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Good evening. An artwork by the Blakelock. Here on One we can now

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Good evening. An artwork by the street artist Banksy has become the

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subject of a public row. The picture, in Bristol, was painted

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onto a piece of wood nailed to a door but was removed by members of a

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nearby youth club who intend to sell it to raise money. But their right

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to the work is hotly disputed, as Andrew Plant reports. The most

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recent and now most controversial of all of Bristol's Banksys. Still on

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show to the public today, Mobile Lovers has been taken from its

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original home and stashed inside a nearby youth club. The artwork was

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prised off of its doorway yesterday by a carpenter with a crowbar, now

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replaced with a printed copy. The wall belongs to the council, but the

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leader of the youth club says he's not sorry and it's finders keepers.

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So it's council property, what if they ask for it back? They don't

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like graffiti do they? It's against their laws. They go round and cover

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it up. So if they ask for it back, you won't give it back? Definitely

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not. Besides that, we do not get the grants off the council these days to

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survive, so the reality is, if they want to come up with some good

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grants, they can have it. As we filmed today, the police arrived.

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But instead of impounding this picture, they had a good look and

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then left, saying there had been no official complaints from the

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council. But today, Bristol's elected mayor said the club's

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actions were theft. It is challenging for many of the youth

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clubs. I sympathise with them. But not to the extent of thieving a

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Banksy work of art and regarding it as their own. And art experts say

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selling one of Bristol's Banksys, even for a noble cause, raises some

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questions. I don't know how Banksy feels about that or would feel about

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that. I presume that he did it there for the public to enjoy. Many took

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pictures of the fake today, unaware that the real Banksy was stashed

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inside. This evening, there was a further twist in the tale, and an

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agreement was reached to move the Banksy to the Bristol Museum while

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its ownership is established. The youth club say they are determined

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it's theirs, they need ?150,000 to keep going and this artwork, they

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say, is their chance to raise that cash. Well, earlier, I spoke to the

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BBC Arts Editor and asked him if he thought it was art theft. I do know

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the legal ins and outs of whether it was theft or not, but I think that

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the real issue for me is that Banksy's canvas is the public

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domain, he works on the street. That is where the artworks are meant to

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be seen, experienced, enjoyed or despised, depending on your taste in

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these matters. They are not designed to be chipped off walls, taken away

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and sold for profit. There could be an argument that what Banksy did is

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legitimate vandalism, so taking it off is just returning that favour?

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It is a grey area with street art. And because Banksy is such a big

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name, a global brand, his works are immediately valuable. But it is,

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strictly speaking, vandalism and painting on walls is not allowed, it

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is against the law unless you have asked permission. So really it is a

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difficult, nebulous point to argue. I think, personally, that the spirit

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in which it was created is the spirit in which it should be treated

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and if the general public ` for it is a public work of art, supposedly

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` if the general public want it, it should remain there. In my view, it

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should've remained at least long enough for people to have an opinion

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and if the community where it was placed wanted it there, there it

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should remain. In other news, two players from

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Gloucester Rugby have received match bans tonight after being sent off

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during last Saturday's game against Bath.Prop forward Sila Puafisi and

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scrum half Tavis Knoyle both appeared before an RFU disciplinary

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panel. Puasfisi got a week's ban and Knoyle's four`week ban means he

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won't play for Gloucester again as he finishes at the end of the

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season. A man who had a heart attack while

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playing squash in Cheltenham was saved by lifeguards who'd just

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finished a first aid lesson in a room next door. At first they

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thought it was a surprise exercise until they realised it really was a

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life or death situation. Scott Ellis reports. It was Friday night at this

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sports centre in Cheltenham where a 42`year`old man was playing squash

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on this court when he collapsed. Fortunately, his life`savers were

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not that far away, they were actually learning first aid in the

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room next door. The problem was that Natalie Schofield, Joe Wylie and the

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rest of the class, thought it was a drill. He just ran in and said is

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there a first aider about, somebody has collapsed. We stood up, looked

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at each other and thought this was a setup. It was just the way the guy

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ran in and our first aider jumped up. We thought they were testing our

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skills. But the reality was, there was a man down there. What did he

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look like? When we walked in, he was on his side, collapsed and was going

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quite blue. That's when it hit home it was not a drill. George Tarte was

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the first aid teacher that day. He delegated tasks to each of the

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lifeguards, including chest compression, then a life`saving

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electric shock from a defibrillator. George is full of praise for his

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young lifeguards, but says it is lucky that they were there at all.

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?? YELLOWThe training session was virtually over. Two more minutes and

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they would have gone home. It was amazing that we were there and able

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to make the difference. Amazing. You feel good, obviously, that you just

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saved somebody. I'm just glad he's OK. ?? WHITEThe 42`year`old man is

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recovering in hospital. His wife has thanked everybody who helped to save

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her husband's life. That's it from us tonight. There is

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more news on the BBC Website. We'll be back tomorrow. But, for now, I'll

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leave you with Ian Fergusson who has the latest weather.

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A very good evening to you, another dry day on offer tomorrow. The key

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difference will be more cloud compared to the last few days. Still

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some bright and sunny spells and a rather warm day, particularly so

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down in the south of our region. Temperatures tonight will not be

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quite as low as recently, but nonetheless, three or four Celsius

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in some parts of the countryside, close to about five or six in most

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of the urban areas. There will be a bit more cloud around tonight as

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well, tomorrow morning will see the best of the sunshine in the

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widespread sense, but that will get squeezed down south as the day

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continues, with much more in the way of cloud through the course of the

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afternoon. But, as I say, still staying dry and where we have held

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onto the sunshine for longest, across parts of south and south`east

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Somerset into Dorset, here the temperatures will be at their

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highest ` up to 16 or 17 Celsius, should be feeling pretty warm. About

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14 or 15 elsewhere. Best days of the Easter weekend will be by some

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margin Friday and Saturday, much more unsettled for Sunday

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Good evening. The good news is that it will be a reasonably sunny start

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to the Easter weekend. The bad news is that it will not stay that way

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for many of us. Overnight tonight, many of us will be dry with patchy

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rain across Scotland. Some of us will -- some of this will track into

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northern England and were. Quite patchy in nature. Not a lot of rain.

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Dry further south. Maybe

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