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The choice to die with dignhty ` a husband backs

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the assisted dying bill aftdr watching his wife's painful death.

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I could easily have put her into it. Nobody would have known. But I

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couldn't break the law. That is another thing that I regret.

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8,000 jobs in the pipeline at Silverstone on the eve

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We'll be here later in the programme with the story that's got t`lking.

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Taking the children out of school for holidays `

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We're at the opening ceremony for the Tour De France in Yorkshire

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First tonight ` the husband who lost his wife to cancer, his regret that

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he was unable to end her suffering And his campaign to change the law.

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Steve Riley's wife Tracy didd at their home in Milton Keynes.

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It was less than a year between diagnosis and death

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but he wishes he'd been abld to end her life earlier.

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He is giving his backing to a new bill on assisted dying.

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It will go before the Lords in two weeks' time.

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But the bill has plenty of opponents, including the

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because of fears it would be open to abuse.

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Doctors would be able to prdscribe lethal doses

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of drugs to terminally ill patients who want to end their lives.

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Their professional wedding video shows a bride and groom likd any

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other. But for tracing and her family, this is also a farewell She

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lost her battle against somd `` stomach cancer. Everybody in the

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room knew that Tracy was dyhng. But they did not know how ill she was.

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She had to get a doctor in on the day because she was vomiting so

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much. The drugs were not working. Tracy had for some time said that if

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it didn't work out, she wanted to control how and when she didd. But

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eventually, which talked about it, she said she did not fear ddath she

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feared how she might die. So we talked about dignitaries, bdcause

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that is the only option. Tr`cey s condition deteriorated before

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arrangements could be made. Steve says it is not her only regret. She

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said she had a fantastic life and the best ten years of age h`d been

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with me. She said, I really want to die now. I can't stand it any more.

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I'm ready to go. And I knew that she wanted to die and I could e`sily

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have put into it, and nobodx would have known, but I couldn't do it. I

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couldn't break the law. And that is another thing that I regret. He

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believes the time has come for a change in the law. Nobody should

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suffer like my wife suffered. Nobody should be denied the right. You

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could use when you marry, when you work, when you live, you can choose

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whether you have children or not. What car you drive, where you go on

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holiday. But when it comes to death, you are denied that right to

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self`determination. And there is no logic to that argument. Steve is now

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trying to rebuild a life without Tracey. He is determined her memory

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will live on. He says he will continue to campaign for a change in

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the law so that others do not suffer like she did. Our reporter joins us

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now. A very emotional argumdnt in favour of this bill. But pldnty of

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people have concerns, don't they? Yes, many people fear that `ssisted

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dying of all kinds are open to abuse particularly when it comes to the

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vulnerable in society. That is the concern of the British Medical

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Association, who are also concerned that it goes against their criminal

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that their professional ethhcs to prolong life, not reduce it. Others

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feel it would lead to degradation of our morals and how society views

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killing. But David Tanner s`ys that the majority of people `` the

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campaign says that many people would not choose it. That is exactly the

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same argument as the lobby `gainst it. This will not be the last debate

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before this comes before thd Lords later this month.

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Now, on the eve of the Brithsh Grand Prix, Silverstone has unveiled major

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plans to bring thousands of new jobs to Northamptonshire

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The county is already at the heart of "Motorsport Valley .

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Currently there are around 0,20 companies linked to motorsport based

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in Northamptonshire and togdther they employ up to 20,000 people

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It's estimated that these companies generate ?131 million for

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But after today's announcemdnt, those figures could rocket.

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A company called MEPC is pl`nning to develop this ` Silverstone Park `

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which could be home to another 00 motorsport and high perform`nce

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If that were to happen, thex could generate 8,000 new jobs by 2025

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Michael Fallon is the Minister of State for Business.

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I spoke to him earlier about the significance of this development.

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This could be hugely import`nt. For the whole country. Motorsport has

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suddenly become one of our biggest industrial sectors. It avoids 4 ,000

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people, there are 4000 comp`nies. Most of the Formula one teal is

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here. Most of the global research and development into motorsport is

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now done in Britain. By concentrating it in a clustdr around

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Silverstone, we have the opportunity to capitalise on that and m`ke

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ourselves the global leader. So you are saying that Silverstone is going

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to be to the high`tech engineering industry what Cambridge alrdady is

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to the biotech and pharmacettical industries? Yes, the potenthal is

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that order. There is a huge opportunity there for to celent its

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place as the epicentre of this really important industry. Ht is no

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longer a sport, it is a major winner for Britain in the innovation and

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technology that it develops. So how is the government going to support

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it? We have already been supporting high`tech performance companies in

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the area. We have been supporting the new university technical College

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and Silverstone itself. There has been a significant investment in the

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area and next week, we are going to announce a local growth deal for the

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area. I can't give you detahls tonight but I hope that invdstment

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next week will show the importance the government attaches to the

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development of this kind of high`tech industry right across

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Northamptonshire. Despite that, I have to tell you that the ldader of

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the county council feels th`t the government could be doing more. You

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guilty of perhaps sitting b`ck and waiting for private enterprhse to

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step in? Absolutely not. It has always been a partnership. Xou have

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to create the right conditions for private enterprise to flourhsh. This

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is a perfect partnership between private investment developing the

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park, the government taking a city seeks new and ready to back up the

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industry where it can. This could be hugely import`nt. For

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the whole country. Motorsport has suddenly become one of our biggest

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industrial sectors. It avoids 4 ,000 people, there are 4000 comp`nies.

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Most of the Formula one teal is here. Most of the global research

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and development into motorsport is A children's doctor who worked

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in Cambridge will appear in court in the morning charged with a number

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of sexual offences against boys Doctor Myles Bradbury,

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41 and from Herringswell in Suffolk, worked as a paediatric haem`tologist

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at Addenbrooke's Hospital. The offences are alleged to have

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taken place between December Eight charges relate to offdnces

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against boys between the agds It is not known whether the alleged

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abuse took place at the hospital. Addenbrookes has set up a special

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helpline for families with concerns. A campaign is underway to try and

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encourage more people to kedp bees ` Ten per cent

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of the honey bee population was lost last winter ` and there are real

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fears for their future. A Government minister has bden

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in Leighton Buzzard today to One of nature's finest, which the

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government want to encouragd. Nature can exist alongside a very busy

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railway line, alongside highways, alongside farming. It is re`lly

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important that we do make the effort to look after our biodivershty, in

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this case our wonderful wild flowers and our bees and pollinators. It is

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very important to give nature by two people, particularly if you don t

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have a car and can't access a wildlife site. You should bd able to

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access a wild flower site. H want to give wild flowers back to children.

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This hive in Bedfordshire is home to up to 30,000 bees. But keepdrs are

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worried about threats to thd colony from viruses, pesticides and loss of

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habitat. There is a real long`term problem with beads. Honeybeds

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certainly, but all sorts of these and other pollinators, and ht is

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really serious. It has been argued that there has been a decline of 30%

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in numbers over the last ten years of other sorts of these. Figures

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show that at the end of the Second World War, there were 1 million

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managed to be colonies in Britain. By 2006, that had dropped to

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250,000. There are not any dxact figures over how many there are

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today, but there are real concerns in the future there may not be

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enough to pollinate our fruht and vegetables. Campaigners say that

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more money needs to be found and more money `` and more needs to be

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done to protect bees if we `re to secure our future.

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code France cyclists. And we are behind the scenes at the

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British Grand Prix. All this week we've been looking

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at the issue of taking holidays We know from all the calls `nd

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e`mails we've had that it's an issue As you may know,

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the Government changed the law and from September last year head

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teachers could only grant ldave Today the Department of Education

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told us that the changes ard working with 130,000 fewer pupils mhssing

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school regularly. Home time at college. Here, they are

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strict about taking days off in term time. Exceptional means

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exceptional. At the moment this line shows that

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we are around 94.5. The assistant principal shotld mean

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that attendance now stands `t 9 .5%, all down to the hard work of parents

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and pupils. There is a link between attdndance

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and a young person's achievdment. The better attendance they have the

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more likely they are to reach their potential.

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And number of you contacted us to say that schools seem to want to

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have it both ways. One man said "if schools fine parents, who do the

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parents find when teachers go on strike?

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And this comment from Mrs Jones Terry Kemp, former headteacher,

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e`mailed us to see that the change of law was no more than the

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government trying to win brownie points.

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Tinted a's society when there are a lot of pressures on family,

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financial and emotional, holiday with mum and dad or mum or dad, is a

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really good thing. I don't think schools should have the right to

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dictate to parents that thex cannot take their children away.

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On Monday many schools are closing because of the Tudor France. We

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contacted most of the skills and Kim Richard which are closing. Safety

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was quoted as the main reason. Next week there is a planned teachers'

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strike, sure to go down badly with most parents, but back in the school

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they plan to stay open. We do every single thing we can as

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do most schools to have every single pupil in. Schools do not have a

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choice with the strike, it hs a legal national action and wd did the

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best we can in the circumst`nces. And the school they say atthtudes

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are changing and as a result standards are improving, but is that

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enough for hard`pressed pardnts This afternoon I spoke to

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Karen Wilkinson from a group campaigning for parents

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to have a say over policies that I asked what parents were

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telling her about this issud. They want to be seen as being the

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primary carers for their chhldren, and a clear understanding from

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government that parents do have their children's best interdsts at

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heart. We understand why thd government came up with this policy

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because they are concerned `bout persistent absenteeism, and this

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came up because of the Tottdnham riots and the missing millions from

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skills that it was blamed on, but they have not looked at the whole

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issue properly and have not considered for instance that

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children who are persistently absent are in fact the children who are

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least likely to be going on family holidays.

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There seems to be a grey arda about what counts as an exception`l

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circumstance. Would you likd to see a definitive list applicabld across

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all schools? I don't think a definitive list is

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going to be possible becausd situations will arise which will not

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be on the list and there will still be unfairness. What we want to see

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his recognition of the fact that issues around bereavement and family

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illness and around disability need to be taken into account. Wd just

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need teachers to be acting hn the best interests of the children and

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not in the best interests of the attendance figures.

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IU concerned about the effect on the relationship between parents and

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teachers? I can think of anything elsd which

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has damaged the relationship like this. In the past there was always

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an understanding that teachdrs tried their best and of the thing would

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not necessarily be perfect, and parents would try their best

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likewise. But now because p`rents are not being trusted to make

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decisions, they are questioning decisions that teachers are making.

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Whenever a school closes parents get cross about it, and whenever

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children watch DVDs or do qtizzes, parents question what the

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educational benefit is becatse they are not being allowed to make that

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decision themselves. You are trying to talk to the

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government about this. How optimistic are you that there will

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be changes ahead? We have tried a petition, which had

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a signatures on it, we had ` debate in Parliament in February this year

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which was well attended, we have had countless letters to ministdrs, and

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all we get back is this one reliance on a statistic which says there is a

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correlation between attendance and attainment, but they have not shown

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which causes which. Police and Crime Commissiondrs

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across this region have been given more than ?1.5 million

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by the Government to spend Sexual assaults

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and domestic violence will be high priorities for most PCCs who had to

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bid for the extra cash. This report from our Home Affairs

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Correspondent Sally Chidzoy. This service provides counsdlling

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for women, young people and children who have suffered from domestic

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violence. It is one of many services in Suffolk to receive extra

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government funding. Those sdeking help in this unique project pay just

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?10 for 61`hour sessions to help them rebuild their lives. This

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mother escaped from a violent marriage and says the centrd helps

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to give her strength. It has given me the confidence to do

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things, and it has helped md understand more, because it got to

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the stage when I phoned I w`s dependent because he had always made

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me dependent on him. In the last year we had eight

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councillors, and about 29 women who came for counselling. In thhs year

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alone since April that figure has almost doubled.

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It is one project that is m`king a big impact on the lives of victims

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of crime. We have got a very good settlement

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for Suffolk. We have done bdtter than a lot of constabularies across

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the country, and we are verx pleased that we are able to give thd service

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?35,000 for counselling services for victims. It is important we do what

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we can to support these organisations.

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Every crime scene produces ` victim. Across the region, PCCs now

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know how much they will get to spend on projects of their choice.

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Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex will receive these amounts, and

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Hertfordshire, Kim Richard `nd Northamptonshire will receive these

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amounts. Victims of sexual assaults will

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benefit from a large proportion of the additional funding, and for the

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rest money will be spent whdre PCCs decided it is needed most.

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We are just three days away from the Tour de France passing throtgh our

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region but tonight of coursd it s all about Yorkshire and the opening

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Thousands of cycling fans from around the world have descended

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Including our Sports Editor Jonathan Park who sent

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The world's largest annual sporting event has arrived in Yorkshhre

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before it comes to our part of the world for stage three beford

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finishing in London. This is the Leeds arena where the opening

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presentation is taking placd tonight, and a short while `go the

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200 or so riders took a short trip across Leeds city centre to go from

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the press area to hear to bd part of this official ceremony tonight. And

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on the British interests, Chris Froome and Mark Cavendish. Lots of

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excitement building, and thd sheer size and scale of this oper`tion is

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quite impressive. 2000 membdrs of the media are crammed into the press

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area where the riders took part in press conferences earlier today

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among those Mark Cavendish who has strong legs with Essex becatse he

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does some of his training rhdes at Essex and has a home in thehr. You

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give us his thoughts on ridhng on the roads he knows so well.

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I know the roads, my wife w`s born around their, and so I spent some

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time there. To finish on thdm all again in London will be another

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opportunity to try to win in front of the Queen.

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One local rider will not be taking part in the tour because he is not

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well enough to take his place in the Tour de France. This opening

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ceremony is being orchestrated by another Essex resident who was head

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of ceremonies for London 2002. And to give you an idea of the scale of

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the tour to France, 3.5 billion people will watch it on teldvision,

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1200 rooms are booked out every night by the teams and riders and

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personnel, and 12 million pdople will watch the road race on the

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roads and streets wherever ht happens to take place, on average,

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that is. And this whole racd is coming to our part of the world in

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just four days' time. The British Grand Prix is bding

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staged this weekend at Silvdrstone. And for the first time,

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fans are being given access to parts of the circuit which have bden

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off limits till now. It's part of the celebrations to

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mark Silverstone's 50th Grand Prix. James Burridge sent this

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from the circuit. Welcome to Silverstone and ` very

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special one. For the first time the fans have been allowed unprdcedented

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access in the pit lane. Thex are never seen teams are close like this

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before. Guys, what is it like seeing the team is so close?

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It is fantastic. We have bedn coming for the last seven years and to get

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to see the drivers and cars are close has made a weekend. Normally

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the Thursday is just sitting around the campsite, but hopefully this

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carries on. What have you seen that perhaps you

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wouldn't have had the chancd to see before?

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Goes into the car is, actually see the guys work on the cards for the

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first time. Just everybody being here, it is so fantastic just to be

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here. We will bring you over here, you can

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see the Mercedes garage where Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg are

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based. Down the way drivers for Red Bull, and Richard Phillips, the man

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running the show. This must be a real feat of organisations.

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It is the first time we havd tried to do this, they started quduing at

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eight o'clock was a mile long before we opened lane. It is

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extraordinary. What is a mean to Silverstone to

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have the Grand Prix here for so long?

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50 years of Grand Prix, makds it one of the oldest Grand Prix is. At huge

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motor Heritage. Four days of it this year, as well.

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We will be here every day for road, Look East.

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They may need their wet tyrds at Silverstone.

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We recorded some of the hottest averages in the country. Sole of you

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have written into the newsroom to see your recorded higher

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temperatures than this in your back garden, but these are our official

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statistics taken from within a closed box and metre from the ground

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and away from direct sunlight, so they are taken as the most `ccurate

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data that we can use. But vdry hard indeed. And a fine end of the day

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with a lot of sunshine around. Overnight, some clear spells, but it

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will not allow temperatures to fall very low. It will stay warm with

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temperatures staying in the teens. Winds like south`westerly. Tomorrow

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will be another hot and sunny day. It could be humoured through

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tomorrow. 20 of sunshine through the morning, some high`level cloud

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moving in through the afternoon More than just one place for record

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high temperatures of 28 Celsius Essex looks like the place to record

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those high temperatures. But it could be 27 right across thd

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region. Wind speeds pick up across the afternoon and this is the sign

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of a weather front approachhng. But it is likely to stay warm and sunny

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throughout the day. You can see the weather front edging into the North

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West. It could bring more cloud and one or two spots of rain. It looks

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likely that this rainbow tr`ck eastwards overnight. This is the

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weather front responsible. Ht will be difficult to predict its

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movement, so expect a spell of rain overnight

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it may take some time to cldar through Saturday. Saturday to stay

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some brighter skies but also the risk of some showers... But it will

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feel like a bit cooler and fresher than it has over the last fdw days.

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On Sunday it starts promising with plenty of sunshine and then the risk

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of some showers that could be heavy in the afternoon. And it is Shari at

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start of next week. Overnight lows around

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