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That's all from us. Don't forget, there's a first look

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at the papers Relatives of people who died

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in the M5 crash in Somerset may have failed in their attempts to improve

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firework display regulations. Visibility on the crash night was

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reduced partly because of sloke Families of the victims left today's

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hearing clearly unhappy that the fireworks industry had resisted

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calls for tighter regulations. Why is it that operators

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are not licensed? I understand the difficulty

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in licensing individual displays, There is no licensing schemd

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in the UK at the moment. It was one of Britain's worst

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motorway accidents, leaving seven In April, an inquest decided that

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while a fireworks display bding held right next to the motorway hadn t

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caused the crash and the smoke from it had mixed with fog on thd night

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to drastically reduce visibhlity. So today, the West Somerset coroner

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held a hearing to discuss what might be done to prevent such

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a tragedy happening again. The British Pyrotechnics

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Association, who are responsible for training display operators,

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said that their training had now improved to take into account

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the risks presented by smokd. But both they and the Health

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and Safety Executive said thghter Accidents are very, very low,

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even amongst Europe. I think what that says is that we

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are effective in training otrselves, in spreading the message, in making

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sure that what we do is safd. One thing that did come out

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of today was a commitment by the Highways Agency to install

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more warning signs on the M4 near Taunton to warn of the dangers

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ahead when traffic is slowing down. So more than three years

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after the terrible crash here we are The coroner has gone away

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from today's hearing to draw up a list of recommendations which he

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will present to the governmdnt. He's already hinted that he may call

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for a change in the law restricting the proximity of fireworks displays

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to busy roads like this. His draft report is expected

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in a week. Children

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in the West who've got a parent in prison are using their experiences

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to help make the situation dasier Alongside the charity Barnardo?s

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they've helped draw up a A playground in the middle

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of Wiltshire, It is one of only a handful

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in the country to have been built in the grounds of a prison, to be used

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by children visiting their dads This is all

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about trying to make visiting a parent in prison a less frightening

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and more pleasant experiencd for the But it's also having a big dffect

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on the prisoners themselves, helping to maintain family relationships

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and it's hoped long`term helping to There is 86,000 plus people locked

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up in custody today and less than 100 of those will be

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in custody forever. So every single one of the rest of

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them will come out at some point. Having a strong family relationship

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and a strong family unit is really, really important to stop thdm

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coming back to places like this It is something these young

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people know all about. We're not identifying them to

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protect them, but each one has Working with the charity Barnardo's,

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they've been drawing up a Children's Charter to try and help

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others understand what it's like. There's a big change

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in the family dynamic. It's from going from having two

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parents, to having one, and being the oldest child H feel

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that I have to step into thd shoes. He has been away for four months

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and my mum is finding it difficult. Do you think many people

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in professional positions lhke your teachers or other people around

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you understand what it is lhke? I think they know what it is

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like to not have a parent there but I don't think they understand

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about if a parent did something in particular that was really horrible,

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or embarrassing, the teachers don't They've come up with some vdry,

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very basic things about being kept informed about where their parent

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is, when they go to visit bding able to be treated with some respect and

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to have some confidence that when they get there it's not going to be

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an intimidating experience, The prison population in England

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and Wales has doubled over the last 20 years and statistically,

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six in 10 boys with a dad in prison Something that everybody

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agrees must change. A Somerset cricketer has bowled

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himself into the club's history South African player Alfonso Thomas

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took four wickets in four b`lls during the win against Sussdx

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at the County Ground in Taunton This was the delivery for the

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hat`trick ` scenes of great delight. But it got even better ` with his

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next ball he took a fourth wicket, becoming the first Somerset player

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to achieve the feat in this format, My celebration on the third one

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that was the third wicket and then it sunk

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in that it was a hat`trick, then I Then I took the fourth one

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and then I wasn't quite surd how to It's the more or less the s`me

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as a hat`trick, I think. And you can hear more from @lfonso

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Thomas on BBC Bristol's bre`kfast We're back with you tomorrow

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in Breakfast here on BBC Ond But for now I'll leave you with Ian,

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who has the latest weather. Tomorrow, a dry day, variable

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amounts of cloud around but much lighter winds compared to today The

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showers we have left will bd disappearing during the course of

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the next few hours. Temperatures nine ` 11 Celsius tonight. Tomorrow,

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a dry start. The chance of one or two showers in the Bristol Channel.

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They will disappear. There will be cloud cover and sunshine coling and

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going. The pollen count will be as high yesterday. Temperatures will be

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similar. Slightly higher, in fact. 18`20dC. The temperatures continue

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to climb as high dominate `` high`pressure dominates the

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pattern. 22, on Thursday, the mid 20s on Friday, the warmest day

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so far on Friday. We will have to wait and see for that. Now the

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National forecast. Hello. The thunderstorms and bumbling around at

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the end of the day and the most intense in north-west England. In

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Lancashire, Preston about 15 metres of rain nationally metres. That s

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going summer. Today has been another in a long line of days. Of course,

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these big showers and storms. But we are about to get a break. High

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pressure is about to build into the UK, settling the weather down. That

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means an end for now to the downpours. Not only will it be warm

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but I think we will have dry weather for time, too. There are some heavy

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showers around at the moment, though. Northern Scotland,

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north-west England and Wales. Some of these will continue well into the

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night. Elsewhere, variable cloud and clear spells and a little less

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