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Good evening and welcome to BBC Our headlines tonight: New hope

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Good evening and welcome to BBC trial at Frenchay Hospital shows

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patients from the worst symptoms. So in love — the couple killed by a

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disqualified driver — now the Prime Minister talks about the offender's

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The Justice Secretary has asked Minister talks about the offender's

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Council to review the guidelines for serious driving offences. I think we

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should look at this specific case in The marksmen who missed who missed

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their targets — but the government blames the failure on the badgers.

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And an eye in the sky — US cops blames the failure on the badgers.

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West Country flying machines to Good evening. There's news tonight

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pioneered here in the West that could offer new hope to people

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suffering with Parkinson's disease. Bristol's Frenchay Hospital is

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piloting a new treatment which can repair damaged brain cells and could

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reverse the symptoms of the illness. It is early days, but the progress

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is being watched around the world. Tom is a brave man. He volunteered

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to be the very first Parkinson's patient in the world to have a long,

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metal probe and deep into his brain This long needle allows easy protein

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to be infused which can repair It was trepidation statistically the

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least —— to say the least. But I thought if you don't try, you don't

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Scientists here have developed a new way of accessing the brain to inject

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a chemical which can restart growth. There were signs that this protein

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could reverse symptoms several years ago. This video shows a man walking

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before and after receiving the drug. At this trial came to an abrupt

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before and after receiving the drug. after the company that makes the

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drug decided to pull out because the results were inconclusive. The

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Bristol surgeon who pioneered the treatment says that is because the

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American doctors were not doing treatment says that is because the

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Our whole focus over the last seven or eight years has been trying to

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develop a system to reliably deliver drugs to the brain, and that is

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develop a system to reliably deliver Now a new trial has begun thanked

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two new equipment tailor made by a This robotic arm has been designed

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to allow surgeons to put tiny tubes deep into the brain to deliver the

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growth factor with sub millimetre precision. So far, six patients

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including Tom and another man from Salford have taken part. The first

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phase has proved that the treatment I know after nine months I will

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phase has proved that the treatment the medication, so I am looking

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the team are looking for another 36 We are hoping to see that this has

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the promise of the early trial and reverses Parkinson's. We don't know,

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we are hoping. We are exciting, reverses Parkinson's. We don't know,

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we are cautious and hoping to do this any rigorous way and answer the

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This technique is already attracting it works, it could be modified for

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patients with arrangements. It is still early days, this project could

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be the breakthrough in the treatment of Parkinson's adopters everywhere

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In a moment, we'll give you details of how you can volunteer. But first

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joining us now from London is Doctor Kieran Breen who is the Director of

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This sounds very encouraging, but how different is this from other

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treatments that are available at the At the moment all the treatments

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that are available to read the symptoms of the condition, but they

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don't actually stop the progression of the death of nerve cells. This is

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the first treatment whereby we can inject something, to try and reverse

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the progression of the cell deaths. The cells will regrow, they will be

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former connections, and the brain will start working in the normal

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That is tremendously encouraging. How harmful are the symptoms to

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That is tremendously encouraging. No two people have exactly the same

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symptoms, but people usually present with stiffness, slowness, some have

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a tremor. Over time this progresses. Some have problems with sleep or

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depression or memory problems, but also one of the key problems that

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people with Parkinson's disease also one of the key problems that

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falling. The potential of breaking bones and breaking hips. These are

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all problems affect people with reverse it, we will, essentially,

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You need more people to take part in the trial, but what sort of patients

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are you looking for to take part in There are very specific set of

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criteria for people to take part. It basically depends on the symptoms

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condition and the medication they are wrong and how well they respond

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to the medication. All these details are available on the Parkinsons

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to the medication. All these details You will give us a warning, I'm

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Of course, as you had an interview, we have had six people who took

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Of course, as you had an interview, ensured that the procedure is safe,

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and now we need to go ahead with the drug. We will be following the

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people for up to 18 months, and drug. We will be following the

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then will we be able to find out Let's hope. Thank you for joining

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If you want to volunteer for the next stage of the trial then there

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are more details and information on the Parkinsons UK website. The

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address is on your screen now. A former police community support

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officer from Gloucestershire who's on trial for smuggling drugs into

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Indonesia has appeared again in court. Andrea Waldeck, who worked in

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Cheltenham, is alleged to have smuggled thousands of pounds worth

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of crystal meth through Surabaya Airport. If convicted, she could

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The Prime Minister has suggested that the sentence given to the

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Bristol man who killed a young couple out cycling in Hanham should

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be reviewed. Ross and Clare Simons died when Nicholas Lovell crashed

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into their tandem bike. He'd already been disqualified from driving.

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Ross and Clare Simons had only been married for 18 months and had just

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finished a course of IVF treatment when Nicholas Lovel smashed into

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them in Hanham. Serial offender Lovell was yet again driving without

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a licence and had previously been The couple's MP had told the House

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of Commons that people don't think Over a thousand people petitioned

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for the law to be changed so that people already disqualified it

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should receive tougher sentences. Will the Prime Minister receive

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should receive tougher sentences. petition, and does he agree the

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should receive tougher sentences. Today David Cameron paid tribute to

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Ross and Clare and told MPs he thinks the ten and a half year

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sentence should be looked at again. This is the most appalling crime. As

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he says, someone with ten previous convictions, disqualified at the

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justice secretary has asked the council to review the sentencing

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guidelines for serious driving offences, and I think we should

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guidelines for serious driving at this case in the light of that.

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Ross's father, mother and sister have been campaigning for a change

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sentences for repeat offenders. He was laughing about the fact that

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he will be out in a couple of years. It's time that the law took into

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account people think of what they It completely destroyed us, to be

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honest. Our family and clear's family... It will never be the same,

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The Attorney general's office told the BBC that normally cases can

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The Attorney general's office told be referred to the Court of Appeal

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within 28 days of the sentence being passed. Ross and Clare's families

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say they'll continue their fight for justice — whatever the outcome of

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the Prime Minsiter's words today. You're watching Points West. It

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the Prime Minsiter's words today. 6:40pm. Stay with us, as there is

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In the water for 100 days, we catch up with the swimmer trying to make

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And celebrities come to Cheltenham —— find out what these famous faces

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had to say when they came to the Cheltenham Literature Festival

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The West's controversial badger Cheltenham Literature Festival

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could now continue into November. Today the government confirmed that

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extensions of two to three weeks were being sought for both Somerset

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Marksmen have failed to shoot enough badgers. It's part of efforts to

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tackle bovine tuberculosis which they can spread to cattle. The

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six—week cull in West Somerset ended was due to end next Monday. Our

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Somerset Correspondent, Clinton Rogers has been gauging reaction to

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todays' news and joins us from the Thanks. We are at the centre of

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todays' news and joins us from the Somerset has been in the national

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media spotlight on and off for the factions have argued and squared up

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whether killing badgers is the way to tackle TB in cattle. What a lot

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of people had thought was that aspect cull came to the end, the

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guns would fall silent and maybe the arguments would quieten. How wrong

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we were. It seems that the cull arguments would quieten. How wrong

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set to continue, and the arguments At Camp Badger in Somerset, today's

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news was greeted with a mixture At Camp Badger in Somerset, today's

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government of cynically manipulating the figures to disguise a gross

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It's obviously been a failure, and the government really ought to stand

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up and say it has been a failure. It has not worked. Instead, they are

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changing the goalposts so that they committed look like it has worked.

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goalposts. It is a wild animal, subject to the vagaries of weather,

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hear now only 850 have been killed. Why? Well, it seems the original

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estimate of the badger population was too high. So that's been revised

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downwards from 2,400 to 1,450. Now achievable, and the National Farmers

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Union locally says for the whole future of farming, Defra's cull

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Union locally says for the whole They have overturned 20 years of

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political thrust crass mission and inactivity which is led us to this

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situation with cattle slaughtered and the disease out of control and

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the danger of Europe making us into an isolation zone and shutting down

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farms, which is what a lot of the anti—cull campaigners actually want.

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But one farmer in Gloucestershire whose herd has been affected by

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But one farmer in Gloucestershire says he's not surprised the shooting

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because we failed to actually kill the requisite number in the time

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period that we were supposed to the requisite number in the time

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that it is down purely to somebody in Natural England getting the

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Whether this nightime cull is now in disarray clearly depends on which

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Whatever the argument, it's likely now that an extension of up to three

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weeks will now be granted for the nightime shooting in both Somerset

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What is clear is that for as long as the shooting goes on, here and in

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Gloucestershire the protesters will stay and do what they can to disrupt

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Political Editor Paul Barltrop. stay and do what they can to disrupt

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proposed extension is creating much challenge for the police — what

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proposed extension is creating much It's been really big for them, they

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have had to devote a lot of time and manpower to it. That in scores of

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officers going out like to keep manpower to it. That in scores of

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peace between the marksmen and the protesters. Before it started, there

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was an estimate it would cost the forces each year £1 million. That is

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natural England reckon it could We could see cull going on for

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You will keep us posted, would you? A man who took up residence in a

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tree to protect it from a housing development has been charged by

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tree to protect it from a housing police. Rowan Burrough was arrested

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at the site in Stroud yesterday police. Rowan Burrough was arrested

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has now been charged with common He'll appear in court in Cheltenham

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next month. The tree has now been An independent review into fraud and

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corruption in the water park society says no further action needs to

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corruption in the water park society taken. Dennis Grant was jailed in

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2011 after admitting fraud totalling more than £660,000. The city of

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London police carried the case compelling evidence to support

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claims that other public officials Police in Florida have taken to

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claims that other public officials skies to catch criminals — with

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claims that other public officials help of an engineering firm based in

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rural Dorset. The officers strap an aero—engine to their backs and fly

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paragliders at high speed. Scott The West Country's renowned for

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aviation. And Semley — on the Dorset Wiltshire border — is now part of

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that aero industry. Here, in a converted barn, they make motors

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Fire up now, and I we. If you want to fly, there is no option. This is

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the best way, the cheapest way and the most thrilling form of flying

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selling worldwide. In Florida, Palm Bay Police use the Dorset built

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selling worldwide. In Florida, Palm A lot of the work we are using is

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for search and rescue, as well as someone is growing crops in the

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middle of a field, rather than rearrested scan a large area, the

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using paramotors which takes one person 20 minutes to fly across

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using paramotors which takes one field and find what they're looking

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helicopter costs £1,200 an hour field and find what they're looking

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fly, a paramotor, ten. And its more The issue with unmanned vehicles is

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that the information is then passed back to a control centre, and that

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has to be processed. If you have a physical person in the sky, they can

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make decisions based on what they can see in the environment around

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The company's hoping to develop markets in the Middle East. And

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South Africa — where paramotors poachers. The man behind the company

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helped Bear Grylls fly a paramotor over Everest in 2007. He wants to

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grow the leisure market also — by making paramotors as popular as

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grow the leisure market also — by If someone had been told 100 years

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ago that in the future you have If someone had been told 100 years

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machine in the back of a car like this that you can carry around any

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case they wouldn't believe you. this that you can carry around any

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we're trying to show the world that this is what we have and it is

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And the next project — a flying this is what we have and it is

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Destined for the skies over Semley. What fun. I want to go. Where would

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The Wiltshire snooker player Stephen Lee has appealed against his 12—year

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ban for match—fixing The former world number five is appealing

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against the sanction, findings and costs, following an independent

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tribunal hearing in Bristol last month. Lee was found to have fixed

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seven matches, including a game month. Lee was found to have fixed

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He's been in the water for over month. Lee was found to have fixed

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hundred days — attempting to be month. Lee was found to have fixed

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first person to swim the length month. Lee was found to have fixed

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mainland Britain — from Lands End to John O'Groats. Sean Conway — whose

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dry land base is Cheltenham — is hoping to raise thousands of pounds

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for charity. Jules Hyam's been keeping an eye on his progress.

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He began his endurance swim 102 keeping an eye on his progress.

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ago — it probably feels like longer. Since June 30th, Sean Conway's been

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swimming about the same as a channel 32—year—old claims he's not a very

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good swimmer — chances are he's 32—year—old claims he's not a very

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a little better by now. It's a pretty straightforward swim really —

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he's only had to deal with salt water swelling his tongue, his

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support crew getting sea sick, those not quite as scary as swimming

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through what the crew say is a Hopefully I will finish in the next

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two or three weeks. The Scottish water is getting very cold at the

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moment. Every week I take longer, that will make me even slower, so I

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just need to man up little bit and Sean had planned to spend three

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months on the journey — he and his crew are now well into month four —

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and a new challenge is looming — funding the final stretch so he

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and a new challenge is looming — complete his mission. Today Sean's

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swimming past Loch Torridan opposite South Rona — further north than

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Inverness. Big waves have been hampering his progress, but he is

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getting closer to his 1,000 mile And you can read Sean's diary and

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follow exactly where he's got to on Gloucester full—back Olly Morgan has

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Olly, capped twice by England, has not played since damaging his knee

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ligaments in January last year. not played since damaging his knee

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contract with the Cherry and Whites in 2004 and made a hundred and

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contract with the Cherry and Whites Swindon Town are through to the

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contract with the Cherry and Whites quarterfinals of the Johnstone's

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Paint Trophy after beating Plymouth Argyle last night. Goals from Jack

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Bartram and Nicky Ajose sealed a 2—1 victory for Swindon, who came back

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from being a goal down. Bristol victory for Swindon, who came back

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are out, having lost at Wycombe Wanderers. 2—0 down at half—time,

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this great strike from Brendan Moloney wasn't enough to keep them

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Now, if you are a lover of books Cheltenham is the place to be this

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week. Its annual Literature Festival speakers there's usually something

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to interest everyone. And today there was a host of famous faces on

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offer — as Ali Vowles has been The appropriately named club band

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from Bath, whose music is based The appropriately named club band

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love of books. There was certainly no shortage of eager readers lapping

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up access to the authors. It felt a little bit like spot the celebrity

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writer. Each was keen to sign a little bit like spot the celebrity

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books, making someone's day. The theme is memories. I would have

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memories of my childhood autograph book, and today I was certainly

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Did I pull the plug out of the Film critic Barry Norman has watched

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over 15,000 films in his lifetime, the first one scene the Saturday

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I remember vividly the first ones were Westerns — the good guys were

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with white hats and the guys —— were Westerns — the good guys were

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bad guys had black cats. If they had black cats. If the official here,

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Ruby wax, here is the mental health Ambassador, says she has no memory

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of when her depression first hit. You have no memory. It's like ——

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it's like nature blesses you. I You have no memory. It's like ——

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it offensive when someone says, doesn't make you more creative?

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it offensive when someone says, say, do you say that to someone

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it offensive when someone says, And I was talking about his passion

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I can remember wanting to draw, And I was talking about his passion

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when I did want to draw, I thought, I want to draw it, I am still me.

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Cheltenham. Such a talented man Now the weather: we will have plenty

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more sunshine tomorrow then we had A lot of cloud full stop you can see

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that the cloud is moving swiftly, propelled away by a north—westerly

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temperatures. Today with the wind fresher. For the rest of today,

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straight northerly tomorrow. That continues into the weekend. It is

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inviting, autumnal if not winter Tomorrow, despite the cold, plenty

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of sunshine. Crisp and clear with showers will be pushed Southeast

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Road. Winds will ease down during the second half of the night. Rural

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temperatures will be pretty cold. Cold enough any few years for a

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touch of grass frost. And very nice morning, it is not until the second

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half of the day that cloud begins to bubble up. With the wind speed,

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watch out for the temperatures. bubble up. With the wind speed,

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direction of the wind means it will feel bitterly cold. Wind chill will

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make the temperatures feel the work. A big jump from where we began the

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week. We retain the clear skies A big jump from where we began the

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Friday, but the cloud will come A big jump from where we began the

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from the eastern area, bringing A big jump from where we began the

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little bit of rain. Friday, some damp and cloudy conditions, still

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with wind speeds in the north—east. It will be called no matter what.

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The area of low pressure will bring damp area into Friday and Saturday.

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Saturday grey and gloomy, and the That's it for now. You will practice

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your broadcasting later, would you? Yes, badly. I'll see you at 10pm,

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