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pollution levels will be that little bit lower. Thank you.

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Also in tonight's programme. Robbed of supplies intended for thd most

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needy. The break in at a food bank near Bath. A horse is killed on a

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road near Bath, locals say ht's because it's being used as ` ratrun.

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Thousands join their companx pension scheme overnight without having to

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lift a finger. We meet the skydiver who refuses to

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get old. Good evening. A survivor of a massive crash on the M5 h`s been

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telling an inquest about how it was impossible to see anything. Emma

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Burbull lost both parents in the accident in 2011. She descrhbed it

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as being "like someone had put a plastic bag around you." Our

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reporter Scott Ellis has bedn at the inquest and joins us now. Scott

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there've been some harrowing accounts today?

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Yes. The police investigators said that 54 vehicles crashed and piled

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up on each other in space of 69 seconds on the M5 behind me on the

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night of the 4th of November, 2 11. Police spoke to 400 drivers who all

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said that up until then conditions on the mortar from very good. People

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could see the moon and the stars. People come in and around the corner

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hit what was described as a bank of fog. One investigator said they

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could not see the headlights on the front of their own car never mind

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the stop lights on the car hn front of them. One driver remembered

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driving into the bank of fork and wondering where the mortar we had

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gone. Bikini from the Chief Constable who led the investigation.

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`` we can hear from. The descriptions are very

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consistent. Like having wokdn up in the morning after it had snowed Sit

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in the car and cannot see anything. Blankets thrown over the car. It

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seems quite literal that thdy could not see the end of the car `s they

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were driving along the road. Is there any indication whether it

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was smoke or fork? We have xesterday from a witness who said that the

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smell of gunpowder which was a reference to a fireworks display.

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There was a dozen people making no reference to the smell todax. It was

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said that it was for, it was for Gregory had not experienced before.

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It was an area of reduced vhsibility said the police. The coroner wanted

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to determine whether it was natural fork or not. `` fog.

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Thousands of people woke up this morning to find they had johned

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their company pension schemd ` without signing a thing. It's a

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government programme, called automatic enrolment, aimed `t

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getting more people to save for retirement. All week on Points West

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we're investigating the cost of growing older, and today our

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business correspondent Dave Harvey has been to Cheltenham, to leet some

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workers who know all it. Mingling with the old people. Hearing about

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their experiences. Every ond of them is different. Every one of them has

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got their own character. If anyone knows what it is like to grow old

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gracefully, Helen Kress does. Every day and many nights Helen c`res for

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people in their later years at this Cheltenham residential home. Care

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like this this does not comd cheap but only recently has Helen started

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thinking about paying for otr own retirement. I have not alwaxs worked

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full`time. I have worked part`time. You do not think about the pension.

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I was married and I was relxing on my husband's pension. Helen is not

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alone. In our survey, nearlx one third had not joined the colpany

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pension scheme. They have always had a pension scheme here. But tntil

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now, take`up has been prettx patchy. Until now. If you did have ` pension

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before today stay on this shde. If you did not have a pension scheme go

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over there. If you still not have got a pension would you stax here.

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If you have signed up, would you come over here? What has made them

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all sign up? It is pretty mtch the law. The expectation is that once

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in, people will be happy to stay there and start saving for

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retirement. Helen has not m`de a decision. The government has signed

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her up for a pension automatically. The same reasons that never quite

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got round to save the first place, it is complicated, we do not want to

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think about, will hopefully means once we put into a pension they will

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stay there. They can harness that inertia. Put people in the right

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place then they will start saving for retirement. Your employdr is

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giving you some of that. So everyone, company boss to

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maintenance man are joining. This year 38,000 small firms with fewer

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than 250 staff will do this. For many, the care home has brotght in

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pension experts to deal with tricky questions. I have only got ten years

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left to work. How will this benefit me when I retire? You can p`y into

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this plan until you get to 75. It is complicated and costly. Not everyone

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is playing the game. The interesting thing is that 48% of companhes have

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not got a pension scheme at the moment. A good number of thdm have

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said that if at all possibld they will avoid it. The answer is that

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they can't. It is compulsorx and you have to set the scheme up. Hf you do

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not set the scheme up then there are big fines. I don't have much

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sympathy with companies. We feel we've got a moral obligation to

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provide a range of benefits for our staff. It is part of providhng care

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in the business and keeping all the good people working for us. What is

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it worth? As residents tuckdd into lunch, Helen gets some penshons

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advice. How did you feel about being put into this pension schemd? Now it

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has been explained to us, it seems really good. It seems a good option.

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Typical staff here take arotnd ?1,000 per month home. At fhrst

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they will pay ?10 and will be doubled. In three years it will be

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?80 per month. ?1,000 per ydar into that pension pot. Roll that amount

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over two or three decades and you might have a few tens of thousands

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of pounds in your pension pot but you're still only talking about a

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retirement income of ?1,000`2,0 0 per year.

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A lot of people could afford to put five percent in. If they match it,

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your fund will get larger more quickly. Wouldn't it? For Hdlen the

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maths make sense. Pay a little more now and one day she will be able to

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pay for care as good and shd gives today. Tomorrow we will be looking

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at the alternatives. Coming up later. It is psychological. If you

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want to be in. You will enjoy. Do you think age is just?

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A charity which helps thous`nds of hungry and desperate people in Bath

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has been targeted by thieves. Volunteers at the food bank, say

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they're shocked and disappohnted ` after the break`in. Food, toiletries

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and even the Easter eggs thdy were hoping to give struggling f`milies `

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were taken. Another day and of the parcdl, ready

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for another hungry family. This week is less to go round after thieves

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targeted these containers used storage by the fast food bank. We're

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not sure what they did. This has been broken off. We will have to

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replace these blocks which `re about ?15 each. And find somewherd else to

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store things? Absolutely. It is run by a trust. It relies on `` Mark

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nobody can believe what has happened. They have taken a lot of

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stuff, coffee and CDs. Bizarrely, to all and shampoos. Even if

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fine `` this friends and fast and People in a village near Bath are

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calling for the police to intervene after their quiet country l`nes were

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turned into commuter rat`runs. Upton Cheney is popular with horsd riders

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` but many say they won't go out after a horse was hit by a car last

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week. Andrew Plant reports. I saw this car approaching me frol a

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distance. I could see that ht was going far too fast. I thought I was

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in trouble. We can only show you a small section of this picture. The

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car that hit this horse smashed its lower legs. 71`year`old jockey Grant

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Cann was thrown from its back and then crushed underneath. We had to

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put it down. It had to be shot. It took an hour and a half before it

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could be shot. It had terrific suffering. A landslip means the main

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route to Bath is closed for months to come. The quiet village of Upton

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Cheyney a convenient short cut for hundreds of delayed drivers racing

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to get to work. Even if thex are not speeding they have to be aw`re that

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if they are driving at 30 mph, if they need to stop suddenly then they

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will slide an awful long wax. People ride on the lanes here everx day.

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Some say are keeping their horses at home. Pretty much every timd you go

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out you get a near miss with a car. It is not cars we recognise. It is

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people who are not used to driving through the lanes. The road signs

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have confused many drivers who see the red and ignore the yellow.

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Business is also bad as regtlar customers avoid the known btsy

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roads. My business has suffdred immensely. We have lost eashly 0%

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of our trade as a consequence of not having people from Bath feeling

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comfortable coming along thd main road and travelling the lands. I

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think the reputation now is that it is slightly dangerous. South

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Gloucestershire council is reducing the limits down to 20 mph. Locals

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hope it will rein in the drhvers and make life safer here for thd horses

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and the riders too. You Probation officers across the

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West went on strike today over plans to privatise part of the service.

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Unions say the Government proposals could put the public at risk and

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Avon and Somerset's Crime Commissioner supports some of the

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Union's claims. Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent, Stevd Brodie.

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Angry probation officers cl`im that the government's plan to hand the

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care of medium to low risk offenders to private companies is a mhstake

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which will leave the public worse off. The proposals will leave high

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risk offenders under the control of the National Probation Servhce. As a

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public sector probation service we do everything neutrally. However, a

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private company may look at the contracts as a way to make ` profit.

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Do the public realise what jeopardy that places them if the company

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wants to make a profit? It hs not necessarily interested in the

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practice of rehabilitating offenders and protecting the public. Two

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thirds of offenders fall into the medium to low risk category. Any

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individual can suddenly fall into the high bracket and pose a danger

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to the public whilst in the community. The warnings frol the

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union about what could happdn when offenders are released from prisons

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like here at Horfield have won the support of Avon Somerset's crime

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commissioner, Sue Mountstevdns. The area that I do have concern is how

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is an offender when they cole out of offending, being managed by, they

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may be low risk in the mornhng, they may have drink or drug problems

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they may have a row with thdir partner, by the afternoon they could

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be high risk. How is that going to be managed and I think that is a

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real concern going forward? The Ministry of Justice refused to be

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interviewed but issued this statement:

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Cheltenham has become only the second place in the country to

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impose a charge on pubs and clubs that serve drinks after midnight.

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They'll have to pay a 'late night levy' ranging from ?300 to ?1,5 0

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pounds per year. Fall The money will go to the police and the cotncil.

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The idea came from the government, and today a Home Office minhster

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visited as the change came hnto effect. In You have to recognise

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that the cost to society of alcohol abuse is ?21 billion per ye`r. 11

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billion on anti`social behaviour, 3.5 to the health service and lost

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productivity. Some of that hs borne by Cheltenham taxpayers so the

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council wants to recoup somd of that to try to make sure that those who

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don't drink, don't suffer. @ll I think they are absolutely rhght to

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do so. Some opposition from small businesses who often after lidnight.

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A new British Army command tnit based in Wiltshire which will handle

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40,000 personnel has been unveiled. It's called Force Troops Colmand and

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is part of the Army 2020 revamp as the nation's defence adapts to the

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modern world. New technologx will play a big part but there h`ve also

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been lessons learnt in the heat of battle in Iraq and Afghanistan. I

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went to Upavon to find out lore He looks in pain but the injurhes to

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this soldier aren't real. This is just a demonstration. But it is the

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type of situation the army's medical brigades have to deal with on a

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regular basis. Happy with that? Do you want to give him more p`in

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relief. Field hospitals likd this one staffed by the second mddical

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brigade will be just a small part of the new Force Troops Command `

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40,000 personnel brought together in a reorganisation that's deshgned to

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save money, but also make the army better at what it does. It hs not to

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do with cuts. It is about doing business more efficiently so the

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lessons we learn from Afghanistan and Iraq have meant that we have

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analysed and looked at the best way to do the business. Also under the

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new umbrella command, will be several units from Gloucestdrshire

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and Wiltshire including those involved in combat technology. The

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newly formed first intelligdnce surveillance and reconnaiss`nce

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brigade will help track down the enemy. We have deployed this kit in

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Afghanistan to good effect. We have got good intelligence on kex targets

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and locations. We have been able to inform command about what h`s been

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going on the ground. There will be some physical movement of troops to

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new bases but mostly this restructuring of the Army for the

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year 2020 is about different units working together better. Essential

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say commanders, in our unprddictable world. Now as part of our sdries on

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getting older, we've been exploring attitudes to ageing. A few weeks

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ago, veteran comedian Barry Humphries popped into the studio and

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we asked him for his thoughts. I tell people I am approaching 70 from

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the wrong direction. I let them think about that. I had my birthday

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and a very wicked friend of mine gave me as a guest and our class.

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Can you imagine what is likd to have that on bedside table? Many

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pensioners, particularly those who are lucky enough to have thdir

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health, see ageing as a really positive thing. Ali Vowles has been

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to meet some of the people who refuse to believe that age can stop

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you doing anything you want to do. Here we go. Good general. M`x Boyes

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from Street could have crumpled under the pressure when his wife

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Doreen became ill with Alzhdimer's. He's with her for much of every day

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at her care home in Glastonbury ` but in his spare time

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since her illness, this dark horse has taken on any challenge thrown at

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him for charity. From skydiving to fast cars, he has even beatdn and

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are fully `` an Olympic athlete from Rome in 1960. Life is far from over.

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I am just starting. If you want to be all and then you will be old Can

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you believe you are 80? I do not think I am 80. Until people see it

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then I do not think it. It hs nice to come out with friends and chat. I

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could not sit around all dax doing nothing. The pace is differdnt but

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these weekly walkers in Portishead are no less committed to behng fit

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and active. It is due to thd organisation of this 80`year`old.

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Fit as a fiddle, being leaddr of the pack is just one activity she fits

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into our busy week. I love working with people if they are getting

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enjoyment out of it. They do seem to like coming on these rocks. I do not

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think about it. Age is just a number. Can I ask how old you are? I

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am 70. I am 72. I shall be 73 on Thursday. I shall be 78 next week.

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At 68, make rate has no deshre to stop working as a trapeze artist. ``

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Mike Wright. Despite such a physically demanding job he decided

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he would not stop. Life does not have to change my shoe decided to be

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old. Because I am surrounded by young people and be interact and

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talk, I get a surprise when a look at myself in the mirror and think

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that I am 68 but I still fedl like a 20`year`old. These daredevils,

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lovers of life and unbeliev`ble pensioners are truly testing our

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perceptions of what it means to get older.

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If you have been inspired and would like to share details you c`n post

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them on our Facebook page. Drop us an email at the usual address

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[email protected] or even send us a postcard! Maybe it's insphred you

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to set up your own walking group or join the circus! And you can see all

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of Barry Humphries musings on old age on our Facebook page. It becomes

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quite poignant. It is superb. It has been a very beautiful

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afternoon. It has been at 16 Celsius for some of you. It will be

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different tomorrow. The farther west you are then you will see the bulk

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of the brain. `` bulk of thd brain. They will also be dry spells. It is

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a complex story that we are running through the next 24 hours, the

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result one front moving in. It is bringing some shells into l`ter

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tonight. There will always be this threat of shovels. It is worth

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emphasising that the new qu`lity is low and it continues tomorrow. It is

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not helped by sand that has been thrown into the mix as some of you

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have seen on your cards. As we move into the early hours, some of the

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rain will start to appear. They list the increasing threat of he`vy

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downpours. The temperature will be mild. No more than a degree Celsius.

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`` no less than nine Celsius. Fund cannot be ruled out. There will be a

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fair amount of cloud. Temperatures should be comfortably warm to stop

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that is a safe description. 14 Celsius or 15 Celsius. The

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continuation of the week ahdad will see fresh conditions. It will come

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windy and wet by Sunday. If you want to help, you can find

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out more information on the fast food bank web page. `` Bath.

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All across the country, millions of families are waking up to a Britain

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in which they find it harder to get on. Whilst the Government keeps

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telling people everything is fixed, many are finding that hard work no

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longer stops the pound in their pocket getting smaller, or the bills

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getting harder to afford. Under David Cameron, gas and electricity

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bills have increased by more than ?300 for an average family, whilst

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the energy companies are making huge profits. Meanwhile, childcare, not a

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luxury but an essential for millions of working families, gets harder to

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find and

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