that never really left you.

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The frustration in those days was the fact that the camera was not

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very good. The images were grainy. It was amazing, but would not stand

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up today. It is fantastic to be able to go back and use all this

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new technology and get such shopper, crystal clear images.

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How do you get a camera on the back of a bird?

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You use a very small camera! It has to be comfortable. The birds are

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always trained, and there is a process of getting used to a

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lightweight harness, and you can clip the camera on. But the time

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they come to do filming, they are used to carrying it. This is one of

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the techniques we are using. It all depends on the birds. And they have

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to get to know you? Yes. They, to the egg and then they think you are

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the parent. It is something like a ghost, as you saw, in the flight

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across New York. Those were a year- old Andy have been with the

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cameraman, in that instance, for over a year.

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So they wanted to fly with him? That is right. We took them down

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the Hudson River. I have seen a bit of the film, it

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is absolutely wonderful. It you not only see the birds, but to see the

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world's best locations. It is a grand tour of the world.

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But it is seeing it as the birds do. It is not any spectacles like New

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York or Venice, but it is also these incredible natural events

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that birds have to come to move. They become part of it. It is

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another way of viewing nature. Also, they became the producers,

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because you had to adapt to what they were doing.

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That is what is extraordinary. It is the birds that were telling us

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the story. They were taking us to some of the events. Some of the

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things we were filming have never been filmed before. The secret was

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to follow the birds, as they took us to these things. For me, I have

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been making films for many years, it was a whole new approach we were

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letting the subject to tell the story.

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Some of it is in flight photography from aeroplanes. The yes, every

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technique under the sun. Now, with all the technology coming

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up to date, we are able to fly the birds in ways that have never been

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done before. Look at the picture behind your!

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What has been exciting for me is when the pictures come back, you

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are seeing stuff you have never seen before. Every good natural

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history film shows things like this, but we are able to fly into the

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flock. We used a glider which did not scare the birds. They just

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ignored it. Let's have a look at some of the

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pictures from tonight's programme. Tell us about these.

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This is a fine of a pelican, and these are flamingoes. This is a

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drone camera, which gives us this excellent viewpoint. We are also

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flying on the backs of the birds, but we are filming with

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conventional cameras as well. There are a whole load of techniques that

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I used to show what it is like to be a hunting bird hunting these

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flamingos. It was extraordinary to go there and be able to use all

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these different techniques. We have really are brought it alive to be

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what it is like to be both predator and prey.

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We have got a wonderful experience coming up on BBC One. Thank you for

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coming in. We are going to move on to the weather very shortly.

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It has been a very windy night a for birds and anything else, I

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suppose! Ian was going to be on the roof, but he has taken refuge in

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here. I am slightly out of breath!

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I will ask the colleagues to switch stomping round on the camera and we

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will start to do get started. Thank you very much for this

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photograph from my head earlier this morning. Virtually a sandstorm

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He missed the wind strength. -- here is the wind strength. Tomorrow

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will be a different story. It will look more like this. There is a

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warm front coming through. For the time being, you will notice that

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the isobars are spreading back out again. Here comes the warm front

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into the latter stages of tomorrow. It will bring more cloud in as the

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day progresses. Tonight, the wind will be getting a bit lighter.

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There will be some showers in the northern part of Gloucestershire

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and Wiltshire. There could be some ice on the roads. Tomorrow will

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start under a decent amount of sunshine. It will not be as windy

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as today. The cloud will move in throughout the day, and the

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