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And will come to sell to today. The top stories tonight: shining alight

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on hundreds of jobs. The Solar satellite being partly built in

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Portsmouth. The sea's first and foremost about sustaining jobs, but

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I suspect there will be slowly growing them and increasing the

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number of people, so good news for the area. A haven for heroes. By

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holiday home adapted for injured shoulders -- the holiday home

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adapted for injured soldiers. Southampton expects. The Lord

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Nelson is painted red and white for a degree Ken. You can't argue with

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that. And on the right track at last, the huge steam engine that

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was banned 46 years ago, finally It's a spacecraft that will go

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closer to the Sun than ever before, and it will help sustain jobs at

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one of the South's high tech companies. The news that a �245

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million contract for the Solar Orbiter satellite has been awarded

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to Astrium UK is welcome news here in the South, at the end of a week

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dominated by job losses. It's the icing on the cake for a business

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that has expanded over the years and now employs 1,500 people in

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Portsmouth. Steve Humphrey reports. This Solar orbiter, it seven-year

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mission to seek out new scientific information and go closer to the

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Sun than any satellite has been before. Amongst those who will

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build parts of the �245 million spacecraft are the 1,500 workers

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here at Astrium UK in Portsmouth. It is one of the world's leading

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satellite production centres. is the continuation of a decade of

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growth. This is first and foremost about sustaining jobs, but I

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suspect we will be slowly growing them and increasing the number of

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people we Astrium is currently producing about six satellites per

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year. That is for the telecommunication and TV injuries -

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- industries. The contract for the orbiter has been enthusiastically

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welcomed. It gives me a great feeling and the work was a great

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feeling. Yet again, we are looking at ground-breaking new projects in

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the south. It will take almost five years to build the orbital

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satellites which will weigh almost two tons. The plan is to launch it

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from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Winning the contract is a big boost

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for Astrium, and with so much reliance on satellites for TV,

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broadband and navigation systems, there are real expectations that

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this, as a business, will continue to grow. So what makes exploration

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of the sun so important that nearly a quarter of a billion pounds is

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being spent on this project? Rachael Canter attempts to shed

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It's millions of miles away, and we would be lost without it. But

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storms on the surface of the sun can disrupt things we use every day,

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like power grids, telephones or sat-navs. They're triggered by

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gigantic solar flares. When the charged particles hit the

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magnetic field of the Earth, they jiggle around. And when the field

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has that, it can induce currents in long conductors, so things like

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power grids or even of oil pipelines can get surges of correct

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and that can cause damage. surges of current. Their

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spectacular light displays are celebrated by sky watchers. A solar

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storm in March made the Northern Lights much more visible. But in

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the past surges have been so strong entire cities have been plunged

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into darkness. This new satellite will help to forecast solar

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activity like never before. Hurtling towards the sun is a

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dangerous mission for any spacecraft, and this one will be

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taking pictures and measurements from well within Mercury's orbit,

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just 27 million miles away from the sun.. He to ease a huge problem, so

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we have designed a shield that will reduce the temperature down to room

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temperature, something that is convenient for electronics to work

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out. The solar orbiter will begin The jury in the trial of a man

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accused of strangling his girlfriend in a jealous rage has

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been told he threatened to kill Emily Longley the day before her

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body was found in his bed. Elliot Turner denies murdering the

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aspiring model who was studying at Brockenhurst College. Tom Hepworth

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Today the court heard from Jasmin Snook, here she is with Emily,

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who's highlighted with a pink arrow, leaving a bar on the night she died

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after arguing with Elliot Turner. She said that Emily had told Elliot

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their relationship was over but he was obsessive and couldn't accept

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that. She said the previous night he suspected she was meeting

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another man at a nightclub. She told the jury that Eliot Turner

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tried to take a mobile phone to find out where Emily was. She was

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pretty scared, she told the court and also said that Mr Turner was

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angry and said he was going to smash MLAs based in and did not

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care if he did 10 years, and she was going down. -- Emily's face.

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The court heard he went looking for them armed with a hammer and later

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told Jasmin he'd hit her over the head with it and killed her. He

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then burst out laughing and said it was a joke. She added that Mr

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Turner said, "in a parallel universe he would have killed her

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because she pushed him to it". On Emily's last night alive, Miss

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Snook told the court she'd texted her to ask if she was alright, and

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Emily replied "I'm OK, I'll go home I'm not staying with Turner" She

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never arrived and her body was found in Mr Turner's bed at his

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parents house. The prosecution say he strangled her.

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Elliott Turner denies murder. His parents are also on trial, accused

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of covering up for their son. All three deny attempting to pervert

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the course of justice and the trial continues.

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A court's heard former Labour MP Margaret Moran is not fit to stand

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trial on charges of fiddling her parliamentary expenses. That

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includes dishonestly claiming more than �22,000 to repair dry rot at

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her Southampton home. Mrs Moran, seen here last year, was not at

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today's hearing, when a psychiatrist told Lewes Crown Court

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that the former MP for Luton South was suffering from a depressive

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illness and couldn't participate in court proceedings. She's alleged to

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have "flipped" her designated second home, making claims for this

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property in St Denys, as well as An investigation's begun into the

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cause of a fire which forced the evacuation of a hotel in Brighton

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last night. Guests staying at the Holiday Inn had to be led to safety

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after the blaze broke out in a basement electrical room. East

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Sussex firefighters were called to the 21-storey hotel on the seafront

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around 11:20pm. Smoke from the fire spread to the floors above. No one

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was injured. At the trial of West Sussex hunt

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members accused of illegal fox hunting, the impartiality of a key

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witness has been questioned. Four people from the Crawley and Horsham

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Hunt are accused of breaking the hunting ban. The defence has

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started an application to have the case thrown out. Mark Sanders

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At the heart of the cases whether the accused hunt members were

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involved in illegal fox-hunting or taking part in entirely legitimate

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trail hunting. That is when a centre is laid for the hounds to

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follow and there is no intention to pursue wild animals. Horsham

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magistrates' courts has seen videos taken by the hunt monitors of the

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Crawley and Horsham Hunt during incidents last year. Prosecution

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witness, Professor Stephen Harris, an international expert on foxes,

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said he could not see any evidence of trail hunting in the footage. It

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looked like traditional fox-hunting. But his independence was questioned

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by the defence. Professor Harris acknowledged he had been in favour

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of the hunting ban and also confirmed he had never given

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evidence on behalf of a hunt as an expert witness. The report he had

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prepared for the case will also be questioned. The defence barrister,

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David Parry, said, everything you say undermines the hunt, doesn't

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it? Where is the balance? Professor Harris said it was balanced and the

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evidence is fairly strong. The court has already visited sites in

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West Sussex where it is alleged illegal fox-hunting to place. The

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trial centres on four incidents over three days in January and

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February last year. Four members of the Crawley and Horsham Hunt are

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accused of breaking the hunting ban. They are Jamie hawksbill, Rachel

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Holdsworth, Andrew Phillips and Neil Millard. The defence has

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started an application to have the Emergency services in Southampton

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have rescued an injured person from the cab of a crane. The incident

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happened this morning at the city's docks. An aerial ladder and a

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specialist rope team were used to lower the patient to the ground

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after around two and a half hours. Once safely on the dockside the

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casualty was taken to hospital by Now, have you noticed the price of

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petrol coming down? No? Apparently not many people have. But according

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to the AA, which is based in Basingstoke, the price should be

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dropping by six pence a litre. Our Transport Correspondent Paul

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The price we pay at the pumps has gone up by 10 pence per litre so

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far this year. But the AIA says it should be coming down again. That

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is by 6p. That is because there has been a big drop in the wholesale

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price of fuel. At Bridge Garage on Salisbury Plain, like almost

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everywhere else, the price has stayed high. You are talking about

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an outlay of anything up to �40,000 if you want to fill your tank. The

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averages nearly up to �35,000 anyway. The cost of fuel is so high

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and you have to wait until you have sold it before you can refill at

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the cheaper price and pass it on to the customer. It just keeps going

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up and up. They are going up significantly and its putting up a

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few pounds on the fill up. What does surprise me is no one seems to

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care. There are still great traffic jams up and down the motorway.

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Whatever it is, people just pay it. Every time the price of petrol goes

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up by one penny per litre it adds �13 to the average fuel bill of an

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average driver in an average car. Since petrol has gone up by 10

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pence per litre this year, that is an extra �130 on the family budget.

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We should be looking at a reduction of something like 6p, that is how

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much a wholesale price has fallen since the beginning of the month.

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We have not seen that yet, only about a penny. If the price does

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come down by a few pence, the relief could be short-lived. The

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government is committed to increasing the fuel duty again this

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Olympic security preparations off the Dorset coast will increase with

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the arrival of HMS Bulwark at Weymouth and Portland on Monday.

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She'll take part in a security exercise next week ahead of the

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Olympic sailing and windsurfing events which take place there

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during July and August. HMS Bulwark will be used as the police command

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centre during the Games. Still to come in this evening's

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South Today, the weekend weather I will have the weekend weather

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forecast shortly. It will be mainly wet and windy. This month we have

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had double the amount of rainfall we normally have and it certainly

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It all started two years ago with a letter about the plight of a young

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soldier. As a child, Jack Otter used to holiday at Swanage in

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Dorset. After he was injured in Afghanistan, his family asked the

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Swanage Regatta Carnival if there was a caravan that could meet his

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needs as a severely disabled man. That sparked a fundraising campaign,

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and a quarter of a million pounds later, today saw the official

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opening of a special holiday home for injured soldiers, veterans and

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Proof that dreams really can come true. Jack Potter was injured in

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Afghanistan three years ago. In hospital his mother had promised

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him they would holiday again in Swan age, as they had done as a

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child. To date she was able to make the which come through. First thing

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I did was cry when there were no excess will caravans, so I sent

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this e-mail, the now famous e-mail, asking for an explanation and

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whether they would consider funding and accessible caravan somewhere in

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Swan age for injured soldiers. e-mail to the carnival prompted a

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big fund-raising campaign and their heroes project was born. They have

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raised to a quarter of a million pounds. This is how it has been

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spent, a specially adapted holiday home which are, days it wheelchair

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users and their families. -- which accommodate so wheelchair users and

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their families. It is easy, it has a wet room, so you don't have to

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struggle to do the day-to-day things. It is lovely outside, not

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too far away from the beach, and it is just fantastic. Injured

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servicemen and their families will pay �200 to use the facility which

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can house up to six people at a time. Most of today's visitors

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seemed impressed. I think it will make a massive difference to the

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families of injured soldiers, not just the guys themselves, but the

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families as well. It gives them a respite away from each other or

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together, away from the public, so they can come to terms with their

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injuries. A break is as good as a rest, and for many people this

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haven could provide the perfect I am sure it will be well used by

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those deserving soldiers and their families. On to the sport, and we

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are looking ahead to a really interesting weekend, particularly

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for Southampton fans. A big weekend. Saints go into Saturday's match

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knowing that a win over Coventry will seal their promotion to the

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top flight. St Mary's is a sell-out and confidence is high. The last

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time Southampton were in this position was 34 years ago. The man

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in charge then was Lawrie McMenemy. We knew we were up, it was a nice,

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relaxed atmosphere. Throughout the 1978 season it was the goals of Ted

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McDougall and Phil Boyer which propelled Southampton into another

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league. Today, the weight of expectation lies at the feet of

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There is more at stake here tomorrow. If they play the way they

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have been playing, they have been playing Premiership style Football

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anyway, and the crowd will blow the ball in for the first goal anyway.

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And Ricky Lambert will have to do the rest. Back then - a draw with

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Spurs was all they needed. Now a win at Coventry would nail their

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place in the Premier League. We do not want any incentives at all. We

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want to be the best we can be an we want to play in the big league.

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you need any incentive, maybe they have to look at themselves. It is

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about being the best you can be. Victory tomorrow would see scenes

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like these from last year. Two promotions on the bounce and a �90

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million windfall. And the odds are stacked in their favour. Coventry

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are already relegated. Saints haven't been out of the top two

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since September. Credit to Southampton. It's not a lucky

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position they are in, it is a deserved one. So, many people will

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have high hopes of painting the town red following Saturday's match

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if everything goes to plan. But at one pub they've already got the

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paint out. Red and white paint, to be precise.

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The Lord Nelson in Hythe is literally nailing its colours to

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the mast. Well, to the outer walls at least, as it backs Saints in

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their final push to the Premier League. Why not? Let's put some

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feel-good into recession time and enjoy ourselves. Let's make

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everyone feel good. Wow! Colourful. I hadn't noticed it before!

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can't argue with that. It is very good. Is it for the Saints?

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Brilliant isn't it? How you can not notice it, I don't know. That

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crucial match for Southampton is live on BBC1 tomorrow from 12:15pm

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and there's also full coverage on BBC Radio Solent. At the other end

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of the table, already relegated Portsmouth face Nottingham Forest

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in their last game of the season. And emotions will run high for

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entirely different reasons. As finances grow ever tighter, it'll

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be a last match for many of the players, who face being moved on

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simply to keep the club afloat. Michael Appleton admits it'll be

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tough. It's going to be a difficult game

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on Saturday. It is probably the only game I have gone into

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concerned about what the outcome will be a, because for the first

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time ever I'm not sure what I'm going to get out of the game and

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what will get from the players. Because, obviously, it's been a

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difficult week. Meanwhile, Reading is gearing up for one of the

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biggest celebrations the town has ever seen. It follows the club's

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promotion to the Premier League for only the second time in its history.

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Thousands of people are expected to line the streets on Sunday for an

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open top bus parade. It starts at 12:30pm at the west end of Friar

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Street, and ends at the Madejski Stadium, where the players will

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lift the Championship Trophy. BBC Radio Berkshire will bring you all

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the excitement on Sunday and, of course, we'll have a full report on

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South Today. Former Hampshire cricket captain Shane Warne today

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with a visit to his old county for a special spell of charity bowling.

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He spent an hour in a coaching session with 11-year-old who has

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overcome his disabilities to play club cricket. Shane Warne said

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Hampshire's future is promising. They have a lot of good young

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players. Dawson got five wickets today. They are under Craig White

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as well. There are good people to learn off down here and may have

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done very well. They didn't have the best deal last year, but they

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will have a good one this year, that's for sure. Finally, goal-line

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technology has been much talked about of late - particularly since

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the controversial decision taken in the Chelsea and Tottenham match

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earlier this month. And FIFA has announced today that live testing

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is about to go ahead. The first test of HawkEye's goal-line

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technology will take place at Southampton's St Mary's Stadium

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next month. It will be tested at the Hampshire FA Senior Cup Final

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between Eastleigh and AFC Totton on Is that the same system that we

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know and love from Wimbledon? and has lots of connections in the

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way it has been tested, and hopefully will stop the people

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ranting at the referee. We are having a nostalgic story here for

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you. It was a case of journey's end, at last, this afternoon for a steam

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locomotive which finally arrived at her destination a small matter of

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46 years after she should have. Back in 1966, the locomotive, named

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the Clan Line, was stopped in her tracks by railway bosses because

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she was too heavy. This afternoon in front of crowds of enthusiasts

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she steamed towards the end of the The last time Clan Line tried to

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steam into Swanage was five months before England won the World Cup.

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She was banned from running down the single branch line for being

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too heavy and withdrawn from service by British Railways a year

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So when she finally reached the end of the line this afternoon it was

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the end of a journey 46-years in the making. It is a very well-

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maintained machine. She has been kept immaculate, magnificently kept

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by the support group. Once the mainstay of railway services

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between the south coast and the capital, the Clan Line was built at

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Eastleigh in 1948, to haul long express trains carrying many a

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holidaymaker to the seaside. She finally made it to Swanage thanks

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to the meticulous work by volunteers who've not only rebuilt

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the line, but also strengthened the track. When the railway closed and

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some of the bridges were removed we have the opportunity to put larger,

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stronger bridges and at that point which do allow a larger and heavier

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locomotive to visits one age. It is hoped there will be more visitors

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The UK's first beach wedding took place in Bournemouth today. Last

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year, the Dorset resort became the first place to get permission to

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hold civil ceremonies and hopes to rival luxury destinations like the

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Carribbean. Kate Smith and Frazer Seed from Preston won a TV

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competition to become the first We need the sun, don't we? It did

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look good though. Fairly good weather down there on the beach

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today. Was it? Good. I have to tell you that the view lead boat jumble

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has been cancelled because of the forecast of wet and windy weather.

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Not a looking so good for Sunday. We do have some weather pictures.

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Flooding on Parley golf course captured by Cath Griffiths. Despite

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being next to the swollen River Stour the course is open bar this

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hole at the fifth Fairway. Robert Stidworthy captured The Queen Mary

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2 in Southampton today where there were a few sunny spells. And stormy

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skies at Emmbrook in Wokingham captured by Tony Huckin. A few

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hefty showers for Wiltshire, Tomorrow there will be initial

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showers and then the band of rain arrives and then Sunday is very wet

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and windy. Gale force gusts in some places. A cloudy night for most,

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but we sue -- we will see some clear spells in the south-eastern

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corner. Heavy bursts of showers and the rumble of thunder with rain

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edging its way to Sussex by dawn and an overnight low of six up to

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eight Celsius. It will be a dry start for some tomorrow but slowly

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we will see a band of rain, mainly showers initially, right from the

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south-east and it could be heavy in places. Temperatures up to 12 or 13

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Celsius and the winds will increase and could go up even further

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through the hours of Sunday morning. Heavy bursts of rain, winds

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touching gale force, maybe up to 40 mph but increasing on Sunday.

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Overnight lows of five to eight Celsius, saw wet day on Sunday, due

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to the area of low pressure pushing up from the Bay of Biscay. You can

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see the squeeze on the isobars, strong winds, and rain edging

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slowly to the north. So we could have maybe 40 mm of rain in places.

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For the winds, up to around 40 or 50 mph, maybe 60 in sunspots. And

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the winds, very strong. The rain, maybe 40 mm in some places. The

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good news is, the rain will clear away on Monday with one or two

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showers dotted around before we see further rain which will clear first

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thing on Tuesday. Here is your summary for the weekend. A few

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showers dotted about tomorrow, quite a cloudy day, one of two

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bright spells and highs of 15 Celsius. Tomorrow afternoon and

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evening, mainly through Sunday daytime, strong winds, heavy

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rainfall and that will last for Before we go, a quick word about a

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special report from Afghanistan you can see next week on South Today.

:25:38.:25:43.

Here's Alastair Fee. Here in Camp Bastion I have been filled in with

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the Chinook helicopters. Crews from Southampton have been out here

:25:47.:25:51.

since the start of combat operations in 2001. The Chinook can

:25:51.:25:55.

carry more than 50 troops at a time. To give you an idea of the size of

:25:55.:25:59.

it, he can fit to Land Rovers in. I have been talking to the crew that

:25:59.:26:04.

flies them, but also the medics that pick up the wounded. A special

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report from Camp Bastion will be broadcast next week. Be with us

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