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confiscated and destroyed, well that must be galling. Will Gompertz,

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Good Evening. A man from the Forest of Deane has been jailed after

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taking police on two high speed chases in six months. Christopher

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Wright was first arrested last summer driving over 100 miles an

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hour. But while he was waiting to be sentenced he did it again. Our

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Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs reports A busy morning on the

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outskirts of Gloucester and in the green Puma ahead, a 24`year`old

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father from the Forest of Deane Christopher Wright.

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With police on his tail, Wright take more chances and goes faster and

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faster and ` although it's purely a technicality at this point ` sets

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off the speed camera. With no end in sight, police try to shunt him off

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the road, but to no avail. So the officer who's been right behind him

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all the way decides to intervene. Wright is arrested and later admits

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dangerous driving and having no insurance.

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In last July the police filmed him driving at nearly 100 mph. The limit

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is just 50. The judge told that last July he demonstrated a complete

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disregard for the safety of others and that it was only by chance that

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no one was killed or seriously injured. But it didn't stop there `

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while awaiting sentencing for that incident, Wright was caught again

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just last month, this time in the early hours of the morning driving

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at huge speeds through the centre of Cinderford in pouring rain. Tracked

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by police helicopter and officers on the ground, he's eventually brought

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to a stop by a stinger device. Wright admitted dangerous driving

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again and possessing cannabis. He told police he was an idiot and that

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there was no excuse for what he did. The judge jailed him for two and a

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half years and banned him from driving for four years. An outcome

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that, on several occasions, came close to being much worse.

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A new psychiatric unit opened in Bristol today which should mean

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fewer people with mental health problems having to go into police

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cells when detained under the mental health act. Hundreds of patients in

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the West, some as young at 11, were locked in cells last year but the

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unit at Southmead Hospital aims to change that. Our Health

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Correspondent Matthew Hill reports. I was placed in a cell overnight and

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was very distressed with hallucinations and psychosis. I had

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the worst night of my life. I was roughly treated. I was looking for

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help and support and ended up arrested.

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Not a great place to spend the night if you are detained under the Mental

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health act. But from today, this will be able to admit patients so

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that they will not have to be detained in cells.

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This will be a very different experience. Patients will come into

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this assessment centre where they will be seen by a specialist mental

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health team who will discharge them within hours. Last year there were

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over 1000 patients in the West because they were arrested and

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detained under the Mental Health Act. Of those, 646 had to be locked

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in a police cell. The Police and Crime Commissioner has welcomed this

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development, but is concerned that they will not yet be able to take

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children under 16. There is no provision at the moment

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in this area for young people. That is exactly, completely the wrong

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thing to do. If you think in the last year there were ten children

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who were put into police cells, that is absolutely wrong and we should

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not be all the reading it. Being detained under the Mental

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Health Act is traumatic enough, so if cells can be avoided, that can

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only give patients peace of mind. Police horses have been drafted onto

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the Somerset Levels to stop thieves taking advantage of flood victims.

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They're patrolling the area to deter criminals who've already stolen

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heating oil and quad bikes. Meanwhile there's been an angry

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reaction to remarks made by the chairman of the Environment Agency

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who said that rural homes may need to be sacrificed to save urban areas

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from flooding. A Gloucester man aiming to be the

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first person to run from one coast of Canada to the other without a

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support team has done it. Jamie McDonald reached Vancouver this

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evening after running 5,000 miles dressed as the superhero The Flash.

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He braved temperatures of minus 40 degrees and suffered frostbite, all

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to raise money for children's charities. Well, a little earlier we

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caught up with Jamie and some friends and family in Canada as his

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11`month challenge was nearing its end.

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I can just feel the emotion building up. I've worked the hardest I've

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ever worked in my entire life for 11 months I've run every single day.

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I've got no support crew at all it has just been me and the baby

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stroller. I have been through so much hardship, and now I am coming

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along to the finish. I am nervous, scared, emotional. I am all over the

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place. I have picked up chronic tendinitis, about halfway, and had

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to make a decision whether to give up, which I felt like doing, or

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continue on and battle through the agony. Every single step was

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painful. It looks like permanent damage has taken place on the food,

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but I'm glad that I've actually found something that makes a

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difference to other people's lives. What an achievement! We're back with

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more news tomorrow, but now we take a look at the weather.

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The next saiga begins tomorrow and continues on to Wednesday. Weather

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warning out for severe gales and heavy rain. Some snow over the plans

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at the moment. That will clear by around midnight. It will be a chilly

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night, around freezing in some places. Tomorrow, some showers

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around but also some dry weather. The winds pick up steadily by the

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afternoon. Gusts of up to 50 mph and higher than that around the south

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coast, and then this band of rain marches and through the coast of the

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evening. It will be heavy in places, creating difficult driving

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conditions. Temperatures will get up to eight Celsius. We continue with a

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windy day into Wednesday. Is a look at the

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Good evening. As you have just heard on your local forecast there is more

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wind and rain to come. The story is dominated by two potent areas of low

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pressure. There are parts of the world that need the rain at the

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moment, let me take you to California. That has arrived in the

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form of patchy rain over the past 24 hours or so. The reason I take you

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here is the cloud responsible for it, well that will develop into

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Saturday's storm system. That same jet stream is picking up this area

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of cloud at the moment, developing into a deepening area of low

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pressure in the Atlantic and that will bring wet and windy weather for

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Wednesday.

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