12/05/2014 BBC Points West


12/05/2014

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Good evening. Gloucestershire Police That's all from us.

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Good evening. Gloucestershire Police have revealed tonight that some

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potential prosecutions during the badger cull were dropped, bdcause

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witnesses withdrew evidence before they came to court. The revdlations

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came during an online debatd to answer criticisms from the public. A

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session hosted by the countx's Police and Crime Commissiondr,

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Martin Surl. Here's Our Gloucestershire Reporter Stdve

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Knibbs. With the pilot cull being c`rried

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out in secret, the police reluctantly became the publhc face

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of the cull. With that came what seemed like a torrent of crhticism.

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Tonight there was acknowledgement of those challenges. It's unprdcedented

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in policing that we've had to police protest at night with peopld with

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firearms. That's never been done before previously in British

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policing. What angered the Police and Crime Commissioner during the

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debate was that out of the 39 arrests made during the cull there

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have been no prosecutions so far. The detective in charge revdaled it

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was because many case weres dropped because contractors working for the

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culling company withdrew thdir statements to avoid appearing in

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court. There might be a levdl of fear and intimidation. Therd are

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special measures that can bd put in place, if someone is that scared,

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where they can give evidencd behind a screen on a videolink. Th`t was

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explained to the contractors. They still didn't wish to make or still

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wanted to withdraw their thdir statements. The police's

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independence on the agenda `nd whether they work too closely with

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the company running the cull, an accusation they denied. Thex were

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not any NFU resources or resources in any way associated with our

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control room. There were stop and searches. Some locals claim to have

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been stopped several times on the same night. If someone has been

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stopped and spoken to and engaged with in one location, if thdy moved

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to another part of that samd area that we were policing, come across

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different officers who are not aware that they've been stopped and they

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have reasonable grounds to `ctually undertake a search, then it's quite

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possible that people could dnd up being searched more than once in a

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night. The Chief Constable `lso revealed that her force facdd

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pressure from all sides, from Government, through DEFRA, through

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the culling companies in thd anti`cull protesters to become more

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involved in the cull. But she wanted to ensure that the police rdmained

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operationally independent. There was also an acknowledgement that next

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time the police will with communities throughout the

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county that were the cull.

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An inquest's been hearing how a soldier from Wiltshire died in

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Afghanistan when a tent he was sleeping in caught fire. 23`year`old

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Dean Hutchinson was on oper`tions with a logistics unit from

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Hullavington when he died alongside another colleague in 2011 in Camp

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Bastion. The inquest in Salhsbury is expected to last two weeks. Around

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?20 million of spending on flood prevention work in Somerset has been

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approved.The county council says much of the money will be spent

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raising the A372 to save it from flooding again and improving one

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road into the village of Muchelney to prevent the community from being

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cut off. These are steps further, yes, committing to spend thd money.

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Our priorities are around gdtting the folk here, with the road they'll

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be able to use next winter, I say next winter, so it's an ambhtious

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time scale. A push is on to get one of Bristol's newest immigrant

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communities involved in the coming elections. The city is home to

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nearly t10,000 Somalis, but many don't vote. That could now be

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changing, and the political parties have noticed. Our political editor

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Paul Barltrop has been to mdet the man driving that change.

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Street politics on the Stapleton Road. Mohammed is a man on `

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mission, to get his community doing democracy. He has no political

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allegiance but having grown up under a military regime in Somali`, he Val

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use the freedom to choose. People thought that votes didn't m`ke a

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difference. That's partly to do with back home. People used to think

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whoever you vote, you know they will come back again. The obstacles are

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apathy and language. But he's having an impact. He reckons a thotsand

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more people are now on the dlectoral register. It's the first tile that

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I'm going to vote. The year before I didn't bother. Make your vohce being

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heard. That's very important. In last year's local election less than

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a quarter of those registerdd to vote actually did so. In thhs ward,

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Lawrence hill. The push to get more people registering and voting has

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caught the eye of politicians. Visiting today, Green Party

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candidates for the European election. They've sought out

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Mohammed. He's staying politically neutral, but all hope that hmmigrant

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communities aren't deterred from voting. We think it's important to

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show solidarity with communhties that actually have been takhng quite

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a battering in recent months. There's a divisive element to the

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campaigning that's been going on. That's really unhelpful and damaging

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to communities like this ond. Mohammed takes them onto thd

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streets, keen to show how things are changing. I was always passhonate

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about politics and social change. I wanted to see something different

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happen within my community. I was so happy to see from isolation to

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active participation and th`t is something I'm proud of and ly team.

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His work will go on. By next year's general election he hopes to have

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3,000 voters signed up. After a disappointing season in the

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Premiership Gloucester have sacked their Director of Rugby. Nigel

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Davies goes after the side finished a disappointing ninth in thd league.

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On Saturday, they sank to their 14th Premiership defeat at releg`ted

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Worcester. The club say thex want a high`calibre replacement. Sprinters

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Jason Gardener and Ben Rushgrove have become the first athletes to be

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entered into the University of Bath's Hall of Fame for sport. The

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pair have won multiple honotrs at Olympic and Paralympic level. They

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were inducted at a special ceremony at the University sports tr`ining

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village today. And you can see an extended version of that pidce on

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our Facebook page. We're back with you in bearfast tomorrow from 6am.

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But for, now I'll leave you with Ian who has the latest forecast.

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Temperatures on the rise thhs week. Meanwhile showers will be on the

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wasn't, for a few days. Tomorrow we have further `` wane for a few days.

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Tomorrow we have winds to contend with and it feels warmer th`n of

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late. Temperatures tonight get down to seven or eight Celsius. Still

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showers around in Gloucestershire. We continue with a few more

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overnight. Many areas are dry. Many areas start dry tomorrow. As the day

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wears on, particularly throtgh the afternoon, the showers will become

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confined to the east and north. Parts of Wiltshire and

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Gloucestershire. Further west, you will find less, possibly none

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whatsoever. There will be prolonged sunny spells in between all of

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those. The winds will be lighter. Those showers will fade awax during

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the evening, as pressure is rising. Temperatures safely between 14 to 16

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Celsius. I think a number of you 15 or 16 Celsius. It will feel

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pleasantly warm. As it will increasingly through the wedk.

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Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, temperatures climbing up closer to

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towards about 20 Celsius. Not a shower in sight at that stage, at

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least. Here's a look temperatures will pick up towards 21

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degrees. Good evening. Across the whole

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country today the showers have been losing intensity, but still a

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cluster across North Kent, stretching from Lincolnshire and

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also into western Scotland and we will keep a few showers as we go

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through the night which are moving their way into northern England

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Another potential areas developing through Wales and the South West but

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in between there will be dry weather, clearer skies and the

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northern Scotland the clear skies could lead to a touch of Frost the

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temperatures dipping away. A chilly

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