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Page last updated at 10:02 GMT, Friday, 6 November 2009

Adam Pengilly
Skeleton stars ready for Olympics
With less than 100 days to go to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, two Somerset Olympians talk about their preparations.

Howard Jones Howard Jones extended interview
Watch an extended interview with the 1980s pop star, Howard Jones, who penned hits such as What Is Love.

Female profile Teenager's hopes to change gender
A 15-year-old teenager from Somerset is waiting until she is old enough to begin the first steps in gender re-assignment surgery.


PEOPLE & PLACES
Katie-Jane Cooper and Tarka L'Herpiniere Wedding bells
The moment two ice explorers got engaged
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Getting ready for carnival
Work on pier pavilion under way
Taunton's 'Green cathedral' plans
Somerset ghost whisperers hunt
Call for Wincanton Carnival help
Boom time for the debt doctors

'999 call is for dire emergencies'
Teenager 'bullied for being gay'
Rural nursery fills childcare gap
In pictures: Soldiers' Afghanistan
Frome celebrates Button's F1 win
In pictures: Five-star tree house

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A BBC campaign to help with life's ups and downs
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Millionth Morris Minor not sold
Specialist titanium tools stolen
Art show to celebrate stone mines
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Oxford United 1-0 Yeovil
In pictures: Paulton Rovers' FA Cup
Paulton Rovers 0-7 Norwich

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Sunday day weather

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  • Min: 4°C
  • Wind: N 16mph

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  • Min: 5°C
  • Wind: ENE 2mph

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  • Wind: N 13mph

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M5 Bristol - One lane closed, narrow lanes and speed restriction of 50 mph both ways due to contraflow, resurfacing work and major roadworks between J19, Portishead and J18 M49

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