04/07/2014 BBC Points West


04/07/2014

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That's all from us. Now on BBC One, it's time

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Good evening. for

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A BBC Wiltshire journalist has spoken out about how she was

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The disgraced entertainer's been sentenced to almost six years

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in prison today for indecently assaulting four girls.

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Our reporter Imogen Sellers has been to meet Karen

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I was 16, I had just finished my O`levels,

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they asked the school if it was interested in helping with what they

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I thought, 'Yeah, I would love to do that'.

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I went along, I was allocated to looking after a celebrity.

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I would have loved to have looked after one of the Radio 1 DJs or one

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of the actors, but I got Rolf Harris and was a little disappointed.

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He was lovely for the morning, a bit of fun, clearly

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an attention`seeker, but celebrities in that environment would be.

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After lunch, as I recall, he started making a fuss of me.

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Then we had to get into a taxi and he put his hand down my leg,

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He then said to me 'You are irresistible'.

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That is the first time I ever swore at an adult.

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I was very clear about what I thought of him

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How did you feel after you realised how crucial

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It was only at the point that he gave evidence that

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he hadn't been at this Star Games, the Celebrity It's A Knockout

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in Cambridge that I felt I had to say something, because he had been

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That is why I contacted Operation Yew Tree.

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They responded really quickly, I have to say I can't fault the way

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Within hours of having my information, they found a video

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What were your feelings when he was found guilty?

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I was actually astounded, I didn't think he was going to be

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found guilty, again I was relieved, I suppose.

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I wouldn't say pleased, because it is such

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Rolf Harris, to say he was an icon, is not underestimating it.

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I just hope it helps the women he really damaged.

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I don't understand how you can ever feel better about it.

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Is there a sense of relief about it for you?

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Actually, no, not really, I feel a bit of a fraud because I

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Perhaps I was more damaged than I realised.

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A Wiltshire teacher found guilty of grooming teenage pupils

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on Facebook has been jailed for two and a half years.

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Alexander Thomas approached the sixth formers on

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the social networking site, before asking them to send him photographs

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Mr Thomas also admitted possessing an indecent image of a child.

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The family of a young woman who died last weekend

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when the car she was travelling in left the road, say that no words can

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Ellie Clare, who was 19, and George Stott, also travelling in

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the car, both died at the scene of the accident in Farrington Gurney.

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Her family say they've been overwhelmed with messages

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They'd already lost another child to meningitis four years ago.

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Some of the victims of the winter flooding in Somerset

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have finally been able to go home today more than six months

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after they were forced out of their homes as the waters rose.

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Meanwhile, the dredging of local rivers to help prevent more

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flooding hit a setback today after thieves emptied their fuel

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Back inside their home for the very first time since the

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Jane Matthews and her teenage daughter Louise had been living

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in temporary accommodation for more than six months.

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They are finally able to move back home.

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This was their home in February this year,

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Most of their furniture and many of their possessions destroyed.

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Jane was uninsured, she had to claim in 2012 when her home was flooded,

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and had been unable to find anyone to provide cover.

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Facing repairs of ?25,000, the community stepped in

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The property has been completely gutted, taking down

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Thanks in part to the spell of dry weather, the dredging is

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ahead of schedule, but now the environment agency is talking

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about fitting these vehicles with CCTV or hiring overnight security.

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temperatures will remain in the mid teens. Heavy rain in the early hours

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of Saturday morning. That will remain in the mid teens. Heavy rain

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in the early hours of Saturday morning. That'll clear away during

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the course of the morning. Cloud and drizzle falling behind. Not

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everywhere will see that, it will improve throughout the course of the

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day. Temperatures up to the high teens, maybe 21 Celsius in a few

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areas. For Sunday, it will be a dry and bright start. Showers forming

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throughout the day, here later in the day. Before that,

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plenty of sunshine. Today's weather played out like a

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classic World Cup match - a tale of two

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