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A life based on lies. for the news where you are.

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The executive who created a fantasy life based on false qualifications.

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Ukip's deputy chairman originally denied involvement

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Now he says that was a misunderstanding.

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A mixed bag of weather forecast this week but spring sunshine at times.

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Something a bit milder as well. All those details later in the

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programme. A former chief executive

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of a hospice in Somerset has been jailed for two years after lying

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about his qualifications to get A court heard his life was based

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on a "staggering series of lies". Our Somerset correspondent

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Clinton Rogers has the story. A pillar of local society -

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well respected, trusted. But today, head down,

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Jon Andrewes appeared at Exeter Crown Court exposed

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as a fraudster, or as the prosecution described him,

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a Walter Mitty character. For ten years from 2005,

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he was chief executive here During that time, he earned

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in excess of ?1 million. But he lied about his qualifications

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to get this job, and later two other senior positions

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within the NHS in Devon. He even invented a PhD so he could

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call himself Dr Andrewes. All untrue, and it amounted

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to criminal dishonesty. Yet, in court today,

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his defence team described his time at the hospice

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as an outstanding success. Did you have any

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reason to doubt him? The current management here say

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they checked his credentials Trustees at the time would have

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undertaken relevant checks, they would have looked

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at his references, they would have looked at his CV,

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and they would have looked at the qualifications

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that he presented with, and to all intents and purposes,

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they took that in good faith. Andrewes admitted two charges

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of fraud and one of obtaining As chief executive of the hospice,

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Andrewes shared photo opportunities with MPs

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and other local dignitaries. Tonight, though, he begins

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a two-year jail sentence, the judge telling him,

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"Your outwardly prestigious life was based on a lie,

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a staggering series of lies." Luke Menzies is an employment law

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specialist based in Bristol. I asked him how unusual this

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scale of deception was. I am aware that there is a survey

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that came out a couple of years ago that said that 40% of people

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embellished their degree, possibly And 11% of people actually make up

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a degree, which is quite shocking. That might be what happened

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in this circumstance. That is when you cross

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the line from embellishing Yes.

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And I think there are... Employers, mostly, are going to be

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wise to the fact that there It is a question of, can you pick

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them up in the interview? But a small embellishment

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I think is very different So, it is really down

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to the employer themselves to actually check this

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out, isn't it? It would be super if there was some

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independent fact checking service that would seamlessly do it

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all for them. But the Government does

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have a degree checker service, and there is another prevention

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service you can use if you want But that involves a lot

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of legwork on the part of the employer's HR team,

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but, frankly, that is I mean, you can also spot

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these things sometimes. A strange date or a sudden jump

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in responsibility from a minor role If you are a good recruiter

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or HR professional, Try and get in and find

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out more about it. In the case of Jon Andrewes,

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he did do a good job, I mean, should the employer then

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get the money back now? Well, that is the

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question, isn't it? Clearly, he's going to face a prison

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sentence and possibly there could be a fine for people who had done

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anything a little less bad. But employers have

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fairly few options. Obviously, the big penalty

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is dismissal, if you're caught But apart from that,

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there is no well-established ability Of course, if they sued him for it,

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you could obviously say, well, I earned that money

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because I did a good job. The fact that you paid money

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doesn't necessarily mean So, he earned a lot

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of money for chairing. If he says, I chaired

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really well and each year you said I had chaired well,

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then I deserve the money. So, it is not really clear

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what they could sue for. I think it is really useful to check

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the CV, spot anything. It is very easy for busy

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people not to do that. You can sometimes spot a gap

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or something strange. Probe.

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And ultimately, test. I mean, engineers, for example,

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are usually given a machine with Or you could put someone

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threw a competency Role plays, that sort of thing,

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to see whether they really have the skills and experience

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that they say they do. Those are the best things

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for employers to do. Police say four people were stabbed

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in a huge fight outside Emergency services were called

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to the Analog nightclub on Queen's Road early

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on Saturday morning. Several people sustained injuries,

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none of them were life-threatening. Ukip have refused to say what action

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they'll take after the party's deputy chairman was accused of lying

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about his part in South-west MEP William Dartmouth

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was personally involved in negotiating a deal,

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despite Ukip's long-standing The politician has said he felt

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"ambushed" when he originally denied knowledge of the proposal and had

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been talking at cross purposes. Here's our political

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editor, Paul Barltrop. It's not a subject he

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likes talking about. This was May 2014, and I was trying

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to find out about a wind farm William Dartmouth was at

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the BBC for a recording of the Sunday Politics West,

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during which he was questioned. And did you know that that land

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might be used as a wind farm? His party is totally

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against onshore wind farms. Here's how Ukip's

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former leader put it. It's very, very good

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for rich people. If you're a landowner and you get

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?1,000 a day for putting wind turbines on your land,

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isn't that great?! To get to the truth, I went

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to Slaithwaite Moor in Yorkshire. The deal to put up wind

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turbines on this site was agreed in May 2011,

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just three months after William Dartmouth had given

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ownership of the site to a relative. Yet it turns out negotiations

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over the wind farm had I met the chairman of

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the wind farm co-operative. He had face-to-face meetings

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with William Dartmouth. We talked to Lord Dartmouth,

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I went down on behalf of the wind co-op and spoke to him,

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and he was very co-operative, A substantial rent

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would have been paid. For this kind of area, you know,

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I can't give specific details for this one still,

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but you might expect ?50-100,000 per year for the sort

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of development you're looking at. The revelations have been seized

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upon by political rivals. It seems that there's clear

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evidence that Dartmouth has behaved dishonestly,

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and obviously we expect higher standards from our elected

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politicians, but it also does smacks of hypocrisy because he had these

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conversations about potentially benefiting from a wind farm

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development in spite of the fact that that is clearly

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contrary to Ukip's policy. In a statement, William Dartmouth

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admits his involvement. He says his views about wind farms

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changed to opposing them, but it would not have been right

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to let down a local co-operative. His party leader has been

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told - it's not known It's just been confirmed

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Gloucester Rugby's head coach, It follows Saturday's 30-27 defeat

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by Harlequins at Kingsholm. Fisher later tweeted

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that it was "time to make The club has said tonight

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that he would leave Allotment holders near Bristol

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are planning to remove two deer who have become trapped

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on their land. They got stuck when a new fence

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was put up as part Experts say the animals

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are becoming distressed, but so far efforts to move them

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on have failed. So, what I've done is I've bought

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a lot of sweetcorn and created a trail all the way out to the road,

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and what the deer have done is they have come out

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in the night, ate the sweetcorn. There are now plans to tempt

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the deer into a horsebox, although animal welfare

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organisations have advised against As part of our Points West 60

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anniversary, we've been working with Britain's last Dambuster,

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George "Johnny" Johnson, looking into the role he played

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in the most famous bombing raid And on tomorrow's Points West,

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we have a special report from the broadcaster Michael Buerk

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on the man behind the headlines. That is it from us tonight. We're

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back with you in Breakfast tomorrow. For now, we will say good night and

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leave you with the late forecast. Our weather this week,

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something of a mixed bag, We will have some spring sunshine

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at times, like one of our That is most likely tomorrow,

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after something of a chilly start. But we have got some

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sunshine at first. Milder from Wednesday,

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but with that, some rain and often fairly cloudy for the end

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of the week from Wednesday onwards. But it's tonight when we have

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the clearest of the skies, That combined with light

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winds is going to allow They are falling nicely now,

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down close to freezing in many spots You might be doing a bit of scraping

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on the cars first thing. But there will be a lot of bright

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in dry weather around for a good deal of tomorrow,

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until the end of the day, when this next frontal system slips

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in from the south and west. You can see it is a warm front.

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Behind it, the air is milder. So, that chilly start,

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sunshine at first, should be Keeping the bright weather

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for a good deal of the day. Cloud and rain in by

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the end of the afternoon. Sweeping to all parts

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by the evening. Before that, temperatures

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at eight or nine Celsius. well and still rather unsettled with

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some blustery showers around. That's the London forecast

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