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Good evening from Points West. news at 10 o'clock. | :00:11. | :00:11. | |
A BBC Inside Out West investigation has found an increasing number | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
of students in the West Country are turning to sex work | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
As the cost of higher education has risen, | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
so has a new phenomenon called sugar dating. | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
reports, universities seem reluctant to acknowledge the problem. | :00:23. | :00:31. | |
It is a world where the women are called sugar babies and the men | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
Look online and you will find dozens of students posting adverts | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
It is like online dating but with one big difference. | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
The man pays the woman for her company. | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
Coco has been doing this for two years. | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
She lives in a bedsit in Gloucester and dropped out | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
of her college course last year because she couldn't | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
Is there an expectation that you will have sex at some | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
I mean, for me, it's just like a normal relationship, | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
She is a growing number of young people funding | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
A recent study by Swansea university found that 4.8% of UK students | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Ron Roberts is a psychiatrist who is concerned about the impact of this. | :01:20. | :01:28. | |
As debt becomes more prevalent, so is the proportion of people | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
who openly talk about working in the sex industry. | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
What has the response been from universities? | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
I wouldn't even say they ignore it, but they try to brush | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
it under the carpet, deny it, deny there is a problem. | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
We contacted all five universities in the West Country to find out | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
if they offered any help or advice for students involved in this. | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
Only one acknowledged that students are working in the sex industry | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
and none had any support available for those who are. | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
Rachel Stonehouse, Points West, Gloucester. | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
And you can see the full report on sugar dating on Inside Out West | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
The government is set to announce an eight million pound deal | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
with Leonardo Helicopters in Somerset to help develop | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
The Ministry of Defence will work with the company to see how | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
the technology could be used to support the military in future. | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
There was a rare chance to walk inside a canal | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
The lock at Bradford on Avon has been drained | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
Today the Canal River Trust invited the public to climb down | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
some temporary stairs into the chamber. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Bristol Rugby beat Bath 12-11 at Ashton Gate, | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
to record a vital win in their fight against relegation. | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
Gavin Henson kicked all 12 points for Bristol, | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
Semesa Rokoduguni scored the only try of the game for Bath, | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
but Rhys Priestland missed the conversion - and Bristol held | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
on to move just two points behind Worcester in the Premiership table. | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
Bad news for Gloucester who lost 35-22 away to Wasps | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
The Cherry and Whites sit in ninth after the defeat, | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
and have lost their last five away games in the Premiership. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
All our teams were in action this weekend. | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
Bristol City remain just one place above the relegation zone after a 2 | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
City who had lost 10 of their previous 13 games, took | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
a shock lead when Aaron Wilbraham headed one home. | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
They soon made it 2 nil, but an own goal and a late goal | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
from Newcastle evened out the scoreline. | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
In League one An own-goal by Bristol Rovers captain | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
Tom Lockyer earned promotion-chasing Scunthorpe a point at | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
The hosts had taken the lead six minutes before the break but under | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
pressure in the 73rd minute Lockyer pushed it passed his | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
Swindon strengthened their chance of League One survival with 3 -1 | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
They remain 4 points adrift from safety sitting | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
In League two Cheltenham Town took a valuable three points | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
in their quest to move up the leaderboard with a one nil win | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
away at Leyton Orient. No goals though for Yeovil away | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
It was a game of very few chances but Yeovil kept a clean sheet | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
Forest Green edged a win over Woking in a seven-goal | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
thriller at the New Lawn in the National League - | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
the visitors clinching the match 4-3 as they climb to third in the table. | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
And finally more than 400 students from across the UK have been | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
competing in the final of a national robotics competition | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
The First Lego League is a science and technology challenge | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
Teams of students aged between nine and 16 have to solve a real-world | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
problem with the help of a Lego robot. | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
The judges said all the teams showed great talent. | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
Let's get the weather now with Emily Wood. | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
We have fairly unsettled weather over the next few days. Some rain | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
for a time this evening is clearing away to the east followed by some | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
drier and clearer weather for a time but some showers will arrive by the | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
first thing tomorrow morning, when the overnight as well and fairly | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
cool, lows of five or 6 degrees. Then tomorrow morning, heavy showers | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
throughout the day, the risk of some hail and thunder next end turning | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
wintry for a time of higher ground. A windy day and feeling cooler, | :05:38. | :05:56. | |
highs of between seven and 9 degrees. On Tuesday, showers, a bit | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
more sunshine, but still feeling cooler and breezy and on Wednesday, | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
south-westerly winds bring milder air and we will also see some rain. | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
That's all from the Points West team for now. | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
Good evening. The fifth named storm of the season has been affecting the | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
west of the UK, and it was named Ewan by the Irish meteorological | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
service because that is where the impact was expected, but it has been | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
quite wet for | :06:24. | :06:25. |