We hope you enjoyed reading the news from around the West Country today - and all the latest breaking news on Hinkley Point C.

No doubt there will be more to say on the subject tomorrow, so we'll be back at 7am to bring you more on that as well as the other news from your local area.

Before we bid you goodnight, here's a look at what's in store weather wise for Friday:

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Plans to build the first new UK nuclear plant in 20 years suffer an unexpected delay after the government delays a final decision until the early autumn.

The board of French energy giant EDF has approved the project to build new nuclear plants at Hinkley Point in Somerset.

Tom Greatrex from the Nuclear Industry Association and Professor Paul Ekins from University College London discuss the scheme.  

Houses in the Filwood area of Bristol have been daubed with racist graffiti and have had bricks thrown through the windows.

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The residents who were targeted are not UK nationals and police say they are treating the incidents as racially motivated attacks.

Neighbourhood beat manager, Insp Nigel Colston, said:

Bristol Zoo has said that last night's Pokémon Go event raised over £4,500 for conservation charities.

Although only 800 signed up to the event on Facebook, more than 3,000 people turned up to take part. 

When the doors to the zoo shut at 7pm, hundreds of fans were turned away. 

Bristol Zoo says it is holding another event next week for fans of the game.

A Bridgwater man has been jailed for 20 years, with a further five years on licence after being convicted of 16 sexual offences against eight children.

Leonard Cook from the Sydenham area of the town had already admitted nine counts of sexual assault and one count of rape at a previous hearing.

Cook's offences spanned from 1990 to 2015. He was arrested last August.

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Detective Inspector Lindsay Shearlock from Avon & Somerset Police said after the hearing: 

Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark said: "The UK needs a reliable and secure energy supply and the Government believes that nuclear energy is an important part of the mix. 

"The Government will now consider carefully all the component parts of this project and make its decision in the early autumn."  

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Five years ago, law student Jeremiah Daliel was involved in a car accident and he has used a wheelchair ever since.

He promised his classmates that he would stand when it came to graduation and he was true to his promise - to rapturous applause.

Jeremiah has written a blog about his experience, external.

• 10 board members from EDF voted in favour of building Hinkley Point C and seven were against investing in the new nuclear power station

• The UK government says that Hinkley Point, which will provide about seven per cent of UK power, is crucial for securing power supply in the next decade
• EDF board member Gerard Magnin resigned in protest over EDF's strategy ahead of the meeting

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• One third of the £18bn cost is being provided by Chinese investors
• Opponents in Britain say the price at which the government has agreed to buy power from EDF for 35 years, at more than twice current market levels, is too high

Conservative Bridgwater and West Somerset MP Ian Liddle-Grainger gave his reaction to Channel 4 News earlier:

Other MPs have reacted positively to the news

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It's taken five years to reach the final decision to invest £18bn in a new nuclear power plant in Somerset.

Now the EDF board has voted yes, thousands of firms in the West Country are hoping to reap the benefits.

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EDF Energy has released a statement about its decision to invest in a new nuclear power station in Somerset.

Here's part of the company's statement: "The HPC (Hinkley Point C) Project is a major element of the Group's CAP 2030 strategy. 

"The two EPR reactors at Hinkley Point will strengthen EDF's presence in Britain, a country where its subsidiary EDF Energy already operates 15 nuclear reactors and is the largest electricity supplier by volume.

"HPC will also enable the Group to mobilise all its significant nuclear engineering skills following the final investment decision. 

"The first concrete of reactor 1 of HPC, scheduled for mid-2019, will coincide with perfect continuity with the start-up of the EPR at Flamanville, scheduled for the end of 2018."

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Investment in the UK's first new nuclear plant in decades gets final approval from the company financing most of the project.

Molly Scott Cato, Green MEP for the South West, has criticised EDF's plans to build Hinkley Point C in Somerset saying the UK should move away from nuclear power.

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Stephen Radley, from the Construction Industry Training Board says: "At a time of increasing uncertainty, this is great news for construction.  

"It should mean 25,000 new jobs, hundreds of apprentices and a boost to the economy across the South West."

No official statement has been made by EDF Energy but reports in Paris say board members have agreed to invest in the project.

James Craig
Politics reporter, BBC Somerset

This is hugely important, not just for Somerset and the South West, but for the whole of the UK.

The reactor will cost around £18bn to build, EDF say it could create 25,000 jobs over its lifetime.

It was nine years ago that EDF's chief executive said the plant would be running by Christmas 2017, but that deadline slipped time and time again.

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Now this deadline is set at 2025. The UK government agreed to pay EDF a fixed price for electricity generated there, but that is double the current market rate.

Critics say that could leave us as taxpayers footing the bill for the difference.

Reports from Paris this evening suggest 10 members of EDF’s board voted in favour of going ahead with Hinkley Point C – with 7 against.

It means with this final vote of confidence from EDF, construction of the giant project can finally begin on the Somerset coast.

The shadow energy secretary Barry Gardiner has said that while Labour sees a role for nuclear energy in the UK, they are disappointed with the price agreed for the energy that will be produced from the site.

He said: "The government's failure to get a grip of the public interest here shows a startling level of incompetence."

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Elsewhere, the national secretary for the GMB Union, Jusin Bowden said the board's decision was "great news for the economy".

He described it as "a first stop in plugging the UK energy needs gap that exists due to the Government's failure to have a proper balanced energy policy".

No official announcement has been made by EDF Energy but reports from Paris say board members agreed to go ahead with the nuclear build.

The Twittersphere has started reacting to reports that EDF is to go ahead with plans to build a new nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point in west Somerset.