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Unions say it was the best deal they could achieve.

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scheme for the police force at this time. We are conscious of those

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people who might take a redtction and we will work closely to protect

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their best interest as well. Free internet access

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for rail passengers. The service will be rolled out

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on First Great Western trains And the World War One Canadhan

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visit to Plymouth that inspired

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two famous works of literattre. Hundreds of staff at Devon

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and Cornwall Police are havhng their pay cut, in some cases

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by up to ?8,000, as part The move affects civilian staff

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at the force who carry out a range of jobs including forensic

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work and call handling. Many others will actually gdt

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a pay increase, but tonight there's anger about the deal and crhticism

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of both senior officers Our Home Affairs Corresponddnt Simon

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Hall reports. The last job evaluation bec`me

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notorious as it made a walk`out by staff and the downfall of the then

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Chief Constable, Maria Wall`ce. But like all public bodies

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including councils and the NHS, Devon and Cornwall Police are

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obliged to implement it to dnsure Now the force is trying agahn

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and it is once more Of more than 2000 civilian staff,

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more than half will see Almost one third will receive salary

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increases but 16%, almost 400 staff, The force will not say by how much,

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except that the maximum redtction And the totality is

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a sustainable framework. If we keep putting money into it,

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to make it whereby a realignment by you were making people rddundant,

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now that cannot be right either It is a choice we have to m`ke and

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the balance we have to strike and I believe this is the right b`lance

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for the public, for the polhce force and for the collective workforce,

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but for some individuals, it is not. The police say that it is

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a coincidence that the flagpole at headquarters,

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focus of demonstrations nind years Spotlight has received mess`ges

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posted I think it is

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the best possible deal that could be on offer given the economic

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circumstances at the moment. And we hope that our members will

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vote yes and endorse that This time around in

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an attempt to limit the angdr, staff who lose money will have thdir pay

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protected for up to two years. Senior officers are aware

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of the potential for the job evaluation to bdcome

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highly damaging for the polhce. There will be a ballot

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of staff with results released That will feel a long time for Devon

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and Cornwall police as they wait to Unison represents the majorhty

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of police staff and their regional organiser, Stuart

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Roden, joins me now from Exdter that it was done to the best ability

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of everybody involved. I know that this will be a difficult tile. We

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sympathise. We are streaming sympathetic to those who ard adverts

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we affected. But there are leasures in this deal to protect thel and

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their families. I would ask them to think about this very careftlly It

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is essential that as many pdople vote as possible.

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Free access to the internet is finally becoming available to train

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After lobbying by passenger groups, First Great Western

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is beginning the roll`out of free wireless internet

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on trains between Penzance and Paddington

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Work is also being carried out to increase the amount

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of standard class seating on the network.

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The first of more than 400 high`speed train carriages hs being

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fitted out with wireless Internet at a depot in Plymouth. This is 21st

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century technology being fitted on the decidedly 20th`century trains.

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It is a challenge, because of the nature of the amount of vehhcles

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involved and the fact that they are old, to say the least, and ht is

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bordering on modern technology to 1970s rolling stock. The frde Wi`Fi

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service will be up and runnhng early next year. Cross country provides

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Internet access but passengdrs have to pay, unless they are in first

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class. Those travelling on the sleeper service between Penzance and

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Paddington already benefit from free Wi`Fi. It is very easy to connect to

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when you use your phone. Whhch is great. You just put in the past code

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and it automatically connects. And you are away. You pretty much know

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that you are going to receive the e`mail from the boss that is getting

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you the project done. There will be limitations on what

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be used for. Do not expect to watch films online. The restriction is on

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streaming video. It takes up a lot of bandwidth. It is unfair for some

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customers to have a monopolx on it. We tend to restrict that. It is for

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general Internet use. It is one or extension of wireless Internet into

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everyday life. You can get ht major railway stations wherd it is

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usually free, and at airports. Newquay told us that their service

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is free to use. Exeter said it was free in the executive loungd but

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there is a charge in the mahn departure lounge. This will be

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changing next month to a 360`minute service.

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Our business correspondent Neil Gallacher

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spoke to the Rail Minister this morning.

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He put to her that wifiand tpgraded seating on trains in the Sotth West

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compared to investment on the rail network elsewhere in the cotntry.

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It was thought that it would be crumbs, but there is a big cake

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south`west. I represent a sdat in the south`west. We have the biggest

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programme of electrification in this region since Victorian times. Coming

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down part of the way towards here. Things like the Reading station

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development mean that we can open up capacity. How does a better find

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down the Newbery help us in Devon and Cornwall? We can run faster

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trains down here. We have sden that with the earlier trains that come

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down to Plymouth. We have got the early starts into Cornwall. I say

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this as a representative of a seat in the south`west, it has bden

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forgotten about by successive governments. We have had poorer

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collectivity. We have not invested in the railways, and we havd a huge

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renaissance happening with the railways across this countrx. Will

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you guarantee us on the railways, that in 20, 30 years time, we will

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not have these 40`year`old trains as the main rolling stock? Over a 0

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year period, we are talking about resilience and opening diffdrent

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railways. The plan is about what happens in 20, 30, 40 years. Will we

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still have these old trains? What I would like to see is ongoing

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investment of the importancd of the railway `` network. Where w`ys are

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the busiest that they have been since the 1920s. We have sole of the

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safest and most punctual Europe with an unprecedented amount

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of money going into the nail `` rail network. This is where the railways

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mature and develop. We are `ll proud of the great Western line. We want

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to continue to invest in those, and make sure that they are getting

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better, in a few months timd, with some of the better services that are

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coming down. A coroner in Cornwall has rdcorded

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that a wife and mother was unlawfully killed after her husband

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attacked her with a hammer `nd then An inquest heard that

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John Trenchard, who was being treated for anxiety

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and depression, wrongly believed his

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wife Derisa was having an affair. They were found dead at

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their home in Carbis Bay last year. There will be an independent review

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of the case to see

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if any lessons can be learndd. The Dame Hannah Rogers Trust has

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this evening taken the decision to temporarily suspend

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some of its adult services. It comes after Ofsted announced

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children's services at its Ivybridge site

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would be halted for up to shx weeks A spokesperson for the Trust says

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it's a move that's not been taken lightly and will affect 15 xoung

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people and their families, who rely Research

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by Exeter University has linked It's the vitamin found

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in exposure to sunlight, The six`year study, found that

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people with severe vitamin D deficiency were more than twice

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as likely to develop dementha. Organisations which support older

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people have welcomed the findings We all know that getting out in the

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fresh air is good for us. This research take things one stdp

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further. The study of 1600 dlderly people with moderate vitamin D

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deficiency had a 15% increased risk of developing some form of dementia.

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For those with extreme deficiency the risk increased eye 125%. It

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really is quite significant. Dementia is such a common dhsease.

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More than one in every 100 people have it, which is hundreds of

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thousands of people in Engl`nd, alone, and if we can make a

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difference and stop a few pdople getting it, then it will affect

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millions of people worldwidd. Anything we can do to protect people

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from getting Alzheimer's and the manger will be really important The

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research has been welcomed by charities working with the dlderly.

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We know that dementia services have been historically underfunddd, so we

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need to put more money into research. We know that the numbers

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are going up and up because we are all living longer. This kind of

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research is so desperately needed. If it give us some pointers about

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how we can manage in the future that is very positive. This summer

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we have had some great weather but the winter months limit exposure to

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sunlight, and therefore, vitamin D. Apart from holidays abroad `nd lots

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of oily fish, what are the alternatives, and do vitamin D

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supplements offer real valud? The study does not necessarily say that

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if you take more vitamin D xou will protect yourself against thd manger.

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We need trials of vitamin D supplements to see if that hs the

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case. Following this research and other studies, those trials will

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take place and we will await those, with interest. Whilst the pros and

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cons of exposure to the sun must be balanced, Exeter medical School

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hopes that further research will help turn the rising tide in

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dementia. The events of the Great War,

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although horrific, inspired some of the greatest

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writers of the 20th Century. Tonight, in the fourth in otr series

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World War One At Home, I've been finding out

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more about the unexpected arrival of thousands of Canadians in Plymouth,

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and how it went on to inspire In

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Flanders Fields, the poppies blow That marked their place. And in the

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sky, the lot still bravely singing, scarcely had the guns below.

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John McCrea, the author of this now famous poem was one of the Canadian

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military doctors who arrived in Plymouth in 1914. The fleet of

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32,000 men, their horses and equipment, was destined for

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Southampton but German subm`rine activity in the English Channel

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force a change of plan. A C`nadian historian becomes what it mtst have

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been like on that October morning. It was utter chaos. But euphoria at

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the same time. Although nobody knew they were coming and there were no

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preparations to unload thesd men and equipment, they found that ht was

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This is how the arrival of the Canadians was reportdd

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by the Western Evening Herald, at Plymouth Central library.

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It was recorded the next dax, the 15th, and says we were unable to

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report the fact yesterday bdcause of press censorship but it goes on to

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say that the troops seemed hn high spirits as they swarmed on the decks

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and in the rigging, with bands and bagpipes playing merrily and rousing

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cheers being raised in answdr to the waving of hats and sticks ashore.

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A lot of the children were interested in the Canadian tniforms

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that had different insignia and buttons like the maple leaf.

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There was a case were some of the men who came into town did not have

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any buttons left on their ttnics when they went back to the ship

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Inevitably with that number of men turning up the must have been

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Yes, these guys would have been bottled

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As a result, tension would start to build up

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Some of them would have fridnds and family in South Devon.

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If the opportunity arose thdy would try and get onshore

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and have a couple of pints `nd that is where the trouble would start.

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The various brothel keepers would be quite interested in thesd men.

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I think in many respects, it was mostly hijinks. There were ` number

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of men charged with drunk and disorderly behaviour and thdy were

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immediately discharged and sent back to Canada. The only numbered very

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few. Most of the men were shipped to Salisbury plain buddy prepared to go

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to the front. Thousands of them terraced alongside their allies ``

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where they prepared. We are the dead. Short days ago, we lived, and

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felt dawn. We loved and well loved, and now we lie in Flanders fields.

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John MacRae, who arrived in Plymouth with the Canadians, died in the last

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year of the war. There is a surprising twist to the story. The

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arrival of the Canadians ultimately inspired another famous author. It

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is a great story. This is whn either there. They smuggled him on board

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the ship they were loaded on. He went across the Atlantic and was

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unloaded quietly. He was shhpped with the unit to Salisbury plain.

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One of his favourite tricks was to climb up the tent pole and shake the

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tent violently. And as the bear got bigger, p were beginning to fall.

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Once they went off to the ftn, what happened to the bear? Her owner

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decided that it was unfair to take the bear to France. So it stay that

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London zoo. He would come b`ck on leave and visit the bear. And when

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the war finished it became puite an attraction. This is where a a Milne

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got the story about Winnie the Pooh. He would take his son, Christopher

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Robin, the London zoo, to mdet Winnie. Because of that little bear

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from Winnipeg, the world has shared the stories of Christopher Robin. A

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century after the Canadians arrived at Plymouth, we can look back and

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see how the great War inspired authors and know that they `re

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writing would continue to inspire generations to come. Take up our

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quarrel with the flow. To you, with failing hands, we throw the torch.

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If you break faith with us who died, we shall not sleep. For poppies

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grow, in Flanders fields. Whnnie the Pooh is a character we have all

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grown up with. I never knew that about the origins of him.

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And tomorrow, in our final film in this series

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marking the 100th anniversary of the First World War,

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who sent hundreds of a fresh eggs to soldiers on the front line

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and became a much`loved figtre as a result.

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Dartmouth has been hosting what s described as

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one of the world's most luxurious cruise liners.

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Hundreds of five`star passengers are visiting the town for a day trip

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while on a cruise around Britain on the Europ`.

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It's all part of a new inithative by local business to encour`ge more

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cruise liners to stop at Dartmouth and increase international tourism.

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The cruise ship market is vdry lucrative. The customers cole on

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board these smaller, bespokd, high class ships, and they have ` very

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large market that they can bring two, spending a lot of monex. It is

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a statement of intent about the kind of customer that we are tryhng to

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attract the Dartmouth. Fans of folk festivals are `bout

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to mark another off the caldndar. Sidmouth draws to a close tomorrow

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but the season is far from over There are another six events to go

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in the South West Simon Clemison has been finding

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out why the Sidmouth Festiv`l For the grandfather of folk

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festivals, they start young, but it will not mean that was the lore come

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with age. Then again, folk lusic was always difficult to put into words.

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So try numbers. There are tdns of thousands of people here thhs week.

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This festival is in it 60 ydar. And since its inception, more fdstivals

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have developed in the south`west. There are some festivals in Somerset

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and in various places throughout Devon and Cornwall. You can see why

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I might need all of these. @lthough please other festivals are the new

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kids on the block, are they not When you have been around for 6

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years, mostly everybody is ` new kid on the block. Why have we not had

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festivals for hundreds of ydars People did it all at home, they did

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it in the village. Singing within families. They did not need them.

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Eclectic is probably the best description, and impressive. If you

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could play the fiddle whilst Pat Vincennes, you would. I lovd that of

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all ages, everybody can join in and there is a lovely feeling about it.

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I am under 60, yes. Dartmoor begins as Sidmouth ends, but one of the

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early pioneers now comes sprinkled with a little Hollywood maghc. A

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beautiful day in Sidmouth, but the weather is about to change. Some

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showers will develop across Cornwall and West Devon with the bredze

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picking up during the coursd of the We have a lump of cloud on the edge

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of the screen. That is an area of low pressure that is heading our

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way. By the middle of the d`y tomorrow, by the time we get into

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Saturday specially, Saturdax night in the Sunday, this former Tropical

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Storm Fitow was a headache. It's most likely track will take it

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through the English Channel then up into the North Sea. There whll be

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some very strong winds and heavy rain associated with it. Thdre is

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some uncertainty as to how deep will be and its exact locathon. Some

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heavy rain is possible, with winds of up to 60 miles an hour. @nd some

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quite big waves on the beach through Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. We have

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had a lovely day today. This was earlier today in Merivale where we

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have had some beautiful blud skies. Looking resplendent in the sunshine.

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These pictures were shot by colour cameraman. It was too hot for the

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cattle by the look of it, t`king some shade where they could. If not

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a little on the dry side, bdcause of all of the fine weather that we have

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seen in the last few weeks. about to change, but not for tonight

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or tomorrow. showers later on coming into the far

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west of Cornwall. But it will be down to 12, 13 Celsius. Tomorrow

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morning, warm up across parts of Somdrset and

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Dorset. Another fine day, whth the sub Devon not faring too badly

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either. Some showers around the middle of the day, fading

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during the course of the afternoon. Holding onto that fine weather

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across Somerset and Dorset. The highest temperature, 23 Celsius in

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that sunshine. Sunny spells in the afternoon for the Isles of Scilly.

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And the times of high water. The waves are picking up as we head

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into the weekend. Similar conditions on the north coast. Those w`ves are

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getting bigger and bigger as we head into Saturday and Sunday. Looking

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further ahead, at the forec`st for the weekend, on Saturday we expect

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to see some breezy conditions. The coastal waters forecast for

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tomorrow. On Sunday, windy with persistent

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rain early on, then becoming showery, then for money and choose

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the next week, breezy and showery conditions. `` for Monday and

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Tuesday. Now have you got a question for

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the mayor of Torbay, Gordon Oliver? Well, tomorrow he will be in

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Good Morning Devon's Hotseat with Matt Woodley on BBC Radio Ddvon

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from 8am to 9am tomorrow morning. That's all from us for now.

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Have a good evening.

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