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Welcome to BBC Points West with Sabet Choudhury and Alex Lovell | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
The funds being made available for Somerset communities living | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
in the shadow of a new nuclear power stathon. | :00:17. | :00:28. | |
When you have got there vehhcles coming, that is going to have an | :00:29. | :00:40. | |
impact. The West mother challenging | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
the government's ban Recognition from the Queen | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
for several voluntary groups And digging out stories frol | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
the Great War here in the Wdst. It's the biggest construction | :00:52. | :01:05. | |
site in the UK for a generation The new Hinkley Point power station | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
will cost ?16 billion, and create an estimated 25,000 new | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
jobs during construction. But it'll take at least eight years | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
to build ` and that's nearlx a decade of disruption for people | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
living anywhere near the site. So today, | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
communities in its shadow ldarned ?20 million in all ` with the | :01:21. | :01:21. | |
first ?4 million announced today. They've fired up the bulldozers | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
again, and started new ground works for a power station they sthll | :01:28. | :01:42. | |
aren't sure will finally be built. But the minute these machinds moved | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
into action it triggered the release of millions of pounds to | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
local communities ` in effect This is a contribution to the | :01:49. | :02:08. | |
community to enable us to start over what. | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
This vast project may yet bd scuppered by the European Commission | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
who are investigating whethdr the deal between EDF and the government | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
for new nuclear electricity amounts to an illegal subsidy. | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
All of this is effectively ` gamble, a gamble that they `re | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
confident will go the way. Hf it does not, this will have bedn a | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
waste of time. But civic leaders announcing | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
the compensation package today know that whatever happens | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
their ?4 million is safe. We are trying to help communities, | :02:40. | :02:54. | |
to say that if you are softdning the impact of this, for the sakd of the | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
nation, to have more power, as compensation, here is the fhnance | :03:01. | :03:09. | |
that will make you feel bitter about the project. | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
The village of Stogursey, jtst a mile from Hinkley, is guaranteed at | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
least ?500,000, and it's up to the community now to apply for the cash. | :03:18. | :03:27. | |
If people want to enhance the village, either by building a new | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
village hall or encompassing a youth club, it is what about the village | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
once. More money will follow in | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
the years to come, up to ?20 million That is, of course, if Hinkley C | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
actually becomes more than just Well, as Clinton mentioned, | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
European politicians will h`ve Our political editor Paul B`rltrop | :03:51. | :04:07. | |
joins us now. The reality is that this was always | :04:08. | :04:18. | |
going to take a very long thme. It is for this is a form of acceptable | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
state aid. But that has to be something cold market failure, they | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
are currently investigating whether that is the case. No other funds, | :04:30. | :04:44. | |
cutting out the competition was fair according to the rule book. The | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
Competition Commission say that this is without visiting and it hs very | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
complex. It will take a long time. Why are EDF energy pressing ahead? | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
They have spent a lot of money getting this point. It is also not | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
the job to negotiate with Brussels. That is the UK government. Today, | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
the Chief Executive said th`t a they deal. They have got to keep going | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
and hope. A mum from south Gloucestershire is | :05:15. | :05:28. | |
launching a legal challenge against the ban on children being | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
taken on holiday during terl time. Karen Wilkinson has helped form | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
a group called "Parents Want a Say" ` they're calling | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
for a judicial review of thd rules. Already in the West, | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
more than 700 fines have bedn issued to parents for taking | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
their children out of school. Alice Bouverie's been to | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
speak to some of them. Reminiscing about the holid`y, less | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
than two cows family to Can`da. When he came back he was told th`t he had | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
been fined ?240 and they wotld or could not pay he would have to go to | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
court. It was the trip of the waste team. To go to some really Canada in | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
the middle of the winter, and have those experiences, the educ`tional | :06:15. | :06:28. | |
value is phenomenal. Has sexual old son is a very good reader. But while | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
he is reading his book, his dad is being read the riot act. Until the | :06:34. | :06:45. | |
holiday companies and the Alliance have a fixed place, a flat rate I | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
am not willing to pay the cost. Since last September, the government | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
has got it won't offer on p`tients taking holidays during term time. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Before there was discretion but now only exceptional circumstances | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
apply. A new campaign group has attracted nearly a quarter of a | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
million people to its petithon. We have got a case where a trahn going | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
and for an operation has bedn refused a holiday before thd | :07:22. | :07:30. | |
operation. Silly cases like that. They are exceptional. It is a | :07:31. | :07:40. | |
no`brainer. The Department of education is so far refusing to | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
listen according to this wolan. He said... | :07:45. | :08:00. | |
The crackdown on absenteeisl is meeting many people unhappy. | :08:01. | :08:12. | |
We are just hearing that thd motorcyclist has been killed when | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
competing in a race and that a will of man. The 65`year`old had been an | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
experienced rider. An investigation is now under way. | :08:23. | :08:34. | |
Police investigating an alldged bomb | :08:35. | :08:35. | |
hoax in Bristol are appealing for more information from the | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
public. Bomb disposal experts were called to Cassell Road in Fhshponds | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
and hundreds of homes and businesses were evacuated after | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
reports that a parked car h`d been doused in petrol. A 42`year` | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
old man arrested on suspicion of causing a bomb hoax has been | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
One of the Australian DJs who made a prank call to Bristol nurse | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
Jacintha Saldana says she should have tried harder to make stre it | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
Mel Greg and her co`host phoned the hospital | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
where Miss Saldanha was tre`ting the Duchess of Cambridge, pretending | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
Miss Greg says she feels guhlty that Miss Saldanha was found dead three | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
days later, and that it's been like livhng | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
My boyfriend Steven was going on Twitter and Facebook, just having a | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
look as he normally does, and then he saw the Tweets coming through. | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
They said I had blood on my hands and that I was | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
I feel disgusted at myself, listening back to it. | :09:27. | :09:35. | |
I remember laughing, thinking how funny it was. | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
You're watching Points West, your local news from the BBC, | :09:38. | :10:01. | |
We'll let you know where to see the Queen's baton relay tomorrow. | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
And we meet the man who's rtn seven marathons in seven daxs. | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
This week we're continuing our World War One at Home series on | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
Points West ` a partnership between the BBC and Imperial War Museums. | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
It tells stories about people and places on the home front | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
Salisbury Plain was already established as a training b`se | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
but the conflict saw thousands of soldiers from across | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
And many of them left their mark, as I've been finding out. | :10:31. | :10:42. | |
When you see millions of thd mouth less dead, across your dreals in | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
pale battalions, say not soft thing as other men have said, that you'll | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
A living hell, filled with the stench of ddath | :10:50. | :11:04. | |
Nothing could have prepared them for this. | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
But it's here in Salisbury Plain, hundreds of miles away | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
from the battlefield, that lost of those soldiers had their first | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
100 years on, if you look h`rd enough, this landscape is still | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
From the sky down, a reminddr of how life in the trenches started | :11:22. | :11:31. | |
These people, it would have been their first | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
You've got replica shell`holes, tea that tastes like fuel | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
One thing you can't have is an enemy shooting at you. | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
Although you're using your own ammunition, there's no | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
That's something you can't train for. | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
Even to the extent the trenches are located. | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
They're on what's called a reverse slope. | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
Any enemy attacking you from the front line, | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
you'd see them silhouetted beautifully on the skyline. | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
That's the sort of thing thdy'll face on the Western Front. | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
Thousands of new recruits came here to prepare | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
for the front line ` amongst them, the Anzacs, the Australian `nd | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
Also the Canadian forces, filmed here digging trenches. | :12:16. | :12:24. | |
It must have been one of the strangest experiences ever, | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
particularly when you think at that time, the start of the 20th century, | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
many people might not even have left the county! | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
All of a sudden, the whole of the Empire descends upon the cotnty | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
It must have been so peculi`r to face the whole Empire in one | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
Those soldiers are long gond ` some taken by time, | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
Although this desolate landscape still stirs with their echods. | :12:48. | :12:57. | |
You think about military landscape... | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
A relatively short period of time in trenches, but also time | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
100 years on, those markings are now a monument ` a time capsule to | :13:07. | :13:15. | |
the memories of soldiers like Alexander Todd from Australia. | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
He trained here, and became a hero by taking | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
Imagine, he's whittling awax in a moment of boredom. | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
All sorts of thoughts are rushing through his | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
It's the same hopes and fears as the modern armies had, | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
Hoping to get back, expecting to get back... | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
But very poignantly, he never makes it. | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
Killed one month before the end of the Great War. | :13:50. | :13:59. | |
That makes this a powerful lonument ` a tangible trace | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
In winter trenches, glum, whth crumps and lice, and lack of rum, | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
Many who trained in these trenches died in the theatre of battle. | :14:09. | :14:21. | |
But there are others who never left this Wiltshire countryside ` | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
No less are they the heroes than those who g`ve | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
You can find more stories on the website. Tomorrow, I will bd | :14:31. | :15:07. | |
investigating the letter was sent to the wife of a soldier back hn the | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
West. They have been told into a beautiful song. | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
And later tonight, there's a special programme looking | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
at the role the West Countrx played in training hundreds of thotsands | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
From rediscovering the country's largest horse depot in Shirdhampton | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
to cavalry training in Wiltshire, it's the story of the real warhorses | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
And you can see that progralme at 7.30pm here on BBC One. | :15:35. | :15:50. | |
Eight voluntary groups from across the West are being honoured | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
The Queen's Awards for Voluntary Service are given every | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
year to groups up and down the country, which make an outstanding | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
For many vulnerable women, a dangerous place to be. | :16:01. | :16:13. | |
But thanks to One25 ` there is somewhere they can get help. | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
This is the only organisation specifically for women trapped in | :16:18. | :16:30. | |
these kind of situations. Wd deal with many people. We work whth | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
around 300 women every year. This vehicle goes out five mates the | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
week, women can do it clocks of tea and some advice. The people who | :16:42. | :16:50. | |
volunteer do it because thex really want to. They are very passhonate. | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
The Queen's Awards were cre`ted more than a decade ago, back in 2002 | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
They aim to recognise the contribution that groups | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
of volunteers make to local communities. | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
They have an equivalent status for voluntary groups as MBEs do | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
Across the west, seven other charitable groups are | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
One in Gloucestershire, one in Wiltshire and five across Somerset. | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
One of those in Somerset, is based in Taunton. | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
The Street Pastors there have been helping out | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
We wanted to be ace is placd for young people, to go out and enjoy | :17:21. | :17:44. | |
themselves. Us are universally well`received. We don't votd suites | :17:45. | :17:53. | |
and it is amazing how that diffuses aggressive situations. They will be | :17:54. | :18:05. | |
presented with the awards cdremonies of the summer. | :18:06. | :18:14. | |
Some of the region's top rowers are celebrating a successful wedkend | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
at the European Championships in Belgrade. | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
Double Olympic Champion Petd Reed from Nailsworth had to be s`tisfied | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
But former team mate Alex Gregory took gold as part | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
There was also a first European title for Bath trained rower | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
It felt really exciting. We are confident that we don't wear what we | :18:32. | :18:42. | |
will have to ask our coach. Several medals too | :18:43. | :18:52. | |
for our next guest ` and pldnty Jason Smith ran seven marathons | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
in seven days, taking in sole of Somerset's greatest landlarks, | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
and I'm pleased to say he joins us On a scale of one to ten, how much | :19:01. | :19:19. | |
do you hop at the moment? I would like to thank you for having me on. | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
We took this challenge, over seven days, and we are all in extreme | :19:26. | :19:35. | |
pain. Was it worth it? It is slowly sinking in. We woke up this morning | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
and realised the enormity of it You device of this yourself? Nine months | :19:43. | :19:52. | |
ago, I visualised something to do. It is similar to a bucket lhst. I | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
spoke to charity fundraisers, locally, and one of them mentioned | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
trying seven marathons over seven days. I thought were better to do it | :20:05. | :20:14. | |
than Somerset. What was your favourite landmark, and the topless? | :20:15. | :20:23. | |
People are inspirations for technology. We ran a classy | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
suspension blanch, leading tp to the finale, and looking down onto the | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
view was fantastic. We were all emotional that that was our first | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
marathon. It was fantastic. And the one closest to your heart, xou save | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
that for your study? It was Saturday. Really from that xear and | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
one of the people has the dhsease, host dream was to be Batman. We sent | :20:56. | :21:08. | |
out an e`mail and we were vdry thankful that Batman was frde! There | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
Seat on top. We have got thd middle Seat on top. We have got thd middle | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
C. You will have noticed. Congratulations. | :21:21. | :21:29. | |
This summer's Commonwealth Games are just 51 days away, | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
and tomorrow the official b`ton will be passing through the area. | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
We'll give you the route in a few minutes. | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
Several West Country athletds will be there, | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
including 20`year`old Kristhan Callaghan, who has been seldcted | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
He's a student at the University of Bath, and as Alistair Durden has | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
been finding out, Kristian is making quite a name | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
Kristian Callaghan is aiming for the target, one centimetre in dhameter. | :21:50. | :22:03. | |
He says that eating well and avoiding caffeine is fatal to having | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
a steady arm. Then it is kedping your concentration. Most of shooting | :22:09. | :22:19. | |
is in your mind. You have got to know what it says that you want to | :22:20. | :22:28. | |
thank in order to work. He has already won medals at junior level | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
and looking British records. But his natural aptitude for the sport has, | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
as he backed office supplies. Nobody in our family shoots. It cale as a | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
shock. He began winning competitions and he was getting very consistent. | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
We began to think we should find him a proper shooting club. It can be an | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
expensive sport. These glasses cost several hundred pounds. The gun as | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
what over ?1500. He can eashly spend over ?80 on an commission every | :23:10. | :23:11. | |
weekend. She also has to fit it weekend. She also has to fit it | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
around his university race. He is doing an engineering degree in | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
Bath. But he says the sacrifice will be what that. I am looking to get to | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
the final. Anything can happen but it is an achievable goal. Whnning a | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
medal is not impossible. It would be nice. Shooting has already taken | :23:36. | :23:44. | |
Kristian Callaghan across the world. But debate destination and his | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
saints as Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics. | :23:49. | :23:57. | |
Many of you will remember the Olxmpic | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
Torch relay back in 2012, which saw thousands of you turn out to line | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
Well tomorrow, it's the turn of the Queen's baton to come to thd West. | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
It will be in Bristol's harbourside at lunchtime, starting off | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
at the Lloyd's Ampitheatre just after midday, before boarding | :24:12. | :24:13. | |
a boat to the Watersports Cdntre and finally ending up at | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
It is pretty much a continu`tion in terms of the showers. Many darly as | :24:17. | :24:46. | |
well avoid them to the data extent. But there was perhaps, rathdr than | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
sunshine even the cloud. Sole really decent weather. We have been seeing | :24:52. | :25:03. | |
temperatures are on average, you will notice that the rainfall | :25:04. | :25:18. | |
totals, certain places legal way. Thank you for sending the | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
information in. Over the next 2 over us, we have some weakening | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
weather fronts and that could cling some showers. Some medium ldvel | :25:27. | :25:37. | |
clone will be around. Some showers as well. To the south, overnight, B | :25:38. | :25:47. | |
can say for what is coming. It could be a very wet day. We have some | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
showers owed to the west and the weather front is weakening, it is | :25:56. | :26:05. | |
moving eastwards. By the te`m we are through to the end of the nhght | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
temperatures should be around 1 , 12 Celsius. We will start with the few | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
shovels but most areas. On ` dry note. Perhaps some broken fdel | :26:16. | :26:26. | |
thanks to the disease. If you are either saved, you may see no showers | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
at all. Went tomorrow that these. Temperatures to 16 or 17. W`it on | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
Wednesday but the detail is yet to be confirmed. | :26:45. | :26:54. | |
They've kept us enthralled over the past couple of months ` | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
and today, six barn owl chicks who became online stars thanks to | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
It's so their progress can be monitored in the years to come. | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
The chicks were born just over a month ago to mum Brenda | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
Thousands of people around the world followed | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
their journey online as thex hatched and were fed by their parents. | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
Six out of a brood of seven survived. | :27:15. | :27:16. | |
The Hawk and Owl Trust wants to set up more than 300 nest boxes | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
across Somerset to try and tackle the decline in barn owls. | :27:21. | :27:33. | |
They are long way. We will be back later tonight, but for now, goodbye. | :27:34. | :28:04. | |
..then... ..he landed... | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
..and in a flurry of feathers, they were gone. | :28:12. | :28:23. | |
But that isn't quite the end of the story. | :28:24. | :28:25. | |
Perhaps you'll dream of a great adventure. | :28:26. | :28:27. | |
'I'm going on an adventure.' Wow. | :28:28. | :28:39. | |
That is a long way. Quite a bit of it is on bikes. | :28:40. | :28:42. | |
What are you going to do about your hair? | :28:43. | :28:45. |