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The scientists looking into new methods of tackling

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meningitis, which is still claiming the lives of hundreds of people

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The councillors mounting a High Court bid to stop two local

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Bamboo Club was the place. And the rain will gradually ease

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through the course of tonight through the course of tonight

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leading us into a cloudy dax tomorrow, details at the end of the

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programme. Senior doctors in the West have

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started looking at new ways to try and tackle the potentially fatal

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disease still killing Every year here in the UK

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there are around 3,200 cases. And a further 960 suffer

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life changing complications. Last year, the UK became thd first

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country in the world to immtnise But some are now questioning

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if this is the right a more effective way

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to protect everyone. Our health correspondent,

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Matthew Hill, has the It is hoped that 150016-18-xear olds

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will be having the vaccine nairks they will have one of these, a

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throat swab and spit test to see what effect the job has on the

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carriage of meningitis It is an issue of money, if it is spdnt on

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that vaccine it is not being spent on something else. If we can show by

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immunising the teenagers we don t just stop them getting sick, but we

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stop everyone else getting sick too, that changes the sums. Two xears ago

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Professor Finn led another study in Bristol that found one in tdn

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teenagers carry the bug, sole are far more infectious than others It

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is hoped the spit samples whll shed light on just how effective the new

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vaccine is, at reducing the threat of transmission.

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30 years ago, an outbreak of meningitis hit Gloucestershire.

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In just five years there were 65 cases.

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The village of Stonehouse w`s one of the areas particularly affected.

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In the town of Stroud in Gloucestershire another baby has

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The Stroud area of Gloucestdrshire has been in the grip of a mdningitis

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They have been called the meningitis years,

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more than 120 cases through the 80s, nearly all of them

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For people with children living all around the Stroud distrhct,

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They didn't feel they had enough information, they didn't know

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whether to believe the wild speculation about how

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all this may have started, and how it was spreading.

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There was intense fear of an illness which could take hold so quhckly,

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Stonehouse had a high concentration of cases.

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When the junior Health Minister came to visit, concerns were

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All we hear is every stone is being turned to find out.

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It is obviously not, we don't have a damn answer.

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The estate agents were complaining people didn't want to buy houses

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once they knew it was in thd Stroud area, our swimming gala werd told

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they could not swim with anx other people because no-one knew how

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it was spread and everyone just shut down.

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For the Wells family, things could have been so dhfferent.

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Daniel, now proud father to Daisy, was one of those struck.

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His mum Jane remembers the dash to the hospital.

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You know, really, really poorly and we were so frightened.

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I remember getting there and they didn't know who we were.

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I was screaming at them "Please take this baby,

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It was horrendous, I can't tell you how horrendous.

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Even now, 30 years on it brhngs tears to my eyes.

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Jane says he felt the effects for years.

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Tim Fear was another young boy who fell victim.

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He shows his gratitude by r`ising money to help with

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It's the seriousness that hhts home really, when I read the newspaper

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article of my mum living a nightmare, and in hospital

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while they were pumping penicillin into him.

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That's the scary thing, this isn't something

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Thankfully awareness is much greater now, 30-odd years on,

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With so little understood about the outbreak, the authorities

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decided to carry out a huge research study in Stonehouse.

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They checked throat bacteri`, did blood tests and asked qtestions

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You can have, you know, a hdalthy child who is perfectly well,

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and dead within 12 hours, so, you know, it's not surprising

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Even if we can't do anything with a vaccine, then we can help

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with communicating what we do know and helping people know the signs

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and symptoms, so that to me was one of the major lessons.

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And you know, this was the start of a major drive towards

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The meningitis support group have been meticulous not

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to give medical advice, because it can be misleading.

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From the meningitis years, there also grew a powerful

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charitable force, as parents fund-raised for research, btilt

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Today, Meningitis Now is a large and successful national charity

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and Jane has been heavily involved from the start.

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You know, we were saying this is an outbreak here

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and it is unfortunate, but let's do something good with it.

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Let's get researchers in, let's learn from it so others

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And Daisy, a much cherished granddaughter, has also become

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a symbol of everything they fought for.

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She is living proof that if you fight long and hard dnough,

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So, yeah, Daisy was the first to get the meningitis B vaccine.

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She is sitting here, larger than life, and we won't have

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A young life protected in the ongoing fight against this

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And for more on this topic you can watch our special

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edition of Points West, broadcast at 6.30pm, on the BBC

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The High Court is being asked to stop the merger

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Taunton Deane and West Somerset want to become a single authority,

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But some councillors opposed to it have started a legal challenge.

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Here's our political, editor Paul Barltrop.

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It is the jewel in the Crown for Taunton Deane Borough Council,

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but the new Blackbrook pool could also be its last hurr`h.

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It opened this summer after many years work,

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but soon it will become the property of a new authority.

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Taunton Deane and West Somerset began sharing

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This summer, they voted to go further, with a full merger

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led by one instead of two sets of councillors.

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But some of them are bitterly opposed.

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But what is the actual cost saving here?

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It is purely about getting rid of a few councillors.

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Today in Taunton they prepared their papers for

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They are serious, dipping into their own pockets

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Yes, of course we are looking at how it will be funded, and yes,

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This is the only option left to us, to get the public to understand

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what is happening to their loney and their services.

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There hasn't been any consultation whatsoever.

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This is where the ground for the actual judicial revhew is.

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There is a clear common law of requirement and duty that

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consultation needs to occur on important matters such as this.

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The merger would mean just one chamber of councillors.

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Bigger savings would come from other change.

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The leader insists it is a good deal for residents.

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All people worry about is, are the bins going to be collected?

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Are we going to continue with our sports facilities?

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They want it to continue, they are not interested in how

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As long as it is done, efficiently, cheaply and quickly.

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Local people can soon have their say.

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A public consultation will begin even as the legal

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The papers have today been lodged with the High Court.

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Judges in the next few weeks will decide whether it merits a full

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That could take place in the New Year.

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The merger itself is unlikely to be stopped, but it

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Large crowds gathered this dvening to celebrate the 50th

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anniversary of Bristol's first West Indian night spot.

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The Bamboo Club was opened in St Pauls as a response

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to the fact black people were being treated with

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It went on to become one of the best music venues in the country.

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Portland Square, sometimes on a Saturday night,

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there's coaches parked all the way round, from Birmingham,

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At the time there was nowhere for especially youngsters

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Yes, there was Top Rank, and probably Mayfair,

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but to get our real music, or a real cultural feel,

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And more on that in Inside Out west. That is it from us tonight. Back

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with you tomorrow but for now I will leave you with Ian who has the

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forecast. Thank you. A soggx story in the West Country at the loment

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but that rain will graduallx fade as the night wears on, such th`t by

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tomorrow morning first light a lot of low cloud, still patchy drizzly

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rain but the day will turn drier, perhaps brighter as well. L`ter into

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the afternoon. At the moment we have the rain band stalled across parts

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of Gloucestershire, heavy showers at the far south and temperatures will

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be somewhere between about 7-10 Celsius. A lot of low cloud. Hill

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fog and that is the story bx first light tomorrow. Still some patchy

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light rain about, more parthcularly in the north. As that fades away we

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will slowly start to break some cloud up as well. I think it will be

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a slow process, some brightdr spells possible. Light winds all of the way

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through the course of the d`y as well. And temperatures ultilately

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into a range of about 12-14 Celsius. Looking beyond that, a lot of dry

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weather dominating through the course of the week. Temperatures

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above average but cool or chilly at night. Here is is a look at your

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around 60 degrees. Towards the weekend, more of the same, mainly

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dry and feeling very mild. Now your national weather.

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Good evening, major changes in the weather over the next couple of

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days, the result being it will turn milder by day and also by night A

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breeze picking up, a westerly, something we have not seen much of

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this month. But there will not be a great deal of rain around. We did

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have rain today across the south-west, leaden skies in Bristol,

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not much of a sunset here, but the different North of the border. Fiery

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skies here and it is turning chilly, a frost in the Highlands. Underneath

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the clear skies. Across Southern parts of England into the Midlands

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and parts of Wales, more cloud. Patchy rain towards the South East.

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Heavy at at times along the South coast but temperatures do not fall

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much. Northern Wales and Northern England, a different story. Frost

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not just in Scotland, also in Northern Ireland. And we will find

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fog forming as well. Most of Scotland starts off dry and cold,

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summer

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