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22/12/2016

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Good evening. for the news where you are.

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South West rail passengers are being warned to plan ahead

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as London stations Paddington and Waterloo face

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Network Rail is carrying out its biggest ever

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programme of maintenance from Christmas Eve onwards.

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It says it's confident it can avoid a repeat of the chaos two years ago.

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So what does it mean for travellers over the Christmas period?

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Network Rail has warned train passengers they face a crescendo

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of maintenance over the festive season, as it undertakes its biggest

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24,000 staff from its orange army, who famously repaired

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the track at Dawlish, will be laying new track and signals

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at 200 projects across the country, mainly for Crossrail and Thameslink.

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They will be anxious to avoid a repeat of the Christmas

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chaos two years ago, when work overran at

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But they say lessons have been learned since then.

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Passengers are now being advised to plan their journeys

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The advice is, firstly, where possible, to travel early.

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So get those tickets from tomorrow if you can.

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If you cannot do that, then London Paddington

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is closed from Christmas Eve to the 29th of December.

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Trains will travel in and out of London from Ealing Broadway,

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from where there is access to London Underground.

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Or, as there is no step-free access at Ealing Broadway,

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an easier route for people with disabilities or with bags

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and luggage may be to change at Reading for Waterloo.

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But Waterloo is also closed on Christmas Day and Boxing Day,

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and there are reduced services on the 24th and 27.

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This is a key opportunity for Network Rail to do a significant

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piece of work that will effectively allow us to run the brand-new trains

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Customers, for the majority of services, will have

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It's just if you're travelling directly into London.

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What about alternative modes of travel?

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Well, motoring organisations see tomorrow and Saturday are likely

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And Exeter Airport says they expect to handle 20,000 passengers over

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A look at some of the day's other news now.

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Two men have appeared at Exeter Crown court charged

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with the murder of 30-year-old James Woodhouse.

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His body was found in a wheelie bin last month.

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Brett Edwards of Okehampton Road pleaded not guilty.

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Thomas Killen of North Lawn Court didn't enter a plea.

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Their trial will take place next summer.

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A man has been treated for burns following a fire

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Fire crews were called to a commercial premises

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The blaze in the ground floor spread to the flat above.

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Fire fighters are still at the scene.

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Two men from Devon - delivering aid and medical

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supplies - have reached the Turkish-Syrian border.

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War photographer Paul Conroy from Crediton, and Dr Mark Hannaford

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from Beer in East Devon left London on Saturday.

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The supplies will be used to rebuild a children's hospital near Aleppo.

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Avon and Somerset Police have been told to make

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A report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons raises

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concern about the way irritant spray is sometimes used to

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in-capacitate detainees - as well as what it calls "some poor

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and potentially unsafe use of restraints."

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But the report praises staff - saying they are generally

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The 89-year-old pensioner from Devon who put an ad in his local paper

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looking for a job has just completed two full weeks work at a restaurant.

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Joe Bartley from Paignton said he was dying from boredom

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Last night he celebrated as the Cantina held

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Squirrels have been blamed for the devastation of a mile-long

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stretch of trees on the A38 between Dobwalls and Bodmin.

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The Boconnoc Estate, which owns the land,

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says the overgrown beech hedging along the Glynn valley had to be

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chopped down because branches were dropping onto the road.

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The richly verdant Glynn Valley near Bodmin stimulates the senses

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of any motorist travelling along the A38.

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That was until, during overnight closures of the arterial route,

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saw a swathe of beech trees of more than a mile long cut

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Obviously, to have done them as it should have been done,

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cutting out the larger ones and allowing smaller ones to grow

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so that over the years they are coppiced,

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The estate who owns this land says they cut the trees

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because of squirrel damage and the danger of branches falling

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Wildlife experts say squirrel populations are so vast

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here that the amount of damage to trees with them ripping off

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the bark to get to the sap below is a real problem.

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Nationally, squirrel damage to forests is costing more

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This, on top of larch disease, ash dieback and sudden oak death,

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causes poses a real threat to our green and pleasant land.

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The Forestry Commission says it supports what it

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describes as a coordinated, targeted and locally

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delivered control of what is increasingly seen as a pest.

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Plymouth Argyle can look forward to a very happy New Year

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after securing themselves a lucrative FA Cup tie with

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The Pilgrims beat Newport in a replay to make it

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to the third round - a game which could be worth

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more than half a million pounds for the club.

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That's more than twice Argyle's operating profit

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Well, fans will be keen to know how they can get their hands

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Earlier Natalie spoke to the Chief Executive Martyn

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Starnes who's been in talks with Liverpool this morning.

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They have allocated us just over 8100 tickets for the game.

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Clearly there is going to be substantial demand for those

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tickets, but we are under an obligation to allow

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members to have first efforts to buy the tickets.

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We will be doing that over the Christmas weekend.

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We will be putting some tickets online.

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And then on Boxing Day we are planning to open at nine

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o'clock so that members can come along and get their tickets

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Baking has become a favourite past time for many after the huge success

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But in one village in Dorset volunteers have decided to combine

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learning how to make bread with helping others.

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The project based near Weymouth gives people a chance

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to practise their kneading and cooking, and the end products

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are handed over to charities who are supporting the homeless

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Our Dorset reporter Simon Clemison has been to meet

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Right, ladies and gentlemen, today is our last meeting before

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Christmas, and we're going make a centrepiece Christmas tree loaf.

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Homelessness is always important, but it must be particularly

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lonely at Christmas, being on the street, on your own.

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And it must be gratifying to feel that people care

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Are they in your mind when you are making the bread?

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You concentrate on kneading the dough as you are actually doing it!

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But once you put it in the oven, you think about where it goes.

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Every month we have at least one day where we each bake loaves

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in our own kitchens and then take them down to either Soul Food

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or the Lanterns or anywhere else that homeless people need food.

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You have obviously been baking bread on a larger scale

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since the Industrial Revolution, but is it the simplicity

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here of baking for someone else that draws so many people in?

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Absolutely, these bakers love to make bread in their own homes.

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They want it to be a special craft that they have learned,

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and now they are passing it on to someone who really needs it.

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This is just a white loaf, it has been put into a plait.

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So what happens to our large, seedy, plaited white loaf now?

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Hopefully today it will go off to one of the charities,

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and one hopes that they will get to eat it for tea tonight.

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It shows people that others are thinking of them.

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You have got people like bakers that are kindly doing this and giving,

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and those that maybe don't always appreciate and respect the nature

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We have got to say to the bakers of Sutton Point...

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Are we going to feel the effects of her came Barbara. We will feel the

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strength of the rain. -- correct strength of the rain. -- correct

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came Barbara. Very unsettled weather across the south-west of England.

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After a bright start of the rain will turn later and also very windy.

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A warning about the strength of wind. We are seeing the least

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strength, for us, 50 or 60 mph associated with Hitler found through

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the afternoon. Some bright and dry weather ahead of that but it is

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moving quite -- are associated with her Keynes.

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We see cloud and outbreaks of rain returning. The temperature is

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unusually mild. Tonight he temperatures have not fallen. They

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will continue to drop overnight to give us a touch of frost. Brief

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leader will be some ice on car windscreens and the grasp of through

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the day tomorrow the milder air starts to return because the wind

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picked up. They will become strong and eventually gale force. It will

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move through quite fast. Slightly cooler air is then heading in. For

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Christmas eve itself quite a bit of cloud around. Nor does windy with a

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few spots of drizzle and it stays mild through Christmas Day. Thank

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you. But is it for this evening. You can catch the early bulletins

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tomorrow morning. itself, it's not white, but it's

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warm. Temperatures could reach 15. I suppose you could say today was

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the calm before the storm. A winter chill, plenty of sunshine, but more

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wintry showers in Scotland, more snow over the higher ground. Some of

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this snow will melt for a time tomorrow because there is wind and

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rain coming in from the Atlantic. So we'll leave the Highlands behind,

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head out and look at the cloud here, this tell-tale hook of cloud,

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signifies a storm is developing, this is Storm Barbara, of course, it

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is a deep and deepening area of low pressure, rushing towards the

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north-west of Scotland. Steppingening the winds and bringing

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rain into the north-west by tomorrow morning. Ahead of it fairly quiet.

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Already the showers in the north less wintry. Fewer and clearer

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skies, across England and Wales for a time, it could be chilly. One or

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two mist and fog patches. Out to the west winds pick up later, cloud

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increases and the rain arrives and very quickly tomorrow across

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Scotland and Northern

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