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There is more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel. We are back

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Good Evening. The parents of a with the latest

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Good Evening. The parents of a severely disabled man from Wiltshire

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say they're shocked after bding told he'll no longer be entitled to free

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physiotherapy. John Morrision has quadriplegic cerebral palsy and

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needs regular treatment to keep his muscles working. His parents have

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been offered training to carry out the physio themselves, but don't

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feel confident about doing ht properly. Steve Knibbs reports.

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John Morrison can't use his arms or legs so needs a great deal of help.

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Without specialist neuro`rehabilitation physiotherapy

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he'd deteriorate rapidly. Hd has the treatment twice a week and was paid

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for by the NHS when he was ` student. But now that John has moved

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back home to Wiltshire, it's costing his parents over ?500 a month. It

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feels like you're being means tested almost. In a way the nature of the

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letter was if you don't likd what we are offering, go pay for it

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yourself. The Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group won't p`y for

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the treatment long term, instead they've offered to train his parents

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to give him the physiothearpy at home. We are told by the doctors and

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his physiotherapist in Wales not to stand John on our own because if we

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hurt him, we could break his hip, we could snap his thigh bone, we could

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do all sorts of damage. The funding problem isn't specific to Whltshire.

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John is also facing a bill for thousands of pounds of treatment he

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received while living in Wales. It's an issue the health secretary said

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recently, needs to be looked at It is also a false economy not to

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invest in out of hospital c`re. If we do not help to keep people

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healthy and happy while thex are at home, they will end up in hospital

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which will cost us even mord money. The Clinical Commissioning Group

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reiterated today it is their policy to provide around 6`8 physiotherapy

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sessions in hospital before working with patients and their cardrs to

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provide the therapy themselves at home. However they did say, should a

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patients condition deterior`te, they would encourage them to get

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reassessed to make sure that the therapy, either that they'rd doing a

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home themselves or within the NHS, is still appropriate.

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Thousands of homes in part of Gloucestershire have been whthout

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water today. A pipe burst underneath a stream in Cinderford which caused

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a loss of supply to homes there Severn Trent said it brought it

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specialist machinery to pump water back into the main supply.

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Avon and Somerset Police ard continuing to trawl through CCTV

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footage after violence at the Bristol Rovers' game at the weekend.

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Six people were arrested after the match which saw Rovers relegated

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from the football league. Police horses were used after several

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hundred fans ran onto the phtch Officers say they expect to make

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more arrests in the coming days Thousands of people on the Somerset

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Levels have been enjoying a May festival that aims to banish the

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winter and welcome the spring. After the devastating floods, tod`y

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brought a much needed break from the recovery work, and a chance for

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people to celebrate the are`'s heritage. Here's Jules Hyam. The

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traditional May Festival Parade Recorded in the now customary way,

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but centred around the vill`ge maypole. Tradition is important here

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in Kingsbury Episcopi and they do it very well. This festival and these

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dances are to banish winter. Casting off the cloak of the colder months

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and welcoming the spring. It is about the change of seasons but also

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about the change in fortunes. Around here they would welcome a bht of

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that. All us know lots of pdople affected by the flooding but ,you

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know, people bounce back and I've seen loads of those people here

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today already so it is really great. Spring is here, and summer hs

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coming. The May Lady is a sxmbol of that but she's not the only one

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dressed for the occasion. Costumes and garlands, very much the order of

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the day. With so much local craft and culture being celebrated, it is

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understandable some of them didn't want there day interrupted by

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annoying news reporters. How much fun are you having today? Ul, Quite

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a lot of fun. I like the man who was cooking. I think one of the best

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things about Kingsbury May Fair is that you have this lovely vhllage

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that all of a sudden gets ddscended on by everyone in Somerset. It is

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such a wonderful celebration of spring coming and it feels like a

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real traditional West Country thing to do. Do you agree with yotr dad?

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Yes. It is the biggest Kingsbury May Festival yet, run entirely by

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volunteers and run by a comlunity who know a bit about pulling

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together. It's been another busy day on

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Bristol's harbour`side as the city's food festival enters it's sdcond

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week. Plenty of street food was on offer today and on tomorrow night's

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programme Sally Challoner whll be exploring how to shop for good food

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on a tight budget. Let's take a look at the we`ther for

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the west and David Braine h`s our forecast.

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Good evening. After some re`sonable weather through the holiday weekend

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it is all about to change. We have unsettled weather for the wdek

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ahead. Some rain or showers at times, also a bit breezy. Whnds

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mainly from the west or south west over the next few days. It hs

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low`pressure all the way, this line of cloud and rain crossing the

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region overnight tonight. This will be replaced by showers as wd move

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into the morning and one or two of those showers through the afternoon

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could be quite heavy with prolonged rain. It stays unsettled, there ll

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be plenty of showery rain tonight. It does clear by dawn, overnight

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temperatures should not fall below nine Celsius. Tomorrow is a fine

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start with sunny spells, patchy cloud which will develop through the

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morning and afternoon into showers. One or two of those showers could be

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quite heavy. 15 or maybe 16 Celsius will be the maximum temperature The

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outlook, expect a lot of cloud on Wednesday. Wednesday also a risk of

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seeing some showers, one or two of the showers could be slow`moving and

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heavy. Then on Thursday we have a line of thick cloud with more

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persistent rain. Typical temperatures this week betwden 4

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and 16 Celsius. Have a good evening. That's all from us, don't forget

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Late Kick Off's on at 11.35PM tonight here on BBC One, straight

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after Match of the Day. Thex'll be asking what's next for Bristol

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Rovers following their relegation out of the football league. And end

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of season reports on City and Yeovil too. I'm back with more in the late

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news at 10pm. The sunshine today for the bank

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holiday produced the highest temperature of the long weekend in

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eastern England today, at 20 Celsius. But to the west, the cloud

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has been gathering. We have seen a bit of rain in Northern Ireland and

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western Scotland, but the thicker cloud now pushing into the

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south-west of England is delivering more rain. It will become more

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extensive over the next few hours. A ragged area of rainfall will move

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east as the night goes on. If you have yet to make your journey home

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from the bank holiday weekend, you may encounter sums are a. -- some

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spray. Temperatures are not too bad . The good news is that most of the

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rain has gone by the morning. Some may be lingering in the

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