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from the Atlantic. Thank you very much. That's it from us.

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Welcome to BBC Points West with David Garmston and Sarah Jane

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Bungay. Our main story tonight: Calls for the floods to be declared

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a disaster. A calm beauty descends over waterlogged Somerset as a Euro

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MP says the county should receive emergency funding. The extent of the

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flooding is such there would be no doubt we would be granted the money.

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But help is on its way. We meet the villagers on dry land at last,

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thanks to a new boat. We'll be live from a community which has been cut

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off for days. The others stories in the news

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tonight: Battle of the booze. A charity turns from helping drug

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addicts to alcoholics as drink becomes the bigger problem.

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How children who challenged authority had their behaviour tamed

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by Everest. And: The old word from Wiltshire that may make it back into

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the dictionary but what does it mean?

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No idea! Has it got anything to do with horses?

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Good evening. The flooding in Somerset is so bad that the area

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should be treated as a European Disaster Area and baled out with

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emergency funds from the EU. That's according to a Euro MP who toured

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the Somerset Levels today. Sir Graham Watson said the fund should

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be used for long`term solutions to the flooding but today, at least, a

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few victims got some relief. They were rescued from their village by a

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boat hired by the council. Sally Challoner reports.

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Sunrise over the Somerset Levels. But while the views are stunning,

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life here, at the moment, is less so. At least villagers from

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Muchelney have been able to get to the mainland today. They've been

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marooned since before the New Year. Wonderful, finally! It's a relief,

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just to know you can get in and out. We've had wonderful volunteers

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bringing us things. They were here all day, at our beck and call. The

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boat's been paid for by the county council but the local MEP says

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that's a sticking plaster on a problem that needs major surgery. We

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need to be looking at how we deal with water management and whether

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taking decisions centrally to the Environment Agency is the right

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thing, or whether we shouldn't be looking to setting up local training

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boards with representatives from local landowners, councils and

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landowners to make sure that locally, people who know the area,

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are taking the decision whether water goes. There's no arguing with

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the need. This is the main road to Muchelney. Homes and business are

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submerged, too. The clean`up bill is likely to be huge but there is

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European money available. We have the opportunity to apply for

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funding. We did so five years ago after the flooding in

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Gloucestershire. We got ?30 million to help us with the clean`up. I want

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to see the government putting in an application within the ten week

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deadline period and making sure that the people who have suffered are

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getting some help in the clean`up. While some here are getting used to

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the attention their situation is getting, most just want life to get

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back to normal. Well, Jon Kay is in Muchelney now.

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The Department of the Environment has no plans to call on those EU

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funds but supports the creation of internal drainage boards. I think

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they are getting ready for a grim weekend. It is bizarre to think that

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tonight, we are on an island in Somerset! We came in via this road

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and that is, believe it or not, a road. The water levels have dropped

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by three inches since we were here at the beginning of the week. That

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cart was completely submerged on Monday. Those volunteers bringing in

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supplies and posed for the people who live here. Water levels dropping

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a bit but people are worried that they will not get out by the road

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and they are expecting it to be the case for another week or so at the

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very least. Understandable that media and press are there. How are

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there. How other locals dealing with that? We saw things come to a head

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earlier in the week when people were angry that one national tabloid

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newspaper sent in a glamour model with some beer cans for a publicity

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stunt. Some people are fed up with the attention. They have been very

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hospitable to us tonight and are putting us up. People hope that the

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attention they have had in the media and people like the MEP will at

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least mean they get what they want, which is better flood protection

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around here. We will be hearing from some of those villagers in a special

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programme at the later this evening. Give the villagers are best regards

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as well as you can them tonight A 31`year`old woman from Bristol has

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died after crashing on a snowmobile in Canada. Charlotte Mei Ling Lee

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had been holidaying with her boyfriend in Quebec when the

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accident happened. Her family say she was a kind, gentle and loving

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person. A nightclub boss from Cheltenham has

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told a court he feared for his life after being kidnapped by three lap

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dancers and their manager. It's alleged Curtis Woodman was attacked

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because he owed the women tens of thousands of pounds. Our

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Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs, was in court.

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Curtis Woodman was asked today about what happened when the defendants

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first confronted him outside his business in Tewkesbury. It was said

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by the defence that they must have stood out like a sore thumb, with

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two of them in mini skirts and high heels, one screaming for money and

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accompanied by two unknown men. At one stage, Curtis Woodman told

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the jury that he got the defendants to drive him to a house he was

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renovating in Cheltenham that belonged to his father. He was

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asked, "Why did you take them to an empty house?" He said, "After this

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ordeal, I was in fear of my life. I wasn't thinking straight. And later,

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I was driving around aimlessly. I was just biding time."

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All six defendants deny the charge of kidnap and the trial continues on

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Monday. Well, you're watching Friday's

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Points West with Sarah`Jane and David. The weekend starts here!Yes,

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and we've plenty more for you in tonight's programme, including: 60

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years of TV forecasting. We'll have a few of our favourite bits from the

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archives, plus the very latest weekend weather from Ian.

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A drugs charity set up in Bristol 20 years ago to help teenagers hooked

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on heroin says it's now treating mostly middle`aged alcoholics. They

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claim it's because alcohol's cheap to buy and just as addictive. Scott

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Ellis reports. The 1990s on the Knowle West estate

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in south Bristol. Distraught parents of teenage heroin addicts set up

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their own support group, KWADS. Today, it relaunched with a sister

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charity in Hartcliffe, these days treating mostly alcoholics. There

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are lots of pubs closing, more people are drinking at home because

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they are not always aware of the amount of units or volume they are

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drinking, and it can so easily turn into dependency. Drink is so much

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easier to buy from a supermarket and more affordable. High demand for

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help to tackle alcohol addiction. The problem is the old KWADS lost

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its funding, so the new charity has to raise ?200,000 pounds a year to

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survive. Those who've been helped locally say its vital support's on

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the doorstep. This is a working class a working`class estate with a

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lot of problems and people can't go miles. I didn't move out very far,

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so if this was miles away, I wouldn't have thought it was for me

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or I was allowed to go there. To get into town and stuff like that, two

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buses. I suffer great anxiety. To have the local service on my

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doorstep was a massive bonus. Hawkspring will need generous donors

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to survive but as KWADS proved, if there's a will locally, there's a

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way and Bristol City Council says other charities have moved into the

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area, geared up more than ever to help alcholics.

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A team from Wiltshire has trekked towards Mount Everest in some of the

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worst seasonal weather conditions seen there for 20 years. The group

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wasn't made up of elite mountaineers, though, but teenagers

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with behavioural problems. In a moment, we'll hear from one of them

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and the expedition leader, but first, Zoe Gough's been looking at

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their journey. The team set off in October,

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supposedly the best time for trekking in the Everest Trail, but

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conditions soon changed and over 4000 feet, many adults were

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suffering. As well as the extreme altitude, they also had to cope with

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the worst October storm since 1 96, nearly bringing the expedition to an

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end. They also faced dangerous avalanches with reports that people

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have been killed days earlier. The team eventually reached their goal.

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They took in their own very special view of Everest.

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Well, joining us now are the expedition leader, Alan Chambers,

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and the head pupil from Springfields Academy in Calne, George Yeoman

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Now, if I told you to "stop ganderflanking around", would you

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actually know what I meant? Really challenging. It was an incredible

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experience. You could not imagine doing something like that at my age

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and being given the opportunity to do it. How old are you? 15. Couldn't

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have been very easy leading this. It has been nearly a year. 65 pupils

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from all around the country. A big challenge, just to get them away

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from home and their normal comforts. What did being in the mountains

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teacher about your behaviour? I was diagnosed with OCD a couple of years

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ago, which means I wash my hands a lot, get anxious about certain

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things, order. But being up in the world it is up there and the

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experience I have had, the change, culture, you have to get on with

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things. The contract keeps going. It was letting go of all your worries

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and anxiety and putting trust in the expedition leaders. That is what has

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taught me to do, trust people and be more relaxed about things and be

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able to relax. You are so composed. It's amazing what you have achieved.

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Now, if I told you to "stop ganderflanking around", would you

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actually know what I meant? I promise I'm not being rude! The word

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"ganderflanking" is from Old English and originates from Wiltshire but is

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rarely used these days. However a new campaign launched by BBC

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Wiltshire could see it being included in the Oxford English

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Dictionary, as Lizzie Way reports. The word is out there. The BBC

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Wiltshire campaign to encourage use of the old Wiltshire word

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ganderflanking has gone national. It comes from Gander and flank, which

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is an old Wilts word for shirking. It's probably skiving! We would love

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to see used, maybe on the international space station, maybe

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it will get used in the House of Commons. I seek your guidance as to

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the potential use in proceedings of the old Wilts word, ganderflanking.

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I have sought help to use it. It will need more unselfconscious

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usage, so instead of people talking about the word, it really needs to

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have people using it. So are the people of Wiltshire using it enough

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in everyday speech? No idea. Has got anything to do with horses?

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Something to do with smoking? Gander? Having a look at something?

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Something to do with geese. Unsurprisingly, it's the experts who

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know how to use it best. Bristol City's majority shareholder,

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Stephen Lansdown, has wiped ?35 million of debt from the club's

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books. City have just announced they made another big loss last year

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Alistair Durden is here with tonight's sport. So what does this

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mean for the club? First, you're right. Another big

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loss, nearly ?13 million. It would have taken City's debts to over ?55

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million, which is owed to majority shareholder Stephen Lansdown. But

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he's converted ?35 million of that into equity by issuing new shares

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and buying them himself. So the debt now stands at around ?20 million,

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and the club insist the projection for next year's losses are much more

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favourable. In other football news, Paddy Madden

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has finally left Yeovil Town. Last season's top scorer and Wembley hero

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has been out of favour at the club, not featuring since November. He's

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joined Scunthorpe today for a fee believed to be worth up to ?300 000.

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And congratulations to Cheltenham's Mark Yates, today named League Two's

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manager of the month for December. His side are away to Burton

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tomorrow. Elsewhere, Swindon could give a debut to new signing George

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Barker. He's joined them from Brighton.

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Rugby, then, and it's a very big game for Gloucester tomorrow, isn't

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it? Yes. Their European Cup quarterfinal hopes are hanging by a

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thread. If we look at the table that home defeat to Edinburgh before

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Christmas really damaged their chances of making the knockout

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stages. It means they have to win tomorrow against Munster, the

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two`times European Champions who are top of the group. One man who won't

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be lacking in confidence is Jonny May. The Gloucester wing was named

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in England's Six Nations squad yesterday, reward for an excellent

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first half of the season. When the England squad was ,Jonny

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May was doing a different sort of training. The son of a Wiltshire

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vet, he was putting his six`month`old puppy Nala through her

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paces. She is something that I can come home and she's always pleased

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to see me. For Jonny, there have been more good days than bad despite

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Gloucester's disappointing campaign. He's one of the country's leading

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try scorers, catching the eye of the England selectors again. If huge

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achievement. Something I have been working towards my whole life. The

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funny thing is, once you have got one, you want more. I have been

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working hard to kick on and keep improving. A team that has not

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played that fluidly. I would definitely say he has international

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quality. Jonny was brought up in Swindon, playing for Wotton Bassett

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until he was 16. He's already played for England once during last

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summer's tour to Argentina but his Six Nations ambitions are on hold

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for a few weeks. The priority, lifting the gloom around Gloucester.

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It's an embarrassment. We've let the club and the city down. Munster are

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coming to Gloucester and that is there an opportunity for us to repay

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the funds and show everybody we do care about what we do and we want to

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be ploughed `` proud to be Gloucester. Jonny was a pole vaulter

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at school, but it's his raw speed thats marked him out as a rugby

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talent. Tomorrow he'll aim to give Munster the run`around before

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chasing down a regular place in the England side.

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Bath will guarantee a quarterfinal spot in the Challenge Cup if they

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avoid defeat to Newport`Gwent Dragons. And if you want to see

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tries, Bristol host Aberavon on Sunday. When they met before

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Christmas, Bristol won 78`0. Let's look at the modern pentathlon

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now as they're based in Bath. The Olympic silver medallist Heather

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Fell announced her retirement yesterday. Is anyone now going to

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follow in her footsteps? We had Samantha Murray.

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Samantha Murray won silver at London 2012 and the team as a whole have a

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great track record. The women have won a medal at every games they ve

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competed at, so expectations are high. The new season begins this

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weekend in Bath with the first of two British ranking events. Heather

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Fell has been to meet some of those hoping to be the next success story.

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After a relaxed post`Olympic year, the clock is ticking down to Rio.

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Jamie Cook suffered the double misery of not being picked for

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London and breaking his hand. After the Olympics, it was devastating.

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Another athlete left spectating in London was Freya. She is still only

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23. Missing out on the Olympic spot nearly saw her quit. I was very

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angry. I don't know if I was angry with myself for the sport. I look

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forward to Rio but also try and enjoy the sport because in 2011`12,

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I lost that completely. That is what I will try to hold onto. I came into

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the sport through the pony club but more recently, the focus has been on

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finding good runners and swimmers. Joe Evans is one of the first wave

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of hopefuls. Just five months after arriving in Bath, he took World Cup

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bronze. My goal initially was to try make the finals. I didn't got a

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medal. It's both good and bad because it means you have got more

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pressure, but it means you have prove to yourself and everyone else

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that you can do it. Jo has also proved a stronger men's squad. The

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battle of the sexes is finally hotting up. And with all eyes on

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Rio, every jump, hit and shot really matters.

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It's hard enough to be good one thing, let five!

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A company in Taunton has entered the record books after building the

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world's longest mobility scooter. It's called the Limo`mobilser. It's

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ten foot long with room for three and its own minibar. Orchard

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Mobility built it for one of the managing directors of a company they

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work with, who is retiring. Well, almost time to get the weekend

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forecast, but before we do, we just wanted to mark the 60th anniversary

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of BBC television forecasts and look back at just a few of our favourite

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moments. Bit of nostalgia there. 60 years

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since the first forecast for BBC in the days when you used a hand draw

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the charts. Things have come a long way since then, but if we can bring

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our graphics on, that's the old school version. We had innumerable

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problems in the days of the magnet, and nowadays, we have replaced that

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with computer says no type problems. As far as the weekend is concerned,

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it is looking like a glorious day tomorrow. If you're doing anything

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outdoors, no problems whatsoever. After a chilly star, temperatures up

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to respectable values. Another cold night on Sunday, more cloud around.

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For the rest of this evening, patchy outbreaks of rain moving in. As we

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had through into tomorrow, after a beautiful day, a case of looking to

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the West for the tail end of the weekend as more rain moves in. Next

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week, no chance of any of the cold snap saw Siberian blast that one

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particular newspaper was making a hyperbole about. The spectre of

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flooding issues has not been relieved as yet, though. As far as

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this evening is concerned, at least the rainfall will not be of any

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great significance. Moderately heavy bursts at times, or easing away

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towards the second half of the night. Temperatures will drop

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accordingly. We will get down quite widely to 1`4 Celsius. Another Met

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Office yellow warning, like last night, for the threat of icy

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surfaces. Aside from that, a glorious start tomorrow. Very little

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in the way of ploughed around. What cloud we have or have no

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significance. Instead, we continue with a good deal of sunshine. A cold

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night starting to develop with frost and fog around. Prior to them,

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temperatures tomorrow should get up to 6`8 Celsius. Similar story in

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terms of temperatures being high on Sunday, but more cloud around and

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rain towards the end of the day Here's your outlook. The start of

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next week, showers around on Monday, some heavy and thundery. We are

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looking for that more persistent rain towards the end of next week.

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Not looking too bad for tomorrow, is it?

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A tenth of a second could be the difference

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