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<TEXT>Cigarettes, alcohol, unhealthy diets and obesity are responsible for more than 100 thousand people getting cancer in the UK every year.

Cancer Research has done the biggest ever study into the disease - and found nearly half of cancers could be prevented.

Harpal Kumar is the charities chief executive - he says these stats should be a huge wake up call:

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<Slug>015 CANCER KUMAR</Slug>
<TEXT>Cigarettes, alcohol, unhealthy diets and obesity are four factors which combine
to account for more than 100-thousand cancer cases in Britain every year. 

The most comprehensive study of the disease ever undertaken in the UK also
shows that nearly half of all cancers could be prevented. 

Harpal Kumar is chief executive of Cancer Research UK, who carried out the
work.

He says these stats should be a huge wake up call:

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<TEXT>A woman's been punched in the face by a mugger in Weston.

The victim, who's in her forties, also broke her wrist as she was knocked down on Grove lane at about ten P-M on Monday November the 28th.

Her attacker unsuccessfully tried to grab her bag, before laughing and running off towards Queens Road.
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<TEXT>A 41-year-old man's been arrested in connection with phone hacking and perverting the course of justice. 

Officers from Scotland Yard say he was arrested at an address in London on suspicion of conspiring to intercept voicemail messages.
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<TEXT>North Somerset's buses are getting a twenty-first century upgrade this month.

Electronic smartcard machines, which get rid of the need for a printed ticket, are being installed on First services in Weston, Burnham and Axbridge.

Instead, free passes, or weekly and monthly ones, will contain a microchip that's scanned as they board.
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<TEXT>Gavin and Stacey could be turned into a musical. 

Ruth Jones - who co wrote the series with James Corden - says it's something they both want to do.
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