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Thank you Jane.
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Welcome to Friday's Points West.
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I'm Amanda Parr.
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Coming up on the programme tonight, a day out on the ambulances.
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Crews say they're under more pressure than ever.
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They're expecting the bank holiday to be challenging.
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If you're a member of the public, you can help us out as well across that period by using us sensibly, calling us if it's an emergency.
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But if not, think about using 111 instead.
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Yes, the plea, only call them if you really need them.
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Also on the programme tonight, the students told at the last minute their school would not be taking any Year 12 students.
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Families say they're concerned for the future.
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The youngest swimmers ever to cross the Bristol Channel from Penarth to Clevedon.
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They're having a well-earned rest on the Points West sofa tonight.
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And forwards thinking, the Bristol festival that's giving out zero pollution for the very first time.
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Good evening.
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First tonight, the Southwestern Ambulance Service is asking people to be mindful of the pressure it's under ahead of this bank holiday weekend.
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At times, during this summer, for the first time ever, staff had to deal with over 4,000 calls in a single day.
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The service is now talking about summer pressures being as difficult as winter ones
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and it's asking people to think carefully before calling 999.
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We've struggled then with being able to respond the way we would normally want to respond
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that means we prioritize the highest the highest categories of calls
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so those patients who are really unwell getting ambulances first
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that does mean others have had to wait I'm sorry
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that there's been some patients waiting you can help us out though by only calling us
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when it's necessary if you don't think it's an emergency try one one one first.
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Well the ambulance response times show just how stressed the service became.
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In June on peak days ambulances took on average over 67 minutes to reach category two emergency calls
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which include heart attacks or strokes.
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The national standard is 18 minutes.
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But when should you call an ambulance?
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Well the Trust allowed us to go out with their paramedics in Taunton to see what an average day looks like.
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This beacon went with them.
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Did you get the obstacle out of the bag?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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They're all in here now.
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It's 11am, the start of a 10-hour shift.
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The ambulance has been loaded and we're off to our first call.
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Blue lighting to a property half an hour away in Minehead, where a man has activated his personal alarm and is no longer responding.
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We get there and the patient is fine.
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Hello, it's the ambulance service. Who?
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It's the ambulance service.
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The alarm had been activated in a test, but the ambulance service hadn't been stood down.
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We never quite know.
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It could be an accidental activation.
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It could be that he really needed help.
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So, yeah, unfortunately, we have to respond the same way.
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Lee and Sophie say this can happen a lot, but it's taken up over an hour of ambulance time.
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The job is cleared down and the next gets radioed through straight away.
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We've got an 89-year-old female, it's had a funny turn, they've become disorientated, heavy laboured breathing.
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And to my net hospital, let's go.
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But on the way to hospital, things change.
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I'm diverted to a care home for a lady that's fallen down.
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A care home nine miles away where a resident has fallen and hurt her knee.
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Staff at the home had called 999 because she was unable to stand and her leg was swelling up.
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It takes an hour for her to finish her lunch
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and to get her inside the ambulance before we take her to Musgrove Park Hospital.
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Once the crew are assigned to a job, they have to see it through, even if there are more urgent calls coming through.
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The radio was going off a little bit.
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There were several general broadcasts for Category 1 emergencies that were in the area.
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but unfortunately we have to kind of just switch off to the noise in the background
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and just deal with what we're doing at the time.
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It can get frustrating if you start to overthink it when you're on duty.
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Thank you.
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On to the next job.
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To a woman who's complaining of heart palpitations 20 miles away.
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It's now four o'clock.
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Well we are now six hours into our shift.
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We've just finished our third job.
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We've come to a property in Bridgewater.
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This is the second time in 12 hours that this woman has called for an ambulance.
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But at this moment in time, they haven't been able to find anything wrong with her.
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The job is cleared down.
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We prepare for the next grabbing a coffee while we can, the first of the day.
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Our next job is a ride down the M5 to Western Supermare to a man who's complaining of chest pains.
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He doesn't want to be filmed, but tells our crew he's scared he has cancer.
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He's been sick and has severe stomach pain which has been ongoing for months.
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We take him to Western General.
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Unfortunately they've been kind of a chronic long-term thing but he's not been seen by any medical professional.
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So yeah therefore we had to bring him in today to be seen by a medical professional.
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And that obviously felt like the right decision?
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He also had chest pain so with all of those symptoms especially
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because he's not been seen by anybody he absolutely needed to be seen today.
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Our 10-hour shift is done.
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We've handled four cases, none of which turned out to be life-threatening emergencies.
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For the ambulance crew, it's felt like a fairly standard day.
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Liz Beacon, BBC Points West.
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Well, we'd love to hear your experience of calling an ambulance.
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Maybe it was good, maybe not
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so much please do get in touch by scanning the QR code that's about to pop up.
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There it is.
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Or you can email us at pointswest at bbc.co.uk.
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A South Gloucestershire woman whose husband died after severe turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight has started legal action against the airline.
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73-year-old Geoff Kitchen from Thornbury died two years ago when their plane descended 6,000 feet in just a few minutes.
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The law company Erwin Mitchell say the family want to know if more could have been done
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and they have issued High Court proceedings for damages against Singapore Airlines.
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Concerns remain about a Wiltshire school after it cancelled Year 12 at short notice.
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Ten days before the start of term, Wellington Academy in Tidworth sent an email to parents telling them they would need to find an alternative sixth form.
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It's left parents scrambling to find places for their children at other schools, while other parents have told us they're worried for the future.
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Dickon Hooper reports.
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GCSE results day at Wellington Academy and smiles all round.
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No, I can't stop it!
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But that all changed pretty quickly for those who wanted to do sixth form here.
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So these are your GCSE results, Chloe.
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Talk me through them.
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So I was very, very pleased with my nine in English language because I worked very, very hard.
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And you passed them all?
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Yeah, I did pass them all.
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Days after getting her grades...
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I've got a nine in English.
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Chloe was told there was no year 12 happening this year at Wellington.
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My heart dropped because that's where I was set on going.
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I was so excited to go there.
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It was just really confusing to go from having a complete plan as to what we need to do, exactly how we're going to do it.
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Because we were looking at travel, like how to get there just the day before, and then for it to be completely flipped on us within hours.
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Tidworth is a small place with a lot of military families, and some were worried today about the knock-on effect of the school's decision.
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It's my granddaughter, yeah.
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She's 12.
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It would be a shame if she couldn't carry on.
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We don't know what's going to happen by the time she gets there, but for you it's concerning that that sixth form is closing for year 12?
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Well yeah, it is.
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You've had a couple of kids through Wellington Academy, what do you think about year 12 closing?
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I think it's really poor on the children in the community, given the short notice and the chaos that will cause.
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The trust which runs the Academy has not responded to our questions or request for a statement.
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In an email to students explaining what was going on, the head teacher here did apologise.
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She said it was a decision that hadn't been taken lightly, but the school just could not offer what those Year 12 students deserved.
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Chloe has found a place at a different college, although she's packing for Reading Festival first, and she's staying positive.
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It is really, really annoying and disappointing, quite frankly, but there's nothing we can do about it.
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It's over, and I've got a place where I'm happy now.
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Dick and Hooper, BBC Points West.
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That's really unsettling for everyone involved.
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Now you're watching Points West.
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We're very happy to have you along for the ride tonight.
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And there's lots more coming up between now and seven o'clock.
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There's a chance at some cricketing silverware for Somerset's women this weekend in the T20 County Cup.
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And tens of thousands of people are expected at Forwards Festival on the weekend on the Clifton Danes.
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This year it's powered entirely by renewable energy.
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We'll be live with Ross before you know it. But next, special matting has been laid on the beach at Western Supermare
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to make it easier for people with reduced mobility to get onto the sand.
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It's been installed at one of the entrances to the main beach with the hope
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that in future the area can be extended.
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Liam McGuinn reports.
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My dream has always been to put my feet in the water, but I know that's a long way off.
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It may not look like much, but these mats on the seafront are proving to be a real game changer.
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So I haven't been able to get on the beach since I've become a wheelchair user, so I have to watch everything from the promenade.
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So if I've got friends and family here who want to go on the beach, I have to sit and watch them and enjoy it from a distance.
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It's frustrating, because you're missing out on whatever's going on down here, even if they come to the wall,
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I'm still separate to what's going on on the beach.
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North Somerset Council put them down following calls from campaigners.
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The mats have to be weighed down so they're not washed away by the tide.
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This is something we've been wanting to do for quite a long time.
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We've understood the access issues that some people have to the beach
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and they should be able to enjoy the beach as much as absolutely anyone else.
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The trial is in full flow, but users say there are still many improvements that could be made.
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To make it, I would say gold standard is to have more accessible beach chairs.
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I know they have a chair here so it'd be good to more of them to make it fully inclusive.
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I'm not sure if it'd be appropriate right along the beach, parts of our beach have much stronger tide issues
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and the sand gets moved and you know many people see the sand being moved up
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and down the beach by the council
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but you know in terms of where we are now I hope
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that we can now progress and make this section much bigger, start moving it down the beach a little bit
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so people can have a much wider space
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because the more popular it becomes of course the more space we're going to need around.
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At the moment the Matting covers a relatively small area but that could be expanded on feedback from the trial.
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Leah McGuinn, BBC Points West, Western Super Mayor.
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Now there are lots of local stories to read through on the BBC News website.
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This evening if you'd like to take a look here are just a few.
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Police in Gloucester say they're working to eradicate antisocial behaviour in the city centre.
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Residents say people are drunk on the streets, fighting and shoplifting.
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Police say they're taking steps so it feels safer for everyone.
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There's a search underway for a group of rare sheep roaming the Tidworth area of Wiltshire.
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It's thought they've been dumped and are wandering free.
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14 have been caught already but a local rescue thinks there are more.
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And age is just a number for Bill Greenwood here from Somerset.
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He's He's the first England international hockey player to reach 90 and still be playing.
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He loves the game.
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He loves the company.
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You can find all those stories and more on the BBC News website and the BBC News app.
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Now, two 14-year-old girls from Somerset have become the youngest people to swim across the Bristol Channel from Penarth to Clevedon.
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Wow, this distance is just short of 30 kilometres.
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The tides took them around Flatholme Island
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and they swam into clevedon six and a half hours after setting off absolutely incredible
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and i'm delighted to say that susie and izzy are here with me now along with their coach
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hamish mccarthy welcome everybody hello what an achievement you two are
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just a pair of legends huge congratulations how are you feeling
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um i'm a bit tired still my arms are a bit
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sore i think you allowed I think it's I think it's
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really really I'm really proud of us actually yeah I'm proud of us today
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and I think it's crazy thinking that we were stood at the beginning on that beach
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and we actually said something to each other along the lines of do you think we can actually do
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that so you had a little one and then sooner
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or later you lose lack of time I'm a stone the
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other end in Cleveland you probably zoned out going through the motions of the process It's the furthest that you've ever swum.
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Physically, how did you feel going through it?
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It was very tiring.
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So about near the end, maybe two hours to go, just under, my arm started hurting and I got a horrible pain.
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Like, I think, is this your tricep?
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In your tricep and in your lats.
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And it's just putting your arm over.
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I just got like this horrible pain and
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when I had a feed I got a bit of a rest
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and some more energy so
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that really helped a bit more often you didn't both get
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out at exactly the same time did you what happened well I'm younger than Izzy
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so I let her get up first
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so she could hold the record for the youngest person as well as I could even
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if it's just 10 seconds that's friendship isn't it amazing
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and then was Was there a big celebration once you'd achieved the feat?
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Well, we had fish and chips when we got back to Penarth.
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That'll do it.
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They were really yummy.
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Best fish and chips you've ever had.
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We had a really big portion.
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You needed it.
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And I had to listen to some singing in the car as we drove home for two hours as well.
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Some of the songs were good, some were a bit young for me.
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But you felt you wanted to celebrate in any which way you could.
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Hamish, can you put into words how it felt to watch them complete this amazing challenge?
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I don't think...
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I was worried during the swim, but afterwards I was so proud.
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I mean, I'm still emotional now.
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It was a good job the sun was shining
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because I had my sunglasses on and those contact lens problems
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that people have when they get a little bit emotional and proud.
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I was full of that.
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Full of that.
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In fact, I was glad we had some chips because it gave me something else to concentrate on.
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Because you've been there for every step of the way, and there's a lot of training involved to do something like this.
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Yeah, so these girls have been training for over a year.
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They've been getting up early to go to early morning training on an indoor pool.
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They've been swimming outside in Wivy Pool.
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It's a great outdoor local Lido that we have.
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They've been training in there when the heat's been turned up, but also during the winter when the heat was turned down.
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And we swam throughout the winter, so we swam in the sea
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when it got too cold we put a bit of neoprene on as it warmed up in April
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and May we were back doing it in skin
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so these girls put the miles in and they really acclimatized well
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and they got themselves ready to swim it
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and boy they smashed it as well they did smash it
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and tell me quickly about the awareness
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that you want this swim to raise yeah we were raising awareness of the cleaner seas
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and rivers and just against sewage pollution
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so about a week ago we were swimming along near Babacombe
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and we got to the area you said it was about the size of a football yeah football pitch
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and it just stank of sewage and you just want people to be aware
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that this is happening and something should be done about it
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and yeah we don't want people swimming through sewage getting ill like you both have.
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I'm sure that this challenge will raise that awareness that you're after.
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You've both done brilliantly.
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Put your feet up a bit and recover.
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We're very proud.
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Well done.
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Thank you.
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Thanks very much.
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Now, the RAC is predicting a record 20 million leisure journeys over the coming bank holiday weekend,
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making it the busiest getaway since its records began in 2015.
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Today was expected to be busiest day with 4.1 million journeys
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with severe congestion forecast on the m5 motorists are being urged to prepare for long delays carry water
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and check their vehicles before setting off
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it's good advice now on to sport as the cricket season
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heads into its final month there is a chance of some
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silverware this weekend ali's here to tell us a bit more about that evening evening Yeah, we're keeping our fingers crossed for the weather in Manchester,
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Amanda, because Somerset's women will be there for the T20 County Cup Finals Day.
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They take on Surrey in the semifinals before hopefully progressing through to the final itself tomorrow evening.
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Well, this is the team's second season since turning professional.
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And as Jack Kyler reports, they're keen to mark their progress with a trophy.
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Last weekend, it was a brilliant performance against Hampshire, which booked Somerset women a place in their first T20 County Cup finals day.
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Now back in the nets in Taunton, they're on the eve of potentially making history by winning their first piece of silverware as a professional side.
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Truth be told, when I first got here, finals did feel like a long way away, but the group has adapted to the brand we want to play.
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They've been really positive, and any opportunity they get to progress the game, they've taken that.
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It's been a really nice reward to make it to finals, and hopefully the weather turns it on for us and we get two quality games in.
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Sophie Luff has been associated with the club for her entire career
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and will lead the side out as captain at Old Trafford against Surrey in the semi-final.
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Yeah, this year I've actually got a little photo of young Sophie on my locker and yeah, it's just a reminder of I guess where I started.
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Yeah, she probably wouldn't believe where I am right now and probably the season that I've had to be honest.
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For the fans who followed them this season, it's a proud moment.
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But it's great the men made it and the ladies have gone
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and followed them as well so it's a really good response
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and been building all season and really pleased that they've got to the final Let's hope they can do the business.
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I think they've got a very good chance of making the actual final But depends who they play.
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I think the blaze are going to be pretty good, but I hope they'll beat Surrey Oh, they've got a good chance I think they've got a good chance for
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that What would it mean to you to bring the first piece of silverware of the professional era back here to Taunton?
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Yeah, it's hugely exciting.
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I guess it's what you do all the hard work for and yeah, I guess I'm getting to the back end of my career as well and
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Those are the things that you kind of really want to tick off.
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I absolutely love this club I love the people involved there and if we can bring a trophy back Yeah, I'll be mega chuffed myself But I know that the people of Somerset will be really proud as well.
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For the last few years It's been Somerset's men's side who brought T20 glory back here to Taunton
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Now it's a chance for the women's team to etch their names in the club's history books.
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Jack Kyler, BBC Points West, Taunton.
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Thanks, Jack.
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Now there's lots of football over the bank holiday weekend, starting with the National League tonight.
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Both Yeovil Town and Forest Green Rovers have made long, long journeys to the north-west to face Barrow and Fylde, respectively.
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But don't worry, BBC Local Radio will have commentary so you can enjoy it from the comfort of your own home.
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And a fair bit of travelling tomorrow in the Football League as well.
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Only Bristol City at home.
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That's to Portsmouth at Ashton Gate.
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Bath-based tennis player Toby Samuel has continued his impressive year by qualifying for the US Open.
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Toby is now ranked just outside the top 100 in the world after playing Wimbledon and the French Open earlier this year.
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He's won three rounds of qualifying in New York to earn his place in the main draw.
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The men's singles begins on Sunday, so another chance for Toby to test himself against the best in the world.
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Good luck to him.
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him.
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Thank you, Ellie.
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That's brilliant.
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Good stuff.
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Now then, the West is at the forefront when it comes to finding ways to make festivals sustainable.
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And this weekend, the stages at Bristol's Forward Festival will be powered entirely by energy, which gives out zero pollution.
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The music has started tonight.
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Ross Pollard is there to enjoy it.
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How are you doing, Ross?
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Yeah, good evening, Amanda.
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It's a lovely evening here on the Downs in Bristol.
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Everyone's taken all their coats on that it was heavy rain earlier
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but now lovely setting here to watch the music for the
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rest of the evening more on the festival in a moment
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but as you said this year's festival is powered mainly by
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renewable energy the two stages here one of them powered by
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rechargeable batteries the other one by hydrogen they've been trialing it
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out at different events in our region to see how it works
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and long term they want to sort of widen it out
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to different parts of the country as well it's in part
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organized by the western england mayor in the region earlier we were given behind the scenes look to exactly how it works.
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Sight, we bring that to sight
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and we use a hydrogen power generator behind me to turn
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that hydrogen into clean electricity with zero emissions at the point of use.
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So we're powering the main stage for the whole weekend and the only output will be clean pure water.
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So pure that you can drink it.
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I'm just so proud that this is coming out of the west of England
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because it just speaks to who we are I think you know we've always been a region
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that cares about our environment cares about clean energy about clean air
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but we also love to have a good time there'll be
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people watching at home whenever we do any stories about rechargeable
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batteries as they they're not clean you have to get different parts
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and different parts of the world to make those batteries we're not a perfect state I probably won't be around
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when we get to a perfect state
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but what we're doing is moving from something
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which is very clearly producing dirty air which is affecting people's health
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and we're trying to think about innovative clean ways that we can do that better.
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I mean the point of a pilot is
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that we have to prove it works
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and it's the next phase where we keep doing this and that is about telling the rest of the country about it, thinking about other events in our region.
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It's good news for the region
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and I will absolutely be shouting about it to the Prime Minister himself
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and also to the rest of the mayors across the country.
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Well that's how it's being powered but exactly what's happening over the weekend
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and we just had Esher Tawari come off one of the stages here but the The special event starts tomorrow.
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The man who knows more about it is Ben, one of the organisers here.
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A lot going on this weekend.
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Indeed, yeah.
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We've got, starting from 12 o'clock tomorrow,
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we've got a huge musical programme with headliners from Wet Leg to Little Sims to Thames.
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And then we've lots of local artists as well playing across all the stages.
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In addition to that, we've got the kids area, which has got a new teens area as well, for all the youth demographic.
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We've got a talk stage with lots of public speaking and then we've also got lots of local food traders.
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The weather of the weekend is looking a bit iffy.
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How are you going to take that on board?
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We've put comms out to everyone already.
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Just make sure you bring a jacket, a good pair of shoes and a little bit of suntan lotion because it's all over the place.
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It hasn't stopped people though.
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Tens of thousands of people expected, aren't they?
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Exactly, yeah.
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So we're expecting about 55 to 6,000 people over the three days.
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Brilliant.
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Nice to meet you.
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There we go, Matt.
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If you want to come along the weekend, make sure you bring your waterproof and some good shoes if you're going to enjoy the festival.
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It's good advice, Ross.
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Thank you.
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And a little bit of rain might make that grass green again, mightn't it?
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Let's move on to the weather forecast, shall we?
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Ian's here and so is the bank holiday.
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What have we got?
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It is.
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It won't be like some prior bank holidays.
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It will be a very changeable affair.
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In summary, Monday will ultimately become the most improved and best day, but there will be rain on the other two, as indeed there was today.
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Beautiful shot from Dursley here.
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Looking out west, you can see the clouds thickening up, and that was signalling the approach of some further showers and showery outbreaks of rain from that direction.
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As you can see on the radar, the dry conditions initially were moved aside.
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The showers got going.
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Some of those turned thundery once again up towards Gloucestershire and one or two other spots as well.
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Of late, the bulk of this is now moving out across the east.
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There are signs of it tending to become a less showery evening now
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and a little bit of a lull before this next quite
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deep air of low pressure moves in across southern parts of the country tomorrow, bringing rain particularly through the first half of Saturday for us and quite windy conditions, particularly in the south.
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Again, a lull and then the next sequence of fronts comes through on Sunday.
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But in contrast to Saturday, it'll be the second part of the day that'll be more prone to wet weather.
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On Saturday, it'll tend to be the first, but it's a bit complicated, so I'll show you.
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On Monday this ridge of high pressure builds, hence the day will improve particularly later through the afternoon into the evening
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and less windy as well So still a few showers around this evening
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but overall a good deal drier so like I said a bit of a lull through this period
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but towards the end of the night onwards some further showers starting to gather
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and here comes the rain for tomorrow morning the temperatures overnight somewhere close to about the mid-teens
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So tomorrow then this area of rain will spread its way steadily east-northeastwards
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behind it associated with the centre of low pressure which is moving that way
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will be this feature here and
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that could give some quite heavy maybe even thundery rain the exact distribution of
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that is a bit uncertain
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but you can see thereafter signs of again improvement a bit
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like today as we head late afternoon into the evening
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so for example cricket fixtures tomorrow there will for sure be periods of disruption depending
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when they actually start playing there's likely to be some rain
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at some of the other sporting events at the different stages through the weekend, temperatures tomorrow about the high teens to about the low 20s.
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So as I mentioned on Sunday, it's a switch around.
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It'll be the second half of Sunday where there will be increased threat of some wet weather.
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And again, some of that could prove quite heavy as it moves eastwards.
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It will be an underpinning story of quite windy conditions through that period.
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But you'll see the signs there of an improved day for Bank Holiday Monday.
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As we head into next week, Tuesday actually I think could be a lot drier than
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that symbol suggests but the rest of the week is again looking pretty unsettled but temperature's still above average for now.
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But we're all over the place.
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It is.
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Thank you, Ian.
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That's it from all of us tonight.
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The long weekend starts here, I'd say.
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If you've got a bit of time to yourself, enjoy the next few days.
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We'll have bulletins for you throughout, of course, and I'll see you again at half ten.
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Take care.
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Bye-bye.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 418 sentences and 5151 words to shadow. The speech runs for 27:37. The speaker talks fast, about 187 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| ambulance noun | /ˈæmbjᵿl(ə)n(t)s/ | An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital. |
| swim verb | /swɪm/ | To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. |
| awareness noun | /əˈwɛɹ.nəs/ | The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer. |
| sand noun | /sænd/ | Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in… |
| sixth adjective | /sɪksθ/ | The ordinal form of the number six. |
| chip noun | /t͡ʃɪp/ | A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material. |
| pollution noun | /pəˈluʃən/ | Physical contamination, now especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances, or by disruptive levels of noise, light etc. |
| youngest adjective | /ˈjʌŋ.ɡɪst/ | Most recently begun or formed. |
| hydrogen noun | /ˈhaɪdɹəd͡ʒ(ə)n/ | The lightest chemical element (symbol H), with an atomic number of 1 and atomic weight of 1.008. |
| windy adjective | /ˈwɪn.di/ | Accompanied by wind. |
| sewage noun | /ˈsu.ɪd͡ʒ/ | A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed. |
| horrible adjective | /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/ | Causing horror; terrible; shocking. |
| cricket noun | /ˈkɹɪkɪt/ | An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs. |
| alarm noun | /əˈlɑɹm/ | A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. |
| complain verb | /kəmˈpleɪn/ | To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. |
| give out verb | To utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
| set off verb | To leave; to set out; to begin a journey or trip. |
| come along verb | To accompany. |
| come off verb | To become detached. |
| come through verb | To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway. |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 126 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we've, they've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: sixth /sɪksθ/, bath /bɑːθ/, breathe /bɹiːð/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, thereafter /ˌðɛɹˈæf.tɚ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: pollution /pəˈluʃən/, smash /smæʃ/, contrast /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/, wash /wɑʃ/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/
- Long words — get the stress right: complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, respectively /ɹɪˈspɛktɪvli/, electricity /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like ambulance, swim, awareness.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | we've been wanting · have been training · They've been getting |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | We've struggled · have had · there's been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | has been loaded · had been activated · is cleared |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | pain which has · those who wanted · air which is |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.