31/03/2017 Points West


31/03/2017

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Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

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New figures show young people in the South West are the least

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A third of 18-year-olds apply for uni, well behind

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And part of Bristol has one of the lowest rates in the country.

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Here's our political editor, Paul Barltrop.

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Bristol and the South West are prosperous -

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The south of the city is less well-off, and in educational terms

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Fewer than one in five children growing up around here apply

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The contrast with next-door North Somerset is stark.

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Youngsters in places like Long Ashton, just

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across the Vale, are two and a half times more likely to

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This is one of just two secondary schools in the South Bristol

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Ashton Park encourages pupils to go on to higher

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It just seemed a bit too daunting, and obviously it's really expensive

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nowadays to go to university, so I just planned on doing my

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education here and then moving on to employment.

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I didn't feel like university was the best option for me at all.

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Cos I don't really enjoy school, don't really get on with it.

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The region's universities would dearly like to attract more

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Certainly if I look at Bristol in particular wards,

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we have appalling pull-through from populations

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into not just higher education and universities,

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but into further education and higher skills education.

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Many head for what is on offer at this south Bristol

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There to explain why she left full-time education is Casey Abrams.

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I think the big unknown with uni was actually the fear of uni,

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of how I would afford to pay for that and how much debt

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I would have been in afterwards, which is kind of what threw me more

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into doing an apprenticeship, because obviously I wouldn't

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A decent opportunity, reckon experts and politicians, but sending more

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we've got to universities, Exeter down the road and Bath down the

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road, and it's a shameful statistic. -- we've got two universities.

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But with schools funding under increasing pressure

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across the South West, getting pupils to aim

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Police in Bristol are appealing for witnesses, after a car

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hit a cyclist and drove off without stopping.

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The accident happened this afternoon on the A38 Gloucester Road, leaving

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Just a fortnight after major heart surgery, Cheltenham Town's manager

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Gary Johnson could be back at the club tomorrow

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Gary's had heart surgery before, but nothing on the scale of a triple

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bypass, so he does need to take it slowly!

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He caught up with our sports editor, Alistair Durden.

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There have been plenty of well-wishers, and from right

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It's only two weeks since Gary's surgery, but the 61-year-old

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You don't want something like this, but when something like this

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happens, it sort of makes you appreciate the work that

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you're in, the industry that you're in - it's a pretty close-knit

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family and it's not just the effort of getting the cards,

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it's the effort of the words that people could in the cards that

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are overwhelming, and soon I'll get round everybody

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Gary's operation was performed by Dr Alan Brian, whose son Joe

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And of course where Gary's son Lee is the head coach.

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We had moments where I could talk with Dr Brian about football,

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but he was very concentrated on my heart as opposed

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to my managerial career or Joe's football career.

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I stopped short of saying if I don't come through this

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then Joe will never play for Bristol City again!

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As soon as I came round from the operation, the doctor

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shook me up and said, Mr Johnson, you have to wake up no,

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Gary's current club Cheltenham haven't won a game

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Although truthfully he has already started working again from home.

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A couple of days ago I needed to speak to the strikers

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because I felt that wasn't quite performing and I could go

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there so I still have enough respect that can bring them here.

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They all came here and we had a chat and I should videos

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They all came here and we had a chat, and we showed them videos

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and things they can improve on, and I was pleased that

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We're in a delicate situation at the moment, I know it's just

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when my wife Florence Nightingale decides that I can get back

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to the football, then as soon as I feel ready I'll go back

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A convoy of a hundred yellow cars will roar into the Cotswold village

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of Bibury tomorrow; it's in support of a pensioner.

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Peter Maddox lives in one of the most photographed

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areas in the country - but some tourists didn't like his

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yellow car being parked there, and claimed it ruined their shots.

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It was later badly damaged, with the word MOVE

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Steve Knibbs went along to the village.

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Yeah, here we are, people have travelled

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from all over the country - Thirsk, East, West Yorkshire,

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even just four miles away in Northleach to be

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This convoy of 100 yellow cards proving that

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bright is beautiful - isn't that right?

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- is going to be here tomorrow, coming through the village.

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If you want to see it, it's going to be at around 10:30.

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All in honour of course of Peter Maddox, and the problems

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that he had with his little yellow car on the famous Arlington Road.

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Peter, what has that support from the public meant to you?

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And what's nice now is you're going to become a colour,

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because Vauxhall are going to name...

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So a great day in prospect tomorrow - the village will have

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Steve Knibbs, BBC Points West, in Bibury.

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That's your late update from the West.

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Your weekend weather coming up now with Ian,

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Hello and a very good evening to you, we're going to split

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the weekend quite conveniently into two separate halves of weather

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- Saturday is going to be a story of sunny spells and showers,

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some of those will be quite heavy in places,

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and conversely on Sunday after a chilly start it's

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going to be dry and settled day, I suspect actually with plenty

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Now, through the rest of tonight we're going to find gradually a band

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of showery rain which has been affecting western areas just

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creeping its way further eastwards - temperatures broadly about 8 or 9

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And by that stage, albeit many of you getting up to a dry

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start there will already be some showers around, and that's really

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settlng the tone then through the rest of Saturday,

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with some sunny spells proving quite prolonged if you're lucky,

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in other cases though you will be getting some showers

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which will be heavy, possibly thundery in places,

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and slowly, slowly fading away through the course

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Now, temperatures tomorrow will be a bit down on today,

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so about 13 to 15 Celsius - pleasant enough, mind

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you, in the sunshine - and it will certainly be that way

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on Sunday, with much more in the way of sunshine around.

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That's it from me; here's a look at your national forecast.

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Hello. There the weekend is here and Sunday looks like being the better

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day of the two. We're going to start the weekend, a new month, with

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sunshine and April showers. Those fade away overnight. Saturday night

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could be chilly. It points to a fine day on Sunday. This picture was

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taken by a weather watcher to end the day in Dundee. This one is

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probably my favourite of the day. This was taken at Yarmouth in the

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Isle

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