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Welcome to BBC Points West with Sabet Choudhury and Alex Lovell

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A goldmine of fines for a Bath Council `

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a quarter of a million pounds collected in one month.

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Motorists say it's unfair and confusing.

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I think most people will not notice. It is chaotic, confusing.

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Making headline news around the world `

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we speak to the family whosd car caught fire in the lion enclosure.

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Rovers' fans face up to the grim reality of life out of the league.

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creating one of the biggest shocks in World Championship history.

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A motoring organisation is criticising the council in Bath

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after it generated a quarter of a million pounds in fines

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Since January, cars have been banned from the road

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immediately in front the bus station during the day.

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is to improve the flow of traffic and reduce pollution,

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but many who've been caught say the signs just aren't clear enotgh.

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The council says it's given motorists every chance to

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Here's our Bath reporter, Ali Vowles.

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Who would have thought that such a short stretch of road frol the bus

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station to the train station could cause motorists so many problems?

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are banned from 10am till 6pm one way.

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All these cars going up through the lights today

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and the figures are raising eyebrows.

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9000 vehicles have broken the rules. That has generated an income

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over ground ?250,000. If thdy do not pay within 14 days, it could be

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more. That equates to around one vehicle breaking the rules dvery

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three or four minutes. But many locals and tourists say

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there just isn't enough warning Part of the confusion seems to be

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because of the signage. That is the first sign there. If he word a

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tourist, to all intents and purposes, it looks as though you can

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go left. That means you will break the law.

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It is not clear until it is too late. The signs are very sm`ll and

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by the time... Most people will not notice they have done it and wonder

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why they have been caught. H did not know he could not drive down there.

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Chaotic, really. Very confusing The whole scheme is experimdntal

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and, for the first two months, those breaking the rules were issued

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with a warning letter ` but no fine. Now the softly`softly appro`ch

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is over. People are getting letters `nd they

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are not being fined by the council, therefore it is all right, they can

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carry on going through therd. How do we get the right results? Wd will

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know that from our trial period The council believes

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it's given enough warning ` This signage is having no ilpact.

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You can tell that by the nulber of penalty tickets that have bden

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issued. Motorists are not awkward, they do not set out to try `nd get a

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?60 penalty ticket. Quite the reverse, I think the majority of

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motorists tried to obey the Highway code but in this case, they cannot

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see what they are supposed to be doing.

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Extra signs will be going up in the next few weeks and the bus gate

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experiment will be suspended in June whilst major roadworks take place.

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After that, the council will have to decide

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whether the controversial scheme will continue.

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Until then, it seems the problem will go on.

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Well, this story has got yot talking on social media `

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John in Bath says he considdrs the "signage totally inadeqtate

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and says it makes it dangerous to change lanes.

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Not so according to Dave F on Twitter, who says,

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"Adequate signs including big orange ones.

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"Two of my friends and my mum have all been fined for it!

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And Robert Mepham got in touch on our Facebook page.

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"It's much more profitable than a speed camera.

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"Dick Turpin couldn't do a better job if he tried!"

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A quiet family day out quickly became a dice with death

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The Clements family from Gloucestershire were enjoying

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looking at Longleat's lions from the safety of their car

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They faced a potentially deadly dilemm` `

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Or take their chances with a pride of hungry lions?

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Do you get that with the anhmals nearby?

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Making the news in America `nd Australia, this was a safarh

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adventure that spread fast. When Helen Clements' car caught fire she

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and her two children faced ` deadly dilemma. Captured on the caleras of

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the cars following behind, ` situation that would make anyone

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sweat. They are in the lining closure and there is a car on fire.

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Stay inside with the smoke `nd flames, or step into the Lions' Dem.

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12 of them, to be precise. They were, according to witnesses,

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watching the car very closely. It is the ultimate dilemma. You are in an

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environment where you have unpredictable, wild animals in

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presumably the safety of yotr car. When that car is no lug a s`fe, you

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have a choice to make, do you stay in a car that will potentially blow

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up or do you get out and have the risk of being in a lining closure?

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With her nine`year`old son, George, and 12`year`old daughter, Charlie,

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Helen chose the big fire over the big cats

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and, a minute after sounding her horn, a ranger pulled alongside

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For them, it perhaps looked like a potential barbecue.

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Longleat's lions are used to raw meat for dinner

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Thankfully, this time, they were denied a much tastier menu.

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It is just unbelievable. Well, the family are here to tell the tale

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after this incredible and rdally frightening event. Thank yot for

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coming in. If I can start whth you, Helen, what was going through your

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mind? I think we did not know what was going on because we werd

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concerned about the fire. Wd thought that the fire had literally

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overheated and that it would steam `` it was steam. It was turning

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darker and darker and it was getting thicker and thicker. Then wd saw the

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flames. That is just one of the worst dilemmas. Then you ard

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thinking... You started beeping I did, because that was what the

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procedure was. As soon as you see the smoke coming into the c`r, you

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undo the window and George opened the door. Didn't you run aw`y? What

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happened? I got out and I w`sn't thinking about the Lions and I just

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ran. You are thinking about getting away from the car! Alliance,

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fortunately, were not thinkhng too much about you either. How did you

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feel, Charlie? It was a bit crazy because we had a choice between

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getting out all staying in. The procedure is that you stay hn the

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fickle at all times. But we could not Gisby were on fire! `` because

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we were on fire. You live to tell the tale, but looking back, how do

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you relate it? You went back to school on Tuesday. were you

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superstars? A lot of them asking what happened. They were asking

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about the Lions. A little closer, but! Will you go back? Really? Of

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course we would. It has put me off at all. How did they put thd fire

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out? Apparently, the fire brigade came in summer they cleared the

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lines out and the public and then the fire brigade came in. `` they

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cleared the Lions out. I'm glad you can laugh about it now. Why has it

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got to be the Lions of all places? Genuine adventure to remembdr. Onto

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other news. A man's been arrested on suspicion

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of sexual assault Detectives say the 31`year`old

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has been bailed to attend Gloucester Police station in August

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pending further enquiries. The Care Quality Commission

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has confirmed One man has been jailed and handed

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a six`year football banning order following violence at the Bristol

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City versus Bristol Rovers derby. A further four men were also

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given football banning The trouble took place before,

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during and after the Johnstone's Paint Trophx clash

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at Ashton Gate last Septembdr. It was the first time the two sides

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had met in six and a half ydars You're watching BBC Points West

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with Sabet and Alex. Coming up a bit later

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in the programme: the Duke of Gloucester comes face to

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face with an old enemy in Somerset. with its treacherous ancestry

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in Somerset today. The Duke of Gloucester

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had come to officially open a restored medieval building

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in Taunton. But he took the opportunity

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to call into the county museum's

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Monmouth Rebellion room, devoted to an attempt to ovdrthrow

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the Monarchy 300 years ago. While there,

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he spoke of his family's links Somerset was the seat of

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the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion ` This museum display tells

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of the bloody battle of Sedgemoor, where Monmouth's rebels

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were defeated. 300 were later sentenced

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to death. And, as it turns out,

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the Duke of Gloucester and Lonmouth A slightly uneasy place to be, your

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Royal Highness? Not really! He has probably got used to the fact that

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he has and history `` he has got ancestry going in both directions

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and I'm sure he's glad he h`s more rebellious lot as well.

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Earlier, the Duke did what he had come to do `

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described as one of the findst medieval buildings in the Wdst,

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by the Somerset Buildings Preservation Trust.

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It is nationally important. As a piece of architecture, it is a grade

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one building, so it is nationally very important. That is the top tier

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in the country. This is what Castle House

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looked like two years ago ` it was on the English Herit`ge

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at`risk register. Restoring it took a million pounds

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to turn it into this... Much of the money came from

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the National Lottery Heritage Fund. If it takes your fancy, you can

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actually book accommodation here. You can even sit in the rool where

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it is said Judge Jeffreys stayed while sentencing

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Monmouth's rebels to hang. It was quite a day today

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for a royal with rebellious blood. The latest work by street artist

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Banksy has attracted around 3,000 people a day

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to Bristol's City Museum Mobile Lovers first appeared

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in a doorway in Clement Strdet before it was taken away by the

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leader of a nearby youth project. He claimed it was a gift to his club

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which is struggling financi`lly The piece is staying on display

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at the museum until its ownership dispute

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can be resolved. The Easter weekend was not

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a happy time for two of our football sides struggling to

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stay in their divisions. and Bristol Rovers

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failed to get a single point. With news of that and a hugd

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upset at the world snooker, After the Easter football fhxtures,

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nothing is set in stone, Yeovil's season in the Championship

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looks like it's at coming to an end. They drew on Friday

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but lost yesterday and are rooted to the bottol, six

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points away from safety but also with a worse goal differencd than

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Birmingham, and just two gales left. In League Two, Bristol Rovers

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lost on both Saturday and Monday and are now just one place `way

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from going out They're ahead of Northampton

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on goal difference alone, and play Wycombe next week `

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a vital, vital game. Bristol Rovers is a football club

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with a long history ` dropping out of the league

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altogether. was the second

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in less than 48 hours. but tiredness began to show and

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Rochdale scored twice to win 2` . With two matches left, Rovers are

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now just one place above relegation. We have got to keep going, keep

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fighting. I hope one or two of them can come of the treatment t`ble this

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weekend. Ahead of the massive game next week. What happens if we go out

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of the league? is it the end of the club? We have a dream ground on the

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horizon but will we have a club to put in it?

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Yeovil's adventure in the Championship looks all but over

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Defeat at Huddersfield yestdrday leaves them bottom of the t`ble

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As so often this season, thdy just couldn't hang on,

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having drawn level at 1`1 thanks to Tom Lawrence.

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Huddersfield won late in injury time.

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Most clubs are trying to get into the premiership, so there btt it's a

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much `` their budgets are mtch higher. They have tried thehr best.

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At the end of the day, we wdre the favourites to go down from the lost

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at Wembley. Yeovil knew it would be

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a tough season In League One, Swindon still have

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an outside chance of a playoff spot, Bristol City's revival

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has cemented their survival. Three goals from Wade Elliot, Sam

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Baldock and Stephen Pearson And, in League Two,

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a Jamie Cureton double saw Cheltenham Town ease to safety

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with a 2`nil won over Mansfheld They can breathe easily and watch

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the drama below them unfold. Well, I caught up with our resident

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football expert, Geoff Twentyman, just before he went on air

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on Radio Bristol's drivetimd show and I asked him

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for his assessment of Yeovil and what it would mean

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if Rovers did go down. Calamitous. An absolute cal`mity for

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the football club. If it happened, I'm sure they would stay full`time

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with a healthy budget but the conference is effectively lhke the

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fifth division and it would be a real fight to get out of thd

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conference if they get in there People don't think `` peopld

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shouldn't think it will be dasy to come back out of that.

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It has been a great ride for Yeovil. They have got some big clubs. The

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quality in both final thirds has caught them out. Defensivelx, they

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have made too many mistakes and have been punished. They have bedn good

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to carry on as as they have. They really need to make sure thdy work

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on getting back into the championship.

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What will happen? One of the biggest shocks

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in the history of the World Snooker Championships came

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yesterday courtesy of The 24`year`old `

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who's making his debut in the tournament ` beat world number two

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Ding Junhui 10`9 in a final frame We'll speak to the man himsdlf

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in a moment, but first, Andy Howard has been to Glotcester,

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where it all began for Mich`el. This is table eight at the Westgate

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Snooker and billiard club. Lichael Wasley would come here to practice

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as a seven`year`old and he would stand on a box next to the table so

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he could reach the balls. Quite please.

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When the cameras on, it is not as easy as it looks!

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And it wasn't particularly dasy to watch for a man who coached Michael

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I couldn't watch it, I had to go to bed. I was so emotional, I couldn't

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believe he could win! He's a Gloucester boy, who only

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turned professional two years ago. His career is wallpapered

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across this place. As a seven`year, he was so good he

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learned so quickly. The grown`ups played him and they used to say "

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fancy getting beaten by a young lad like that! " But he had the talent,

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he can do it. He won every trophy in the league.

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I didn't think he had it in him the bottle to do so well. He looked as

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though he was playing at thd club! One of the biggest shots evdr! So no

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pressure then. The coach takes on the shot that the student potted.

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Easy as that. We can speak to Michael Wasley now.

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You caused a massive upset. What was that like?

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It was fantastic. As soon as I walked into the Crucible and step

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foot `` and set foot in there, I just embraced it and thought it was

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time to play. Was the presstre difference to and anything xou have

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experienced before? It is a different sort of pressure. You want

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to perform to the crowd but the same time you want to win the match. My

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main focus was to posit it on the balls in front of me and sed what

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happens. I played well to go to each into the `` two each into the

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interval. Did you have anything in your back pocket? Game plan is

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always to be aggressive. Thd way the game of snooker is to going now you

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always have to be aggressivd in your shot selection. I had massive

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pressure `` he had massive pressure going into this tournament, so I

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capitalised on that and madd sure I didn't give him any easy ch`nces and

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any chance that I got, I took. You had to be focused. You were one

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behind going into that final few frames and you managed to ldvel it

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at 9`9. How did that feel? Coming into the third session, I w`s 9`8

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down and I started really wdll. I came out with a century and he

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didn't score a point in that frame, so I had the momentum going into the

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decider. I built up a lead hn the decider quickly, taking 35 points.

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So it gave me a good lead and it just is backed the pressure up on

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him. He had it all to play for. You sound very calm. You have M`rk Davis

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or Dominic Dale next was not have you played them before? I h`ve. I

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played Mark Davis in the Welsh open or the German Masters in my first

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season and I managed to beat him. That was to qualify for the event. I

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played Dominic Dale in the pink ribbon, which was close, and I lost

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4`3. I'm looking forward to playing either of them. Thank you.

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And not forgetting Bristol's Judd Trump who's `lso

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playing in the first round of the world championships at the Crucible.

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There's coverage on BBC TV and online too.

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Ian's up in the garden in a moment ` but he's not the only person who

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To coincide with National Record Shop Day,

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BBC Introducing invited somd rising stars of the region's music scene to

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Sam Brookes here was the first artist in the BBC Garden Sessions `

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All the songs they did have been recorded ` along some interviews `

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and you can hear and see the full performancds on

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BBC Introducing in a few wedks' time. We'll keep you posted

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It was a mixed bag at the wdekend. I saw some thunder and lightning

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which was unexpected. Or was it It was expected. North Somerset was

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under spells of glorious sunshine, server was a raft of condithons to

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be had across course of the weekend. That has been the case todax. In

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terms of the outbreaks of showers that some of you have seen, some of

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the thunder and lightning across parts of Somerset as well. Tomorrow

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will put all of us into a shmilar boat after a dry morning, wd will

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have a rain band moving eastwards through the morning. It will be slow

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and erratic, meaning forecasting the detail will be tricky. In the grand

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scheme of things, it will bd examined five through this chart,

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which shows that after we lose the showers this evening, effectively a

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dry night barring a shower to and that occlusion runs up from the

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South West to introduce this band of rain which, with time, as it moves

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across, will become more Sh`ri in nature but will eventually petered

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out `` more showery. Still some heavy showers around. They `re

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running through Somerset into the Mendips plateau towards parts of

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North Somerset. They will dhe out through the evening and spedd as

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into a dry and mile night. `` a dry and mild night. It will be ` dry

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morning for most but you can see by six or seven in the morning, that

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band of rain. It is never too far away. Temperatures overnight, eight

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or nine Celsius. A marl started tomorrow, a bit of brightness but

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then through the morning, it will age through the region. It will

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spread north eastwards, turning more fragmented and Shari as it that ``

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more showery as it does so. There will be some heavy downpours, with

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some rumbles of thunder as we have seen today. Temperatures will vary

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depending on where the brain is It could reach 15 Celsius in some spots

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at a push. Thursday will be better but despite a good deal of

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brightness, there will be some heavy showers around the afternoon. More

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they lottery for that. On Friday, a similar joke but it looks ddcidedly

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unsettled for Saturday. Thank you for your e`mails `bout the

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bus gate story. There were `lso questions about what was on my

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shoulder. It was my a piece Let us know any more questions and

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comets. For now, goodbye.

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Some people don't think real change in Europe is possible.

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Some people don't think real change is necessary.

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Some people don't think it's worth fighting for.

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But we want to make Europe work for Britain,

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and give you the final say with an in-out referendum in 201 .

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have made Britain's economy stronger and more competitive.

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a record number of people in work. And we're predicted to be

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