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colder. It could be short lived That is all from the BBC's

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Welcome to BBC Points krn West. Our main story: Are the Government

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making shallow promises? As the water is pumped off the Somerset

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levels, the Environment Security lands on sticky ground. We're

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flooded yet again, he comes down, we get a few more pumps and apparently

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everything is going to change. I hope it does change, because no`one

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can go through this again. It's wrong. It's wrong. Ask what's being

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done to stop this happening again. Also tonight, a year after the death

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of a Bristol couple, by a repeat offender, calls for tougher

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sentences for dangerous drivers The dangers of travelling abroad, to get

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treated for lyme disease. And the mild weather affecting our

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wildlife, harvest mice born in January.

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Good evening, flood victims in Somerset have been promised by the

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Environment Security that action will be taken within six weeks. Owen

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Paterson's been in the county seeing the relief operation. Many see at

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parent lack of action as another blow. Local people say they're used

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to empty promises and they'll believe it when they see. It the

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leader of the County Council said he was disappointed the minister didn't

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come with money. And the euro MP, Graham watt wavment OK Shane Watson,

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Clinton Rogers, Winstone, said he was angered `` and the euro MP,

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Graham Watson, said he was angered. They were preept for the Environment

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Security this morning. `` prepared for the Environment

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Security this morning. The roadside placards were a clue.

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Why have you started doing this now? That's it, ignore the people. And

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when he arrived on the flooded village of Moorland, he would have

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been left in no doubt about the strength of the anger herement We

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were flooded last year, where was he last year? What happened then? A

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year on, again disaster strikes We're flooded yet again. This is

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where the minister had come to see for himself the scale of the

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flooding. Just one of the pumping stations operating day and night to

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clear water from 65 square miles of flooded farmland. Three weeks on,

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the water is still hardly receding. In fact, last week, more houses

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succumbed to the water. The victims were keen to know whether the

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Secretary of State had come with an answer preferably money to help

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them. A week ago, I was in a house with a grown man who cried in front

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of me, because his house was under a foot of water. Do you think anything

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you've said today is going to reassure him that you are actually

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going to do something fast? I've many just said, I totally

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appreciate... Are you going to do anything fast? To answer your

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question directly, I have asked all the interested parties to give a

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concrete plan in six weeks to provide satisfaction over the next

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20 years. That may well involved dredging the two main rivers. It

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will involve clear, long`term plans to hold water back long`term. 9 % of

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James Winstone's farm is under water, has been for weeks. So was he

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encouraged today? It's a step in the right direction. It's a positive

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note. We're still going to be actively pushing until we actually

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see the diggers and everything going on with the dredging. While the

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minister casts an eye over the historic diesel pumps working flat

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out to clear the floot waters `` floodwaters, in a barn round the

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corner, the future of farming was making an appearance. The question

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is: What sort of future will that be?

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The problems may be on the ground, but the full extent of the damage

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can be better understood from the air. John Kay has been in a

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helicopter today to get a full picture of what's going on.

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When you look out over the whole area and see how much of it has been

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flooded, it really is an astonishing sight. There's the island community,

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and when you see it from the air, you realise just how cut off it is,

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with little boats having to take people backwards and forwards. We've

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seen homes entirely cut off as well, island communities in their own

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right. Thousands of acres of farmland utterly submerged. How long

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is it going to be before this land can be used productively again? The

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flood water just goes on and on mile after mile. You lose a sense of

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perspective really about what is a river, what is a field, almost where

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does the coast begin. It's a very strange sensation seeing this part

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of this county from the air. There are actually more helicopter

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shots on our Facebook page as well. We move on to other news. A

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three`year`old boy has died after being knocked down in the street in

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Bristol. The accident happened in Bedminster and involved a Land Rover

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with a trailer. The boy was taken to Bristol children's Hospital but

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doctors were unable to save him It was around 10. 15am when the

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accident happened, close to the junction of two busy Bedminster

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streets. Officers are still investigating how a portable cabin,

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being towed on a trailer by a 4x4, became detached hitting the

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youngster, who was on the pavement. He was rushed to Bristol children's

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hospital with serious injuries, but died shortly after. This evening,

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several bunches of flowers have been left here at scene of the accident,

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one says, "To our beautiful nephew, taken too soon." Another, "Rest in

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peace. Our thoughts are with your family at this sad time." Parts of

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Parsons Street and Hastings Road were shut for hours. The driver of

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the Land Rover is helping with inquiries but not under arrest. A

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liaison officer is helping the relatives of the little boy.

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The wet weather, will it continue? Ian is here with a forecast later.

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Have you seen the sign? A little bit of Hollywood glamour comes to

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Bristol. But what's this sign all about and how did it get here?

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All that still to come. First a 21`year`old man, who drowned in the

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centre of Bath last week, has been named as Christopher Taylor. He was

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a student at the University of bath where he was studying chemistry His

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family live in Merseyside and say they've been devastated by his

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death. A Wiltshire man has been sentenced

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to 16 years in prison for murdering his wife. Friends say Debbie

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Simister was planning to leave her husband, James Simister, when he

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killed her. Police found her body in the couple's home in Amesbury last

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April. Now Parliament is tonight debating

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whether to increase sentences for drivers who are repeatedly convicted

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of dangerous driving. The debate led by a West MP, comes exactly a year

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after Ross and Clare Simons died when serial offender, Nicholas

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Lovel, crashed into their tandem while the couple were out cycling.

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A year ago today, Ross and Clare Simons had just completed a course

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of IVF treatment, when Nicholas Lovel smashed into them. The deaths

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have left their families devastated. This time last year, we sat down

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having a cup of tea with Ross and Clare, and we had a kiss and cuddle

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from them when we left. Two`and`a`half hours later they were

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dead. Serial offender Lovel, who had previously been disqualified 11

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times, was yet again driving without a license. He was found to have

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taken a cocktail of drugs, including cocaine. He was jailed for

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ten`and`a`half years, the longest sentence available to the judge

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We've actually been told he's going to be released in May 2018. That's

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five years. Five years for killing two innocent people, it's not

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enough. Our laws have definitely got to be changed. Ross' father and

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mother are determined that repeat offenders should face stiffer

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sentences. Their campaign has already attracted 13,000 signatures

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to a petition demanding new legislation. They now hope that

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tonight's debate will put pressure on the Government to act. This was a

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ticking timebomb this man. The offence that's he caused, the number

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of offences that he caused meant that it was inevitable, as he

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predicted himself, that he was one day going to cause death by

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dangerous driving. Lawyers say that any change in the law must make

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clear the difference between prolific offenders like Lovel and

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motorists caught up in a momentary lapse of concentration. It is

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dangerous driving. But it is not at the threshold of this type of

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offence. I think you need, in looking at these offences, to

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discriminate between the two and legislation needs to be passed to

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make them entirely separate types of offence. For the Simons, the birth

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of a second grandson has given them one happy moment in an other`wise

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grief`stricken year. The country's leading expert in lyme

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disease has warned of the potential dangerous consequences of travelling

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abroad for treatment. There's no vaccine for the illness, which is

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spread by ticks and can leave people severely debilitated. Some

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campaigners say they're not being taken seriously in the UK. And that

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he have little choice but to travel to America for expensive treatment.

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Hi. Nice to meet you. Natasha Metcalf first became ill when she

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was a teenager. I experienced night sweats and terrible concentration.

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After seeing more than 40 doctors, she was eventually diagnosed with

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lyme disease in America. She was put on long`term antibiotics. This

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doesn't come cheap. For lyme and my doctor in America so far, we

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totalled it at about 11,000. Lyme is spread by ticks. It usually starts

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with a rash and flu`like symptoms and can lead to neurological

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problems. A short course of antibiotics should sort it out, but

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campaigners, like Natasha, say they have little choice but to go abroad.

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I'm not being offered any treatment here. Because I've done the

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psychiatric route. I've done the ME route. I'm still sick. Everyone has

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the same story. There's a big divide between those who can afford to go

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abroad and those who can't. Where it all happens for your test? It is.

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But the leading expert on lyme disease in the UK says the evidence

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for long`term antibiotics is shaky and their use can be dangerous. Once

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you've treated the infection for long enough to eradicate the

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organism, any addition Alan I buy why theics won't ``

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additionalantibiotics won't help. But it will reduce the effectiveness

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of antibiotics. So you might develop a super infection that can be

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extremely serious in some cases Serious? There are reported deaths

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for people who have been given long`term treatment with intravenous

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antibiotics, that was for lyme disease.

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So, I travelled to America to put this to a doctor here. This is where

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it all happens. Yes, this is it Raphael Stricker says he's treated

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more than 2,500 people for lyme disease. Any treatment can be

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harmful. You have to weigh the risk of this type of treatment versus the

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benefit for people who have chronic, debilitating disease. I think that

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most patients who've been through this treatment would say that it's

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definitely worth the risk in terms of getting better from lyme disease,

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if you take long`term antibiotics. Patients say they're caught in the

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middle. But there is now talk of sharing data on lyme disease across

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the Atlantic and more difintive research into the illness.

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Joining me now from Exeter is Stella Huyshe`Shires from the group Lyme

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Disease Action. Thank you for joining us. You have been diagnosed

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with lyme disease. Were you taken seriously? Once I was diagnosed

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yes. Or once I had a positive blood test. I was taken seriously. Not

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everyone has a positive blood test. There are a lot of uncertainties in

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the diagnosis of lyme disease. That is one of the reasons why people do

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go abroad. Doctors are told that the tests are 99% likely to detect an

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infection after the first few weeks, after the tick has bitten. But

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actually that's not so. There are lots of very well recognised reasons

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why people test negative. Sorry to interrupt you. What advice can you

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give to people tonight, who may be watching, who might think, well I'm

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not being taken seriously? First contact our e`mail support line We

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have one line for the public. That is dealt with by patients and we

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provide good quality information that can inform their decision and

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their choices. We also provide an e`mail support line for doctors and

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that's manned by our medical director, who is a consultant, with

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experience of lyme disease and again, we provide good information

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to the doctors to enable them to help interpret their patient's

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symptoms an the test. Say some people are forced to go to America

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for treatment, but there are obvious dangers. Can you advise them as

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well? Yes, indeed, we can. We'd rather people were treated in this

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country, and in fact, a lot of people are treated long`term in this

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country. There was a case on the edge of Dartmoor where someone had

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six months' months' treatment. Very much for joining us tonight. (

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Matthew Hill also looked into the test that helped diagnose lyme

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disease and his blood was tested in the US and the UK, with surprising

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results. Can you find out what happened on Inside Out West, tonight

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at 7. 30pm, here on BBC One. A new report claims that Bristol

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lost more jobs in the recession than anywhere in the UK between 2010 and

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2012. Today local business leaders and even a Government minister

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rejected the research, but the group behind the report stood by its

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findings. To help us make sense of these statistics, here's our

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business correspondent. I tell you what, official statistics

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can be pretty dull, but some can be genuinely shocking. Today's report

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from an independent research group counted up the number of jobs

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created or lost in different cities at the height of the recession. Now,

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at the top, there you are, London, Edinburgh, Birmingham, between them

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they created over 250,000 jobs between 2010 and 2012. Every league

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table has a bottom and look at that, that's where you'll find Bristol.

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13,900 jobs were lost in the city, we're told. Mostly in banking,

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insurance and retail. Does this make Bristol the hardest place in the UK

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to get a job? No. Not even the authors think that. When you look at

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the wider set of Kators. `` indicators, or the skills and

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qualifications they have, or the business base, how big it is, how

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many new businesses are generated, there's a stronger story for

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Bristol. On the one hand, in this particular indicator, it's the

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bottom of the pile, but across a range of other indicators or other

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areas we look at, it's a stronger performance. Indeed it's the

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strongest performing big city outside of London. There are

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something rather odd about this report. We're told nearly 14,00

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jobs were cut in two years. So what happened here? At the job centres?

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Well more people signed on, yes but only around 2,000 more people. Now

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not everyone who loses work claims the dole. But local business leaders

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insist that figure, 14,000, is so big, it's probably wrong. What we've

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seen on the ground hasn't been borne out by the numbers, particularly

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around private sector jobs. So many fundamentals are in place here. We

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are well connected. We have good industries set to grow. We have

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universities which are very strong. We are in the south of the country.

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I think Bristol is performing well and I think it's set to do so. We'll

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get another big number tomorrow ` GDP. It's a kind of health check on

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the whole UK economy. Of course we'll bring the you West Country

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picture here on Points West. That figure may well be positive, but

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today's report reminds us that even though things are starting to pick

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up, just a couple of years ago, business was pretty difficult, even

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in a prosperous city like Bristol. Some sports news now. Yeoviltown's

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manager say his side have what it takes to avoid relegation. Gary

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Johnson was speaking after going out of the FA Cup on Saturday. He was

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encouraged by the performance and believes it will help them in their

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quest to beat the drop. Away from the pressures of the

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league, this was a bonus for Yeovil, aiming to make the fifth round for

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only the second time. The away end sold out, with over 3,000 fans

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travelling in hope and expectation. A draw, please. That would be

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lovely. Have them back at Yeovil. And beat them! Yes. My head says

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we're probably going to get beat, but my heart says you never know. I

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expect us to win. Despite an even first half, a handball from Jamie

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McAllister gave Southampton the chance to take the lead. Another

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famous cup result might have been on the cards if this Luke Ayling shot

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had crept in. But a second goal ended their hopes. Now it's all

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about avoiding relegation. We compare it against Premier League

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sides. They were magnificent as well. You have to give the credit to

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them. I thought we played well. It's only for our benefit for the next

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game on Tuesday. We have to be proud of our club. It's really a positive.

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I don't like losing in any game The lads are sfointed as well. ``

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disappointed as well. We have to learn from these games. We have to

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put on the first`half performance for two halves. If we can do that,

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at our level, in the championship, then I think we can get out of

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trouble. That challenge continues at Derby tomorrow.

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Now, the vagueries of the milder weather are encouraging thousands of

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migratory birds to stay in Gloucestershire, rather than head

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off to warmer climbs. Staff at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at

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Slimbridge say it's a record`breaking year for some

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species. But the temperatures have encouraged one tiny mum to produce a

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litter of seven harvest mice, get ready for the aawww factor.

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We've got flocks of lapwing... Tucked away, this is the best seat

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in the house to see the birds having an extended break in

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Gloucestershire. The lack of ice means for many species it's warm

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enough to stay rather than use energy flying elsewhere. The flooded

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wetlands bringing in plenty of food and safe places to roost. The grass

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has continued to grow through the winter on the milder days. The

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grazing has been very good. There's lots of shallow water for the

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species that specialise in that The main flocks are wading birds,

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lapwing, golden plover, huge numbers of them swirling around the

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redeserve. The flip side is that the famous swans are finding it warm

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enough to stay elsewhere, so not many have arrived yet. With record

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numbers of other flocks, such as 4,500 teal, staff are kept busy

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trying to count them. Just trying to work with the waders, particularly

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when they're settled. We wade through steadily, use a tally

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counter to remember the numbers as you go through. You hope that

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nothing scares them and they fly off. You have to start again. The

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weather is keeping lots of birds here, it's doing a great job for

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another wetland species that isn't going to be flying anywhere. This

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really is the pitter patter of tiny feet and at only a few centimetres

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long, seven baby harvest mice, born to mum, only six months old herself.

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They normally mate in the spring, but the warmth encouraged early

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breeding. They're more than at home here. They were along before we

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started planting crops. They survived in the wetlands and then

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moved into the corn crops. As we're changing the farming practices and

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obviously, if you're that small a combine harvester can do a lot of

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damage, so they're moving back into the wetlands, which is why we should

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look after them. And babies are all in good health. I think, for once,

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stealing the show from the birds here at Slimbridge.

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Go on admit, it you said, aawww If you're out and about near the Avon

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gorge today, you might have noticed something new, a new sign has

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appeared, similar to the Hollywood star, in the his above LA. It's

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being talked about all over social media sites. But no`one knows who

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put it there. Or why.

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A bit of Hollywood glamour, if not Hollywood weather, in the heart of

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Bristol. The sign reading Bristolland and made out of white

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plastic letters appeared on Wednesday and was noticed by bemused

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commuters Thursday morning. It's still not publicly known who was

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behind it. Today, though, I managed to speak to a man who knows the man

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who did this, sadly, he wouldn't tell me his name. Even if he did, I

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probably couldn't tell you, but he confirmed a few things: First, this

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has nothing to do with Banksy. Secondly, it was done by a local

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man, a Bristolian. Thirdly, he did it at midnight on Wednesday night in

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the pitch black and the reason? Well, he just thought it would be a

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cool thing to do. It's a tribute to the bigger and slightly more

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glamorous version in the hills above Los Angeles which used to read

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Hollywood land, before dropping the "land" in the 1940s. This one isn't

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here officially. This land is owned by the National Trust and is a Site

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of Special Scientific Interest. How do they feel about it? They're

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raising the profile of the Avon gorge. We can't complain about that.

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It is a special place. If it brings a smile to people's face when's

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they're commuting into work, that's great. Walkers today seemed to feel

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the same. It's fine. It shows that a lot of Bristolians are crazy and

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like to do things that are different. The guy must be silly to

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climb up here in the middle of the night and put a sign up like that.

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It's a gnaw Titian to the gorge It `` new addition to the gorge, it

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should be left for posterity. , as the sun sets over the gorge, it

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looks like our newest landmark is orto stay.

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`` is here to stay. He must have done it when it was dry

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as well, a rare day! Talking about something new,

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appearing in the dark, new for this winter, were these scenes in the

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Forest of Dean at 6pm. The snow starting to settle readily. It

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didn't last. However that's the first time we've seen that through

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this winter. What a change from this time last year, when this amount of

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snow would have seemed insignificant compared to what we had. Tomorrow

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the problems come in the shape of heavy showers around. There will be

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drier, brighter interludes for some of you. Certainly everything of a

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lottery, courtesy of low pressure over Ireland. Running around that

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are bands of showers, which will tend to align themselves over some

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areas for one hour, then they shift along and give a soaking somewhere

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else down the road. It will be difficult to pin down the detail

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until we see on the radar how they're developed. At the moment we

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have heavy showers across parts of Gloucestershire. We continue with a

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Met Office yellow warning, in force through tonight, tomorrow, for

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southern areas, where we have a greater problem of flooding

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exacerbated by the showers as they come by. Hail with those as well.

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Temperatures tonight between three to four Celsius. Should be fairly

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typical. No threat of further snow for the rest of this evening, nor

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indeed tonight or tomorrow. There could be hail in amongst all of

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these. I would stress, some brighter, drier spells. Some of you

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seeing more of that than others It continues through the course of the

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day. It will be blustery under the showers. Generally speaking, not

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quite as windy in a pronounced sense as it was today. About 10 to 15 mm

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of rain accumulating. Over half an inch or so, less than an inch. Given

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the problems we've seen earlier in the programme, it is an issue.

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Temperatures are cool tomorrow. Six, seven Celsius probably quite

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typical. Maybe eight Celsius in a couple of spots. It is getting

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colder through the midweek. By Thursday we drag in an easterly

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flow. On Friday there's the threat of heavy rain. We'll worry about

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that later on. The weather hasn t been out of the news and doesn't

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look like it wants to be. look like it wants to

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Thank you very much. You can tell it's mild. There's a fly in our

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studio happily going around at the moment. That's all from us. We're

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back with you in the Ten O'Clock news. Goodbye.

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