17/02/2017 Points West


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Good evening. for the news where you are.

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Welcome to the late news from the West.

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Women in the West are to take part in a world first,

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the trial of a machine that scans for breast cancer,

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It's the same technology used to detect landmines and it's taken

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Our health correspondent Matthew Hill reports.

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I was very tender in certain parts face having a mammogram.

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I was very tender in certain parts of my body for years because I had

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mastitis. It is the way that they say you may experience some

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discomfort! Tell the truth, painful, isn't it?

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But thanks to this machine developed by a Bristol firm

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she has now been able to have a lump checked out.

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Maria, as it's known, has got transmitters and receivers

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When I went to Cheltenham, they say, you need a mammogram and I said No,

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I know about this radar thing. Oh, we have that here! And I had such a

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laugh. If you want someone to do something you've got to give them a

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good time and they've got to want to go back!

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And believe it or not, Maria has been built on techniques

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similar to ground penetrating radar, used to find landmines.

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The problem is that one in five cancers are not detected through

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mammograms. And they also use radiation so for young women in

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particular they have to come back year on year. Doctors have to

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consider whether it is worth putting them through that.

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A new study has shown this radio wave technology to be just

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as accurate and now doctors are about to start a second clinical

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trial to find out if it could be even safer for younger women.

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It could save lives eventually because one of the difficulties of

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mammograms when you are younger, they tend to be dense and they hide

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lesions. This is different, density does not matter so in a young

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patient with dense tissue this machine picks up as well as it would

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do if the patient did not have such dense tissue. Brilliant, painless,

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it's safe. It's like having a good meal in a restaurant, I would go

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back. Melanie is encouraging other women to take part in this new

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clinical trial, where it is also hoped that doctors can find out how

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well patients are responding to chemotherapy.

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Matthew Hill, BBC Points West, Cheltenham.

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The family of a young man who's been missing for almost two

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weeks say they're baffled by his disappearance.

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Lewis Ball vanished after leaving a waterside nightclub in Bristol

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Police divers have been searching there again today.

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But Lewis' brother Alex says CCTV footage may show him heading

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They've been nicknamed The Lady and The Tramp.

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more than 40 years ago, he was sleeping rough

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The pair, who are both 89 years old, became firm friends.

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This weekend they're getting married.

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There was a little lawn there, wasn't there?

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And there was a seat there for people to sit on.

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Back on the street where they first met.

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Appropriate then that it began here in a bookshop.

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That was my lounge and that was my bedroom up here.

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Joan ran the little shop in the centre of

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And one day in 1975 she saw Ken through

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That was the bin where I used to go and

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So Joan gave Ken a cup of tea that day and sketched

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He was a shy man who had suffered a head injury

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He'd developed schizophrenia and ended up sleeping

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He always looked as if he didn't belong in the streets, he was

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gentlemanly, and he spoke very nicely.

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I mean, he does look a bit scruffy now!

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Joan invited Ken to move into her family home and she helped

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Over the years he became part of the household,

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Although Joan's relationship with Ken was purely

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platonic, her husband would sometimes be jealous.

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But as the decades passed, the three of them became

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Then in 1983 Joan's husband Norman died.

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# How lonely life can be as shadows follow me...

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Ken and Joan are back to marry, 42 years after that first cup

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How much of a difference has Joan made to your life?

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When I was on the street it was terrible.

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It was Joan who proposed to Ken, with the full support

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And I thought, well, I suppose I could, and I said,

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What does the future hold in store for you now?

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Well, there won't be babies, and there won't be a white

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Jon Kay, BBC Points West, Gloucestershire.

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I think that is what you call it love, actually! We wish them the

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very best for tomorrow and for their life together.

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Now rugby, and Gloucester beat champions Saracens tonight 31-23.

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Tom Marshall drove over after 17 minutes for their first try.

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Jeremy Rush extended their lead on 49 minutes.

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England's head coach Eddie Jones was there

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to keep an eye on the talent, and he wasn't disappointed,

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as Richard Hibbard's try in the last few minutes gave Gloucester a famous

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For the most part, the weekend will be

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held under dry conditions, both Saturday and Sunday.

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There will be a little bit of light rain at

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times, noticeably as we get towards the tail end of Saturday

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evening and overnight into first light on Sunday, again a little bit

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A fair amount of cloud around through

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the course of the weekend, but for all of us it

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about 4-6 Celsius, a lot of

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cloud around, some of that low cloud as well, some foggy conditions

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perhaps, parts of Dorset, other southern districts, and there might

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be a little bit of rain at times creeping into some western areas,

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By tomorrow morning, as I mentioned, quite

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a bit of low cloud around and

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extensive cloud, I suspect, for many of us, but the trend through

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lunchtime into the afternoon is for some of that

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A bit more in the way of brightness around,

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remaining dry as well, and

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by the evening a little bit more in the way of light, patchy rain

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part of next week, we could see 16 Celsius in a few spots. Here is knit

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with the National output. We have turned things around in the

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space of a week, with a more springlike feel out there. Some

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places may get as high as 17 Celsius on Monday. That is the exception,

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and most of us won't see that. Plenty of cloud throughout this

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weekend. It is already producing some outbreaks of rain in western

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and northern parts overnight will stop not amounting to too much,

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affecting western Scotland later in the night. Early rain in Northern

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Ireland looks to pull away quite quickly in the morning, spreading

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south

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