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03/01/2017

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Our headlines tonight: The deadly game.

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This is drift triking and the residents of Cheddar Gorge

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Bristol tries to cut down on sugar as doctors warn the risks

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We have got to now really wake up and smiled the copy because if we

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don't, I honestly think the NHS as we know it today will be bankrupt.

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And the risk of frost will be much more patchy in nature tonight. The

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details at the end of the programme. People in Cheddar have raised

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their concerns about a new craze This is what it looks like -

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riders on three-wheeled cycles roll down the steep roads of the famous

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gorge into the village, More than a million people have

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seen this video online Our Somerset correspondent,

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Clinton Rogers, reports. When they put up this

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sign up, they probably A new craze born in New Zealand,

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sweeping the UK and now arriving at a gorge near you,

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much to the annoyance of locals. The parish council absolutely

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deplores it and we really can't understand why these people should

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take such terrible risks with their own lives and also

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endanger the lives of ordinary law-abiding motorists

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coming up the other way. This video was filmed

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in the Gorge and posted Already, a million

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people have seen it. Cheddar Gorge has always been

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a Mecca for extreme sports - So-called boy racers bring

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their cars here on a regular basis. And whether it's sport

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or antisocial behaviour plainly I spoke to someone from the trike

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drifting community who helped He didn't want to be interviewed

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on television but he did tell me that they had warning signs out

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on the day and they had spotters at either end of the Gorge,

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looking out for traffic. All sports, he went on,

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have inherent dangers. It is shocking because there,

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you've got an incident where one of the trikes have swerved in front

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of a car and that car has had But the police, who've

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now seen the footage, say potentially this

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is breaking the law. Certainly, based on what I'm viewing

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here, we will act on this information and we will start

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an investigation in relation to what's actually happened

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and been recorded. As for stopping it, ideas range

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from speed humps to cattle grids So far, nothing has been agreed.

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Clinton Rogers, BBC Unions claim rail travellers

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in the West aren't getting They're say the latest New Year fare

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increase set by the government Ministers argue the money

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will help pay for the biggest round of improvements to rail

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services in a century. This latest price hike affects 40%

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of all rail ticket sales - those controlled by the Government

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rather than the train operators, Most passengers we spoke to regard

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trains as overpriced. I don't use it too often,

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just for that reason. I think I'm lucky in

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that the particular line I'm on hasn't been as badly hit

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as some others. The option is take the bus

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and my commute is an extra hour. The rise means the walk-on

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cost of a return ticket That 150-mile round trip in a car

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would be just ?60 - 40p a mile. The train operators would say buying

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in advantage is cheaper. One passenger watchdog group says it

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highlights just what a bad deal The trains are 40 years old,

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the service is unreliable, one in four trains into

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the Great Western central area is running late at the moment,

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and it's the most overcrowded route in the country into Paddington,

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so people haven't had a fair deal, they've been asked to pay

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for the future without Electrification here in the West has

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been heavily delayed but Network Rail says signalling's

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been improved, new hybrid trains will be pulling into West Country

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stations this summer and there'll be two new services to London non-stop

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from Bristol Parkway. Now, with the New Year comes

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a new health kick for many after overindulging over Christmas,

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and it's the amount of sugar we're eating that's

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troubling health officials. They've teamed up with Jamie Oliver

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to encourage people in Bristol to reduce sugar in their diet

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because too much of it can lead to type 2 diabetes,

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as Dave Harvey reports. When he actually said the words,

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"You now have diabetes, "you've gone over that line,

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you've got type 2 diabetes," I thought, right, this is it,

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I've got to do something I decided to give up

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sugar completely. It turned out to be a lot

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harder than she thought. Sugar is in all kinds

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of surprising places. I really like my coleslaw

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but that's got sugar in it. The big culprit for me initially

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was the fizzy drinks. This one is a lot healthier

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because it's a lot more natural, but it's still got just as much

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sugar in as Coke, so that And quitting sugar was

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just the half of it. After three months of all this,

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Becky went back to her GP. So you were in the range

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where your blood sugar would have been in the diabetic range and now

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it's gone back completely to normal. Approximately 10% of people

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within our city are at risk of diabetes, those are the ones

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that we really want Becky faced a clear choice -

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cut sugar or live with diabetes. But most of us don't and sweet

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treats are a daily temptation. So how will sugar

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smart change all that? They're starting with students,

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investigating surprise sugars. Becky's New Year challenge-

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to run a marathon. Well, a little earlier,

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I spoke to TV doctor Dawn Harper This is something that has crept up

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on us. That is probably why it is such a big problem. If something

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happens overnight, we are very aware of it but when it creeps up

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gradually, we are not so aware of it. We are a crisis point. Do you

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think something like a sugar Smart campaign will work or are you

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fighting against a strong tidier? We are fighting against a crazily

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strong tide but it is a tide we had to fight against. Sugar Smart is one

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element that will really help to engage the younger generation, and

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that is our future. If we can change lifestyles and our younger

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generation, the future is looking brighter. What is the worst case

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scenario? I have absolutely no doubt that if we don't do anything about

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what is an obesity crisis, an epidemic, than actually the NHS as

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we know it today will be bankrupt within my lifetime, not generations

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to come. This is something that could happen very soon. There is

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also a responsibility with the food also a responsibility with the food

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industry because a lot of parents find it hard to find healthy food. I

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think we all have responsibility and the food industry need to come on

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board. The government, education board. The government, education

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Department 's parents, we all have a role to play and we need to get the

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food industry on board. The sugar Smart campaign looks at sugar

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content in pre-packaged foods because a lot of people do not

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realise how much sugar they are consuming. It is not just about the

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sugar you at home. What advice you giving your patients? I spend a lot

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of my life talking about healthy lifestyles and diets. I really

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welcome the sugar Smart app and the food Smart app. They have both been

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developed by public up England and make it easy for people to

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understand just how much sugar, fat and salt they are consuming. Often,

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they are horrified when they look at it.

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As we head into tomorrow, it would be a day that will be less cold

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compared to the current one. There will be with thicker cloud moving

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southwards. That will introduce a sprinkling of light showery rain.

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Behind that, the skies were clear as the cold and marches in for

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Wednesday night. The night, the risk of frost will be much reduced.

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Temperatures broadly speaking above freezing. There could be one or two

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spots where we get Apache frost developing but they will tend to be

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be exceptions. Tomorrow morning, still bright start but quickly,

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cloud thickens up as weak cold front comes upwards. A few light outbreaks

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of showery rain drift down the West Somerset and beyond and behind that

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of the North, skies were clear. We will see the blues returning on the

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map, which signal another widespread frost developing. Tomorrow,

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temperatures getting as high as seven Celsius but by Thursday

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morning, and the widespread milder later in the week. That is it

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from me but coming up next is

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