Tell you something just between. When I. Was. Sat. With water to not is here with me we are playing some great music for you right here on the b.b.c. Across the West Country for your Saturday morning with May martyrdoms loads of events going on as well it is the Clifton lit fest today that we one of the organized is to tell you about what you can go to today it's also the thought that I am from room parts trial more after this from Whitney Houston this is 1000000 Dollar Bill. Some. But you know what I really love that you know I can listen to that one all day long great music with me martyrdoms for this Saturday morning now you know me I love my love my creativity and today if you like as much as I do you need to be in touch and it is the talked about in front room going to people's high seas all their creativity and one of those it's going to be doing a thing today is Lucy Sheridan who joins me this morning good morning to you Martin How you doing beautiful 2 wonderful weekend then absolutely I've got I've had some good rest and I'm ready to draw many people wonderful because you are a very quick artist on your I think as we were describing it yeah I'm not a rubbish one as I do call myself muchly very good. Business rubbish Ah it's not rubbish portray rubbish Paul traits why did you come up with that name in the 1st place Lou So yeah well you know if it does turn out rubbish then we can say it was a reminder to and plus you know remember me now absolutely So you're portray artists them well I'm an illustrator of 18 years and I started doing rubbish put trades set up my business in March this year and I've got a big youth which is a life. Looks and feels just like a fighter base and when you get in it's not yourself in a king back is maybe oh well so you get in there you sit on that little seat which revolves around something I mean swivels Is there a little curtain that you play with a look and you pull as well and there's no like glass mirror in front of you which you got press a little green button and then wait 30 seconds and the flash up and I just know fast you'll get in you just sit in that town if you up all the knees or no I just actually. In my paper on the the hole between you and I know so there is a little bit of a gut there's a big sort of a 3 hole in the word so it's a bit like a compassionate big fan absolutely it's been known for people to tell me a few things well you know intimate space you're safe I suppose yeah you could share those who are concerned look at it tell anyone anything you're going to anonymity a day I don't have that written down anywhere but I'm not one to judge you know they share any secrets with me this morning or not this morning thanks any the walkway idea though yeah I think yeah it's been well received so I've shot my primary video in March of the 9 festivals over the summer I've had a busy September with over at Bath University during 70 students and their freshers' week but I'm really looking forward to this weekend they get to be in school road in talk today and today and tomorrow new number 28 yes wonderful people hosting made lives there and really nice of you to have me so you pull of info to be thin air from room they're more like Yeah. Which is the what is wonderful about the 1st room stroll in talk that I was really in I would be it's one of the earliest in the West Country as well many homes are trails Yeah and it's all on top of itself and far to go and it's going to have people it's really great community event just in school road alone is 3 or 4 people they're opening the doors and they will share in their creativity yeah you're going to have a chance to get out your be thin go and have a look at some of the other also you know what last night there was people and I putting out I didn't get a chance I was in a very impressed yeah it's a good time father has to be around people yeah I get a little preview of what's going on yeah I have some free art days as well. That when people are open cans in the wine and stuff like that so phrase that. Got me the most of hospitality. Tell me about you as an artist and you say you've been doing almost 20 years now show yeah I studied illustration. With a 1st class on his degree proudly. I just stayed in Bristol of a since I've moved around couple studios I love it it's a great place to be housed as an artist you know there is something wonderful about the West Country as a whole Bristol specifically for artists and we Street issues here is in the classical art is loved and appreciated here yeah really and I love it to this so much on offer I work at a theater as well 5 hours a week just to get involved in exactly that and meet people it's really good to network in those creative said absolutely I will suddenly have decided I am a little theater and I've got moved across the board so I'm having to be a certain persona or not that I'd be anyone other than myself in the booth but people are expecting a little bit from me or that yeah or something we go up on a bit of an actor's you know me who you got to make it entertaining so when people come down and they sit in your little booth and they pull the curtain down they get the house comfortable How long will it take to fully get there portray 3 to 4 minutes that is pretty quick. And then similarly to a photo booth you know in step outside and collect it from the outside it will be wet dream I have to turn it around so it paints you using my knees yet Indian ink and paint to make a little noise as you pop it through to the dispensary of the. Law to be good so it's. Looking to all kind of sounds like that to get some sounds in the but also I want to start rubbish podcast Oh Ok well why not can you help me what would you be talking about on this poker be absolute no agenda whatsoever no Mike is rubbish as possible and paint a picture of what's going on in the world well what's nice about impromptu stuff is that life which is happening to you not preempted anything you know scheduled you've not given it any kind of agenda you know you're right yeah you know I think it's time for spontaneous tune. That some weren't. Claire is it. A little. Bit to go from. The 1st Slayer to. The food. Was it. Kill. A loaf. Good luck to good. Luck. To her. Good. Good. Good told. Her. Mom. Good. Luck me. A. Kook would. Suit you. Kid. The heat. It's. Cold. Meat. Too good to be. Me. Well great to know is I'm doing the cd this morning by Lucy Sheridan a fabulous artist taking part in the from Australian Tata dying today and one of the 1st ass trails here in the West Country Yeah yeah it was hundreds of ice taking part in this today and tomorrow isn't there so you get a chance to go all the way around toss it and use the cafes in the local pubs in the areas where it's good for the whole economy of top of that yeah yeah absolutely brilliant and Everyone's helping out really brings everyone together I was it take to set up your belief that depending on what party have got around to to start me off I can do it in 35 minutes or so and there's a bit like a big Lego set or mechanics that you've got to put a few screws in if you know Also Yes isn't she isn't it a shape with a roof and I have these amazing little joints which I also like she is actually that and which are Italian made and there they just put these panels of wood together incredible and it stay safe my curtain my like books on for the photo both of you every photo booth needs a lot but what course it. Will say rubbish portrayed Oh there we go. Along portraits as well like where you are sit down and say yeah I was that I was you know into this not in my personality not now what is your personality like a quick read gone next. To you and other parts of your life as well I would sit and read a book I'll get it in order Bowl No Can I go to play and yeah that's much better way for me patients but I like to react to things that I think think through too much kind of media person what Cook enjoy spending time and I was in the kitchen Crane's and then I just walk in the my creeping Oh you know about like way that one part male Really And yeah I love what you. Have achieved 3 hours later on it's like . Well getting creative in the kitchen may I find that like a work of art luckily also this one that my carrots because I like carrots because it's like a touch of color on the plate there's some lovely green beans I make sure some caramelization on the carrots is a different texture is on the beat of 2 little mashed potato or maybe I was a buttery all the time in my house so the kitchen is always in for use it's a therapies and if you've got dark last one in the go you know it's you taking time and you're doing your spending a little bit extra and creating something for everyone you sit around with your family you know it's brilliant here but some people just that their food is a necessity I have it is like an art form and a way of communicating with people a way of bringing people together and art can do that in itself and it can yeah yeah when people of you might might be to an office party and everyone's had their 1st drink the portraits start coming out people are showing them around the room and yet the hilarity and it's a good icebreaker Yeah it's a really nice conversational point and humor humors really important to me and I think life can't be taken too seriously do you extent you ate a part of No I don't yeah it's not a character chairs as such it's it's a nice little back I'm like enjoying you have a people so somebody's got big nose and you don't make it even bigger. It's called truth like how it is if I've got a bit I might go wild it up a bit or make sure it's very evident you must love what you do day I very much not I'm very lucky yeah and people can come and see you today you're it's a number 28 school been taught to dine Yeah I'm just one of hundreds of how it's going to be doing their thing exhibiting today and enjoying You sound like you very much. You know c.b.c. Some of. You based on. So how you get on them with a final song before 6 a song that got to number 2 in the u.k. Chart so no 1086 the singers were. Were pitched up which was fairly common practice with dance tracks and this made her sign younger she was actually 24 at the time this song was released in 1903 it went to number 56 it was then rereleased 3 years later after the senior became an international star and that's when it went to number 2 in the charts in 1906 Any ideas what song is we're going to talk about the cliff the live fest next after this from Donna Lewis. Ok. So your Saturday morning is getting off to a great start and you know me I love immersing myself in a good book and just losing time and well learned things as well on today is a great day for that because it is the very 1st Clifton village fest delighted they viewed Parker joins me in the studio this morning good morning to you and excited a few today there a really big day for us today I mean a really big day we've got a fantastic lineup for today and tomorrow actually and we're going to kick off in Christ Church in the church with not impart the photographer well known international photographers he has followed by an amazing conversation with Suliman who's written lots and lots of comedy for the radio and very very funny local author comes from the Cotswolds So that starts it all off and we've got the library activities for children at the library. Rebecca Lisle is going to be doing writing workshops and generally with Churchill looking at cartoons with children and I'm a Karen in the afternoon with myself partly overly You could be due to talk as well I'm going to be doing a talk about Laurie Lee and some interviews and some recordings I made with him back in the 1990 s. I'll be doing that and at the same time a very good friend of mine and the person who used to used to grace the b.b.c. Here come the wolf is going to be doing a cookery demonstration about spicing up your food and spicing up your life in the primrose in 530 so that should be to reflect fun and she's bringing along lots of food is going to be wine there as well it'll be a really great great early evening event that will no doubt what you've actually got a really good book and there of what's going to be a fabulous day will be it will be a terrific day actually you know the going to be exhausted at the end of the weekend I'm sure about that but but but contentedly exhausted I hope I can imagine yeah and the great thing is that the library is the. The point of this festival this weekend is no absolutely because we want to make sure that the library is there for everybody that everybody who can use a library it's a wonderful wonderful resource I think we can take it for granted and if we have a lost a library in Clifton village that would be a tremendous blow to that village to that community so everything we can do to keep that Libre going to keep people aware of what it has to offer activities going on there as well as borrowing books is a really important thing to do I think you know I mean for many people it's more than just a place to give the books it's a lifeline it is the center of their communities where they meet their friends absolutely if you go in there any time of the day when you can get in because of course it's not open all day every day anymore because of the public sector cuts but when you go and you can see old friends in there you can spend time in there it means you can get out of the rain and without having to spend money on a cup of coffee in a cafe you know it's a really terrific hub really yes it is indeed and the center of the community in question as well now you've got some massive names coming along that this would consider it's the very 1st ever gift of village live to get some big names is quite the achievement Absolutely and everybody we asked just said yes I'll do it I think it's partly because of the library but people like Nick a shoe clerk he's got he's there in the tomorrow very very popular on television these days is and he's going to be there and tomorrow Catherine Johnson who children went to the library when they were well school who is the writer of Mama Mia One of the biggest selling unicycles in all time huge she's going to be there and talking about her life great and today you've got Phil King who knows an amazing singer songwriter we should be performance tonight as part of the festival as well so it transcends literature goes on to music as it should as it should fill King is wonderful and evening they'll be wine there we will be a really really lovely atmosphere there for that I think for Phil's gig he's got. Tremendous if you got a highlight for the weekend we got today and tomorrow still to go yesterday you had Jonathan Dimbleby I know that went down very well yes I mean I think the flag up there. Lots of highlights actually but I think. I think Catherine Catherine Johnson and Sue Lim 2 brilliant locally based writers one writing amazing stuff for the theater and the other writing wonderfully wonderfully humorous stuff for radio I think and these are not people who are writing books these are this is this is different route form writing you know of radio and the theater but it's a ridiculous thing of sessions will be really amazing what a lot for the families were lots of the little ones this morning the library the activities in the library are totally focused on children and it's so important to get the youngsters involved isn't it absolutely because once you get children reading of course they'll stay reading it's getting them to read in the 1st place and that's really fantastic important for us actually getting them to go to the library don't have to go to a book shop to buy a book they can buy but as I did when I was a child we went to the library of my parents every Saturday morning and then went back with books that we looked at over the week and we want to make sure that tradition sustains loss of memories then when it comes to literature you so absolutely absolutely. Have Yes I mean but I do remember that all our books were old library books they were there was no bookshop when I grew up and you know we had a mobile library stop at the church carpark when I was growing up and I used to live every Wednesday we went and it was yeah in the book and just the excitement together I did not very many to use but to get a book and be able to read it was just great you know you can't you there's no substitute for it is a minute don't think a computer or a laptop or and i Pad really can replace the pleasure of just turning the pages of a book that you're gripped by in fact I'm reading one about him says Ms books because I'm going to be talking to him Adam has written an absolutely compelling biography of David Cornwell and some going to be talking to him tomorrow morning about that John Kerry many many millions of people have read John Kerry and here's an opportunity to listen to the man who got very close to him and wrote his biography wonderful must. Past tense that's tomorrow you've got a busy weekend there yourself a very busy can not too busy to talk to you there always is one of our thank you very much for joining me if people find out more details they can go online or just turn up at the library today and tomorrow for the whole festival at the turn up there they'll tell them whether there are tickets left some of the things have already sold out but the still tickets for a number of the events Lovely were fun and I'm looking forward to next year's And I was well let's hope. You. Get your crazy over it strong I like that is a new motto. To cyclists a comfy. This is a great sign that the women are just carrying our. Stations to teens who are new in. Their. Selfish. Seem to love a bit of clueless action and it is back tomorrow from 10 o'clock as b.b.c. Radio Bristol take on b.b.c. Somerset the most important of all it is you so when those clues are not the subject to please have you get on with my final song before 6 a song got to number 2 in the u.k. Charts in 1986 the Glee cast performed a medley of this song in 2010 but the singer I'm going to play got to number 2 in 1986 coming up next we're going to be talking about a play all about the moon not softer this from simply red and sweet child. She. Should check. For. And. Check. Issues. And. Chat. With. Oh I love simply reading Let's talk about the moon because there is a wonderful play being formed today and tomorrow right here in our beautiful west country it's been performed by Russia by theater and I caught up with Toby shame Robin good morning my knowing wonderful to be with the right about yeah yeah it's been a long time. Today you got a big show Martin village show that's right yeah I got to go on the road quickly I was going to come to Martin and tomorrow we're going to. Center down in Bishop's west so you will be taking theater to the people and yeah that's company based in Bristol and we're lucky to be able to go out to these 2 community locations and put the show on for people outside the central Bristol area and this is show all about the mean it is you know it's hell stories about the moon scientifically historically mythologically the some great legends about the moon and what happens when it's a full moon we got some really tough to moon base jokes and we get to meet all sorts of people during the course of the show we meet the moon herself. Through 8 a while both like Michael Collins and real people Mike. Pollens fronting the tarrasque over Jim Lovell Mike's a little parents at one point who was on the Apollo 8 mission so I went to a really wide ranging show about anything and everything to do with the moon when I say hello to the moon right no it's Shirley was allowed to play the moon Oh it's great she is my character is zation of the moon is an old strangely and woman. Who's in a long suffering relationship with the earth and they're going through some marriage counseling Yeah it's a different way of looking at things but an interesting way to explore the Earth in the men's relationship and how long that's been going on and you know they're just going round and round in circles it's quite literally everyone everyone can relate to that yeah you know Toby mentioned you've got some quite corny jokes about the moon can you share just one of them with us this morning how does the main cut his hair and I don't know how does it mean Curtis eclipse it oh. That's a good we should put that into the show. It's not even in the show. To come if it was all right we've still got some time still got some time few hours before the show very flexible very flexible and you know this is a show we should be constantly evolving and tweaking over time as well as that's right we previewed it in July we were at the Wardrobe theatre we tried it in a couple of secondary schools and a primary school and festival went to the Green Man festival we were library so we've tried to shout in front of lots of different audiences and this new version which starts today but will be touring until March 2020 takes on board all the things that we learned from those previous performances things that we've discovered since it's it's great fun to be returning to it and going out that you've been together as a team for about 10 years night yes so we've been working in lots of different things for a long time and I guess we found that we really like working with each other and when you find a good team you hold on to that if you do yeah they offer your jokes you know which is nice that's good so it's nice and yes so we formed rest about almost a year ago now. And. And yes so far so good yeah the same rush that I come from. About in Australia as an itinerant sheep farmer so someone who travels from farm to farm to farm working the shape in America raft about is other son who works on the oil rigs or who works in a carnival there's a very famous Well it's not Frank I mean if you're a fan of Elvis Presley the numbers with blue suede shoes on. The There's an obvious present from call rust about in which he plays a motorcycle rider on the wall of death in a carnival and we like the idea that a rough spot is something that goes from place to place that and tie ins that can take on any job and it's got this sort of something slightly wild about a raft about that they're not quite pinned down and that's saying to encompass what we were doing as a company where people come and see you today. Martin village hall today zine community space there are still some limited tickets available yet there's still a few tickets left I think but yeah it's definitely filling up pretty hard if you want tickets head to our Web site Ross about theater dot co dot u.k. And there's all the links there and you can see the future dates for tour as well for next year and then all about the moon recently Karen Yeah yeah. A new way of listening to b.b.c. Sounds with music makes it easier. To. Radio You know if you only get one chance to make a 1st impression so you don't smack. For it is. Just. So hard cause it is. Is one of the nicest to me I clearly was born into a creative musical environment. Sound Music radio broadcasts. Download the free app now to listen without limits you had encourage you to download the app and listen to this show or you. Shows your convenience whenever you want to wherever you want to that is the beauty of the b.b.c. Signs up how you get on with my final song before 6 it was written by the singers producer Richie Lucas the sea was 24 when this song was released but 3 years later she was an international success story and it got to number 2 in the u.k. Charts any ideas what some ways it is coming up very soon indeed we're going to be catching up with a team from creative youth network next after this from the police. What a chain that is from the police message in a bottle of and got one more song to play for you it is the following or some of the show of the guests all is well all will be revealed after about a chat with a team from creative youth network who join me now it's oh say Ana and Emily good morning to Moni How are you today you oh yeah I'm good it's a special day for you today cause you got your performance on today and tomorrow cosen whole we do in day d.s.a. We've had tea performance say so we've been on Thursday night and Friday night said tonight and tomorrow or the last day so yeah it's going really well really excited and we hope that people can come and see it and you've basically taken over all 4 floors of the 4 yet the coastal hole we have which is incredible so there are over 100 young people taking part in the edge and they're coming from all across Bristol say they're taking a you had the spaces and not just the ground floor not just the 1st floor but all 4 floors of the space that's all the forces know absolutely that the production is the edge top. Me all about the edge the edge is an interactive theatre show about reality t.v. So within that we are actors in the theater show but then we are also people on the t.v. Show. Which is interesting it does get really interactive so the audience can vote on who they want to win and they get asked questions in the 1st half so the production can change every show then every single show it changes colors is down to the audience as well they are a huge part of it while you could be on your feet and for this production 100 percent your what are your perceptions of reality t.v. Than I am. Quite because of it I don't think it really is reality it's not the right name. I'm interested in he makes the decisions about what it's people's lives that we see. Work t.v. Producers that want to sell laboratories in predominantly I suppose yeah what you want your perceptions of reality t.v. As it is at the moment I agree with Ana I think it is very fishy there needs to be a light shone on the behind the scenes stuff and that's what you're doing with this production I suppose because you know people they watch reality t.v. On a daily basis and it could shape them as individuals absolutely say to the characters that we have in the show say reconciling the executive t.v. Producers say one of the rooms that you go into is to sit around their boardroom and you get to make some of those decisions and what we hope is that the audience then come away from the show having questioned and speaking about yet the reality of it and that's exactly why this is so important to us to talk about with you know the use social media the onslaught of you know whether it's life whether it's you know on on social media itself say thinking about live streaming is what's real what's not real the strap line of the edges how much of yourself can you give away until there's nothing left to give and so our contestants go through a pretty harsh journey was trying to make it to the final I can imagine have you enjoyed the journey of that. Getting the edge to the stage yeah it's been great fun have really enjoyed like the mix of characters we've got in the show and the different scenes we've got and yeah I've had lots of you got a favorite scene yourself I really like the 2nd act which is the final it's really exciting and what about yourself. I have had a really fun journey I have to damn agree with the 2nd act is just all the stops of being poured everything is just incredible so yeah it was simple we shine a light on this issue it's no it's really important and it's a really important thing for us that creative youth because a 3rd of the population of Bristol were under at the age of $26.00 and that's a huge amount yes there to 3 percent and for the majority of them their voices of unheard of ever pinions are acknowledged So this is a chance for you to share what you're interested in and share what you're doing and the whole production has been made by and for young people as well as for the general public so we have teams of filmmakers because we are making a reality t.v. Show there are screens all over the place there are people filming there's pretty recorded bt that shown during the production there's an app because what's a reality t.v. Show would be complete without making out that's made by young people all of the set of the performances everything's done by them so it's really important for us and one of our key values that creative network is to amplify the voices of young people and I believe this helps us I mean it's a really great opportunity for youngsters to learn new skills there's no 100 percent yeah I'd say there is and there are some professionals working on there on the show as well so myself we've got stage manager a director it's been written by it's invested so there are people that also act as mentors and for people to be able to shadow when and to learn from them as well and then to also take over sets such an amazing venue like the coast and hope yes it's such a great opportunity for many of those that we're working with so what's the one thing that you've learnt most Then through this process and also I. I have really enjoyed being able to choreograph I can dance but I've never really choreographed before so that's been very interesting really fun and a bit stressful but we're there but at the same time Nick taught us a really like catchy song that I just cannot get out of my head and I'm going to be him perform tonight no it's not it's no it's not in the show is just like a warm up song yeah it's just really catchy which I am going to teach 2 other people Oh lovely so why should people come along tonight or tomorrow than to catch the edge of coast and just see the amount of work and effort that the young people have put into it and what young people can do if given the time space and like all of the necessary factors and the opportunity and the opportunity in wonderful Well thank you for joining me oh say are you looking forward to tonight 100 percent yeah I'd like to say we've got 2 more shows to go not only is this a brilliant opportunity and I completely agree with a say about you know coming to see 33 percent of Bristol also you know these guys they're in the room with us they're emerging and professionals and this is a high quality show it's not a thing to show it's very much a you know these are this is a brilliant show and you know I'm going to say that I'm the creative producer for it but honestly if I wasn't working on it I'd be going and I'd be fantastically amazed if you are ways for us to question what's happening in society worth having fun yet having a laugh whilst you know getting stuff a drink from coast and who are coming to a venue that's currently closed and using it in a different way and having a fun Saturday or Sunday night out lovely and how uncertain is written by a bird as well using gravel he's this he's an absolute star and and I care and so we had the edge on last year at the Ana Fini So this is a sequel this isn't the same show you see if you came to see it last year don't think are not going to go see it because it's the same one it's not it's the edge $2107.00 and a whole new script for it new characters new contestants. But you still you come in you see 5 contestants battling out to win the edge 2019 so it's an edgier edge it's an edgy Dhaka or like. They still some limited tickets available as limited tickets and we start ticket prices start at one pound we do a pay what you can afford $1.00 pound 5 pounds 10 pounds or 20 pounds if you fit into that the money goes towards creative youth network it's day nation so it's massively appreciated and you can buy them either on the door or online or by finding the box office it comes to wonderful as I said Thanks so much for join me have fun tonight thank you thank you I've got one final song to play for you it is the final Some of the show did you get it was this from Madonna borderline if you did congratulations have a wonderful Saturday. Alex thanks Alex. Alex. Wants. Was. 6. Weeks. James that you have your kids said he has no recollection of meeting the woman who's accused him of having sex with her when she was 17 years old Prince Andrew has given an hour long interview to the B.B.C.'s Newsnight program where he admits he let the side down when he stayed with a convicted sex offender Geoffrey Epstein the former royal correspondent Peter Hunt says the juke of York's decision to do a t.v. Interview has raised eyebrows from Andrew's perspective I am surprised because it could well be judged to be yet another example of his at times shockingly poor judgment because there were no mystique of monarchy I mean he would be asked about sex 3 times there are plenty of advisors who used to work the senior people who know that royal family well who will be and are aghast that has taken place and I've been in communications with several of them during the day and the words they've used are not a good idea ridiculous madness. The charity's attempting to raise almost 200000 pounds to open a new drug and alcohol treatment center in Bath has our reporter Richard Lawson the charity developing health and independence is this year celebrating its 20th anniversary formally known as the drugs and homeless initiative it was set up in 1909 with the aim to help people out of the cycle of poverty homelessness social isolation and drug or alcohol abuse it currently house thousands of people in Bain South Gloucestershire Bristol to mark the anniversary is announced that it wants to open a new center in an empty building on sin James parade they need to raise 180000 pounds to make it a reality and if it's successful in raising the funds they say it could open its doors as soon as next year police say they're assessing to allegations of electoral fraud after they were asked to investigate claims that the conservatives offered peerages and other in juice mints to bricks of party candidates to withdraw from the election the former Labor Law Chancellor wrote to Scotland Yard calling on it to urgently investigate claims made by the bricks of party leader Nigel Farage has Helen cat not Falconer wrote that the allegations raised serious questions about the integrity of the general election in particular whether senior conservatives had breached electoral law Nigel Farage has claimed candidates were offered government jobs all places on the BRICs it negotiating team to persuade them to stand down he also suggested they had been hints of p. Riches Boris Johnson dismissed the allegations as nonsense he said he was sure conversations did take place between politicians of all parties but that nobody had been offered a peerage. A couple from Weston super Mare who hand out gifts to disadvantaged children at Christmas say demand is outstripping donations this year Sarah and perm have been running their every child needs Christmas campaign for 6 years now it's run from their home in world where they've donated tens of thousands of gifts to children across the country but they say this year they're struggling to keep up with demand with the number of donations down on previous years and people in the West Country have raised more than 2600000 pounds for Children In Need this year.