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The coach company involved in a fatal accident in Cornwall

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last month has had its licence to operate revoked.

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Carmel Coaches, which runs a number of school

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services, was being investigated for safety concerns before the `ccident

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Today the Traffic Commissioner has published her conclusions

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and says despite repeated w`rnings about safety, she's not confident

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the company is capable of running roadworthy vehicles.

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The accident in Looe is still being investigated separately.

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A widow says she forgives the suicidal man who deliberately

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drove into her car, killing her entire family.

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The crash happened two years ago in Torquay.

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Elmer Twomey has just held ` special weekend to remember her lovdd ones.

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We all have issues. Try to look at the glass half full rather than half

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empty. As thousands remembered D`D`y this

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weekend, we hear the vivid lemories And the sheriff of your own town,

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a unique prize being offered to The coach company involved

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in a fatal accident in Cornwall last month has had

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its licence to operate revoked. Carmel Coaches,

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which runs a number of school services, was being investigated for

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safety concerns before the `ccident Today the Traffic Commissioner has

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published her conclusions and says despite repeated w`rnings

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about safety, she's not confident the company is capable

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of running roadworthy vehicles. The accident in Looe is still

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being investigated separately. The decision to withdraw

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the company's licence now r`ises questions about school transport

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and other organised outings using Hamish Marshall is at

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the firms depot in Exeter tonight. Carmel Coaches will cease to operate

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here. It follows this report which has seen two of its directors and

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from working in the industrx for the next 18 months. The Traffic

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Commissioner said, in light of the Tellier 's, the company is not

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capable or competence to opdrate the necessary systems to ensure vehicles

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vehicle defects not being fhxed for vehicle defects not being fhxed for

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me should have been him and snow `` and that is why this licensd is

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being revoked. As we talked about, the coach crash in Looe, thdse

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findings stem from before that. The report was being prepared in the

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days leading up to the crash in Looe, so it is not part of the

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investigation, and the Traffic Commissioner was keen to make that

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clear today. The company th`t was operating the trip when two people

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died in the coach Michael w`nted to use them again for a wedding trip

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this Wednesday, but the trip was cancelled. We are extremely shocked.

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We are surprised that this has happened. Carmel Coaches had a good

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reputation before this, so ht is a complete surprise to us, absolutely.

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As well as running private hire services, the Company operated local

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bus services as well as manx school contracts. I've thought manx of the

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vehicles outside a communitx college today. `` I saw. The council will

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have to find a new way to cover these services. The princip`l told

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me that Looe also run some afterschool services, and hd has

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disbarred them as unreliabld at best. `` Carmel Coaches also run

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afterschool services. Would you make `` like to find out about s`fety

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concerns? I would like more detail. What is of paramount import`nce is

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the safety of our young people. I would like to knew more earlier

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certainly so we could have raised it with the parent body. The company

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has now cost 28 days to appdal against this decision, and Devon

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County Council will try to find new people to operate services hf that

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appeal is unsuccessful. An Irish widow who lost her entire

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family after a suicidal Polish taxh driver

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deliberately drove into thehr car Elber Twomey lost her unborn

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daughter, her son and her htsband in She's just held a "remorial weekend"

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in Ireland so that what she calls So far it's raised nearly ?40,0 0

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for the hospitals which tre`ted the Spotlight's Janine Jansen

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has this exclusive report. July the 6th 2012, it was the last

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day of the holiday in Torqu`y for this family, when life changed

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forever. A suicidal taxi drhver plowed into them after please try to

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pull him over. Elber Twomey lost her unborn daughter and her 16`lonth`old

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son. Ten months later, her darling husband died. I'd loved being his

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mother. And I loved being a wife to my husband. Remarkably, Elbdr Twomey

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has never given the taxi drhver after a priest friend came to see

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her. He asked me if I'd praxed for him, and he asked me if I would pray

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for him him and isolate that they could not, so he said that he would

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pray for him on my behalf everyday day in July would be able to do so.

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`` every day until I would be able to do so. When it came to November,

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I started lighting a candle for him. He just planted the seed of

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forgiveness. Elber Twomey h`s just held a weekend in Ireland soaked her

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beauties will never be forgotten, which included a family walk, a

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sponsored run and a sponsordd cycle ride. So far, they have raised

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nearly ?50,000. How do you stay so positive? I would say that H have an

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army in heaven to kick me ott of bed every morning and I am on a mission

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to make sure that anybody else in Ireland does not end up loshng

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everybody. That keeps me gohng. This weekend also saw a hurling

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championship for children under ten. But when Elber Twomey saw the cop

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named after her husband, it was too much. Just seeing that Memorial

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cup... Something I never envisioned, to be honest. Btt you

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are so strong because you hdld yourself together in front of all

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the children. Yes, it's I h`ve my crying done. `` but I have ly crying

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done. By needed to be strong for them. `` I needed to be strong for

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them. It was a" smiles, but tinged with sadness. `` it was a wdekend of

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smiles. Two men have been arrested

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on suspicion of murder from severe head injuries in

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Ilfracombe. Paramedics were called to the

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Two Potts area of the town late last night where

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they found the injured man slope. The victim and the two men

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arrested are all thought to be The Ambulance Service continued to

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work with the man, who was taken to hospital, but the injuries he had

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worked fatal and he was pronounced dead at the hospital sometile later.

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The principal of one of Devon's newest schools is accusing other

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local head teachers of campaigning to close her school.

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Joss Glossop of the Route 38 Academy near Bideford has also clailed her

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students are being excluded from competitive sports events with

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In an open letter, members of the North Devon @cademic

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Board have argued the free school is unnecess`ry.

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A new school, promising a dhfferent approach to secondary education in

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North Devon, but in an open letter to the media, signed by the heads of

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13 other schools, the Acadely was described as damaging for education

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and an educational experiment. Criticisms that are totally uncalled

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for, according to the princhpal I think it might have been appropriate

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to years ago, when the school was still a proposal. We are now a real

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school and our children desdrve better than that, and to trx to

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actively undermine us and appeared to be seeking to campaign to close

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the school is entirely inappropriate, and they do not

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understand that kind of neg`tive behaviour in any leadership

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capacity. Unlike schools like this community college, the school is a

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free school, funded directlx by the government and out of the control of

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the local education authority. The head teachers on the North Devon

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academic board, who wrote to the press, argue that it is not needed,

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and it was right to let thehr feelings be known. We work hard as a

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group of professionals, and we stand by every word we put in the letter,

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and we think funding these children at the level in which they `re being

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funding `` being funded dam`ges children in Devon, because the

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funding could have been spent for the greater good. The Department for

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Education told us that so f`r three schools have `` free school has

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outperformed local schools `ccording to Ofsted.

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Britain's first new metal mhne for 40 years is taking shapd

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The Hemerdon tungsten mine on the edge of Dartmoor is costing

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120 people are on site as construction starts.

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Eventually, 200 people will run it and ht's

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already buying in goods and services from firms across the region.

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Our business correspondent Neil Gallacher reports.

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One of the most expensive and extensive building projects the

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region has seen for years. @ workforce of 120 is starting to

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create a mine. Most of the team is British. The people here ard largely

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local. There are a lot of pdople from Plymouth. Obviously, some of

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the things involved in a project like this, the skills base hs in

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this country, but the vast lajority of them, and especially the traits,

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are here. And some of the specialist staff is available fairly close by.

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This core mission of Burma grew out of the heyday of hard rock lining.

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`` this core mission grew ott of the heyday of hard rock mining. It is

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local to us and that is rard these days. Most of our projects `re under

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seized in weird and wonderftl destinations. To have something on

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your percent is a great honour. `` most of our projects are ovdrseas.

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Tungsten is a metal widely tsed in industry. At least 80% of world

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tungsten production happens in China, said China can dictate supply

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to the rest of the world. Experts says this mine matters. This will

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probably be the third or fotrth biggest mine in the world and will

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be responsible for much of the world's tungsten production.

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Dartmoor is an important landscape. This open pit mine has provdd

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relatively uncontroversial. There was a battle fought and lost here in

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the 1980s. It has taken unthl then for the economics factors to line up

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to make this happen. But another reason may be that in this local

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area, wages are very low. The local community are used to that, and the

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local community is here bec`use of that. There was some concern about

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the environment, but the overwhelming reaction was, we want

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this investment, we want thdse jobs and this massive support for what we

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are doing here in this part of Dartmoor. The mine is expected to

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start producing tungsten in around a year.

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This weekend across the South West, thousands of people have bedn

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And for one man from Cornwall the 70th anniversary

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of the Normandy landings has been particularly poignant.

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A Royal Engineer, he was ond of the first onto Sword Beach.

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And Reg Jago's memories are as vivid now as 70 years ago.

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We were dead scared. There hs no other word for it. We did not like

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to show it to our needs. `` our mates. We were laughing, but we did

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not feel like that. I'd did more than 200 yards in a couple of

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seconds, I think. 75% of us got off the beach OK. Their objective was to

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build a bridge at Pegasus. When we got to Pegasus, we had two options.

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There was the mention of so and so not being here, so you would take

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over. We were building bridges under fire all the time. Just pulled the

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corpses back and work on ag`in. The sky was black with aircraft and made

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us feel secure. We had confhdence we could do it because we had so much

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firepower. Only safe for so long, Reg was hit by a German shell. I was

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a blinded by the blast. There was shrapnel through my abdomen and in

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the buttocks and shoulder, through the leg and all, so I knew H was

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badly wounded, and iPod I h`ve lost my arm, because they could not feel

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it. `` I thought. I was tryhng to find it with my other arm and they

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could not find it. The pain from the stomach w`s

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horrific. But his battle sc`rs were not only physical. You are not

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normal. You're like animals. You have got to be. It is kill or be

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killed. You are ashamed. Yot are ashamed of what you have done. It

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has left its mark, hasn't it? I have never talked to anyone. I h`ve never

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even told my son. I don't think any soldier looking back would think he

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would have rather negotiated in some way and have peace. When yot go to

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bed, you don't sleep. You constantly see the faces of the boys you are

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way too are no longer with ts and you can't forget them, it kdeps

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running back he did together in the last you had together.

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Well this weekend was a chance for everyone to remember thd

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Among the events held was one in Torbay, where a flotilla

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24,000 US troops left from Torquay for Normandy.

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Here's a flavour of the commemorations.

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An awful lot, an awful lot. Just to say thank you. Marvelous. It was in

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Omaha. The weather could not spoil it. I think it was great. I'd say

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bravo to everyone who organhsed it. Some moving memories and

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commemorations. And you can read more

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about the weekend's commemorations The flood damaged Somerset

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village of Moorland had The Earl and Countess of Wessex

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spent about an hour there. It was part of a day

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which saw them complete no fewer then six engagements in the county,

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from opening a hospital to Raising the flag for a visit which

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was to raise morale in this battered community. It is not everyd`y you

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get to chat to royalty over the garden fence. Both the Earl and

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Countess of Wessex were gendrally `` genuinely surprised by the scale of

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the damage here. Just about every home here was swamped by thd

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floodwaters four months ago. I'd think it is really nice and a real

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morale booster to see everyone happy and smiling. We have had so many bad

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times to stop it has lifted the whole atmosphere. As well as meeting

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the flood victims, the Royal couple chatted with some of the volunteers

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who have been helping to restore homes stop there is a picture to

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trump them all. `` homes. If he did not ask, you do not get. Oh, wow!

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That is U2 yes. That is a good one. `` that is you to. Yes. That is a

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good one. The water is gone, but there is a lot here to see. It was

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probably no coincidence that the Royals also visited one of

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Somerset's most popular tourist estimations, cheddar, a welcome

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boost in a difficult year. The combination of those two words,

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Somerset and floods, is unfortunate, but there is no truth to thd rumour,

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if you like. As nice as usu`l. `` business. There was also a cider

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orchard to visit and a visit to burn him to meet search and rescte

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volunteers. All in a day's work really, and brings a whole new

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meaning to Royal variety. Two young divers have one thtled

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this weekend. The story of Vincent won the women's ten metre thtle

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while the new ten metre chalpion is Matt Dixon. Tom Daley could not

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defend his title as he was defending his title in the chopper he was at a

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shotgun he was a competition in New Mexico `` he was at a competition in

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New Mexico. I am amazed. I `m still over the men. I have just got my

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medals and they can't believe it. I really wants to go to the

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Commonwealth Games, it means so much to me, but the announcement will be

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next week for team selection, so I hope by him in it, but I will have

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to wait and see. The price of Sheriff is being raffled to help

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raise money for a community art centre. Our correspondent rode into

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town to find out more. What is all this I hear abott a

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sheriff? Is the first prize given to the winner of the Jerusalem raffled

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for a him or her to become sheriff of this here town for one whole year

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will stop should the winner be a horse owner, the tether `` course

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will be tethered, and they can come to the bar and demand their free

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pint or whiskey or bourbon, which they are allowed the first Londay of

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every month. And the Sheriff's rights do not end here. The Sheriff

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can have a free sausage roll on the first Monday of every month. And the

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very `` the blacksmith knocked up a symbol that no Sheriff can be

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without. I have had to make a sheriff badge, which is the first

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one of the kind that have ever made. It also gives the person who wears

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it the ability to stand on the corner in the town looking

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important. Proceeds from thd raffle are going to a arts and herhtage

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centre and organisers say that anybody is eligible to win first

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prize except people from thd neighboring town. There is ` long

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history of rivalry between the two towns. I am not sure if people would

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accept a sheriff from the other town. There is nothing like a

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sheriff badge to fire your imagination. Come on, horse I think

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this one is lame! He is mord than lame. It is worth it just for the

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sausage roll. Fantastic. Soleone who is very good at looking important on

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street corners is with us now for the weather. I try not to, `ctually.

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We have had a few showers through the weekends, but otherwise a

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reasonable Saturday and Sunday. High pressure is coming back this week to

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settle things down and give us some more about June sunshine. It stays

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warm, but much drier. From Wednesday onwards, the high`pressure takes

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charge. At the moment, an area of low pressure is throwing a few

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showers towards us, and we will continue overnight. The low`pressure

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travels up to the north of Scotland, and what replaces it is this area of

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high pressure, which develops into a major sale of high pressure across

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southern Britain from Wednesday onwards on the but it keeps us try

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and find for the rest of thhs week. A few showers out of a the loment.

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They been gradually coming tp through the South today. Sole

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showers are certainly possible. Earlier today, we head some

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beautiful blue skies. This was in the Exeter area, where we hdad

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sunshine and patchy` levels. With the levels `` with the landscape

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looking... Everything looks really splendid in the summer sunshine

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Strong sunshine as well. Thd UV index is at its highest it will be

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at any point during the year. Enjoy, but be careful in thd

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sunshine over the next few days Overnight tonight, we get one line

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of showers that is brushing through the central part of our reghon,

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another line of showers, thhs one a bit more angry, with even the odd

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rumble of thunder, and by d`wn, most of it moving out of the way.

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Temperatures of a leading or 12 degrees, no lower than that. For

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tomorrow, a risk of showers in the morning, but the sharpest produces.

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Showers are most likely through the north of Devon. For the rest of us,

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come the end of the afternoon, a reasonable and to the day, ` bit

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breezy at first, and a top temperature of around 17 or 18

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degrees, but a few places mhght get up to 19, and it will get w`rmer

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each day this week as the pressure comes in. The forecast for the Isles

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of Scilly, a few showers, btt otherwise, mainly dry, and the times

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of high water, at Penzance, that is at 254. For our surfers on the waves

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are usable on the north coast, because the winds will be

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south`westerly. They will bd mostly clean. The winds are from the South

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or South West, forced eyes, or an increasing six for a time, lainly

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fair and generally good vishbility. Here comes the fine weather, here

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comes the sunshine. We see high`pressure developing from

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Wednesday onwards. A pretty comfortable temperature for us to

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stop 72 in Fahrenheit. `` for us. The winds will fall like as well and

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will be cooler around the coastline. Some fine weather to look

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forward to. Have a good evening A promising outlook. Thank yot for

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that. That is all for now. We will have an update at eight o'clock and

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our ladies is at 10:25pm thhs evening. From all of us, good night.

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Goodbye. THROWS VOICE: 'A weekly treat

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of all the best bits of Radio 2 ' But that isn't quite

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the end of the story. ..then...

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..he landed... ..and in a flurry

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of feathers, they were gone. But that isn't quite

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the end of the story. Perhaps you'll dream

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of a great adventure.

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