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Welcome to BBC Points West with David Garmston and Sarah Jane

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Bungay. Our main story tonight: A warning

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over Christmas debt. Last`minute shoppers set the tills ringing ` but

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how many will avoid maxing out the credit card? I don't do credit at

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all. I don't even own a credit card, so this is all out of my

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wages. The other stories making the news

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tonight: The cruellest of burglaries ` this woman's home is broken into

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and the thieves set fire to every room.

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Now it's first class passengers feeling the squeeze. Hundreds of

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their seats are to be removed to make room for more economy

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travellers on busy trains. And as the deadline for first class

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post passes, we'll be hearing from the Royal Mail choir!

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Good evening. It's the last big shopping weekend before Christmas,

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and businesses are hoping that people will be spending like there's

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no tomorrow. But with most people's incomes

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outstripped by rising prices, there are warnings that thousands of us

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could be getting into debt. So are people turning to the never never to

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make ends meet, or holding back Scott Ellis reports.

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It has been quiet on the high street recently, perhaps because of record

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online sales. The hope is this weekend will be the busiest of the

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year. People are leaving it till the end. I think they have done their

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online retail shopping already, but for the high street, they will come

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in white at the last minute and see what discounts they can get. The TUC

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is worried that this will be a Christmas on credit for many,

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predict think the average debt for an adult at ?685, taking the average

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family 24 weeks to pay off. Here at the Brunel shopping centre in

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Swindon, there are signs of thrift. We save what we have, and put it

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towards Christmas at the end of the year. Some of it will go on credit,

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about 50`50. As a family, we've decided to spend a lot less than we

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did previously, and spend more time thinking about the presence and

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thinking what somebody would actually want, rather than just

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rushing madly to the shops. Those behind the tills may be tempted to

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cut prices this weekend, because for shops without Internet access, this

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was `` November was a flat month. Easter next year is late April, so

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there's a long time between now and then. They need to take some money

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to sustain their businesses over the next few months. Nationally, the

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rate at which shops close has slowed, but still started at 18 day

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at the start of 2013. It has been another tough year. The bigger

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stores has a bit of `` have a bit of a buffer. Particularly for those who

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work in the markets and the small stores around Bristol, the buck

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stops with them. If the money runs out, that's the end of it. It is

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generally agreed that consumer confidence is growing, and if you

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are heading out tomorrow for some on budget Christmas shopping, beware.

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The media has already dubbed it Panic Saturday.

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A Bristol woman is facing Christmas away from her home after it was

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completely gutted in an arson attack. 64`year`old Elizabeth McAfee

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was visiting relatives when somebody broke in to her home, set it on

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fire, and destroyed all her precious belongings. Sabet Choudhury reports.

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A well, this is the room that we think

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they came through. It's difficult to kind of believe this level of

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destruction, and how things that were so solid have just disappeared.

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34 years of memories went up in flames. Last Saturday, while

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visiting her sick mother, Elizabeth McAfee's home was ransacked and set

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alight. It feels like a bereavement. I mean, it feels like everything,

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all the work and the painting and sort of making things and thinking

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things through, has just gone. The stench of smoke and charred walls is

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all that's left in some of the rooms. The damage so bad that it may

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take over six months before Elizabeth can come back home. The

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police are saying it's probably not targeted at me, and I can't think

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that it would be, but I imagine the intention was for the house to be

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gutted. I'm beginning to feel angry, and I'm determined that whoever did

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this isn't going to get me down Although very little was taken, but

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the fire has destroyed decades`old family heirlooms, paintings and

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photos. I find it really difficult to picture who would have done this.

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But whoever, you know, whether it was one person or group of people...

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I just think, what sad lives to get a kick out of doing something this

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destructive. Just get a life. The police say they're investigation

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the attack and are asking for witnesses. But for Elizabeth, it's

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now a matter of picking up the pieces and starting again, hoping to

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forget a Christmas that's memorable for all the wrong reasons.

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A police Community Support Officer is to appear in court to be charged

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with common assault over an alleged attack on a boy at a Bristol Leisure

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Centre. 31`year`old Nicholas Peace is alleged to have assaulted a

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15`year`old at Downend Sports Centre in June earlier this year. The

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charge follows a police investigation into a complaint by

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the boy's family. Two men and a woman have been

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remanded in custody following an inquiry into sexual exploitation in

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Yeovil. 27`year`old Jon Smillie Luke Fuller, who's 24, and

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20`year`old Eleanor Dollery have been charged with various counts,

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including rape and trafficking offences. All three are from Yeovil.

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The charges follow police raids on businesses and residential

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properties in the area earlier in the week.

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Four people have been charged after a man from Gloucestershire died on a

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night out in Manchester. 30`year`old Nick Bonnie collapsed in September

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after taking what's thought to be a contaminated ecstasy tablet at a

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nightclub. The four men, all from Gloucestershire, are charged with

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various counts of perverting the course of justice, and possession

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and supply of class A drugs. You're watching BBC Points West with

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David and Sarah`Jane, on the last Friday before Christmas. We'll have

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a full forecast shortly. And Ian ` it's looking like Santa and the

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reindeer could be in for a bit of a bumpy ride, isn't it? I think the

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fasten seat belt sites will be on on his flight! This chart can only mean

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one thing from Monday into Christmas Eve ` stormy.

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The Mayor of Swindon escaped a revolt in his own council chamber

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last night after allegedly making derogatory remarks about adults with

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disabilities. Councillor Nick Martin says he can't remember whether he

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made the remarks about people with Downs Syndrome or not. Opposition

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members tabled a vote of no confidence, but councillors instead

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decided to postpone the vote, until an investigation has been carried

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out. The swing bridge in Bristol's

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floating harbour will remain shut to larger boats until after Christmas

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at the earliest. The Plimsoll Bridge was stuck open earlier this week,

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causing traffic chaos. It had to be cranked into place by hand, but is

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now stuck closed. It means traffic can flow freely, but larger boats

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have been advised by the harbour master to avoid the area. Engineers

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have spent the day assessing the damage to the bridge motor.

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Bristol City Council has raised more than ?11 million through parking

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fines in the last six years, according to figures seen by the

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BBC. Revenue from tickets has more than trebled, to ?2.8 million in the

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12 months to April. By law, all the cash raised should go back into

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transport`related items, such as filling pot holes, park and ride

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services and subsidising some bus routes.

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First class passengers are likely to have less room on busy trains soon,

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as their seats are being taken away for people travelling economy. For

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years, second class passengers have been left standing while first class

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seats have been empty. Now First Great Western wants to make the

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system fairer. Here's Robin Markwell.

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Even during the morning rush, First Class passengers are hard to find.

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Back in Standard, and it's often standing room only. Every seat will

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be taken, and then the aisle will be full and there will be up to ten

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plus people stood in the hallways as well, by the entrance to the doors.

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Pretty unpleasant. Quite stuffy hot, full of people, especially on

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the way home. Just not very nice. And that's a sentiment shared at the

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front of the train. If you look around you today, most of this

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carriage is entirely empty. I've been on it since Didcot, and it is

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just empty all the way through, whereas Standard is heaving. Even on

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the busiest of trains, these luxurious leather first`class seats

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are only ever two thirds full, and that is why First Great Western is

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thinking of ditching one of these carriages in favour of the standard

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class carriage, which has almost double the number of seats. If we

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look at removing some of that first`class provision at the

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moment, on some trains that will increase capacity by 20%, which is

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significant at a time when passenger numbers continue to rise. We have

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new trains on the way, but that is some years away yet. We need to do

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something. First Great Western has then the subject of many protests,

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with overcrowding a key issue. Campaigners have questioned why this

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hasn't happened sooner, but welcomed the talks with government. It is a

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sound business room. More than half the time, first class is empty. It

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is a very good move for commuters, because it means they will have more

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capacity on the trains, as an interim measure, until the

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government puts more into the railways. Investment is coming, in

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the shape of a ?1 billion electrification of the mainline

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With passenger numbers due to rise 50% by 2019, First Great Western

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defined itself playing catch up to ensure everyone who pays affair gets

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a seat. Now, we don't want to alarm anyone,

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but if you haven't posted your Christmas cards yet, you might be

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too late, as today was the deadline for first class. The Royal Mail s

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brought in hundreds of extra staff to cope with the workload. Jules

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Hyam is at the sorting centre in Filton now. It looks busy there It

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is very busy. If you are watching this and you have posted a Christmas

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card, it will have come through here. They come through Bristol and

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Bath, and Taunton and Gloucester. These guys are sorting things to get

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posted tomorrow. Mrs Fields, Merry Christmas! That will come tomorrow.

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Not everything gets sorted by hand, just things that can't go through

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the machines. The machines are very fancy. This one has post going up a

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conveyor belt and then threw a big drum, and the post gets sorted

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according to size. There is another, with the machine, with a

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camera that reads postcodes. It makes it a lot easier for that

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machine to sort out letters and get the letters to the right place. How

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many letters? Today, this place has seen 5 million different items of

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homes `` of post. That's quite a lot. They are all getting stuck in,

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even senior management. Ruth, you have had to get stuck in today!

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Yes, it is all hands on deck at Christmas. People are working

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incredibly hard to make sure that letters and parcels are sorted and

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into homes in time for Christmas. Our postmen and women are working

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tirelessly to deliver a fantastic Christmas for customers. You have

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had to take on an extra 500 people to make sure that everything gets to

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its destination in time for Christmas. We will be back here for

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a special treat later. They don t just deliver mail, they sing! The

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Bristol Royal Mail choir will be delivering `` will be performing for

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us later. Thank you. We are looking forward to

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that. A family who lost their home in a

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gas explosion in Cheltenham are just months away from moving back in

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Their house in Rosehill Street had to be demolished after being badly

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damaged in the blast in May last year. Building work started earlier

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this year and the roof has almost been finished. After a devastating

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18 months they told us they now can't wait to move back home. The

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builders have worked so hard to get it to this point. They have only

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been on site at `` eight weeks, so to be able to stand here and see the

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roof on our house is quite an achievement. It's also expected that

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work will start next year to rebuild the house at the centre of the

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explosion. A health and safety investigation never found the cause.

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A ceremony's been held in Bristol today to remember a man killed in

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the Lockerbie air disaster. 270 people lost their lives after a

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jumbo jet was blown up above the small Scottish town 25 years ago

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tomorrow. Among them, a mother and daughter from Bristol, and an

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American man who was living in the city. Laura Jones reports.

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A cold Friday morning in the lead up to Christmas, and they came to

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remember. To remember a man, an American, who in the 1980s had lived

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here in Clifton whilst working for a computer software company. Bernard

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Joseph McLoughlin was just 30, and heading home to the States for

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Christmas when he died. He isn't forgotten, like all the victims of

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that tragic accident. It was needed that we come out and light a few

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candles and lay everything memory of Bernard. Like so many other people

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around the country, and around the world, who will be remembering their

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loved ones, who died on December the 21st 1988. It was 25 years ago this

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weekend that the Pan Am flight exploded in midair. All 259 people

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on board were killed, as were 1 people on the ground. What happened

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in the skies above Lockerbie changed thousands of lives, and had

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repercussions across the world, not least on this street in Bristol

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where, 25 years ago tonight, a young mother would have been packing,

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getting ready for her and her baby daughter's trip to America. That

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lady was Yvonne Owen. Yvonne was also pregnant with her second child.

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It had been a last`minute decision to go away for Christmas ` one which

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was to cost them their lives. One man, Libyan Abdelbaset al`Megrahi

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was convicted for the bombing. He has since died, but there are still

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questions about whether he acted alone, or indeed, if he really was

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behind the atrocity at all. Official memorial services will be held in

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London and Lockerbie tomorrow, and elsewhere, communities across the

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world touched by the tragedy will remember in their own way.

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Some sports news now. Bath Rugby's excellent start to the season will

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get a big test over Christmas. They play three of the country's top

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sides. Alistair Durden is here with tonight's sport. Why is it going so

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well? A mixture of things. Good coaching, good young players coming

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through the academy. They also recruited really well over the last

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year and a half, snapping up top young players. They are getting

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better and better. It translates into ten league and cup wins in a

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row for the first team, but there is progress right through the club

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which suggests Bath have a bright future ahead of them.

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The first silverware of the season. This week, Bath's second string won

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their league. They're part of a winning culture at the club. The

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senior side are top of their group in both Cup competitions and third

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in the Premiership table. We have acknowledged from the start of the

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season that we have more strength and depth. You can see that in the

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scores in the Premiership side, so it is a nice position to be in.

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Selection is getting harder. That is a great problem to have. There was

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much more of a club atmosphere and a team spirit. That is coming through

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on the pitch. We are building up a team at first and second team levels

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that look good now, and will be stronger in the future. With such

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momentum, the director of rugby s exit last week came as a surprise. A

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disagreement over his role was the reason given by the club, who now

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want to move on. Of course there has been disruption, and we have had to

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make disruption `` make adjustments. But we have come

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through it, and hopefully we will go from strength to strength. This

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season's success is built around a dominating forward pack, giving the

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Premiership's player of the month, George Ford, the opportunity to

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orchestrate the young and talented backs. People keep saying that we

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have not achieved anything yet. We have had a good run of wins, and

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that is all it is at the moment We are going to keep working hard and

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see where we end up. We are a humble squad with no big`time players. Our

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recruitment has been fantastic. We recruit young kids and put them

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together. They are like the rat Pack! If you keep that backline

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together for the next five years, they will be 25, 26, with all that

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experience of winning and losing together. We have the potential to

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do something really special for the next ten years. So it is a long`term

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project, with games against harlequins, Northampton and

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Leicester, which will give an indication of how fast this group is

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growing up. On Sunday, Gloucester fry half Freddie Burns will be on

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the bench for the visit of Worcester. Stand`in captain Billy

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Twelvetrees will play at ten instead. And in the Championship,

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Bristol are away to Ealing. Football, and Cheltenham Town are

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another team who have found some good form. After a slow start,

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understandable after the disappointment of another playoff

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defeat back in May. They have started to pick themselves up now.

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Mark Yates, who's celebrating four years in charge on Sunday, has

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managed to rebuild this team yet again. They're now unbeaten in their

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last nine games and only six points off the playoffs. But with plenty of

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room for improvement still. I think there is only five teams who have

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lost less games. We're not doing a great deal, just converting into

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wins at the moment. If we had won more games than we had drawn, we

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would be in the play`off spots. We have a good group here, who are

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starting to realise what it takes to play well, the team, and win games.

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Cheltenham are away to Fleetwood tomorrow. Here are all the fixtures.

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Yeovil, unbeaten in their last four games, face another former Premier

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League club in Blackburn Rovers Swindon could recall the Nile Ranger

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for their home game against Coventry. Full previews, including

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team news, on the BBC Sport website. One more thing ` tomorrow could be a

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very memorable day for Lewis Carey of restored city? He's one

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appearance short of equalling the appearance record of club legend

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John Atyeo, who was also an England international, and has a stand named

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after him at Ashton Gate. Louis made his Bristol City debut 18 years ago.

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We have a photograph of him which he may not thank us for showing again!

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This is one of his career highlights, scoring in the

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Championship playoff semifinal in 2008. He'll be 37 next month, and

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has only featured twice this season, but if he does get on the field he

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will draw level with John Atyeo s record. In the future, I will look

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back on it with enormous pride and think what a great achievement it

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is. We all know what the great man himself did for the football club,

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not just appearances, but goals and England appearances. He put Bristol

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on the map. Hopefully, I can be the same. Lets hope it happens for him.

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He is a bit of a laugh. Yes, he is the sort of character that you need

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in the dressing room. That is why he is so popular, not just because of

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his ability. He is a bit of a character. When his good friend

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Scott Murray retired a couple of years ago and became a kit man,

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Lewis went and got a shirt that was about three sizes too small for him,

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and then came in and said, Scott, you have shrunk my shirt! Football

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needs those characters. And he is still only 37! I think we should

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name this desk after you, you've been here for so long! Thank you.

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Happy Christmas. If you were looking to the skies

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above the Forest of Dean recently, you might have thought Santa was on

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a trial run for Christmas Eve. One, two, three, go! In fact, two science

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enthusiasts ` Mark Ireland and Cassie Phelps ` had attached a tiny

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replica, complete with reindeer and gifts, to a high altitude weather

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balloon. The on`board camera and GPS tracker captured the journey as the

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sleigh flew to 100,000 feet above the Earth! But Santa would have had

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a rough landing, after the balloon burst. Bang! You win some, you lose

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some. Shall we take a look at the weather?

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It is going to be rather a turbulent story as we run into the Christmas

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season. For the weekend, it will be a question of clearing some rain

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away towards the south`east tomorrow morning. That weather will establish

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overnight. Tomorrow morning we have some more heavy rain, turning

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showery through the evening. Sunday will be a chilly and blustery day.

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All eyes on Monday, as we look down the barrel of what will be a

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decidedly stormy and wet period across all of the British Isles

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Let's look at some rain moving in into the west, which will be quite

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heavy. A dry, bright window tomorrow afternoon for a while, before more

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showers approach. Rain this evening and tonight, and we have a Met

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Office yellow warning out for this, particularly to the south of the M4,

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including Bristol, Bath, and north`east Somerset. Substantial

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amounts of rain tonight and into tomorrow morning, so there could

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well be some localised flooding This is the chart for Monday as we

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won through to the afternoon. This deep area of low pressure, these

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isobars packed together, that is a recipe for an awful lot of rain and

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some strong winds. Up to 60 miles an hour gusts. With that in mind, we

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have another Met office early warning out, because the impact of

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this, even the time is it, and some of the conditions lasting through to

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Christmas Eve, will be disruptive. So far as the here and now is

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concerned, some rain will arrive later this evening from the

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north`west. It will be a wet and windy spell overnight, and the

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heaviest of that game will be further to the South East, where it

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will still linger into the early hours of daylight tomorrow morning.

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Temperatures tonight around eight Celsius. As the day wears on, the

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heavy rain rolls away, the brighter spells return, and eventually, we

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will have some more heavy rain coming back in. I will see you on

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Boxing Day, but I will keep you up to date on Twitter. Happy Christmas

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to you! Thank you. I would like to wish you all a happy

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Christmas. Now time to open our advent

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calendar. And this snowy picture of Glastonbury Tor was taken by Steve

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Lambert. That's about it from us in the

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studio. But we're going back to the Royal Mail sorting office in Filton.

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Amidst all the letters, the staff choir are going to sing us out. You

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may remember they were finalists in the BBC's The Choir: Sing While You

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Work programme with Gareth Malone, so we should be in for a treat. Good

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night. # Ding`dong merrily on high.

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# Hosanna in ex`Chelsea 's. # Gloria!

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# Let Steeple bells be swung. # Gloria!

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# Gloria! #.

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