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Welcome to BBC Points West with Alex Lovell and David Garmston.

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The student who had everything to live for.

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It is a serious risk. The council need to do something. They should

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have done it years ago. We'll be asking what can be done to

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improve safety in an area It's out at last ` a fire that's

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been burning in Swindon for nearly This time it's not a kiss and tell `

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we speak to Harry's biographer And in it for the long Haul ` as the

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BBC celebrates 80 years in Bristol. Detectives searching

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for a missing teenager in B`th have Although there hasn't been `ny

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formal identification, police say they think it is 18`year`old Sammuel

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Amin, who hasn't been seen since he left a city centre club in the early

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hours of Saturday morning. Our Bath reporter Ali Vowles has

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been watching events unfold today. First thing this morning

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and police divers were back in the River Avon searching the

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waters near the footpath whdre it's Then just before midday

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the news that everyone had been dreading ` a body had been found and

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although not formally identhfied. Police are sure it is that

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of the 18`year`old student. An hour before we found the body, I

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went to see the family to update them on the search. I had to go back

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and tell them the sad news that we have found their son. They `re

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destroyed. They are a relighous and close`knit family. There were many

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families `` family members there. Sam was last seen by his frhends

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at the OPA club in the earlx hours Today they were grieving

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for a friend who'd they known all It needs to be sorted out bdcause

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this can't keep happening. Ht needs to be closed off. The counchl need

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to have done something. Not now but when the first casualty arose from

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that. The 18`year`old from Twerton was

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due to start university next week. The path he took along by

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the river was a regular route home. This is a well used path. When you

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come down the slope, this is the only thing that might save xou.

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There has been six deaths in five years and many people say they

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should never have happened `gain. Last year, following

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a safety report, an 850 yard fence was installed along a stretch of

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the river to improve water safety. For the parents of graphic designer

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Casper Flagg, who died when he fell into the Avon after a night out in

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2009, today?s news is devastating. It keeps happening. Something needs

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to be done. They should makd it safe for everybody to walk along. They

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either have to do this or shut this path late at night. Streetlhghts,

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cameras all along, you can't have people walking along these rivers.

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Tonight the waters of the Rhver Avon look calm.

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But there's shock throughout the city that once again another

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Clearly a lot of strong feelings in Bath tonight about safetx

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We're joined from there now by Dave Laming from the

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This simply can't go on, cabinets? It cannot go on. We have to address

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it and we are addressing it. The problem has been that for four

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years, I have been the Lone Ranger but now we getting our act together.

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I have been told today, and this is no comfort the family, becatse they

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only speak when I am grieving a death on my river, but I have spoken

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with the Cabinet member, Ben Stevens, who is in charge of this

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and he assures me, I have bden allocated a further ?400,000 to

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spend on safety measures whhch are going to be very important. We can't

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make the river completely s`fe, that is an impossibility, but wh`t we can

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do is make sure we do the bdst that we cannot the moment. I am `lmost in

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tears because this is six thmes it has happened. We have to find a way

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of stopping it. I agree with you as a parent of children of that sort of

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age. I could weep for that xoung man that you can't attend an 18`year`old

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to be careful. They don't gdt it, particularly when there is drink

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involved. Is there a possibhlity to friends that area off, parthcularly

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when term starts? How can you do that? That is an impossibilhty. Just

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in that area. The area is the whole of the river. The whole of the river

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through Bass can be dangerots. It is probably the most dangerous river in

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the country. `` through Bath. We have to get out and tell thd

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universities, instruct thesd universities. You have 6000 coming

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here now. Not one of them rdalises we had a river, let alone the most

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dangerous river in the country. They have to be taught how to respect

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it. Thank you for joining us. A fire that's been burning

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at a recycling plant in Swindon for the past eight weeks has

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finally been put out. Firefighters have spent

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the last 57 days tacking thd blaze But whilst the flames may fhnally

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have been extinguished, questions about how this was allowed

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to happen, are gathering molentum. With the flames now out,

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it's clear to see why has bden such Thousands and thousands of tonnes

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of rubbish piled on top of each other with no way of

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stopping the flames from spreading. Today, nearly two months

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after it started, everything in the area has been left coated

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in thick dust and the acrid smell It is still not clear what happened

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here back in July and how this huge fire started. An investigathon is

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underway and we are expecting to see the results in a few weeks time

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This fire was one of the most complex and long`lasting thd Fire

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Service has ever had to deal with. The site have been licensed to store

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5000 tonnes of waste materi`l but according to investigators, far more

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was being kept there which lade the fire even more difficult to manage.

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The challenges we faced was a restricted site congested whth a

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large amount of waste here. The waste had been stored for some time,

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so it was compacted and difficult for us to fight the fire because it

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was deep`seated within the stack. That is way we needed help from the

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Environment Agency to dig ott the fire so we could extinguish it. No

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one was willing to discuss this with us today but one local Councillor,

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himself an environmental policy specialist, said this should never

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have been allowed to happen. We need to get at the bottom of those

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questions as to why this site was allowed to get into the state that

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it was and why the Environmdnt Agency and other agencies dhd not

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act soon to make sure it was properly regulated to stop ` fire

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taking place. We have to make sure this doesn't happen again in Swindon

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and we need to learn lessons to make sure this doesn't happen ag`in. An

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enquiry will be proposed at a council meeting on Thursday.

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What Scots living here in the West think

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And have you spotted us out on the town?

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We continue our celebration of 0 years of the BBC here in Brhstol

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An inquest has heard how nobody attempted to resuscitate

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a grandfather from Calne who lay lifeless on the ground for lore than

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40 minutes, because they thought he'd been electrocuted.

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In fact Roger Hayward had stffered a heart attack, as he attempted to

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move a fallen tree by a powdr cable during February's winter storms

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Emergency services failed to treat Mr Hayward as they feared

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the electricity cables were still live, but in fact the power had been

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A man's still in a life thrdatening condition after an incident in

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The 41`year`old was allegedly pushed from a van in the mahn

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Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward.

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Students at New College in Swindon are being given antibiotics

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following a case of bacterial meningitis.

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A teenage pupil is being trdated for the condition at the

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Parents are being warned to look out for the signs of the infecthon,

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which can cause meningitis and septicaemia.

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Undercover Police officers in Bristol have revealed details

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of how they managed to stop a drugs gang, led by a penshoner.

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Bristol Crown Court has heard how 77`year`old George Rogers w`s

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the mastermind behind a plot to manufacture the drug, cryst`l meth.

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This report by our Home Aff`irs Correspondent, Steve Brodie.

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The jury have been told the plan could have been based

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on the TV series Breaking B`d in which a dying teacher makes

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the drug, crystal meth, in order to leave money behind for his family.

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The drug is made by cooking up a cocktail of chemicals, all

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Once formed, it's both dangerous and addhctive.

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Witnesses known only as officers 601 and 741,

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and speaking behind a screen described how they kept George

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Officer 741 told the court how she operated a hidden camer`.

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She addded, "We were literally back to back "

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The court has already heard how members of the gang would mdet

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in restaurants and cafes including Vincenzos on Park Street

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in Bristol and Starbucks ne`r Leyhill in South Gloucestershire.

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But they had no idea their conversations were being recorded.

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With bugs placed in gang melbers? cars, the police, say

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the prosecution, could alwaxs track them as they travelled to mdetings

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Prosecutor Stephen Mooney h`d previously claimed that Davhd Nash,

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who fancied himself as a bit of a chemist, was the gang lember

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who was going to set up the drug manufacturing laboratory.

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The jury were told that it's possible for crystal meth

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laboratories to explode and that's one of the reasons why

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the police were so keen to `rrest the gang before it was set tp.

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All ten defendants deny conspiracy to produce amphetamine and nine

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plead not guilty to conspir`cy to produce ecstasy and crystal meth.

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We're all about to find out how united our kingdom is or isn't.

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The people of Scotland go to the polls on Thursday to vote

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So what do Scots living herd in the West think will happdn?

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We sent our own Scott Ellis to find out

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There is a small patch of the West Country

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There are no lochs or glens here to climb.

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A taste of Scotland comes to you from this rather dusty corndr of

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Here, you will find Les, who owns the second`largest

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From that piece of wood, we have got to make this.

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It means lots of work for his six staff who sell 800 bagpipes

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a year to customers worldwide including our Scottish neighbours.

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I would like to see them stay together.

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If it works for them, all well and good.

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We scoured the West Country for more Scottish referendum ophnions.

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Balloon maker Don, spent his first 20 years in Glasgow.

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The next 40 plus in the West Country.

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When I go to Scotland, they say I have a Bristol accent.

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If you could vote, he would say no to independdnce

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I can understand the fact that people feel all the shots are being

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called by little boys from Eton who are 400 miles away.

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There is another West Country Scotsman, Yeovil, Bristol Chty and

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He says he is wary of the small print but if he could come

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It has taken years to come `bout and we have to see what comes of it

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The ballot box awaits those residents in Scotland and

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in the West Country, we can only watch, listen and wait.

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Bear in mind, a yes vote in Scotland might prompt a referendum in Wales,

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bringing the same debate a lot closer to our shores.

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We will have the result of the referendum on Friday weekend and at

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the weekend, we have a programme where we will be talking about the

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aftermath of the vote and what it means to be English.

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Football now and all our teams are playing tonight.

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At the top of League One, Bristol City hope to continte

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their unbeaten start to the season away at Port Vald.

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Amongst the other games, sixth`placed Swindon are

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And Yeovil could give a debut to goalkeeper Jake Kean

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He joined the club on loan from Blackburn yesterday.

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Somerset are in a commanding position

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in their County Championship match against Middlesex.

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James Hildreth top scored whth 82 as they declared on 528 for 9.

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Somerset then reduced the vhsitors to 64 for 7 at the close with

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Alfonso Thomas, Peter Trego and Jack Leach each taking two wickets.

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Now Prince Harry has just ttrned 30 and to mark the occasion he's

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the subject of a new book by royal biographer, Penny Junor,

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In Prince Harry ` Brother, Soldier, Son, she talks

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about his relationship with his parents and his life in the forces.

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Our Gloucestershire reporter Steve Knibbs has been to medt her.

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Back at the one of Prince H`rry s local hangout's, the Hare and Hounds

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in Westonbirt, Penny Junor told me why she finds him so beguilhng.

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Here's Miss Chivas and a risk taker. He is a real party animal but

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there is a very serious sidd to Harry and he has fantastic dmpathy.

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Penny describes him as both dangerous and brillhant

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who's come through a childhood of love and tragedy.

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He did have two loving parents and that is one of the reasons why both

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he and his brother have turned out so well, because they did fdel very

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confident in the love of thdir parents. He was very close to his

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mother, he adored her and she adored him and he was only 12 when he lost

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her. All this loss and learning to cope with difficulty I think has

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really turned him into a very remarkable young man. He has huge

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empathy, huge kindness, he has a fantastically big heart.

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And testament to that his recent Invictus Games, but

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sometimes surely being plain old Harry Wales would have been better.

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He has been discovering through his charities, he is discovering that

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having an HRH to his name, gives him an added power. He can do things for

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the good that if he was just plain Harry in Wales couldn't do.

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There was that notorious gale of billiards in a Las Vegas hotel.

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He is a risk taker. He loves life and I feel he has been badlx

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maligned by the press who sdem to want to present him as this

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out`of`control character. They are calling a different tune at the

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moment at the moment becausd he is in favour because he has done these

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games. He is the great prince at the moment. At the end of the book, what

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image do you want people to come away with? A brilliant soldher, a

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brilliant leader of men who is incredibly empathetic to vulnerable

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people. He has a wonderful sense of humour, he is tremendously kind and

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loving. We are incredibly ltcky to have Harry.

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Now we've stepped into the newsroom to introduce our next piece because

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This is the nerve centre, where the scripts are written and the films

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are edited. I have never sedn them looking quite so hard at thd moment.

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As the BBC in Bristol marks 80 years of broadcasting, John Craven is

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looking back at the history of the site and its programles.

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Tonight he returns to the early days of his TV career

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BBC Bristol was officially opened in 1934, before radio studios.

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It wasn't until 1957 that the West got its own regional television

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news, just a five minute bulletin covering a wide area.

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For our first news dummy, wd look at events in Dorset and Hampshire

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and knew of a strike in Cornwall, this part of influenza in the West

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Country and the friendly invasion of West Country ports by NATO warships.

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By the time I arrived in thd 70s, BBC Bristol had its own dedhcated

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One of my fellow reporters was a certain Jonathan Dimbleby.

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You arrive at the bus stop `nd you will have a long wait because the

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This was my first proper job and I did learn a lot.

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It was fun and it was much more diffictlt.

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I loved the stories that were visual stories

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of a church or a village th`t had won the best award for the village.

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It was done swiftly because there wasn't much thme.

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Occasional interviews you'vd got to do with controversial polithcians,

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Some things have drasticallx changed over the years, certainly the

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The Glastonbury Fayre has bden a time of peace

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There have been certain aspdcts of it that have disturbed what they

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One of the things that strikes me is your voice, how much has ch`nged.

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We filmed in black and whitd and it was film, not video.

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We were given one roll of fhlm which lasted for ten minutes to make

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I had to be back in the studios by 3:30pm

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with a little card and you don't have to process the fhlm.

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We could start editing before it goes on air.

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I can remember the palpitathons if I would get back in time.

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Nowadays the newsroom is a busy place, shared by Points West,

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Radio Bristol and News online, alongside the inside out West

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The big change since I was here in the 1970s is the lack

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of noise because in those d`ys, we were bustling away at typewriters.

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My colleagues said there was a lot more drama in the old days with

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Often things were arriving very late for the programme.

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We just had the one programle, one at 6:30pm.

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Breakfast bulletins every h`lf`hour, a lunch time bulletin.

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It is almost a round`the`clock operation.

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Straight back in the next morning and lots

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This is John Craven for BBC points West.

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It is never like that any more. I remember when we had an electricity

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failure and we were all on typewriters or at least tryhng to

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find one. And tomorrow John finds out

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about all the wonderful children's programmes

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which have been made here, hncluding Animal Magic with Johnny Morris of

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course, filmed in this very studio. And some sad news that came

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to us this afternoon. Rosalind Buckland,

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who was the real Rosie in L`urie Mrs Buckland would have

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turned 100 tomorrow. Let us get the weather now with Ian.

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We are coming up for a bit of a change at the end of the

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There is a lot of uncertainty that will start to develop. Therd is a

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good deal of dry weather about. There will be some murky scdnes

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through the most part of thd day. Things will brighten up and we will

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share a decent afternoon. Wd are expecting it to stay dry. Not

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everywhere has been dry tod`y. We have seen clusters of showers over

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Wiltshire during the afternoon. They are moving away now. There will be

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one or two further showers to come through the course of the evening

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for some. We have low cloud spilling across us as the night goes on. The

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threat of showers has been held down to the south of us. Low pressure is

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way down of the chart. For the time being, once those showers move away,

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it will be a dry night. If xou are East, there will be some hill fog

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around. It will be a mild nhght at around 50 Celsius. Tomorrow morning,

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it will be a sit and wait story as all that low cloud clears away. For

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some of you in the North, it might take to lunch time for it to move

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away. We have a better action in starting to develop. We are

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expecting it to stay dry. There is a fair amount of sunshine but it will

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be a warm one. Temperatures reached 25 Celsius today. It would be a

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little bit behind that tomorrow Late into the week, the thrdat of

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some heavy showers. Some of those could be severe.

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I have made a note never to summarise the weather. That is about

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it from us for now. I hope xou enjoyed your small tour arotnd.

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There's more of that tomorrow. Goodbye.

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