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pressure for change. That's all from us. Now on

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Good evening. Thousands of people have been queuing for water in

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supermarket car parks, becatse much of Burnham`on`Sea has no water

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supply tonight. Patients have had to be moved out of the town's hospital

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and 23,000 properties are still without water. Our reporter, Alice

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Bouverie, is at the site of the problem and joins us now. Alice

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what is the latest? The latest is that the repahr is

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fixed and things are starting to get back to normal. You join me on A38

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Bridgwater Road. This is whdre it started this morning. Then there is

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a pipe that feeds an underground storage reservoir. This plate got a

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leak this morning. `` pipe. The storage tank ran dry and by the

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middle of the day there was no water. Patients had to be moved to

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another hospital and people started to queue in supermarket car parks. A

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lot of water has been handed out today. It affected a huge ntmber of

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people, 24,000 or so. Peopld have taken it with good humour. Xou do

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not realise how it affects xou, a water turn`off. You go to the tap,

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turn it on, and you expect the water to flow. But on this occasion, you

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turn the tap and there is no water at all. You go to wash your hands

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and there is nothing there! We haven't been able to do any

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washing`up or washing hands after you go to the toilet. Fortunately,

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we have got buts in the garden so we can flush the toilets. Together the

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later we have this man from Bristol Water. The problem has been fixed

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and we are now filling up the tank and testing the water quality. Then

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we will start to bring the water back into the supply area. We need

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to make sure there is no air in the system will stop we apologise to

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customers. It has been an inconvenient day. We need things to

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go write this evening. We hope that the water will be back on in the

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early hours of the morning. Hopefully things will return to

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normal will stop thank you. Political leaders and ordin`ry

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Bristolians have shared an dvening paying tribute to the former city MP

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Tony Benn, who died in March. A controversial figure, he served as

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the Labour MP for Bristol South East from 1950 until 1983, champhoning

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socialism all his later lifd. His funeral was held in Westminster but

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tonight it was the turn of Bristol to pay its respects.

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The new bishop of Bath and Wells will live at the Bishop's P`lace,

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after controversial plans for him to live elsewhere were overturned. The

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incoming bishop was due to break with tradition and move to ` house

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in a nearby village. But thdre was opposition to the plans and a

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special committee has deciddd the palace is the best place for him to

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live when he takes up the post in June.

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Nine members of a drugs gang, responsible for supplying cocaine

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into Gloucestershire, have been sent to prison. They were tracked down by

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an undercover team of detectives during a year`long investig`tion.

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Our home affairs corresponddnt, Steve Brodie, reports.

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Just some of large amounts of benzocaine seized by the police as

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part of Operation Bonn. When mixed with cocaine, it represents well

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over ?1 million of drugs on the streets of Gloucestershire `nd the

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true value could be much higher The mastermind behind the operation was

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this man ` Rodney Brissett. What we have been able to do is not only

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take out the entire structure of how Rodney Brissett was dealing in

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Gloucester, take out all thd people who were working for him, btt we

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have been able to go outsidd the force and disrupt a substantial

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supply route into the countx. His empire collapsed when he was

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arrested while he cycled to Carlton Road in March last year to collect a

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kilo of cocaine. Inside the delivery van, detectives also found ?43, 00

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in a shoe box. This is just one of the places, here on the outskirts of

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Gloucester, used by drugs boss Rodney Brissett to meet fellow gang

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members when they travelled down from Leicester. They had no idea

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they were being targeted by undercover officers. Another

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dominant figure in the crimd organisation was Mohammed T`gari

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from Gloucester. He was the go`between for Brissett and Skender

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Gashi, who was the supplier. Rodney Brissett was handed eight ydars and

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six months, Mohammed Tagari was jailed for 13 and a half ye`rs, and

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Skender Gashi will serve a seven and half year sentence. Jailing the nine

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men for a total of more than fifty years, Judge Longman told them: For

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some the profits in this sort of conspiracy are high, but yot knew

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that the stakes were high too. The judge added that drugs causd misery

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both to users and the community Steve Brodie, BBC Points West,

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Bristol Crown Court. Tributes are being paid to one of

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the West's best`loved actors, writers, and directors ` Chris

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Harris, who has died aged seventy`one. For many years, he

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starred in, and co`wrote, p`ntomimes at Bristol's Old Vic, beford moving

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to Bath where he took to thd stage at the Theatre Royal.

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Now if you live in Burnham`on`Sea, or the surrounding area, thdn a

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reminder that we will have tpdates for you on what is going on there on

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BBC Breakfast, tomorrow morning from 6AM. But Bristol Water is hoping to

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have restored the supply by then. That is all from me for now, but I

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will hand you over to Ian whth tonight's weather.

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A dry day tomorrow, but there will be some cloud around. Tonight,

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temperatures 7`8dC. There whll be a lot of cloud. That will rem`in the

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case for much of the day. Some breaks will spread south. The pollen

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count will be low to moderate. Grass pollen is still no. `` low.

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Temperatures tomorrow, 12`14 degrees. For the bank holid`y

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weekend, you get the broad just on that at the moment, that there

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will be some sunshine around. More on that in the national forecast.

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Our weather is taking a turn for the colder. You would be forgiven for

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thinking that does not bode well for the Bank Holiday Weekend. But as we

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go through the weekend, temperatures will

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